I didn’t use to like sports – any kind of sports, even the lightsome easy one. Truly, I – a grade-eight student that time - was once attracted to some famous handsome footballers when the 2002 Word Cup tournaments were broadcasted on the national channel. I followed all the matches in which my idols played. I call “idols” coz there were some of them I crazily dreamt of, namely Casillas (the gold-keeper of Spain), Raul (the striker of Spain) and Klose (striker of Germany). My heart got sunshine when watching them play with the ball. I, as a non-sporty girl, didn’t know anything about football and how well the players did. I just loved the way they were in their clothes playing for their nation and people. How beautiful and great they were that moment and how dreamy and childish I was then!

   Time flew as a wind. I grew up and my beloved footballers grew old too (^^). The thought of an adult, as a rule, never remains the same as it was. I didn’t watch them play anymore though some time I glance at their images online to see how they look like without special feeling (*-*)

   My husband teaches me to fancy watching sports. We greet a new day with the sports news on TV from 6. 30. And I got to know the Football Association Premier League which gathers a lot of football starts possessing beauty and talent! I watch tennis match, too, especially the match between Nadal and Djokovic – the first and second- seeded world tennis players. The couple days ago, I was caught awaken slapping one hand to the bedside and being asked by my husband about what happened. I saw Nadal play tennis with me in the sleeping dream!!! OOOOO

   I don’t think I have any interest in sports now…:-)

Today one of my colleagues complained with me about her disappointment at work. She got upset these days for having to teach Information Technology instead of Maths. The problem is that she majored Maths in Uni and now the management board arrange her SEVEN classes of IT while only ONE class of Math (among 24 in all). She’s really resented being treated unfairly. The reason is also unreasonable, that is, her rate of quality on Students’ points the previous year didn’t meet the requirement (more than 50%). The fact is, from years to years, students who are adapted to my school have low entrance grades. How can a student with O.5 mark in Maths (half of a point) pass all of the test s and exams with the result of 5?

You guys can simply think of a school with nearly half of the ethnic poor students, some of whom live more than 40km away. Apart from, most of the students failed the exam in other better high schools in the district then are sent to mine. We all are under pressure :-(

At some time in life, you feel life too rough with full of unfairness and you put down your arm, crying in pain hopelessly. Then, it is not until you get over the tough time that you realize what you suffered is so small and you needn’t have moaned.

I said, to my colleague, “Yes, life is unfair, coz I see you smile after the stuff while not many can do as you, so never be sad and wonder why LIFE IS NOT FAIR ALWAYS. In fact, it’s fair, somehow at this or that point of time in your life”

I don't crave fame

I crave myself

I want to be myself

not someone's image

I want my freedom

and not be bound by any expectation

It would be nice

If the next time someone visits,

and leaves a smile...

I'm more than welcome to know him/her...

And to those who already know me

Thanks for the memories

It helps me grow up

Whatever you think,

I'm wishing the best for you

Be confident! Be yourself! Okay!! Believe in your potential! 

Smile, and be happy!

Get ready too. Don't be nervous please! What comes will come!

      I have countless acquaintances, many friends, some good mates…but only one totally believable partner, WHO always listens to me when I have no one by side, who has never betrayed or hurt me but accompanied me since the first moment I began to cry naturally greeting life, embracing me at anytime I felt fragile and hopeless.  It’s NATURE that is my dearest reliable companion. You should call me a kind of out-of-world or silly when saying that (!!!). Here some reasons that I consider NA my best friend:

      Firstly, NA is a fairy gathering all good humor that no one has. HE is such a friendly warm-hearted holy man. HE never refuses me whenever I need HIM - day or night, rain or sunshine. All the time HE stands around me with his gentleness and delicacy, being kind to hug my shuddering shoulders when I search for the calmness and relief. RAIN cries with me and WIND kisses my tears when I suffer heartbreaks; and trees, flowers yell at my joy when I’m in glee; and leaves swirling fall on my hair sweetly at which I am in high spirit. All things NA presents me are magical! (*0*)

      One more thing, NA is so attractive thank to HIS God-given charming beauty flirting me any time I’m with HIM (^-^). Taking photo with HIM is my favorite hobby coz HE beautifies me by HIS stunning landscapes. He wears a colorful robe of great green jungles, fathomless blue oceans, tremendous yellow rice fields, huge wild sand deserts…He is most beautiful at dawn and sunset, when the SUN with his wonderful smile says hello and goodbye to human being. NA is a wonder!

      Last but most important, NA is a faithful friend, who never walks out when the others leave me alone :-) HE stays patiently when I say nothing or get bad mood. He doesn’t laugh at my pains or run away. HE never breaks any words I tell HIM. HE keeps my secrets and has WIND send my sorrow to the SKY. And one day when my heart stops beating, SOIL saves me. For the last moment, NA is the only one lies beside me.

     In conclusion, I love my friend NATURE most coz HE is the symbol of magic, beauty and morality.

OH……..THE SUN’S smile, THE WIND’S soul and THE CLOUD’S figure…=> I’M IN LOVE WITH YOU haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

      I can’t imagine I haven’t written to you since forever. How have you been since you left for another world? Is the heaven cold?
      I wonder how life is in that fairy land, but I’m sure you are now in peace of mind and soul, not like me, your little grand-daughter battling for normal desires, keeping wrong and right in everything. You know, there have been times when suffering from heartbreaking, I crazed for the permanent sleep, in which I could ease my pains, gave up thinking and groaning, and ignored all tiring stuffs in this messy globe. You must be sorry for me, a coward, always hiding from trouble, escaping out of this world for not being strong-willed enough. Please demand me an excuse for making you disappointed!
      It took me nearly one year to accept the fact that you had passed by, which was really a shock to me; that’s why I never want to think of you (I’m so sorry but I can’t stand feeling depressed and shedding tears). On the day you went away forever, rain fell hard, everything seemed dull before my eyes. That time I hated myself, for not being by you when you needed me, for having many times not obeying your advice before; I screamed for that all, and I blamed on my Dad, that why he had taken us far from you for so many years, which so long that you got older and weaker coz of missing and loneliness. Truly, I understood that he just did for the better education for us, his children. On your funeral, my Mom couldn’t be in time to see you off and I had to be at work, which was regretful for all of us.
      Anyway, right now I got to know how to love and sacrifice, how to give in and fight as well, how to listen to others’ problems, just what I need is brave and attempt to defeat my ego. I wish time went back to bear my soul to you, which as you were alive, I never did since I was so afraid if someone knew my secrets. And now when I need friends to confide in, I can’t, coz I don’t want to bother them much, and for the fear that I will fall into contempt.
      Grandma, thank you for all your love and care, for the laughing and crying, for the gentleness and even anger, which means everything to me, one who loves you more than anything in the world!
Your little…

I have been madly hooked on internet since I found there are definite advantages from that social network which has its disadvantages, too.
The first useful thing internet brings me is to keep in touch with my friends easily no matter where they live in the world. We can share a lot of stuffs such as past memories and new experiences through words and pictures. I can see somewhat how life they are leading, what their point of view are about various topics by reading their blogs or comments, and of coz I can pick the good ideas here and there. That is, I can have better inside understanding about my friends, especially those who are close and important to me, who I cannot be by their sides to stick with and up for them anymore, who I should realize my partners and who are not. For the true friends, they’d better know that I’m still in somewhere, no matter how poor or rich I am, no matter at anytime I am at the top of the world or trapped in trouble, still keeping an eye on them in thought and support their spirit, however. Internet is obviously a way of remaining friendship.
The second benefit thanks to the help of internet is that you can widen acquaintanceship with many interesting people, some of whom may become your friends. I have myself found some really civilized and decent who swayed me a lot. Someone can be an African from a mountainous area, having striking contrast culture, white skin different from mine (but the same red blood and brown eyes like me, lol :-0) , who has left unmatched impression on and make me trust in a true friendship among strangers of different nations and customs. He is influential in the way I learn languages and my outlook of the rough life, about relationship, about religion and so on, that is, he helps me have a specific view about the large world which is full of the right and the wrong, which I have never taken seriously before. Someone can be a Vietnamese guy younger than me, visiting my page frequently bringing with him some nice compliments presenting me a bit joy and companionship. I mean, you can find many people full of virtue, character and decency on internet, which brightens up your life and strengthens your faith.
Apart from those related to keeping and making friends, internet with its huge information, tips…motivates me to study more. When I am online, I can not only relax by chatting or enjoying music of all kinds but also surf other weds which are full of unknown but amazing things, thus I select cool points for my current status and enrich my vocabulary. You won’t make out that you are so small until you are among wonderful things. I like my friend’s saying that IQ is just a hoax and any person can be intelligent through habit and practice. I get to fall in love with psychology and religion -Muslim- and I will spend some time on studying them on internet though I know that “easy said than done” (jajaja:-)
Actually, you can profit from Internet a lot for studying aim and perfecting behavior, but bad consequences are unavoidable if you lose control or you are so vulnerable. First of all, it is time-consuming when you sit in front of the computer screen too much per day when you spend more time on chatting or commenting pictures than studying on internet. Many times I don’t know exactly what I turn on the computer and get online for. Many times I feel tired of browsing fb and reading senseless status or jokes. Those times I feel I’m redundant and lost.
One thing on Internet that annoys me is unkind people who have empty mind and soul, who are so immoral with vulgar words and lack of respect, especially for girls. I hate the way they insist me for WC, and if I don’t show my face to them, they stop talking with me (What a nuisance!). With the Internet, you may not know who are reliable for the reason that your photos can be terrorized and that whether such strangers are patient enough to accompany you no matter how you are, what you like and dislike(:- (.
The last but indeed significant problem to me is that I have to pay some amount of money every month for the Internet. If I have used it effectively, it’s okay and vice versa.
Honestly, Internet gives me more advantages than disadvantages. The question is that on what ways I should do with it for the better.

 *_*

Every day I get up, feeling a new day shine through the window, bright and gorgeous. That time I know I have one more day to treasure living with all my heart. And I get out of the bed, full of energy and readiness for things ahead.

As a rule, all things I have to finish before going to somewhere is to hang the clothes and tidy the house, make sure that my place looks orderly and good for a day in use. I dress up neatly and not yet forget to have some make-up. How pretty I am J

I am down the street, singing on the way and watching sights along the sides. It’s cool after rainy days with a little sunshine and wind. I discover nature is like people: enjoy itself in air. Flowers are blooming charmingly under the sun and leaves fall slowly in the breeze. Oh, what a scene!

Back to school for more than a couple of month, I see new faces of grade-10- students who have been adapted to the high school. Those are naïve, curious and eager. My work is going on!

            After a day I wish to relax before my PC, to read blogs and comments, to see out the world where there are great people working hard to fulfill their dream. English Club carries knowledge as well as fun, and of coz it does bring happiness to me in particular. I miss English as missing someone beloved ~_^

            Time passes away, life stays. We are living to search for the meaning of life. By this or that way, life remains beautiful to those who fight and give their soul and mind for it.

          I am not able to remember exactly when I fell in love with Rain but I can say how much I love this natural scene. People say “If you want to see the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain”. That’s why I get crazy about rain naturally, even intensely, for the comfortable feeling after the rain when I walk out cheerfully and enjoy the great cool atmosphere or just to feel calm deeply from my soul about a better stage afterwards. You may say I’m odd and stupid or a kind of too romantic. Sure it’s me, the one who never expects to be mixed up with others and who always tries to love myself regardless of others’ thought.

       Late afternoon yesterday, dark clouds appeared and very soon the sky got darker. I could feel the coming rain. And it began to rain, here and there. I like watching rain falling off the roof, a drop following another. Rain recalls old rainy days, on which I had fun under the rain with my sister and friends in the village where I was born and grew up till the age of five. We called that “having a rainy bath”. Those were pure and memorable.

I got married on rainy days as well. Photos were taken under the drizzle but smile was always on my face and my half. Rain is sometimes cold outside but cozy inside.

“You are like the raindrops falling from above
Giving life to me with your love
Even grey clouds haunting cannot make me leave
On the rainy days I think of you and me” ~ On rainy days

And…there’s always a calm after the storm!

         It’s true that “home is where heart grows”. To me, home is the most hospitable place in the world which welcomes me all the time and is ready a comfortable vacancy for me to lie down, shout and sing and eat like a horse without being afraid of others’ eyes. That’s why coming back home every time free is my fondness.

         I was my parents’ home this windy day, having enough time to enjoy durian, coconut water and also taste food my dear mom cooked as well as buy my cousin a schoolbag for his new school-year coming soon on August 19^th. We had to leave after 12 and as usual, my mom packed things for us, the new wedded-couple, such beef and eggs and even cookies. She’s always that caring woman who supposes her girls are still kids needing everything like in the old days. I’m now a married woman, just old in the society but small and weak forever at home. Lucky me!

 It’s good for a day, in comparison with yesterday, for I can live happier and more secure.

 P/S: The photo taken along the street from Daklak to Lamdong.

I am thinking of what to start my blog here. At first I wanna write about my life, friends and then everything around me. Then I fail to type any. I find myself bored and worse. The older I get, the less interesting I am. How empty my mind is now. At last I decide to talk about my day today.

Still having summer, I got up late, at 8, and all I did like yesterday was doing some washing and sweeping the floor. I was waiting for my husband coming back from school and drove me to the market, then I cooked him lunch. We are wedded-couple living away from parents, that's why not many things to deal with. It seems to you that we are students with summer vacations and schooling. We are not spoiled like that.

It's 5p.m in my place now and I'm still waiting for him. My day is so boring, isnt it? To me, it's not much coz I have to face with a huge work when the school begins. I have to prepare the lesson plans by hands (oh god). It's really an annoying change this year in my school. I need this idle time with computer and programs.

Sunset...