Tieng Viet lovers club

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by RJ2004

personal retreat cannot have mm accompany meh?

Can can, as long as u happy...

[AlCIA Duh]

Originally Posted by 69ASIMO69

Ya, It can be used for call back but since a bro has posted the m1 m card deal.... i find its worth the money just that u need an extra phone......... good info

Or you can just switch to M1, add $5+ every month to use the free 021 IDD. They will deduct from your local outgoing talktime, don't have to worry about peak hours. Going to do that when my contract with my current telco ends.

Guys, if your VN GFs wants to get a line remember to use M1. Then don't have to buy calling cards for them?? If really hardcore, pre-paid cards can also do number-porting. You can get them to switch or get a new line.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by AlCIA Duh

Or you can just switch to M1, add $5+ every month to use the free 021 IDD. They will deduct from your local outgoing talktime, don't have to worry about peak hours. Going to do that when my contract with my current telco ends.

Guys, if your VN GFs wants to get a line remember to use M1. Then don't have to buy calling cards for them?? If really hardcore, pre-paid cards can also do number-porting. You can get them to switch or get a new line.

Thank you for sharing..

[jackbl]

Hi bro, can i buy M1 prepaid card to get to call vn using 021?

Originally Posted by AlCIA Duh

Or you can just switch to M1, add $5+ every month to use the free 021 IDD. They will deduct from your local outgoing talktime, don't have to worry about peak hours. Going to do that when my contract with my current telco ends.

Guys, if your VN GFs wants to get a line remember to use M1. Then don't have to buy calling cards for them?? If really hardcore, pre-paid cards can also do number-porting. You can get them to switch or get a new line.

[qwerty78]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Hi bro, can i buy M1 prepaid card to get to call vn using 021?

yes you can........ only charge local call rates.

8pm to 8am is off peak i think 8 cents.

peak is 16 cents

[cashier]

Hi,

What this mean?

anh vo thich em ko. anh lam ban trai em nha. chuc anh ngu ngon

anh ngu nho mo toi em ong xa

thanks

[AlCIA Duh]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Hi bro, can i buy M1 prepaid card to get to call vn using 021?

Wah lao eh brother, I already talk so much you still ask me this kind of qns??

The answer is yes, and it's only "wu hwa" if you call during off peak hours. Or else calling card can give you more talktime for your buck.

Originally Posted by cashier

anh vo thich em ko. anh lam ban trai em nha. chuc anh ngu ngon

anh ngu nho mo toi em ong xa

Something along the lines of

Do you like me?? Can you be my boyfriend?? Good night!!

Husband, dream of me when you sleep.

The 2nd sentence I'm not very sure if it's correct, all the experts here, please correct me if I'm wrong!!

[jackbl]

Sorry for my stupidity.... i think during PEAK, using M1 also cheaper than calling card because u still need to use your handphone to call the calling card service.

Your translation is 100% correct

Originally Posted by AlCIA Duh

Wah lao eh brother, I already talk so much you still ask me this kind of qns??

The answer is yes, and it's only "wu hwa" if you call during off peak hours. Or else calling card can give you more talktime for your buck.

Something along the lines of

Do you like me?? Can you be my boyfriend?? Good night!!

Husband, dream of me when you sleep.

The 2nd sentence I'm not very sure if it's correct, all the experts here, please correct me if I'm wrong!!

[jackbl]

Ha Long Bay leads seven world wonders vote
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Ha Long Bay tops the list of 77 candidates for the New Open World Foundation’s “New Seven Wonders of Nature” competition.
The year-long voting period is more than half over.

While the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Ha Long Bay tops the list, Vietnam accounts for three of the contest’s top five choices so far.

Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh holds the fourth position while Fansipan, a 3,143-meter-tall mountain in the northwestern province of Lao Cai Province, ranked fifth Wednesday, up from seventh on Tuesday.

Lao Cai Province shares a border with China.

All three places are in northern Vietnam.

The voting includes three stages.

The first stage, a voting stage from August, 2007-August, 2008, will determine 77 semi-finalists.

A panel of experts will then short-list 21 finalists from which voters worldwide will elect seven new natural wonders.

Votes can be cast online at New7Wonders: Welcome to the official global voting platform of New7Wonders.

Source: Thanh Nien

[jackbl]

Vietnamese resort named the best in the world
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Vietnam’s Nam Hai Resort & Spa has been named the best resort in the world in the Travel + Leisure magazine’s annual Design Awards.

A panel of seven design industry experts lauded Nam Hai in Hoi An is ancient town as a stylish take on local, single-story, thatched-huts, in the March issue.

Travel + Leisure praised the property for its creative qualities, including its dark wood elegance and rich materials.

The 35-hectare resort, which opened in December 2006, features traditional residences of Vietnam, nha ruong, creatively re-interpreted to accommodate modern technologies and amenities.

Most of the resort’s 60 one-bedroom villas and 40 pool villas border the sea around a horseshoe-shaped spit of sand.

This is the fourth year Travel + Leisure has held the awards.

Nam Hai has established a reputation as one of the world’s great resorts.

Earlier this month, luxury travel site Globorati.com named it one of the top 10 most romantic hotels for couples.

Reported by Vinh Son

[jackbl]

Southern specialty: Pia cake
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To many families in southern Vietnam, enjoying pia during the mid-autumn holidays has been a tradition since the early 19th century.
Pia is a rich cake eaten with tea that is a specialty of the Kinh, Khmer and Chinese ethnic people living in the Mekong Delta region.

The Chinese Ming Xiang people migrated to live by the Mekong Delta in the 14th century, bringing with them a round-shaped flat pudding filled with green pia powder.

It was called pia in Chinese which became pia in Vietnamese.

After hundreds of years, the original pia underwent adaptations to suit the tastes of the local people.

Since the early 19th century, it has been a specialty of the Mekong Delta Province of Soc Trang thanks to resident Dang Thuan who pioneered cooking and selling the puddings.

Initially, the Chinese-made pia had a surface layer made of wheat powder and was filled with a mixture of green pea powder and pork fat.

As a local variation, the Southerners incorporated one of their favorite fruits, the durian, to make a new filling when combined with dried egg yolk.

A third popular variation for the pia is to fill them with Indian taro.

The pia is also a very colorful delicacy, with an orange pink exterior, a yellow interior from the green pea powder and a red center from the color of the egg yolk.

It is not only Vietnam’s southern residents who speak highly of this treat.

Foreigners have also enjoyed and praised the savory dessert. One such foreigner is Australian Michael Smith, who was so impressed by the cake’s unique flavor that he now seeks it out for breakfast.

“The smell and taste are strange but excellent,” Smith says.

At HCMC-based An Dong Market, Japanese and Korean tourists buy the cakes as gifts to take home to their families.

Nowadays, Soc Trang Province in the Mekong Delta has some 40 pia producers, most of which are located in Phu Tam Commune of My Tu District.

To buy pia, go to Highway 1A in Soc Trang where there are many shops selling the unique cake. These shops manufacture and distribute pia around the country.

Ho Chi Minh City-based markets or supermarkets also offer this tasty pudding. Packets of pia, which normally contain four cakes, are sold for between VND20,000-30,000 (US$1-2).


WHERE TO BUY PIA:

■ An Dong Market: 34 An Duong Vuong St., Dist. 5, HCMC.
■ Tan Hue Vien Cake Shop: 140 Nguyen Trong Tuyen St., Tan Binh Dist., HCMC.
■ Hong Bong Cake Shop: 93 Nguyen Thong St., Dist. 3, HCMC.

Reported by Diem Thu

[jackbl]

Hi,

Anyone can translate the following sentence? 1 bro asked me for help but I can only help a little

"Lanh nhat la ke thu cua tinh yeu, no se giet chet va danh mat nhung gi minh da co."

frigid/frosty is enemy of love, it will kill and ..........

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by AlCIA Duh

Do you like me?? Can you be my boyfriend?? Good night!!

Husband, dream of me when you sleep.

The 2nd sentence I'm not very sure if it's correct, all the experts here, please correct me if I'm wrong!!

Wah..another tieng viet expert emerged....pls continue to share...thanks...

[jackbl]

Experience the Cu Chi Tunnels
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Villagers of Tan Phu Trung and Phuoc Vinh An communes were the first to dig short tunnels to shelter from the enemy and store confidential revolutionary documents in the resistance against French troops.
Each residential area had a tunnel system and the hamlet residents connected them to create a large, complicated network.

Only 60km from the center of HCMC, the Cu Chi Tunnels are one of the city’s most important historical tourist attractions.

More than 120 kilometers of the original complex built between 1946-1948 by Cu Chi residents has been preserved for tourists to view.

In 1965, during the war against US troops, the system was expanded, with three different layers and a total length of 200km.

The top, middle and bottom layers were 3m, 6m and 12m from the ground surface but were quite airy.

The construction is in two sections – Ben Dinh in the Nhuan Duc Commune, which was the base of the district Party committee between 1960 and 1975, and Ben Duoc, which was the Saigon-Gia Dinh military zone or the Saigon base of the Liberation Army.

Visitors are allowed to crawl into the tunnels at Ben Dinh.

Twenty kilometers away at Ben Duoc in Phu Hiep Hamlet in Phu My Hung Commune, visitors can enter the temple where dead soldiers are worshipped.

Above the tunnel system ramparts, mine fields and bamboo-stake pits served as defenses in the guerilla war.

Cu Chi people also built a system of trenches for traveling and fighting around the underground openings.

Visitors can enter the tunnels and take photos in there.

According to the guides, who dress as guerillas, some tunnels, which were only large enough for one 40 kilograms person to pass, have been widened to serve tourists.

All the three layers are lit by candles or torches around the clock.

In Ben Dinh, documentary films show the war against the US There are models of the tunnels, the general’s trench, health stations and wells.

Particularly interesting is a kind of kitchen that didn’t create smoke.

Outside the tunnels are statues of soldiers fighting, reading letters, and resting.

Photographs at Ben Duoc Temple show people making bombs, sharpening spikes and screening husked rice.

A classroom in the liberated area helps tourists understand more about the life and fighting of Cu Chi people before and during the war against US troops.

The Cu Chi Tunnel attracts many local and foreign tourists, including US veterans who fought or worked in Vietnam.

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How to get there
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Go along the Cach Mang Thang Tam Street to the Bay Hien Intersection.
Go straight through and follow the Truong Chinh Street until you get to the Highway 22, turn right and drive 30 km to Cu Chi.

Reported by Diem Thu

[cashier]

hi guys what is this mean?

anh an com chua dang lam gi

also what does an means?