Grade 3/4 – Going to the computer room in elementary school to learn logic. Realizing the visit was done to show how to live in the future by nice teachers and staff. Find it fun and not fun but mostly normal and fun because supposedly my mom born me a computer guy to learn alone.

Grade 6 – Realizing skin colour defines most things here in Canada. Also needed to learn computers to have some lifeline as computers are gradual and logic. You easily learn with a computer. With little friends you turn to the computer for things as it is a way to learn and grow.

Grade 7 – Write to a world pen pal activity in school. Was told to write to ‘allies’. Years later at age 35 work with Dmitry Nefedov to teach me the skills to program and do innovative project work.

Grade 13 – Realize I need to work on myself and read and study more for adulthood. Marks and social skills aren’t on the up and up.

2003 – 2nd year university – Realize I still need to work on myself and need to socialize and work for the next 20 years to learn how to talk and think better in groups.

2006 – Realize when travelling to Vietnam that I should take my time to finish a degree instead of rushing. You only live once and food and relaxing are important too and should be enjoyed and taken up.

2008 – Realize I did not know how to learn. Life should be self-directed learning. You don’t need a teacher or mentor really. You should be absorbed in some kind of project activity that takes up your time for 2 – 3 weeks for you to learn and hopefully complete. I saw a guy make his own timed pipet for chemistry using a 3D printer that costed $10,000 back then. But you still need people too …

2009 – Realized First World subjects you love you should have stuck to and started to learn when you were 9 years old. So by the time first year 2nd semester university starts you are just there for the degree and general gradual learning to expand your mind with the aid of the university teacher. You are basically on your own in life since 9 years old to make it in the First World. I messed up, I did not get the help I wanted in grade 7 to learn programming. Clock restarts at 2009.

2012 – Nothing was working and found Tony Tie did what he wanted in life including his siblings. They all made it. I follow doing what I want all day. Problem is that I thought life was still about caring for others and medicine all the time. Decide to go back to computing.

2013 – Worked on doing logo design from learning online. Did some artwork for Carey Holzman the computer guy and YouTuber. He taught me computer technician work is never going away but computing is endless so you got to make the decision to go all in or not …

2013 – Worked with RealHardwareReviews.com doing some artwork for prizes

2014 – Launched GamerThumbs.com to make a gaming news site. Realized my skills are lacking overall and need a team of 20+ staff. Needed programming skills at the end to do stuff.

2015 – Went back home to Vietnam to live and work because my older sister said so. Quickly realize life in Vietnam is OK but the lovely residents want you to try the American Dream until you make it ❤️. You got only one life to live, better practice and train.

2016 – Decide to head back to college to study from the bottom up for computer programming. Take 2 courses part time. Friends and coworkers at the supermarket who are older than me told me life is to do what you want really and not slave away really.

2017 – Work part time as a writer and graphic designer for RealHardwareReviews.com while going to school. John Fleming is so nice to allow and teach me the art of computer news media. Meet Vietnamese from Vietnam and realize they are like me with their own perspectives that are self-oriented which is good mostly for a positive life in the North American culture.

2017 – Work finally at the computer repair shop AMLCSL in North Oshawa. When I was young I remember driving by this place and thinking I would work there one day. Met Allan Michael Lane the owner and he taught the unlimited mindset of computing in the world. He expanded it and made it make sense for a stable life in the West. Life became offering services to everyone to get online on the web to do their selling and activities they want.

2018 – Realize Vietnamese from Vietnam don’t really understand the racial and evolving dynamics of North America of relationships so I kind of avoid all of them. But they teach me Vietnam-Vietnam thinking to live and power yourself without the hanging narrative that you have to cycle and feel bad for others who have it worse ??? I realize life is better off doing what I like mainly all day despite anything in the world. You only live once so you better make what you are doing happy all day. Make friends with Ben Cybulski and we launch FreeTimeTech.com as a review site at first.

2019 – Learned that practical nursing is mostly negative for a full South Vietnamese born in Oshawa, Ontario as I don’t have the origin medical culture or origin culture to help really. ‘Vietnamese medicine’ is probably an exact copy of ‘Chinese medicine’ here in Canada if patients want alternative medicine choice ??? I don’t know how to live well unless it is all about burgers, cold pop, studying and playing games all day as a ‘Vietnamese-Canadian’ back then. Also I feel stupid doing nursing as I was stunted growing up in Durham Region? Or is Durham a different culture compared to Scarborough? Return to computers in 2020 May.

2020 – Create software small tweaking apps with education from Durham College on FreeTimeTech.com. Ben pushes the idea to do more. Get the first release of a radiobutton list Windows 10 Debloater because this topic is it in 2020. Spends weeks to build it from StackOverflow snippets. William Nguyen brother of David starts BenchTweakGaming.com that offers specialized tweaking programs for triple A games too.

Late 2020 – Made a copy of our Wrapper Debloater for a more updated script from Russia. Made friends with farag2/Dmitry Nefedov the creator of Sophia Script for Windows (previously named Windows 10 Setup Script). I worked on his team for their wrapper for the next 6 – 7 years and still do. Learned tons. Dmitry gave me the linear work lifeline to progress and grow that is easily understandable.

2021 – Came back to Toronto areas of the Vietnamese community showing what I have done. Realize the community is OK but quiet. I tell them my life as a 37 years old living in Oshawa working the web. Tammy Nguyen says “Hi!” and we converse. Realize her family is similar to my mother’s side. We socialize and we get out the 3 tabbed Windows 11 Debloater out which is good. Sets the standard for this type of software.

2022 – 2023 – Refactored Wrappers so much that it became and exercise for better health and mental health. Refactoring a lot gave you very specialized skills, refactoring 1000x gave you growth and life and longevity if the topic is OS customization. Discovered the answers to youth and health by doing refactoring of these Windows OS customization projects.

2024 – Reconnect with Tony Tie. Realize his life is OK. He pushes me to work.

2025 – Work silently trying to come up with ideas. Realize the old team dynamic works only from 2020 – 2021. We create new stuff with Tammy Nguyen’s additions. I develop understanding the female mind and female Vietnamese mind. We fill out this site with knowledge and collaborative knowledge (teamwork strategies) and add more to other sites with life growth topics in programming and logical growth in life.

2026 – Get another version of Windows Debloaters out but remade them as Learning Language Tools. Still more work left.

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Carey Holzman scared me so freaking much saying computers is an all in life choice and I kind of went ahead and did it inching forward and forward each day because I did not want to work any other outside job. I like sitting in front of the computer inside thinking smart and relaxing inside from the cold and to avoid people a bit. I wanted to concentrate on myself and learning for good feelings and ego. Basically he taught me to go all in.

John Fleming from RealHardwareReviews.com gave me the first chance to work in the real IT world as a real employee though.

John is a Canadian who worried about a full South Vietnamese guy born in Canada and gave him work. He opened the doors and there was a real transactional exchange that cemented everything. Work done for exchange.

What is life?

I think it is routine and life? I think it is when you were going to grade 6 to beginning high school in grade 8-9 in a First World country.

Life revolves around when you are aged 12 – 15.

But really life is when you are in elementary school if you are born in Canada.

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With the lifestyle, supports and type of jobs available in your town/city and region, you live based on those.

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But with your parents and grandparents in the picture life is to have a PhD and medicine so you handle life better and all the extremes.