Tam Nguyen

Have Some Faith, Papi.

I met God the other day while I was dreaming. I didn’t know how that was even possible. Was it because I accepted a free copy of the Quran that evening, or was it because I’ve been a very good kid to my parents lately? I guess we’

Fiction No 3.

I have known X for almost the entire of my life. A weird, strange kid. Always push your boundary, never cross it. Honest with the love they give, careless with the way they talk, whisper into your ears "Peach Cobbler" and "Bukkake" just to see you

Miss Girl Criminal - An Excerpt.

Written by Tam Nguyen. Synopsis A Vietnamese-Canadian young adult accidentally committed a national crisis crime and now she has to deal with consequences. Characters The girl (she/her, female, Vietnamese-Canadian, 20s) Captain (she/her, female, Black, 40s) Officer 1 (she/her female, Caucasian, 30s) Officer 2 (he/him, male, O.

NoName - An Excerpt.

Written by Tam Nguyen for LEAP level 1 2023-2024. Stage reading premiered at The Arts Club Theater on May 16th, 2024. Many thanks to my instructor, Tetsuro Shigematsu, and my LEAP peers for the generous support and adoration they gave to me and my excerpt. Synopsis A diary of a

I Do Drugs 4 Days In A Row (Not Recommended)

Day 1. Mid autumn festival, evening. There I was, laying down on my friend's lap on the couch, smoking cigarettes and drinking white wine. The ambience was beautiful, all the people I loved were around, and the light bulb started blurring. Later that night, I smoked weed from

A few words about Orange Is The New Black (OITNB)

So I just finished watching 7 seasons of Orange Is The New Black in about 2 weeks, and I'm overwhelming with emotions right now. I don't even know how to write these things down. Everything about this show is so just so humane, they make me

Conversation with Craig Taylor - Canadian author of "New Yorkers" and "Londoners"

I. Introduction In front of the NYC history book aisle on the 6th floor of Vancouver Central Library, there was me, browsing up and down and getting swamped by the history of Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Fiscal Crisis, Beat Poets, and Patti Smith. Why you may ask? Cause I&

What Does It Feel To Be Medicated? Another Conversation With X.

I. Introduction As the title stated, today's article is a conversation between me and X - my favorite person on Earth - about mental illness and taking prescribed medication, as well as other interesting related topics, such as why people romanticize mental illness, and whether mental illness makes

Building a Computer From Ground Up, nand2Tetris tutorial (sort of.)

Project 1: Building Logic Gates Click to Open Google Drive Project 2: Building ALU Click to Open Google Drive

On The Road, Conversations With People

For people I met in Toronto and Montreal. I. Introduction and Toronto 25th of April, 2023, Toronto. Around 9p.m  After spending a whole morning and afternoon on the little precious gem Toronto Island, walking the seashores and gardens, and visiting the poet couple Acorn and Macewen’s historic house

VIFF 2023 Highlight: In Broad Daylight - A Conversation with Director Lawrence Kan

I. About In Broad Daylight Based on actual events, Lawrence Kan’s film stars Jennifer Yu as a journalist investigating abuse in a Hong Kong care home. Kay (Yu) is a determined but cynical protagonist: years of reporting have honed her instincts and worn down her idealism. Posing as a

Conversations with people working in Film and Theater

I. Introduction I was thinking about how to write an introduction for this article, maybe something like "I've always wanted to be an actor growing up but didn't have an opportunity to do so blah blah blah..", but you know what, I'm

BoJack Horseman Archive

I. Preface, A note from Editor. So this is my second time already dedicating a whole article to BoJack Horseman, a Netflix original show about a depressed talking horse trying to find a way to be happy in a satirical depiction of Hollywood, or Hollywoo, as referred to in the

A Sunny Sunday in Harlem

Fiction No.1 A story about New York City in the 90s, jazz club,  some existentialism, some identity confusion, and some teen angsty, cause why not? Friday, June 4th, 1995 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Emil, I’m sorry that I couldn’t come to your 17th birthday, dad’s condition is

What People Talk When They Talk About Vancouver

I. Introduction I arrived in Vancouver on a bright sunny day in August summer last year. After throwing all my baggage into the locker in the dorm room, I hopped on a bus to Kitsilano Beach. On my way there, I saw cherry blossoms all over the street, and people

POV: George Orwell Is Your Political Science Professor (Part 1)

I. Intro. Why Politics? I find the word “politics”, or “civics rights”, as sexy as a real estate advertisement in the newspaper my 80-year-old grandpa reads. And overall, when it comes to politics, I’m not by any chance an expert on it. In fact, I’m somewhat ignorant. In

Debunking Psychopathy with Killing Eve

I. Introduction Psychopathy is not a strange term to most people today. And in fact, in pop culture, psychopathy is one of the most popular themes to be used in books, movies, and other mass media forms. If you are a movie person, you probably realize that many psychopathy-themed movies

The Existentialism of Fleabag

“I want someone to tell me what to wear every morning. I want someone to tell me what to eat. What to like, what to hate, what to rage about, what to listen to, what band to like, what to buy tickets for, what to joke about, what not to

What's the hurry kiddo?

Near the small neighborhood where I used to live is a cemetery, surrounded by green hills, poppy fields, a small lagoon, and old Christian tombstones. In the morning, I would run around the cemetery and climb upon the hills to see the tombs and the names on them more clearly.

Another Way of Looking At Creativity and Originality

“That’s just why, because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a common-place dauber, so I don’t intend to try anymore.” - Amy March, Little Women. This is one of the most

Inside A Mind of An BPD Patient (Borderline Disorder Personality) - Full Interview with X about Love, Mental illness, and Obsession.

Overview of BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder of mood and how a person interacts with others. It's the most commonly recognized personality disorder. In general, someone with a personality disorder will differ significantly from an average person in terms of how they

Gửi em,

Về tình yêu, ám ảnh, và bệnh tâm lí. (Bài viết này được lấy cảm hứng và tư liệu từ một cuộc phỏng vấn với một nhân vật giấu tên. Mong sẽ đến tay người cần đọc.) Link full phỏng vấn bằng tiếng Anh giữa mình và X, để mọi

Us and Robots

“The Matrix”, one of the greatest cinematic movies of the 20th century, showed us a dystopian where humans are defeated by robots and machines, and get trapped inside a computer simulation named “The Matrix”. In this dystopian, everything we perceive, feel, and sense is fed into our heads by machines.

Why This Blog?

A writer writes for a sheer egoism. A desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after deadth. - George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, in his essay "Why I Write". Hi, I'm nobody Yes, I am nobody. At this moment.

Bojack Horseman

What is Reality?

Well, do you think I'm a good person, deep down?" - Bojack Horseman That’s the thing. I don’t think I believe in ‘deep down’. I kind of think all you are is just the things that you do. - Diane Nguyen If you are watching