Saturday, April 26, 2008

Great movie "The Company"


Hey friends out there.

If you like spy movies, movies about the war between the smartest minds, movies about the war between bravest people then you should try the movie "The company" out.

I spent all day today to finish that movie. After the movie completed, i did not waste any minute to start to tell you guys about this movie.

Remember, this is a spy movie, so a lot of thinking, twisting, double twisting, and YES, you would not waste your time to watch this movie.

You can even watch it online if your internet connection is good. Follow this link "Watch it online" but i highly recommend that you use the above link to have a good context of the movie.

Enjoy the movie then thank me later.

Chelsea 2 - 1 MU


Damn it !


My team lost to Chelsea. I can not believe it. I don't want to believe it BUT it is the truth.


Damn it, MU, you just needs a draw. You broke my heart


You are better not screw up this season.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Áo Trắng


Lâu rồi không dùng tiếng Việt để viết blog, thực ra la chưa bao giờ dùng tiếng Việt để viết blog nhưng có những điều mà chỉ có ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ mới diễn tả được nên phải đi kiếm chương trình UniKey cài vào máy để viết bài này.

Ai trong những người đọc blog này vẫn còn đọc "Áo Trắng" ?

Tôi vẫn còn đọc "Áo Trắng". Nhiều lúc cũng tự thắc mắc tại sao mình thích đọc "Áo Trắng". Nhiều lần nghe mình tự trả lời mình "Ai mà biết, tại thấy hay hay !". Nghe xong tự nhiên thấy mắc cười, tại vì 90% khi mình trả lời như vậy là do mình không muốn nói ra nguyên nhân thực sự.


Nhiều truyện tôi đọc trên "Áo Trắng" là những truyện có kết thúc mở, là những truyện kết thúc nhưng vẫn đọng lại cho mình một câu hỏi, là những truyện mà khi đọc xong mình sẽ mỉm cười vì tìm thấy đâu đó trong câu truyện hình ảnh của mình nhiều năm về trước.

Nhiều truyện khác trong "Áo Trắng" giúp trả lời những câu hỏi, những băn khoăn, những suy nghĩ theo đuổi mỗi bản thân mình lâu quá rồi.

  • Không thể và có thể chắc chuyện này là câu chuyện của 90% chúng ta. (Tác giả cũng hơi bị dễ thương nữa. Không tin thì kiểm tra đi)
  • Chùm phượng vỹ tháng tư thì hơi theo phong cách cổ điển cho nên hiển nhiên vẫn dễ thương (1991 đang học lớp 10 chỉ vì muốn chứng tỏ là dân chuyên Toán mới là lãng tử thứ thiệt và ngầu không kém mấy đàn anh lớp trên, tôi và mấy thằng bạn nữa đã bẻ trụi hết hoa phượng của cây phượng trước cửa lớp. Không có đứa nào bị gì hết, ngọai trừ bị thầy chủ nhiệm chửi là "điên", lần vừa rồi về thăm trường cũ, thăm lại cây phượng mới thấy đúng là điên thiệt)
  • Đi mua sự cô độc thì đọc đúng vào ngày sinh nhật cô đơn, hay cô độc của mình, thế rồi tự hỏi "phải chăng mình cũng đi mua sự cô độc cho chính mình ?"
  • Nắng Sài Gòn vẫn thế sao mà giống hồi học lớp 9, hahahahahaha, cũng đi cắm trại Đoàn trường, cũng làm quen 1 cô bé, không phải ở trường khác mà là ở lớp khác. Cũng không hoàn toàn là cắm trại nghiêm chỉnh mà là có úynh nhau trong đó nữa, vậy mới là yêng hùng chứ. Chỉ có một chuyện quá học trò không thể quên được, cô bạn nói ở trên rủ đi ra quán gần đó ăn kem, hahaha, dại gì mà không đi, cô này chắc là thích mình mà, với lại còn đủ tiền cho 2 ly kem mà. Chỉ có trời không chiều lòng mình thôi, tự nhiên có thêm 2-3 cô bạn của cô ta đi ra sau, và ngồi ăn kem cùng bàn với mình nữa. Kết cục là không thấy thằng bạn nào đi ra cho mình mượn tiền để trả mới chết, làm cô bạn phải đứng dậy đi trả tiền cho cả bàn. Lần đầu tiên cảm thấy nỗi khó khăn khi đi với bạn mà túi không có tiền.
Cũng còn nhiều truyện khác khá hay nhưng tìm chưa ra để quảng cáo cho mọi người cùng đọc. Thôi thì để dịp khác lại quảng cáo tiếp.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

24 hours before I officially turned into 31. April 19, 2008


More than five years ago, as a young guy with all energy, all dreams, all about career, all about success, i arrived in this country. There wasn't much in me about enjoying life. Everything was about ambitious, everything was about achievement. Then i met her, she was my instructor to show me some other parts of life that i neglected.
  • She taught me to take a minute to enjoy a pretty afternoon.
  • She taught me to do somethings for myself.
  • She taught me to slow down to enjoy.
  • She taught me the lesson to lean against the other to get stronger, to over come hardship.
  • She was there for me during my loneliness.
  • She was there when i sicked.
  • She was there to wipe my tears during my hardship.
  • She was there to see my successes.
  • All up and down time she was there with me.
  • She gave me a chance to redeem myself from a young arrogance guy to a more mature man.
  • Lessons that we learned together will always be valuable for me for the rest of my life.
Now i am laying here wrote these lines about her and munching off my sadness and loneliness. Some how the old Chinese saying popped up in my mind "Men build family when he reach 30th".

But for me "No country for old man"

Life is still moving, she will doing fine and I would be alright too. But why don't all good things turn into better, and why there are "worse" and "worst" in this world.

Yes, just as my old time college friend in DC always tells me. If there were not "worse" and "worst", then we would not have "good" and "better". "Worse" and "Worst" must be there so we could appreciate "good" and "better".

I know, I sound old. Hope that there still be a country for this old man.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hey, This slide show thing is very cool.



The house was not completed at the time



Sunday, April 6, 2008

Stories that make me feel life is so beautiful

These stories will make your heart get warmer. They really make us feel happier to know that we were lucky to have a loving family, loving parents.

Trust me, you do not feel that you need it whenever you are inside of it. But for those guys who are away from family. We miss it.


Water from boiling eggs

My Mom

Writing about my Dad

There is a mother

and There is a man

and another man

I was here in this coffee shop so many times and saw so many little kids came into this store. I watched those kids many many times and they reminded me about my childhood.
In some ways, i feel sorry for those kids. I do not see many of them understand and appreciate the beautiful of stillness. They burn themselves to the last calorie and think that is the way to go. I can sense the emptiness in them and miss so bad the time that us, little kids, walked for hours on the field, stayed on some tree's branches to enjoy the wind, the sky.

I missed so bad to be a young child and really feel lucky that i got a wonderful childhood like that.

Read the news and find out that so many people are in love with this lovely flower. There are many of them around my house, my school and my work place.

I took some pictures of them and placed them on photobucket. Check them out for now. I will put some more up there later.

I learnt this thing from a friend. It is kind of cool




Japanese cherry

Thursday, April 3, 2008

The rest of my Tet Holiday in Vietnam (cont)

  • Coffee with some lovely friends: We called some friends to go out for dinner and coffee. I love Beef Steak, so the plan was go to the restaurant around 7:00PM, get some steak then go and have some coffee. I picked up an ex-co-worker at her house (5 minutes from my house). She is my favorite co-worker, very smart, kind-hearted and fun. We stopped by the former company, talked to my former boss, then we headed out to the restaurant with another pretty and lovely former co-worker. Hahaha, could you imaging that, i and two lovely ex.......................co-workers. We waited at the restaurant for some other male ex-co-workers but they did not show up. They were busy, they hanged up the phone,.... Finally, three of us did not want to wait any more. We went ahead and had dinner. It was so good. We left the restaurant and headed to "Net Viet" coffee. I went on my previous trip too. We got our corner, called around to get some more friends but NONE came. Hey, no problem for me , with two pretty girls, i had nothing to complain. Actually we had some good time, listened to live music, talked about old memories, fun stuff that we did together. The only bad thing was my Margarita, it was horrible, horrible, i am telling you. If you have a chance to be around Texas, get yourself a top shelf frozen strawberry margarita. Margarita in Texas is awesome.
  • Ran into a former student: She was one of my student whenever i was a student in college. She met my older brother at her work place so she knew that i was home. She got my Yahoo ID and my phone number. She called me on my phone and on Yahoo too. It was years that we did not see the other. So we agreed that we will have breakfast then go and watch a movie together. We just want to catch up on tales about the other. We went to a restaurant/coffee shop, the place was beautiful but the music was so loud that we did have a hard time to hear the other. We went and watched "Alien vs Predator 2". We wanted to go out for lunch but i promised my Mom to have lunch with her so we head home.
  • Unexpected event: One of my friend asked me to go out for some coffee and may be dinner. I drove to her house, and by the time i tried to stop my motor-bike, i saw one of my best buddy (that did not come the the previous beef steak night ) stopped his bike in front of my friend house too. I was so happy to see him so i forgot that he stood me up. My first question was " What the heck are you doing here? The girl is going out with me tonight !" and this was the answer "Hey, i am not here for that girl, i am here for that girl's sister !". Hey, nothing to complain. We chatted for about 5 minutes before those two sisters went back to their house. Four of us head out to a pretty, lovely coffee shop that i could not remember the name. We had a good time there too. So much fun when that buddy of mine was around. He had us laugh so hard.
  • A planned evening: So my buddy busted my plan, i planned another plan. I and my buddy girl went out for some country food. We ate all kinds of oyster (i could not tell the actual name of each kinds), it was really good. We stopped at another coffee shop. They has a small ditch than run around some coffee table areas. There were so many fishes under that ditch. They had live music too. I saw all the fishes gather at one section of the ditch and i asked my friend and myself "Are they enjoying the music or running away from it ?" The night was wonderful, i love to hang out with friend but do not get us wrong. There was no romantic thing here.
  • Eating "RATs": yeah, we ate rats. My younger brother and some of his friends were talking about go to some country restaurant to eat rat. I was up for it. The food was good, but the place was kind of too off-the-road. My former-student called me on my phone, and i asked her if she want to try some rat meat. She was up for it too. It was so cool. We left the place around 9 PM and stopped at a near by coffee shop. some more chatting, old stories, and ghosts stories too. My former student said that she got scared. None of us believe her, she is a tough girl, she would scare the ghosts instead.
  • Meet a friend that was a friend of my ex: I met her here on Yahoo 360. I knew nothing about her but she knew some about me. I reviewed my memory and she was not one of my exes. We didn't know or meet the other before. Finally, she told me that she used to work with one of my ex and that was the reason that she knew some about me. (thanks, ex. In both ways, sold me off and got me a new friend ) We planned to meet before but i got drunk and missed that chance. I let her pick out a coffee shop with one condition "No crazy lousy music". She did a good job, the coffee shop was small but nice, the music there was beautiful. We never met but feel like we already knew the other, we had some really good time, we talked about ourself (try to help the other know more about the new friend), told some stories, jokes. We left the coffee shop around 10:30PM. I drove with her home to her apartment to ensure that she went home safe. Hey, more friend means less enemy. I love to have more friend.