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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên

Trong chuyến đi Việt Nam vừa rồi KD có ghé thăm "Căn Nhà May Mắn" của Tim, một người bạn mà KD và Trịnh Hội đã quen từ nhiều năm.  Khán giả khắp nơi được biết đến Tim, người con gái Thụy Sĩ với con tim Việt Nam, qua chương trình Thúy Nga "Chân Dung Người Phụ Nữ Việt Nam."  Riêng Trịnh Hội (TH) đã quen Tim từ những năm đầu tiên khi cô mới bước chân sang Việt Nam và bắt đầu làm việc từ thiện.  TH gặp Tim lần đầu tiên vào năm 1992 không phải ở Việt Nam mà là ở Bangkok!  Khi đó Tim chưa có tên Tim, vẫn còn là Aline và chưa biết nói tiếng Việt.  TH gặp Tim rất tình cờ, cũng như việc làm thiện nguyện của Tim là một sự tình cờ... hay cũng có thể là một sắp đặt mầu nhiệm nào đó mà chúng ta không thể biết trước được. 

Drexel University has done a great job in hosting this event. I'm so impressed with all the banners hung all over the strees around the venue.

Khoa won in the first two rounds on Friday morning.  I missed the first round from 9:00 a.m but was able to make it for the second round from 11:00.  He played very well and defeated Eric Owen 4-0, being the first one to finish the second round.

 

Blog is great.  I'm able to share this right from the spectator seat while others are still playing the second round :)

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3:45 p.m

Well, Khoa lost to Mark Hazinski 2-4.

If I recognize almost all of the men players, the women players are so new and young.  A couple of them should be teenagers.  For a moment, I feel missing Michelle Do and Tawny Banh.

Got to get back for the 4th round of the day starting at 4:00 p.m.  Khoa will be playing Yinghua Cheng.  I still remember how Khoa played against Cheng Yinghua ....8 years ago, the trials for Olympics 2000.  Hope he can repeat that.

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8:00 p.m

Khoa played a great match against Cheng Yinghua and won 4-3. Khoa won the first 2 games.  Yinghua won the next 2.  Then Khoa won the last.  Yeah, he did it again, defeating Cheng at the U.S Olympic trials.  It's worth my trip already being able to watch this :)

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Khoa lost to Han Xiao on Sunday and that was his last match at the Trials.

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SaK

There was a time when I sat at least 8 hours a day in front of a computer screen that has only a few boring colors: white and green letters on black background; and when you see your screen turns red, you know that you've just done something very wrong. If you have ever been a (Cobol) mainframe programer, you know what I'm talking about here.

Then one day, I got an idea ...I wanted to publish the simple html site that I had created at school (must be a project for an html 101 class).  Soon after that, sweetandkool.com was born. The URL was suggested by a friend of mine when I asked around, 'I need a name for a personal website.  What come to your mind when you think of me?' :).  I don't know how true that is but the URL sounds ....kool.

So, with sweetandkool, my computer screen was not that boring anymore. It has more colors than solid black, white, green and red and I was happy about it.  I got addicted and soon made it to be a decent personal website, a home for my friends to hang out on the net.  Before you run out and check sweetandkool.com, I have to say that it has recently been wiped out by jaguarpc.com by mistake without any back up.  So sweetandkool disappeared now, just like that and might never be fully recovered.  I'm still crying over that loss now but it's not what this blog is about.

One of those days, an old friend came and told me, 'Sweetandkool is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL (Vietnamese)PERSONAL WEBSITE I've ever seen (at that time)'.  I said, 'Really?  You think so?' Man, I felt good for a while,...only to realize that,...he probably just said so because...he was about to ask me to create the danchimviet.com site.  'Oh well, I'll do it.'  Thinking,...I would just do some simple graphic and layout and hand it back to him and ....run.  Guess what,....I'm stuck....till now.

At the time danchimviet.com was created, sweetandkool.com had an average 2000 unique visitors a month.  I jokingly told my friend, 'I give danchimviet a year to catch up with sweetandkool (on the number of visitors),....thinking ....I doubt it, man...danchimviet can't beat 'the most beautiful personal website'! :)  We never remember to come back and check to see when the number of visitors to danchimviet exceeded that number for sweetandkool.  Recently, someone knocked knocked on my gmail with the news, 'We've reached the number 100,000 now!'  That was the Editor-in-Chief of danchimviet.com, talking about the number of its monthly unique visitors. Wow!

The reason I go this lengthy with my story probably just to explain why there is something....sweetandkool at dcvblogs.com :).  In case any of you may argue, why sweetandkool blog is here, 'it has nothing to do with ....'Democracy for Vietnam'' for example...:)  Then sorry! :)  It's here, hm...probably not even because of any reasons I've 'explained' above.  It's here simply because editor-in-chief of danchimviet.com invited its owner to blog here and approved its existence.  The idea is..... its content doesn't have to be about this or that as long as it's of readers' interest and its owner doesn't do anything against danchimviet's mission statement and.....last but not least, he/she has to add new content .....regularly,...I think...:)

Email us at info@dcvblogs.com if you are interested in blogging at dcvblogs.com

 

12/05/2007

Sweet and Kool

P.S.  Should I say it again?, 'I give dcvblogs.com a year to catch up with danchimviet.com on the number of unique visitors.'  'Yeah, right.  I doubt it!'.....But that will be.....kool .....and sweet too :)