About pate
25 years old, I'm a girl from Vietnam where known as named "Country From War". I'm living in a big city in my country, called Saigon (it's like New York of America) and if just one more time you hear about the name of food "Phở", maybe you can image about my awesome "hometown" with fabulous street food courts.. People call me Hoang Ngan, close ones called me Pate and my family name was Le (you guys can call me Pate if I win this scholarship and we meet after this :D).
I started to studied in Marketing University (Vietnam) like the others Vietnamese after highschool with no target or any hope in future. After 02 boring years, I realized that I felt in love with Photoshop & Design, I've learned to use it by myself in 04 months and after that time, I can design poster for a movie, avatar, flyer... But I want to know more from basic to higher and higher! So 02 months later, I became a student of Arena Multimedia Aprotrain and studied 02 schools at the same time. They teached me about design and how to use design's sofwares to support my future work, they teached me photography, they teached me filming, making website and 3D animation. A lot of things to study for just 02 years. And I'm start to lost.
In the last year at Arena Multimedia, I decided to apply to work for a production company called Neowiz (Korea) as an editor to write script and create the format for Television Show (music, reality & entertainment), 1st purpose for money and 2nd for fight to find a way for my future target. Over 6 months, I become Entertainment Maganer with my young guys of 06, we worked together as a big family wth other departments during over 01 year and a half. After 02 years, the head office of Neowiz stopped the business in Vietnam, the company was bankcruptcy, our big family was broke-up. And I'm lost. Once again.
At this time, my family got problem, my heart got problem and my job got problem are the same time. I booked a ticket to Singapore, I want to escape from here, from my hurted problems. During this trip, I had chance to realize that the fear of failure and hiding are just bring me to a bigger failure, face to it and solve it are only ways to help me stronger, and bigger.
Back to Vietnam, I started to do everything from the beginning and solved my problems one by one. Keep calm my self by travelling, taking photos during those trips. I'm not a kind of talk-active person, so with photos I took, I could tell more stories from where I came with my friends in touching way. Long time later, my friends got married and I became to a-wedding-photographer for my friend's wedding. A lot of stories to tell about how photography and me were belong together. Just remember, my very 1st photo was took by a mobile's camera 5mpx of Nokia N78.
Now I was a Creative Manager of an online magazine called 19day.info. I've still not found the way to future yet. But I love what I'm doing, I want to travel more, discover the wolrd through my own real eyes. Maybe I have not much money in my pocket, but I wanna become a rich person in head, in soul. I want to go to come back. I want to go to learn more. Actually really love this scholarship and I really wanna win. Really wanna win!
