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40 things to do, say, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel as soon as possible

Almost everyone loves to write, read, share, and tackle life goal lists. There are tons of books like “1,000 Places To See Before You Die,” sites for sharing lists like 43Things.com, and even a movie about two men chasing their final to-dos called, “The Bucket List.”

It’s fantastic that people want to do and see so much before they die. But I’ve realized after writing and publishing a few of these lists, is that they often imply a “years down the road” mentality, that we have a ton of time to finish every item on our lists. This makes us lose interest and leaves our lists to collect dust. None of us know how long we’re going to have. We may never live to an old age. So how about a new list with a more seize-the-day approach?

Here are 40 things to do, say, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel as soon as possible. Some things on this list are very small and simple, but can give profound results if you let it be so.

1. Enjoy a small victory after many major defeats.

2. Build something with your bare hands.

3. Hear whales communicating underwater.

4. Listen to the entire catalog of music from your favorite singer or band.

5. Let go of an inhibition.

6. Do something just for the hell of it. Not for money, fame, praise, or receiving an award.

7. Believe when all others have lost faith.

8. Taste fresh mountain spring water.

9. Hear genuine laughter.

10. Do something taboo.

11. Sit and listen to a waterfall.

12. Don’t say; “I’m having a bad day.”

13. Eat healthy.

14. Listen to a genre of music you’ve never liked.

15. Find beauty where others don’t.

16. Don’t think someone is strange just because they’re different.

17. Think those that are “normal” are strange.

18. Give a negative situation positivity.

19. Head to the woods.

20. Speak to someone much older than you. But listen more.

21. Ask questions that have no answers.

22. Give before someone asks.

23. Sincerely give a compliment to a stranger.

24. Give someone you don’t like a chance (or a second chance).

25. Reconcile with someone or a past event.

26. Get lost in a book, art work, or movie.

27. Dress to impress yourself.

28. Help an injured animal. (Seek trained professional if you could be in harm’s way.)

29. Take a break. Don’t worry about chasing a goal. Just enjoy the moment.

30. Go the extra step when you really don’t want to.

31. Be like John and “Imagine.”

32. Tell a love one; “I’m proud of you.”

33. Tell a love one after a failure or mistake; “I’m still proud of you.”

34. Enjoy a rainy day.

35. Don’t watch or read news for an entire day.

36. Lose a regret.

37. Dabble with your hidden talents.

38. Donate anonymously.

39. Find a new passion.

40. Finish an entire goal list.

Please feel free to add any other ideas from your own lists in the comment section below. We’d love to read about your near-future goals!

Photo by Nicholas_T

http://www.lyved.com/misc/40-things-to-do-say-see-hear-taste-smell-and-feel-as-soon-as-possible/

p/s: i'd love to meet the author of this blog soon :)

step up, honey!*

* tittle made up from the two dance movies that i watched, 'Honey' & 'Step up'

Buổi biểu diễn nghệ thuật của Đại Lâm Linh tại L’Espace

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Posted: 01 Tháng Sáu 2010. Filed under: Nghệ thuật, Âm nhạc, Trình diễn.

20:00, thứ ba 29/06
L’Espace

Âm nhạc đương đại sử dụng các chất liệu dân tộc, cùng những giọng ca và phong cách trình diễn làm rung động quá khứ.

Chỉ nghe gió thất thanh trong đêm
Trút áo bốn mùa tiếng khèn quanh quất
không có bước chân nào thực lòng yêu…
Dừng trước nhà tu kín.

Sáng tác, phối khí, piano: Hoàng Ngọc Đại
Ca sỹ: Nguyễn Thanh Lâm, Nguyễn Linh Dung
Đàn tranh: Thanh Thủy
Ghi-ta: Mạnh Hùng
Ghi-ta bass: Lê Đức
Trống: Minh Thanh

Vé:

Giá vé: 60.000 VNĐ
Giá vé ưu đãi: 30.000 VNĐ
Vé bán tại L’Espace từ ngày 31/05.

Trung tâm Văn hóa Pháp tại Hà Nội Đại sứ quán Pháp tại Việt Nam 24, Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội Tel: (84-4) 39 36 21 64 Fax: (84-4) 39 36 21 65 webpage

nồng nàn Hà Nội

Hà Nội quá đẹp để không ngẩn ngơ và không thấy yêu
yêu Hà Nội more than words can say
xxx

smile vietnam :)

what is love these days

"Buddhism says, understanding is prior to love, love has to be made of understanding."

In Buddhism, mercy comes with intelligence. Without understanding, you cannot fully love. Without understanding, you cannot truly love. Understanding is the foundation for love.

Your life partner is someone who both understands and loves you.

There are four factors of love:

1- The ability to bring happiness to your lover. Love is not about taking; it's about giving. To love someone truly is to make the person happy every single day.

2- The ability of your lover to share your pain, not bring you more pain. The one who really loves you is the one who knows how to share and alleviate your burden.

Love is to bring happiness to each other, to share each other's pain. Affection, temporary passion cannot be called love. Mercy in love doesn't just come. It requires learning and practicing. It needs time, and more time, to observe, to listen, to understand your lover's pain, to help your lover get over their problems.

3- True love should make both sides happy.

4- There must be no discrimination in love. One's happiness is the other's. One's sorrow is also the other's.

Be honest with yourself and ask yourself this question: Has your love been made up of these four factors?


"Sex and love"

In Asian (or more specifically, Vietnamese) culture, the self and the mind are one. If you don't respect the self, you don't respect the mind neither. Love is "safeguarding" and respect each other. Without respect, there is no true love.

Your body is like your soul. There are thoughts and feelings you would only share with your lover. The same for your body, there are sacred and private places you don't want anyone to come to except the one you love, trust, and want to spend your whole life with.

In a merciful love, any act and behavior should show respect. The guy needs to respect the girl he loves, both body and soul. The girl who knows how to keep herself, also makes her lover respect her more, and nurture long term happiness.

P/S: There is a great difference between LOVE, and TRUE LOVE....:)

(Original speech by Thich Nhat Hanh, partly translated by my close friend - Ly)

You’re not a failure, you just haven’t found your passion

by Marita Cheng

When I was 17, I came 3rd in an international Japanese speaking contest. However, I don’t do anything about my Japanese studies now. The year prior, I got the highest marks in the state in my grade 7 piano exams. Now, I don’t play piano. During high school, I did 30-40 hours of maths during my school holidays. I finished the KUMON mathematics programme and got the highest mark possible for maths upon graduation (VHA 10. In my two maths subjects, I dropped just half a mark the entire year). I now hardly do any maths.

So, I had it that I was a failure. I had it that I was a quitter. I had it that I was a free-spirit who couldn’t stick through with anything. I had it that I only did stuff so that I could achieve in that area, and that once I had reached a certain level, I would get bored and quit.

If I’d stuck with my Japanese, maybe I could have been a young international diplomat for the government by now? If I’d stuck through with my piano, maybe I could have been a concert pianist by now. In maths? I could have been one of those crazily-young maths geniuses at universities who become tenured by the time they are 25 and spend their life devoted to the art, becoming a historical figure in that field, like Einstein or Newton.

However, while muling over my complete lack of commitment to sticking through with my hobbies, and while thinking about spending my life as Stephen Hawking has, I came to a realisation.

I never wanted to be a young international diplomat for the government. There was so much more I wanted to offer the world than just my language skills. Being a concert pianist didn’t excite me. I wasn’t passionate enough about music to practice for 15 hours a day. And I don’t want to become a professor and spend the rest of my life at university. I want to explore the world. I want to learn as much as I can and give the world as much of me as I can. I want to live life to the fullest.

This conversation came up for me because of programming.

I’m in my third year of a mechatronics engineering/ computer science degree, and passing countless exams and assignments later, I still don’t think I’m very good at programming.

So, over Summer, I plan to do lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (you get the picture) of programming. When I do something, I like to go all the way. I want to be masterful. If I put my mind to something, I can and do achieve it. So, I know that after Summer, I’m going to be awesome at programming.

However, I was scared. I was scared that if I did programming, then I would stop after I thought I had achieved enough to justify that I was good at it. And, as I want to be the CEO of a robotics company, it wouldn’t bode well with me to stop programming when I’d achieved ‘enough’ to prove to others that I was good at something.

But then I realised the difference between programming and all my other activities. Whereas my mum wanted me to be good at Japanese, piano and maths; I really, really, really, really want to learn and be masterful at programming because it fits with my life goals of being a tech entrepreneur. And while I think my mother is amazing for working so hard to provide me with the opportunities to explore and excel in those areas, I know it will make a lot more of a difference if I am empowered to learn for me.

So now, I’m not scared that I’ll get bored of programming once I get good. I’m not scared that I’ll give it up when I’ve achieved ‘enough’. I’m just really looking forward to it, and I cannot wait until my exams end so that I can start programming the things that I want to program.

I’m not a failure or any of those things. I just hadn’t found my passion yet.

So don’t get disheartened if you keep giving up on things. Just keep searching until you find something that truly ignites you, and that you think is worthy of you committing your time to.

http://blog.maritacheng.com/2009/11/youre-not-a-failure-you-just-havent-found-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-265

you are my sunshine ^^ em Vện xinh xắn của chị (và chị Ly ^^)

Câu nói nổi tiếng:
- Chị mợ (= mở :)) ) đi
- Chị chụp đi
- Đâu đâu đâu
- CHÀO CHỊ KHỊ (= Khỉ :)) ) (hét ầm ĩ ^^)

Cuộc chơi khác lạ của “Đại - Lâm - Linh”

Thứ Hai, 20/04/2009, 04:29 (GMT+7)

TTO - Đi tiên phong trong dòng nhạc đương đại, với những thể nghiệm khác lạ, đêm nhạc “Đại - Lâm - Linh” đã làm no nê cả tai lẫn mắt của những khán giả yêu mến thật sự lẫn đi xem chỉ vì tò mò.

Từ trái qua: Ngọc Đại, Linh Dung, Thanh Lâm trong đêm nhạc “Đại - Lâm - Linh” - Ảnh: Na Sơn

Đại - Lâm - Linh là tên của nhóm nhạc đương đại, viết tắt từ tên của ba thành viên Ngọc Đại - Thanh Lâm - Linh Dung. Tên tuổi của nhạc sĩ Ngọc Đại gắn liền với những chương trình và bộ CD cùng tên thành công: Nhật thực 1 (2002) và Nhật thực 2 (2004). Anh được biết đến như một tác giả của những ca khúc trữ tình giàu triết lý và gai góc cả về ca từ lẫn giai điệu, nhịp phách. Linh Dung vốn được đào tạo bài bản về thanh nhạc, được biết đến nhiều như là người thể hiện ca khúc cho SEA Games năm 2003 tại VN. Trước đây, cô thường xuất hiện trên sân khấu với những ca khúc nhạc nhẹ, trữ tình và cũng từng đầu quân cho Nhà hát Nhạc nhẹ trung ương (từ năm 1999), từng tham gia giảng dạy tại Trường cao đẳng Nghệ thuật quân đội. Thanh Lâm quê gốc ở vùng quan họ Bắc Ninh, từng là giáo viên ở Sơn La trước khi trở thành ca sĩ vì quá mê nhạc củaNgọc Đại

Dù đã xuất hiện trước công chúng một lần trong chương trình Mùa xuân nước Pháp (5-2008) và gây được nhiều tiếng vang, nhưng đêm nhạc tối 18-4 tại Nhà hát Lớn Hà Nội mới thật sự được coi là cuộc chơi công khai đầu tiên của bộ ba đình đám Ngọc Đại - Thanh Lâm - Linh Dung sau ba năm cùng tập luyện. Khoảng 500 khán giả đã đến với đêm nhạc, phần không nhỏ là người nước ngoài, giới văn nghệ sĩ.

Chương trình gói gọn trong hai giờ không nghỉ, với 13 tác phẩm cả cũ lẫn mới của Ngọc Đại, trong đó 11 bài phổ thơ của những tác giả vốn rất quen tên: Vi Thùy Linh, Phan Huyền Thư, Nguyễn Trọng Tạo, Văn Cầm Hải và Apollinaire. Có những ca khúc quen như Hoa gạo, Nhật thực, Chiêm bao trắng, Mơ, Dệt tầm gai, Tình ca du mục, Cây nữ tu bên cạnh những ca khúc gần như mới: Cổ hàng hiên mưa, Chiều, Đũa tre, Mùa đông, Lưu lạc, Giọng mưa đàn bà. Bước ra sân khấu, chỉ còn Ngọc Đại giữ lại hình ảnh “bộ ba đầu trọc”, Linh Dung cá tính với áo phông trắng, quần ta đen đi giày thể thao, quấn khăn đỏ trên đầu. Còn Thanh Lâm gầy gò trong chiếc áo the tay cộc cách điệu, bên trong là quần cộc và đi chân đất.

Sân khấu đơn giản, chỉ với hai chiếc mành tre rủ từ trên xuống hơi lệch nhau, nổi bật trên nền nhung đen và ánh sáng ám đỏ. Dàn nhạc pha trộn hiện đại lẫn dân tộc, cổ truyền được sắp đặt ở nửa trong của mặt sàn sân khấu, với piano Ngọc Đại, với guitar điện, contrabass bên cạnh đàn tranh, đàn đáy, trống da trâu, trống chầu, lại cả dàn nghệ nhân ca Huế, ca trù. Nửa trước sân khấu lọt thỏm thấp hẳn xuống với những bậc thang tạo thành một vùng không gian cách biệt hẳn với ban nhạc, là cái cớ để người hát thỏa sức diễn. Cộng thêm với ánh sáng đơn giản mà hiệu quả dưới bàn tay đạo diễn Cyril Lebrozec, sân khấu trở nên kỳ ảo, huyền hoặc.

Thanh Lâm - một trong 3 thành viên của Đại - Lâm - Linh - Ảnh: Na Sơn

Không MC, khán giả theo dõi sự bắt đầu và kết thúc của một ca khúc bằng việc nhìn vào tờ danh sách ca khúc được phát, bằng sự ngắt - mở của âm thanh, bằng sáng - tối trên sân khấu và cả bằng những động tác sắp đặt có chủ ý của hai ca sĩ chính Thanh Lâm - Linh Dung khi đứng khi ngồi, lúc nằm, lúc lấy tay ôm mặt, lúc co quắp trên chiếc chiếu cói. Với sự kết hợp của hát - múa - diễn say mê như nhập đồng, dường như những gì họ biểu diễn trên sân khấu đã vượt qua cái ngưỡng của âm nhạc đơn thuần.

Những ca khúc tưởng đã quen, nghe vẫn như mới toanh bởi được sáng tạo lại hoàn toàn bằng nhiều cách: sự kết hợp nhạc cụ Tây với chất liệu dân gian, đưa cả tuồng, chèo Thị Mầu, ca trù, ca Huế vào ca khúc, sự hòa bè nhuần nhuyễn của Linh - Lâm, lối hát lúc như thì thào, lúc la hét thất thanh, lúc như khóc lóc nỉ non gần như không thể nắm bắt được giai điệu, có lúc lại hát bằng cả hai thứ tiếng Pháp - Việt... Họ đưa khán giả vào những mê mê thực thực đầy ảo giác, với những khát khao, khắc khoải về tình yêu, về nguồn cội, thân phận con người, thời gian...

“Đại - Lâm - Linh” kết thúc trong tiếng vỗ tay bùng nổ của khán giả, dù không ít trong số đó vẫn còn hoài nghi về một lối chơi âm nhạc quá mới mẻ, quái lạ. Nhưng đêm nhạc là kết quả chứng minh cho sự lao động, sáng tạo thử nghiệm không mệt mỏi của những người tiên phong ở dòng nhạc Việt đương đại.

“Đại - Lâm - Linh” cũng là đêm công diễn ra mắt CD cùng tên đầu tiên của bộ ba này, được sự bảo trợ của Trung tâm Văn hóa Pháp. Giám đốc L’Espace cho biết: “Tôi tin khi CD và chương trình hòa nhạc của nhóm tổ chức tại Pháp sẽ gây tiếng vang rất lớn”.

NGUYỆT CA

Một số hình ảnh trong đêm nhạc Đại - Lâm - Linh tối 18-4 tại Nhà hát Lớn Hà Nội:

Không chỉ ngẫu hứng và sáng tạo trong lối hát, các ca sỹ còn thể hiện rất nhiều cảm xúc qua trình diễn hình thể - Ảnh: Na Sơn

Ca sĩ Linh Dung - Ảnh: Na Sơn

Từ trái qua: nhạc sỹ Ngọc Đại (pianist), ca sỹ Linh Dung và ca sỹ Thanh Lâm - Ảnh: Na Sơn

Nhạc sỹ Ngọc Đại kiêm Pianist - Ảnh: Na Sơn http://www.tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/Index.aspx?ArticleID=311988&ChannelID=58

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Event!

—For those who love film and dance

7:30 PM, Dec. 2, The Cinemateque, 22 A Hai Ba Trung, Ha Noi

Price: 100,000VND

Features

• Learn about the history of ballet in Vietnam (this year marks the 50^th Anniversary of VNOB—Vietnam National Opera and Ballet).
• See footage of VNOB, including recent performances in Vietnam, Sweden, the Helsinki International Ballet Competition, and students from Hanoi’s National Ballet Academy.
• Meet in person VNOB Director Pham Hoang Hai, Hanoi Ballet Academy Deputy Director Vu Duong Dung, VNOB choreographer Toan Cao Duc, acclaimed Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg who is staging VNOB’s upcoming performance (11 December, tickets will be on sale!!), and VNOB dancers themselves—the very stars you’ll also get to watch on stage and screen.
• Watch A Dream in Hanoi, Gerry Herman’s 16-minute short film.

Seating is limited. Email Nels at fvh.films@gmail.com to register. (You might want to hurry….!)

And please, NO cell phones during the performance.

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Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Exuberant ‘Last Lecture’

1:44:08 - 2 years ago

Randy Pausch Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184#

More:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

Night at the Museum

(Movie 2006)

and Day at...Đại Học Tổng Hợp khoa Hóa (former Indochina University), Lê Thánh Tông street, Hanoi!!



I bumped my head the hardest time EVER in my whole life right at THAT left wing of THAT window while sneaking upstairs trying to hide from the school officers to see those skeletons (as there's a banning board) not long ago!! I really expected my head would bleed actually! Turned out it didn't but I had to stand still there holding my head frowning in pain for quite a while. Later on I walked up the rest of the stairs publicly, almost said hi to some old men working in the room next to two buffalo skeletons outside on the second floor. Nice try.

There's also this small room under the welcome stairs with look-like-prison tall iron bar doors and people working in it! I also like the super huge painting in the meeting room and its ceiling and all the balconies there which sure look a lot like those in Hanoi Opera House, really fancy looking! Maybe I was a bit hyper but cool building to sneak around and discover stuff with old french style it is!!

Photo credit and some other 'Woah' views there: http://hanoireview.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

Thank you french architecture in Hanoi!

More:

Hà Nội – Xưa và Nay – Đại học Tổng Hợp

Hà Nội-xưa và nay

http://mag.ashui.com/index.php/congdong/kientrucsu/42-kientrucsu/1545-giu-hon-cho-pho.html

Really hope there is some architect that I could have a crush on hmm :P. We'll see.

step up step up

THÔNG BÁO TUYỂN SINH

LỚP NĂNG KHIẾU NGHỆ THUẬT (HÈ 2009)

DANH MỤC NHỮNG BỘ MÔN ĐÀO TẠO:

1. Nghệ thuật Múa (có cấp chứng chỉ)

2. Khiêu vũ thể thao – Dance sport

3. Khiêu vũ cổ điển

4. Piano

5. Thanh Nhạc

6. Yoga

Đội ngũ, giảng viên là những NGUT, NSUT, Cử nhân, Thạc sĩ được đào tạo theo chuyên ngành trong và ngoài nước.

Thời gian :

Khóa học từ ngày 15/6 đến ngày 30/8/2009 (2 buổi/ tuần – 20 buổi/ khóa học)

Thời gian đăng ký tuyển sinh: Từ 16h30^’ đến 19h (từ thứ 2 đến thứ 6)

Từ ngày 27/05/2009

Địa điểm:

Trường CĐ Múa Việt Nam – Khu Văn hóa Nghệ thuật - Đường Hồ Tùng Mậu (đối diện Trường ĐH Thương Mại) - Quận Cầu Giấy.

Học phí:

Từ 30.000đ đến 40.000đ/ buổi tùy theo từng bộ môn học.

Mọi chi tiết xin liên hệ phòng Tuyển sinh: 04.38.372.370 – 04.37.920.320

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NHỮNG YÊU CẦU CƠ BẢN CỦA THI SƠ TUYỂN VÀ CHUNG TUYỂN

BẬC TRUNG HỌC CHUYÊN NGÀNH DIỄN VIÊN MÚA NĂM 2009 -2010

1. Hệ đào tạo 6 năm: Chỉ tiêu 30 - Nam, nữ tuổi từ 12 đến 14 – Học hết lớp 6 Trung học cơ sở.

2. Hệ đào tạo 4 năm: Chỉ tiêu 55 - Nam, nữ tuổi từ 14 đến 16 – Tốt nghiệp Trung học cơ sở.

3. Hệ đào tạo 3 năm: Chỉ tiêu 15 - Nam, nữ tuổi từ 18 đến 20 – Tốt nghiệp Trung học phổ thụng.

Tuyển sinh học Nghệ thuật múa là tuyển năng khiếu múa và điều kiện cơ thể:

1/ Điều kiện cơ thể:

Thí sinh có thể hình cân đối (lưng không được dài hơn chân, chân thẳng và dài, không có khuyết tật như gù vai, gù lưng, chân vòng kiềng), khuôn mặt thanh tú, đường nét hài hoà, có sức khoẻ theo học ngành múa.

* Thí sinh nữ: Từ 12 đến 14 tuổi: cao 1m50 trở lờn - nặng từ 39 - 41 kg.

Từ 14 đến 16 tuổi: cao 1m54 trở lờn - nặng từ 41 - 44 kg.

Từ 18 đến 20 tuổi: cao 1m58 trở lờn - nặng từ 44 - 46 kg.

* Thí sinh nam trong các độ tuổi trên, phải cao hơn nữ từ 5cm trở lên, nặng hơn từ 4 - 6 kg.

Thí sinh phải có độ mềm của các khớp xương (vai, lưng, hụng, cổ chân, ngón chân và ngón tay, phải có độ mở của xương hông). Theo sự hướng dẫn của giáo viên thí sinh có khả năng thực hành được các động tác ép đằng trước ở tư thế đứng hoặc ngồi, uốn lưng sau, xoạc chân dọc, ngang hoặc nhấc chân ở các hướng trước, cạnh, sau với độ cao từ 90⁰ đến 180⁰.

Thí sinh phải có sức bật tốt (nhảy cao trong tư thế thẳng người ).

2/ Năng khiếu: Năng khiếu múa là khả năng mô phỏng tư thế, động tác múa một cách chính xác và biểu cảm, có khả năng cảm thụ tiết tấu âm nhạc, khả năng thể hiện các trạng thái tình cảm thông thường.

Thí sinh đạt yêu cầu sơ tuyển được đăng ký tham gia học lớp bồi dưỡng phát triển năng khiếu múa từ ngày 20/06/2009 đến ngày 25/07/2009 (tự túc học phí, ăn, ở tại trường) và chung tuyển từ ngày 27/07 đến ngày 30/07/2009. Thí sinh không có điều kiện tham gia lớp học trên khi dự thi chung tuyển phải có đủ hồ sơ đăng ký dự thi, làm thủ tục dự thi ngày 29/07/2009, thi tuyển ngày 30/07/2009 tại trường (Địa chỉ: Trường Cao đẳng Múa Việt Nam – Khu Văn hoá nghệ thuật – Đường Hồ Tựng Mậu – Phường Mai Dịch – Quận Cầu Giấy – Hà Nội. Điện thoại: 04.37.649.781 --- 04.37.640.270 ).

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Juan Antonio: Maria Elena used to say that only unfulfilled love can be romantic.

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[repeated line]
Juan Antonio: Speak English!

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Cristina: I'll go to your room, but you'll have to seduce me.

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Juan Antonio: We are meant for each other and not meant for each other. It's a contradiction.

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Maria Elena: You're still searching for me in every woman.
Juan Antonio: That is not true, Maria Elena. I was in Oviedo some weeks ago with a woman who was the antithesis of you. An American, and something beautiful happened with her. So you're mistaken.
Maria Elena: You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

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Cristina: [Looking at a sculpture of Jesus] Are you very religious?
Juan Antonio: No, no, no, no, I'm not. The trick is to enjoy life, accepting it has no meaning whatsoever.
Cristina: No meaning? You don't think that authentic love gives life meaning?
Juan Antonio: Yes, but love is so transient. Isn't it? I was in love with a most incredible woman... and then in the end...
Vicky: Yes?
Juan Antonio: She put a knife into me.
Cristina: My God, that's terrible!
Vicky: Well, maybe you did something to deserve it.

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Juan Antonio: American?
Cristina: I'm Cristina, and this is my friend Vicky.
Juan Antonio: What color are your eyes?
Cristina: Uh, they're blue.
Juan Antonio: Well, I'd like to invite you both to come with me to Oviedo.
Vicky: To come where?
Juan Antonio: To Oviedo. For the weekend. We leave in one hour.
Cristina: What- Where is Oviedo?
Juan Antonio: A very short flight.
Vicky: By plane?
Juan Antonio: Mmm-hmm.
Cristina: What's in Oviedo?
Juan Antonio: I go to see a sculpture, that is very inspiring to me. A very beautiful sculpture. You will love it.
Vicky: Oh, right. you're asking us to fly to Oviedo and back.
Juan Antonio: Mmmm. No, we'll spend the weekend. I mean, I'll show you around the city, and we'll eat well. We'll drink good wine. We'll make love.
Vicky: Yeah, who exactly is going to make love?
Juan Antonio: Hopefully, the three of us.

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Juan Antonio: Well, now that the day's almost over, is it reasonable of me to ask you if you'll both join me in my room?
Vicky: Oh, come on, I thought we'd settled that.
Cristina: Vicky's just trying to say that she's engaged to be married, that's all.
Juan Antonio: Great. Then these are her last days of freedom.
Vicky: No. Look, I'm not free. I'm committed. You know what my theory is? And when I drink, I get brutally frank. I think that you're still hurting from the failure of your marriage to Maria Elena, and you're trying to lose yourself in empty sex.
Juan Antonio: Empty sex? Do you have such a low opinion of yourself?

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Narrator: During the conversation, an awkward moment occurred.

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[first lines]
Narrator: Vicky and Cristina decided to spend the summer in Barcelona. Vicky was completing her master's in Catalan Identity, which she had become interested in through her great affection for the architecture of Gaudí. Cristina, who spent the last six months writing, directing, and acting in a 12-minute film which she then hated, had just broken up with yet another boyfriend and longed for a change of scenery. Everything fell into place when a distant relative of Vicky's family who lived in Barcelona offered to put both girls up for July and August. The two best friends had been close since college and shared the same tastes and opinions on most matters, yet when it came to the subject of love, it would be hard to find two more dissimilar viewpoints. Vicky had no tolerance for pain and no lust for combat. She was grounded and realistic. Her requirements in a man were seriousness and stability. She had become engaged to Doug because he was decent and successful and understood the beauty of commitment.

Vicky: [while talking on her cellphone to Doug] Yeah, I miss you, too.

Narrator: Cristina, on the other hand, expected something very different out of love. She had reluctantly accepted suffering as an inevitable component of deep passion, and was resigned to putting her feelings at risk. If you asked her what it was she was gambling her emotions on to win, she would not have been able to say. She knew what she didn't want, however, and that was exactly what Vicky valued above all else.

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[last lines]
Narrator: Vicky returned home to have her grand wedding to Doug. To the house they finally planned to settle in. And to lead the life she envisioned for herself, before that summer in Barcelona. Cristina continued searching... certain only, of what she didn't want.

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Em bé Hà Nội (Hanoi Little Girl)

Em bé Hà Nội
(1974)

Hanoi
1970s
war
bombs
phố Khâm Thiên
death
blood
tears
patriotism
kids
soldiers (chú/ anh bộ đội)
jet fighters
Vietnamese women
doctors
foreign doctor
Nixon
babies
anger
love
peace
happiness
smiles

i'm inspired, again.

http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination

this. turns. me. ON

Oprah talks to graduates about feelings, failure and finding happiness

Following is an edited transcript of Oprah Winfrey's speech at Stanford's Commencement ceremony Sunday, June 15, 2008

L.A. Cicero

Winfrey wielded her familair and forceful presence, updating the metaphor of the moral compass by calling feelings the “GPS system for life.” She went on to say, “Even doubt means don’t. This is what I’ve learned.”

Thank you, President Hennessy, and to the trustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the Stanford graduates. Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.

I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret. The secret is that Kirby Bumpus, Stanford Class of '08, is my goddaughter. So, I was thrilled when President Hennessy asked me to be your Commencement speaker, because this is the first time I've been allowed on campus since Kirby's been here.

You see, Kirby's a very smart girl. She wants people to get to know her on her own terms, she says. Not in terms of who she knows. So, she never wants anyone who's first meeting her to know that I know her and she knows me. So, when she first came to Stanford for new student orientation with her mom, I hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming, and somebody came up to Kirby and they said, "Ohmigod, that's Gayle King!" Because a lot of people know Gayle King as my BFF [best friend forever].

And so somebody comes up to Kirby, and they say, "Ohmigod, is that Gayle King?" And Kirby's like, "Uh-huh. She's my mom."

And so the person says, "Ohmigod, does it mean, like, you know Oprah Winfrey?"

And Kirby says, "Sort of."

I said, "Sort of? You sort of know me?" Well, I have photographic proof. I have pictures which I can e-mail to you all of Kirby riding horsey with me on all fours. So, I more than sort-of know Kirby Bumpus. And I'm so happy to be here, just happy that I finally, after four years, get to see her room. There's really nowhere else I'd rather be, because I'm so proud of Kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in psychology. Love you, Kirby Cakes! That's how well I know her. I can call her Cakes.

And so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, Will. I really had nothing to do with her graduating from Stanford, but every time anybody's asked me in the past couple of weeks what I was doing, I would say, "I'm getting ready to go to Stanford."

I just love saying "Stanford." Because the truth is, I know I would have never gotten my degree at all, 'cause I didn't go to Stanford. I went to Tennessee State University. But I never would have gotten my diploma at all, because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but I was short one credit. And I figured, I'm just going to forget it, 'cause, you know, I'm not going to march with my class. Because by that point, I was already on television. I'd been in television since I was 19 and a sophomore. Granted, I was the only television anchor person that had an 11 o'clock curfew doing the 10 o'clock news.

Seriously, my dad was like, "Well, that news is over at 10:30. Be home by 11."

But that didn't matter to me, because I was earning a living. I was on my way. So, I thought, I'm going to let this college thing go and I only had one credit short. But, my father, from that time on and for years after, was always on my case, because I did not graduate. He'd say, "Oprah Gail"—that's my middle name—"I don't know what you're gonna do without that degree." And I'd say, "But, Dad, I have my own television show."

And he'd say, "Well, I still don't know what you're going to do without that degree."

And I'd say, "But, Dad, now I'm a talk show host." He'd say, "I don't know how you're going to get another job without that degree."

So, in 1987, Tennessee State University invited me back to speak at their commencement. By then, I had my own show, was nationally syndicated. I'd made a movie, had been nominated for an Oscar and founded my company, Harpo. But I told them, I cannot come and give a speech unless I can earn one more credit, because my dad's still saying I'm not going to get anywhere without that degree.

So, I finished my coursework, I turned in my final paper and I got the degree.

And my dad was very proud. And I know that, if anything happens, that one credit will be my salvation.

But I also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma, because, as B. B. King put it, "The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you." And learning is really in the broadest sense what I want to talk about today, because your education, of course, isn't ending here. In many ways, it's only just begun.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school and our life the classrooms. And sometimes here in this Planet Earth school the lessons often come dressed up as detours or roadblocks. And sometimes as full-blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest university of all, that is, the universe itself.

It's being able to walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, 'cause that's really why we're here, to evolve as human beings. To grow into more of ourselves, always moving to the next level of understanding, the next level of compassion and growth.

I think about one of the greatest compliments I've ever received: I interviewed with a reporter when I was first starting out in Chicago. And then many years later, I saw the same reporter. And she said to me, "You know what? You really haven't changed. You've just become more of yourself."

And that is really what we're all trying to do, become more of ourselves. And I believe that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It's how you enrich your spirit. And, trust me, I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

So, today, I just want to share a few lessons—meaning three—that I've learned in my journey so far. And aren't you glad? Don't you hate it when somebody says, "I'm going to share a few," and it's 10 lessons later? And, you're like, "Listen, this is my graduation. This is not about you." So, it's only going to be three.

The three lessons that have had the greatest impact on my life have to do with feelings, with failure and with finding happiness.

A year after I left college, I was given the opportunity to co-anchor the 6 o'clock news in Baltimore, because the whole goal in the media at the time I was coming up was you try to move to larger markets. And Baltimore was a much larger market than Nashville. So, getting the 6 o'clock news co-anchor job at 22 was such a big deal. It felt like the biggest deal in the world at the time.

And I was so proud, because I was finally going to have my chance to be like Barbara Walters, which is who I had been trying to emulate since the start of my TV career. So, I was 22 years old, making $22,000 a year. And it's where I met my best friend, Gayle, who was an intern at the same TV station. And once we became friends, we'd say, "Ohmigod, I can't believe it! You're making $22,000 and you're only 22. Imagine when you're 40 and you're making $40,000!"

When I turned 40, I was so glad that didn't happen.

So, here I am, 22, making $22,000 a year and, yet, it didn't feel right. It didn't feel right. The first sign, as President Hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my name. The news director said to me at the time, "Nobody's going to remember Oprah. So, we want to change your name. We've come up with a name we think that people will remember and people will like. It's a friendly name: Suzie."

Hi, Suzie. Very friendly. You can't be angry with Suzie. Remember Suzie. But my name wasn't Suzie. And, you know, I'd grown up not really loving my name, because when you're looking for your little name on the lunch boxes and the license plate tags, you're never going to find Oprah.

So, I grew up not loving the name, but once I was asked to change it, I thought, well, it is my name and do I look like a Suzie to you? So, I thought, no, it doesn't feel right. I'm not going to change my name. And if people remember it or not, that's OK.

And then they said they didn't like the way I looked. This was in 1976, when your boss could call you in and say, "I don't like the way you look." Now that would be called a lawsuit, but back then they could just say, "I don't like the way you look." Which, in case some of you in the back, if you can't tell, is nothing like Barbara Walters. So, they sent me to a salon where they gave me a perm, and after a few days all my hair fell out and I had to shave my head. And then they really didn't like the way I looked.

Because now I am black and bald and sitting on TV. Not a pretty picture.

But even worse than being bald, I really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on other people's tragedies as a part of my daily duty, knowing that I was just expected to observe, when everything in my instinct told me that I should be doing something, I should be lending a hand.

So, as President Hennessy said, I'd cover a fire and then I'd go back and I'd try to give the victims blankets. And I wouldn't be able to sleep at night because of all the things I was covering during the day.

And, meanwhile, I was trying to sit gracefully like Barbara and make myself talk like Barbara. And I thought, well, I could make a pretty goofy Barbara. And if I could figure out how to be myself, I could be a pretty good Oprah. I was trying to sound elegant like Barbara. And sometimes I didn't read my copy, because something inside me said, this should be spontaneous. So, I wanted to get the news as I was giving it to the people. So, sometimes, I wouldn't read my copy and it would be, like, six people on a pileup on I-40. Oh, my goodness.

And sometimes I wouldn't read the copy—because I wanted to be spontaneous—and I'd come across a list of words I didn't know and I'd mispronounce. And one day I was reading copy and I called Canada "ca nada." And I decided, this Barbara thing's not going too well. I should try being myself.

But at the same time, my dad was saying, "Oprah Gail, this is an opportunity of a lifetime. You better keep that job." And my boss was saying, "This is the nightly news. You're an anchor, not a social worker. Just do your job."

So, I was juggling these messages of expectation and obligation and feeling really miserable with myself. I'd go home at night and fill up my journals, 'cause I've kept a journal since I was 15—so I now have volumes of journals. So, I'd go home at night and fill up my journals about how miserable I was and frustrated. Then I'd eat my anxiety. That's where I learned that habit.

And after eight months, I lost that job. They said I was too emotional. I was too much. But since they didn't want to pay out the contract, they put me on a talk show in Baltimore. And the moment I sat down on that show, the moment I did, I felt like I'd come home. I realized that TV could be more than just a playground, but a platform for service, for helping other people lift their lives. And the moment I sat down, doing that talk show, it felt like breathing. It felt right. And that's where everything that followed for me began.

And I got that lesson. When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

It's true. And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead. Every right decision I've made—every right decision I've ever made—has come from my gut. And every wrong decision I've ever made was a result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. And that lesson alone will save you, my friends, a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't. This is what I've learned. There are many times when you don't know what to do. When you don't know what to do, get still, get very still, until you do know what to do.

And when you do get still and let your internal motivation be the driver, not only will your personal life improve, but you will gain a competitive edge in the working world as well. Because, as Daniel Pink writes in his best-seller, A Whole New Mind, we're entering a whole new age. And he calls it the Conceptual Age, where traits that set people apart today are going to come from our hearts—right brain—as well as our heads. It's no longer just the logical, linear, rules-based thinking that matters, he says. It's also empathy and joyfulness and purpose, inner traits that have transcendent worth.

These qualities bloom when we're doing what we love, when we're involving the wholeness of ourselves in our work, both our expertise and our emotion.

So, I say to you, forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.

So, how do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. I'm not going to stand up here and tell you that it's not about money, 'cause money is very nice. I like money. It's good for buying things.

But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful. Because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life. What you really want is to be surrounded by people you trust and treasure and by people who cherish you. That's when you're really rich.

So, lesson one, follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

Now I want to talk a little bit about failings, because nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. If things go wrong, you hit a dead end—as you will—it's just life's way of saying time to change course. So, ask every failure—this is what I do with every failure, every crisis, every difficult time—I say, what is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. If you don't get the lesson, it shows up wearing another pair of pants—or skirt—to give you some remedial work.

And what I've found is that difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper, because life always whispers to you first. And if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream. Whatever you resist persists. But, if you ask the right question—not why is this happening, but what is this here to teach me?—it puts you in the place and space to get the lesson you need.

My friend Eckhart Tolle, who's written this wonderful book called A New Earth that's all about letting the awareness of who you are stimulate everything that you do, he puts it like this: He says, don't react against a bad situation; merge with that situation instead. And the solution will arise from the challenge. Because surrendering yourself doesn't mean giving up; it means acting with responsibility.

Many of you know that, as President Hennessy said, I started this school in Africa. And I founded the school, where I'm trying to give South African girls a shot at a future like yours—Stanford. And I spent five years making sure that school would be as beautiful as the students. I wanted every girl to feel her worth reflected in her surroundings. So, I checked every blueprint, I picked every pillow. I was looking at the grout in between the bricks. I knew every thread count of the sheets. I chose every girl from the villages, from nine provinces. And yet, last fall, I was faced with a crisis I had never anticipated. I was told that one of the dorm matrons was suspected of sexual abuse.

That was, as you can imagine, devastating news. First, I cried—actually, I sobbed—for about half an hour. And then I said, let's get to it; that's all you get, a half an hour. You need to focus on the now, what you need to do now. So, I contacted a child trauma specialist. I put together a team of investigators. I made sure the girls had counseling and support. And Gayle and I got on a plane and flew to South Africa.

And the whole time I kept asking that question: What is this here to teach me? And, as difficult as that experience has been, I got a lot of lessons. I understand now the mistakes I made, because I had been paying attention to all of the wrong things. I'd built that school from the outside in, when what really mattered was the inside out.

So, it's a lesson that applies to all of our lives as a whole. What matters most is what's inside. What matters most is the sense of integrity, of quality and beauty. I got that lesson. And what I know is that the girls came away with something, too. They have emerged from this more resilient and knowing that their voices have power.

And their resilience and spirit have given me more than I could ever give to them, which leads me to my final lesson—the one about finding happiness—which we could talk about all day, but I know you have other wacky things to do.

Not a small topic this is, finding happiness. But in some ways I think it's the simplest of all. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a poem for her children. It's called "Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward." And she says at the end, "Live not for battles won. / Live not for the-end-of-the-song. / Live in the along." She's saying, like Eckhart Tolle, that you have to live for the present. You have to be in the moment. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

But I think she's also saying, be a part of something. Don't live for yourself alone. This is what I know for sure: In order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand for something larger than yourself. Because life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward you have to give back. And to me, that is the greatest lesson of life. To be happy, you have to give something back.

I know you know that, because that's a lesson that's woven into the very fabric of this university. It's a lesson that Jane and Leland Stanford got and one they've bequeathed to you. Because all of you know the story of how this great school came to be, how the Stanfords lost their only child to typhoid at the age of 15. They had every right and they had every reason to turn their backs against the world at that time, but instead, they channeled their grief and their pain into an act of grace. Within a year of their son's death, they had made the founding grant for this great school, pledging to do for other people's children what they were not able to do for their own boy.

The lesson here is clear, and that is, if you're hurting, you need to help somebody ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain. And when you're in a mess, you get yourself out of the mess helping somebody out of theirs. And in the process, you get to become a member of what I call the greatest fellowship of all, the sorority of compassion and the fraternity of service.

The Stanfords had suffered the worst thing any mom and dad can ever endure, yet they understood that helping others is the way we help ourselves. And this wisdom is increasingly supported by scientific and sociological research. It's no longer just woo-woo soft-skills talk. There's actually a helper's high, a spiritual surge you gain from serving others. So, if you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

But when you do good, I hope you strive for more than just the good feeling that service provides, because I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better. So, whatever field you choose, if you operate from the paradigm of service, I know your life will have more value and you will be happy.

I was always happy doing my talk show, but that happiness reached a depth of fulfillment, of joy, that I really can't describe to you or measure when I stopped just being on TV and looking at TV as a job and decided to use television, to use it and not have it use me, to use it as a platform to serve my viewers. That alone changed the trajectory of my success.

So, I know this—that whether you're an actor, you offer your talent in the way that most inspires art. If you're an anatomist, you look at your gift as knowledge and service to healing. Whether you've been called, as so many of you here today getting doctorates and other degrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if you choose to offer your skills and talent in service, when you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift. And I know you haven't spent all this time at Stanford just to go out and get a job.

You've been enriched in countless ways. There's no better way to make your mark on the world and to share that abundance with others. My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

So, let me end with one of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King. Dr. King said, "Not everybody can be famous." And I don't know, but everybody today seems to want to be famous.

But fame is a trip. People follow you to the bathroom, listen to you pee. It's just—try to pee quietly. It doesn't matter, they come out and say, "Ohmigod, it's you. You peed."

That's the fame trip, so I don't know if you want that.

So, Dr. King said, "Not everybody can be famous. But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service." Those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that passage. He said, "You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato or Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love."

In a few moments, you'll all be officially Stanford's '08.

You have the heart and the smarts to go with it. And it's up to you to decide, really, where will you now use those gifts? You've got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, 'cause I know great things are sure to come.

You know, I've always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before I go, I wanted to share a graduation gift with you. Underneath your seats you'll find two of my favorite books. Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is my current book club selection. Our New Earth webcast has been downloaded 30 million times with that book. And Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future has reassured me I'm in the right direction.

I really wanted to give you cars but I just couldn't pull that off! Congratulations, '08!

Thank you. Thank you.