Tôi không lo – I ain’t worried

Chào mọi người,

Bài hát “I ain’t worried” gắn với bộ phim Top Gun: Maverick (2022), một bộ phim mà mình thích.

Mình thích bài hát ở giai điệu lạc quan và MV đầy chất nắng. Top Gun để lại mình ấn tượng sâu sắc về tinh thần passion for excellent với vai diễn của Tom Cruise trong vai Maverick. Một trong những câu nói để lại ấn tượng mạnh với mình trong phim là câu nói “just a little bit more” của Maverick – với mọi điều chúng ta làm chỉ đủ tốt thôi là chưa đủ, nếu chúng ta muốn trở thành excellent trong điều mình làm, luôn luôn “push a little bit more” hơn những gì mọi người mong đợi. Continue reading Tôi không lo – I ain’t worried

Corporeality and spirituality

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Most of the world think in duality – right v. wrong, true v. false, white v. black and, of course, corporal v. spiritual.

So, people divide our human life in two separate parts: the corporal part which is our body and the spiritual part which is our soul or our spirit. Many religions despise the body and glorify the spirit. They consider the body – the flesh – weak and sinful, and the spirit pure (if it doesn’t allow the body to commit sin). The body is temporal – it disintegrates after we die; the spirit is perpetual – it stays on for a different world and/or a different life. Continue reading Corporeality and spirituality

Vietnamese woman poised to claim title as world’s oldest living person

VNE – By Minh Nga   March 4, 2024 | 03:44 pm GMT+7

Trinh Thi Khong (R) and her daughter Do Thi Ninh at Ninh’s home in Dong Nai Province, February 2024. Photo by Dong Nai Province’s news portal

At 119, a woman living in the southern Dong Nai Province, could break the record for “World’s Oldest Living Person.”

Trinh Thi Khong’s birth year, documented in official records and acknowledged through congratulatory messages from both the president and local authorities, is 1905.

This makes Khong not only Vietnam’s eldest resident but also places her two years senior to Maria Branyas Morera of France, who is currently listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest.

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Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

4 March 2024, New York

Mr. President,

Excellencies, 

I am here today because UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, is at a breaking point.

75 years after its creation by this Assembly as a temporary UN entity, pending a just political solution to the question of Palestine, the Agency’s ability to fulfil its mandate is seriously threatened.

Your urgent action is needed to facilitate a political solution that will bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and in this context alone, allow the Agency to transition.

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