In any Vietnamese house, fish sauce is one of the main seasonings, no matter how hard it is to get it. Fish sauce to us is like soy sauce in Japan. We use it not only to season and to marinate but also to dip and to enhance taste. …

I woke up today and thinking of heading to the city which is about 50 miles away. However, there was something in me telling that I was not calm at that moment. I thought perhaps I should sit down to meditate and make myself quiet for just a little bit. …

“Being let go” was a strange thing I heard from other people, something I was not able to empathize with, but rather judged by “how could they even let it happen, did they not try their best?”. Being fired to me was a failure, failing to meet expectations and failing…

“One does not know the value of freedom until one has it taken away” – Anthony Ray Hinton. The moment I heard the officer saying that the format of my legal documents was not eligible for me to enter Mexico, I was terrified. I did consult others (including a lawyer)…

“What do you think your brother will look like?” I was asking my cousin while sitting with him in the door waiting for my mom to give birth to my sister. Meanwhile, his mom was giving birth to his brother. That was a nervous and exciting wait. We were both…

The book started by acknowledging an issue of RHYTHMDoc’s maintenance projects, which is project being done late, over budget, and of having sub-standard quality. From there, they tried to apply agile management and discussed about models for change in the transition process from traditional to agile for software industry. It…

I was born amidst a Broccoli patch..with half a dozen siblings…all of us making our way with our loopy walks…we would go in and out of the patch at our own whims and fancies…climbing into the florets of Broccoli…playing hide and seek. Our green skin gleaming like emeralds in the…

Have you ever eaten an apple that tastes like soap? I did it today, it was such an interesting and refreshing moment. I was kinda sad all day because I did not get to do what I want to do at work. Life is not easy and we all tend…

One day I opened my bank account statement and realized I got charged $100 from Google Console Team, my first reaction was “What!? I thought it was free”. I then immediately contacted our project team and we had to pause all the development. That was a surprising instance when we…