Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Hope & The Country

We all thought AIDS would kill all the human race only 5 years ago. Then, some religious people explained the God's instructions through AIDS, faithful to your lover! I don't know about that, but it is clearly that we somehow can protect ourselves against AIDS. What a relief! Since when, the sickness of other kinds comes back and kills humans?
Then there comes avian flu to the world, can we fight sneezes, up your nose?
In each Vietnamese house, there is always some chicken use for soups, for worshipping to the house devinities, to the ancestors. Vietnam has been warned about the risk of avian flu since last year Tet of the Rooster (what an odd coincident), but it did not make any sense to each family, says my mother as an example. She did not buy any chicken UNTIL the night of 30th of At Dau Tet, same as did many women in Ha Noi. The chicken meat price went up to 200K VND / kg (around 13 USD) in the last year. People laughed. The government did not really enfore the destroying of chicken or duck farms as well as the selling of the meat. On the other hand, what can we do? The poor farmers do not have another way of living, the government of a poor country could not sponsor too much money to help the ones destroying their own living ways.
With the increasing cases infected of H5N1 virus, the government has to enfore the ban of selling chicken in all the provinces of the country. Fingers crossed...

But you know what? Vietnam is producing Tamilflu thank to Roche ! We can start our war against bird flu, to save people!

The end of human is still far from coming, as long as each person, each country realizes that we will die by all these diseases real fast if we are not reaching to each other.

Added 13 March 2006: This is the link about Avian Influenza, if you would like to know its scientific information, I've got this information thanked to my little sister who asked me to translate this document into Vietnamese for reference use inside her university report?! 27 pages of typing is not really a fun task, especially when you are not enjoy the translation!

Earthquake In Sai Gon, Again!

It happened again yesterday. The whole buiding Me Linh Point was shaking around 3PM, 8 Nov 2005 for 5 - 10 seconds, well, this was only my second one since when I could remember. The night before, around midnight, the bed was shaking, alone in the night, and did not know what it was, childhood stories came back as tsunami, I thought it was a ghost in the house! Well, thank to my father, who scared us with all these stories.
Yesterday, in office, there should be no ghost what so ever, so it must be an earthquake... Together with all colleagues, I ran from the 18th floor down. Had never seen my legs shaking like that.
To my surprise, along the staircase, I saw many girls who walked so slowly in their heels or zoris, hands in hands, despite the recommendations from some foreigners and others, blocked all the way down. What would happen if there were a fire in the buidling, please forgive my sayings? We should not be frightened, I know, what should we do when some people just do not care about others' feelings? Where is the line between being fair and being care?
I heard it was around 5 Richter. Think about all the terrible things to Asia lately, bombing in Indonesia, southern Thailand, tsunami in South-East Asia, floods in China and Vietnam, earthquake in South Asia, avian flu, it looks like bad luck chooses to find a new home in the old and poor continent.

These are some links that might be interesting someday: See seismic activities around the world

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Hurry Up!

Hey dear, do you know that you are quite behind the world? Q., a highshool friend, told me. Viet nam is changing. People change. Supermarkets, which used to be a simbol of a better life, are opening everywhere.
You should go blogging. Tear off your diaries at home, this is the way to go. Well, here I go, open the latop, type what were in my mind, what is in my mind, what I think it is true.
Where can you find changes in a country, in its people, in its streets... This is where I want to go, the place where I work, the streets where we shop along or eat something, people that I know or acquaint with.
The question is, if we have the deadline, we know when we should hurry up. So in life, what is the deadline? When do we have to say to ourselves to hurry up?
It used to be much easier when we were in school or at work, the teacher told us when we should submitted the home work, the boss told us about the next report, but in life, who is going to tell us to hurry up? And if we must do it then what push us ahead, and how could we recognize the deadline we set?