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Diving in English...

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Asking for help on the Internet

"Hi, my friend (or another name) has a serious disease. He/or she need a lot of money to treat. If you can help, please contact (a cellphone number), or please send this message to your friend who can afford."

How would you do if you received the messages like this? I always send them for my friend list in my Y!M, but I never answer them. One reason I decided to send them is some of them include sentence: "With every message you send, Yahoo! (or some organizations) will pay 5 cents to help this case". If I can help someone just by sending some messages, I'm willing to do it. However, I wonder if this is the truth. I don't know how to check this information, so just do it, and don't ask more. I think my friend also do the same like me. We send them, and forget them immediately.

One reason I didn't answer them is I was afraid I would became a fool. What would happen if you call the cellphone, and realize that you were duped? Would you still believe other things on the Internet? If I send them, I can hope that maybe I'm able to help someone, but I will hurt myself if I contact and know the message is just a joke! (Our kindness is always wide-open when we can ensure our safety!!!)

Money

We all know the importance of money economy. We have to go to work to earn money. We wish we could get it more and more, easier and easier. How much is enough?

I've seen a lovely movies. A girl needed two hundred and fifty million VND to make her dream come true. She did anything to earn money. She became stronger when she worked. It made her happy and busy. Unfortunately, she is an orphan. She lost her parents since she was a child, at that time she lived alone. She hadn't any identification, nobody wanted to hire her.

So, she accepted a stranger job: taking care and teaching for a guy. He had been a richer, but that time he haven't any penny in his pocket. He's very foolish and lazy. He didn't know to do housework, of course, didn't know to earn money. He didn't know how to do anything.

The girl had to teach him everything. She taught him to ride a bicycle, and then he lost her bike. She taught him to clean the discs, and then he broke all discs. She taught him to sell old books to earn money, and then he lost her books because he went to sleep. I can't believe/think that there is such a careless guy on the globe.

There're so many funny situation happened. They made me laugh all of the movies. Although that guy was so ugly, but he also was a ugly duckling guy. He accepted to learn everything. He could did house-working better gradually. And he taught the girl to know to read and write (ah, she couldn't read and write before, so she couldn't read her books).

They fell in love, of course. It's always the end of a love story. But, something I remember the most, is some funny (or ugly?) case when he and she did together. They knew they're poor, but their life were still happy and lovely. Sometimes they cried, but sometimes they couldn't stop laughing when they lived together.

(This movie has a lovely title: "Suddenly want to cry". Oh, now everyone in my country know it

:D . )

I found that, I and you, we try to earn money more and more, and sometime we feel tired, but there're many things which are more important than money in our life. If you lost all your money , it doesn't mean you will die (IT's just mean you will be a poor person :lol: And you will have a new start.) I also think that earning money is not my purpose of all my life. If I have food to eat, clothes to wear everyday, and a house with my family, that's enough.

I'm writing English with a Vietnamese thought...

I pretend to write one entry every day to improve my written English skill. This is the first of my plan. Writing and thinking, about my life, my friends, my works, about something I see when I go somewhere, something I think it's so amazing...

There are so much interesting things every day. I should write down, discuss, and tell them to other people, with all my pleasure. I believe my life is not so boring that I can't tell you anything, right? I believe I can find the color of life through something happening around me.

Thank you for reading this entry. If you can find any mistake (vocabulary, grammar, idioms, etc.), please write a comment to help me correct it. I'll check my entries frequently and update them. With the mistakes you find out, I'll correct and change them into blue color.

Thanks for your help!
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