2015년 초반에 텀블러 시작한 뒤, 꾸준히 취준생으로 또는 20대 후반의 사람으로서 어떻게 살아가는지 기록을 남기고 싶었지만, 나의 게으름과 어떤 식으로 글을 써야할지 모르는 막막함 때문에 텀블러에 아무것도 남기지 않았다. 암튼, 2015년을 정리하면, 상반기에는 career에 대한 막막함을 핑계 대면서 엄청 놀았다. 그리고 운 좋게도, 내가 가고 싶었던 분야의 많은 것을 배울 수 있었던 회사에서 일을 반 년 정도 하게 되었다. 또 연말에는 대학교 때부터 선망하던 직장에서 일을 시작할 수 있게도 되었다. 좋은 일들이 많았지만, 개인적으로 마음이 아팠던 일들도 있었고 그런 일들로 단단해졌다는 그런 개 같은 말은 쓰고 싶지 않다. 마음이 아픈 일들은 계속 날 아프게 했고 결국 시간이 흘러 그 일들에 대해 무뎌질 뿐이었다. 2015년에는 좋은 사람들을 많이 만났다. 어떤 식으로든 나의 성장에 도움을 줄 사람들도 만났고 만나서 시덥잖은 이야기를 하면서 가벼운 시간을 보내는 듯하지만 나에게 위안과 안정감을 주는 사람들도 만나게 되었다. 결국 2015년을 어떻게 해서든지 지나 보냈고 난 그것에 감사하며 그렇다고 다시 돌아가서 살고 싶은 마음은 없다.
I have never been interested in Vietnam. Despite the fact that I would look I have really enjoyed Pho or any other Viet foods, I actually never enjoy Viet food. Thus, it is a misleading proposition that Viet food leads me to decide to have Saigon journey. Perhaps, the very moment at which Vietnam, especially Saigon, comes to my mind or consideration set was ASK Summit. On that Summit, Kenny briefly introduced the current status of HCMC development and he added that the development pattern between HCMC and Shanghai in 80s is pretty much alike. While giving this description, he showed HCMC Thu Thiem and Shanghai Pudong pictures with similar perspective; I was stunned at the similarity between these two cities. The point I want to deliver is that I am the person who is really keen to something called “development” or “progress”. Many people might condemn as the person seeking self-development I should take a look or reference from developed place or people. Yet, ironically, I am much more interested in someone or some place currently undergoing radical and dynamic development. Such developments can turn out epic failure in the future; still, i like the vibrance of moving forward. Moreover, I hope others as well as myself also enjoy such a vibrance. YES, I want to be someone glowing out of that kind of vibrance. Well, it can be something exaggerating to say Saigon and I are in parallel. Yet, we do share lots of common things at the moment. We are at the starting point of moving forward--perhaps, Saigon already kicked off from the starting point--in terms of self-development. We both can turn out to be failure even though there are lots of optimism surrounding us. I want to see and verify the potential of Saigon with my eyes as if Saigon exactly mirrored myself. Or, I want to find out the proof of Saigon’s obvious success in the future as if it is an journey to verify or predict my own future success. On top of that, I want to be happy throughout my trip to Saigon. All the colonial buildings and something mixed with french and viet local things would be extremely exotic. I am going to bed with all the high expectation as same as 님은 먼곳에 수애가 남편 찾으러 떠날 때처럼.