im so swamped at work...

but Im loving it. Its kinda addictive hahaha

just started a Reuters training 3 days ago, its going quite alright so far. The thing I enjoyed most about this course so far is the fact that I get to listen to the English accent. Indeed, I think I have learned to speak a few words like the British. The course will last until last Friday, which means for about 2 weeks, we have to still maintaince producing 3 news programs plus 4 of the people on my team need to attend the course everyday from 9:00am to 5:00pm.... 

its just too muchh... im so swamped...

Btw, happy belated valentine! This year again wasnt anything special! I cant remember what I did last year on this day. Anyway, I did have some fun with my co-workers. We all went back to my house afterwards, played DDR, had noodles and finally watched Basic Instinct ...LOL

Need to be a vegetarian

need to stay cool!!!!!!!

arg... sorry the date has been changed again to Feb 1st, or maybe even March 1st....
dude I dont wanna feel like an unfaithful employee, but dont you think waiting 5 months for a channel to be on air is already crossing the line of "being patient"?

Anyway, Im not totally disappointed at the company because there are still something here thats worth to stay with... but sometimes the unstable me can't help having those thoughts.

Btw, seriously friends coming back home this months ---> eating and drinking too much ---> chubbier.... haiz Wait, but I've just discovered, I like everything chubby, especially this cat:

Another Saturday Night Update....

So the date is set. 01.01.09, it is! We're going to be on-air (still keeping my fingers crossed though). Hoping it to be a LIVE program as well.

As much as I've never thought I would end up working in financial broadcasting field, this job is becoming more and more fascinating. Especially these last couples of months has been so historical in terms of economic that I feel honored and thankful to follow and knows about pretty much all the latest news that are out. Working in a television company plus editing and reporting a lot of global stock market news made me feel how fast, significant information should be reached, understood and analyzed accordingly.

4 months here only but it seems like a whole lot of changes that have happened. Many new applicants have been accepted, worked, stayed or either left. Surprisingly I am still sticking with job while in fact, I was the first to thought after 2 week working that "i am so leaving".
Anyway, but I think I am working with a great team. I realize you don't have to be so smart, you can just be alright with a positive working attitude but as long as you have a wonderful team, everything can run a lot more smoothly and effectively rather than doing something on your own. Kinda like a cliche which a Monster.com article can give you, right, but hey, now it is a piece of advice copyrighted to me.

Anyway, thats about me for a week!

Again, promising to post more interesting stuff soon!

saturday night

I've been quite neglected with updating this blog... for some reasons, I dont feel like writing anymore. Although I come to work everyday and write a lot about world news, I feel so hard to sit down and write something about myself lately.

Work is getting more interesting and ... bearable, I guess. It has come to the point that we all know everyone working here, so things are moving a lot more smoothly. Plus, we also get used to the constant non-sense commenting/yelling/criticizing of mr.boss that it no longer bothers us... haha

Good weekend everyone!

feeling sufficient?

Pic: Me on the way to "Carrying Tray" for a wedding. I'll explain more about this custom later. 
Pics not so much related to post.

As Xmas is getting near and my friends are coming home (1 already did), usually this is the time when I try to buy a lot of stuff to come home with. And not to mention, the thought of "shit I can never go shopping in the US" almost killed me a bit when I decided to come home. Kinda shallow, but it was true up until...

Yesterday when I was trying to create a list of things I want my friend to bring home to me. I realized... it was NONE! I cant think of a single thing, but before I was always worried whether to get my body shop face wash, my Frutis Hair Wax, my colonge, my cosmetics... now all those materialistic things seem to matter no more.... Hah! Somehow I feel relieved. like something so heavy just blown off from my shoulders.

In Hanoi, I can feel sufficient. No more "materialistic" feeling about being here and not in the US anymore.

Side notes: Yey, Im so excited, Tea is already here. Ngoc Be'o, Nga, My and Nhung Vi.t are coming home!!! I miss them so much!!

Pictures from wedding

Left to right: Nguyet, Trang, Me, Trang and Diep

Us posing again after the party!

With the groom!

Vietnamese wedding

I went to the first Vietnamese wedding in my life today as one who used to work with and know the groom. I need to stress out the fact that I know the groom because in Vietnam, people sometimes just go to a wedding without knowing much about the couple getting married. Like I went to one with my mom before and it kinda sucked.

Basically there are a lot of processes to go through to get married. Let just say this couple want to spend the rest of their lives together. The guy's parents after agreeing on his choice will go to the bride's house to ask for her parents permission to have a wedding. They have to bring in trays with lots of different items on them such as betel leaves, nuts, wine and so on. If the bride's parent agree, then they went on and talk about good date. But thats in the old time, I think now the abovementioned process is just only a superficial custom, both sides already know they have permission to get married and they actually decide the date before that process.
Then after that comes a wedding day. On this day, the groom's parents and relatives will go to the bride's house to literally "take her out of the house" as that symbolize the fact that the bride is now with her husband and they have taken the vows to live with each other to the rest of their lives. Then it comes celebration dinner which I joined today with my colleagues to toast to the couple's happiness.

Usually celebration dinner is the most superficial thing but inevitable on a wedding day. Guests from both sides of the couples and the couples'PARENTs are invited. So basically its a huge sitting-style dinner, and not a lot of people know each other. Imagine we as co-workers with the groom sitting and eating in the same table with guests of the groom or the bride's parents. God knows what we can share and talk about. Also at the wedding celebration, the bride, groom and their parents will be standing at the gate to greet the guests. The guests are supposed to come in, and greet and of course put a little "evelop" into a heart-shaped box located at the entrance. I really prefer the western ideas of guests bring in some well-wrapped gifts for the couple rather than money. This is something that kinda bugs me. Afterwards, guests are directed to their tables and when pretty much all the guests are present, the party begins. There was an MC at the wedding today so he introduced briefly about the couple and the parents. The coupl then cut their wedding cake then poured out some champane. As much as they needed to sit down and enjoy since it was their wedding (not others), they had to stand up and went give toasts to .. um im guessing they are only familiar with 25-30% of the guests their. Keep smiling, they moved from table to table. The funny thing is as soon as they were done with the last toast, the table which got the first toast finished eating and started to leave. Needless to say, the groom and the bride went to the gate again to say goodbye and thanks to the guests.

We were lucky to get some pictures with the groom, but he seemed so busy. Poor guy.

Of course we all couldnt avoid feeling "we want to get married, too"... but this whole process kinda frustrated me. Vietnam really needs a professional wedding planner service!