Thịt rang sả

Sả bào thành sợi nhỏ

Súp ngô cua

Canh chua ngao / hến

with green onion and laska leaves chopped and flavored on top

Sốt cà chua chấm rau sống

Canh nấm cà chua

Canh rau muống nấu ngao

Nộm rau muống thịt bò

Ngao xào cay

How to train your younger sister

(to be continued)

Get to know

Feel the love - Presents, loss, fairy tales

Be a good girl

Set the culture

Be a friend

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

""The Road" is a profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire", were sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, "The Road" is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation."


"The boy was frozen with fear. He pulled him to him. It's alright, he said. We have to run. Don't look back. Come on...
... The boy fell and he pulled him up. It's alright, he said. Come on."


"I always believe you."
"I don't think so."
"Yes, I do. I have to."


I think this is a masterpiece.

An introduction to social work

I dare not call myself yet a social worker. However, in this little essay, I would like to tell you about the experience of social work to me.

I find the work of a social worker meaningful. The satisfaction comes immediate from the happy smiles and the sincere looks of the people around you. While otherwise you may still be searching for the meaning of life, here you know for sure meaning is in making the lives of many others meaningful. Without doubt, you know your work is being appreciated. Every day counts as everyday, people need you.

If you love challenges, social work is the right job for you. I worked in poverty reduction. There is forever an abundance of poverty requiring help. There are thousands of people who suffer from Agent Orange in Vietnam. There are millions who have their houses torn down year after year from typhoons. The number never stops rising of those who suffer from unfair natural disasters. Pulling down the little fates are poor health care, poor nutrition and poor opportunities. As impossible as it is for the poverty problems to stop arising, the challenges for a social worker are infinite. As you delve further into the field, you feel the constant urge to learn more, to find a better way out for all these little poor souls.

Interaction is a rarely mentioned but an essential element of social work. I love the work because in here I can find the genuine happiness as I interact with people. Through projects, you learn about a variety of people. At one moment, you might be talking to a manager on sponsorship for a poor mountainous school. Right on the next moment, you would be talking to a village little boy on how the day had been for him in school. These little experiences add wide ranges of colors to my days and here I find lies the beauty of life.

Everyone chooses a career for a reason. I am lucky to have found myself reasons for the continual love of social work. Had it not been for the encounter with the job in earlier years, these experiences might have never appealed to me, thus now giving me the empowerment to continue the route I wish to follow.

Beef Steak (Thịt bò bít tết)

(to be updated)