Bluebellia

20-10, ngày Phụ Nữ Việt Nam . Sao trong gần 20 năm qua, hầu như anh chẳng bao giờ nhớ đến ngày này. Trong đầu anh lúc nào cũng chỉ có 8-3 và…. 14-2 thôi. Giờ thì nó đã nằm trong cuốn lịch của anh, chen chúc giữa bao nhiêu điều cần nhớ khác. Một năm trước, em nhắc anh về ngày này và nhắc anh gửi lời chúc đến mẹ. Một năm trước, anh đã có một cô bạn thân bên cạnh, mang đến cho anh những lời khuyên thật nhẹ nhàng. Chẳng phải anh đã có một tình bạn ngọt ngào sao? Ngày 20-10 năm nay đã đến gần, lần này đã được anh tự nhớ. Thoáng trong đầu anh nghĩ thầm, chẳng biết nên làm cái gì để tặng em; rồi anh lại làm những thứ này nọ gì đấy, để ý nghĩ kia lại thoáng vụt đi. Khi anh chưa kịp ngoảnh lại để nhớ thì 20-10 đã đến, và em đã lại xuất hiện, nhắc anh nên gửi lời chúc mừng đến mẹ. Ngỡ ngàng anh lại nghĩ, vẫn chưa có gì cho em cả. “Uhm, it s ok. You still love me. That s enough to me, honey.” – Em nói. Chẳng phải em là một cô gái ngọt ngào sao? Sáng hôm nay anh lại tỉnh dậy, đón chào ngà...

(Continued from Part 01 ) --> From a wrist-band to a pint glass As the main goal of IBE is “to sell something”, we needed to know what we were gonna sell first. It could be anything, which made it just so excited for me to imagine about the product. As creative as I had always was, I should come up with something so unique, so appealing that there never was before, and everyone would love to buy it, and buy it a lot. Now I think back about it, my creativity wasn’t big enough to keep up with my day-dreaming ability, as things weren’t going as I thought at all – again. The first idea I got was to make T-shirts, but make them “combo”: there would be three different designs of the three parts of a mule, that when three people wearing them stand together the mule would appear. What do you think? My teammates didn’t think the idea was good, so it was given up. As days passed by, the people were having ideas of typical products such as clock and flag; I came up with another ...

IBE stands for Integrative Business Experience, one of the most important programs for my management major. It’s a four-hour period in three days a week from 9am to 1pm and it’s not just long. It’s huge and it’s like nothing I have even got into before. For many reasons, it makes this semester (fall 2009) become the toughest semester for me until now. So I’ve decided to write about it, believing this will be an interesting story for me and for those who read it. The confusion My first feeling about this program was that it’s so strange, so new, and yet so confusing. From absolutely out of nowhere we students were told that we’d make a real business on the very first day of the class. “Doing real business” means setting up a real company, having loan presentation before the real bankers asking for money, and working with real vendors to be selling some real products. It was a bit too “real” for a student like me, who had been only listening to lectures, reading textbooks, ...