Vứt bỏ những thứ không cần thiết

Đầu năm tranh thủ thời gian dọn dẹp lại ví tiền. Xem ra trong thế giới tưởng chừng như yên lặng đó có biết bao nhiêu thứ lặng thầm đi theo mình bao nhiêu ngày qua mà không để ý. Nhiều nhất là những name card có đến của trên 100 người. Thêm một số biên lai đóng học phí thời còn học đại học Báo chí. Thêm vài thẻ ngân hàng, thẻ thư viện, thẻ đọc sách, thẻ truy cập internet của trường đại học... đều đã hết hạn. Tất cả đều được nhanh chóng cho vào một góc kín của hộc bàn. Nơi khuất tầm mắt và cũng ít bao giờ được để ý tới. Những gì không còn thiết thực nữa thì cần phải được vứt đi hoặc thay thế. Để xem khoảng bao nhiêu thời gian nữa mình mới hết hồn: "Trời ơi, trước đây sao mình lại bỏ những thứ đó ta?". Có lẽ là không bao giờ! Vì suy đi, ngẫm lại, mình có trăm nghìn cách tiếp cận với những người đã đưa cho mình name card mà không phải khư khư giữ đống name card đó 24/24 trong ví tiền. Thời đại công nghệ thông tin mà. Muốn gì lên mạng tìm kiếm. Tất cả đều có sẵn.

Rút ra được một bài học nho nhỏ trong ngày hôm nay: Cuộc sống càng đơn giản càng tiện lợi. Đôi khi ôm đồm vào người quá nhiều thứ cứ nghĩ là thuận lợi cho mình hóa ra lại chuốc lấy thêm phiền phức. Cũng như mình đã cố tình giữ đống name card đó trong ví tiền ít ra cũng 2 - 3 năm nay mà chưa một lần dùng tới. Cuộc sống, đôi khi phải học cách vứt bỏ một số thứ để ta có thể nhẹ nhàng mà đi nhanh hơn. Không biết điều này bao nhiêu năm sau nữa vẫn còn đúng với mình. Ít ra là trong thời điểm hiện tại, mình đã chấp nhận vứt bỏ rất nhiều thứ mà vẫn chưa thấy ảnh hưởng gì đến cuộc sống. Xem ra trong thời gian tới, một khoảng thời gian tương đối khó khăn khi quay lại ghế giảng đường đại học Kinh tế - Luật, bài học về sống đơn giản và sự vứt bỏ cần được mình thực hành đi, thực hành lại nhiều hơn. Ngày mai sẽ là một ngày bận rộn với nhiều việc cần làm!

31.01.2012
Hồ Quốc Nam
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Taking photographs of my family members

Memory is something you can’t buy not only with your own money. It is the felling of happiness and long time has been gone we feel inside. That is the fact that we all share. And of course, it would be very precious when you find old pictures of your relatives, your friends, especially your family members. On Tet holidays, I had a chance to take photographs of my family members, so I did it desperately in my way.

My mother come back home after got a phone call from me asking she returned for taking photographs with other family members. First, I didn’t know how I could take a picture having me and my family members inside. Then I took one for them, then one another with different angle. The two would all be stored in my computer and my blog for long. Thanks to luck, a girl went by helped us do the remained work. However, she was not a good camera shooter, so the photographs weren't as beautiful as expected.

Actually, the power resource of the camera is very bad. It just took about three photographs, then it ran out of power. A couple of battery cost 10.000VND. At the end, I had about 100 photographs. Can you guess how much money that I spent on camera using? For a pose, we had to take more than one shot at the same position and angle. Lots of them were deleted because they were blurred due to bad camera shooting.

The main problem is if you just take photographs then save them in your computer, one day, all of them will be vanished when your computer burnt out. So I decided to develop films. It cost 2.700VND for each picture with a plastic cover. I developed 73, so it took more than 200.000VND. With 360.000VND for two couple of new rechargeable batteries, totally I spent 560.000VND. At the end of this month, for sure, I don’t have any cents in my pocket. But that’s okay, beautiful memory is worth it!

31st January, 2012
Ho Quoc Nam
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Hình ảnh gia đình

 

31.01.2012
Hồ Quốc Nam
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The day I met An Thi

Six months from the day I met one of the most special girls in my life. We met at a coffee shop in Thu Duc. The place I nearly spent two years of my freshman and sophomore's time in university but hardly stayed in a coffee shop in this area. I clearly remember that day she wore a brown long-sleeved T-Shirt. In this first time, she appeared to be a virtuous girl. Just smiled kindly, just kept silent when I and her brother Tien Thanh talked about the students' lives in college and about her own college life. For her, we are predecessors who have more experience and know how to handle the complex college life. Later I knew she is the oldest daughter of Tien Thanh's high school mathematics teacher.

Time went by, I became familiar with the girl I met just in the weekend after every week of working hardships. From this day, every time I went far away this city, I bought for her a special gift which I thought she would love it. I used to talk to Tien Thanh: "I just want she to feel happy. That's all!". And I didn't know whether or not she loved it but I could see she always smiled kindly and said "thank you" when took it. I hope these souvenirs would come along with her life for a long time. And maybe one day, when we don't have chance to talk face to face, she still remembers that we used to have a good time together.

About three months after the first meet, when I had a chance to visit her house. I met her family members: her father, her mother, her younger sister and her infant brother. I told her all about that even the story how I caressed her infant brother. From this day, after we met together, I gradually recognized that she had a charming voice when I talked to her on the phone, she had a lovely face when I glanced at her but she didn't notice it. Tien Thanh told me An Thi had a lovely face, and he thought she would be very, very pretty when she knew how to make up. I just laughed through the phone: "Are you sure?". Just kidding, because if I love her, it is not because she is pretty, just because she is virtuous.

It's really a coincidence, the day she took the final examination in her first semester in university and already well-prepared for her coming home, we met again with just three persons: I, her and Tien Thanh. I recommended we should go for the coffee shop where we met the first time but Tien Thanh refused. I didn't know why but I thought I was so lucky and happy because once again we sat together and it might be the last night she was in Saigon before going to her hometown. That's something told me we are also special as we think that of her.

To this day when I am writing this entry for her, she is now being near her family. Maybe she never knows that I used to write a blog post for her. Maybe she never reads this blog post. But I just write it as part of my life, part of my time involved one of special girls I used to love and give my care to. I don't make any phone call because I think at the present, she is now living happily along with her family members. Hope all good things will come to her!

February 17th, 2012
Ho Quoc Nam
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Hình ảnh Tất niên L.A.S.T.A năm 2011

 

17.01.2012

Hồ Quốc Nam

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