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Guys can I ask is

Vui dau the same as Ko vui?

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by yummyymym

Guys can I ask is

Vui dau the same as Ko vui?

Pls give the whole sentence and if possible give the context too. If not, Vui dau can be happy head, happy (little) head, happy where, happy pain and many more.

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by yummyymym

Vui dau the same as Ko vui?

I guess vui dau = 哪里开心.

Maybe yesterday night u asked her, during work u know a lot of many, u must be happy? Then she replied u, VUI DAU.

[jackbl]

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VietNamNet Bridge - In many streets in Hanoi, there are products that are sold on the sidewalks, do not need advertising or promotion, but people have to queue to buy them.



Green tea for youngsters

Along a several hundred meter long street are rows of plastic chairs adjacent to each other. They belong to an outdoor lemon tea shop. In the winter, despite strong wind and cold air, groups of young customers still flock to this shop.

"Many people like drinking tea, really! But most of them are the elderly. The young prefer ready-mixed lemon tea glasses. I tried it but its taste cannot compare to that of green tea. It is just different because it has lemon and sugar," Mr. Truong Ngoc Toan, the owner of the above-mentioned lemon tea shop, located at 31 Dao Duy Tu street, Hanoi, explained why he opened this shop, selling green tea with jasmine flavor, mixed with lemon and sugar. This product has become very popular to young people in Hanoi and they also call it "lemon tea."

"We sell coffee for the middle-aged people in the morning, both tea and coffee for civil servants and office workers at noon and lemon tea to teenage in the evening. All seven family members and 20 hired workers are busy all day,” said Truong Ngoc Nam, Mr. Toan’s son.

In the summer, this family sells iced lemon tea and hot lemon tea in the winter, plus taro, green and black bean porridge, processed by Toan’s daughter-in-law. Family members work in shift, from 7am until midnight. Toan also hires the entire pavement in front of his house to arrange tables to serve young customers at night.

Nam is in charge of the shift from 2pm until late evening. This man just returned home from overseas when he was told by his father that nowhere is as good as home. The 30-year-old man gave up the job of a photographer and a model to sell lemon tea.

Nam constantly asked customers what kind of tea they wanted, hot or with ice, sugar or less sugar and said: "To sell tea, I have to talk to customers. Dad taught me that." So it is not strange when children of Toan’s coffee customers in the 80s now come to his shop to drink lemon tea.



Mrs. pickles

A wonan named Mrs. Boong is very famous at Hanoi’s Hang Be market for her pickles. Her real name is Nguyen Thi Hoi, 83. "The name Boong is only used at this market. I do not know why people call me with that name. Boong is the brand of my pickles."

"When I was a child, I got used to the smell of pickles, knew how to distinguish the smell of sour or bitter pickles," she said. When she could hold a small knife, she cut of egg-plant stems to help her mother. Growing up a little more, she could mix saline and wash vegetables. When she was bigger, her mother let her carry a bamboo frame to Hang Be market to sell pickles.

That was the story in the 1940s, until after the country’s reunification in 1975, Mrs. Hoi still sold pickles. She stopped selling pickles for a period of time and resumed it in the late 1980s. She has sold pickles for almost 40 years. Her pickles are very famous at Hang Be district, branded “Mrs. Boong”. She boasted: "All of my four children are university graduates. They have two houses each."

Mrs. Hoi sells pickles and shrimp paste from 6am to 10am. She is replaced by her daughter at 11am. Hoi’s stall is very small but it is always crowded.

Hold back some memories

Luong Van Can Street, Hanoi, has many glass shops so it also has a glass repairman. This glass repairman is named Luong Quoc Phong, the fourth descendant of scholar Luong Van Can. Phong’s workplace is a small corner between two walls of two buildings.

One boy gave him two Rayban glasses, and said: "Please fix it early. The customer wants to get it this afternoon." The boy is an employee of a nearby glass shop.

Phong and his wife work together. His wife receives and returns broken glasses for her husband to repair. Phong’s tools include a small grinder, a light and a box containing meticulous details of glasses.

"I’ve been sitting here for three decades. I learned this job from my father, he said. There are many glass repairmen on Luong Van Can Street, but Phong is the best because he can fix the smallest and most complicated details.

More than 30 years doing this job, tens of thousands of customers went to his shop. One day, an overseas Vietnamese entered the shop with a broken thin-rimmed round glasses. He said he had given it to foreign repairmen but they could not fix it. They advised him to buy a new one but the customer said that this is the glasses of memory. Phong helped him fix the item.

Phong said: "My job sometimes is to retain only memories."

Compiled by M. Lan

[yummyymym]

Originally Posted by vietboy

Pls give the whole sentence and if possible give the context too. If not, Vui dau can be happy head, happy (little) head, happy where, happy pain and many more.

Actually no specific sentence in mind now. Just happen to see it here and there as in using dau as a form of making a word negative.

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by jackbl

I guess vui dau = 哪里开心.

Maybe yesterday night u asked her, during work u know a lot of many, u must be happy? Then she replied u, VUI DAU.

Sorry, din type properly here. Should be "Maybe yesterday night u asked her, during work u know a lot of Customers, u must be happy? Then she replied u, VUI DAU."

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by yummyymym

Actually no specific sentence in mind now. Just happen to see it here and there as in using dau as a form of making a word negative.

Originally Posted by jackbl

Sorry, din type properly here. Should be "Maybe yesterday night u asked her, during work u know a lot of Customers, u must be happy? Then she replied u, VUI DAU."

Adding on to jackbl's decoding:

Guy: hoi toi di LT co vui kg?
Last nite go LT got happy not?

Girl: co vui dau
Where got happy

[jackbl]

When young people have to pay for “showing-off”
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VietNamNet Bridge – The young always want to express and show themselves off, but when they try to prove their personality by odd hobbies, then perhaps it's time for young people to look back.



Passion for photography or half-hearted hobby?

Photography has become a very hot trend for young people today. With a digital camera or a phone with camera function, youngsters can realize their hobby.

For many people, the purpose of hunting beautiful photos is to satisfy their passion, but there are also many people who follow this trend only to ape others.

The idea to become a photographer flashed in the head of N. (20 years old, Hanoi) since his photos were posted on facebook and they were enthusiastically supported by his friends. At first, N took photos by his cell phone, but to have quality pictures, he needed a dedicated camera. This prompted N. "thinking seriously about photographic enthusiasts."

Participating in online photography clubs, N. was advised to "play hard." The young man invested all his money to become an amateur photographer with tripods, lens and accessories such as moisture-proof box, special backpack, external hard drive, etc.

However, not long after that, N. felt sluggish when this pleasure was not only costly but also time consuming. N. offered for sales his cameras and accessories on the Internet.



From hobby to show pictures

Many young people also love to show off their "sparkling" portraits or their presence in somewhere on facebook to get like or comments.

"Photography is a hobby of many people and I have no idea about it. But when I visit monuments and construction works, it is very frustrating that I could not take any photo just because of young people who always surrounded the works to take photo," one commented on a photographic forum.

Some young people have gestures such as kissing, hugging, or climbing on majestic statues to pose for photos.

At the recent Mid-Autumn occasion, toy shops on Hang Ma, Hang Luoc streets in Hanoi and the lantern street in HCM City had to ban young people from standing in front of their stores to take picture. Many shops hang a sign warning: "Not shooting here."

Hunting to monstrous pictures

Recently, a number of online newspapers also reflected a new movement of the youth that make others to shiver of fear. That is the "hobby” of hunting pictures of accidents. With cameras and cell in hand, these people are scrambling to hunt macabre images of accidents, violence ... then post them on the social networks for people to make comments.

The more creepy pictures are, the more photographers show their dedication and skill and the more their pictures attract people’s comments. Every month we also choose the most grisly photos to present awards. The person with most impressive photo will be elected as the chairman and may make recommendations to other members of topics," a young man shared about this frightening trend on a newspaper.

Many people are skeptical about this movement because they cannot imagine that there is a part of young people who have such bizarre thought and behavior. However, just go to Google, people can see hundreds of social networking sites regularly publish and update tragic images of death by a large team of corpse-hunting “photographers”.

Many young people after making "victory" as killing endangered animals, causing deadly accidents, slandered each other show these "achievements" on social networks. In the most recent case, a soldier posted a series of photos on killing a langur on Facebook on July 16.

Before that, a young guy "showed off an achievement” on facebook and was arrested by the authorities. This man, named Nguyen Manh Linh, 21 in Lao Cai province, who has nick name "keo mut choi boi" wrote that he killed an old man on an accident, with words of emotionless, ruthless.

These people are not only criticized by the online community but also have to take responsibility before the law for what they caused. This is a lesson for those who love to express themselves but lack of knowledge, lack of understanding of the law.

Le Hieu

[jackbl]

Odd wedding photos – a new trend
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VietNamNet Bridge - Wedding photo albums in free trend, in Korean, traditional or classical styles have become so familiar. In the wedding season this year, some couples prove their difference by posing in the nude in their wedding pictures.

To make a special impression for her life's most important photo album, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hang, Cau Giay district, Hanoi, put a lot of effort to learn styles of wedding photography from the Internet, from her friends and from wedding photo studios but she still did not find a suitable style.

"There are a lot of wedding photo styles in the market but I want to have a special alternative to get rid of the old familiar style," Hang said.

Once, a friend told Hang about “nude wedding photos.” She decided to talk to her future husband about it. The couple took a wedding album in nude and semi-nude postures.

Just like Hang, Ta Quang and My Phuong, from Tu Liem district, Hanoi, said they just wanted to have “hot” wedding photos to preserve their youthful features. The couple decided to take nude wedding photos to save the most beautiful moment.

"The nude photos will be 'hidden' just for us to enjoy. Some semi-nude pictures, which are approved by our parents, will be added to the wedding photo album," My Phuong said.

Photo studios are now very "open". They are ready to shoot semi-nude photos at customer requests.

In addition to shoot nude wedding photos, many coupled go abroad for taking wedding pictures.

Mr. Phong, manager of Melia Photo Studio, Dong Da District, Hanoi, said these couples usually takes a photographer with them and the cost for such an album is tens of thousands of USD.

According to Phong, many couples who are not rich but they have their own ways to take “unique” wedding photos in the countryside, at night, or in old costumes, traditional costumes, etc.

Compiled by Nam Nguyen

[jackbl]

Ticket price for Hoi An ancient town rises
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The price of a ticket to enter the ancient town of Hoi An was increased by 30% on November 1, as announced by Quang Nam province’s authorities.

According to the new regulation, which officials say will secure all the relics and vestiges, the price is VND120.000 (US5.76)/ 6 visited relics, replacing the former price of VND90.000 (US$4.32)/ 5 visited places. This equates to VND20.000 (US$0.96) per visited place per person.

The province also listed places where tourists will need to have a ticket to gain admission, including Cau Pagoda, Cam Pho Temple, local museums, ancient houses, the XQ embroidery workshop and tombs of Japanese businessmen Gusokukun, Tani Yajirobei and Banjaro, and a few other locations.

In related news, since April, the ticket price for the ancient citadel of Hue has also doubled. The price for getting into the royal palace and the tombs of the Tu Duc, Minh Mang and Khai Dinh Kings has increased from VND55,000 ($2.2) to VND80,000 ($4) per person, while ticket prices for museums, the Hon Chen and An Dinh palaces and the tombs of the Dong Khanh and Thieu Tri Kings has risen from VND22,000 ($1.1) to VND40,000 ($2).

[jackbl]

Child sex tourism in Vietnam a worry
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Child sex tourism is a worry among law enforcement bodies in Vietnam when recent cases of child sex crimes have been discovered. Even worse, the current law system has failed to define child sex tourism clearly.

The phrase has not yet been mentioned adequately in any regulation or law, said Khong Ngoc Oanh from the criminal police bureau of the Ministry of Public Security at a conference on fighting child sex tourism held on October 30 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The conference was attended by delegates from Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, host Vietnam, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

“Child sex abuse cases in Southeast Asian nations have a tendency to increase in recent years with complexity. Some cases have shocked the community,” said Lieutenant General Phan Van Vinh – chief of the Police General Department.

However, colonel Ho Sy Tien, chief of the Criminal Police Bureau, and Zhuldyz Akisheva, UNODC country director in Vietnam, both commented that not many such cases have been uncovered in Vietnam.

The most notable belonged to English ex-pop star Gary Glitter, who was sentenced in 2006 to three years in prison for committing obscene acts with two underage girls in Vietnam.

Since then, Vietnam has become ‘clean’ from the child sex tourism.

Colonel Tien noted that criminals may either find girls or boys by themselves or through a certain ring. They may also hire children to make pornographic films and photographs.

This month, Tuoi Tre investigative journalists discovered a ring supplying dozens of schoolboys as young as eight to homosexual men in Ho Chi Minh City, charging them US$50 for oral sex and $100 for anal intercourse.

Customers of the ring come from different walks of life, from students in the city to foreigners. They usually demand ‘hot boys with fair skin and undeveloped sexual organs’.

Colonel Tien admitted police have encountered many challenges in investigating cases of child abuse tourism, including identifying the age of victims. They have even been offered bribes by the victims themselves who wanted to hush up the shameful incidents.

Many cases involved foreigners, he added.

[jackbl]

Air tickets for Tet selling like hot cakes
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Although many airliners have announced increases on the number of air tickets available for flights before and after the Tet holiday, or the Lunar New Year, a large number of customers say they cannot buy the tickets despite booking early.

National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) announced on November 1 that it started selling tickets for Tet, shortly after which economic class tickets for flights in the “prime period” - a week before the Lunar Eve on February 10, 2013 - were sold out.

“I visited VNA website in the early morning but there were only business class tickets available at nearly VND5 million (US$240) each,” said Pham Van Son, a Ho Chi Minh City’s District 9 resident.

It was not until 4pm on the same day that Son was informed by an airline agency that tickets for economic classes were finally available, though at a higher fare than last year.

Airliners said tickets for several flights during daytime have been sold out, and there are now only those for services between 2am and 5am a week before the New Year’s Eve.

“We have a very long list of customers booking for Tet tickets, and those coming late cannot even have a chance to get them, even at high prices,” said a VNA’s level-one agency.

The carriers also said they will not sell tickets in large quantities for fear of scalping.

“Jetstar Pacific has launched its first ticket selling, and there will be two to three sale sessions in the future,” said deputy CEO Ta Huu Thanh.

Airfares for most of the busy services have also soared, passengers said.

“Round ticket for the HCMC – Hanoi service now costs VND6.1 million, while last year it was only VND5.7 million,” said Nguyen Dai Phong from Hanoi.

Analysts said the fares were increased to help the airliners recoup for the north-south directions.

Flights from HCMC to Hanoi and the northern localities are always full, while the seat occupation rates for the return flight are only 30 to 50 percent, they said.

[jackbl]

Bad practices: Burying infant alive with their dead mothers
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VietNamNet Bridge - Infants are not only buried alive if their mothers unfortunately die during the labor process. Under the "dọ-tơm-amí" unsound customs, many infants who are still breast-fed are difficult to get rid of "death" if their mothers die. This backward practice still exists in the Central Highlands.

The Central Highlands is the home to many ethnic groups such as Xedang-, Brau, Ede, M”nong, Jrai, Gie Trieng, Bana, etc. but the above bad practices is prevalent among the Bana and Jrai – the two gentle, peace-loving ethnic groups who highly appreciate life of both humans and animals.

Life after life, the old Bana and Jrai people always remind their children to not kill pregnant animals when they go to hunting in the jungle, because such killing is killing both the mother and the baby and it is cruel. The violators will be severely punished by their villages. Yet the bad practices "dọ-tơm-amí" reflects the opposite.

The Jrai and Bana people are very friendly and rich in love. They are willing to invite strangers to drink, eat barbecue or join their banquets of mystical gongs. In their daily life, they clearly show their respect to the elder and tolerance to the subordinates and their hospitality. They especially love children, especially the children who are still breast-fed.

At Dip village, Ia Kreng commune of Chu Pah district, Gia Lai province, Ro-cham Luih, 76, a Jrai woman explains that the children who are still breast-fed is in great concern and attention because they are weak, they cannot take care of themselves. In the absence of adult attention, they will die of lacking milk, diseases or attacks of wild animals.

Many old people in the district of Kong Choro, Gia Lai province, revealed that through generations, Jrai and Bana people have attached great importance to the birth. Couples always try to have as many as children because they think that by the more children they have, the happier their families are. Their families will have more people to do work.

Village patriarch Bok Nham (Bana) said that for that reason, infertile couples are worried because when they are old they will not have children to take care of them. "There are villages who believe that there are many children, their clans will be more crowded and more powerful," he said.

For this reason, having children and educating them is considered very important to Jrai and Bana women. This means that during pregnancy, the future mothers will have to undergo rigorous abstinence and Yang (god) worship rituals to pray for a healthy unborn child. The ritual to wish for easy child delivery is held at the third month of pregnancy, called abdominal massage ritual. Three months later, another ritual is held to wish for easy birth.

The ancient customary law strictly forbids and condemns woman from abortion. If abortion is discovered, that immoral act will be charged as idleness (not wanting a child), being cruel and such women will certainly be blamed and in contempt by their villagers. Yet why do they ruthlessly burry alive infants when their mothers die?

About 10 km from Kon Tum town center is Dak-Ro-Wa commune, where there are many old villages of Bana and Xedang people.

In the village of Kon JoDri, when being asked about the "dọ-tơm-amí" customs, many Bana women shuddered.

Ms. Y Pla, 45, who has 5 children, nodded confirmation that this customs is real, not rumors. Ms. Y M’ Lang, 78, in Kon Klor Village said firmly: "If the mother dies, the child is taken to the ghost forest with the mother. If the mother dies, the child must die with her."

Asking many of the elderly of Jrai and Bana ethnic groups about this customs, they only gently smiled and shook their head, saying that they did not know when the customs began. They only knew that this customs has been transmitted from generation to generation.

Under the pressure from the villages, most fathers do not dare to fight to protect their babies. They neglect the babies to be buried with their dead wives.

Mrs. Y M”lang said not only infants are buried alive if their mothers unfortunately passed away while being in labor but also breastfeeding babies are difficult to escape the "death" if their mother die. Depending on each village that the child who is convicted of "dọ-tơm-amí" is buried alive or abandoned in the ghost forest. Then if the baby does not die from exhaustion, the child will die of being bitten by snakes or being eaten by wild animals.

Elderly people who perhaps witnessed or involved in this customs simply explained that by living in deep forest where the life is inherently poor and harsh, if the mother dies, a baby without being breastfed will die of hunger so people believe that the "dọ-tơm-amí" customs will help the child goes to the world of ghost where he/she will be better care by his/her mother.

Just because of that simple and childish thinking that when their mothers died, over the years, a lot of kids died unfairly, cruelly. Although older people said the bad practices "dọ-tơm-amí" has been abandoned in their villages for a long time, but just think of the scene that innocent children were brought to the forests with wild animals and so many uncertainties that many people could not help but shudder.

CAND

[jackbl]

Gender gap likely to leave 2-3 million VN men unmarried
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Vietnam may have 2-3 million men left unmarried due to the increasing gender disparity in the nation, especially over the last two years, as the result of sex discrimination.

Last year, the gender ratio at birth in Vietnam was 111.9 boys over 100 girls. And the gap has widened further in the first months of this year, with 112.3 boys over 100 girls, said Duong Quoc Trong, chief of the General Office for Population Family Planning, at the national conference on gender gap at birth held in Hanoi on November 3.

80 percent of localities have an alarming gap, he added. Two northern provinces, Hai Duong and Hung Yen, have a gap of over 120 boys / 100 girls.

Representative of the United Nations Population Fund proposed at the meeting that Vietnam should work out measures such as giving subsidies to school girls and supporting families of girls, and carry out effective policies for social welfare to restore gender balance at birth.

Vietnam has set up a target to lower the gender gap at birth to 113 / 100 by 2013 and 115 / 100 by 2015.

Otherwise, it is forecast that Vietnam will have 2-3 million unmarried men in the future. The imbalance may create social pressure and behavioral problems in the community.

[jf66312]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Sorry, din type properly here. Should be "Maybe yesterday night u asked her, during work u know a lot of Customers, u must be happy? Then she replied u, VUI DAU."

hihi...anh jack hav hangover from last night??