Stepping on the rainy street

Monday, November 17, 2008

17.11.08 *wish list*

một nụ hôn đánh thức mình dậy.

một người lạ mang bạn ipod trở về.

một chuyến đi xa.

polaroid màu trắng.

những nụ cười và vòng tay ôm chặt.

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a morning tender kiss wakes me up.

a stranger brings my little ipod back.

a new journey.

a white polaroid camera.

smiles so bright and hugs so tight.

Monday, October 20, 2008

nhung nguoi quen,
luon lam cho toi boi roi.
nhung noi chon quen thuoc
va toi quen mat minh la ai.

nen can lam,
phai di,
va ve.

truoc khi nham mat.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

co nhung con duong sao ma nguoi ta cu di mai, di mai chang bao gio het
giat minh moi biet minh van dang dung yen
mai mai...

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

in blind,
we trust.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

everything

................

nothing

Monday, October 6, 2008

i thought i could breath here


but i'm in doubt


wth


please shut up.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

i'm upset

as always

incompletely.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

sometimes,
i just need some coffee
as dark as the night,
as sweet as sin.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

the last night

there was love
and full of passion

______________
under my bed.

Monday, August 25, 2008

yesterday lesson

mom said
do not talk to strangers.



but I forgot

so it's the end of the story.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

perhaps,
i need to be alone for a while.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

step by step,
we are trying

time will come
when we don't realize that we've changed.

that is the only way,
i know.

perhaps,
i just need to be patient
a little bit more.

Monday, July 28, 2008

everyday

do a little cooking
do my laundry
watch some TV dramas
read some news
clean my room
check mail
go to bed.


and this naked peace


making me sleepless.

Closer

Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
Alice: Why?
Dan: Because I'm addicted to it. Because without it, we're animals. Trust me.

Alice: I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over
.

Friday, July 25, 2008

odd

i've been walking around in the house
looking for something could pair with me.

24-hours,
is an even number.

and i'm an odd.

it's time to learn the fact that
you are fading away...

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

i've been learning to do things s.l.o.w.l.y
but i'm afraid i might fall asleep
along the way

so i got very upset.

Monday, July 21, 2008

pieces of The Dark Knight

I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger.

A little fight in ya. I like that.

Yeah, to scare people. You know, war paint.

Introduce a little anarchy... Upset the established order... Well then everyone loses their minds!

I use a knife because guns are too quick. Otherwise, you can't savor all the emotions. You know who people are in their last moments.

And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Gotham is getting the hero they need, not the hero they deserve.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

it's called the junction of
RESPONSIBILITY

what i was born-to-be
and what i was born-to-dream
perhaps, meaningless

for that reason of LOVE

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too much desperate
for a BREAk

hell, i'm losing myself for all the stupid DONT-KNOW-WHAT

Friday, June 13, 2008

as little as the world we live
is a girl among the crowd
i've been trying to talk to

Thursday, June 5, 2008

come home baby...
if there is one


what we've longed for
in our hearts
of dark and light


i whistled a melody
somewhat familiar
yet i couldn't remember
a thing.

so, i cried
...,

Về nhà đi

Về nhà đi.
Bỏ lại hết những gì đau đớn nhất
những ngày vui đến trào nước mắt
những lần cô đơn như cuộc đời khất thực
lật ngửa bàn tay làm biểu tượng nguyện cầu...
*
Về nhà đi
đêm không còn hơi ấm để chia sẻ nữa đâu
ngày bây giờ sa mạc hoang hóa
những trái chín trên cành cũng rơi về miền đất lạ
những sông suối đã hơn một lần mặn hơn biển cả
chỉ còn nước mắt ngọt trên môi...

Con người ấy đã theo gió đi rồi
để mỗi ngày ta khan giọng gào với bóng tối
- Đã nói lạc đường sao không ngoái nhìn lại
đã biết lạc đường sao người cứ còn đi mãi...
tận xa xôi...
*
Về nhà đi
không thể tự nuôi mình mãi bằng những cuộc rong chơi
bao nhiêu vực sâu đâu chỉ dành cho mình ta gieo xuống
bao nhiêu nghĩa trang đâu phải dành cho riêng ta đến chết
bao nhiêu nén tâm hương đâu chỉ dành cho một cuộc đưa tiễn
dù ai cũng chỉ sống một cuộc đời...

Có những con đường đã đợi sẵn ta từ lúc còn trong nôi
những bông hoa nở ra vì ta tuyệt vọng
những ngọn cỏ úa vàng khi ta nói yêu một con người hơn cuộc sống
(để rồi ta luôn tự hỏi tại sao là định mệnh
khi tình yêu chỉ vừa mới bắt đầu...)

*
Về nhà đi
con đường của đất cát sẽ làm bàn chân ta bớt đau
mùi hương thơ ấu sẽ mang về một tiềm thức khác
bỏ lại hết những núi cao và mây trắng...
những vực sâu và đá tảng...
cho một lần thảnh thơi...
*
Về nhà đi
ở nơi đó có những người sinh ra ta đang mỉm cười...


(Nguyễn Phong Việt)

Monday, June 2, 2008

listening for the weather

Không khóc ở California

Không khóc ở California.
Không khóc.
Không khóc ở Louisiana.
Không khóc ở quận 13 Paris.
Không khóc
Không khóc ở Beclin, ở Xitny, ở Tôkyô
Những người Việt không khóc ở California
Em không khóc
Em không khóc ở California
Em không khóc
Kìa mưa rơi, mưa rơi và lá bay
Em lái xe đi
Con đường hun hút và mưa bay bay
Kính xe mở
Ai huýt sáo một bài hát bên đường
Nhớ anh, nhớ quê hương
Em không khóc
Em không khóc ở California
Em không khóc
ở chốn xa xăm cuối nơi chân trời
Nơi mẹ sinh ra gọi là quê hương
Em gọi tên là nhớ thương
Người ta gọi là cội nguồn
Sao em lẩm cẩm như một bà già
Em sẽ không khóc
Không khóc ở California
Anh ạ,
Em lớn lên rồi, không còn thẹn thùng
Em mặc một chiếc áo rộng
Em sẽ mua hoa
Xếp đặt đồ vật trong nhà
Em yêu mọi người
Mọi người không khóc
Không khóc ở California
Anh ạ, hôm nay tiệm cà phê vui hơn
Có ai gật đầ u chào em.
Có phải anh gật đầu chào em rồi mỉm cười
Em đưa tay ra
Biết rằng anh vừa nắm tay em...
Em thấy hơi ấm
Em thấy ổn rồi, rất ổn...
Em lớn lên rồi, không còn thẹn thùng
Em soi trong gương
Giữ gìn nhan sắc, giữ gìn thói quen
Có người vừa đi xa về,
Mang cho em một chút gió, một chút nắng
Em sưởi mình trong kỷ niệm
Và cười trong mơ.
Anh hôn vào nụ cười ấy...
Nụ cười xa xăm
Em lớn lên rồi, không còn thẹn thùng
Em ra siêu thị
Em xuống trung tâm
Em mua một gói kẹo nhỏ
Và liếm chiếc kẹo như liếm vết thương
Anh tan biến trong miệng em
Em cười một mình .
Và soi trong gương
Không khóc
Không khóc ở California
Cho dù cách xa...

(Nguyễn Huy Thiệp)

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don't cry in singapore...

Monday, May 12, 2008

i'm tired.
can i sleep on your shoulder?














i know, i should not...

Friday, May 2, 2008

words

i hold my words a little longer
so that the chance would pass
and i would blame myself for not saying.

but at least then,
i wouldn't have to face the fact that:
i'm not as strong as i always like to image.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

wind and raindrops
man and hays
3 a.m smells like
a night-of 4 years ago
and that has just made
my heart choke.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

< please be kind if i'm a mess >

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

.the boundaries between art and design.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

today

A breath of innocence.

A spoon of sugar.

Yes.No.

Back-and-forth.

Our relationship to each other.

Something is out of proportion.

Friday, April 11, 2008



sometimes,
the feeling of love
could be:

wonder.

uncontrollable.

avoid.

tired.

let it be.

mistake.

i am ____________.
are you __________?

Monday, April 7, 2008

a random sequence



if random thoughts can be recorded

if random things can be put together

then a moment can be captured in less than 1/1000 of a second

and passed on randomly.


somewhere, sometimes

when strangers meet

just as we have longed for, without notice.

and happiness is in such simplest coincidence.

Friday, April 4, 2008

i loan myself to an illusion



the purple sky of the rainy days.

the sea is olive or it is just flood in the meadow.

and something as soft as grey

we often call "loneliness".

like the tangled hair in the wind,

needless to brush.


i fold a little boat with the morning papers i got,

and blow it away with a dream last night.

it will sink very soon i know though.


still it seems just an illusion

i would like to loan myself to,

with a high interest

i have to pay back everyday.

and well, in debt eternally.

Monday, March 31, 2008

back

tôi ₫ứng ở giữa con đường xa lộ

và chớp mắt,

nhanh lắm, có phải không?

sợ gì nào, ₫ã quá quen.

sợ gì nào, những cái quen lạ lẫm.

không chạy nữa nhé

vì chân ₫ã mỏi hay những ₫iều níu kéo?

tôi lại lần nữa không biết.


chớp mắt,

nơi nụ cười và những bờ vai thật.

gọi ₫iều ấm áp,

thật nhẹ...


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rain


những ngày mưa:
trong vắt,
tĩnh.

trong mắt em
gửi anh:một tiếng gõ cửa,
xao lòng...

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rain fills the days,
purely transparent
like quiet and pastel.

and my eyes,
just send to yours
"knock, knock"

(somebody come?)

restlessly.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

norwegian wood


"Do you think you weren't loved enough?"
She tilted her head and looked at me. Then she gave a sharp, little nod.
"Somewhere between "not enough' and "not at all'. I was always
hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get
my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just
once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once. If I tried to
cuddle up and beg for something, they'd just shove me away and yell
at me. "No! That costs too much!' It's all I ever heard. So I made up
my mind I was going to find someone who would love me uncon-
ditionally 365 days a year. I was still in primary school at the time, but
I made up my mind once and for all."
"Wow," I said. "And did your search pay off?"
"That's the hard part," said Midori. She watched the rising smoke for a
while, thinking. "I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for
perfection. That makes it tough."
"Waiting for the perfect love?"
"No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect
selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortbread.
And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me.
And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and
hold this strawberry shortbread out to me. And I say I don't want it
any more and throw it out of the window. That's what I'm looking
for."
"I'm not sure that has anything to do with love," I said with some
amazement.
"It does," she said. "You just don't know it. There are times in a girl's
life when things like that are incredibly important."
"Things like throwing strawberry shortbread out of the window?"
"Exactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. "Now I
see, Midori. What a fool I've been! I should have known that you
would lose your desire for strawberry shortbread. I have all the
intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to
you, I'll go out and buy you something else. What would you like?
Chocolate mousse? Cheesecake?"'
"So then what?"
"So then I'd give him all the love he deserves for what he's done."
"Sounds crazy to me."
"Well, to me, that's what love is. Not that anyone can understand me,
though." Midori gave her head a little shake against my shoulder. "For
a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly.
From something like that or it doesn't begin at all."


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tell me, what is love?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Blanket



I read it the first time about 4 years ago. It was not mine though. Did not think i should have owned one. Fear of pains.

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First love, they said so.

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3 years later, I found it back in kino. Decided to own it. Pain?-feel like it.

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finally...
waited for 3 years
you are here with me


in tears...

never, never again...

the days were old.

- ( written in july 2007)

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Read it again last night.
Beautiful.

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It was the first graphic novel i read but the best one ever since.

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What we have come to believe in more than just a religion.

{me}- manifesto




I love many things in my life

the sunbeams every morning
the long journey on the bus
the traffic lights changing colors
the high view from a building
the rain that brushes my skin
the smell of newly-cooked food
the slowness of jazz
the smiles of the couples
the baby cries out loud


Is life really complicated or does it just seem to be so?

Life is full of emotions.
Feel it.
Embrace it

Design is a emotional process.
Enjoy it.

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typography poster done in july 2007.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

we all need someone to kiss us goodbye


Dear B,

Just for your information, I will walk to the moon and be back if it makes you smile. I will talk to you just so I can hear your voice again.

The other day, I heard that it was supposed to be the end of the world this year(!) This made me think to myself that I don't want to die without you next to me, but the worst thing is, what if we both survived but we were still so far apart and didn't know if the other was alive?

I guess I'd better walk to the moon fast.

Wave and smile,
Wave and smile,
A


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This has just made me cry, again.

round about

khi mà không biết một nơi nào để đi

và không đủ can đảm để tìm một nơi mới một mình

tôi đi dọc lại con đường cũ quanh nhà

và nó nhạt đến bình an.

-----------------------------------

when confusing of where to go

and not brave enough to find somewhere new alone

i walked along the old road round about home

and it was insipid peacefully.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

meaningless

you need to come closer

because i am invisible

in a blank piece of draft

and when everyone is happily sketching on it

they forget, they forget.