Dear brothers and sisters,
In Danang, I always drank Saigon iced milk coffee every morning. I drank to stay awake and for pleasure. My best friend from middle school and her husband (also my middle school friend) opened a coffee shop and named it Saigon Iced Milk Coffee in Danang. Perhaps almost Danang people like to drink Saigon coffee. Continue reading Saigon iced milk coffee
Quá nhiều thiên đường
Chẳng ai có quá nhiều thiên đường nữa
Khó hơn nhiều để có thiên đường
Tôi đang xếp hàng
Chẳng ai có quá nhiều tình yêu nữa
Cao như núi
Và khó trèo hơn
Ô em và tôi, em gái,
đều có nhiều tình yêu trong kho
Và tình chảy xuyên qua em
Và tình chảy xuyên qua tôi
Và tôi yêu em nhiều hơn Continue reading Quá nhiều thiên đường
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Most people of the world make a huge mistake – they go with the masses. Whatever numerous people do, they would consider as correct, right, standard. In the Vietnamese culture, we have the quintessential phrase “Không giống ai” (not like anyone). If you are không giống ai, you are wrong or, at least, weird. If you do something không giống ai, you are nutty in the head. Continue reading Don’t go with the masses
Chào các bạn,
Bạn biết ĐCN đã 1 năm, 3 năm, 5 năm, 7 năm, 9 năm, hay lâu hơn nữa, bạn đã thực hành điều gì trong ĐCN liên tục mỗi ngày trong suốt thời gian đó?
Bạn có cầu nguyện những lời này cho ta và cho đất nước mỗi ngày không?
Bạn có cầu nguyện lời này mỗi sáng không? Continue reading Thực hành Tư duy tích cực
Dear brothers and sisters,
The first time I took a bus in Saigon was 13 years ago.
At that time, I went from Danang to Saigon to study something for a short time. Saigon was hotter than Danang. I stood waiting for a bus and thought that it would be even hotter inside the bus. Because I took bus between Hue and Danang many times when I was a student, I thought Saigon bus was the same, it would be hot. But no, Saigon bus was different, it had air conditioning. Wow, from a hot sidewalk to a cool bus, I really enjoyed it. Bus was cheap, cool and nice. If I were in Saigon then, I would have taken bus often.
Now I’m in Saigon, besides walking, I take bus. I’m happy with riding buses. Riding bus makes me feel like I’m a student.
Share with you.
Have a nice day.
Phạm Thu Hương
Chào các bạn,
Chị Lê Uyên nhờ Thu Hương tìm bài dịch cho bài thơ “If” của Rudyard Kipling, nhà văn và nhà thơ Anh quốc.
Mình phụ TH tìm, chẳng tìm ra. Và mình thích bài “If” này nên dịch luôn cho tiện. Làm quà cho chị Lê Uyên, ba chị, và các bạn.
Mến,
Chào các bạn,
…Bụi trong gió
Tất cả là bụi trong gió…
…Đừng bám
Chẳng có gì tồn tại mãi mãi trừ trái đất và bầu trời…
…Bụi trong gió
Mình đều là bụi trong gió
Bụi trong gió
Mọi chuyện đều là bụi trong gió… Continue reading Bụi trong gió
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
When you’re sick, you’re tired. The body doesn’t want to move. It wants to stay in bed and sleep. Because it’s out of energy? Obviously. But the truth is that, your body is not out of energy – it is using all its energy to fight against your illness and help you recover. In short, your body is using every bit of your energy to help you recover. It wants you to sleep, not wasting energy on anything else, so that it can work on your recovery.
So, my friends, when you’re sick, you need to rest, so that your body has enough energy to heal you.
Same thing with spiritual illness. When you sick, rest. Continue reading When you’re sick
Chào các bạn,
Mục đích học tiếng Anh của bạn là gì?
Để đi du học, để có bằng nước ngoài, để có chức vụ cao, tiền nhiều và nhiều người ngưỡng mộ?
Để đi ra nước ngoài, đi đây đi đó, gặp gỡ người này người kia, để sống cuộc đời ngày nào cũng mới mẻ và vui vẻ?
Để có chồng nước ngoài tâm lý hơn chồng Việt?
Để con cái có quốc tịch nước ngoài hoặc sống ở nước ngoài?
Để sống ở nước ngoài – điều kiện làm việc nhiều ưu đãi, nơi ở như trong phim, không khí học hành chất lượng, và đâu đâu cũng một màu xanh cây cỏ trong lành?… Continue reading Học tiếng Anh để làm gì?
Dear brothers and sisters,
I had the opportunity to walk in Saigon in the Covid pandemic days (not when Saigon was on lockdown).
I walked from District 1 to District 3, District 5, District 10, Phu Nhuan District, Tan Binh District and Binh Thanh District. Some days I walked from 7am to 7pm. The streets were deserted with few vehicles and few people. The sidewalks were wide with no motorbikes parked across them. The air was cool and free of dust and noise. The space was so quiet that I could drink coffee in a sidewalk shop on a once-busy street and still heard birds singing.
A very different Saigon – beautiful and poetic.
Share with you.
Have a nice day.
Phạm Thu Hương
By MJ Lee and Donald Judd, CNN
7 minute read
Updated 10:27 PM EDT, Tue April 2, 2024
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesWashingtonCNN —
President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the leaders since their historic in-person summit in November and the latest in ongoing efforts by US and Chinese officials to defuse tensions between the two superpowers.
Continue reading Biden and Xi speak for first time since November summit amid global tensionsChào mọi người,
Mình tình cờ biết đến bài hát này khi mình đọc bài trà đàm “Cái đúng cái sai của các tôn giáo”. Khi đọc phần bình luận, chị Hằng giới thiệu bài hát cùng bình luận của mình.
Và khi mình nghe bài hát, nó liền chạm đến trái tim mình. Imagine là bài hát giản dị, nhưng lời bài hát rất ý nghĩa và sâu sắc, giai điệu nhẹ nhàng, chậm rãi và sâu lắng. Mình cũng rất vui vì biết đây cũng là một bài hát yêu thích của anh Hoành. Continue reading Imagine – Tưởng tượng
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I know that everyone of us is working to improve ourself. The question is “improving what?”
Most of us try to improve doctoring skills, lawyering skills, engineering skills, selling skills, teaching skills… but the most important skill, the mother of al other skills, few people pay serious attention to. That is the skill to keep a pure heart. Continue reading What are you improving ?
Dear brothers and sisters,
We often think that God takes care of us. Yes, God does. However, do we think we need to take care of God too?
Jesus said:
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ Continue reading Take care of God
Dear brothers and sisters,
One afternoon, I went to a children’s yard. I saw two children sitting next to puddles of water. These puddles were water from people’s watering plants. Each child sat next to a different puddle of water.
The older sister, about 4, was using a leaf as a boat to row on her puddle water, and the younger brother, about 2, was looking down at his puddle. I thought the boy was looking at his face in the water. Then slowly, the boy bent down, his face closer to the water. I still thought the boy bent deeper to see himself better. Then suddenly, the boy used his tongue to lap the puddle water. I was startled, “Oh my god, where are his parents?” Continue reading The boy who drank puddle water
Đọt Chuối Non 