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Thursday, 2 February 2006
Self Introduction of Hoang Huu Phuoc of Vietnam
Mood:
 amorous
Hi friends!
I am Hoang Huu Phuoc, born in 1957 in Saigon, Vietnam. Upon my university graduation in 1980, I spent 15 years teaching English Lexicology, Composition, American and British Literature, Business English, and Translation and Interpretation, naming just a few, at colleges and universities in Hochiminh City, with the last five years also fully engaged in new professional business careers of Office Representative (TICO Ltd., Japan) and Business-development Manager (Cimmco International, India)at the time Vietnam was still under the very strict trade embargo as imposed by the USA, before holding the position of Managing Director of the state-owned FOSCO Training Center, then the Managing Director of ABC, a 100% business from California, USA. After 5 more years working for Manulife Vietnam, a Canadian-based life insurer, as their first-ever Agency Recruiting Manager (the only managerial-level staff of Manulife Vietnam Agency Operations at the moment)and Human Resources Manager, successfully strengthening the agent force from a 3000 to a 7000-strong excellent team just within one year thus enabling the company to be in a favourable position to announce the first ever profit earning in the market after its only three years of its business operations, I decided to invest my time and energy to explore possibilities for a venture of an e-business in co-opperation with my friends and under the supports from my siblings in the USA.
My hobbies include composing English poems, writing articles on social and ideological issues in both English and Vietnamese, and reading non-fiction books and Chinese-Vietnamese verse.
Beside this Aspirations with all prose and verse writing in English, the other sites e.g. Fiery Meditation with my writing in either English or Vietnamese representing my fierce fighting against all the vices and negative aspects endangering my Vietnam, and the All for Vietnam in Vietnamese designed to indirectly improve the situations of all aspects of life of Vietnam and its people through my witty criticism, are designed and open for free references (Please visit these two sites from the suitable links as provided on the right of this page under the Group One). The font used is Times New Roman, Telex Mode, and as per Code of VN Unicode 1.
I believe you will find these topics similarly most interesting and unique.
Hoang Huu Phuoc
Hochiminh City
Vietnam
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Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Ballade of Childhood
Mood:
 quizzical
Along the gloomy path I composed these lines of verses
To recall the events in my salad days
With carefree joyousness, disillusionment, then the sight of a hearse
Which brought the corpse of my sister to her grave
And my soul to the miserable tomb of Fate !
I was hurt with untold excruciating agony
Tearing me off apart from my fragile soul
And my mind was perplexed by the so-called immortality !
I used to hark to chirp-chirp of nightingales
And haphazard once I saw a dog running crookedly and sideways
Then loping across the green like a little demon
Towards the hedgerows of a crumbling cottage
In which there was not even a human trace !
So with a pen I toiled and toiled indefatigably
To materialize the dream on page and page
And my mind was perplexed by the so-called immortality !
Deep in the cockles of my dead-beat heart
I loathed vice blokes, imposing mass in false fame
Who jerked and jerked and jerked and turned to dust
Like the extinguishment of candle-flames.
Only babes and sucklings romping on the bay
Could bear misfortunes with equanimity.
Without suffering one can neither love nor create!
And my mind was perplexed by the so-called immortality !
At onto ridiculous world I wanted to nauseate
The damned baits. Only the pristine beauty
Did not betray me. O blokes, go to blazes !
And my mind was perplexed by the so-called immortality !
Hoang Huu Phuoc
Hochiminh City, Vietnam
December 1980
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Great Sayings of Great People, with Comments by Hoang Huu Phuoc
Mood:
 energetic
" One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "well, I'll have a go, too." Margaret Thatcher
Comment: This is so wise an advice ever spoken by anyone of humankind. We have heard of "a leaping forward" or a flourishing blooming or blossoming and boosting of business. We hardly hear of any statement on suitable or appropriate conduct which may help enable a person to properly get himself/herself up to the highest positions. To climb up a ladder, of course you can take more than one rung at a time but this is possible only when you are at the bottom ones. The higher you climb, the narrower and weaker the ladder becomes. And you can get to the top rung only if you steadily take one at a time, with adequate intermittence for maintaining your equilibrium before launching the next move upward. Reaching the top, you could suddenly acknowledge one thing that you are so skilful, so daring, and so determined. And these are all sufficient to make yourself firmly accessible to success and achievement. Hoang Huu Phuoc
" Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing." William A. Ward
Comments: In our everyday life we may hear grumble here and there, about this or that, either in the sreet or at the office, mostly of trivial issues, or occasionally of important matters which the grumbling factors are either total ignorant outsiders or loafers who do not want to move even a fingertip though knowing for sure it could save the whole humankind, let alone others. Success can hardly come to this style of people. Work hard with commitment and pride in the work, comply to all requirement, study hard for self-improvement, be proactive in performance of assignments, and be a contributor yourself to the development and success of the company you are working for; and it will be an as-a-matter-of-factly true thing that an appraisal is there in your honour, and success would become a loyal companion throughout your life. Hoang Huu Phuoc
" Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets ." Zig Ziglar
Comments: Circus people or harlequins or stuntmen may climb a ladder with their hands in the pockets but then surely fall down to amuse audience. One need use hand(s) to firmly grasp the stiles of the ladder in order to stably climb up rung by rung – and not to go astray – to the higher level. Naturally, the longer and higher the climbing is, the more painful the soles become. Similarly, to get promoted, one need carefully toil the way upwards to face challenges and untold hardship, which only hard-working, commitment, perserverance and integrity can help well perform assignments. Loafing around the office, grumbling at trivial things, spreading rumours or faultfindings, then wishing for a merciful appraisal for a promotion to higher positions seem to be so unnatural to be of real life outside the circus. It is therefore a tough work for every righteous person to accomplish for achievement, but success is quite a possibility and climbing up a ladder is much doable. Hoang Huu Phuoc
" The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." Henry Ford
Comments: Nowadays we may hear of people elsewhere grumbling on low salary whilst loafing around their offices just to spread rumours or faultfindings, ignoring even the obvious truth that only working hard exceeding expectations, with commitment, perserverance, integrity, and efficiency, to name just a few, is the only and decisive factor helping them be improved, developed, and successful. To be a star with a name, a meteoroid must first have both "qualifications" : standing out on its own and/or within a system, and reflecting more celestial solar rays than others doing. Scientists gave a name say Pluto to that farthest planet of the Solar system on this very simple basis : the nameless celestial body must be first systematically seen. Similarly, a staff should do his/her best for an outstanding performance first, and long before a recognition could be considered in his/her favour and honour. Hoang Huu Phuoc
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding, and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.” Robert Louis Stevenson
Comments: Everybody is entitled to his/her own determination to a pursuit of a fortune for his/her 36,000 days bestowed by God; whether it is fame, or wealth, or both, it is similarly paid homage to by all, provided that this or that or these should be from a strong drive from a strong brave heart of the true, the good, and the aesthetic. To get fame or wealth or both at any cost and by fair means or foul, even trampling on others or justice, or using tricks, never brings worthy or right and real success to the doers. Robert Louis Stevenson of the Treasure Island gave mankind a Dr Jekyll and a Mr Hyde, as a two-faceted problem of pathological personality, which we can refer to as a ramshackling inner fight between the good and the ruthless; and Nguyen Cong Tru of the Nguyen Dynasty left us an excellent verse which can be assumed to demonstrate Stevenson’s saying:
“To be blessed an existence in this mundane world
I must establish a righteous fame to offer to Motherland”
Hoang Huu Phuoc
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Happy New Year to All
Mood:
 celebratory
Dear friends,
Zephyr is once again wandering everywhere: from vernal woods into cities and villages, metropolitan avenues and rural lanes, magnificent sky-scrapers and ramshackle thatch-roofed houses, and we may even feel its presence in the deepest recesses of our very hearts and on the shyly pink cheeks of not only Hanoian and Dalat ladies but also dwellers of every densely or sparsely populated area, at a time when everything is sharing the phoenix's experience of commencing things within and without us anew and afresh, enlivened with true love to Beauty and righteous concern to Truth, since "Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty - Robert Burns".
Time passes, years pass, and generation after generation keeps on passing; in similar mood one full year of ordeals has just passed, leaving with us invaluable experience and lessons, joys and sorrows, achievements and pendings, expectancy and expectation, and dreams and hopes, all emerging into one dynamic drive enabling us to be prepared for new challenges with a definite confidence in our eventual victory.
With such positive and optimistic trust in the fifty-two new weeks ahead, I would like to wish you and your beloved a very Happy Lunar New Year of all the best best things.
May Happiness Be with You Now, Then, and Ever.
Hoang Huu Phuoc
Hochiminh City
Vietnam
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Questions & Answers
Mood:
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Question 1: In the 2005 calendar of my company, there are Chinese Vietnamese Phuc, Loc, Tho, Khang, and Ninh. I can guess the meanings of Phuc , Loc, Tho, and Khang. But I do not understand the meaning of Ninh as this Chinese Vietnamese word is so scholarly and archaic and few people may know it. Please help me have a proper equivalent in pure Vietnamese. Thank you.
Answer : It is a fact that people prefer quoting Chinese Vietnamese for a noble effect, even though not everybody understands thoroughly the meaning and its classic reference. Last week one of your friends asked me about "tan lang & tan giai nhan" and "sac cam", the two which most of our people incorrectly refer to at festive gatherings of weddings (the correct ones being "tan lang & tan nhan" and "sat cam"). About the 2005 calendar of your company, this time we have the five best words of highest auspiciousness as follows:
- Phuc -- or Phuoc of Southern dialect -- is the top best word of the language, having the meaning of Happiness plus Luckiness altogether and somehow embodying even the auspiciousness of Loc and Tho within its connotation
- Loc means Prosperity plus Successful Career Development
- Tho, is Excellent Health plus Longevity
- Khang Ninh is a combination of Khang -- or Khuong of Southern dialect -- as Safe & Sound Status (an vui) , and Ninh as Peacefulness (an binh)
Best wishes.
Question 2: There are many ways for a personal physical exercise for a good or better health. Body-building is most suitable for men to have excellent health, isn’t it? What sports do you recommend? Thank you.
Answer: There is an arguable thing here: physical exercises are said good to human health, but Zen meditation and Yoga are both well-proven to be good for excellent health as well. This means either you do make your muscles practice a lot or let them relax is equally beneficial. The Westerners must do physical exrecises intensively because they have to use up the calories accumulated from their abundant intakes of rich nutrious foods, otherwise these will make their own life jeopardized. We Vietnamese have our own ways of dietary and therefore need a somewhat particularly customized way for a so-called “exercise” instead of a pure imitation. Many people say bodybuilding beautifies bodies. Similarly many people say a big belly brings poor health and short life to its owner. But the truth is that all participants in the world contest of the strongest never have small bellies, that a body-building athlete cannot bring a 50 kg bag of rice on his shoulder walking uphill or upstairs for an hour whilst a peasant can, and that tense bodybuilding exercises may make a Vietnamese person of poor or wrong dietary schedule easily suffer total exhaustion or pulmonary tuberculosis. I believe you can have excellent health with simple slow running (or joggling) or some simple walking in the morning. At high school and university, I was a volleyball player, thanks to the fact that I was the tallest of all classes (1.7 meter was exceptionally rare at schools in Saigon of the 1970s). But I would not recommend any sports.
Best wishes.
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Supports to All
Mood:
 happy
Dear friends,
Hundreds of friends and agents at Manulife ask me if they would still receive my help as there are requirements they can hardly rely on anybody else but me, upon my decision to resign from Manulife after 5 years working there, for a pursuit to a challenging venture of business development in a different field.
I wish to say that all my friends, regardless of whether they are working at Manulife or any other companies, together with other thousands of college students of mine, will receive my supports as usual to issues of English language, English editing, and/or consulting on business development, sales boosting, morale motivation, relationship, and general academic knowledge, naming just a few.
Do send me your questions either in English or in Vietnamese to my email address of hhphuoc@yahoo.com or hhphuoc@lycos.com for a prompt support.
I can also be also contacted via my handphone number 098-9690-948(84-9-89690948), just in case you need an urgent help.
Best wishes,
Hoang Huu Phuoc
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Tuesday, 27 December 2005
Xmas Tree of 2005
Mood:
celebratory
This Christmas I received from many friends a powerpoint slideshow with the following wordings in the shape of a pine tree (from its properties I found the name of www.zazuze.pt.vu). Of course, this makes me so interested that I wrote another version but in one sentence only, which you will find at the end of the following original version:
This
Xmas,
I would
like to put
up a tree in my
heart, and instead
of hanging presents,
I would like to put the
names of all my friends.
Close friends and not so close
friends. The old friends the new
friends. Those that I see every day
and the ones that I rarely see. The ones
that I always remember and the ones that
I sometimes forget. The ones that are always
there and the ones that seldom are. The friends of
difficult times and the ones of happy times. Friends
who, without meaning to, I have hurt, or, without meaning
to have hurt me. Those that I know well and those I only know
by name. Those that owe me little and those that I owe so much.
My humble friends and my important friends. The names of all those
that have passed through my life no matter how fleetingly. A tree with
very deep roots and very long
and strong branches so that
their names may never be
plucked from my heart. So
that new names from all
over may join the existing ones. A tree with a very
pleasant shade so that our friendship may take a
moment of rest from the battles of life. “May the
happy moments of Xmas brighten every day of
the new year”. These are my sincere wishes.
And this is the Xmas Tree of my own:
This
Xmas,
I would
like to put
up a tree in my
heart, and instead
of hanging presents,
I would like to put the
names of yours, my dear
friends, whom I meet every
day here or just once in a while
at provinces , all those that have
supported and
been by my side with
understanding always, at either
tough or happy moments of success and
joy – for a righteous common cause for the
betterment of all and from a true trust and a pure
heart for a very happy altogetherness; the friends with
whom I wish to share
the world of marvels and
achivement over all unworthiness,
with a naive hope for a life of laughters
of satisfaction, confidence, and belief in the true,
the good, and the beautiful, on which the whole universe
was formed up and from which all seeds of dreams and materialization
of dreams by humankind are so well germinating and scattered the world over,
now, then, and ever, to all; and the stars of trophies we have together been awarded
for all the efforts and commitment and devotion and accomplishment of assignments
with pride and
readiness to
further toil to
plunge ahead to be firm and bold and tempered to win over obstacles just like this faithful strong pinetree having deep large roots of virtues to hang on for dear life against the cold winds for hundreds of winters, being the pleasant shade for us to sing carols to welcome a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year of Hopes and Love for us and our beloved and all.
Hoang Huu Phuoc, Hochiminh City, Vietnam
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Saturday, 3 December 2005
A Song of Playing Truant
Mood:
 lyrical
A Song of Playing Truant
this morning i played truant
for the ravening beasts
taught me how to be a man
and the soulless scarecrows
preached to me about the way of living!
the day broke
i was so sad
i missed you o my coy sweetheart
(like a patient and silent flower
secretly sad in a lawn corner)
o broken drops of sunlight
(or the sad tears over your eyes?)
i wished i would have a time
with you our hearts beat the same sadly mourning rhythm
with you we breathed the same mundane air
and with your divine sad tears i wanted to share
o damned inanimate piles and piles of papers
o dead things
no soul
no heart
i
played
truant
this
morning
Hoang Huu Phuoc
Hochiminh City
Vietnam, 1977
(English Translation from an original Vietnamese poem written by Dam Xuan Mai, Faculty of Letters, English Department, Hochiminh City, Vietnam)
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Playing Guitar in Harmony with the Resounding Footfalls of Thanh Loan
Mood:
lyrical
playing guitar in harmony with the resounding footfalls of thanh loan
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with a resounding rhythm from loan’s footfalls
and from the strings of my guitar the tones are reverberated
in the innermost recesses of my very heart
your timid moonlike heels do exist
never vanish away these sad dreaming steps
and still remain for thousands and thousands of years
the traces of your rosy ones which once enter my life
hoang huu phuoc
hochiminh city
vietnam, 1980
english translation from a vietnamese poem written by dam xuan mai, faculty of letters, english department, hochiminh city, vietnam)
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Life
Mood:
 on fire
Again, on Tuesday 30 April 2001 I received an email from le-tam.hanh@db.com some short internet-styled writing on the attractive topic of Life, and as a man addicted to the improvement of any English writing found, I add some changes plus finishing touches, making it as follows. Hope it will be welcome by all my friends.
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LIFE is short; whereas we have To live, To love, and To Leave a Legacy. Because we don't know what is really important to us, everything seems important. Ironically enough, since everything seems important, we have to do everything.
Other people, unfortunately, see us as doing everything, so they expect us to do everything. Doing everything keeps us so busy; we don't have time even to think about what is really important to us.
Long time ago, there was an emperor who told one of his horsemen that if that guy could ride on his horse and cover as much area as he liked, then the emperor would give him the area of land up to the distance he could cover. Overjoyed with such bright future of prosperity, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and rode as fast as possible to cover as much area as he could. He kept on riding and riding, slashing the horse to gallop even to death. He even ate and snore on horseback without spending a minute to let his feet touch the sand underneath, and by hanging on the neck of the exhausted horse he could stuff some bread into the poor creature’s mouth. It came to a point when he had covered a very substantial area and both he and the horse got very tired, fell to the ground, and took their last breath. Only at dying moment, he could sigh to himself, "Why did I push myself so hard to cover so much area? Now I am dying and I only need a very small area to bury myself".
The above "story" is somewhat similar to the journey of our life. We push very hard everyday to make more money, power and recognition. We neglect our health, time with family and appreciation of the surrounding beauty and the hobbies we wish to follow, just to blindly run after money as the only purpose of our whole life! One day when we think back, we will say we don't really need that much but then we cannot turn back the clock for what we have missed. And our life is so insignificant. But to some extent, the above story is not similar at all to the journey of our life, in case we are in a hurry to achieve some positive thing quite beneficial to human life. In this sense, the much harder we push, the betterment of mankind can be sooner materialized, and this is a very lofty and worthy sacrifice for a common cause. This should be encouraged, as this earth could have been an eternal uncivilized planet and nobody can have better opportunities to enjoy life now.
So please take it easy, do what good and righteous and reasonable and worthy thing you want to do and appreciate whatever joy Mother Nature may at times display to you for your proper choice.
Life is fragile, hence do not take it for granted. Live a balance lifestyle - enjoy life, take care of life, and make life as dynamic and useful as you can! If you wait to do everything only after you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. So do good things and experience life, OK?
Hoang Huu Phuoc
Hochiminh City
Vietnam
2001
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Friday, 18 November 2005
How to Overwhelm the Un-Overwhelmed
Mood:
amorous
The following poem of mine won the International Library of Poetry Editor's Choice Award of 2001 and was published in "Devotions of the Mind", Library of Congress ISBN 0-7951-5006-7.
 How to Overwhelm the Un-Overwhelmed by Hoang Huu Phuoc of Vietnam
( Comments by International Library of Poetry: "This poem is more than a music of language. It?s a variable painting of imagination. Any further description would only fail to do a justice.")
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How to Overwhelm the Un-Overwhelmed
“How to overwhelm the un-overwhelmed?”
From rustling leaves the unquestionable question was posed
With Zephyr encouraging in restless dance
And the world marveling at a good good chance
But how to overwhelm unoverwhelmed
To embrace to my cozy heart your vast vast queendom
To have inner throbs with the same rhythmic waves
And to suck sweetness from your virgin place
And ’tis how to overwhelm unoverwhelmed
By enjoying our life like theistic lambs
When every propitious blessing to us from holyland
Accompanying our goodselves and what’s in our hands
So to overwhelm unoverwhelmed
We worship love with which all may be overwhelmed
Hoang Huu Phuoc, 28 April 1990
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Thursday, 17 November 2005
A Friend's Smile
Mood:
happy
Some friend sent me a writing she downloaded from Internet. Seeing that it was not very positive nor properly written in English, I have given it some finishing touches. If you compare this to the original version, I am sure you will have to agree that mine is much more excellent.
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No man/woman is worth your tears and the only one who is will only make you cry in either overjoyed happiness or blissful pain or heartfelt remembrance. If you love someone, put his/her name in your mind, neither in your heart nor in any imaginary circle, because circles resemble cages of monotony and can be mistaken to an imprisonment or soulless possession, and hearts can break, but your mind will ever be yours from your first day on earth to your later world, and wherever your mind may fly to, it embraces within its very self the name of your beloved always.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you do not say. And only true friends understand and satisfy what you really want to say.
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would neither jump with them nor be at the bottom to catch them because they may smash me to death underneath, and particularly I want their memories to last even longer with my existence or survival and with their poor parents and children to be taken care of by me.
Do not frown, because you may be accidentally loved by somebody who prefers only the negative aspects of life! Do smile, and you will soon know that together with all the positive possibilities, the one who falls in love with your smile will one day come knocking at your very door.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them; and if you have no time to love them, it is good for you as you cannot spend your life just to try to love each and every mundane individual; including all the bad and the worst; and instead you will surely have sufficient time to love the worthy best well selected from your judgment.
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle," Plato once said. But it is the best to be selectively and properly and appropriately kind because when everyone is fighting a harder battle, it may also means he/she may spare neither you nor your beloved whom you have to protect with your own life!
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to have a feeling of love to someone - but it takes a lifetime to understand how to genuinely love someone.
Enthusiasm is contagious to morbid blokes as it could start an epidemic! However, to righteous people, it helps make healthy seeds germinate for surplus ideal harvest seasons.
Send this to only the trustful and faithful people you think you will never forget, but you need not send it back to the person who sent it to you because upon your receipt of the above you are as-a-matter-of-factly listed among his/her best or excellent friends; who listen to or understand what he/she really wish to entrust to you.
Hoang Huu Phuoc
Hochiminh City
Vietnam
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Monday, 14 November 2005
An Eight-Sentence Essay by Hoang Huu Phuoc, a Debate to Vietnamese People
Mood:
 cool
The Three Important P's
AN EIGHT-SENTENCE ESSAY BY HOANG HUU PHUOC
POLITENESS
However century-old the saying of Confucianists may be that whatever thing one does not want the other people to do either in his/her favour or on his/her behalf, he/she should not be at any liberty to do it similarly against the openly expressed consent or desire of those godly others, we are still much bothered and disturbed by impolite people who might be haunted by a somewhat primitive drive of cavemen to explore all for some thing or some nothing by proving they are having an excellent nasus & nares. Uninvited visitors are as-a-matter-of-factly mostly not in the persona grata category; it is therefore advisable not to take such classification of being the unwanted by always playing the role of a cartoon owl to interfere into the other’s affairs.
PRIVACY
And when one admits that politeness is a must in the bustling environment of modern and civilized life, he also implies that privacy is of some particular thing of greater concern and that everybody is entitled to legally and naturally having personal matters nobody else has any right to jeopardize, regardless of whether it is a seemingly meaningless issue as of purchasing what medi-cine or clothes or why a person has so devotedly friendly a relationship with someone of the different sex. To successfully respect the privacy of other people is the very task to prove that one is really and actually educated and is perfectly leading a totally civilized and enriched life in the community as nothing is as impoverishing as ig-noring this basic norm
PHILANTHROPY
And last but not least, a desire to help or offer help to mankind is a very noble thing, the very proof to distinguish a human-being from a wild beast, but provided that such offering must be from and only from the belongings, literally or abstractly, of the kind-hearted person directly uttering the philanthropic words. One cannot, must not and has no right at all to show off his/her humanitarianism by com-fortably sitting still in the bus but loudly asking other person to make a concession of his very seat to somebody else standing near the loud-mouthed. Kind-heartedness should be displayed by deeds and not by words, otherwise mischief or smartness may come as a misinterpretation. And this is so unfavourably damaging.
Hoang Huu Phuoc
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Saturday, 12 November 2005
Learning English, an Advice for Vietnamese People
Mood:
energetic
Tips for Vietnamese Learners of English
If you wish to improve your speaking and writing, the first thing you have to do is to – surprisedly and surprisingly – read books in Vietnamese of fairy tales, short stories, novelettes and novels, and particularly non-fiction.
Many a local desperado theory-maker nowadays in our society has taken it for granted that if you want to be good at English (or any other foreign language) you need to start your study from the second of the Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man, without knowing that such method can only help produce more citizens for the country of the terrible Black Death and the War of Roses.
The righteous thing is that a foreign language is nothing more than a foreign language which may due to some whatsoever reasons and howsoever it is coexist with the mother tongue, the very language a person eversince his first day thrown by All Mighty down onto the very lap of his mother starts to intensionally hear, to intuitively sense, to indefectibly imitate and then to industriously develop. Nobody can be good at any foreign language without first being a good orator of his/her mother tongue. From the attraction of the tales and stories to the drive to look for equivalent expressions in English (or any other foreign language) comes the superb capability of materializing profound thoughts onto spoken words or written presentation. English is not just for saying Hello, asking for direction, or crying for help. And when a learner of English can use English to exactly and elaborately and correctly and fully and understandably and a-hundred-more-ly’s express his/her idea, opinion or theory, he/she can say that the target of being good at English is satisfactorily achieved!
Magna Carta and the Stonehenge experience the galloping time’s ruthless erosion; however, words either spoken or written surely appreciate the further enriching by the people exploiting the significant indirect connotation or denotation of the above two marvelous works. Let’s make the rest of the world come to know about Vietnam and its great heritage of practical righteousness by rectifying the wrong and utilizing the good so that one day it will conquer the world with the mightiest weapon of foreign languages. And this is as-a-matter-of-factly as true as steel!
Hoang Huu Phuoc
Posted by hoang-huu-phuoc at 5:07 PM
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