Tieng Viet lovers club

[nozila]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Phu Quoc is a beautiful island in Kiên Giang Province.
Kien Giang is divided into one city (Rạch Giá), one town (Hà Tiên), and twelve districts (huyện) :

An Biên
An Minh
Châu Thành
Giồng Riềng
Gò Quao
Hòn Đất
Kiên Hải
Kiên Lương
Phú Quốc
Tân Hiệp
Vĩnh Thuận
U Minh Thượng

correct

you know your shit

[jackbl]

What is that??? There is something call internet. u can search anything u like

Originally Posted by nozila

correct

you know your shit

[haha_123]

Bro jackbl, I think he meant: You know your STUFF.

[Killer_c]

Need help from bros here.. Recvd a sms: 'chao a buoi sang. lam viec vui ve. hom qua e ngu som kg biet sms cua a'

I sent her a sms wishing her good nite (chuc e ngu ngon)

after translation the sentence shld be: Gd morning, lam viec vui ve. Yesterday I sleep early. din knw u sms me.

Any bro can advice the meaning of 'lam viec vui ve'

Lam: much; many; very; a lot
viec: business, affair job, work incident, occurence matter
vui: joyful
ve: to return, to come back to belong to to follow



Thanks in advance...

[lovesprout]

Originally Posted by Killer_c

Need help from bros here.. Recvd a sms: 'chao a buoi sang. lam viec vui ve. hom qua e ngu som kg biet sms cua a' Thanks in advance...

lam viec = working
vui ve = happy

lam viec vui ve = happy working

[haha_123]

My Vn girlfriend had been pestering me for a new N97 Nokia handphone. So yesterday I got mad and smsed her : Em muon $1000 handphone. Toi so hai va bo chay.
(Meaning : U want a $1000 handphone. I'm scared and run away).

Then she replied : Em k muon $1000 k mua dt nua.
(Meaning : I don't want $1000 and don't want handphone already)

I replied : TOI KG CO TIEN!!!
(Meaning : I HAVE NO MONEY!!)

Then she sms : K co tien thoi co ji dau ma k nghe dt vay

Can any kind brother out there translate this sms for me?
Thanks alot.

Btw, this Vn girlfriend of mine wanted me to buy the newest and latest Nokia handphone to impress her other Vn friends, but at my expense. I'm really getting tired of her antics. Today she asked me out for dinner and go lam tinh after that. I bo-chap her and tell her that I'm already booked by another girl. Actually I'm just going home after work, and said this just to spite her. Haha.....

[VietnamLover]

nozila, welcome to this thread. By the way, are you from Melbourne? I'm sure that there is a lot of Vietnamese people living in Melbourne and perhaps also in Sydney.

[nozila]

Originally Posted by VietnamLover

nozila, welcome to this thread. By the way, are you from Melbourne? I'm sure that there is a lot of Vietnamese people living in Melbourne and perhaps also in Sydney.

I live in syd buddy.

[nozila]

Originally Posted by haha_123

My Vn girlfriend had been pestering me for a new N97 Nokia handphone. So yesterday I got mad and smsed her : Em muon $1000 handphone. Toi so hai va bo chay.
(Meaning : U want a $1000 handphone. I'm scared and run away).

Then she replied : Em k muon $1000 k mua dt nua.
(Meaning : I don't want $1000 and don't want handphone already)

I replied : TOI KG CO TIEN!!!
(Meaning : I HAVE NO MONEY!!)

Then she sms : K co tien thoi co ji dau ma k nghe dt vay


Can any kind brother out there translate this sms for me?
Thanks alot.

Btw, this Vn girlfriend of mine wanted me to buy the newest and latest Nokia handphone to impress her other Vn friends, but at my expense. I'm really getting tired of her antics. Today she asked me out for dinner and go lam tinh after that. I bo-chap her and tell her that I'm already booked by another girl. Actually I'm just going home after work, and said this just to spite her. Haha.....

I'll do my best to translate, the problem with vietnamese girls and guys I suppose is like western countries they also like to use slang or abbrevatives which can make it difficult.
ie dt = dien thoai, k or kg = khong, a = anh, e = em
I guess what Im saying is using these shortened wording can be frustrating to decipher.

Anywho, to what you need help with

"Then she sms : K co tien thoi co ji dau ma k nghe dt vay"

Literal translation is "If no money, so what/doesn't matter, why don't pick up telephone"

I think what she is trying to say, based on the topic on conversation is,
"....If you have no money, that doesnt matter, but why dont you pick up your phone calls". I sense a aggravated/comeback sorta reply.

Hope it helps, sorry for the long post.

[nozila]

Originally Posted by haha_123

Bro jackbl, I think he meant: You know your STUFF.

correct, thats what i meant. nothing more, nothing less.

[jackbl]

Hard hours and low pay – a worker’s long day in IZ
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Doi Moi – ‘economic renovation’ – has brought thousands of factories to Vietnam where production lines run two and three shifts, churning out goods for the world. What’s it like to be one of the millions of young women who work in these IZ (industrial zone) factories?



A quick meal of workers in front of the gate of their factory.

VietNamNet reporters submitted applications and were hired as production line workers by the Year 2000 Electronics Co. in the Linh Trung 1 Export Processing Zone and the Dai Phat Food Co. in the Song Than Industrial Zone in the suburbs of HCM City.

Over the ten days that they worked at the two companies, they learned about the life of female workers in the industrial zones, young women who are becoming spinsters because they don’t have time for their own lives. This is Part I of their investigative report.


Working overtime day and night

9.30 pm. The gates of companies inside the Song Than Industrial Zone open. Thousands of bone-tired workers stream out at the end of a long working day.

Phuong, a woman who works for Dai Phat, pedals her bicycle toward a boarding house, lines of fatigue showing clearly on her young face. She tells the reporters that working overtime has become so familiar to her and her colleagues that whenever she is allowed to go home early, she “feels strange.”

Phuong returns to her 4th floor rented room. The cold walls of the room are bare but for some scrawled words: ‘a worker’s life is sad’ and ‘I’m fed up’ – traces of former occupants. Within minutes, she is asleep, intent on regaining strength for the new working day that starts at 6 am and ends at 9 pm or 10 pm.

“My life is similar to thousands of workers in industrial zones,” Phuong told us. “We choose to leave our homes to make our living, so we have to work hard like buffalo. I know that it is bad for my health if I work overtime everyday but if I don’t, I will not have money left after paying rent and buying my meals to send home to my family”.

Many workers cannot stand the interminable overtime hours so they quit to seek new jobs. That’s why Xuan, 19, a young woman from the central province of Quang Ngai, left Dai Phat. She said that workers in other companies often work overtime for 40-60 hours per month, but the overtime at Dai Phat had been 100-120 hours, month after month. Sometimes workers have had to work until 11 pm, two full shifts.

Having a snap.

The first meal at their work places is an unforgettable memory for new workers. Each gets a tray of food from the company kitchen, rice, soup and a savoury, but the food is cold and made of poor-quality ingredients. There’s not a single piece of vegetable in the soup, the rice is overcooked and hasn’t a bit of aroma. Though you swallow the whole meal, you don’t feel full.

At the DH Footwear Company, a worker named Huyen complained that “they always choose the cheapest fish in the market to cook with a little soy sauce or nuoc mam. Pork is cooked with stinky bamboo shoots and it looks awful. You can wash your hands for three days and still not get rid of the smell.”

“Then they give us rice and dried fish,” Huyen added. “How can we swallow dry rice, dried fish and watery soup? We told each other to to eat that food. But even when we refused it, they didn’t change the menu.”

Though the women work long overtime hours, their income is very low and the meals between shifts are terrible. Workers at some companies have gone on strike to ask for less overtime work and more pay. Employers always promise to change but there is no change at all. Many workers faint because of overwork and lack of nourishing food.

Loan, who works at the AS Garment Company in the Bien Hoa 2 Industrial Zone (Dong Nai), said that the workers’ meal is priced at 9000 dong but its real value is only 5000-6000 dong.



Fainting on the job

Fainting at the workplace has become an ordinary event, because all of the young women must work hard while on short rations.

Everyone at the Song Than baked goods factory is working at top speed, each pair of hands shaping lumps of dough and throwing them onto a conveyer belt. The noise of the machinery is loud and incessant; worker’s ears ring even in their sleep, the smell of yeast lingers in their nostrils.

“Chi, what’s wrong? My God, she’s fainted!” All turn to look at a tall girl who has fallen to the floor, her face turned greenish-white.

Fainting at the workplace has become an ordinary event, because all of the young women must work hard while on short rations. “If you work at an industrial zone, you have to get used to this fact,” said Thao from the Linh Trung EPZ near HCM City City.

All workers are under great pressure to sustain high productivity. They are paid full salary only if they meet their quota. If they do not, their pay will be docked. Worst of all is the constant pressure they feel from team leaders and supervisors to meet the company’s standards and deadlines.

Loan, a worker in the Bien Hoa 2 industrial zone, said that she burst out crying many times because she was scolded by her group leader. “She doesn’t swear, but she speaks harshly and sarcastically. I feel as though she’s whacking me with a hammer, I’m so tired and miserable.”

Many workers have to work during their meal breaks to try to meet the quota. “In my sleep, I still hear my group leader urging me to work harder and harder,” Loan said.

Thai Phuong

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by haha_123

Btw, this Vn girlfriend of mine wanted me to buy the newest and latest Nokia handphone to impress her other Vn friends, but at my expense. I'm really getting tired of her antics. Today she asked me out for dinner and go lam tinh after that. I bo-chap her and tell her that I'm already booked by another girl. Actually I'm just going home after work, and said this just to spite her. Haha.....

Yes, I think you are strong enough to handle Vn gals...cheers...

[jackbl]

Vietnamese people now eat many kinds of dirty food
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VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Health Department has announced it found pseudomonas aeruginosa, a kind of bacteria which causes eye diseases in purified water. Meanwhile, consumers read from foreign newspapers that China-sourced candied and salty dried fruits can cause lead poisoning.

Dried fruits are available at many markets in HCM City

Doctor Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, Head of the Inspection Team of the HCM City Health Department, announced on October 12 that the department found the bacteria in the sample of SuVi bottled drink water (21 litre bottle, manufacturing date September 28, 2009 and expiry date September 28,, 2010) manufactured by Suoi Viet Purified Water Company headquartered in Binh Hung Commune in Binh Chanh district.

Mai said that no microorganism is allowed to contain in any bottled drink water. The noteworthy thing here is that this is for the second time the product of the company is found as having bacteria. This means that the company did not do anything to improve the quality of its products

The HCM City health inspectors have released a decision to temporarily halt the production and business of Suoi Viet Company and forced the company to call back all under-quality products and destroy them.

The HCM City Health Department has also released the decision on halting the production of nearly ten bottled drink water workshops.

On the same day, Vietnamese consumers started when they read from newspapers that the US and Malaysian food control agencies have warned consumers not to eat candied and salty dried fruits originated from China and Taiwan as the products have high lead content which many cause diseases to human.

Tuoi tre newspaper’s reporters, who took a trip around HCM City, found out that foreign made salty and candied dried fruits are selling at many markets in the city, including Ben Thanh in district 1, An Dong and Kim Bien in district 5 and Binh Tay Market in district 6.

A saleswoman at Binh Tay Market said that the dried fruits have been carried from the north. “No one care where they are from, they just buy them because they like them,” she said

Saigon tiep thi’s reporters have also made a quick survey on the market. They said that it is unclear if the products of the 15 companies mentioned in the warnings of the US and Malaysian agencies are available on Vietnam’s market or not. All the products of this kind now available at the markets in the city do not have labels which show the origins and producers.

According to Doctor Pham Xuan Dung, Deputy Director of the HCM City Tumour Hospital, the long use of lead contaminated food will cause chronic kidney, blood and lung diseases and may cause fatality.

[billgates]

Actually u need not refer to yrself as "toi..." which is formal.. eg speaking to a stranger.

When speaking to a gal, u refer to yrslf as "Anh" - eg A kg co tien (in abbreviated sms).

Certain expressions r useful to know:
kg co ji - it's ok
kg van de - no problem (used more in hanoi)

Originally Posted by haha_123

My Vn girlfriend had been pestering me for a new N97 Nokia handphone. So yesterday I got mad and smsed her : Em muon $1000 handphone. Toi so hai va bo chay.
(Meaning : U want a $1000 handphone. I'm scared and run away).

Then she replied : Em k muon $1000 k mua dt nua.
(Meaning : I don't want $1000 and don't want handphone already)

I replied : TOI KG CO TIEN!!!
(Meaning : I HAVE NO MONEY!!)

Then she sms : K co tien thoi co ji dau ma k nghe dt vay

Can any kind brother out there translate this sms for me?
Thanks alot.

Btw, this Vn girlfriend of mine wanted me to buy the newest and latest Nokia handphone to impress her other Vn friends, but at my expense. I'm really getting tired of her antics. Today she asked me out for dinner and go lam tinh after that. I bo-chap her and tell her that I'm already booked by another girl. Actually I'm just going home after work, and said this just to spite her. Haha.....

[nozila]

Vietnamese people now eat many kinds of dirty food

That article is of concern considering clean purified water is very important.

What brand bottled water is reliable to drink? And can the labels be easily switched ie thinking you are drinking one brand not actually you are drinking suvi? yikes...