The “hot spot” for shops on Kim Ma Street was very rare before, but now there are many options for tenants to choose from. The old owner has moved out, but the new owner is nowhere to be seen This used to be a very famous fashion clothing brand Barbecue shop at a prime location on Dao Tan Street is closed waiting for the day to come back Right next to it is another store that has been closed since the beginning of the year because of sluggish business A few shops on busy Nguyen Thai Hoc street have been closed for rent for a long time Some shops are still salvageable, besides the ones that have been dormant 2 years ago to rent a small shop in this section of Kim Ma street was extremely difficult, even with the price of several tens of millions of dong/month for an area of ​​only 20m2. But now, spoiled for choice, the problem is that the tenants are absent Occasionally, I come across a shop that is taking advantage of investment to catch up when the epidemic is over, many people are considered “reckless”. Stores that have been rented for many months in a row without customers Stores that have been rented for many months in a row without customers 2 years ago, it was almost impossible to want to rent a space like this The flower shop is liquidating the shelves after returning the premises Renting the whole house is not expensive The owner left the door mezzanine so that it wouldn’t be secret, and if anyone called to ask for a rental, it would be convenient to answer There are still some fashion shops that continue to overcome the epidemic, but customers are very rare The woman carrying the street vendors has the opportunity… to sit on the street, this opportunity was only available in Hanoi decades ago năm There are streets where the shops close close together like Tet holiday The security guard is “sleeping soundly” because his task is simply blocking the seat at the entrance

[…] When I first came to Saigon in the summer of 1972, my father let me go by plane. Perhaps, it was an unforgettable experience with the eagerness of a 13-year-old boy to go out for the first time in his life by such modern means, to a famous and magnificent city known only through books, television or songs; in other words, is somewhere too splendid, luxurious only in dreams.. The father and son went into the house of a relative whom my father called aunt. I remember, the old woman was about 70 years old, her hair was white, and her hair was in a neat bun. A small house in an alley on Yen Do Street (now Ly Chinh Thang), fell in love a few sections. There was a smell behind the house that I couldn’t describe what it was, years later I kept calling it “the smell of Saigon”, rising from the water below (visible through the cracks in the wooden floor). I just wanted to be taken to the street by my father, somewhere to escape this dark smell. However, that family was large and my father had to sit down and talk to them so many things that I could only wander in front of the house looking at the restaurants in the alley, not daring to step out behind, just afraid of encountering the horrible smell. that great. Then I gradually got used to the smell (taste) of Saigon (tired, lack, hunger, despair, hope, joy, sadness…) after having seven years of studying and working here. In the evenings when I go to teach about cycling uphill to Kieu Bridge, I think, sometimes it is the color and smell of canal water that makes it hard for people to forget Saigon. Many years later, when I returned to Nha Trang to work, I still had business trips to Saigon only to realize, if I had a vacation to go somewhere, the first place I would choose was still Saigon. Until the kids went to school here, my trips became more frequent. Saigon book, nostalgia roaming. Photo: ChiBooks. Ever since the discovery of a Saigon scented with porcelain flowers, sweet with the scent of the wall, I turned back the route of walking, did not go to Gia Dinh park but changed direction to the embankment. I can turn any way from Phan Xich Long. Sometimes I wander in small alleys, through spontaneous markets serving small villages that have been associated with the (probably) eternal morning rhythm, from the butcher to the vegetable shop. The alleys of Saigon are not much different from when I was 13 years old until now, more than 50 years. Still the greeting with a slightly southern accent, such innocent and resigned female figures. And even though intentionally… lost my way, I still reached the embankment. The sun was just rising, a sharp, round pink slowly emerged behind the tall buildings. The wind caresses. Some people walk, people swing on gym equipment, people sit on stone benches… The road around the embankment is very empty in the morning, making me see how spacious Saigon is. Passing a garbage collection station, I stopped and observed the daily work of the workers of the urban environment company. The crane from above picks up the trash cans to the canoes parked below. There are two workers to pick up and stow. The canoe started to back up when there were enough barrels and stopped a dense group of water hyacinths, each with a club, pulling the water hyacinth up and putting it in the box. The other canoes continued to run in different directions. I had mornings walking to the embankment, enjoying the fresh air, completely cool and no longer had the “smell of Saigon” of the age of 13. In the free evening, I invited my children to drive to the embankment and watch. The apartment block is printed on the black sky, there are small bright squares, colorful lights, as beautiful as a picture. When looking at the lonely moon, how vast is the sky! When I go to work, before going home, I run around the section of Kieu Bridge – Hoang Hoa Tham Bridge – Tran Khanh Du Bridge to see a row of high-rise buildings “lighting” behind the colorful periwinkle flowers, rows of green ornamental areca trees. , rows of white and red porcelain trees, rows of thin-walled micro-wings, purple mausoleums, yellow scallops… and turned the car around when it hit the roadblock at the construction site. Just remember, all these years in and out of Saigon, I’ve never driven along the Nhieu Loc canal, but heard it’s just over eight kilometers. I asked my son, the middle generation 9X, in the old summers when my mother let me go to Saigon to play, did I ever smell the bad smell of this channel. My child answered no. For a moment, life is long, then you will taste the “smell” of Saigon, the smell of life, but completely no longer have the Saigon smell of when I was 13… Tell your children, when you are tired, try to ignore all the troubles, hustles, fights, and hustles out there and think of Saigon’s porcelain-scented moon seasons like this one to forget and recharge. next step!

Old fisherman Nguyen Thai Son, Hong Thai village (Nghe An) is sad because the fishing ground is increasingly exhausted Sea story, job story Early in the morning, at Lach Con estuary (Quynh Phuong ward, Hoang Mai town, Nghe An), fisherman Ho Van Toan (63 years old, Quyet Tien village, Quynh Phuong ward) allowed the boat to land. From 12 o’clock the previous night, Mr. Toan alone went out to sea and caught more than 1 nautical mile from the river gate. Previously, he specialized in offshore fishing. In recent years, he “retired” at home, sad and sad, and remembered his job, so he bought a small boat of 15 million VND to go to sea. “Buy it for the old man with uncle!”, Mr. Toan chuckled and then began to remove the nets, in fact, scooping up the nets, to find the meager result he just had harvested. Mr. Toan laments: “Now the resources are running out, uncle. The ship pounded, scratched the snail (pull the grease snail), then the net bowl, the electric pulse swept, sweeping from the big to the small one. If you have eggs, you can catch them, you can catch them when they are born, then they won’t have the next generation. I am worried about how I will live on my own because I am old ”. After the trip to the sea, Mr. Tran Van Duc (Thang village, Quang Nham commune, Quang Xuong, Thanh Hoa) sat again knitting cage to fight crab. From March to July, the 8th lunar month, he caught crabs; in the remaining months, they were fishing for mantis shrimp and grouper. Mr. Duc said that before, there were many crabs offshore Thanh Hoa, but now they have to go fishing as far as Quang Ninh, Hai Phong. Mr. Nguyen Van Chung, head of Hai Thinh village (Nghi Thiet commune, Nghi Loc district, Nghe An) said that in the past, the village was isolated from the outside, women were rice farmers, men went to the beach. The village’s fishing grounds come mainly from Mat Island. “The fish in my hometown spawned in February and March of the lunar calendar. In the past, this was a quiet sea for them to breed, but now it is stirred up, mined, scratched, polluted, so the source is becoming more and more exhausted. My hometown beach is beautiful, unspoiled, many visitors love it, but now it’s all gone, ”Mr. Chung sighed. Marine workers are now mostly elderly people, some 70-75 years old still go to sea, while young people take care of other jobs in the four countries. Marine people escaped from the marine profession Every time he mentions the sea profession, Mr. Tran Ngoc Chau (72 years old, living in Thanh Son village, Nghi Son island commune, Nghi Son town, Thanh Hoa) is sad again. The “mantra” of the sea villager “if the sea can, I can” no longer seem to be ineffective. He said: “In the past, I pointed out that Nghi Son Bay had set up a trap and had eaten. As we go out to sea a little bit, we often say happily one day to work a month. But now it’s over!”. Nghi Son island commune in the past 100% of the people work in the sea. People here live and die by the sea, “the nose of the boat is guarded on the side of the house”. In recent years, the sea fishing has faced many difficulties, especially the catch has decreased sharply, so many people do not want to go to the sea, some ship owners have to “sell jobs”, which means selling ships that do not work anymore. With the opening of Nghi Son Economic Zone, many stable job opportunities have attracted seafarers. For example, a young couple works as a worker on average 7 million VND / month / person. This is a stable source of income, while the sea is precarious, when the husband goes out to sea, the wife stays at home “hanging the mast” spiritually. We went back to Dai Dong village (Cuong Gian commune, Nghi Xuan district, Ha Tinh province) to meet Mr. Tran Ngoc Canh, heard him tell him: In the years 1989-1990, Cuong Gian commune had more than 1,000 boats, up to now there are only 300 ships. . Now, there are only people aged 40 and over, even over 70 years old. The whole commune has 2,700 people working abroad. Labor export for high income, each month someone sends 80 – 90 million VND, especially someone sends 120 – 130 million VND. Someone had a “broken” lot, had billions in debt, went out of labor export for 3 years to pay the debt, built a 3-storey house. But there are also people 50 or 60 years old who still have to leave their homeland, some have gone for 20 years and have not returned to their hometown once. Having a family, the wife remembers that the husband had to visit, then went back alone. Now, at the parent meeting, the children can see the grandparents, and the parents are “busy working far away”. Mr. Canh suppressed a sigh: “Everything is due to food and bargain. If the fishing career provides a stable income, no one wants to live away from their wife and children or from home ”. The village is gradually “conquered” Central coastal villages, which are peaceful and pristine, have been gradually “invaded” by tourism projects, economic development; because the debt caused by the marine industry is getting more and more difficult. Hai Thinh village (Nghi Thiet commune, Nghi Loc, Nghe An) is hidden behind the mountains of Chuong Ga, Mang mountain, and Mui Co. In the past, to get into the village, there was only one way, along one side of the mountain and the other by the sea. This place is a peaceful and beautiful place with beaches such as Oyster beach, Chuoi beach, Lang beach … Because of its prime location, wild beauty, this place has attracted a large eco-tourism project. . But, from 2013 up to now, this project is still “stationary”. Mr. Nguyen Van Chung, Head of Hai Thinh Village shook his head in frustration: “If the ecotourism project of Thanh Phat Company (headquarter in Hanoi) was implemented on schedule, our village would not have been encroached on by cement. . The ecotourism project has compensated people for nearly 8 billion VND for site clearance, but for some reason it has not yet implemented. It’s very polluted now ”. The project not only pollutes people but also affects the fishing grounds. Every time you dig and clear the channel, people rake the bottom layer up, dust from cement grinding station, from digging mountains to encroach the sea makes fish and shrimp no habitat. Coming to Tan village (Quang Nham commune, Quang Xuong district, Thanh Hoa), we found many signs with full name and phone number in the empty land. The idea of ​​advertising for selling land, but good research, this is a way for landowners to contact the project owner of the resort when they come to measure. Outside the village, facing the sea, a new breakwater was completed. A group of villagers were drying anchovies, listening to me complimenting the dike for making a beautiful beach. A middle-aged woman said: “It is really beautiful, but I do not know whether to work for people or work for tourism project owners. This embankment has just been invested 100 billion by the State to break waves for Tan village because of wave erosion. But just finished, the owner of the tourism project also entered ”. In 2004, the family of old fisherman Nguyen Van Thuong from Dong village (Quang Nham commune) went to Tan hamlet and was provided with 200m2 of residential land. Before the last New Year’s Eve, when he was fishing at sea, he heard his wife call to announce that people came to measure the land and prepare to relocate. When Tet came, he found out that not only his house but also Tan village had to relocate to make room for a resort tourism project. Mr. Vu Hoang Anh, Secretary and Head of Tan village, said: “In 2001, implementing the migration policy, people in the inner villages of Quang Nham commune went to the wasteland where bordering the Yen river mouth and the sea to live. Up to now, the village has 180 households with over 700 people, 80% of the population working in seafaring. The policy of giving land to ORG Joint Stock Company for the implementation of the urban and tourist project has been popular since 2017. Although the policy has been 4 years, it has not been measured until January 2021. During the 4 years of being “suspended”, people were not allowed to build houses and welfare works. To be honest, we don’t want to go, because here is a large land, life is already stable. If the project is implemented, then deploy it soon, but living like this is so miserable! ”. Mr. Ho Xuan Huong, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quynh Phuong ward (Hoang Mai town, Nghe An), said: Local authorities, central ministries need to have close coordination to implement the guidelines of the Party and House. on the strategy of marine economic development. For a long time, the policy has been in place, but the implementation to the coastal villages, particularly to each fisherman, is still lackluster. Along with that, it is also necessary to plan, train and form a force of good and modern fishermen, taking on the role of “living milestones” in the middle of the East Sea of ​​the country.

For human life today, toilets are extremely popular to serve the daily needs of each individual. However, under the Middle Ages, the aristocrats in Europe had a unique way of dealing with “sadness” in the context of not having toilets in the house. Specifically, hundreds of years ago, the aristocracy in some European countries used a ceramic vase named Bourdaloue when needed to go to the toilet. The Bourdaloue ceramic vase is designed with an oval shape. In addition to ceramic, it is also made of porcelain. Bourdaloue vases are sold in ceramic shops. Customers of the aristocracy often bought a few for home use. Accordingly, the Bourdaloue urns are placed in several rooms, including bedrooms for aristocrats to use at times of day. Unlike men, female aristocrats in Europe often wore spread-out dresses. Therefore, the noblewoman can use a skirt to hide the Bourdaloue vase inside while going to the toilet without losing her aesthetics. After use, the servant will take the Bourdaloue bottle to waste and clean it before placing it back in place. Thanks to the Bourdaloue vase, the aristocracy in ancient Europe was able to handle “sadness” in its own way. Later, the Bourdaloue vase no longer prevailed and gradually disappeared from society when the sanitary ware was invented. Invite readers to watch the video: Russia and Ukraine sign a new agreement on gas transportation to Europe. Source: THĐT 1.

I often have a habit of walking around the city after work, doing nothing, just going down and down the street and feeling relieved, happy, gentle in the flow of life in hustle.

Although the epidemic came from the beginning of the year in a way that we did not expect, life is still flowing without stopping. Everyone still has to work and live in a new normal environment. The street is still crowded, people and cars are still running busy on the road, woven together like a spider web. Why are so many people everywhere, this small city seems to get more crowded every year. The mechanical increase in population and personal means of transport makes the streets seem narrower, more cramped, and more stuffy.

Like the street I live in, in the past it was beautiful and peaceful. In the summer, the sun is full of fire, just walking into the street is as cool as being in the air conditioner. Green trees shaded the two sides of the street, the houses were nestled, quiet in the summer noon. Open the window in the morning, hear the birds singing. Flocks of sparrows swooped together on the street, joking and joking.

However, only for a short time, the street no longer recognized me. The shops on both sides of the road rose up close. Sidewalks, roadbeds are flooded with vehicles. The street is noisy, crowded, tired like a human heart. Europe is just a living thing, but why can I not help but feel sad, empty …

A few days ago I had the opportunity to drop by the old place in the city. At that time we were young students who just graduated from Bac Ninh to work. Each person is in different places but loves and sticks with the land of thousand years of civilization in Beijing. Rent a boarding house in Y Na but feel like living in a peaceful village. At night, lying and sleeping can still hear frogs, humming behind canals, land banks … Remember sad city nights, electric lights are not available. The train line is blocking the road. Y Na also does not have a bridge underneath, so she still has to wait for the car on the side of the road every time a train passes. Still remember forever the loud, noisy sounds of the passing train, leaving small spots of light falling into silence. Lately, roadside houses are still very sparse. Small, muddy road every time the rain comes. Small streets, small alley, peaceful life drifting like pink clouds.

Now, however, the City has changed dramatically. Buildings and roads kept coming up close. Newly expanded residential areas. Many land projects have been implemented, creating new, bustling neighborhoods. The rice fields gradually disappeared. The village retreated deeply into the past. That little peaceful place that day is now bustling with restaurants, no one recognizes it anymore. Passing across the lake near the new urban area, I suddenly met a confetti frame of someone’s house let loose on the porch, and regretted something so beautiful …

But no matter what, I still love this young and dynamic city, which has been attached to me with a passionate melody, with nostalgia through the blooming seasons, with a warm bond of human love and kind. The dynamic development of a young city, arrogant high-rise buildings, architectural works with both national identity and aesthetic and modern elements, parks, greenery, lakes The water is well planned, suitable, like giant green lungs that make the city greener, cleaner and more beautiful … The city is changing every day, but the hearts of people are still the same, peaceful and warm. . I just hope that the new one will not lose the simple, good-natured content, just hope like that …

Those who love Jun Pham are familiar with the image of a male singer and a close father as friends. However, to be able to freely express the feelings as at present, the father and son have had to go through many difficulties, together trying to remove misunderstandings and problems.

Singer Jun Pham Hui talked about memorable memories with his father.

Like many other sons in the Vietnamese family, Jun Pham used to be unable to talk freely with his father. According to Jun Pham, his father is a strict person, so all the joys and sorrows in life are confided to his mother. Things kept going like that until the incident happened to his family, his mother passed away.

“At the age of 18, Jun’s mother unfortunately passed away. At that time I was lonely because I couldn’t share with anyone. The sadness, the change in puberty, the worries about going to college …, I can’t tell my dad. Because my dad is a man, sometimes I don’t understand and can’t share it. At that time, I was just selfish thinking for myself but didn’t understand that I lost my mother, but my father also lost my wife. I must be very sad too ”, Jun Pham said

The male singer also said that at that time, he could not accept the fact that his father went out for a drink every night, leaving him at home. When the anger peaked, the father and son had a quarrel so loud that the male singer intended to leave home. But the very next day, the hypertensive father was hospitalized and Jun Pham felt extremely sorry.

“At that time, I realized that I was so bad, I only cared about the past but forgot how important the present is. At that time in the hospital, I just sat holding his father’s hand and said sorry, promising that from now on I will always admit my mistakes “- Jun Pham recalled.

According to the male singer, thanks to that argument, the father and son understood each other better: “From that day on, Dad became lighter. I understand that he lost his very loyal wife, how could he get used to it. My father changed my mother to support me and I changed my mother to take care of him, it happened for 10 years. For those 10 years Jun tried to stand by his side to understand, he also tried to stand on Jun’s side to understand … so that now the two of us can love each other more, easily saying things like ‘I love Dad ‘or’ I love you ‘.

Trac Thuy Mieu and Dai Nghia are two MCs who sympathize with Jun Pham’s situations.

Expressing sympathy, MC Dai Nghia said that for family love as well as love, we must learn and sympathize with each other to be able to put love in. Sometimes a generation gap or being a man makes it difficult for father and son to sit down and talk emotionally like a mother and a child. Therefore, it takes practice to understand and love family members.

Talking more about his father, Jun Pham revealed that, although strict, he is extremely resourceful, loving his children. In addition to knowing how to repair household items when things are broken, he is always ready to go to the kitchen to cook delicious dishes for his wife and children. This caused Trac Thuy Mieu to exclaim: “Cha Jun is a rare case, a very civilized person who loves his wife like that”.

Video: Jun Pham recalls a story about father and son love

The male singer especially confided, he once gave his father a headache during puberty because of the rebellion. Until he matured and achieved certain success, he understood that what his father worried about was absolutely correct. And during that time there was an unforgettable memory Jun Pham: “The first time Jun took his salary and sent it all to his father. At that time, my father was very emotional, hugging Jun and crying always made me goosebumps and remember that feeling, I was so happy. Although I now make a lot more than 2 million, I still feel that 2 million is the biggest I brought to my family. From that moment on, Dad felt he was growing up. Dad and Jun accept to sit down and talk and share with each other ”.

Programme 8 ounces of half a pound season 2 theme Father’s love aired at 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 16 on channel VTV9.