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5 Balls in life: 5 trái banh của cuộc sống

shaakira.hannah — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:19:20 GMT

5 Balls in life: 5 trái banh của cuộc sống

I like this entry from a member of Ebaby so i will translate it here to my language LOL

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.You name them Work, Family, Health & Spirit & Friends.You're keeping all of these in the air.You will soon understand that work is a rubberball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four balls family,health,friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.Only you know what is best for you.

Don't take for granted the things that closest to your heart.

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over untill the moment you stop trying.

Don't shut love out of ur life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give it; The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; And the best way to keeo love is to give it wings.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

Yesterday is history,tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift: That is why we call it "present".

Hãy tưởng tượng cuộc sống cũng như một trò chơi mà trong đó bạn đang tung hứng với 5 trái banh trong không trung. Bạn đặt tên cho chúng là Công Việc, Gia Đình, Sức Khỏe, Tinh Thần và Bạn Bè. Bạn đang giữ chúng trong không trung. Bạn sẽ sớm nhận ra rằng trái banh Công Việc là một trái banh bằng cao su. Nếu bạn buông rơi nó, nó lập tức bật lại ngay.

Nhưng với 4 trái banh khác: Gia Đình, Sức Khỏe, Bạn Bè và Tinh Thần lại là những trái banh bằng thủy tinh. Nếu bạn lỡ tay đánh rơi một trong những trái banh này, nó sẽ không tránh khỏi bị trầy xước, để lại tì vết, bị nứt, bị hư hại hoặc thậm chí tan vỡ ra thành từng mảnh. Nó sẽ không bao giờ như xưa nữa. Bạn phải hiểu và cố gắng phấn đấu cho sự thăng bằng trong cuộc sống. Làm thế nào đây?

Đừng đặt ra một tiêu chuẩn theo những gì mọi người cho là đúng. Chỉ có bạn mới biết cái gì tốt nhất cho bản thân.

Đừng chọn những gì mà bạn cho là gần với trái tim mình nhất.

Đừng bao giờ từ bỏ nếu mình có dù chỉ một mảy may hi vọng. Không có cái gì thật sự là tuyệt vọng cho đến khi bạn ngừng cố gắng.

Đừng chối bỏ tình yêu với lời tự an ủi rằng không thể tìm thấy tình yêu đích thực. Cách nhanh nhất để nhân được tình yêu thương là hãy dành yêu thương cho người khác; Cách nhanh nhất để đánh mất tình yêu đó là giữ nó quá chặt; Và cách tốt nhất để giữ được nó là hãy chắp thêm đôi cánh cho nó.

Cuộc sống không phải là một cuộc đua, nhưng lại là một cuộc hành trình mà được tô điểm dần với từng bước một trên con đường.

Ngày hôm qua là lịch sử, ngày mai là một điều huyền bí và ngày hôm nay là một món quà. Đó là lý do tại sao chúng ta gọi hôm nay là "Present"*

* Present trong tiếng anh vừa có nghĩa là thời điểm hiện tại, vừa có nghĩa là món quà (gift)

Lesson for Businessman

shaakira.hannah — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:35:09 GMT

Lesson for Businessman

Once upon a time, the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a "New World," so they organized a school. They adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming, and flying. To make it easier to administer, all animals took all the subjects.

The duck was excellent in swimming, better in fact than his instructor, and made excellent grades in flying, but he was very poor in running. Since he was low in running he had to stay after school and also drop swimming to practice running. This was kept up until his web feet were badly worn and he was only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school, so nobody worried about that except the duck.

The rabbit started at the top of the class in running, but had a nervous breakdown because of so much makeup in swimming.

The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustrations in the flying class where his teacher made him start from the ground up instead of from the tree-top down. He also developed charley horses from over-exertion and he got a C in climbing and a D in running.

The eagle was a problem child and had to be disciplined severely. In climbing class he beat all the others to the top of the tree, but insisted on using his own way of getting there.

At the end of the year, an abnormal eel that could swim exceedingly well and also could run, climb and fly a little had the highest average and was valedictorian.

The prairie dogs stayed out of school and fought the tax levy because the administration would not add digging and burrowing to the curriculum. They apprenticed their children to the badger and later joined the groundhogs and gophers to start a successful private school.

translate english story to vietnamese

shaakira.hannah — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:24:29 GMT

translate english story to vietnamese

I read this story on one member's lession and i like it so much, so i copy here then i will traslate to vietnamese, hope some vietnamese friends on this site can read it by both languages

Trước tiên, tôi xin phép đăng bài nguyên gốc, sau đó với trình độ hạn hẹp của mình tôi xin phép dịch lại sang tiếng Việt.

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the treetop, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow… He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by…the little boy had grown up, and he no longer played around the tree every day. One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad.

“Come and play with me,” the tree asked the boy.

“I am no longer a kid, I do not play around trees any more” -The boy replied.

“I want toys. I need money to buy them.”

“Sorry, but I do not have money… But you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money".

The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

One day, the boy who now turned into a man returned And the tree was excited “Come and play with me” the tree said.

“I do not have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me? "

“ Sorry”, “I do not have any house. But you can chop off my branches
To build your house.”

So the man cut all the branches of the tree and left happily.The tree was glad to see him happy but the man never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day, The man returned and the tree was delighted.

“Come and play with me!” the tree said.

“I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?” - Said the man.

“Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy”

So the man cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.

Finally, the man returned after many years.

“Sorry, my boy. But I do not have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you…” - The tree said

“No problem, I do not have any teeth to bite” - The man replied.

“No more trunk for you to climb on”

“I am too old for that now” the man said.

“I really cannot give you anything… The only thing left is my dying root,” - the tree said with tears.

“I do not need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years” - the man replied.

“Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest, come, come sit down with me and rest”

The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears…

This is you and the tree is your parents!!!

Please enlighten all your friends and your families

By telling them this story,

“Love your Parents ”

Câu chuyện cây táo

Xưa thật là xưa, có một gốc táo đại thụ. Một cậu bé rất thích đến và nô đùa quanh gốc táo mỗi ngày. Cậu ta trèo lên tận đỉnh cây, an những trái táo ngọt ngào và rồi ngả lưng ngay dưới những tán cây mát rượi. Cậu bé yêu gốc táo lắm và gốc táo cũng thích đùa nghịch cùng cậu.

Thời gian trôi đi, cậu bé lớn lên và cậu không còn nô đùa quanh gốc táo hàng ngày nữa. Một ngày nọ, câu bé quay trở lại gốc táo với vẻ mặt buồn bã.

"Hãy đến và chơi đùa với tôi nào" - gốc táo reo lên với cậu bé.

"Tôi không còn là một đứa con nít nữa, tôi không bao giờ đùa nghịch quanh cây nữa" - Cậu bé năm nào trả lời.

"Tôi muốn có đồ chơi. Tôi cần tiền để mua chúng"

"Xin lỗi cậu, nhưng tôi không có tiền... Nhưng cậu có thể hái tất cả những trái táo của tôi và bán chúng. Rồi cậu sẽ có tiền"

Cậu bé đã rất hào hứng. Cậu tước tất cả những trái táo trên cây và ra đi một cách hạnh phúc. Cậu bé đã chẳng bao giờ trở lại sau khi đã mang hết táo đi. Gốc táo rất buồn.

Một ngày khác, cậu bé ngày xưa nay đã là một người đàn ông đích thực, quay trở lại và gốc táo đã rất vui mừng đón chào cậu:

"Lại đây chơi với tôi nào" - cây nói.

"Tôi không có thời gian để nô đùa. Tôi phải làm việc nuôi sống gia đình. Chúng tôi cần một ngôi nhà để nương ở. Ông có thể giúp tôi được không?"

"Xin lỗi, tôi không có một cái nhà nào cả. Nhưng anh có thể chặt cành của tôi để dựng nhà"

Vậy là người đàn ông đó chặt hết cả cành của gốc táo rồi ra đi một cách vui vẻ. Gốc táo rất vui mừng khi nhìn thấy anh ấy vui nhưng kể từ đó anh ta cũng không quay lại. Lại một lần nữa gốc táo cảm thấy cô đơn và buồn bã.

Vào một ngày hè nóng nực, người đàn ông nọ lại quay về và gốc táo vô cùng hài lòng.

"Hãy đến và chơi với tôi nào" - cây nói

"Tôi đang già đi. Tôi muốn chèo thuyền để tự thư giãn. Ông có thể cho tôi một con thuenf được không?" - người đàn ông nói.

"Hãy dùng thân tôi đây mà làm thuyền. Như vậy anh có thể chèo thuền thật xa để thư giãn và sống hành phúc"

Người đàn ông chặt thân cây làm thuyền. Anh ta đi chèo thuyền và lại mất hút một thời gian dài.

Cuối cùng, sau nhiều năm người đàn ông đó quay lại.

"Xin lỗi con trai, nhưng ta không còn gì để cho con nữa. Không còn một trái táo nào..." - gốc táo già nói

"Không sao, tôi cũng chẳng còn cái răng nào để có thể thưởng thức nó" - người đàn ông đáp lại.

"Cũng chẳng còn thần để con có thể leo trèo nữa"

"Tôi đã quá tuổi cho những trò nghịch ngơm đó" - người đàn ông đáp.

"Ta thật sự không thể cho con thứ gì nữa... Thứ còn lại duy nhất chỉ là cái gốc già cằn cỗi, đang chết dần của ta" - cây đáp lại trong nước mắt.

"Tôi không cần gì nhiều giờ này, chỉ là một nơi để nghỉ ngơi. Tôi đã quá mệt mỏi sau những năm tháng đó" - người đàn ông đáp.

"Tốt! Thân cây già là nơi tốt nhất để dựa vào và nghỉ ngơi, đến đây, đến đây ngồi với ta và nghỉ ngơi đi nhé"

Người đàn ông nọ ngồi xuống và gốc cây đã rất hạnh phúc, cười trong nước mắt...

Người đàn ông này chính là chúng ta và gốc cây cổ thụ đó chính la bố mẹ ta!!!

Hãy thức tỉnh tất cả bạn bè của bạn và mọi người trong gia đình bằng cách kể cho họ nghe câu chuyện này: "Yêu Ba mẹ"

Quả thực sau khi đọc được câu chuyện này tôi đã vô cùng xúc động, bạn đã bao giờ nói lời cảm ơn tới bố mẹ bạn, người mà đã vất vả nuôi nấng, chăm lo và hỗ trợ bạn mọi lúc, mọi nơi chưa.
Đột nhiên thấy mình vô tâm quá. Khi bố, mẹ đánh, tôi biết nói xin lỗi để tránh những roi vọt, nhưng tôi lại chưa một lần nói câu Cảm Ơn tới bố, mẹ. Luôn biện cho mình cái cớ rằng công việc học tập và làm việc bận rôn để khỏi xấu hổ với lòng mình rằng mình đã quá vô tâm và ích kỷ. Tôi muốn gọi điện cho mẹ ngay bây giờ và nói "Con cảm ơn mẹ" dù mẹ tôi có ngơ ngác chẳng hiểu hôm nay tôi bị làm sao. Có lẽ thế, có lẽ nên như thế<<<=== Đi gọi điện đây

What is love?

shaakira.hannah — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:18:07 GMT

What is love?

I would love to share this blog to all of you even i didnt ask him,Ahmed (the one i love who wrote this blog for me) You can feel his love and also you can improve your english.

This one I dedicate to my beloved.

"When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself... " - excerpt from 'The Prophet', by Kahlil Gibran.

"Before you, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark but there were stars- points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly there was fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."

But you habibi, are like a brilliant light that never fades... No, not some distant light, but a light within me, and I within you. We are that light, we are the world.

What is love? How can we define love? Should we try? How do we find love? When do we find it? When do we know that we have it? Is it real? lol About everyone have asked these questions before. Some have turned up with nothing, even to the extent of disbelieving in love. Some have found some peices of the puzzle and ceased to move on. Others are satisfied with their own explanations of love. But what really is love?

If I can do something for another, and that person can do something for me, is that love? No, I don't think so.That is simply a form of companionship... It goes much deeper than that. So whats love? Some people say that love is simply a physiological feeling. lol No way. Any learned soul knows we are more than just flesh and bone, etc. How many times have you felt something which was true. Or maybe someone is looking at you and you return the glance not knowing why you looked. How often did you know who was calling you, with no caller ID? lol How many times did you think what another has thought. Or spoke without words... etc... How many 'coincidences' happened in your life. How many times did you simpy 'know' something. When did you start searching for the meaning of your life? How much has God pushed you on? How much did you seek? How hard did you knock? Did you find what you were looking for? All these are meaningful also in what love is.

It is said that one can not speak Truth. Not truth with a lowercase 't', which simply means a 'fact'. Facts are not truths. Facts change. For example. it may be a fact that I used to eat things I shouldn't, but the Truth is that I did not know better, so that is not me. Understand? The facts change, but the Truth ever remains the same. The Truth is that I am a soul, and not the sum of my experiences. If we have Truth within us, that's not complete in itself. To know something, to even be something is a fact. But to actually Be something, the total of who I am, the actually walking of the path of who I am, is what Truth is. If we know something, that is one thing, to apply something, that is who we are. You are what you do. Surely we can refine ourselves, just as we can refine our habits. What I wanted to show you is that Love is the fulfilment of Truth, not a totally different thing. There isn't one without the other. Love doesn't start in the physical, but it can materialize/ crystalize etc... TRUE love is the actually walking of the path and is what Truth is. It fulfils it. A reflection of this is that there must be 100% trust in any relatioship. Reflect on these things.

I don't know exactlyhow to answer 'What is love'. The best thing is to lead by example. So listen... if you feel that you can't live without that person, that you feel week and yet strong at the same time you can't be angry with that person for sure you love them. You think they are perfect, and there is no one else for you. If no one else matters to you except them. I can't solve this mystery of why I feel thi way, but I can tell u what it is. something they say or do may hurt you at first but in the end you feel purified, refreshed and ur love only grows stronger for them. You feel incomplete without them. Maybe you feel all of emotions mixed together. Whatever they do soon becomes the perfect thing. You can't be away from that person for long without missing them. Even when you are with them you somewhat miss them or when you know that you will have to part even for a short time. When they are hurt you feel the pain, or when happy you feel their joy. You often have the same thoughts or think the same. They are your inspiration. They are your world. If something hurt or upset u just think deeply..u love them? u trust them? then no need to mention or be like that. Love is for our growth, but it also for our pruning. Understand self sacrifice? Know yourself deeper by knowing your beloved? I want to show you that there is no coincidence in true love/truth-love. Everyone has their other half, and God will direct you to him or her.

Some years ago, I had a dream. In my dream, I was married to a wonderful woman. I was walking up ther stairs inside the house and awaiting me at the top of the staircase was my beloved, and I felt great love for me emanating from her. Ever since I had that dream, I saught for this one.

Two years later I met a wonderful girl. From the moment I saw her, I knew that she was special. I also noticed something very different about her. For one thing, I was always bored if I could not talk to her. She thought that she was boring haha she was my joy! She didn't know this though (or did she, somewhere deep down?) Also we loved the same things, and had the same tastes. We thought the same, and even had the same thoughts at the same time. Whenever she was sad, I would be sad. Whenever she was hurt, I was hurt from that knoweldge. When she was happy, I would be happy from her happiness. Also, we seemed to feel the same things at the same time, or feel what the other was feeling. Another thing... I could never forget her, and she seemed very very special. My love for her would grow and grow, until the point where I was 100% taken by her. lol I had to let my feelings be know. Masha'Allah, she felt the same!

To me, love is not simply one heart in two bodies, but also one heart and one soul. Now it is like I have some sort of sickness that makes me whole and well. LOL I can't stop thinking of her, I miss her, I love her. I constantly thank God for her. Without her I am half of a man. She pushes me on to greatness. My love is one big prayer. I feel like an ever-green tree! When I see her, it's like I have found the most precious jewel. a diamond, a prism... When I hear her voice, its like im swept away by a tidal wave into ocean upon ocean where the water is very clear that you can see the bottom, even wave upon wave,and there is no danger in tha tocean and one can not drown, and the light shines through seems from an eternal source, it boucing off of each wave, light upon light upon light. There is so much more to this, but I better save that for another blog. Insha'Allah! (GOD Willing!)

I thank GOD deeply for this!

Love is like a vine. There is the root which comes from a source we can not fully understand or contemplate. It comes from GOD. One can't talk Truth, only experience it. It then grows as vibrating life in faith, and branches off into a vine of trust, and from that trust the shimmering leaves of hope and then the ripe fruits of love bearing seed! Now I feel like a fully blossoming man!

Again, I thank GOD deeply for this!!!

"To be in love... however briefly... is to be truly wonderfully alive! Never to have loved is to leave the map of your soul uncharted... unexplored. But be aware before embarking on your hearts voyage of discovery, that their will be stormy seas and troubled waters before you reach the island paradise of your dreams. You can not know the ecstasies of loving without having suffered its agonies. Only when you have waited cold and lonely through the hours of night, will you truly savor the morning sun, feeling its warmth caress your body. And before you can fly like an eagle, high and free in the endless blue sky, you must know what it is to be helpless, hopeless, lost and grounded. But oh! Be not afraid of love! Be ready! Be always ready! And when the spirit of true love comes to you, embrace him! Embrace him unashamedly! Let him posses you, body and soul, and he will take you to places you have never even imagined; and you will feel in every fiber of you being as you've never felt before! Allow yourself to be happy and acknowledge that you are. Cherish each and every moment for they will never come again... Time rushes by for lovers and the simple gesture of today is the treasured memory of tomorrow. Give and receive freely. Remember... you are blessed to be loved, but doubly blessed when you love in return!" - 'Loving' by Phil Coulter & Roma Downey

Love is our momentum in The Righteous Way.

And to my habeebee... I love you.

The best way to study english

shaakira.hannah — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:12:58 GMT

The best way to study english

I dont really know which is the best way to study english but in this entry i would like to share my ways to all of you and i set this topic on to discuss with all of you and i can learn something from somebody here. So i hope you will share something with everybody here after read this entry.

Be patient to read this

First, lets the english lession tobe in interesting way. What does it mean? It means you should merge your hobbies with studying english.

For example, some guys, they like playing games and along with games, there will be a story (love story or detective story or spaces war...) and some tips to show you how to solve obstacles tobe the winner of those games.

May be you wont understand some words in those stories or tips, try to use dictionary to understand and you will really understand when you go through the game with actions (like a movie) and at the same time you can listen to the guider's reading during those games.

You will improve your listening and your vocabularyand even get some useful information for life.

If you are the people of MUSIC world. Now starting listen to english songs, close your eyes, try to "taste", to feel them... You can choose some soft, romantic songs to relax and study english via songs. Listen to the song, try to get all the words, there might be some miss words that you cant get them or you dont understand them, try try try try to guess what they are. Then look for the lyrics of those songs on internet or in lyrics book or wherever you can find them...

NOW, wooo, we have lyrics already, listen to the songs again and follow the lyrics. All the words that you guessed were corrected or not...and which words that you dont understand, what you are waiting for then...DICTIONARY.

LOL. When you got all the meaning and the missing words already, listen to those songs again this time, pay attention to the pronunsiation.

Sometime you can even use the information in those songs in real life.

For example: You met a very handsome guy in the shopping center, and in casual situation you got his email address or his cell number. You want to send him a romantic email or an impression message. At that time, all the information (like romantic stories, the way to making friends with somebody..etc) that you got in some love songs before will immediately come out as automatic reflex. That's GOOD !

Or you can do the same with watching movies. You saw the movie Gone With The Wind already by your language now you should rent or buy a DVD with english subtitle and do the same like when you listen to english song.

First, watch movie with english subtitle (if the movie is that you have never seen, so watch it with your language subtitle first then english subtitle).

Some words you wont understand but you can guess the meaning with the actions of actors or actresses. But you can write down those words and later can check in dictionary. And watch that movie again with full meaning of those words that you got meaning in dictionary, uhm now you can understand whole movie much more.

The last step, watch the movie again without subtitle and pay attention to the pronunciation. GREAT!

You should choose a nice movie for this training LOL, if it is too bored so you cant watch again and again like that, choose your favorite movie...like Notting Hill or Love story, will be the good ones LOL.

And there are so many other ways to study english via hobbies (collecting stamp, watching advitisments...et)

Second, i think one of the best way to study english is making friend with foreigners who is original english speaking or some friends who are studying english, so you guys can share all the experiences that some original ones cant even know LOL.

Sometime hanging out together, try to speak english to each other, dont be SHY.

And this website is also a nice "land" for all the english studier "dating". Try to use your opportunities to speak english, to listen to english and to read english here then try to write something yourself from what you learnt.

I hope that after read this entry, you will share something with me and all friends here.