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[jackbl]

Originally Posted by vietboy

There's xao lon & xao cat & xao cu chim too!

What xao cat????!!! Is it xạo cặc???

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by volcano

OMG...u really dunno or u trying to xao others...

Which xao is it??? Is it xạo???

xạo = unreliable

sạo = to tell tales

So which one more correct????

[jackbl]

Saigon at a glance
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Okay, you are a visitor to Saigon and you only have 24 hours free time on your hands. What is the best way of spending that time in this historical and vibrant city?

Well, the options are endless but here are some pointers in the right direction. You have arrived with most tourists heading to hotels in District 1. Well the first port of call should be Saigon Notre-Dame.

Cathedral in Cong Xa Paris Square in downtown HCMC. It is a real landmark and it is a quick in and out trip. Short and sweet and of course free. Next up should be the Reunification Palace on Nam Ky Khoi Nghia. For a small fee of around three dollars you can visit the former home of the President of South Vietnam and one of the locations.

Not only is it a journey back in time but you get a wonderful view of the tree-lined street of Le Duan with its French design obvious.

A short five minute journey from there is the War Remnants Museum which is not for the fainthearted. The horrors of Agent Orange and U.S. bombing missions during the American War are evident and hard-hitting. A very sombre trip but one which I think all tourists to the city must make, if they have any interest at all in the country they are visiting.

From there you can head down to Cach Mang Thang Tam Street and the new statue of Buddhist Monk Thich Quang Duc who burned himself to death to make a political statement about the treatment of Buddhist Monks in the early 1960s in District 3.

If you want to see the Chinese part of town from there it is a short journey to Cholon in District 5 and 6. There is the former premises of the Le Grande Mondial which was the most profitable casino in the world during the 1950s and straight up the road from there is St Francis Xavier church (Father Tam church) in Hoc Lac Street where former President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem was captured during the military coup in November 1963 before his execution.

After all that history you will want to relax a little and heading to Saigon Pho 2000 which is ideally located next Ben Thanh Market in downtown for a bite to eat. Then you can do a spot of shopping and wheeling and dealing.

There is of course high end and low end shopping facilities located throughout Le Loi Street and cafes aplenty for your downtime.

The Rex Hotel is the most famous location in the city. It was a popular haunt of journalists and U.S. servicemen during the American War.

The top floor restaurant and bar is a must for any visitor to Saigon. There is live music among all your other necessities but it is more than that. You can feel the history as you sit there with a nice view of the city.

Of course you can be very bold and forget about the city tour and instead go to the popular Cu Chi Tunnels with buses running regularly or you can hire a motorbike and take the two hour journey there. Word of warning, though, it can be dangerous if you are inexperienced on a bike. The great thing about this part of the nation’s history is that it has been turned into a fun area with groups of Vietnamese and tourists alike taking in the historical aspect and having a picnic at the same time with a lot of green areas in the complex.

SGT

[jackbl]

Awful hobbies of teens
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VietNamNet Bridge – Flaying tattooing and listening to music that causes bloodcurdling sensations are hobbies that harm physical and mental health of Vietnamese teenagers.

i-dosing - the kind of music that is mixed by sharp explosive noise – is considered “digital drug.” When listening to this music, listeners will fee scared and satisfied.

“This kind of music can be mixed by specialized software. I tried and I was shocked. The feeling was indescribable. Young people can be highly addicted to this kind of music,” says Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hieu, director of an audio company in Hanoi.

This so-called i-dosing is apparently a new form of digital drug that are audio files designed to induce drug-like effects.

In Vietnam, i-dosing is shared among youngsters on social networks. Despite warnings of harmful effects when listening to i-dosing on websites, the number of people who download i-dosing is rising remarkably.

“My friends talked a lot about i-dosing. I downloaded it from the Internet and tried. It made me dazzled, giddy and buzzing in my ears,” one wrote on an online forum about his first experience with i-dosing.

Meanwhile, many teens commented: “that’s music!”, “music must be strong and make me blow up”, “to be more satisfied with i-dosing, you should use headphones that cover your entire ears and sit on a dark room, alone.. Many teens wrote that once they listened to i-dosing, they did not want to enjoy ‘lighter’ music.

This kind of music has been warned to harm listener’s health in many countries in the world.

Some teens favor flaying tattoos. To have tattoos of this type, people have to accept extreme pain. Tattoo makers use specialized knives to flay pieces of skin. After that they cover with chemicals over it or to let these wounds to become scars, which emerge as terrified patterns. To have such tattoos, many teens went to Thailand.

Mr. Nguyen Tien Hai, a senior tattoo maker, said that Vietnamese tattoo makers are not skilled enough to make these kind of tattoos. Only rich people can get such tattoos by going to Thailand or Taiwan.

Nam Nguyen

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by jackbl

What xao cat????!!! Is it xạo cặc???

Originally Posted by jackbl

Which xao is it??? Is it xạo???

xạo = unreliable

sạo = to tell tales

So which one more correct????

sao is correct. so it shld be sao cat instead. there is no such word as xao cac

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by vietboy

so it shld be sao cat instead. there is no such word as xao cac

What is cat???

[Pohchuan]

Originally Posted by vietboy

yur si beh xiong = si beh 凶 or si beh 爽??

Tuy cac em ay, thinh thoang "si beh 凶", doi khi "si beh 爽". If they use difficult words, qua 凶, mot it 爽. If they start to flirt, it becomes 爽 lam, 凶 chut.

[CptCum]

I want to go wet-nam to hôn và ôm cô gái xinh đẹp!!!

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by jackbl

What is cat???

Cat literlly mean con chim
Anh hieu chet lien chua?

[jackbl]

People who sell blood to support their families
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VietNamNet Bridge – In Vinh City in the central province of Nghe An, there are over 20 people whose main source of income comes from selling their blood.

“We earn our living by selling our blood. Calling it a job but we are reluctant to sell our blood. Though our blood is quite washy, we only sell safe blood. We never cheat anybody,” Mr. Tinh says about his ‘job.’

Born in Ninh Binh in northern Vietnam, Tinh and his mother left their hometown to Vinh city after a family event. They became stevedores at the Vinh Railway Station. Tinh got married with a poor girl and had several children. At that time, the railway station re-organized stevedoring system and Tinh was unemployed. The man became a waste collector while his wife turned into a blood seller.

Income from collecting waste was not enough to support his family; Thinh has joined the team of professional blood sellers.

In 2000, Tinh’s wife died. The man has still lived with “blood selling job” to bring up his children. “Thanks to this job, my children can go to school. I hope that they will not have to do this job like me and my wife,” Tinhs aid.

Next to Tinh’s tent, in the hamlet of porters in Vinh City, is the tent of Ms. Thuy, Tinh’s sister-in-law, who has also sold her blood for 30 years.

“I have done this job for 30 years. I want to give up but I cannot. Sometimes my daughter called me from her school to ask for money. I was short of cash so I had to go to hospital to sell blood,” Thuy said.

The hamlet of Tinh and Thuy is called the hamlet of blood sellers because most of residents there earn their living from selling their blood.

In the hamlet, Ms. Hien is a senior blood seller. She is respected by locals for selling her blood to support her daughter who is studying at a medical university.

Hien was born in the central province of Thanh Hoa. After being forsaken by her husband 25 years ago, the woman left her hometown to Vinh city with her three children. No home, no money, the woman went to Vinh Hospital to sell her blood.

“That was 1987. I received only VND32 the first time I sold my blood. Tears came to my eyes but my heart got warm when I think of a meal for my children and I could pay rent on time,” Ms. Hien recalled.

Since then, whenever she had to pay rent, when her children were sick, when her children had to pay school fees… the woman went to hospital.

Ms. Hien and other blood sellers had to go to many hospitals to sell blood because hospitals only purchase blood from the same seller after each three months.

“Selling blood is the last resort for us. Many people fainted after selling blood. Some people are in Thanh Hoa province but they went to Vinh to sell blood,” Hien said.

From her blood, Hien’s children could go to school. One of them is now a medical student. As her children have grown up, the woman has given up this ‘job’. She now sells ice tea in front of Vinh Hospital.

According to blood sellers, to sell blood often, they have to take a lot of iron pills and salted lemon water.

“All professional blood sellers have to take a lot of iron pills but we have our own pride. Our blood is clean, which is tested. Though it is washy, it is safe,” said a blood seller at Nghe An hospital.

These people have new names, which go with their blood types, for example Ms. Thanh A, Mr. Chien A, Mr. Tinh A, Ms. Ngoc O, etc.

Blood sellers in Vinh City have grouped up to become a community who are willing to help each other.

Dr. Nguyen Hoang Cat, deputy director of the Center for Hematology and Blood Transfusion of Nghe An province, said that in the past, when the source of blood for Nghe An Hospital was scarce, professional blood sellers were the main source and they were managed by cards, granted by the center. However, when the blood donation has developed in Vietnam, blood sellers have to go to other hospitals.

Mai Lan

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by vietboy

Cat literlly mean con chim

First time heard about this. Maybe my teacher not good enough.... BTW how to write this word with diacritical mark???

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by Pohchuan

Tuy cac em ay, thinh thoang "si beh 凶", doi khi "si beh 爽". If they use difficult words, qua 凶, mot it 爽. If they start to flirt, it becomes 爽 lam, 凶 chut.

Your level of TV has improved so much that even I also dun understand what u are referring to ..... I need to go up mountain again to continue my study

[ilovedoggie]

Originally Posted by jackbl

I need to go up mountain again to continue my study

your mountain is ks room on high floor right?

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by jackbl

First time heard about this. Maybe my teacher not good enough.... BTW how to write this word with diacritical mark???

According to my bx: Cặt

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Your level of TV has improved so much that even I also dun understand what u are referring to ..... I need to go up mountain again to continue my study

I also catch no ball to he wrote. Maybe i join u in the mountain to study together.