Hapiness project 1: VDC Happy New Year MV

This is my plan:
"Please take a look at my plan below to make an awesome MV:
+ Theme: happy new year, happy new you (cause we celebrate our new lunar year and happy birthday to our colleagues on the other side of the earth.)
+ Duration: 1minute++ (All we don’t want a too long clip)
+ Principles: simple, casual, and weird (open for creativity) (mostly speaking, but we can make it funny by our wearings or our face expression or body language etc)
+ Plot:
Me, thanh, long and bang sing a customized happy birthday song, each person a sentence
(Happy birthday to you/ happy birthday to you/ happy new year, happy new you/ happy birthday to us)
Then the rest will say a wish one by one to our collegues, to vdc team and all as well
Then all team will scream out: happy new year, happy new us"

Production summary:
Production time: 30 mins for casting, and movie edit
Tools: GameUrVideo and Capture (iOS)

And here is the results:

New Year New Me !

The new year vacation in Christ calendar obviously passed by 1 month ago, but as a Vietnamese, I still have another chance to celebrate a LUNAR new year. We can't keep the time or turn it back, but fortunately, spring comes back to us starting a new cycle of life with hopes and dreams. YEAH, hooray, Happy new year, Happy new us.

Anyway, before creating a new year resolution, let's take a look back at an old me on the last 365 days:  introverted, full of conflicts and selfish. I am basically quiet in social life, hardly speak out or show up what I think or feel about my relationships or my troubles. It's fine and comfortable to me mostly, but sometime it hurts others due to my outside coldness, then hurts me back. On a next aspect, I feel depressed and unhappy with contradictions inside me, between real-life and expectations, family burdens and personal dreams... And lastly, I am really selfish in the sense that I long for a lot of future plans for my own, but not for anyone else. I know I am not the only one having such problems. I write down them here just to be honest to myself and my life, and release what I hold bottle up for a long time.

  

[A new idea on organizing our knowledge-base]: Infographic and Questions

Before, I wrote an entry about a way to organise our knowledge-base. Today, I continue to clarify my point thru an infographic, and suggest some deeper questions to perfect this idea.

The Venn diagram above perfectly expresses my thought on this issue, with 3 key words: context, idea, and connection. So, for each idea, or information, we should define its belonging context and its connected partners. It will help us to retrieve information more concise and fast. Here, there are some critical questions when we apply it in real.
1) How to define a good context? I think a context should be a real-world usage situation, such as greeting, asking health, shopping, etc... Therefore, basically, a context is also an general/abstract essential vocabulary.
2) How to define a connection? Obviously, an idea somehow links to others in the same context, then, such connections should be considered as implicit one. An explicit connection should connect 2 ideas that is directly relate or involve to each other in meaning.

All about learning foreign language

I wish to turn my knowledge on this topic into an infographic, but after 2 wks doing some research and investigation, it seems beyond my current skill, then I decide to write my findings down here, simply in text :)

1) Diffrent language takes different times to master, Western languages (English, Spanish, French) are easier to learn than Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). The minimum required time is about 600 hours or 44 wks to acquire Spanish (to English speakers). You can find more information in this topic at Voxy's infographic

2) We can change the way to learn English thanks to the explosion of Language Technologies and EdTech companies. I will list them by categories:
- Vocabulary: iAnki, Brainscape, Voxy
- Listening: Podcast, Internet,
- Communication: Verbling, italki, playsay
- General: Duolingo,

My current favourite apps includes: {Brianscape, italki, Podcast}because I care more communication, rather than reading or writing, and they have iOS version.

Weird thoughts !!!

I often have some strange, weird thoughts in my mind! Sometimes it is really crazy like "Can we intentionally put a play, or a story into our dreams. If it is possible, so we can bring foreign language situational practices into our dreams." Sometimes, it is just a simple question "Can a TEDx be held at my company?" Those ideas will quickly fade away out of my mind if I don't note them somewhere.

I believe I am not the only one having such experience. And I also believe it is positive. For example, have you ever think of a zombie can love a human being. If not, you will see this great idea now turns to an interesting movie.
So, I am think of a new movement with a slogan like "Surprise - Funny - Weird" at my workplace where people have freedom under a given rule set to do anything matching the slogan. For example, we can dress a little different from usual way, or wear something awkward on our head, or we can visualize our emotions, or hold some funny events. The effect I expect is a comfortable, mutual understable and creative environment. We can make the workplace more likely to our home.

I am not sure whether I am overconfident or overexpecting, but I will suggest it to management board, but it is also a  critical change in corporation culture.
  

A difficult week

Last week, I changed my accommodation to a residence apartment in Binh Chanh district. The transition was quite smooth, just took me almost one noon to move all my wares. It's not a new place, cause I used to live here 2 years ago. It's much more like a home back. The environment seems still the same, windy, quiet and very fresh, but I am a little unhappy cause some old people left here, like old me. I love the air here, really inspiring and comforting me.