A couple of days ago, I’ve watched the first part of Vietnam Idol through TTO. I am personally glad that they actually have the show, because Vietnam Idol is crazily hilarious. Yeah, if anyone feels bored and has nothing fun to do, Vietnam Idol is highly recommended, good stuff. I always have fun time watching those clips.
The part I have watched was in Hanoi. This year, there is a huge bunch of contestants - several times more than last year, which is pretty intense. The thing is, anyone in there was full of ambition, of hope and great love for singing. These made them have their own styles, which I should say, really really weird. But then, that’s how fun the show is. Another thing to be concerned is, since when Vietnam has had that much people who strongly want to be famous singers? It seems like we can find a person like that among any three random people. That’s really strange. If they were all going to succeed, which means Vietnam was gonna have thousands and thousands of singers, who would go to any concert, and who would know which CD should they get? Really chaotic and confusing :D. I would say, we are living in the period of Vietnamese sentimentalism, just like America couple decades ago. It’ll be interesting to observe. Anyway, for those who are contestants or having someone participate in Vietnam Idol, please tell. We will support and cheer wholeheartedly. I have some stuff to do these days, so this entry is not gonna be long or interesting. But I am up to something bigger, which hopefully I can start posting next week, and it would probably last for a month or two. However, it will be written in Vietnamese, so for those who’d prefer my English entries, I deeply apology. So there, it’s it for this week. I hope everyone would have fun time watching Vietnam Idol, and have a great semester. Thank you.
How are you doing on your readings in general and more specifically in developing your vocabularies? Recently I started reading a book for my Finance class called The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein. In the very first chapter of the book – a short 6-page prologue, there were many words that I did not know, and I am listing them here: destitute somnolent bulwark scrutinize (to) prick quiescent laudatory salient fervent (adj) frothy parlance umbilical (cord) placate carnage plenitude opiate dictum stupendous I was so surprised to see so many new words in such a small amount of pages! How is this Roger Lowenstein guy? You would think that while reading a finance book, the only words you would stumble upon are technical terms or lingos. Or maybe I am just bad. How many words in the list above that you already know?
I currently am working for Bank of America (BofA) as a teller, and it’s been 2 months now. A little bit about what I am, I am an international student whose first language is not English. When I graduated from college, I didn’t do any internship and had no remotely related experience to banking industry. I was full of disadvantages. BofA’s website clearly stated that they wouldn’t typically hire and sponsor F1-visa students, and, on top of everything, the economy was painfully lagging. One cannot help but wonder why in the world they would hire someone like me while millions of Americans were being unemployed. That’s why I really think that I should share my story, and that my story might be somewhat beneficial for some of you who are now reading it. The first and foremost reason was because I was interested in BofA deeply. When I was in my junior year, I was reading my Marketing textbook. The featured story of chapter 8 was about Bank of America, the history of the compa...
Từ khi mới sinh ra, không biết bao nhiêu lần người ta rót vào tai nhau: “Chúng ta thật tự hào là người Việt Nam !” “Yeah, chúng ta là người Việt Nam , yeah!” “Yeah! Tự hào! Yeah!”… Thế là bản thân cũng phải có lúc tự hỏi mình: tại sao lại tự hào vậy? Tôi không tự hào mình là “con rồng” hay “cháu tiên” rồi. Tôi hẳn nhiên là con người. Vậy thì vì cái gì nhỉ? Vì sự thông minh ư? Điều này nghe rất có lý. Bao nhiêu người Việt Nam xa xưa nghĩ ra rất nhiều kế rất hay. Những “Trạng Lường” Lương Thế Vinh, những Trần Hưng Đạo hay Cao Thắng, Trần Đại Nghĩa thì quả thật không thể không nể trọng. Và ngày nay, bao nhiêu du học sinh Việt Nam du học đã đạt thành tích cao, đứng đầu lớp và đầu khối. (Về điều này thì tôi không hề nói tốt gì về mình. Tôi luôn thua kém xa các bạn Việt Nam xung quanh về thành tích.) Vậy là người Việt Nam thông minh sao? Đúng. Nhưng đó có phải là điều để chúng ta tự hào không? Tôi luôn tin rằng sự thông minh phải đi kèm với sự khôn ngoan thì mới đáng tự hào được. Sự th...
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