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 like to share. It’s not like donating stuffs (it’s good too) but more like… introducing to other people what I find interesting. So actually this post’s title should be: “ It’s Hard to… Introduce ”, but it wouldn’t sound as good. So there you go. Songs, books, movies, games… Whenever I find one interesting I’d love to show it to another person – like a “maven”*, if you know the term, even though I am not as specialized and valuable. It’s pretty much become a hobby of mine. “ Hey, you want to hang out? Come to my place and I’ll show you this awesome video clip I found last week!” And one day I finally realized the ugly truth, and I am sharing it with you right now. Well, the title exposes it: sharing interesting things is hard. It’s very weird, really, because when I share with someone the stuff I found, it’s not as interesting as before ! Almost always, when I play a movie or the song while introducing about it super-enthusiastically, I will feel that the movie or the ...
The other day, I came to watch some of my friends performing in the play called The Birds, and it was really fun! So I decided to make another Origami collection; this time it’s about birds – small birds which (supposedly) are all nice and peaceful. Anyway, I love things that fly. Talking about Origami, I now find myself avoiding overly-complicated models each of which would take days to complete. Instead, I’d go for fairly simple ones which are fast to make and still look really nice. That’s why I like more and more the models of John Montroll: really efficient. PART 08: THE LITTLE BIRD CURLEW by Tom Defoirdt – I had no idea that a curlew was. I had fun time folding it nonetheless. EXTINCT BIRD by Nicolas Terry – Mr. Terry always creates unique models. This “bird” was the most challenging for me in this collection. GORRION SPARROW by Roman Diaz – What?! There are different types of sparrows? I never knew! HORNED OWL by Hideo Komatsu – The thin...
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