journeys within spring

untitled-1

2009-08-08T12:11:00.002+08:00

sun falls into her eyes,

and moon

shall too.

sky cries,

as she's gone blind.

truth

2009-04-14T18:01:00.001+08:00

khi mà

một hơi thở
tưởng như kéo dài cả thế kỉ

một giọt mưa
có thể làm đau một ai đó

thì sự thật
cũng chẳng khác gì một lời nói dối.

The READER

2009-04-14T17:54:00.000+08:00

MICHAEL:
Oi men ippeon stroton oi de pesedon
oi da naon phais epi gan malainan
emmenai kalliston, ego de ken otto
tis eratai.

HANNA:
It's beautiful.

MICHAEL:
How can you tell? How do you know
when you've no idea what it means?

HANNA looks at him a moment.

untitled day

2009-03-03T13:41:00.000+08:00

perhaps-
joy.pleasure.strange.people.lost.start.
-isn't colors
but b & w
as simple
as a day
it was meant to be.

i.n.t.o

2009-02-20T02:39:00.001+08:00

it's dark.
you're alone.
don't worry.
you're into something.
really.

17.11.08 wish list

2008-11-17T02:52:00.003+08:00

một nụ hôn đánh thức mình dậy.

một người lạ mang bạn ipod trở về.

một chuyến đi xa.

polaroid màu trắng.

những nụ cười và vòng tay ôm chặt.

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a morning tender kiss wakes me up.

a stranger brings my little ipod back.

a new journey.

a white polaroid camera.

smiles so bright and hugs so tight.

2008-10-20T23:55:00.000+08:00

nhung nguoi quen,
luon lam cho toi boi roi.
nhung noi chon quen thuoc
va toi quen mat minh la ai.

nen can lam,
phai di,
va ve.

truoc khi nham mat.

2008-10-19T00:07:00.001+08:00

co nhung con duong sao ma nguoi ta cu di mai, di mai chang bao gio het
giat minh moi biet minh van dang dung yen
mai mai...

2008-10-14T12:16:00.000+08:00

in blind,
we trust.

2008-10-12T23:54:00.001+08:00

everything

................

nothing

2008-10-06T00:48:00.003+08:00

i thought i could breath here

but i'm in doubt

wth

please shut up.

2008-10-02T01:55:00.003+08:00

i'm upset

as always

incompletely.

2008-09-30T21:07:00.002+08:00

sometimes,
i just need some coffee
as dark as the night,
as sweet as sin.

the last night

2008-08-26T00:46:00.000+08:00

there was love
and full of passion

______________
under my bed.

yesterday lesson

2008-08-25T01:12:00.003+08:00

mom said
do not talk to strangers.

but I forgot

so it's the end of the story.

2008-08-19T10:30:00.001+08:00

perhaps,
i need to be alone for a while.

2008-08-02T03:06:00.002+08:00

step by step,
we are trying

time will come
when we don't realize that we've changed.

that is the only way,
i know.

perhaps,
i just need to be patient
a little bit more.

everyday

2008-07-28T01:47:00.004+08:00

do a little cooking
do my laundry
watch some TV dramas
read some news
clean my room
check mail
go to bed.

and this naked peace

making me sleepless.

Closer

2008-07-28T01:43:00.001+08:00

Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
Alice: Why?
Dan: Because I'm addicted to it. Because without it, we're animals. Trust me.

Alice: I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

odd

2008-07-25T01:27:00.004+08:00

i've been walking around in the house
looking for something could pair with me.

24-hours,
is an even number.

and i'm an odd.

it's time to learn the fact that
you are fading away...

2008-07-23T00:26:00.003+08:00

i've been learning to do things s.l.o.w.l.y
but i'm afraid i might fall asleep
along the way

so i got very upset.

pieces of The Dark Knight

2008-07-21T03:22:00.003+08:00

I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger.

A little fight in ya. I like that.

Yeah, to scare people. You know, war paint.

Introduce a little anarchy... Upset the established order... Well then everyone loses their minds!

I use a knife because guns are too quick. Otherwise, you can't savor all the emotions. You know who people are in their last moments.

And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Gotham is getting the hero they need, not the hero they deserve.

2008-07-09T03:22:00.002+08:00

it's called the junction of
RESPONSIBILITY

what i was born-to-be
and what i was born-to-dream
perhaps, meaningless

for that reason of LOVE

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too much desperate
for a BREAk

hell, i'm losing myself for all the stupid DONT-KNOW-WHAT

2008-06-13T03:18:00.002+08:00

as little as the world we live
is a girl among the crowd
i've been trying to talk to

2008-06-05T04:09:00.005+08:00

come home baby...
if there is one

what we've longed for
in our hearts
of dark and light

i whistled a melody
somewhat familiar
yet i couldn't remember
a thing.

so, i cried
...,

Về nhà đi

2008-06-05T04:05:00.000+08:00

Về nhà đi.
Bỏ lại hết những gì đau đớn nhất
những ngày vui đến trào nước mắt
những lần cô đơn như cuộc đời khất thực
lật ngửa bàn tay làm biểu tượng nguyện cầu...
*
Về nhà đi
đêm không còn hơi ấm để chia sẻ nữa đâu
ngày bây giờ sa mạc hoang hóa
những trái chín trên cành cũng rơi về miền đất lạ
những sông suối đã hơn một lần mặn hơn biển cả
chỉ còn nước mắt ngọt trên môi...

Con người ấy đã theo gió đi rồi
để mỗi ngày ta khan giọng gào với bóng tối
- Đã nói lạc đường sao không ngoái nhìn lại
đã biết lạc đường sao người cứ còn đi mãi...
tận xa xôi...
*
Về nhà đi
không thể tự nuôi mình mãi bằng những cuộc rong chơi
bao nhiêu vực sâu đâu chỉ dành cho mình ta gieo xuống
bao nhiêu nghĩa trang đâu phải dành cho riêng ta đến chết
bao nhiêu nén tâm hương đâu chỉ dành cho một cuộc đưa tiễn
dù ai cũng chỉ sống một cuộc đời...

Có những con đường đã đợi sẵn ta từ lúc còn trong nôi
những bông hoa nở ra vì ta tuyệt vọng
những ngọn cỏ úa vàng khi ta nói yêu một con người hơn cuộc sống
(để rồi ta luôn tự hỏi tại sao là định mệnh
khi tình yêu chỉ vừa mới bắt đầu...)

*
Về nhà đi
con đường của đất cát sẽ làm bàn chân ta bớt đau
mùi hương thơ ấu sẽ mang về một tiềm thức khác
bỏ lại hết những núi cao và mây trắng...
những vực sâu và đá tảng...
cho một lần thảnh thơi...
*
Về nhà đi
ở nơi đó có những người sinh ra ta đang mỉm cười...

(Nguyễn Phong Việt)

listening for the weather

2008-06-02T22:39:00.004+08:00

Không khóc ở California

2008-06-02T22:33:00.002+08:00

Không khóc ở California.
Không khóc.
Không khóc ở Louisiana.
Không khóc ở quận 13 Paris.
Không khóc
Không khóc ở Beclin, ở Xitny, ở Tôkyô
Những người Việt không khóc ở California
Em không khóc
Em không khóc ở California
Em không khóc
Kìa mưa rơi, mưa rơi và lá bay
Em lái xe đi
Con đường hun hút và mưa bay bay
Kính xe mở
Ai huýt sáo một bài hát bên đường
Nhớ anh, nhớ quê hương
Em không khóc
Em không khóc ở California
Em không khóc
ở chốn xa xăm cuối nơi chân trời
Nơi mẹ sinh ra gọi là quê hương
Em gọi tên là nhớ thương
Người ta gọi là cội nguồn
Sao em lẩm cẩm như một bà già
Em sẽ không khóc
Không khóc ở California
Anh ạ,
Em lớn lên rồi, không còn thẹn thùng
Em mặc một chiếc áo rộng
Em sẽ mua hoa
Xếp đặt đồ vật trong nhà
Em yêu mọi người
Mọi người không khóc
Không khóc ở California
Anh ạ, hôm nay tiệm cà phê vui hơn
Có ai gật đầ u chào em.
Có phải anh gật đầu chào em rồi mỉm cười
Em đưa tay ra
Biết rằng anh vừa nắm tay em...
Em thấy hơi ấm
Em thấy ổn rồi, rất ổn...
Em lớn lên rồi, không còn thẹn thùng
Em soi trong gương
Giữ gìn nhan sắc, giữ gìn thói quen
Có người vừa đi xa về,
Mang cho em một chút gió, một chút nắng
Em sưởi mình trong kỷ niệm
Và cười trong mơ.
Anh hôn vào nụ cười ấy...
Nụ cười xa xăm
Em lớn lên rồi, không còn thẹn thùng
Em ra siêu thị
Em xuống trung tâm
Em mua một gói kẹo nhỏ
Và liếm chiếc kẹo như liếm vết thương
Anh tan biến trong miệng em
Em cười một mình .
Và soi trong gương
Không khóc
Không khóc ở California
Cho dù cách xa...

(Nguyễn Huy Thiệp)

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don't cry in singapore...

2008-05-12T00:25:00.002+08:00

i'm tired.
can i sleep on your shoulder?

i know, i should not...

words

2008-05-02T01:51:00.003+08:00

i hold my words a little longer
so that the chance would pass
and i would blame myself for not saying.

but at least then,
i wouldn't have to face the fact that:
i'm not as strong as i always like to image.

2008-05-01T03:54:00.002+08:00

wind and raindrops
man and hays
3 a.m smells like
a night-of 4 years ago
and that has just made
my heart choke.

2008-04-30T04:23:00.000+08:00

< please be kind if i'm a mess >

2008-04-22T02:52:00.001+08:00

.the boundaries between art and design.

today

2008-04-12T04:45:00.006+08:00

A breath of innocence.

A spoon of sugar.

Yes.No.

Back-and-forth.

Our relationship to each other.

Something is out of proportion.

2008-04-11T05:00:00.004+08:00

sometimes,
the feeling of love
could be:

wonder.

uncontrollable.

avoid.

tired.

let it be.

mistake.

i am ____________.
are you __________?

a random sequence

2008-04-07T05:21:00.002+08:00

if random thoughts can be recorded

if random things can be put together

then a moment can be captured in less than 1/1000 of a second

and passed on randomly.

somewhere, sometimes

when strangers meet

just as we have longed for, without notice.

and happiness is in such simplest coincidence.

i loan myself to an illusion

2008-04-04T02:56:00.007+08:00

the purple sky of the rainy days.

the sea is olive or it is just flood in the meadow.

and something as soft as grey

we often call "loneliness".

like the tangled hair in the wind,

needless to brush.

i fold a little boat with the morning papers i got,

and blow it away with a dream last night.

it will sink very soon i know though.

still it seems just an illusion

i would like to loan myself to,

with a high interest

i have to pay back everyday.

and well, in debt eternally.

back

2008-03-31T01:04:00.001+08:00

tôi ₫ứng ở giữa con đường xa lộ

và chớp mắt,

nhanh lắm, có phải không?

sợ gì nào, ₫ã quá quen.

sợ gì nào, những cái quen lạ lẫm.

không chạy nữa nhé

vì chân ₫ã mỏi hay những ₫iều níu kéo?

tôi lại lần nữa không biết.

chớp mắt,

nơi nụ cười và những bờ vai thật.

gọi ₫iều ấm áp,

thật nhẹ...

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rain

2008-03-31T00:27:00.009+08:00

những ngày mưa:
trong vắt,
tĩnh.

trong mắt em
gửi anh:một tiếng gõ cửa,
xao lòng...

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rain fills the days,
purely transparent
like quiet and pastel.

and my eyes,
just send to yours
"knock, knock"

(somebody come?)

restlessly.

norwegian wood

2008-03-26T21:06:00.005+08:00

"Do you think you weren't loved enough?"
She tilted her head and looked at me. Then she gave a sharp, little nod.
"Somewhere between "not enough' and "not at all'. I was always
hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get
my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just
once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once. If I tried to
cuddle up and beg for something, they'd just shove me away and yell
at me. "No! That costs too much!' It's all I ever heard. So I made up
my mind I was going to find someone who would love me uncon-
ditionally 365 days a year. I was still in primary school at the time, but
I made up my mind once and for all."
"Wow," I said. "And did your search pay off?"
"That's the hard part," said Midori. She watched the rising smoke for a
while, thinking. "I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for
perfection. That makes it tough."
"Waiting for the perfect love?"
"No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect
selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortbread.
And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me.
And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and
hold this strawberry shortbread out to me. And I say I don't want it
any more and throw it out of the window. That's what I'm looking
for."
"I'm not sure that has anything to do with love," I said with some
amazement.
"It does," she said. "You just don't know it. There are times in a girl's
life when things like that are incredibly important."
"Things like throwing strawberry shortbread out of the window?"
"Exactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. "Now I
see, Midori. What a fool I've been! I should have known that you
would lose your desire for strawberry shortbread. I have all the
intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to
you, I'll go out and buy you something else. What would you like?
Chocolate mousse? Cheesecake?"'
"So then what?"
"So then I'd give him all the love he deserves for what he's done."
"Sounds crazy to me."
"Well, to me, that's what love is. Not that anyone can understand me,
though." Midori gave her head a little shake against my shoulder. "For
a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly.
From something like that or it doesn't begin at all."

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tell me, what is love?

Blanket

2008-03-25T16:56:00.006+08:00

I read it the first time about 4 years ago. It was not mine though. Did not think i should have owned one. Fear of pains.

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First love, they said so.

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3 years later, I found it back in kino. Decided to own it. Pain?-feel like it.

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finally...
waited for 3 years
you are here with me

in tears...

never, never again...

the days were old.

- ( written in july 2007)

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Read it again last night.
Beautiful.

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It was the first graphic novel i read but the best one ever since.

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What we have come to believe in more than just a religion.

{me}- manifesto

2008-03-25T16:35:00.004+08:00

I love many things in my life

the sunbeams every morning
the long journey on the bus
the traffic lights changing colors
the high view from a building
the rain that brushes my skin
the smell of newly-cooked food
the slowness of jazz
the smiles of the couples
the baby cries out loud
…

Is life really complicated or does it just seem to be so?

Life is full of emotions.
Feel it.
Embrace it

Design is a emotional process.
Enjoy it.

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typography poster done in july 2007.

we all need someone to kiss us goodbye

2008-03-09T16:58:00.005+08:00

Dear B,

Just for your information, I will walk to the moon and be back if it makes you smile. I will talk to you just so I can hear your voice again.

The other day, I heard that it was supposed to be the end of the world this year(!) This made me think to myself that I don't want to die without you next to me, but the worst thing is, what if we both survived but we were still so far apart and didn't know if the other was alive?

I guess I'd better walk to the moon fast.

Wave and smile,
Wave and smile,
A

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This has just made me cry, again.

round about

2008-03-09T00:13:00.005+08:00

khi mà không biết một nơi nào để đi

và không đủ can đảm để tìm một nơi mới một mình

tôi đi dọc lại con đường cũ quanh nhà

và nó nhạt đến bình an.

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when confusing of where to go

and not brave enough to find somewhere new alone

i walked along the old road round about home

and it was insipid peacefully.

meaningless

2008-01-27T19:45:00.001+08:00

you need to come closer

because i am invisible

in a blank piece of draft

and when everyone is happily sketching on it

they forget, they forget.

Rainbow Garden

2007-11-02T03:55:00.001+08:00

When I was small, I always asked my mom:

Mommy, why rainbow has so many colours?
- because rainbow is the happiness after the rain-said mom.
Mommy, why flowers also have so many flowers?
- because everyday is the colours of happiness-she smiled.

I love children and their innermost feelings in their innocent eyes. I love the fragile nature of freedom, come and leave, sadly replaced by the worries of an adult. I like to just looking at them, for hours, just to see them talking and playing with each others; life is just as beautiful.

I didn't have so many drawings of children, or take photos of them. I felt myself somehow unable to keep that wonder. I tried to catch something, maybe it's vague-but they were colours, in which I was really wallowing in when I was beside them. And clinging with my bit of childhood memories, I drew the rainbow-flowers, for, the unknown little 'souls'.

I don't think my work is so great, but I believe RAINBOW could bring to you, much or little, a kind of emotions. Is it Art? or it is just something my designs always long to reach? or am I looking for myself in chaotic feelings? And happiness in such simpliest coincidence.
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Ngày xưa, tôi vẫn thường hỏi mẹ:

" mẹ ơi, tại sao cầu vồng lại có nhiều màu?
-vì cầu vồng là niềm hạnh phúc sau cơn mưa.
thế sao hoa cũng có nhiều màu sắc?
-vì mỗi ngày đều cần có những sắc màu hạnh phúc."

Tôi yêu trẻ con và những nỗi niềm ngây thơ trong mắt chúng. Tôi yêu cái sự hồn nhiên mỏng manh, đến và đi, để rồi thay vào đó là những bộn bề lo toan của sự trưởng thành. Tôi thích ngồi ngắm những đứa trẻ hàng giờ đồng hồ, chỉ để nghe chúng nói chuyện và chơi với nhau; tôi thấy đời đẹp lạ lùng!

Tôi không vẽ hình trẻ con nhiều, cũng như chụp ảnh chúng. Tôi cảm thấy mình thật kém cỏi trong việc giữ lại những cảm xúc kì diệu đó. Tôi chỉ cố nắm bắt một cái gì đó, có lẽ là mơ hồ quá-nhưng đó là những sắc màu, mà khi bên những thiên thần ấy, tôi đã cảm thấy mình như đắm chìm thật sự; và cố gắng níu kéo những kí thức tuổi thơ còn sót lại trong cái trí nhớ hạn hẹp của mình, tôi đã vẽ những bông hoa cầu vồng, đơn giản, là cho những tâm hồn be bé không tên.

Tôi không nghĩ bài tôi xuất sắc. Nhưng tôi tin nó mang lại cảm xúc cho bạn, ít hay nhiều. Phải chăng đó là nghệ thuật? hay chỉ là một điều mà bản thân tôi luôn cố gắng hướng đến trong những thiết kế của mình? hay la tôi tìm kiếm bản thân mình trong những cảm xúc hỗn độn? và hân hoan trong sự đồng cảm bình dị nhất.

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"Dear All,
Children, the most important people of the world, always surprise us with their innocence and imagination. it is said that adesigner sometimes needs a mind of a child to liberate themselves and dream of aunique and creative ideas.
No matter who you are, no matter what you are looking for, if you are fond of art and children, RAINBOW is for you! Because RAINBOW is a magazine about contemporary art and design created not just for children, but also the young-at-heart.
Come, experience and be inspired with us!"
( -intro of RAINBOW magazine)
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RAINBOW magazine is one of my work in 2nd year/ diploma. It was chosen for Lasalle-SIA college of the arts (Singapore) 's exhibition in December 2006.

(RAINBOW magazine and its collaterals)

( overview exhibition of the work)

<< Contact me for a digital copy of the magazine if you are interested in! :) >>

the well

2007-10-26T22:40:00.001+08:00

bởi vì bàn tay run
và cần một cái siết chặt

nhưng khoảng không vô hình
vô tình, làm tôi
chới với

vậy thì,
hãy tạm biệt những thiên thần...

trước khi chạm vào lòng giếng.

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because hands are trembling
and need a 'hold'-tightly

but un-seen void
in callous and unintentional,
pull me,
fall.

if so,
remember to tell the angels: 'goodbye'

before touching the well's soul.

Pieces

2007-10-23T00:58:00.001+08:00

Nếu như,
có thể
xếp lại những ước muốn vụn vặt
những đam mê thường ngày

và đi thật xa...

thương, nhớ và quên
để là đủ cho một tình yêu.

bao giờ mưa trở rét?
hay nắng lại sắp lên
tôi lại chỉ quẩn quanh
những điều đã vụn.

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If,
perhaps,
wishes could be folded
habits could be forgotten

and a journey could begin
somewhere, far...

love ends like a memory
i say: 'beautiful'.

whenever rain becomes winter
or sun rises earlier than usual
i wander around pieced, pieces
once upon again...

(31th July 07)

-photo credit: nuttin2kare

My Learning Process

2007-10-21T19:15:00.001+08:00

He is handsome. He is cool. He is awesome. He taught me simple yet meaningful things in life and the life-of-a-designer. They are interesting, funny, yet they are not a joke and you gotta think about it at the end of the day.
I love Stefan Sagmeister. ^^

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Helping other people helps me.

Having guts always works out for me.

Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.

Starting a charity is surprisingly easy.

Being not truthful works against me.

Everything I do always comes back to me.

Assuming is stifling.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.

Money does not make me happy.

Travelling alone is helpful for a new perspective in life.

Keeping a diary supports personal development.

Trying to look good limits my life.

Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.

Worrying solves nothing.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

Actually doing the things I set out to do increases my overall level of satisfaction.

Everybody thinks they are right.

Low expectations are a good strategy.

Whatever I want to explore professionally, its best to try it out for myself first.

Everybody who is honest is interesting.

-Stefan
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A Woman Young and Old

2007-10-18T20:03:00.002+08:00

If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror to mirror
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
-William Butler Yeats

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Nature is not always kind, and society now is even less so.
If one's pursuit of happiness is a desire for a better outlook-
and so change a destiny.
i think even plastic surgery is nothing wrong.
isn't it natural to wish for social's acceptance?
we are all tied to some.

a memory foreword

2007-10-18T19:40:00.002+08:00

I believe little things make life beautiful
and CYX is one of those.

dear memories,

i miss part of my life

sleepless nights.

again, i found myself
wandering
in chaotic and conflicting dreams.

a happiness is undefinable.

(18th October 07)

-photo credit: nuttin2kare