The secret power of Youtube and of yourself

So I came across this article from CNN about an interesting TEDtalk: “The secret power of YouTube”. You might still remember that we mentioned about TEDTalk a while ago in this post, and you can always visit their website for more talks at http://www.ted.com/. Please note that the talks there are more suitable for advanced [...]

Food safety in Vietnam

I think the following news article is another good topic for discussion.  HANOI, Vietnam – As Nguyen Van Ninh needles his chopsticks through a steaming bowl of Vietnam’s famous noodle soup, he knows it could be spiked with formaldehyde. But the thought of slurping up the same chemical used to preserve corpses isn’t enough to deter him. [...]

Having a pet in the US

I wrote this (edited by Mimi, my daughter) to join the pet discussion. Let me tell you the story of my cat Smokey: My neighbor once asked me if we wanted a cat for free. I had cats and dogs back in VN but I knew that it would be much more complicated over here. At the relentless [...]

Discuss topics – 1 – Same sex marriage

Here is a topic suggested by anh Son – “Should we legalize same-sex marriage ?” Originally I posted this under the “Writing practice” section, but I figure out I shouldn’t. We may better have a new category “Discuss topics” for all of our free style discussing Enjoy this interesting topic