Given Name:

Nguyễn Ngọc Bích Ngân

Baptized Names:
Nickname/Informal Name:

Martha, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus
Little, Baby Seventh.

Hometown:

Mỹ-Tho, Ðịnh-Tường, VN.

Birthday:

September 16

Educational & Professional Credentials:

Literary Certificate of Linguistics
BA in Accounting Management
Worked with Munich Re-insurance, The Bay (central accounting), Law Society of Upper Canada, contracts ...

Literary Activities

Associated with local Vietnamese News and Literary Media:

Thời Báo – with the following columns: Knowledge - Aesthetics - Music - Living – Society, Woman’s Corner; Poetry & Short Story

Thời Mới – with the following columns : Western Entertainment Media

 Ca Dao – with the following columns : Do You Know?/ Knowledge – Aesthetics & Poetry

Has worked with monthly Aesthetic Design and Entertainment magazines in the Montréal area.

Everyday’s Colors:

- Clothing: White (light fabric), violet
- Flower: Rose, lavender

Favorite Food:

Shrimp dumpling, Spring roll, rice noodle soup. Vietnamese food..
Actually...French, Italian, Japanese, etc., ... familiar with all because  grew up here and have experienced them all.

Most Loved Flowers:

- Freesia & single-petal flowers.
Freesia is similar to Vietnamese Lily, looks very delicate and pure but has unbelievable strength (… very lovely …sorrowful). 
The flower is long lasting. just as a fine lady but  with strong mind.

- Cosmos - looking at the soft comos flowers can make you shed tears... for their fragility and purity ...

Most Frequented Places:


Most Loved Weather:                                

Lakeside, riverside, mountain, library & bookstore, monastery, (because of the quiet and peaceful setting and protective shades of  large, timeless  trees around the abbey)

Overcast, cloudy skies …
... light misty rain, drizzle, shower, torrential rain … any kind of rain

Most Listened to Music:

Symphony #40, Symphony #5 of  Amadeus Mozart, Fantaisie-Impromptu of Frédéric Chopin, Compositions of Giovanni,

Hobbies:

Closest Friends: 

All Times dearest intimate Friend:

Present Status:

Places Most Wanted to Visit:
Places Most Wished to Return:

 

 Reading, writing prose, poetry, music.  Always love … thirsty for … need peace and quiet!

Art, the fine- Arts and  Literature

Nature... the four lovely cold and warm, snowy, rainy windy and foggy seasons...

still ... awaiting,

Côte D'azur, small towns & villages of France, London, Ðà-Lạt,
Mont-Tremblant, Florida-Indialantic,

Favorite Movie Stars:

Robert de Niro, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, 
Catherine Zeta Jones, Sharon Stone, Sophie Marceau (trong Anna Karenina) , ...

Most Respected Poets:

 Bùi-Giáng (because He has done the one thing that no one can – truly did not take life & living seriously)
Chế-lan-Viên (because He empathized and was moved by the destruction of a small race of people – His)

Favorite Authors:

Quỳnh Dao (4 novels), Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn (the older novelettes),...

Beloved Singers:

Ngọc Lan, Khánh Ly,

Personal Wishes:

- Has more time during the night to write.
- The next Vietnamese generation to be fluent in Vietnamese …