Vài câu thơ buồn của Lưu Quang Vũ

"Tôi mua hào thuốc lá
Ngồi hút mà buồn thiu
Em yêu hay không yêu
Quan trọng gì phải khổ?

Thôi chẳng chờ mong nữa
Chẳng đua chen với cuộc đời này
Xin chối từ bàn tiệc đắng cay
Lòng tốt ai cần đến
Thơ không đâu dùng
Anh như thằng bờm
Chẳng thiết trâu bò chẳng thiết lim
Chỉ nhận nắm xôi cười ngặt nghẽo.

Muốn lên tàu đi đâu thật xa
Nhưng nhà ga đã sụp
Ngã tư mưa nhớ em
Vừa thương vừa trách giận
Sao chân em dẫm đạp
Lên những gì tôi yêu?"

Some random pixs - Tet 2010

My Yule

The Gang

29 Tet - Bus station

Fishing in my cousin's fiancee's house

Heading to Don Village. The sarong that Dunno bought me made the cool appearance!

On the boat along the Serepok river

Yippi!!!!

Goodbye my almost lover, goodbye my hopeless dream...

ALMOST LOVER

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick

Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

[Chorus]
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images

No

Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you

Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance

My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine

Did I make it that
Easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should have known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

Hallelujah - Kate Voegele

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v22NMAG1k18&feature=related

Yahoo! stuffs

Như con chim đang đu dây điện (dịch bài này từ A Bird On The Wire của Cohen)

Như con chim đang đu dây điện

Như thằng xỉn đang gào thét trong dàn hợp xướng nửa đêm

Ta cố tìm cách nào đó để tự do tự tại

Như con sâu nằm chết dí ở bản lề

Như gã hiệp sĩ trong một quyển truyện cũ rích cũ rê

Ta để dành dây cương ghì giữ ta cho người

Nếu ta từng tồi tệ

Mong em chín bỏ làm mười

Nếu ta từng bội phản

Mong em hãy hiểu cho không bao giờ ta làm điều đó với em.

Không đâu em!

Như đứa nhỏ chết non

Như quái vật với cái sừng thê thảm

Ta từng làm thương tổn những người cố chạm vào ta

Nhưng ta thề về bài ca này

Với những điều sai lầm

Ta sẽ đền bù tất cả cho người.

Phải rồi, ta sẽ

Ta thấy một gã ăn mày nhoài người khỏi cây nạng gỗ

Hắn bảo ta "Mày không được đòi hỏi quá nhiều"

Và một nàng kia nhoài người khỏi khung cửa tối

Nàng nỉ non với ta "Ê, sao không đòi nhiều hơn?"

Như con chim đang đu dây điện

Như thằng xỉn đang gào thét trong dàn hợp xướng nửa đêm

Ta cố tìm cách nào đó để tự do tự tại

(LEONARD COHEN)

Lisa Hannigan

Totally crazy abt her!

Hồ Trường - NGUYỄN BÁ TRÁC

HỒ TRƯỜNG

Đại trượng phu
Không hề xé gan, bẻ cột
Phủ cương thường
Hà tất tiêu dao
Bốn bể luân lạc tha phương
Trời Nam, nghìn dặm thẳm
Non nước, một màu sương
Chí chưa thành, danh chưa đạt
Trai trẻ bao lăm, mà đầu bạc
Trăm năm thân thế, bóng tà dương
Vỗ gươm mà hát, nghiêng bầu mà hỏi
Trời đất mang mang
Ai người tri kỷ...
Lại đây cùng ta
Chung cạn một hồ trường!
Hồ trường, hồ trường
Ta biết rót về đâu...
Rót về Đông phương
Nước biển Đông chảy xiết
sinh cuồng loạn
Rót về Tây phương
Mưa Tây sơn từng trận
chứa chan!
Rót về Bắc phương
Ngọn Bắc phong vi vút
đá chảy cát vương!
Rót về Nam phương
Trời Nam mù mịt...
Có người quá chén
như điên, như cuồng...
Nào ai tỉnh...
Nào ai say...
Chí ta, ta biết
Lòng ta, ta hay
Nam nhi sự nghiệp ư...
Hồ thỉ
Hà tất
cùng sầu với cỏ cây.

NGUYỄN BÁ TRÁC

Dại chụp - tay mình

Bad Advice: DO WHAT YOU LOVE

This morning I got an email from N.A with this article attached. It's interesting. (Source: sorry, dunno)

One of the worst pieces of career advice that I bet each of you has not only gotten but given is to "do what you love".

"Forget that. It's absurd. I have been writing since before I even knew how to write - when I was a preschooler I dictated my writing to my dad. And you might not be in preschool, but if you are in touch with who you are, you are doing what you love, no matter what, because you love it.

So it's preposterous that we need to get paid to do what we love because we do that stuff anyway. So you will say, "But look. Now you are getting paid to do what you love. You are so lucky." But it's not true. We are each multifaceted, multilayered, complicated people, and if you are reading this blog, you probably devote a large part of your life to learning about yourself and you know it's a process. None us loves just one thing.

I am a writer, but I love sex more than I love writing. And I am not getting paid for sex. In fact, as you might imagine, my sex life is really tanking right now. But I don't sit up at night thinking, should I do writing or sex? Because career decisions are not decisions about "what do I love most?" Career decisions are about what kind of life do I want to set up for myself?

So how could you possibly pick one thing you love to do? And what would be the point?

The world reveals to you all that you love by what you spend time on. Try stuff. If you like it, you'll go back to it. I just tried Pilates last month. I didn't want to try, but a friend said she loved the teacher, so I went. I loved it. I have taken it three times a week ever since. And it's changed me. I stand up straighter. (I'd also have better sex, if I were having it. The Pilates world should advertise more that it improves your sex life: Totally untapped market.)

Often, the thing we should do for our career is something we would only do if we were getting a reward. If you tell yourself that your job has to be something you'd do even if you didn't get paid, you'll be looking for a long time. Maybe forever. So why set that standard?

The reward for doing a job is contributing to something larger than you are, participating in society, and being valued in the form of money.The pressure we feel to find a perfect career is insane. And, given that people are trying to find it before they are thirty, in order to avoid both a quarterlife crisis and a biological-clock crisis, the pressure is enough to push people over the edge. Which is why one of the highest risk times for depression in life is in one's early twenties when people realize how totally impossible it is to simply "do what you love.

"Here's some practical advice: Do not what you love; do what you are. It's how I chose my career. I bought the book with that title - maybe my favorite career book of all time - and I took the quickie version of the Myers-Briggs test. The book gave me a list of my strengths, and a list of jobs where I would likely succeed based on those strengths.

Relationships make your life great, not jobs. But a job can ruin your life - make you feel out of control in terms of your time or your ability to accomplish goals - but no job will make your life complete. It's a myth mostly propagated by people who tell you to do what you love. Doing what you love will make you feel fulfilled. But you don't need to get paid for it.

A job can save your life, though. If you are lost, and lonely, and wondering how you'll ever find your way in this world. Take a job. Any job. Because structure, and regular contact with regular people, and a method of contributing to a larger group are all things that help us recalibrate ourselves.

So if you are overwhelmed with the task of "doing what you love" you should recognize that you are totally normal, and maybe you should just forget it. Just do something that caters to your strengths. Do anything.

And if you are so overwhelmed that you feel depression coming on, consider that a job might save you. Take one. Doing work and being valued in the community is important. For better or worse, we value people with money. Earn some. Doing work you love is not so important. We value love in relationships. Make some.