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Thursday, January 9, 2014

All's Fair in Vietnam's Lady

The story of “All’s Fair in Vietnam’s Lady” is about an old Vietnamese lady, who is become an English teacher at Vietnam for the first time she arrived at Vietnam. She realized that she needed some more formal attire for maintain her respectabily so that she tourist to Ben Thanh Market for search of some cheap clothes. Then she found shop selling kharkis and asked the sales girl how much they cost. But the sales girl praise to the lady because she pretty. The lady blushed because the sales girl was praised her. The lady not too shocked because the sales girl wasn’t the only one to asked like that she always been rather self-conscious about her beautiful face. She was the one who is used sunblocked that was weaker than SPF 50 so she’s not afraid with sunlight not like other ladies to stay away from the sunlight.Someone  demanded to know what kind of special diet she was on to maintain such a complexion. In elevators people comes towards me and then they compare their own skin with mournful sigh of den. Sunscreen is too expensive but Vietnam girls solve the problem by use it to protecting themselves from UV rays. Vietnam’s girl wearing a coverings, including hats, gloves and face-masks that makes them look like motobike-driving. Moreover, some of Vietnam’s girl go to spas for whitening, tough exactly how this was accomplished she bever did find out. She noticed that who is wearing a skin cream will looked deathly ill more than anything else. It doesn’t  a genius to discover the moral in this. That people think what is desire is expensive and difficult to maintain. Not to take seriously about this thing. 

Amalina Dahlan,

A Family

The story of A family is about George who is long time to not meet his bestfriend, Simon. Simon is George friend since fifteen year ago. They are very close friend who knows one’s thought, with whom one passes long, quiet, happy evenings, to whom one tells one’s secret love affairs, and who seems to draw out those rare. After Simon suddenly married silently, he married with the girl he just knew for awhile who had come to Paris in search of a husband. That girl is not too pretty as well as he want. He can’t imagine how Simon look after fifteen years he didnt meet. Is it Simon look still lively, witty, light-hearted and enthusiastic. A man may change greetly in the course of fifteen years. One day, they decide to meet and George was shocked when someone called him but he didn’t know who he is. Then a man rushed up to me with open arms and George was like astonishment and greeting him. Simon asked George what had he expect him and George trying to dicovered at the Simon face. There is no longer saw the same expression in the Simon’s eyes. From the Simon’s eyes George saw a lot of happiness and friendship but at the other side they had not that cear, intelligent expression which shows as much as words the brightness of the intelect. Suddenly there have a little girl and boy beside Simon, then he introduced them to George as his children. George feel so awkward in that moment then he told that he have three more at home. Simon said this in a prod, self-satisfied, almost triumphant manner. Before they arrive at Simon’s house, they set off through the town, a dull, sleepy, gloomy town where nothing was moving except a few dogs. Then George reach at Simon’s house which look like a chateau. Suddenly a lady appeared on the steps, dressed for company and Simon introduced that lady is his wife. A girl George had seen in church fifteen years ago, but astout lady in curls and flounces one of those ladies of uncertain age. In short, she was a mother, a commonplace mother. When he entered the house, he directly saw an old man in the drawing room, the Simon told that he was his grandfather. The old man tried to greeting George and he waved his hand. Simon said to George that he made his grandfather laugh because he is a treasure, that old man, he is delight of the children. Then Simon told to George his grandfather so greedy that he almost killd himself at every meal, George have no idea what he would eat if he were allowed to do as he pleased. Sa after Simon saud that, George go to his room for change his dress for dinner and hearing a great clatter behind he on the stairs. Suddenly when the bell rang, it was for dinner so George went downstairs , Simon’s grandfather, Madame Radevin took George arm in ceremonious manner then Madam Radevin gave a greedy and curious look at the dessert, and he turned his shaking head with difficultly from one dish to other. Madame Radevin wants more meal to eat, George asked to give whatever he want but Simon didn’t allowed him to give to his grandfather for his health. Madame Radevin cannot eat too much because he sick. After the dinner over, they had played cards for a long time, then George go to his bed room and look at the window thinking about how come his friend, Simon have five children and snouring my the side of his ugly wife.

Amalina Dahlan,

Twelve and Not Stupid

From the story that I had read is “Twelve and not stupid” by Zuraidah Omar, this story about a family. There’s have daughther, father and mother also have someone else, that is Aunty May. This story begin from his daughther just got back from school and she wait until her father to pick up her. Then, and that day, her father didn’t pick up her as usual, so she thought that her father just forgotten to pick her. Suddenly, she saw her father’s car coming up the road and stop beside her. She jump into front seat as well as she do so, then she notice that someone else already there. So she move at the back seat and seat properly. She didn’t know who is that woman, her age is same age like her mother and she looks a like her mother but the different between her mother and that woman is her mother Malay but that woman is Chinese.Her name is Aunty May. Suddenly Aunty May said hello to her and she shocked because Aunty May know her name and she introduced who is she. But she just not saying any word and she staring at her. Her father know that she thinking something bad about that woman, then her father said to her to not be rude and salam Aunty May. After that, her father just talking with Aunty May in lower voices. She confused what was her father talk about with Aunty May. She was slept at the back, when she woke up she find that the car stopped but they are not at home. They in parked outside a one-story terrace house and Aunty May gets out from the car then her father just drives off. Her father asked her to not tell her mother about Aunty May, she want to ask her father why she can’t tell her mother about Aunty May but when she look at her father face she didn’t dare to do that. So she just nod her head. When she arrive at home, she saw her mother comes out and she think her mother will asking her why she going back home late then she must lie her mother because her father asked her to do that. Firstly her mother asked her father why when she called at his office, his secretary told that he were out since morning, then her father said he had some outside work. So her mother turns her attention back to her daughter, she said that she doesn’t want this will be happen again.Then after been weeks and there has been no Aunty May in her father’s car, she not asked anything about Aunty May to her father. One night, while she reading a book, her mother interrupted her and asked her to take a bath and dressed because her father will be home soon and they will going out for dinner. When they arrived at the restaurant she saw that Aunty May already seated at the table, what was going out this, she talking slowly. Aunty May with a boy who looks like he’s about ten years old. She don’t know what to do and say so she shall pretend that she haven’t met Aunty May before because her mother will wonder why and will find out bout the lie she told to her mother many weeks ago. She feel so grateful because Aunty May not given any indicition that both of them have met before. Then they all sit down and orderthe food. While they are eat and she listen to adults talking, they talk about Kassim. Her father tell to her mother that Aunty May was called her some weeks ago. As a story, Aunty May have family problem, so because of that Aunty May meet her father to story about that. After they all finish talk about that, her father offers them a lift back to their house then arrived at Aunty May’s house, Aunty May said thanks to her mother and father for the dinner and both of them willingness to help Aunty May.

 Amalina Dahlan,