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19.12.09

Toi da tim thay mot noi de ngoi lai. Mot quan ca phe nho, canh ben nhung quan lon, o mot doan nho tren mot con duong lon; mot quan ca phe khong dep, neu so sanh voi nhung noi khac toi tung ghe qua.

Nhung o day co nhung thu khac. Day la noi toi biet minh se khong phai qua quan khac khi da den, va hau nhu luon co the ngoi o cho toi da chon de ngoi, mot vi tri ma tu do toi lam duoc nhieu viec. Thuc uong o day, hay dung hon la ca phe – thu duy nhat toi goi cho den luc nay, voi toi thi khong co gi de phan nan.

Thu nam vua roi toi cung da o day.

Amsterdam on August the ninth

Looking back at my photos taken during the month in Germany, I realized something interesting to talk about my Sunday in Amsterdam.

Maybe you all know where and what Amsterdam is. And you should always, while reading this article, remind yourself that this is only my viewpoint, and this viewpoint is based on what I experienced on August 9th.

I was there in a group of different citizenships, on a trip organized by the german language center. I made acquaintance with a Canadian, who was studying architecture. The reason why I mention him is that sometimes during the trip we talked about the buildings, bridges,etc. in Amsterdam. For one who is in the dark about architecture like me, Amsterdam is a mess. I know a mess is such a strong word. Consider individually, they are somehow beautiful sites due to the strange and complicated designs – the main station, for instance. But in general, I mean Amsterdam as a unique block, it didn’t give pleasure to my eyes at all. The mix-up of too many old and modern buildings at the same time unables any of them to be dominant. Imagine, if you have only one (or few), it’ll be valuable, if many, they aren’t worth attention.

Amsterdam at first sight

 

I don’t remember, in which parts of Amsterdam I was. We walked around the city. And the city was really crowded – all the streets, all the bridges we passed. What I could see in the four directions are people, maybe most of them are tourists, due to the speed of their movements.

( to be continued )

Vietnam lost the football final again

Seagames 25 – Vientiane, Laos.

I saw their falling down on the field, as I had done every two years. We lost again, in a difficult-to-comment match. I missed the first 10 minutes, but I was told that our players seemed to be easily physically knocked out. That was a negative point, but has never been the point to evaluate our team’s performance, since we should never be compared with players from football-developed nations. However, I am against the way our team adapted ourselves to the Malaysian pressing football. We still used the attacking methods which we learnt by heart – short passing, and one-two. We acted as we were on the training field. Thanh Hung and Thanh Luong tried to dance without music, Ngoc Anh failed his first appearance in the starting 11, etc.

It seemed that worse problems did not come till the beginning of the second half. But I would say that they really came after the injury of our goalkeeper, Tan Truong. Though he still managed to cover the post, the long pause of worrying affected other players. We continued to lose our concentration: wrong-target passing, unclear-cut tackling, and bad man-marking. That was certainly unacceptable in a final. It is unfair to lay the blame onto Xuan Hop’s belly. Let us think that he did worry about Tan Truong’s left shoulder. We were out of luck in this case. Even you have already been good, you still need luck. Then we lost.

The commentator concluded: We met Malaysia twice this Seagames, there were five goals, all were scored by us. The Malaysian holds now the title.

11.12.09

14.10.09

Day la lan dau tien trong 19 nam to tu chat dut duong quay lai cua minh. Van biet la chua the tien, du to rat muon, nhung cung chac rang da khong con duong tro lai sau ngay thu hai vua roi. To khong bao gio quen cau.

An A

Dinh viet kieu nhu tren tieu de, nhung thoi.

Hom nay la lan dau tien di xe buyt chung voi ban xa va lau den vay (ngoai tru di choi xa voi lop), chac cung gan hai tieng. Nghi lai dang le khong nen bao A di nhu vay, the nao A cung met. Nhung nho A ma L biet them ve khu do. L chi qua ben ay vi cong viec thoi, nen khong de y. Rat vui, cam on A nhieu. Lan khac nho nhac L mang may anh theo cho A.

Gap sau.

23.09.09

09.09.09

I intend to write some lines about my last month in Düsseldorf.

Mua he cuoi cung

Dưới hàng cây, anh ngước nhìn về phía em

Nhớ da diết năm tháng vụn dại sắp qua

Mai thời gian sẽ xóa nhạt mờ dấu chân

Những bạn thân, trên phố gặp lại, sợ không nhận ra nhau.

                                                                               

Những lời nào chưa nói, mai đã xa em rồi

Nhánh hoa nào cầm tay, anh vẫn chưa tặng em

Mai sau này sẽ khác, khi đã xa nhau rồi

Xin giây phút này mãi se lòng chúng ta.

 

Sẽ nhớ mãi khi mai ta về, lòng như mây trắng giữa trời ấu thơ

Những ánh mắt trao nhau tha thiết, gợi về ký ức mùa hè đã qua

Sẽ nhớ mãi sau bao thăng trầm, lặng im anh đứng như những hôm nào

Mùa hè cũ như trở về cùng tên em.

                                                                

                                                                - Trần Lê Quỳnh