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#9 Dương Vũ Hoàng Anh
A wedding planner who doesn't believe weddings equal happy endings.
Our narrator Maia Do chats to Hoàng Anh about choosing an unusual career path, Disney princess' fantasies, how hanging up mosquito nets can make or break a marriage and why a career in finance isn't for everyone.
Episode 9 was recorded in front of a live audience at the Women's Storytelling Salon hosted at Manzi Art Space in Hanoi.
Một nhà tổ chức đám cưới không tin đám cưới đồng nghĩa với một cái kết có hậu.
Người dẫn chuyện của chúng tôi, Maia Do, nói chuyện với Hoàng Anh về việc lựa chọn một con đường sự nghiệp chẳng giống ai, những mơ mộng kiểu công chúa Disney, việc mắc màn có thể se duyên hay hay phá vỡ một cuộc hôn nhân và tại sao một sự nghiệp tài chính lại không dành cho tất cả mọi người.
Tập 9 được thu âm trực tiếp trước khán giả tại buổi Salon Trò chuyện của Phụ Nữ (Women’s Storytelling Salon) diễn ra tại Manzi Art Space tại Hà Nội.
Links
Hoang Anh's blog
The Women's Storytelling Salon
Transcript
For full transcript, click "Next"
[FULL TRANSCRIPT]
This is Viet Nam’s Renovation Generation, sonic portraits of young minds re-shaping the country’s future. In Episode 9 we speak to Hoàng Anh.
We talked to Hoàng Anh in front of a live audience at the Women’s Storytelling Salon. A regular event that brings together women to share their experience by way of storytelling. This one took place at Manzi Art Space in Hanoi.
Hoàng Anh is a wedding planner. That’s how we got to meet her. It’s a very unusual profession still in Vietnam because it doesn’t quite exist yet. With The Renovation Generation we try to find people who are doing things that wouldn’t have been possible before Đổi Mới, but also that are just unusual and new not necessarily mainstream. So Hoàng Anh is going to talk about being a wedding planner and also she did this in Koh Samui for the last few years and has only just returned from Thailand. We will to talk about that as well.
We ask every person that we interview what they would bring back from pre-Đổi Mới. And Hoàng Anh said she would bring back food coupons because it would make people more aware of what they are consuming and actually think about how much they waste.
We had our trusted narrator Maia Do conduct the talk.
What connects these two ladies is that they both wanted to be princesses when they were growing up and I’ll hand over to you ladies.
Hey everyone. In my defense I love Disney movies but I don’t wanna be a princess - anymore
I still do
oh you still do, no wonder why you are wedding planner. What inspired you to become one?
The blame is on my grandpa because he let me watch Disney movies a lot when I was younger. My mum and dad was so busy that I live with my grandpa. He cannot sing or dance with me so he put movies for me. My house is the only one that has television. So the kids sometimes gather in my house and they watch movies with me so I think it’s a privilege. And I feel like a princess people have to bribe me with candies. It’s like the movie ticket. And I feel special. I thank my grandpa a lot for that, because the television was actually from his savings.
What’ your idea of a good marriage?
That’s a hard question. I don’t know
I think some girls think love can conquer everything. And a wedding is a happy ending. To me it’s not. A happy ending may not include a wedding. You can just live by your own house and maybe surrounded with your cats. It’s more happy than living with your mother in law who tell you to do anything on her wish.
I see my mum and dad fight all the time since they got married. My mum... the only condition that she will say yes to my dad proposal is that he will have to put the mosquito net up every night.
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By The Renovation GenerationA wedding planner who doesn't believe weddings equal happy endings.
Our narrator Maia Do chats to Hoàng Anh about choosing an unusual career path, Disney princess' fantasies, how hanging up mosquito nets can make or break a marriage and why a career in finance isn't for everyone.
Episode 9 was recorded in front of a live audience at the Women's Storytelling Salon hosted at Manzi Art Space in Hanoi.
Một nhà tổ chức đám cưới không tin đám cưới đồng nghĩa với một cái kết có hậu.
Người dẫn chuyện của chúng tôi, Maia Do, nói chuyện với Hoàng Anh về việc lựa chọn một con đường sự nghiệp chẳng giống ai, những mơ mộng kiểu công chúa Disney, việc mắc màn có thể se duyên hay hay phá vỡ một cuộc hôn nhân và tại sao một sự nghiệp tài chính lại không dành cho tất cả mọi người.
Tập 9 được thu âm trực tiếp trước khán giả tại buổi Salon Trò chuyện của Phụ Nữ (Women’s Storytelling Salon) diễn ra tại Manzi Art Space tại Hà Nội.
Links
Hoang Anh's blog
The Women's Storytelling Salon
Transcript
For full transcript, click "Next"
[FULL TRANSCRIPT]
This is Viet Nam’s Renovation Generation, sonic portraits of young minds re-shaping the country’s future. In Episode 9 we speak to Hoàng Anh.
We talked to Hoàng Anh in front of a live audience at the Women’s Storytelling Salon. A regular event that brings together women to share their experience by way of storytelling. This one took place at Manzi Art Space in Hanoi.
Hoàng Anh is a wedding planner. That’s how we got to meet her. It’s a very unusual profession still in Vietnam because it doesn’t quite exist yet. With The Renovation Generation we try to find people who are doing things that wouldn’t have been possible before Đổi Mới, but also that are just unusual and new not necessarily mainstream. So Hoàng Anh is going to talk about being a wedding planner and also she did this in Koh Samui for the last few years and has only just returned from Thailand. We will to talk about that as well.
We ask every person that we interview what they would bring back from pre-Đổi Mới. And Hoàng Anh said she would bring back food coupons because it would make people more aware of what they are consuming and actually think about how much they waste.
We had our trusted narrator Maia Do conduct the talk.
What connects these two ladies is that they both wanted to be princesses when they were growing up and I’ll hand over to you ladies.
Hey everyone. In my defense I love Disney movies but I don’t wanna be a princess - anymore
I still do
oh you still do, no wonder why you are wedding planner. What inspired you to become one?
The blame is on my grandpa because he let me watch Disney movies a lot when I was younger. My mum and dad was so busy that I live with my grandpa. He cannot sing or dance with me so he put movies for me. My house is the only one that has television. So the kids sometimes gather in my house and they watch movies with me so I think it’s a privilege. And I feel like a princess people have to bribe me with candies. It’s like the movie ticket. And I feel special. I thank my grandpa a lot for that, because the television was actually from his savings.
What’ your idea of a good marriage?
That’s a hard question. I don’t know
I think some girls think love can conquer everything. And a wedding is a happy ending. To me it’s not. A happy ending may not include a wedding. You can just live by your own house and maybe surrounded with your cats. It’s more happy than living with your mother in law who tell you to do anything on her wish.
I see my mum and dad fight all the time since they got married. My mum... the only condition that she will say yes to my dad proposal is that he will have to put the mosquito net up every night.