Tieng Viet lovers club

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by zhu star

I am very fortunate now that I know a Northern gal, who really know how to save and has never ask for luxury items from me.

Northern ger?? Then why didn't come n visit me?

[nozila]

Originally Posted by naemlo

A more polite way for a ger to address a waitress even she is younger, can be "chi oi".

would be funny if you call her "chi" and she gets offended cause you think she looks old and then you are slapped or not served by her.

i believe any girl younger then you should be called "Em".

[haha_123]

Originally Posted by billgates

Actually u need not refer to yrself as "toi..." which is formal.. eg speaking to a stranger.

When speaking to a gal, u refer to yrslf as "Anh" - eg A kg co tien (in abbreviated sms).

Bro, yes u are right. But I purposely address myself as "toi" instead of "anh", to show that I want to keep a distance from her. She will then go absolutely nuts and do whatever it takes to 'keep me close to her'.
It works everytime.

Last time I had another Vn girl who gets angry whenever I address her as "chi" instead of "em". She thinks that I'm not on 'intimate terms with her'.

Then last night another Vn girl gets angry with me because I didn't put the words 'my darling' when I sent an sms to her to wish her good night.
I quickly replied : "I'm sorry, my darling".
But she said : "U only write my darling when I ask u to. I feel sad now. Huhu..." Hmmm, so cute....

[nozila]

playing hard to get, dangling the carrot in front of the house approach.

hahahaha

[zhu star]

Originally Posted by naemlo

Northern ger?? Then why didn't come n visit me?

I already say I din know you are in Hanoi, all the while I tot u are in the land of smile. Next time sure contact u

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by nozila

would be funny if you call her "chi" and she gets offended cause you think she looks old and then you are slapped or not served by her.

I dun address the waitress as "chi", it is my ger who address "chi". I asked her why, she mentioned more polite. For me, I will just shout "em oi" when I need anything. I guess it is like in Thai, sometime even when the taxi driver who might be younger, we still address him as "pii" or in China, "师父“

[Honey Boon]

they will only get angry if you forget to send $$ la

Originally Posted by haha_123

Bro, yes u are right. But I purposely address myself as "toi" instead of "anh", to show that I want to keep a distance from her. She will then go absolutely nuts and do whatever it takes to 'keep me close to her'.
It works everytime.

Last time I had another Vn girl who gets angry whenever I address her as "chi" instead of "em". She thinks that I'm not on 'intimate terms with her'.

Then last night another Vn girl gets angry with me because I didn't put the words 'my darling' when I sent an sms to her to wish her good night.
I quickly replied : "I'm sorry, my darling".
But she said : "U only write my darling when I ask u to. I feel sad now. Huhu..." Hmmm, so cute....

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by haha_123

Last time I had another Vn girl who gets angry whenever I address her as "chi" instead of "em". She thinks that I'm not on 'intimate terms with her'.

"Chi" translated losely means OLDER sister. Used by younger people to address a slightly OLDER FEMALE whom they know for quite some time.

[Honey Boon]

sounds like hokkien version of sister ....

Originally Posted by Reaper

"Chi" translated losely means OLDER sister. Used by younger people to address a slightly OLDER FEMALE whom they know for quite some time.

[jackbl]

I m in singapore singaporean chinese

Originally Posted by nozila

Are you in VN yourself, if you where are you situated?

[jackbl]

Continue from the below

Originally Posted by jackbl

Hard hours and low pay – a worker’s long day in IZ
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‘As dull as our daily gruel’

VietNamNet Bridge – Hard work, cheap food, no social life, dreams of escape – the life of the women workers of Vietnam’s industrial zones unfolds in two places only: their rented rooms and their workshops.

Part II of VietNamNet’s investigation of the lives of workers in the export factories.


When beatings won’t make the TV work

There’s nothing glamorous about the lives of the young women who work on the assembly lines of thousands of Vietnamese factories. When VietNamNet’s reporters spent ten days ‘under cover’ working in an industrial zone (IZ) near HCM City, almost all the workers they met did little but shuttle between factory and boarding house.

Every afternoon, millions of workers leave the IZ’s on bicycles or by foot. “A motorbike is a luxury for a poor workers like me,” said Hoa, who works in the Amata IZ near Bien Hoa City. “Sometimes we talk about going somewhere, but we have only bicycles, mostly real clunkers. Some girls even don’t have a bicycle. So usually we end up hanging out in our rented rooms not far from the factory.”

In Hoa’s room, the most expensive object is a small TV set that’s seen better years. “You have to beat it to force it to work,” she said with a grin.

But sometimes the TV set won’t turn on even though “beaten” hard. Then all the roommates troop to a nearby room to watch TV. However, there’s a problem, explained Hoa’s friend Hien. “They [in the other room] are newly-married, so it feels weird to watch their TV. At such moments, I miss my TV set at home so much.”

Many workers, though they’ve been in HCM City for two years, hardly ever leave their rooms except to go to the workplace. Day by day, their spirits atrophy. The young women of the factory zones rarely – perhaps never -- enjoy an evening of fun or a day of sightseeing. Once a year, they go for a holiday visit to their country village, bearing gifts if they can. The rest of the time is spent on the job. If they aren’t working overtime and the TV won’t work, their only amusement is chatting with roommates or an early bedtime.

Earning a tiny wage and thinking all the time that they need to send money home, the workers eat very simply. Their meals are just rice and vegetables. For many workers, breakfast the next day is a little rice left over from dinner, fried with a bit of garlic salt.

“That’s our life! Totally boring!” Hoa said. Now and then, to ‘change the atmosphere,’ Hoa and her roommates imagine a dream dinner. “While we are eating vegetables, we pretend that we are eating a chicken leg, or pork or fish. It actually makes us all feel better!”



More dreams

The women workers of the industrial zones don’t just dream about “imaginary meals”.

Trang, another Amata IZ worker, had to drop out of school when she was a ninth grader because her family is very poor. At 15, she left her home in far off Quang Ngai for HCM City, hoping to find a job. Still too young for factory work, Trang said, she sold buns and sweets, helped out in stores, did housework – “any job that was honest and paid money.”

“The first big sum I earned was 700,000 dong. I sent 600,000 to my grandma and two sisters,” Trang said. “In a lot of my “helper” jobs, I got to eat for free, so I had some money left over.”

As she struggled to earn a living and support her family, Trang’s dream of going back to school did not die. Now 18, Trang is old enough to work in an IZ. She works all day and studies at night, dreaming that one day she can change her life.

Trang is not unusual. Many of the IZ workers in industrial zones study in their spare time, hoping to escape from the “worker’s life.” They confide that the drudgery of the production line has helped them to understand that “only by study can [they] change their lives and escape from poverty”.

“One year living as a worker helps me understand the cost of not having a degree. I weep for the time I wasted before,” said Thuy, a worker at the Linh Trung Export Processing Zone.

But if these young women are asked to choose between quitting their job or quitting studying, they agree that’s an impossible choice. They must have their job to live but they cannot quit studying because education is the only way to rise . So they choose both.

Thai Phuong

[pingone]

Hi bros,

any bros can help translate 'e yeu a. e khong muon lam ban'

know nuts about viet language.

'e yeu a' i supposed is i love u from girl to guy.
the next sentence i not sure liao.

any help is appreciated.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by pingone

Hi bros,

any bros can help translate 'e yeu a. e khong muon lam ban'

know nuts about viet language.

'e yeu a' i supposed is i love u from girl to guy.
the next sentence i not sure liao.

any help is appreciated.

Yes you are right on first sentence. 2nd sentence is "i dun wan to work selling or friend"...expert wat you think...

[pingone]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Yes you are right on first sentence. 2nd sentence is "i dun wan to work selling or friend"...expert wat you think...

hmm.. must be trying to lay KC trap..
caution caution liao.. although i dont exactly know wat she wanted though.
haha.
thanks bro for the help.

wat meaning do you think she intended?

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by pingone

hmm.. must be trying to lay KC trap..
caution caution liao.. although i dont exactly know wat she wanted though.
haha.
thanks bro for the help.

wat meaning do you think she intended?

You need to tell us where and how you get to know her...what other things was discussed before this so we can tell better...