Tired…

Life is not easy. One door closes and another will open. However, continuous closing and openning like this makes me feel so tired. Everyday, many things come up in my head. Keeping the job I have, trying to find a job on campus, what I should do with checks I receive (ironically, I cann’t be proud or happy when holding the paper check in my hand – cause it is compensation for my hard work, but it can also lead me to a tragedy and end my life in the U.S cause I work off campus). Every morning when I get up, I have to think how to manage the warehouse before I leave there for school, how to deal with urgent cases of transactions in which buyers are always right and have their rights to do anything, even to swear or threathen the seller (my company) by giving us negative feedback. Due to my status in the U.S, I may have to receive a lower payment than present even though I have been trying to work very hard to have enough money to support my study and my life in the U.S. The more I try, the more I get stuck.

Distractions… as usual!!! That’s just me!

One day at my working place, I heard this song from my boss’s computer. It’s about Hanoi – VN’s heart. Actually, Hanoi is not my home town. I have had some chances to visit there before and really like it. Hanoi is famous for old streets and homes, people with special voices which easily reveal their moods. There are a lot of lakes in urban districts, beautiful big trees and ancient places which have been over hundred year old. Hanoi nowadays has changed and been widen. It becomes more modern. However, this song just brings people back to some memory areas of an old and sweet Hanoi with the pure life styles and quintessence of VNese culture…

And now is a little bit distraction with an excellent performance of a beautiful Russian couple – even though they didn’t receive good comments on the way they showed their emotion and feelings toward each other during their work. However, they are perfect, I think, especially in the music background by Secret Garden! That is the art – skating!

Final distraction. I have just finished the second semester of teaching VNese language at The Generation 2000 Center at  Westminster. I was impressed by a 9-year-old student named Jonathan Kay. He is half English and half VNese. He always made noises in class, never stayed at one place over 5 minutes. He is, of course, a smart student, and always willing to be involved in all of class’s activities and very quick in answering my questions. His father paid much attention to his VNese studying and often asked me how he performed in the class. Jonathan loved to see Tam Quoc Chi movie and always took chances to tell me about the story, even though sometimes he might not understand behaviors of heroes such as Luu Bi, Quan Cong, Tao Thao and so on :-))

Before the final test, I asked Mr. Kay to push him to study, otherwise his son would fail. And Jonathan prepared well for this test which was beyond my expectation, of course, under his father’s pressure (:-) later, Mr. Kay let me know this when I informed him his son did very well in the test and he would receive a present in the Course Completion Celebration hold by the school). I didn’t tell Johnathan and he was surprised when the principal called his name!!! Now he left my class for going up to the next level… I will miss you, Jonathan!  

Peter Tang & Jonathan Kay – my 2 excellent students

Ngày hôm qua là thế

Thật là thất vọng quá đi thôi! Học hành chưa tới đâu nhưng lại phát hiện ra bài hát mình yêu thích thật là yêu thích, yêu mến thật là yêu mến, yêu quí thật là yêu quí, trong suốt mấy năm qua lại đạo nhạc của một nhóm nhạc cực kỳ nổi tiếng – SECRET GARDEN!!! Làm sao có thể được nhỉ, khi ta nhìn thấy chữ trong cái Vietnamese version, tác giả là Việt Anh – một nhạc sĩ cũng khá là nổi tiếng ở VN mới ghê! Làm sao thế được nhỉ!!!! (((.

I love the Vietnamese lyrics very much but still feel so DISAPPOINTED!!!