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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Dear "Someone" in heaven,
It has been real long time since I saw you lately.
I've been missing you a lot and... well... I feel like my heart's broken...
I'm hurt and I don't wanna stay here any more... I wanna be there in heaven with you and I can be myself again...
Would you please tell me when you will come back, take me there, heal my heart and make it beat again?
Yours.
It has been real long time since I saw you lately.
I've been missing you a lot and... well... I feel like my heart's broken...
I'm hurt and I don't wanna stay here any more... I wanna be there in heaven with you and I can be myself again...
Would you please tell me when you will come back, take me there, heal my heart and make it beat again?
Yours.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
FIVE DAYS IN SHANTOU
It was when my boss came back from Hongkong fair which is held annual in Jan. He met some very nice suppliers in China that he would love to come visit their factories and look for co-operation in future.
In the next day after he’s back to office, he called me and said: “You contact some tourism agencies around and check if any of them can help us apply Chinese visa, I want to come to China next week”
I answered” “Yes, Sir, do you need a tourist guide who’s fluent in Chinese language and culture, who would come with you thru the trip?”
He said slowly and loudly without looking at me at all: “You”
I was shocked when I heard that word, but after few seconds, I said: “I’m afraid that I can not come, I hate airplane and I don’t speak Chinese, beside, you know me well, I am just a girl, I can not solve problem if it happen, whatever, I want to stay at home and manage my work at office”
(To be honest, I was worried about something different. Because China is very large, and I heard that once you lose your way, bad Chinese people would kidnap and keep you in the farm, force you work as their slaves or as farmers for your whole life. I actually have no reason to worry about my boss if he’s kidnapped, he’s a young man and healthy, he can work in farm well after he gets used to it. But I can’t, I can type fine, can update document, and do accounting but I can not work in the farm well, if I do not work in the farm well then they would not feed me, OMG).
Whatever I said, I could not convince my boss to let me stay.
After we got visa for our trip, I started to search for information, all the contact I might need to keep in mind such as Vietnam Embassy in China, their phone number, address… I also had to rush myself on learning some basic Chinese and asked the business partner to write down all necessary information for me like: Their company and factories location, phone number. Also, write some Chinese sentences I might have to show people like: Do you speak English or Vietnamse? Can I use your telephone?...
I also set my phone roaming service so I could use my mobile phone to make and receive certain calls in China.
I searched for Shantou Map, and high light some important places… finally I printed out all these documents and made them 2 books, I gave one to my boss and I kept one for myself. I packed my cloths and things tightly and wore comfortable sport shoes so I thought I could run fastly in case wrong things would happen…
And we started our trip.
We flew from Hanoi and landed at Guangzhou airport at 10:55 Am. I had long layover for the flight to Shantou. So then I decided I would like to have some fast food like KFC for lunch.
No need to say, I had difficulties in communicating with all the Chinese people who were working in Guangzhou airport and even in the 4 star hotel where I stayed. But step by step, this helped me understand that it does not matter if you speak general language or not, even if you don’t speak the same language, somehow, you still can have a nice and funny time together.
Guangzhou airport was too large, so I stopped walking around and asked some Chinese passengers. They answered but I guessed they could not understand my question in English and replied me something in Chinese which I could not understand either.
Luckily, I found a young guy. He was tall and very good looking. His uniform showed me that he was on staff working in the airport.
So I ran to him and shouted: “Hey, excuse me…”
He looked very surprised but answered me: Ni hao!!!
I said: Ni hao, I have a long time waiting for transit flight to Shantou till late afternoon, now I want to have lunch. Please show me the way to the KFC restaurant.
He answered: "Ahhh" happily, and took the airplane tickets which I had been holding in my hand. Then he ran to the check-in counter.
At the check-in counter, he asked me to wait for several hours till the time I can check in.
I said: “Yes, I know, but now I am hungry, hungry, hungry (while pointing my finger to my stomach)…please show me the way to the restaurant, please…”
He thought a minute and slowly answered: “Food???”
I almost shouted: “YES, FOOD. Please show me the way to the restaurant so I can buy food???”
He looked immediately unhappy and said: “I am so sorry, I don’t have food, so sorry”.
OMG, I felt sorry the same as he did, and said: “OK, xie xie” (Thank you)
And he answered: “Bu ke qi” (no problem).
I felt so sad and I walked away. However I look back at him, but I did, and I saw him waving a hand toward me.
When we landed at Shantou airport, our business partners (Leisure and her boss) were waiting us. I had talked with Leisure on Skype quite often and we had made the schedule of our trip in details together, however, I did not know that her boss would come to the airport to pick us up.
While Leisure and I were busy greetings, and talking, questioning and answering... there was a young man went over and took my package along with him. I said "OMG... hey!!!" (I was thinking that this man made a mistake between his package and mine) but Leisure immediately told me not to worry, that's her boss, he just simply helped to bring my package to the car... lolz
It was 4: 05 pm when we started leaving the airport. Leisure and her boss (I could never say his name right) wanted to take us to dinner. My boss told them (I mean my boss asked me to tell them) that we would like to go to the hotel as soon as possible for the long day flight and stay at airports and asked them not to worry about our dinner, "we will take a short rest at the hotel then get down the streets, see the city at night and find a restaurant...".
But my opinion is "Bosses are stubborn", they would never let go, and so did Leisure's boss. He said restaurants near by hotel are not good at all, and because it was still early for dinner, he drove us to his factories to have a brief view, after that he took us to a very good restaurant... then sent us to the hotel without any trouble ^^
My boss and I stayed in Golden Gulf Hotel for 5 days.
In the free time, I went shopping in PARKSON and Wal-Mart. These shopping centers were not so far away from the hotel where I stayed. But no one spoke English there. My boss and I were trying to find LEGO department store in PARKSON, but we could not find it. So I thought I would ask someone those were working in the other stores. I came up to the closest staff of the nearest store where we were standing: “Good evening, would you please tell me where I can find LEGO store?” But no one knew what was I talking about. They starred at me as I was an alien. We looked like Chinese people but I talked something not like Chinese language.
If you go shopping in PARKSON Shopping center in Vietnam, you would find many staff or sales assistants who can speak English to serve you. PARKSON in Shantou was boring indeed, so we got out of that shopping center and went for dinner.
They did not speak English in most of restaurants in Shantou. But we had so much fun when my boss and I went for dinners. My boss had a favorite restaurant which was 10 minutes away from the hotel where they served hotspot, beef noodle… Before the meal, we served ourselve by walking into their kitchen, took anything necessary for our meal. I guess, all of the staffs in the restaurant thought we were very funny. While we were having dinner there, we always tried to talk together, and though we did not understand each other well but we had lot of laugh.
The last day in Golden Gulf, while waiting for the business partners to come and pick us up, my boss asked me to ask the receptionist that if our flight took off at Shantou airport at 6 PM then what time should we start going to Shantou airport from the hotel.
The receptionist answered: "Twenty minutes".
I said: "Yes I know, it takes us around 20 mins to get to Shantou Airport from here, but, what time should we take a taxi to go to the airport from here???
And again she answered: 20 mins... "
I almost shouted out: "NO, I want to go to the airport in the afternoon to check in and get on the airplane. What time should I go??? 3 PM, 4 PM???"
After a few minutes talking with her co-workers, she answered me: "Ahhhhhhh… 4:30 PM".
Then I said: “I need a taxi too”.
She answered: “OK”.
I asked: “How much do I need to pay for the taxi driver?”
She said: “Fourteen Yuan”
I asked again: “FOUR TEEN Yuan?” (Wow it’s not that cheap)
She answered: “Yes!!!”
And I asked again: “ONE FOUR???”
She said: “Ahhhh ummmm hmmmm four zero” haha
I must confess that I speak English badly too, but when I talk to people face to face, I always try my best to speak slowly and clearly in order that they can understand my English as I speak it by my Vietnamese accent, not American accent.
So that was how my trip to Shantou with my boss went. I did not get any extra money for being my boss’s interpreter. But I got extra friends and extra beautiful time in Shantou. Many people in Shantou did not speak English or Vietnamese with me, except 4 people I had planned to meet when I was in Vietnam, but all Shantou people were so kind and friendly.
I loved every moment when I stayed in this city, in the hotel, at the airports, in the restaurants…
You know what, when my boss asked me to go with him on this trip, I refused strongly. But now I pray strongly so God will give me another chance to go back to Shantou.
Would you like to go with me?
In the next day after he’s back to office, he called me and said: “You contact some tourism agencies around and check if any of them can help us apply Chinese visa, I want to come to China next week”
I answered” “Yes, Sir, do you need a tourist guide who’s fluent in Chinese language and culture, who would come with you thru the trip?”
He said slowly and loudly without looking at me at all: “You”
I was shocked when I heard that word, but after few seconds, I said: “I’m afraid that I can not come, I hate airplane and I don’t speak Chinese, beside, you know me well, I am just a girl, I can not solve problem if it happen, whatever, I want to stay at home and manage my work at office”
(To be honest, I was worried about something different. Because China is very large, and I heard that once you lose your way, bad Chinese people would kidnap and keep you in the farm, force you work as their slaves or as farmers for your whole life. I actually have no reason to worry about my boss if he’s kidnapped, he’s a young man and healthy, he can work in farm well after he gets used to it. But I can’t, I can type fine, can update document, and do accounting but I can not work in the farm well, if I do not work in the farm well then they would not feed me, OMG).
Whatever I said, I could not convince my boss to let me stay.
After we got visa for our trip, I started to search for information, all the contact I might need to keep in mind such as Vietnam Embassy in China, their phone number, address… I also had to rush myself on learning some basic Chinese and asked the business partner to write down all necessary information for me like: Their company and factories location, phone number. Also, write some Chinese sentences I might have to show people like: Do you speak English or Vietnamse? Can I use your telephone?...
I also set my phone roaming service so I could use my mobile phone to make and receive certain calls in China.
I searched for Shantou Map, and high light some important places… finally I printed out all these documents and made them 2 books, I gave one to my boss and I kept one for myself. I packed my cloths and things tightly and wore comfortable sport shoes so I thought I could run fastly in case wrong things would happen…
And we started our trip.
We flew from Hanoi and landed at Guangzhou airport at 10:55 Am. I had long layover for the flight to Shantou. So then I decided I would like to have some fast food like KFC for lunch.
No need to say, I had difficulties in communicating with all the Chinese people who were working in Guangzhou airport and even in the 4 star hotel where I stayed. But step by step, this helped me understand that it does not matter if you speak general language or not, even if you don’t speak the same language, somehow, you still can have a nice and funny time together.
Guangzhou airport was too large, so I stopped walking around and asked some Chinese passengers. They answered but I guessed they could not understand my question in English and replied me something in Chinese which I could not understand either.
Luckily, I found a young guy. He was tall and very good looking. His uniform showed me that he was on staff working in the airport.
So I ran to him and shouted: “Hey, excuse me…”
He looked very surprised but answered me: Ni hao!!!
I said: Ni hao, I have a long time waiting for transit flight to Shantou till late afternoon, now I want to have lunch. Please show me the way to the KFC restaurant.
He answered: "Ahhh" happily, and took the airplane tickets which I had been holding in my hand. Then he ran to the check-in counter.
At the check-in counter, he asked me to wait for several hours till the time I can check in.
I said: “Yes, I know, but now I am hungry, hungry, hungry (while pointing my finger to my stomach)…please show me the way to the restaurant, please…”
He thought a minute and slowly answered: “Food???”
I almost shouted: “YES, FOOD. Please show me the way to the restaurant so I can buy food???”
He looked immediately unhappy and said: “I am so sorry, I don’t have food, so sorry”.
OMG, I felt sorry the same as he did, and said: “OK, xie xie” (Thank you)
And he answered: “Bu ke qi” (no problem).
I felt so sad and I walked away. However I look back at him, but I did, and I saw him waving a hand toward me.
When we landed at Shantou airport, our business partners (Leisure and her boss) were waiting us. I had talked with Leisure on Skype quite often and we had made the schedule of our trip in details together, however, I did not know that her boss would come to the airport to pick us up.
While Leisure and I were busy greetings, and talking, questioning and answering... there was a young man went over and took my package along with him. I said "OMG... hey!!!" (I was thinking that this man made a mistake between his package and mine) but Leisure immediately told me not to worry, that's her boss, he just simply helped to bring my package to the car... lolz
It was 4: 05 pm when we started leaving the airport. Leisure and her boss (I could never say his name right) wanted to take us to dinner. My boss told them (I mean my boss asked me to tell them) that we would like to go to the hotel as soon as possible for the long day flight and stay at airports and asked them not to worry about our dinner, "we will take a short rest at the hotel then get down the streets, see the city at night and find a restaurant...".
But my opinion is "Bosses are stubborn", they would never let go, and so did Leisure's boss. He said restaurants near by hotel are not good at all, and because it was still early for dinner, he drove us to his factories to have a brief view, after that he took us to a very good restaurant... then sent us to the hotel without any trouble ^^
My boss and I stayed in Golden Gulf Hotel for 5 days.
In the free time, I went shopping in PARKSON and Wal-Mart. These shopping centers were not so far away from the hotel where I stayed. But no one spoke English there. My boss and I were trying to find LEGO department store in PARKSON, but we could not find it. So I thought I would ask someone those were working in the other stores. I came up to the closest staff of the nearest store where we were standing: “Good evening, would you please tell me where I can find LEGO store?” But no one knew what was I talking about. They starred at me as I was an alien. We looked like Chinese people but I talked something not like Chinese language.
If you go shopping in PARKSON Shopping center in Vietnam, you would find many staff or sales assistants who can speak English to serve you. PARKSON in Shantou was boring indeed, so we got out of that shopping center and went for dinner.
They did not speak English in most of restaurants in Shantou. But we had so much fun when my boss and I went for dinners. My boss had a favorite restaurant which was 10 minutes away from the hotel where they served hotspot, beef noodle… Before the meal, we served ourselve by walking into their kitchen, took anything necessary for our meal. I guess, all of the staffs in the restaurant thought we were very funny. While we were having dinner there, we always tried to talk together, and though we did not understand each other well but we had lot of laugh.
The last day in Golden Gulf, while waiting for the business partners to come and pick us up, my boss asked me to ask the receptionist that if our flight took off at Shantou airport at 6 PM then what time should we start going to Shantou airport from the hotel.
The receptionist answered: "Twenty minutes".
I said: "Yes I know, it takes us around 20 mins to get to Shantou Airport from here, but, what time should we take a taxi to go to the airport from here???
And again she answered: 20 mins... "
I almost shouted out: "NO, I want to go to the airport in the afternoon to check in and get on the airplane. What time should I go??? 3 PM, 4 PM???"
After a few minutes talking with her co-workers, she answered me: "Ahhhhhhh… 4:30 PM".
Then I said: “I need a taxi too”.
She answered: “OK”.
I asked: “How much do I need to pay for the taxi driver?”
She said: “Fourteen Yuan”
I asked again: “FOUR TEEN Yuan?” (Wow it’s not that cheap)
She answered: “Yes!!!”
And I asked again: “ONE FOUR???”
She said: “Ahhhh ummmm hmmmm four zero” haha
I must confess that I speak English badly too, but when I talk to people face to face, I always try my best to speak slowly and clearly in order that they can understand my English as I speak it by my Vietnamese accent, not American accent.
So that was how my trip to Shantou with my boss went. I did not get any extra money for being my boss’s interpreter. But I got extra friends and extra beautiful time in Shantou. Many people in Shantou did not speak English or Vietnamese with me, except 4 people I had planned to meet when I was in Vietnam, but all Shantou people were so kind and friendly.
I loved every moment when I stayed in this city, in the hotel, at the airports, in the restaurants…
You know what, when my boss asked me to go with him on this trip, I refused strongly. But now I pray strongly so God will give me another chance to go back to Shantou.
Would you like to go with me?
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Gửi G
Trên đường đi làm về, mình đã nghĩ rất nhiều về cậu. Bất chợt cảm thấy cuộc sống của mình sao vô nghĩa quá chừng.
Mình đã từng cảm thấy tiếc cho cậu, nhưng đến giờ thì không, thậm chí còn cảm thấy ghen tị với cậu nữa. Hẳn là giờ đây cậu đang hạnh phúc ở thế giới của cậu, hẳn là lúc này cậu đang thanh thản lắm. Cậu có nghĩ là cậu may mắn hơn mình không? Cậu ko phải sống trong thế giới mà mình đang sống, không phải bon chen, không còn cảm giác tuyệt vọng và đau khổ.
Cậu đã từ bỏ thế giới này khi tất cả các con đường cậu lựa chọn đều không thể đưa cậu đến một nơi cậu mong muốn. Cậu đã gần như bế tắc đúng không? Nhưng mình biết rằng đến phút cuối cùng cậu vẫn chưa muốn từ bỏ. Còn mình thì sao? Con đường mà mình đang đi mịt mù và xa tít tắp. Mình bế tắc, mình chán nản, mình muốn từ bỏ mọi thứ…
Mình đã từng cảm thấy tiếc cho cậu, nhưng đến giờ thì không, thậm chí còn cảm thấy ghen tị với cậu nữa. Hẳn là giờ đây cậu đang hạnh phúc ở thế giới của cậu, hẳn là lúc này cậu đang thanh thản lắm. Cậu có nghĩ là cậu may mắn hơn mình không? Cậu ko phải sống trong thế giới mà mình đang sống, không phải bon chen, không còn cảm giác tuyệt vọng và đau khổ.
Cậu đã từ bỏ thế giới này khi tất cả các con đường cậu lựa chọn đều không thể đưa cậu đến một nơi cậu mong muốn. Cậu đã gần như bế tắc đúng không? Nhưng mình biết rằng đến phút cuối cùng cậu vẫn chưa muốn từ bỏ. Còn mình thì sao? Con đường mà mình đang đi mịt mù và xa tít tắp. Mình bế tắc, mình chán nản, mình muốn từ bỏ mọi thứ…
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