Updates (Dec 16, 2025)

So I have been thinking …

Without Tony Tie, I would be stuck in 2012 bed ridden and complaining all day. Complaining to my parents and siblings. Complaining to the world.

Tony says he believes he is more Canadian than Thai. He was born in Thailand and lived in a camp for a time and raised in Canada.

But people born overseas have this edge to them. They are in it to win something and make business happen.

All my siblings born in Canada don’t have any edge to them. They are all passive and … complainers.

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I guess I understand life now as I grow and socialize in Canada.

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Vietnamese born in Canada like me require immigrants like Tony Tie to start the engine.

I needed Tony Tie to push me, then the chain reaction went. Immigrants move things.

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I joined a DNA testing site and all my cousins born in the West are like ‘whatever’ … They don’t want to speak to me.

I guess I understand life now. Vietnamese born in Canada are ‘whatever’ until they have an immigrant friend to push them to do out of the New World things.

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So most of the day I am complaining as a Vietnamese born in Canada. That is what I do LOL!

… I need people from the Old World to work with.

I guess I understand the refugee, immigrant and West now.

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So without Tony Tie, I would be miserable Vietnamese born in Canada hardly working which is normal.

With Tony Tie I am working to do cool stuff with him.

Immigrants make Vietnamese born in Canada work and reach.

But what is normal?

Working with Tony is so tiring. Should I just go back to Vietnam with my Canadian English skills and be a Tour Guide? It is impossible to work like this forever here in Canada trying to go toe-to-toe with Tony.

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Even if I moved to Peterborough or Montreal, that would tire me out even more.

Basically, I have this idea where I am working like Tony since 2012 and his family.

Without immigrants there is nothing. Without the push from immigrants, I would be doing not much and sprawled out on the couch watching reruns of 1990s sitcoms.

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Basically, ever since Tony Tie became accomplished in 2012, then I started.

Yes, immigrants are needed to do something.

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But what does that do with people who are born here in the West?

I don’t get along with anybody born here really.

As an Indigenous person, I don’t like anyone. I have to change my thinking to like people … There must be a way people act to like.

But generally, I have not seen any Indigenous person really like anyone. The First Peoples were warring too amongst themselves. Certainly, they don’t like outsiders from the Old World either???

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Therefore, no one like anyone. Especially when you get old in your 35+.

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When you have done stuff.

People criticize.

Then when you do more stuff.

Then people criticize in a way that disturbs you.

Then when you do more and more stuff.

People will criticize you more in more unhelpful ways.

Then you keep doing you and do more and more stuff that you like.

Then people suddenly stop, realizing the thing you do is part of you and is something worthwhile.

Then you are treated as an old guy doing stuff that makes sense.

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The problem with young people is that the are simply young.

When you get old, it is a bad thing and also a blessing.

You pivot. From being social to learn for yourself and alone.

People that don’t pivot …

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Then you realize the generation is so much important now … The most important???

Immigrants are here to make money and have a family mostly in the New World.

Some try so hard to become CEOs of American companies.

2nd generation are split. They want to get along with both immigrants and their generation and older and try to do something because they have some remnants of immigrant blood drive and their immigrant parents.

3rd generation are trying to get along or move to where there are more 3rd+ generation around to avoid any trouble and enjoy life.

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As a 2nd generation … so when people criticize me, they should blame the 2nd generation in me instead of me.

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Living life gaining external stuff was good. Now after 5 – 10 years, I have other options for work (everyone has the opportunity if they live in a first world country) … but at the end of the day … it is your parents telling you to keep going.

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