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[leecs]

hi! i need help on this. thanks

"em ngu roj. co gj ngay mai yahoo. bye bye anh."

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by leecs

hi! i need help on this. thanks

"em ngu roj. co gj ngay mai yahoo. bye bye anh."

I think she typed a few wrong characters.

"em ngu roi" = She slept already.

"Co gj", I dun understand . "co gj ngay mai yahoo" is "XXX tomorrow yahoo".

[lordstriker]

Originally Posted by jackbl

What are u doing in sgp? Working or studying?

Maybe u can first talk about the holiday of Vietnam... How about the coming one 30 Thang 4? What is its significance?

Oh 30 April is a sort of Victory Day. 30 April 1975 North Vietnam (Viet Cong) saw a defeated of South Vietnam government ( actually under America). It marked the fall of Saigon. From there, North and South were united under 1 country, Social Republic of Vietnam. And it was also the end of the war with America.

However, many south ppl didnt like to be under communist rule. Many fled to overseas. So to many Vietnamese refugee, 30 April is the day of losing their own nation. So while many mainland Vietnamese celebrate the day, many other oversea Vietnamese would show their hatred, sorrow, not to the country but to the current government.

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by leecs

hi! i need help on this. thanks

"em ngu roj. co gj ngay mai yahoo. bye bye anh."

Originally Posted by naemlo

I think she typed a few wrong characters.

"em ngu roi" = She slept already.

"Co gj", I dun understand . "co gj ngay mai yahoo" is "XXX tomorrow yahoo".

co gj = co gi

translate: "got anything, tomorrow yahoo"

for sms, the letter 'i' is number '4'. need to press 3 times. So to make it easy, they use 'j' which is the number '5'. press once is enough

a shorter for: e ngu r, co j n mai yahoo.

nowadays younger vn gals like to use alot short-cut or short form especially those who chat online alot. Sometimes really difficult to catch what they means

[lordstriker]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

co gj = co gi

translate: "got anything, tomorrow yahoo"

for sms, the letter 'i' is number '4'. need to press 3 times. So to make it easy, they use 'j' which is the number '5'. press once is enough

a shorter for: e ngu r, co j n mai yahoo.

nowadays younger vn gals like to use alot short-cut or short form especially those who chat online alot. Sometimes really difficult to catch what they means

Yup, 9X people like to replace letter "i" by "j" , "c" by "k"

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

nowadays younger vn gals like to use alot short-cut or short form especially those who chat online alot. Sometimes really difficult to catch what they means

Quite short short, all so short.... I having difficulty with SYT too.

[leecs]

Thanks guys for your help...

[VietnamLover]

Chao lordstriker. Ban khoe ko? Rat vui gap ban o day. Ban la nguoi mien bac hay mien nam? Ban co cong viec o Singapore?

[jackbl]

How abt yourself? Which province u come from? U working in spore?

Originally Posted by VietnamLover

Chao lordstriker. Ban khoe ko? Rat vui gap ban o day. Ban la nguoi mien bac hay mien nam? Ban co cong viec o Singapore?

[jackbl]

Staying home
======================

The economic downturn is reflected in the declining number of well-heeled parents sending their children to study at foreign schools and universities.


Fewer young people are going overseas to study as the global economic crisis eats into the budgets of the well-off.

From June 2008 to March 19 this year, the number of applications at the US consulate for a student visa and study permit was down by 13 percent from a year earlier, according to the consulate’s visa department.

The firms that arrange and advise on foreign study say they have 30-50 percent fewer clients than in the second half of last year.

Academic Service Cooperation International in Hanoi has seen its clientele decrease by 20 percent as fewer people in finance and real estate opt to send their offspring abroad, according to the firm’s director, Nguyen Dang Hien.

“When we ask them why, they say their plans have changed and that they will wait one or two years at least,” Hien said.

Saigontourist’s foreign study department has suffered much worse as its numbers are down by more than half, according to department chief Le Hoang Tuan.

Like the Academic Service in Hanoi, Tuan’s firm has seen a “dramatic decrease” in the number of real estate and finance professionals coming to his door.

Higher university fees, rent and living expenses are making many families reconsider sending their children overseas.

Yet, despite the overall drop in numbers, one area is still growing: the traditional client with a long-term view, Tuan said.

Some people are making the most of the economic downturn and the extra free time that comes with it to study abroad for a higher degree or simply to expand their knowledge, Tuan said.

“In this economic downturn, it’s hard for young people to land decent jobs,” said Thanh Vinh, a parent from the northern province of Hai Duong.

“Letting them study abroad is a way for both parents and children to make the most of this difficult time.

“They’ll be able to find better jobs after they finish studying overseas,” said Vinh, whose son is studying business administration in Singapore.

Le Binh from the northern province of Hai Phong sent his daughter to Australia to study information technology.

“It’s a waste to sit at home and hope for something to turn up,” Binh said.

MD Solutions director Trang Dao said the crisis was leading young people to opt for finance, risk management, banking and business administration.

Thanh Tra, who is heading overseas soon to study risk management, thinks her chosen field holds much promise given the instability of Vietnam’s economy at the moment.

“By taking it as my major, I won’t be worried about my future after graduation, especially if the economy is on the mend,” she said.

Eagerness to study abroad is well and good but it has to contend with higher school fees and the reduced chance of getting part-time employment while studying at university.

That’s why more young people are going to countries where it’s relatively cheap to live for the first year or two of university, before finishing their degrees in Europe or the US, according to Hien and Tuan.

It explains the higher number of Vietnamese students in Singapore and China these days.

In China, for example, annual university fees range from US$2,000 to $4,000 and are a fraction of the cost in the US or Japan.

Some 1,200 Vietnamese were studying in China in 2003. Since then, the number has swelled to nearly 5,000, according to the Chinese Embassy.

Singapore is certainly more expensive, averaging more than $11,000 a year, but it’s still a lot less than Britain, where the average annual fee for university works out at around $18,650.

Some 4,000 Vietnamese are studying in Singapore. According to Singapore’s consulate in Vietnam, this figure will grow by as much as 50 percent annually in the coming years.

Source: TN, TBKTSG

[jackbl]

No room at the inn
===========================

With two public holidays followed by the weekend coming up, so many people want to take vacations that travel agents are swamped beyond their ability to please everyone.


No more hotel rooms are available, tour operators have no empty seats to fill, and most travel companies are turning down booking requests.

There’s no sign of the slowing economy, what with hordes of people rushing to book a four-day vacation from Thursday’s Liberation Day through Friday’s Labor Day to Sunday evening.

Tour operators in Ho Chi Minh City say they have booked up to 15 percent more customers than last year, when the public holidays fell on Wednesday and Thursday.

Tran Doan The Duy of Vietravel says all the places on his company’s package tours to Beijing-Shanghai, Singapore and South Korea have been taken.

Fiditour, which is just as inundated with requests, is arranging more tours to Singapore and Malaysia as the firm’s scheduled trips to the two countries are full.

Saigontourist has seen a surge in domestic tour reservations too, partly because many people have canceled trips to Thailand because of the political troubles there, according to the travel firm’s Lam Tu Khoi.

Tours from Can Tho City to Phu Quoc Island, Da Lat, Nha Trang and Hoi An are booked out, Luu Nguyen Anh Thu of Saigontourist’s Can Tho branch told Tuoi Tre on Sunday.

In the opposite direction, travel agents have booked more than 1,000 people into Can Tho’s My Khanh Village, which is described as an “ecotourism hotspot of the Mekong Delta.”

In Kien Giang Province to the south, the hotels and guest houses on Phu Quoc Island have been flooded with requests for accommodation since early this month, and most of the hotels have run out of empty rooms.

In south-central Binh Thuan Province, director Lam Quang Hien of the local tourism department said on Sunday that “it’s too late to book a hotel room now.”

His department has ordered hotels and other lodgings in the province to keep their rates unchanged and improve their service.

Oddly enough, some small hotels in Binh Thuan have actually knocked 10-30 percent off their normal room tariffs.

Hien thinks the number of holidaymakers spending the four days in Phan Thiet, Rom Island or La Gi Beach will jump by 7 percent from last year to more than 53,000.

Rom Island Resort took more than 1,200 group and individual bookings a month ago, according to the resort’s general manager, Nguyen Van Tho.

“The only thing left for us to do is welcome the visitors,” Tho said.

Since Sunday, all phone calls and emails to the multitude of hotels in Da Lat have been answered with an apology that there’s no room left.

There are some 600 hotels in the highland city yet room reservations began flooding in two months ago, even though some hotels have doubled their rates.

Hotels in Da Nang have also raised their prices knowing there will be so many visitors desperate for a place to stay.

It’s estimated that 30 percent more people from Hanoi and HCMC will visit the central city this week compared to a year ago.

Every hotel and resort on the Da Nang coast has been booked out, according to Tran Chi Cuong of the local tourism department.

Cuong believes the cable car at Ba Na Mountain alone will attract more than 5,000 tourists this week, and advises people wanting to visit Ba Na to just go for the day as there are far too few guest rooms for everyone.

The town of Hue to the north of Da Nang will be twice as crowded as usual now that all the three-star and cheaper accommodation is taken and the higher-end hotels are up to 80 percent booked.

Leading travel firm Vitour has had to turn down requests to carry tour operators’ customers to the central region. Vitour deputy general director Cao Tri Dung said his company was only accepting individual seat bookings for the long holiday.

There are no seats left on flights from HCMC or mainland Kien Giang to Phu Quoc Island, or on the passenger ferries that operate between the island and the mainland.

On the highways, there will definitely be more buses from HCMC to Vung Tau, Da Lat, Phan Thiet, Nha Trang and Buon Ma Thuot, according to Thuong Thanh Hai, deputy director of Mien Dong Bus Station, the main coach terminus in HCMC.

The city’s Mien Tay Bus Station, which services the Mekong Delta, will use 60 buses to carry the extra passengers to Can Tho and the rest of the region this week, deputy station manager Huynh Hai Oanh said.

Source: TT, TN

[leecs]

Hi! Im sorry. I need you guys help to translate what she replied. Thanks

My sms to her was: Chao buoi sang. Ban khoe khong? Toi khong nhin thay ban vao yahoo messenger hom qua. Toi co the di Vietnam than ke tiep. Khong xac nhan.

Her reply was: Ok. Chao buoi sang. Rat han hanh John den Vietnam nha hong ko co internet. Nen phaj rat tiem net

[jackbl]

I m surprised with your level of vietnamese. You have written some words which i dun understand, clearly your level is above mine. The reply from your fren is simple but u dun know j/k

Hong: Very honoured to have John to be in Vietnam. My house dun have internet so must go internet shop.

Originally Posted by leecs

Hi! Im sorry. I need you guys help to translate what she replied. Thanks

My sms to her was: Chao buoi sang. Ban khoe khong? Toi khong nhin thay ban vao yahoo messenger hom qua. Toi co the di Vietnam than ke tiep. Khong xac nhan.

Her reply was: Ok. Chao buoi sang. Rat han hanh John den Vietnam nha hong ko co internet. Nen phaj rat tiem net

[leecs]

hahaha!!!! i use vdict.com. Direct translation la... My Tieng Viet is 有限工司.

then after a few smses, she replied me this:

"dang yahoo. john internet nha ok. 10g quo di lam."

I only know "10g" is 10 o'clock, "di" is go. the rest im f**ked.....

[ThailandLover]

jackbl, toi la nguoi Singapore, ko phai nguoi Vietnam. Toi da sinh ra va lon len o Singapore. Tat nhien anh lam viec o Singapore.

Originally Posted by jackbl

How abt yourself? Which province u come from? U working in spore?