BRAVIA Paint Ad (V for Visual-stimulating)
Dove’s Evolution Commercial (Beauty is how you make it)

After reading Dieu’s personal chaos, 2pac’s “Hold On Be Strong” comes to mind. I want to share it because his words had helped me:

I know them ain’t tears coming down your face. Wipe your eyes. In this world, only the strong survive, you know. I know it’s hard out there: welfare, AIDS, earthquakes, muggings, carjackings. Yeah, we got problems. But believe me when I tell you, things always get better. God don’t like ugly. And God don’t like no quitters. You know what Billie Holiday said baby, “God bless the child that can hold his own.”

Keep your head up, boo. When it’s on, it’s on!

As the web team putting on our thinking caps to redesign Vassar’s homepage, we looked at other schools to see what they are doing. The list below consists of the sites I like the most:

Bennington (artsy, elegant)
Brown (slick, organized)
BU (clean, simple)
St. John (neat typography)
MIT (changes daily, same as Vassar’s cuurent design)
New School (open, minimal)
Mills (tight, simple)
MICA (unique crops of photo)
Providence (consistent – one design for all)
Simmons (colorful, tight)
SFAI (contemporary, edgy)
SFCM (muted, nice type treatment)
OTIS (nice illustrations)
ACCD (dig the 4-column layout)

Duong Ngoc Lang’s take on Vietnamese criticism, “Khen Che Van Nghe,” is hilarious. In his conclusion, he stated that if you want headaches, jump into criticism. He’s not kidding. By the way, can you guys point me to some Vietnamese critics?

“I see no changes. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself.
Is life worth living should I blast myself?” -Tupac Shakur

No, I am not that depress (not yet). I can’t recall that I have ever been depressed even though I write like I am. But releasing the demon inside your head through writing isn’t so bad. At least writing helps me calm, relax, and say, “fuck the world” (that exists in my head), if I want to. I know people who write to help them get through their depressions, and I know people who are psychologically fucked-up because they have nowhere to escape, not even on a blank piece of paper. The ones that survived tend to do much better, not only with themselves but also with others, like their mission is to make life more beautiful. On the other hand, the ones couldn’t pull through suffer tremendously. So being able to write is a gift, not a curse. So let’s the trumpet blows, and “Release Yo’ Delf.”

Two of Hov’s joints from his forthcoming album has leaked. Both “Show Me What You Got” and the title-track “Kingdom Come” are produced by Just Blaze sampling from Rick James’ “Super Freak” to horn lines that were used in Wreckx ‘N Effect’s “Rump Shaker.” Jigga still got the flow and the bravado (“Hovie Hov is the coldest / I’m just getting better with time.”) that make him one of the greatest rappers of all time. And he might be “the hip-hop saver” as he has claimed. We’ll find out on November 21, when the album drops.

Meet Kelly, a Vietnamese-American video blogger majoring psychology. In her dedication to cheaters, she breaks it down psychologically and scientifically “Why Do Men Cheat?” And I find her view to be fascinating that men has a penis and that we have no clue where to put it. Cute, right? Damn, don’t you want to go out with a mindreader like that? You don’t even need to say a word, she just knows what you want. But be careful, she could be a mindfucker too.

Nguyen Khang’s “Giong Hat Nam Xua” (poem by Hoang Anh Tuan, music by Nguyen Duc Nam)

Huong Giang’s “Mat Troi Da Goi” (poem by Quynh Huong, music by Nguyen Minh Chau)

Boom… Boom… Boom… Let’s go back to my room so we can jam to the nastiest song ever.

1) Em con nho hay em da quen
2) Em con quen hay em da nho