Illustration According to the RT , a link to a pornographic website was recently discovered in a textbook used to teach Ukrainian to 10th graders since 2018. Ukrainian children start school at the age of six. By the 10th grade, most of the students were 16 years old. “It’s not clear if this is a joke or a hoax. But can you imagine how many children we have raised in the last three years with such a book?”, said Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova angrily, adding that prosecutors are conducting the investigation. investigate the case. According to local media, the person who discovered the error in the textbook was the author Aleksandr Avramenko. This famous education expert took to Facebook to complain about the slowness of the Ukrainian authorities. He said the cybersecurity agency was slow to respond when he called for the blocking of pornographic websites linked to in textbooks. Regarding his error, Avramenko explained that when writing the book, he cited some documents from the website that was once the official portal of a district in the Kirovograd Region of Ukraine. Because of quoting information, Mr. Avramenko must specify the link according to copyright law. When the textbook was published in 2018, the site still belonged to the Novomyrhorod district. But last year, the website domain was transferred to a new owner. The person then started turning the site into a dark web, Avramenko stressed, adding that “this metamorphosis was just discovered.” The author suggested that the dark web scandal could have been a provocation by some unknown opponents who were jealous of his success. “Why is this happening to my book? This year, I submitted four textbooks to different competitions and all of them won first place, far ahead of the competitors. Could this be the reason? Unfortunately, I also have enemies,” Avramenko wrote. However, the author does not rule out the possibility that this is simply a coincidence. Currently, the Ukrainian investigative agency has not confirmed or denied the author’s allegations.

This is the emotion that was engraved in my memory the first time I set foot at Mien Dong bus station. Lost and insecure, precarious as if walking on a bumpy slope. But the emotion in the early 90s of the last century was something full and hot, and this time it was a bit more profound. The only thing that has not changed and has become familiar is the coffee atmosphere that we can easily feel in any coffee shop in Saigon. Although I have settled in Saigon for more than twenty years, half the time in my homeland, there is no Landmark in Saigon that makes me remember much. The things imprinted in my brain are just nameless little things. For example, the General’s shrine is in a certain alley near Saigon station that I can no longer locate. The temple is just an altar in the style of Mr. Dia, located in the most spacious part of the alley. The shrine is modest, but the smoke of incense sticks out all day. Nearby is a toad cafe owned by an alley gang boss. Somehow, I got used to this “brutal” guy. Perhaps the naivety of a teenager from distant Quang Nam touched his heart? No, the reason is from the shrine. He told me that the General was “outside” everywhere. A few years ago, his junior brought back an old bag. It claimed “stealing” from an old man outside the station. Inside were only a few old clothes, a tin box containing a strange black powder. When he was depressed, another kid running from the station said that the old man was rolling around crying near death on the platform, his head was covered with blood. In the end, the senior had to go to the place to witness the incident and understand everything. That tin box contained something very sacred: remains. That old man was a son from Quang Nam who went to collect his father’s bones to bring back to his hometown and then it happened as we know it. The brothers and sisters forced the junior to return the bag and especially the tin box to the old man, but he claimed that it had already been spilled. The little black powder in the tin box was thrown down the alley, right where the General’s shrine is now. The junior thought for a while and then jumped out near the canal. After a while it brought back a pile of black soil… When the old man received his bag back, and especially when he saw that the tin box was still intact, he was as happy as if he had caught gold. As for the brothers and sisters, they found the altar and placed it right where the junior had dropped the bones. Since then, the temple has been taken care of by the whole gang, and smoked fruit incense all day. The General was also tolerant when he didn’t blame the people who pulled vertically, but also occasionally hit a few numbers. And he became famous from there. I once dared to ask “your hand” why did you call the General? “Hands and sisters” explained that to win such a lottery, it must be done by the General. The General’s Shrine and your coffee shop toads are what make me picture Saigon most vividly, in a way that nothing in this land can replace. Then there are so many places I have been, the roads I have walked, until now, I can no longer imagine. But the feeling they give me is still intact. A coffee shop toad disappeared somewhere under the floor of a building. An attractive road leading to Long An in the past, has now been replaced by a luxurious and busy urban area. Then Binh Dong wharf, which contains the development history of this land, now who has the strength to recall? But one thing that never dies is the emotion they sow in our brains. Saigon will forever be there no matter how many conspiracies across this land. For one thing, those who come first or come late, come in a friendly attitude or steal, will sooner or later be tamed by this land. As well as the very familiar coffee atmosphere that I encountered even in a strange place. We will remember the roads we have walked, and we will also remember the roads we have never walked. The emotion that Saigon sows in the souls of predestined people is immortal.

After calculating the payment, the customers also carry their own food and sit down next to the cart of the restaurant. However, instead of feeling inconvenient, many people appear to be quite interested in such a way of self-service. The shop is open from 16:00 to 22:00 and is always crowded. Many visitors said that they were curious about the flan cake, sweet potato that was “making rain and wind” on social networks, while others shared that they would definitely come back for a second time because they “fell in love” with the flavor of the flan cake. weird here. Flan cakes with many flavors and colors attract customers in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City. The buffet counter has more than 10 cake flavors Flan wheels in An Quang apartment have been open for sale for nearly 2 months. Thanks to the many flavors of flan cakes such as traditional, cheese, strawberry almonds, chocolate … and various kinds of toppings of pearls, colorful sweet potatoes, the restaurant is known and introduced by many young people on social networks. First time visiting the flan bakery with sweet potato, Lieu Nhi (19 years old), a student of Hoa Sen University, is quite interested in the sales model here. “Normally, when we go to other restaurants, we will order the dishes available in the menu, but this bakery has more than a dozen flavors on trolleys like a buffet counter for guests to choose freely. The counselors are very enthusiastic and attentive to the customer’s own taste ”. Diners take their own plate, choose their favorite cake on the shop’s trolley. Meanwhile, Quynh Huong (20 years old), a student at the University of Economics and Finance in Ho Chi Minh City, told Zing She knows the restaurant thanks to the reviews of food bloggers on social networks. As a “fan” of flan cake, knowing which new place is, Huong must invite her friends to try it right away. “When I haven’t been to the restaurant yet, I also worry that the comments on the internet are not correct because in fact many times follow and feel very bad. However, this shop in my opinion evaluates the correct reviews about 70%. The cake is quite good. delicious, soft, not too sweet, not too fat “, Huong said. Also an avid fan of flan cakes and trying many restaurants in Saigon, Uyen Nhi (19 years old) commented: “Compared to other flan shops in Saigon, the price of 10,000 VND / item is quite high. , I still feel reasonable because I often make cakes, so I think the good ingredients, the selling price might be a bit more expensive “. According to Nhi, the biggest minus point of the restaurant is topping the pearls with sweet potatoes. “Sometimes, the topping part that customers order comes with very little sweet potato, mainly pearls. The topping is sometimes undercooked, so it is still hard and has unclear taste ”. Most of the diners are students and students who know the restaurant through online reviews. Selling 500 – 700 cakes / day Share with Zing Thanh Dat, an employee who has been working at the restaurant since the beginning, said that the shop now has 12 flavors of flan cakes and all are made and processed by the shop. “On average, every day, we prepare about 500-700 pieces. And during holidays or weekends, we increase from 100-150 pieces. At the time of the beginning of the shop, there are days when we sell 1,000”. Normally, the shop closes at 22:00. However, in many days, it was only 20-21 o’clock when the cake was sold out. The restaurant’s flan cake has a shelf life of 1-2 days if stored in the refrigerator. There are 12 cakes with the price of 10,000 VND / item. However, when it is displayed to make it easy for everyone to choose, the cake can only be used during the day. The topping part cannot be left to the next day. Currently, the shop does not have a shipping service, but only focuses on serving customers at the restaurant. After a period of stable business, the shop intends to cooperate with delivery units to serve a more diverse number of customers. “Because the shop is mainly for young people, everyone, from the owner to the staff, must also understand what young people like to catch the trend. Since the shop is known to many of you, every comment, feedback from customers. goods from social networks to reality are recognized in order to overcome and improve “, Thanh Dat said.

What is octopus?

To answer this question, perhaps most of the public will think of a delicious, popular seafood, or at most remember the octopus Paul, who once attracted the world’s attention thanks to his “predictions. “Exactly about the 2010 World Cup matches.

For those reading Wikipedia “addicted” or good students in Biology, maybe the answer will have more about the superior intelligence of molluscs if compared with other inhabitants of the ocean kingdom. . These are the easy answers, for we naturally consider only the “common” octopus (common octopus or octopus vulgaris) to be an animal, nothing more, no less.

But for South African filmmaker Craig Foster, such a “common” octopus is not an animal, much less delicious food. That creature is the middle-aged man’s “teacher” about nature, life, and is also the main character of the excellent documentary. My Octopus Teacher (My octopus teacher).

Friendship between humans and octopus

Crafted by directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed for Netflix based on documentary footage of Craig Foster’s strange and amusing meeting with the octopus at the end of the black continent bordering the Atlantic. Cape of Storms, My Octopus Teacher recounts the seemingly impossible friendship between a man who has gone through all stages of his life with a seemingly inanimate octopus.

Craig Foster is not a dreamer with the ability to find soul in every creature in the world. On the contrary, he is a filmmaker tired of the events of his life, feeling helpless in communicating with even those he loves most, like his son Tom.

Filmmaker Craig Foster.

Therefore, Foster decided to give up the camera to go back to his homeland at Storm Cape alone, where he could enjoy himself in solitude amid the beautiful and mysterious kelp forest. contact people, not think about life.

It was in the underwater forest that he met an octopus, who had no name, no voice, but showed incredible intelligence in hunting or camouflage to avoid the pijama sharks who were always prowling in the darkness of the ocean. . Out of curiosity, Foster began to really pay attention to learn, only to realize that the “animal” has much closer to the lonely man in the cold southern water.

From here, Craig Foster tried to build a “friendship”, a seemingly impossible emotional chain with that unnamed and voiceless octopus. Throughout My Octopus Teacher, viewers can see many different moments of that friendship, from nervousness, sadness, to happiness, anxiety, and at the same time feel the maturity, toughness of the emotional rope between the two sides. .

In the end, all will have to admit that the friendship between man and the seemingly small, dark octopus is not impossible.

The film’s sincerity

If you have to pack it up My Octopus Teacher In a word, perhaps it is sincerity. In each movie describing the wonderful nature of South Africa in general and kelp forest in particular, or in Craig Foster’s words for her octopus or for the vast ocean world, viewers can feel sincere feelings.

It is the feeling that filmmakers and movie characters like Foster, like his son Tom, for her octopus and the natural world. Honesty and sincerity are of course the required qualities of a good documentary film.

The film is about the heartfelt friendship between Craig Foster and an unnamed octopus.

But the careful, meticulousness of Craig Foster and his colleagues to describe the most accurate, clearest, easiest to grasp the diversity and depth of life in the ocean has helped the audience understand. out a truth. That man is just a part of the big world with a real connection that always exists and waits to be unearthed, as the way Foster realized his feelings for the “octopus teacher” .

Perhaps for many viewers, the name “My octopus teacher” will bring many doubts because of the stereotype “octopus is just an animal” due to the lack of contact with nature in a natural way. . But Craig Foster, and My Octopus Teacher, will quickly resolve that skepticism thanks to excellent footage of a strange world at the end of the world.

On the ocean floor, in the shadow of the giant kelp trees, viewers will find a feeling of sedimentation. Seeing the way the octopus took the tentacle and touched Foster’s hard but trembling hand, many fathers and mothers will surely remember the moment they saw their baby born, holding the table. the small, fragile hand of a being who still could not speak, but already had a seed of affection within him.

Foster’s troubled gaze when talking about the dangerous moments – which filled the short life of an octopus in the raging ocean – perhaps reminded many viewers of the anxiety and restlessness they had. for your loved one in the stormy turns of life.

My Octopus Teacher there are many moments like that for the audience to feel the real friendship between Foster and the octopus teacher.

Humans are only part of the Earth

In the context of modern society gradually taking over the wild, people destroy natural life at a dizzying speed and then have to face the consequences of their own cause, many filmmakers have been try to call for human conscience in preserving nature, preserving the precious remaining life resources on Earth.

Usually, directors will choose to speak face to face, outlining the dire consequences that humanity will suffer as in An Inconvenient Truth (2006) by David Guggenheim, or specifying a variety of breathtaking yet fragile beauty, in need of the protection of the Earth as in Our Planet led by legendary David Attenborough.

Humans are, after all, only part of the Earth.

Also a beautiful work of nature, but My Octopus Teacher choose another way of giving your message. Through a seemingly rare encounter between Craig Foster and his octopus teacher, the film simply tells us that we – modern humans – are just inhabitants of a vast world on Earth. . There are many other residents here, with different destinies, different ways of life, different behaviors.

Only efforts to protect the environment, with a real desire to come to nature, to return to nature, can humanity have the opportunity to truly get acquainted, experience precious emotions like Foster in almost one. His octopus teacher track year.

From a beautiful lifestyle, people can find opportunities to make their life less lonely, to see life more beautiful, worth living, like how Craig Foster nurtured feelings for his son through feelings. The inspiration was obtained from the sea, from the octopus teacher.