Tet Holiday ^_^

Tet is the most important holiday in my country, Vietnam. It is the celebration the Lunar New Year. It is the time for family reunion, time for children to receive lucky money and time for people to wish the best to each other.

Tet officially lasts three days, but people usually celebrate Tet for six or seven days. When the clock points 00:00, fireworks will be played, hands in hands people wish the best for themselves, for their families and for their friends.

The first day of Tet is family gathering. After breakfast, they will play Tet music to heat up the excitement of the atmosphere. First, the people in family make ceremonial offerings to Deities. After that, the children will wish successes and happiness to their parents. The parent give lucky money in a red envelop to the children for a successful studying. Then all of them will visit relatives to wish and have happy time together.

The second day of Tet holiday is reserved for the ancestors. Everyone’ soul comes back to meet one another on this day. Traditionally, no matter where they are everyone comes back to home and spends time with their family. They will sit together and enjoy “Banh Chung”, a special cake which is made from pork and salted onion, and talk about their woks and family affairs.

During Tet holiday, people usually stay in their home, thus the streets are quiet. However, the Tet atmosphere is festive. Red, the symbol of luck and happiness, is seen everywhere. There are also lion dances on the streets to make the atmosphere fabulous. Lion dances will bring luck to families throughout the year.

Furthermore, Tet is a time for visits from family and friends. Students come to their teachers’ home to visit and wish them. The first visitor to a home is important according to the Vietnamese tradition. A tray full of fruits and a vase of blossoms are placed in front of the house symbolizing good luck and prosperity.

Tet holiday is always an important Vietnamese holiday. It is held on the first day of the Lunar New Year. It is the beginning of everything of the year. That is why Vietnamese always esteem and reserve this tradition.

A Time that I was depressed - -

Now if you asked me what I wanted to do, I would be more than happy to give you a big hug and say, "Please take me home. That's all I want to do now. To go home!"
I was completely stressed out. The fact that I am babbling would sufficiently prove how pathetic I was, or at least how lame the situation I was in. Being stuck in a team I did not personally have a liking for was one thing. Getting heads-on and constant clash with a big idiot who claimed himself team leader without any formal consensus from other team members was another thing. The latter was more of a pain. How could there possibly an overconfident person who thought the world was his oyster, and everyone else was his pearl. If only I could be more self-assertive to the point that I could tell to his face what an idiot he was.
That was how I felt when I had a group project during the second year of my high school. The project named “Group 4 project”. It was a project that my partner and I needed to come up with a new idea about how to use and recycle energy. He rejected all my ideas, modified all my researches, and excluded all my work in the project. He did all that merely for the sake of smirking at me at the end and fakingly sympathizing "Jimmy, I'll let you have credit for this and this although you actually don't do it." I took comfort in knowing that at least the professor understood the differences between MY work and HIS. He should have learned his place in the universe.
Moreover, we had to do research on the internet and whoever designed that blah blah blah website would never sympathize with people with slow Internet connection. The entire training web site was slow to load. My TWO PCs both crashed during my exam. I screwed the entire thing up. I got 79% when the passing grade was 80%. I had to retake the training session, which would be another three hrs of eyestrain. I never felt worse.

Valentine day

On this Valentine day,

You learn to love a stranger
A beautiful stranger in your eyes
A stranger who will be by your side when you’re alone
A stranger who will make you smile when you’re sad
You see friends without a love

You wish for them, sooner or later

Your significant half will come..."

You try to make her happy
You take her to dinner
A luxury restaurant with no money in your pocket
Red wine, Beefsteak with sparkling candles
Cheesecake for desert
Surprise her by a sheaf of beautiful roses

You bought for her a gift
The gift of her dream

You bought the gift not for you, not for her

But for you two's love

For its growth

For its warmth

For the look on her face

For the smile she wore
For the hug she gave
For the kiss she took
For the love she keeps
For the true fact that you know she's proud

Of having you...

Why I chose business for my career

Economic or business is the lung of the society. A country develops when its economy develops. When the economy develops, the standard of living of the people in that country will increase. That will help a country achieve economic growth. Therefore economic or business plays an important role in a country, in specific, and in the whole world, in general.
My parents are both business people. As I was I child I had my first idea about business. Growing up in my family, every day I acquired knowledge about business from the reality and from my parents. My parents are selling electronic products such as TVs, refrigerators, DVD players, etc. They have different kinds of relationships with many kinds of people in the society because relationship is also important in business. Therefore, a businessperson is the person who is keen intelligent, he has a wide visibility, has wide relationships with other people. Sometimes at nights, I saw my father was thinking about how to sell more products because the competitions in the market were getting fiercer. As my parents said, “business world is a battlefield”. Being a businessperson is not easy; he also needs to be a risk taker. All those properties of a businessperson infiltrate to my body and my mind and those properties are the same as my characteristics. Therefore, when I came to Texas Christian University, I chose to study accounting. Day by day, I learn economics theory and compare it with what I learned from my parents. I realize that economics is interesting and I like it, thus I decided to become a businessman. When I become a businessman, I can help my parents develop their business specifically and my country generally. Vietnam is still a developing country now, therefore I hope that with my business skills I can contribute a small part of the whole development of the society. Those are the reasons why I chose to study business and become a business man.

An Experience that I would never forget

“I’m so tired,” I thought while in the New Zealand airport. After a great holiday with my parents and old friends, I was returning to New Zealand to continue my studies. At 4pm, I was back at the AIC tower where I was living.
Two hours later, my friends asked, “Jimmy, can you go to play soccer because our team doesn’t have enough players?”
“Sorry,” I replied. “I’m so tired. I just came back from a 12 hour-flight, can you ask someone else?”
“Ok, I will try.”
However, I began to question myself, thinking “I’m still fine; I am the leader of this soccer club and my team does not have enough players. I should go to play with them.”
Therefore, I agreed to join the team.
In that game, although I was tired, I still played really well. My friends said I was the best player in that game. I had many chances to score and indeed succeeded in two goals. Then on one occasion, I tried to take the ball from another player, who was big and tall with curly hair and deep blue eyes (specific characteristics of New Zealanders). We were confronting general players in Auckland, not just student teams. Hence, our team was the “smallest” in the league. In trying to take the ball from the “big” player, we struck each other. Crack...!
Unfortunately I fell, hearing the crack coming from my leg. It was so painful. I was escorted off the field by teammates and supervisor. They took me to the hospital. I thought that my leg just sprained, needing a slight treatment. After an X-ray and a two-hour wait, the doctor told me that my bone was cracked and they needed to put a plaster cast on my right leg for one month.
My leg, in extreme pain, prevented me from walking, showering. It drove me crazy. That was the first time in my life my leg was broken. However, instead of feeling angry and sad, I was happy and proud of myself for fulfilling my responsibilities and performing my best for my club. I did the best I could to help my club excel. I am proud of my leadership. That was an experience I would never forget.

My room at home

Do you ever wonder why certain places mean so much to certain people?

When I think about the place that is important to me, my room pops up in my mind first. My room is cozy and I always have a comfortable feeling when I am in my room. My room was painted white and my blue-sheet bed is at the right corner. My brown – yellow study table is behind the window, where people will see it first when they enter my room, and I like it that way. I like how the sun came to my table every morning. I like how I am sitting at the table and looking at the rain. I like how I am studying and distracted by what is happening outside my house. On the wall, there are David Beckham posters. He is my favorite player. I always try to make a pass or get a free kick into the goal like him when I am on the field, playing soccer with my dear friends. However, there is my family picture right in front of me. The picture was taken about two months ago when we went to one of the most beautiful beaches in my country. Smiles appeared on our faces. Whenever I look at the picture, I am just like encouraged by my parents, especially time when I am stress with my works.

My Giant-Mattress-with-blue-sheet bed is where I want to jump onto first when I come to my room. I have a full-size bed with two pillows and a big body pillow. I cannot sleep without my body pillow. I don’t know why but I always have good sleep with it. I cannot express my feeling when I am lying on my bed and listening to music. I like that feeling after a hard working day or at the beginning of the day when I wake up. Time stops. Everything stops going around. Forgetting about school works. Forgetting about exams. Forgetting about whatever bad happened. I just want to enjoy myself. A lot of times I just lay down and close my eyes and daydream about places I'd like to see or think about things that make me happy.

My room is always important to me. It always give me relax and happy time. It always to place I want to go first after a hard-working day. And I always love my room.