Developed countries vs. developing countries

(This piece was written on August 20th, 2009 while I’m sunbathing by the gorgeous out door pool at a hip gym I worked out regularly reflecting on my own experience of getting a French visa in the summer 2007).

Third world citizen vs. first world citizen, what does it mean?
Developed countries, underdeveloped countries, and developing countries, what are the differences and how? What does it mean to be a citizen of a middle income country? I often asked myself. Realize I have raised questions that bigger than my tiny head could answer I just have to descriptively find meanings of those concepts my ways in reality.

Having some years studies in one of the most developed country on earth, at one of the most elite educational institution, spending sometimes wondering 4 continents observed the differences that happened daily here and there while being a citizen of one underprivileged country on earth and hanging out with some of amazingly poor folks in the slum of Saigon, has shaped and change the course of my life. These experiences taught me to understand the meaning of these raised concepts and I’m going to dissect it here.

Xơ cái, chợ chiều!

Chợ Phú Nhuận chiều, loe nghoe vài hàng. Thành thói quen, mỗi khi phóng xe máy từ hướng Sài gòn hoặc từ đường Hai Bà Trưng, hoặc từ đường Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa về "cái tổ" của tôi ở Phú Nhuận, tôi lại quẹo vào đường Cao Thắng bên hông chợ Phú Nhuận. Tôi thích đi chợ chiều...