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Continue reading →: Dating in America made me realize how different Vietnamese dating culture really is.When I first came to the United States, I thought “dating” meant the same thing everywhere. Two people meet.They like each other.They focus on each other.They slowly build a relationship together. Simple. But after almost three years of dating in America, I realized something that genuinely shocked me: In Vietnam,…
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Continue reading →: Bringing Back the Quiet Luxury of HawaiʻiWhat Hawaiʻi can learn from Six Senses Con Dao and Amanoi The world has become so loud that silence now feels expensive. Not silence in an empty way.Silence in a safe way. The kind of silence where nobody is demanding anything from you. Where the night stays dark enough to…
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Continue reading →: Love, Time, and the Quiet Things We CarryThere comes a moment in life when love no longer feels like fireworks. It becomes quieter than that. You begin to understand that love is not only about excitement, attraction, or dramatic confessions beneath beautiful skies. It is about the small things people rarely post online: the way someone speaks…
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Continue reading →: Maybe Hawai’i has been telling its story too “Cheaply”Recently, I watched Prada Re-Nylon: Stewards of the Ocean with Benedict Cumberbatch. What fascinated me was that Prada was not selling clothes.They were selling awareness.A feeling.A responsibility. And suddenly I thought about Hawaiʻi. Maybe Hawaiʻi has been telling its story too cheaply to the world. People come here for beaches,…
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Continue reading →: Philosophy Quietly Lives Inside Everyday LifeI never believed philosophy was only about theories or old books. Maybe because even before taking philosophy class, I already felt philosophy quietly existed inside the way humans live, think, love, judge, and treat the world around them. Philosophy shapes how we perceive life.And perception slowly shapes action. This semester,…
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Continue reading →: Consistency is not what you say. It’s what you RepeatThere’s a moment when you realize words don’t mean anything anymore. Not because people don’t speak well. But because they speak too well. They explain. They justify. They ask for understanding. They say everything that sounds right . . . while their actions quietly tell a completely different story. Maybe…
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Continue reading →: Prisoners of Our Own PerspectiveThere was a moment in my life when I thought I was going to die. It didn’t look dramatic from the outside.It was just another normal, beautiful day. I was teaching, doing what I loved, being present. And then suddenly, a sharp pain came out of nowhere. It got worse…
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Continue reading →: Communication in Teaching: How do We Actually Help Students Understand?I’ve been thinking a lot about teaching lately. Maybe because I’ve been doing it for more than 10 years. Or maybe because now I’m sitting in classrooms again, but on the other side, as a student. And when you experience both sides at the same time, you start noticing things…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the Ahupua’a SystemWhen I first started learning about Hawaiʻi’s traditional land systems, one word kept appearing everywhere: ahupuaʻa. The word itself carries a story. It comes from ahu, meaning a stone altar or marker, and puaʻa, meaning pig. In ancient Hawaiʻi, these stone markers were often placed along land boundaries, sometimes with…
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Continue reading →: Maunalua Ahupuaʻa: From Traditional Fishponds to Urban CoastlineWhen most people think about Hawaiʻi, they imagine beautiful beaches and clear blue water. Maunalua Bay in Hawaiʻi Kai looks exactly like that at first glance – a calm bay surrounded by homes, mountains, and a peaceful shoreline. But standing in the water during our beach laboratory sessions, I started…
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