Let the story begin...
Wonderful Definitions
School:
A place where Papa pays and Son plays.
Life Insurance:
A contract that keeps you poor all your life so
that you can die Rich.
Nurse:
A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.
Marriage:
It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman
gains her masters.
Divorce:
Future tense of Marriage.
Tears:
The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine
waterpower.
Lecture:
An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the
notes of the students without passing through 'the minds of either'
Conference:
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise:
The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got
the biggest piece.
Dictionary:
A place where success comes before work.
Conference Room:
A place where everybody talks
nobody listens and everybody
disagrees later on.
Father:
A banker provided by nature.
Criminal:
A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.
Boss:
Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
Politician:
One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.
Doctor:
A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.
Classic:
Books, which people praise, but do not read.
Smile:
A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Office:
A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Yawn:
The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc.:
A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
Committee:
Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing
can be
done together.
Experience:
The name men give to their mistakes.
Atom Bomb:
An invention to end all inventions.
Philosopher:
A fool who torments himself during life, to be wise
Bonus: the monkees - daydream believer
Hom nay la mot ngay quan trong, danh dau vao day cho khoi quen :D.
Bonus:
Just something beautiful I picked up in the mass mailing.
To My Friends Who Are.......... .SINGLE
Love is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it. Love
can make you happy but often it hurts, but love's only special when you give it
to someone who is really worth it. So take your time and choose the best.
To My Friends Who Are............ NOT SO SINGLE
Love isn't about becoming somebody else's 'perfect person.' It's about
finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.
To My Friends Who Are............ PLAYBOY/GIRL TYPE
Never say 'I love you' if you don't care. Never talk about feelings if they
aren't there. Never touch a life if you mean to break a heart. Never look
in the eye when all you do is lie. The cruelest thing a guy can do to a
girl is to let her fall in love when he doesn't intend to catch her fall and it
works both ways...
To My Friends Who Are........... .MARRIED
Love is not about 'it's your fault', but 'I'm sorry.' Not 'where are you',
but 'I'm right here.' Not 'how could you', but 'I understand.' Not 'I
wish you were', but 'I'm thankful you are.'
To My Friends Who Are............ ENGAGED
The true measure of compatibility is not the years spent together but how
good you are for each other.
To My Friends Who Are............ HEARTBROKEN
Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to
go. The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them.
To My Friends Who Are............ NAIVE
How to be in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too
persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand,
and get hurt but never keep the pain.
To My Friends Who Are........... .POSSESSIVE
It breaks your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else but
it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.
To My Friends Who Are............ STILL HOLDING ON
A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love, only to
find out in the end that it was never meant to be and that you have wasted
years on someone who wasn't worth it. If he isn't worth it now ,
he's not going to be worth it a year or 10 years from now . Let go.....
To My Friends Who Are............ AFRAID TO CONFESS
Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when
someone breaks up with you. But love hurts the most when the person you
love has no idea how you feel.
Blog mở đầu năm mới con trâu, pót một truyện ngắn ngắn. Chúc bà con năm mới vui vẻ.
Bonus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9qB4loEjOA
Bà con thông cảm, pót trực tiếp không hiện tác phẩm.
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During the exam period, suddenly I felt like listening to Pham Minh Tuan’s songs. It’s because the lyric of Khat Vong kept echoing in my mind. It made a very good doping, just like Red Bull, the drink
. But let’s save it for last, I will begin with some other songs first.
Bài Ca Không Quên - An Unforgettable Song
| Bài Ca Không Quên Sáng tác: Phạm Minh Tuấn - Thể hiện: Hồng Ngọc |
The first time I heard the song is many years ago, in a movie about a couple and some friends of the husband, who used to be his teammates in the army during war time. The story revolved around conflicts between the wife and the husband’s friends when the friends paid them a visit after many years. The friends thought everything would be the same as the time they were still in the army, when they lived and died together. But the wife would never understand this because she had never been sharing a single day with these friends.
The song suited the movie very well, as a reminder to people who lived in peace to never forget what happened in the past - the time of hardship.
The movie made me recall the time when Vietnamese actors and actresses were very good. “Thuong Tin, Chanh Tin, Le Cong Tuan Anh from the South to name a few and many old actors and actress from the North featuring old movies. Though very few movies really got attention from the young like me like “Vi Dang Tinh Yeu” which I would translate as “Bitter Sweet Love”, the actors and actresses really incarnated their characters, which I don’t see very often in Vietnamese movies nowadays.
Just a few lines in the songs:
Có một bài ca không bao giờ quên
Là mẹ dõi bước con bạc tóc thời gian…
Nhưng giờ đây có giây phút bình yên
Sao tôi quên sao tôi quên
Bài ca tôi đã hát với quê hương
với bạn bè với cả cuộc đời…
Có một bài ca không bao giờ quên
là thánh phố nhớ nhung một dáng bình yên
Có một bài ca không bao giờ quên
là cả mùa xuân tim không phai
Bài ca tôi không quên
tôi không quên những mùa nước đổ
Bài ca tôi không quên
tôi không quên
em chống xuồng vượt qua pháo nổ
chỉ một lần quen
mà mang nỗi nhớ mênh mông…
Thành Phố Tình Yêu và Nỗi Nhớ - The City of Love and Memory
| Thành Phố Tình Yêu Và Nỗi Nhớ Sáng tác: Phạm Minh Tuấn - Thể hiện: Như Hảo |
Like this song simply because of its beautiful tune and lyric. I think the song was written for Ho Chi Minh city or Saigon. Since I started my study in Singapore, getting to know many friends from the South, especially from HCM city, I felt more familiar to the city. My daily language has already been mixed with the Southern language.
Có từ bao giờ hàng me xanh ngát
Mà nay đứng đó cho em làm thơ
Con đường ta qua đến nay bao tuổi
Em qua trăm buổi em là ngàn lần
Mà sao bối rối khi cầm tay nhau
Em ơi hãy lắng nghe
Em ơi hãy lắng nghe, nghe thành phố thở
Bằng tiếng sóng vỗ dưới những thân tàu
Bằng hương rừng già trên vai bộ đội
Bằng hương đồng nội thanh niên xung phong
Bằng những tấm lòng chờ mong, chờ mong
Em ơi hãy lắng nghe
Em ơi hãy lắng nghe, nghe thành phố thở
Bằng đôi chim nhỏ bay giữa bầu trời
Bằng bao nụ cười nghiêng nghiêng chờ đợi
Bằng hoa phượng đỏ thương ai trao ai
Yêu lắm cuộc đời ta xây tương lai
Dù nơi chiến trường xa nhiều gian khổ
Vẫn đập trong lòng trái tim thành phố
Như là cuộc sống như là tình yêu và nỗi nhớ
Suốt đời, suốt đời mang theo
The uncles and aunties who have gone though the war would have appreciated the two songs above better than me.
Khát Vọng - Aspiration
| Khát Vọng Sáng tác: Phạm Minh Tuấn - Thể hiện: Hồng Nhung |
Some people may think this song is too much of positivity, too much of ideality but what’s wrong if we keep thinking that way? Though life is not always en-rose but at least when you keep beautiful thinking and ideology in mind, you tend to lead a beautiful life. This reminded me of words from a book: “Life doesn’t need so many heroes but it does need a lot of good people. So do and think good things”