Tieng Viet lovers club

[RockViet]

Originally Posted by casannova03

Anh la nguoi Viet phai ko?

hehe Toi kg phai la nguoi vn. Toi la nguoi sillypore. Lam Nguoi sillypore cuc kho tai vi phai di linh 2 nam. 2 nam kg co tien kg co nguoi yeu keke. Cuc!

hen hanh duoc gap ban o day ....thich tieng viet, thich lich su viet nam, thich san pham vn va .....con gai vn phai kg? hehe

[casannova03]

Originally Posted by RockViet

hehe Toi kg phai la nguoi vn. Toi la nguoi sillypore. Lam Nguoi sillypore cuc kho tai vi phai di linh 2 nam. 2 nam kg co tien kg co nguoi yeu keke. Cuc!

hen hanh duoc gap ban o day ....thich tieng viet, thich lich su viet nam, thich san pham vn va .....con gai vn phai kg? hehe

hahahaha!!

cai gi cung cho anh noi het roi..anh muon em noi gi nua??

[RockViet]

Originally Posted by casannova03

hahahaha!!

cai gi cung cho anh noi het roi..anh muon em noi gi nua??

noi... Do an vn?? Bx cua anh nua com ngon kg? keke .

[jackbl]

Bro u post 1 day too late, today is 1st May!

Khong co gi quy hon doc lap va tu do!

Originally Posted by RockViet

...ky niem 34 nam. Ngay 30 Thang 4 nam 1975

Độc lập ! Tự do ! Hạnh phúc !

[jackbl]

Wow your standard of vietnamese is very high! I can see 1000 points leh...

1 of the thing i cannot be customised is the food of vn...

Originally Posted by RockViet

hehe Toi kg phai la nguoi vn. Toi la nguoi sillypore. hen hanh duoc gap ban o day ....thich tieng viet, thich lich su viet nam, thich san pham vn va .....con gai vn phai kg? hehe

Originally Posted by RockViet

noi... Do an vn?? Bx cua anh nua com ngon kg? keke .

[jackbl]

Sorry to point out something here. Is it hen hanh or han hanh? Because i need to use dictionary to translate the words you written but i cant find...

No hard feeling

Originally Posted by RockViet

hen hanh duoc gap ban o day

[lordstriker]

Originally Posted by RockViet

I prefer the accent from the north sound very polite... like those news reader or tv compere on VN tv... how about bro here?

There is still accent of central part. It's is very difficult to understand if you are new to it. Especially when you hear the old people talking. I guess it's their dialect. Some of the words are totally different.

[lordstriker]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Sorry to point out something here. Is it hen hanh or han hanh? Because i need to use dictionary to translate the words you written but i cant find...

No hard feeling

It is " han hanh " bro

Btw, why dont u like Vietnamese food? maybe your bx is not a good cook, isnt it? j/k

[RockViet]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Wow your standard of vietnamese is very high! I can see 1000 points leh...

1 of the thing i cannot be customised is the food of vn...

ohh hehe spelling fail... should be "han hanh" har? forgot...no la my standard not high la. maybe i know cantonese and chinese dialag that helps me remember..

Sao anh kg thich vn food? Toi thich lam ..Ngon ma...I only eat before bun bo hue, gioi cuon, gioi xoai, banh mi, bun mam, hu tieu, pho!! cha gio, Bo kho, I love them all, There are some place here selling quite nice.

[jackbl]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Naturally i dun like vietnamese food. I like Com Chay

Originally Posted by lordstriker

It is " han hanh " bro

Btw, why dont u like Vietnamese food? maybe your bx is not a good cook, isnt it? j/k

[RockViet]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Bro u post 1 day too late, today is 1st May!

Khong co gi quy hon doc lap va tu do!

hee . tai vi toi hom qua 30/4 di lam ve nha met quen.

[jackbl]

Do you have any recommendation which place sells these dishes nice?

Originally Posted by RockViet

...I only eat before bun bo hue, gioi cuon, gioi xoai, banh mi, bun mam, hu tieu, pho!! cha gio, Bo kho, I love them all, There are some place here selling quite nice.

[RockViet]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Do you have any recommendation which place sells these dishes nice?

coffee shop next to Joo chiat NPP(police post) got a Quan an viet nam stall . And also joo chiat rd and joo chiat place junction got a bare cement patch for public performance... the quan an vn shop next to the bare cement patch also i find it nice
5-6 yrs back there's a vn restaurant "Mai's" at marina sq (before renovate) serving good vn food. open by a vn lady after marina renovate she shift to the building next to PlazaSingapura then later sell the shop. she is quite a well known figure who ocassionally teach vn cooking in those afternoon ch8 auntie show.

maybe i like becos those herb/mint leaf smell and the light aroma i find it nice...VN food generally quite expensive compare to sg food. at coffee shop a pho 5-6$ i think bcos of the big slice beef ....... my "Nam Tram dong" (5cts sgd) comments.

[casannova03]

haha.. toi rat thich an com suon va banh mi...ngon lam!!!

[jackbl]

Homeless in the big, wide Web
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Vietnamese bloggers are at a loss to decide which social network they should switch to now that Yahoo! 360o is on the way out.

While online social networks elsewhere in the world are usually for people who already know each other and are rarely used to find a new relationship owing to the high level of privacy, here it’s the opposite.

In Vietnam, which is considered something of an oddity in the world of online social networking, a blog is more than an online diary.

Instead of the bare bones of daily updates, you can find long entries about what’s happening in society, often with some sharp criticism thrown in, along with more general thoughts and views on life.

Here is the blog of a young man writing mostly about charitable events and activities, there a young mother telling the world about her little girl’s progress since birth.

“Blogging is just one of the many uses of a social network, but in Vietnam it is worshipped above all,” says one authority on the subject.

Most Vietnamese bloggers use Yahoo! 360o, the country’s most popular social networking site, so it’s no wonder that Yahoo!’s decision to end the service has caused more than a ripple in the local blogosphere.

Last November, Vu Minh Tri of Yahoo! Vietnam said he expected the service to finish in April.

Then a month ago, Ken Mandel, the executive director of Yahoo! Southeast Asia, told Sai Gon Giai Phong that it would be closed soon but refused to say when; only that it is dependent on bloggers’ progress in moving to other sites like Yahoo! 360 Plus.

While Yahoo! is confusing users with ambiguous announcements and disrupting them with service glitches, Vietnamese bloggers are girding their loins for the day when Yahoo! 360o is no more.

Where can they go?

Most bloggers say they don’t know which sites to trust with their blogs, which Vietnamese or foreign network can give them what Yahoo! 360o has provided for so long.

“At the moment, for Vietnamese bloggers, no social network is a perfect replacement for Yahoo! 360o,” says Phan Dang Dung, former marketing director of an online social network.

Dung says the important thing here is the personal connection, adding that each blogger’s connection to others forms part of a circle. The more famous the blogger, the bigger the circle.

“So, when deciding on a new weblog network, what they care about foremost is whether their circle will follow them or not,” he says.

It’s the reason why most bloggers are yet to choose a new network or start using another one while maintaining their 360o blog, according to Dung, whose blog is widely read.

Some people have turned to Facebook because of its convenient features like speedier photo posting compared to Yahoo! 360o.

Not others, as the most popular online social network in Europe and the US doesn’t let them post long entries like Yahoo! 360o.

Some people have turned to foreign networks like WordPress, Opera, Hi5 and Multiply as they don’t trust local ones like Yume, Tamtay.vn and Yobanbe, which have been accused of revealing users’ personal information and of technical faults that wipe out whole entries.

“I’ve yet to decide where I will concentrate my work,” a blogger who has set up shop at Facebook, WordPress, H5 and Yahoo! 360 Plus told the newswire VnExpress.

Breaking off

As bloggers move away from Yahoo! 360o, it raises a concern that the information-sharing power they have built up by having the one networking website will be dissipated.

“Bloggers have a lot of influence nowadays,” says blogger Nguyen Hong Duc, a student at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages and Information Technology and a freelancer for a public relations outfit.

“A post about a news event with plenty of emotion and personal points of view can attract tens of thousands of readers as it’s much more interesting than a brief item in a newspaper.”

That is why it isn’t strange for famous bloggers to be invited to press conferences and PR events by the likes of Nokia and Samsung.

After the courting is done, the bloggers post informative entries with lots of photos, sometimes with a touch of humor, sometimes with plenty of criticism. Such posts can draw thousands of comments from readers.

Now everything is changing as Yahoo! 360o becomes unstable and people begin moving to other networks, Duc says.

“The efforts of the hot bloggers [to build up a strong channel of information] seem to have been for naught.”

Another authority says it will be a long time before a different online social network in Vietnam can do what Yahoo! 360o has done.

Everlasting love

Many bloggers say they will stick with Yahoo! 360o until it’s dead.

In a poll conducted by VnExpress on April 14, more than half of the 1,743 respondents said they would stay until its last breath, and more than 15 percent said they would stop blogging altogether after the service died.

They remain loyal to Yahoo! 360o despite the problems it’s causing them.

“Blog entries sometimes disappear, making comment can require guerilla tactics, page views suddenly disappear then reappear just as mysteriously, yet few of us want to leave,” says one faithful fan.

“It’s sad to say goodbye to the most popular weblog,” writes Andre in a post. “It’s painful to think I won’t be able to read such valuable entries after Yahoo! 360o closes down.”

Another poster even writes, “I’ll stay where I’ve found all of you, where I’ve experienced moments of peace and smiles of satisfaction, until the very last moment.”

Source: TT, TP