This is a post to myself, trying to figure out where to focus my energy. I have been trying to get up a project called “Silence” through AVYM, an all Vietnamese women’s production. We are looking for a woman director and this is taking up time. I am currently engaged most regularly on my thesis [...]

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Just had a good supervision session with Kathleen Fallon today. She encouraged me to use my imagination when it came to one of my characters going mad- or experiencing a psychotic breakdown. I’m wary of misrepresenting this state, my best friend’s mother has schizophrenia and so does my grandmother. But Kathleen has told me to [...]

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My AVYM project for the moment is titled “Silence- giving voice to Vietnamese-Australian women”. We are putting in for an arts and innovation grant using Tony’s contacts with the Australian Vietnamese Women’s Welfare Association to do a partnership with them. I’m happy about the way this is shaping up- it will be developed in 2007, [...]

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Somehow I became the president of Australian Vietnamese Youth Media the other day. We had our first board meeting at the Dancing Dog Cafe and I was elected! Tony Le Nguyen has all these ideas for AVYM- to have our own space and to become as big as some of the community theatre groups overseas. [...]

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Thanks to Tseen I have found a nerd-geek-dork test. I am
You scored higher than 59% on nerdiness You scored higher than 72% on geekosity You scored higher than 71% on dork points and am a modern cool nerd. Meaning I read for pleasure damnit!
The Peril theme is nerds and it’s turning out to be a [...]

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