forged in Hanoi, fueled by curiosity
NGUYEN MINH KHUE
the color of wonder
My first taste of science came from a shimmer on a slice of boiled pork. Under the kitchen light, it glowed with a fleeting rainbow that vanished before I reached the table. That disappearance lingered in me. It wasn’t magic—it was light and matter—but it felt like the world whispering a secret through color.
the shade of
PINK
To me, femininity is the courage to stay with emotion—to find meaning beneath what seems ordinary. I once equated gentleness with weakness, but art and writing taught me to listen to feeling instead of apologizing for it. Through dance, I learned that femininity is not self-denial but self-respect: the quiet strength of honesty in motion.
my pallete
Over time, I’ve seen how empathy and curiosity intertwine—how my green sharpens my pink, and my pink softens my green. Biochemistry became the lens that revealed the shimmer’s truth: light, structure, molecules in motion. What once seemed mystical became a language of life itself, where logic and wonder coexist.
