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...:)
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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 :)
Tourists throng to Vietnam's Halong Bay for scenic beauty and delicious seafood. But for locals, Halong is the center of an age-od culture that resolves entirely around the sea
By Karen Coates Photographs by Jason Lowe
Imagine the tempestous night, a gale ripping rooftops. A thin, one-handed fisherman named Nguyen Thi Hung huddles in a weathered wooden boat-his-hom-as Tropical Storm Washi thrashes Halong Bay, in northern Vietnam. The storms splits a fishing boat in half, it killls a shrimp farmer in his field. Hung loses a few nights of work at sea. He worries about his next catch. He always worries as he toils beneath his boats's blazing lights, which beckon squid ot the murky surface: Will he catch enough? It depends on luck.
Just south of China, Halong Bay is saturated with beauty-nearly 2,000 limestone isles jutting precipitously from the lapis-colored sea. It's the place to visit in Vietnam today, but it is more than that; it's a place of historical eminence as well. For it was here that some of Vietnam's first peoploe got their start, more than 25,000 years ago. They lived in island caves and survived by the sea. They fished. They ate. And they set the tempo of a culture. Even today, from its wet rice paddies with fattened fish to a coastline longer than CFalifornia's, Vietnam so depends on wate rthat the same word, nuoc, means both "water" and "country" in Vietnamese. As everyone living on the bay understands, a Vietnam without water is a Vietnam without food.
Philip G. Altbach - Phan Bích Vân lược dịch
| Times Higher Education Supplement 2006 Nguồn: thes.co.uk |
| Ký giả cánh trái: Daniel Passent và Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz Nguồn: DCVOnline |
Đạo luật Thanh Lọc mới của Ba-Lan yêu cầu các ký giả phải công khai về quá khứ hợp tác nếu họ đã hợp tác với mật vụ thời cộng sản, đã gặp phải sự chống đối mãnh liệt từ một số ký giả, đặc biệt là những người đã có liên hệ với những nhóm vốn có truyền thống chống đối tiến trình khó khăn nhằm xóa bỏ tàn dư của chế độ cũ ở Ba-Lan
Las Vegas, Hoa Kỳ, 17-12-2006 - Tuyển thủ bóng bàn nổi tiếng Nguyễn Khoa đã trở thành người Mỹ gốc Việt đầu tiên được vào "Nhà Lưu Danh những Nhân Vật Bóng Bàn Nổi Tiếng của Hoa Kỳ" (United States Table Tennis Hall of Fame) trong buổi dạ tiệc vinh danh được tổ chức ở Khách Sạn Stratosphere, thành phố Las Vegas hôm 14 tháng 12 năm 2006.
Trong bài diễn văn giới thiệu Nguyễn Khoa, diễn giả Tim Boggan đã lượt kể lại một cách chi tiết và thú vị những thành tựu và kỷ niệm đáng nhớ trong sự nghiệp bóng bàn 25 năm của anh. Một số thành tựu chọn lọc bao gồm:
| Khoa Nguyễn và bố mẹ trong trong phòng tiếp tân Nguồn: danchimviet.com |
Trung quốc tranh luận về đổi mới của Việt Nam (1)
| Hồ cẩm Đào Nguồn: en.wikipedia.org |