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Mất vào hồi 2h30' ngày 8/2/2009

Địa điểm:

Tại cửa hàng đá phong thuỷ nhà mình trên đường Nguyễn Thái Học.

Nạn nhân:

Chính là mình.

Tội phạm:

Một gã trung niên, cao khoảng 1m7, mặc đồ bộ đội, to con.

Mất như thế nào:

Mất một cách tức tưởi... Một tên trung niên giả làm khách hỏi mua hàng. Lúc đó mình đang sạc pin để cạnh bàn vi tính. Lúc mình đang gọi điện thì hắn vào ngồi nhìn "tranh".

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Lúc  đó hắn đã cao chạy xa bay rồi...

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Cảm ơn các bạn.

Now I'm typing all these words by myself. I type, not copy/paste.

Ni wen we ai ni you duo shen
You asked how deep do I love you

Wo ai ni you ji fen?
How much do I love you?

Wo de qing ye zhen
My feeling is real

Wo de ai ye zhen
My love also real

Yue liang dai biao wo de xin.
The moons represents my heart.

Ni wen we ai ni you duo shen
You asked how deep do I love you

Wo ai ni you ji fen?
How much do I love you?

Wo de qing bu yi
My feeling doesn't move

Wo de ai bu bian
My love doesn't change

Yue liang dai biao wo de xin.
The moons represents my heart.

Qing qing de yi ge wen
A light light soft kiss

Yi jin da dong we de xin
Already can move my heart

Shen shen de yi duan qing
A short and deep feeling

Jiao wo si nian dao ru jin
Make me never forget you.

Ni wen we ai ni you duo shen
You asked how deep do I love you

Wo ai ni you ji fen?
How much do I love you?

Ni ju xiang yi xiang
You go think for once

Ni ju kan yi kan
You go look for once

Yue liang dai biao wo de xin.
The moons represents my heart.

That's my rough translation for now. Enjoy!

At this time I didn't understand the meaning of each word so I copy from someone else and modify it a little bit to match me, a male.

Here is my version: Ánh trăng nói hộ lòng tôi.

You can also listen to the music (no voice) too, so that you (I) can try to sing this song in Vietnamese. Here:

And this time I want to give a fix to the song and this will make it represent my current love state.

Here is the lyrics of my newly invented song:

Full Moon Represents My Heart

Man yue dai biao wo de xin

Ni wen wo ai ni you duo shen
Wo ai ni you ji fen
Wo de qing ye zhen
Wo de ai ye zhen
Man yue dai biao wo de xin

Ni wen wo ai ni you duo shen
Wo ai ni you ji fen
Wo de qing bu yi
Wo de ai bu bian
Man yue dai biao wo de xin

* Qing qing de yi ge wen
Yi jin da dong wo de xin
Shen shen de yi duan qing
Jiao wo si nian dao ru jin

* Ni wen wo ai ni you duo shen
Wo ai ni you ji fen
* ** Ni qu xiang yi xiang
Ni qu kan yi kan
Man yue dai biao wo de xin

Repeat *

Repeat **

So, what is the difference here? The official was Yue liang dai biao wo de xin. In which, "yue liang" means "the moon". But I changed it to "Man yue" which is "full moon".

That's it. If you have a wonderful love, try to keep it as a "full moon" love, which is a perfect state. I know, "the moon" keep changing it's face every few days, and that really represents reality of love.

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Repeat A + B + C + D

Repeat C (group)

Repeat D + B (main singer)

Last: Đêm ngày anh thầm mong nhớ em nhiều (Night and day I silently miss you so much)

Translated as: Miss you Day and Night

So many days, miss your warmth of your hands
Miss your smile and lovely eyes
Spring ends summer comes, we separated so many moons
I miss you day and night waiting

Blue sky, why lovers have to separate?
Make the flowers die the birds also sad
Sad rain lightly falls, helps me tell you I miss you
Waiting the day you come back next to me

Write on the high sky the words of my love to you
Write the songs to only give just to you
So many days separated, the night sky seems no moon
So many days waiting and missing you make my heart dries

The nights I sleep I dream about you
Fill the words of love and the warm holding arms
You don't know that in a place far away
The sky frame here has me day and night miss you so much.

The road

The road over here is in really good condition. They are new. There is local road (truck road) and high-way for cars. The truck-road is what the import/export transporters can use to pass the border.

The highway here is same as other highway in China, can go up to 120km. It's also clean, wide, 2 lanes, smooth, and quiet.

Check points

If you are driving, then becareful when passing by the check points. I'm not worried about checking because I didn't have any elligal stuff, but be warned. Going from China to Vietnam direction is easy. They didn't check personal car. But the Vietnam-China direction they checked passports. Oh, and those checkers are not the normal customs, they are military solders. 

OK, that's not what you need to worry, I mean traffic jam is. The road to where the Vietnamese furniture market locate is also the road for import/export. On this road, there always is over 3km queue full of trucks and containers. If you drive your personal car to here, you better have a powerful engine because you will need to use "the fast the furious" way of driving. You will need to overtake the queue, and be able to hide when there is incoming traffic.

Products

They have a wide ranges of products here. Their target consumers are Vietnamese from Vietnam, and Chinese from China.

They sell to Chinese the products they import from Vietnam. And they sell to Vietnamese the products they brought from China.

This town belong to China so they don't have to pay export tax for products made in China. However, I beleive they need to pay tax for products from Vietnam. But I'm sure they must have some sort of black market somewhere.

The most noticeable products from Vietnam are rare-wood furniture and water melon. Heh, I noticed furniture because they are big and I see they sell in very large stores and market. Furniture is big so I can see them easily. I saw fruits transported along the road, so that's the second thing I know. The most noticable fruit from Vietnam I saw is water melon. Maybe it's the season of watermelon in Vietnam?

Furniture

Furniture in Pingxiang are all Chinese style.  Most Chinese furniture are imported from Vietnam. The rarest wood is yellow rosewood (huanghuali) followed by Blackwood (suanzhimu).  Because China doesn't produce blackwood, so blackwood furniture is definitely either made in Vietnam, or made in China with suanzhimu wood imported from nearby countries.

In Pingxiang, there are all level of furniture dealers. There are furniture importers, wholesalers and also retailers.

Most importers can speak both Vietnamese and English, and many of them are actually Vietnamese. The importers reside near the boder of Vietnam (20km west of Pingxiang centre). It's much cheaper to buy there, but nearly impossible to get to your home.

Then the next level is the wholesalers, also reside near the border, and in Pinxiang business down town. The problem is that most of them also act as retailers too. So basically, if you buy one or two set, you will be treated as retail customers, and of course the price won't be as low as the wholesale price, and normally is 2 times more than near the border.

The furniture stores in Pingxiang town center are much bigger and well presented then those near the borders. Some are even bigger than the stores in big cities of China. I guess that's because 2 reasons: (1) the land here is much cheaper, (2) they have much more furniture.

Sign-boards

The first noticable thing is the sign-board. Most stores have tri-lingual sign board. They write big words in Chinese, Vietnamese on the left side, and English on the right side. I suppose they all hired the same sign-board maker. That could be the only reason why their sign boards look so similar (if not the same).

 I was suprised they are having English here. I thought no English speaking people would be passing Vietnam-China border.

What made me really laughing is most sign boards have spelling and grammar mistakes for English and Vietnamese. Especially the Vietnamese language, they often misplace the tone signs. Other than that, they mixed up the syllibals. I will post the photos of some signboards up for your laughter.

My misadventures

Trouble 1

I was nearly into trouble because at the time a solder was checking my passport, the driver didn't know and he accelerated. So this solder starred at the driver for a few seconds, then asked me to get out of the car. He forced me to take out everything from my pockets and performed a body check. I guess he thought I was carrying weapons or herorin. That was a little un-expected. I was the only person holding a Vietnamese passport while the rest have Chinese passport. And just when he wanted to check me out "we tried to escape" (as in the solder's thinking).

Trouble 2

Another trouble? Am I so badluck? Yes! We arrived at the custom gate of China already. That is that gate that I suppose to pass to go back to Vietnam. And I didn't go. I asked my god-mother I wanted to go right there at that moment, but she was too excited with something else and didn't respond properly. After that, Mr Wei (the driver) got us on the high-way, and was heading to Nanning, the city which is nearl y 300km away from Pingxiang.

Woah! That was really trouble, I thought. So I quickly asked my god-mother talk discuss the plan. When Mr. Wei realised the gate is where I will depart, he wanted to turn back, but... it's a damn Chinese high-way, there is no return when you are already on it. So we had to head to Pingxiang which is nearly 20km away from the custom gate.

So I stucked in Pingxiang for one night.

Where to stay

I'm staying in a hotel. A twin room here cost 160CNY, that's all I know. I am holding the hotel's welcome card. And these are what I found out. I have no idea about these:

1. The hotel name. It's written in traditional Chinese, without pinyin, whitout English. Only the information is translated into English. So this is a mistake you should avoid if you want to do business, guys, don't ignore your own name like they are doing.
2. The address. Yup, street number, not even road name, and perhaps no town name either. That's another mistake, guys.

Oh, I just notice at the back of the welcome card there address and phone number. Unfortunately... address is in full Chinese without any translation. Duh! I can only read pinyin. Although it works because I can call in case I'm lost, and I can give that card to taxi drivers in case I need help, but I stil prefer some English or at least pinyin.

This is a hotel but here are what they provides:

• no Internet connection for guests,
• malfunctioned TV,
• window face to the roof without mosquito net,
• mosquito as big as long as 1 inch,

Here arewhat I like from this hotel:

• shampoo,
• shower gel. Yes! Finally some hotel give me shower gel,
• clean shower towers,
• clean toilet,
• functional airconditioner, and
• conventional location to shopping and net bar.

How to get online

I'm really suprise to see the shops are using Internet for watching online TV and do other things.  And I'm so happy that I could find some place to get online and write this blog post.

From where I stay I could work about 200m to the nearest net bar. It cost only 2.5 CNY /hour. That's 5 times cheaper than in Australia, and 2 times more expensive than in Vietnam. I don't really care how much it costs anyway, I need to get online.

The good

1. This net bar has LCD screens, head phones, and webcams. Most of the customers as usual, youngsters.
2. It's located in a easy to find location. I guess that's why I found it.
3. It's quiet. People here use earphone. And I like that much more than the noisy internet cafe in Vietnam.

The bad

1. Unfortunately, they are using Chinese Windows XP. Nothing is in English except the keyboard. I was trying to download Firefox or Chrome, but the connection is so slow I can't do it. I had to use this IE6 in Chinese.
2. Everytime I click a link, it open in new window. Doh! It's good that I don't loose the last webpage, but it's terrible I have to maintain so many IE windows at once.
3. Everytime I press "Ctrl+Shift" I got to press that again 5 times to switch back to English, the rests are Chinese keyboard in different styles.
4. While I was quietly checking my blog, there was a physical fight. A boy was chasing another from inside to outside the store, and keep shouting for a while. Other youngsters some encourage, some stop.

So guys, if you open a net bar here, please install some computers with English, or at least, make it possible for English speakers to use it. I'm a very technical person so I can, how about others?

What's next?

This is rather a very long story. I bet I need to split it into seperate topics to discuss about. Or should I talk in less words? Please let me know.

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My dreams

When we are kids we have lots of dream. Mine is all about technologies. I wanted to make floating boats. I did it. I wanted to make flying aircraft. I did it. But the boats I made only could float and run in one direction without remote control. The flying machine I made could only fly a few meters using my own throwing force.

I am in China right now, and I can't stop watching the toyshop every time I passby. I don't watch anything rather than the flying toys. They have variety of these kinds. And the best playable indoor are those micro helicopters.

The pricing ranges from 80 CNY to 500 CNY depending on size and quality. Most importantly, the price depends on where you buy it and what brand. If I buy online I could get a medium size one for just 100 CNY. While the same size buying at the shop would cost me 200 CNY.

I am happy that my best friend in Vietnam also liked to buy one. He was also so excited when I mentioned about "flying air-crafts". He is the one that gave me the little extra encouragement I needed to make the decision to buy.

That's affordable. For this kind of toy I'm willing to spend 1000 RMB (about 200 AUD). That's cheap!

The Barriers

My god-mother doesn't like me buy toys, so it's really hard for me to get one, even though they are just around $10. Think about that I really got pissed of everytime going shopping with her. You know, I'm over 26 now and still can't buy my own toys???

Last time in 2008 my parents came to China too. My father was so excited he wanted to buy a few to bring to Vietnam as gifts. I was of course, alike my father, really wanted to buy them. Woman is really a big barrier of toys. My mother disagreed and we didn't buy them. DuH!

That's not really the issue. I am a grown up, and I don't buy just any toys. I like IT gadgets like USE disks, SD cards, etc. And I love flying toys. I love those so much even a flying dish could make me happy for days.

No, I'm not joking. I love flying helicopters. I will definitely build one by myself when I have enough time and tools.

BOUGHT

Red Toy Helicopter

The happiest thing happened to me is that my girlfriend Cindy allowed me to buy 3 helicopters yesterday. She isn't same as her mother. She loves me and she loves making me happy. That's one of the reason I love her.

We bought 2 small size and 1 a little bigger. From 2 x 180 + 240, it came to 2 x 120 + 170 = 410 RMB after a revisit and a few bargains.

DUH, I didn't take photos of the toys. Will update that later when I have enough time, OK?

Sadly, when I visit another shop in the basement I found out the price there was only 75% compare with the previous store. I could buy in the later store a helicopter that is twice the size of the biggest I bought, for just the same price. DUH!!! My girlfriend had to calm me down saying the ones I bought are of better quality. Of course I know what quality and what price I paid But I thanks her anyway because that's very supportive.

I am checking the price of those in Vietnam. If it's cheaper in China, I definitely will buy 5 more of those and bring home to give my best friends and relatives. I'm sure they will love it.

What's next?

My camera is not available right now. I will take photos and videos of the units I bought and write about them later on. So stay tune

The guy who made the song really is tricky. If the song title is really "The moon represents my heart" in English then I can see through what he really thinks about love.

Traditional 'Love = Moon'

Chinese girls may think that the love as the Moon is wonderful. They think it's forever love, always love, strongest love, most beautiful love.

The guys thinks that using the Moon can make the girls happy. They "exploited" the Moon in poems and essays. They mainly did that to flirt with the girls, which they got crushed on. And if the girls fell for that, they got a wife... or a few.

Vietnamese has the same culture too. And I think in many Asian countries, they have this same attitude. Love is as beautiful as the Moon. How about Western culture? I really don't know, so if you are one of those, please kindly comment.

My 'Love = Moon' Logic

What about me. I don't think so. My thought is totally apposite. I have a twisted mind? Really? Then read my thoughts.

I agree witht the author, and I think only I have this feeling. Love is like the Moon in this way... it's unstable. One day you strongly love, the other day you don't. Just like the Moon. There are few characteristics of the moon:

1. Only display at night time. If it display at daytime, you hardly see it. Same as Love?
2. There is full Moon, and there is no Moon. When the Moon reach it's peak, it's round and so beautiful. But at the end of the cycle, it disappear. Same as Love?
3. There is bright night, there is cloudy night. When the sky is clear, the Moon shine. When the sky is cloudy, the Moon is so hard to see. Same as Love?

I hope these 3 points are enough to display my thoughts on comparing Love to the Moon. If not, then feel free to use the comment form to throw some feedback at me.

To the Girls

After reading my thoughts, do you still like it when the guy compare his Love with the Moon?

I will let you decide, so please kindly use the comment form.

To the Guys

After reading my twisted thoughts, do you still exploit the Moon to respresent your Love?

I will let you decide, so please kindly use the comment form.

What's next?

If you want the lyrics of this song, then click this link: The Moon Represents my Heart

Hanyu Pinyin version

Ni wen wo ai ni you duo shen
Wo ai ni you ji fen
Wo de qing ye zhen
Wo de ai ye zhen
Yue liang dai biao wo de xin

Ni wen wo ai ni you duo shen
Wo ai ni you ji fen
Wo de qing bu yi
Wo de ai bu bian
Yue liang dai biao wo de xin

* Qing qing de yi ge wen
Yi jin da dong wo de xin
Shen shen de yi duan qing
Jiao wo si nian dao ru jin

* Ni wen wo ai ni you duo shen
Wo ai ni you ji fen

* ** Ni qu xiang yi xiang
Ni qu kan yi kan
Yue liang dai biao wo de xin

Repeat *

Repeat **

The lyrics translated

月亮代表我的心
The Moon is My Witness
邓丽君
Teresa Teng

你问我爱你有多深
我爱你有几分
我的情也真
我的爱也真
月亮代表我的心
You want to know how much I care
How much I’m loving you
All my care is true
All my love is true
And my witness is the moon

你问我爱你有多深
我爱你有几分
我的情不移
我的爱不变
月亮代表我的心
You want to know how much I care
How much I’m loving you
All my care’s unchanged
All my love stays true
And my witness is the moon

轻轻的一个吻
已经打动我的心
深深的一段情
叫我思念到如今
A gentle kiss on me
And my heart’s melted for you
So deeply we’re in love
I can’t cease to hunger for you

你问我爱你有多深
我爱你有几分
你去想一想
你去看一看
月亮代表我的心
You want to know how much I care
How much I’m loving you
Give it just a thought
And another look
See my witness is the moon

The meaning in English

The Moon Represents my Heart
How deep I loved you,
How strong emotion within myself

You are wondering
My feeling is true
My love is never new
The moon represents my heart

How deep I loved you,
How strong emotion within myself
You want to know

My passion for you is real
My devotion to you is a belief
The moon represents my heart

A tender kiss
Moved me to the heaven
A love story between you and me
It's alive 'til today

Would you think so
Would you trust me

The Moon Represents my Heart
Author: Teresa Teng

Another English translation

You ask me how deep my love for you is,
How much I really love you...
My affection is real.
My love is real.
The moon represents my heart.

You ask me how deep my love for you is,
How much I really love you...
My affection does not waver,
My love will not change.
The moon represents my heart.

* Just one soft kiss
is enough to move my heart.
A period of time when our affection was deep,
Has made me miss you until now.

* You ask me how deep my love for you is,
How much I really love you.

* ** Go think about it.
Go and have a look [at the moon],
The moon represents my heart.

Repeat *

Repeat **

My thoughts

It's funny I love the song even when I didn't know the meaning. Now I know the meaning already, then whenever I sing it I really feel it.

If you like the song and you can read Chinese then see the Chinese version:月亮代表我的心.

Update 27/05/2009: Love is so truth. The song is so truth. And it's now become my real feeling. My real love is here.

This is a sample video embedded from Vimeo called World War III by Vincent Chai.