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Work-Life Balance

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On 3rd November, I posted a blog named “A Slow Life” which mentioned that I started to slowly go back to my balanced life (no hustle with many assignments, no stress with job-seeking and interviews). However, I think it has been not really “slow” because I worked full-time and wrote my thesis (also full days) during the weekends. Today is Friday but it is a public holiday in Finland continuously with weekend and Easter holiday. So totally I have 4 days off from work. Usually, I would think “Oh yeah have many days to concentrate on my thesis (or to …

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“Dolce far Niente” – The sweetness of doing nothing

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Productivity went down It’s been around 2-3 weeks. My productivity has been definitely going down. I guess it was because of being burned out after a long time of working hard plus getting sick. Every day I do nothing but surf on websites and read stuff. I was just telling myself in my mind “Well, another long lazy resting time after a hard running section”. I read my old blog post, Endurance Run, again and I started to remember this is not the first time it has happened to me. Therefore, I tell myself that burning out and requesting the …

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A Slower Life

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After a year at full-speed-ever in my life with study and job search in Finland, I have been slowly back to my preferred slow life.  Trying to take back my old habits When I was in Vietnam just right before coming to Finland, I had a habit of going to bed around 10 PM and waking up at 5:30 AM to read a book, which was just life my daily ritual before really starting my day with work and other things in the world. After work, I do Yoga at home in the afternoon at least 3 times per week. …

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A Full-Focused Year in Finland to Reach The Goal

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My gratefulness At the end of this week, I received the news that I passed all the interviews and got the UX Trainee position at a company that I am very excited to join. I am really happy not only because I got the job, but also because the culture and values of the company and the team are very matched to mine. When I received the email from the recruiter, I was so happy that I even could not respond immediately. Within around 30 minutes, I just sat silently and reflected on everything that happened. I spent the whole …

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Finland: Human Rights and The Freedom of Prisoners

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Another thought from mine about Finnish education. ——— This weekend, I unintentionally had a chance to watch one episode from the docuseries “Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons” on Netflix, and that one episode got my attention because it was about one prison in Finland – Kylmäkoski prison (Kylmäkosken vankila). The name of that episode is Finland: The Free Choice Prison. Kylmäkoski prison (Kylmäkosken vankila) I have to say that I am very impressed with the “toughest prison” in Finland. Before the screen really showed the scenes inside the prison, I imagined that it would look like something I saw in Vietnamese, …

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Power of Story-Telling in Presentation | My Learning Journey in Finland

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I wrote this post both to share about my study in Finland and the importance of story-telling to make a successful convey of our ideas, and also to remind how incredible story-telling can help to spread information to make a positive impact in society and human development. I believe each of us could both benefit from and contribute to something when we have good skills in story-telling and presentation. My further study in Finland: LAB & the course Anticipating Future Trends and Innovation Management At LAB University of Applied Sciences, the school I am pursuing to study deeper in technology …

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Quotes I love

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17.06.2022 You’re not going to master the rest of your life in one day. Just relax. Master the day. Than just keep doing that every day. ” ― Anonymous 25.11.2023 “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” – Albert Einstein 12.05.2024 “You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else will follow.” — Charles de Lint “Happiness is enjoying the little things in life, quietly.” – Unknown “Sometimes the most profound moments are the ones you don’t share.” – Unknown

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Endurance Run

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Dạo này mình bận rộn với nhiều việc cần làm quá. Có những thứ mình đặt deadline trong một thời gian ngắn khiến mình hối hả cắm đầu vào mỗi ngày, liên tục hai – ba tháng, đến độ mình bỏ quên những sở thích của mình như là tập piano, viết journal, viết blog, yoga + nhảy nhót đều đặn… Và chuyện gì đến cũng đến, khoảng một hai tuần nay minh bắt đầu bị bão hoà, dẫn đến trì hoãn lại và không muốn đụng đến một số thứ đang làm.  Sau nhiều ngày chới với không làm …

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My Words, My Mind

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Lâu quá rồi, xin chào mọi người! Thấm thoát cũng đã nửa năm mình không viết một bài blog nào mới rồi. Có nhiều nguyên nhân cho việc này, một là mình lười, hai là mình bận, ba là mình cảm thấy muốn định hướng lại gì đó cho blog của mình. Sau nhiều tháng nghỉ ngơi đối với việc viết blog thì mình nhận ra mình không thích viết về những chủ đề vĩ mô quá hoặc là cố gắng thật bài bản trong việc chia sẻ sao cho “chuyên nghiệp” quá như kiểu self-help, vì thật ra mình …

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Self-learn IELTS 6.5 within 2 Months

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Vài điều lưu ý về các trung tâm IELTS và lý do mình quyết định tự luyện Cuối năm 2019 có việc cần đến bằng IELTS nên mình đã nghiên cứu thử nơi để học. Sau một thời gian không đi học trung tâm tiếng Anh (hơn… 10 năm), thì lúc nghiên cứu nơi học mình mới phát hiện ra hiện tại các lò luyện thi IELTS mọc lên như nấm và rất “hot”. Có cả những trung tâm bị tố lừa đảo, giáo viên không chất lượng mà vẫn bao nhiêu học viên không biết đăng kí vào học. …