A resource for immigrants, refugees and 2nd generation

A resource for immigrants, refugees and 2nd generation

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Updates (Apr 12, 2026)

So I wrote a piece on programming and living life in Canada.

What is life?

Lots to think about in the First World.

I am allowed to think in the First World.

But the thing is this.

According to the world, I am just a guy doing stuff. Other people in the world like what is happening in the middle east are major players in determining stuff.

Vietnam is still considered a tropical tourism destination.

Middle east is a battleground.

What am I complaining about?

I just do stuff.

If I don’t get the job, don’t get the gig, am ignored. It is because I am not fighting to live or have huge concerns like what is going on in the World news.

I never got the education, teaching role, degrees because I did not deserve it in Canada?

The major groups need it more? They are duking it out.

So what about other locations and countries?

Is my life this way because I live in Oshawa?

So finally I socialized with people after 2020.

I socialized with people my age and 2nd gen Vietnamese.

I realized life is just working and living to take care of a woman that you deem right to take care of.

This blog and all the work was a way to provide for the wife and children.

Life was crazy before.

All it took was to do what you think you need to do and love to do in safe supportive Canada regardless of whatever people say.

It is work or die realistically.

People who say stop and say you don’t know anything aren’t Vietnamese and are young.

What are they doing?

So basically, it was trying to do something you want and heart wants

Then it turns to make a product

A product you can eventually leverage for support

Support to have a wife

A wife to work together with.

Wow

Programming is actually fun for me when it is neat tools like this.

Whatever people say or do, nothing matters. It is fun making fun tools.

That means in Canada your life can be unique. Make it so.

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