Fw: [MC74 and Friends] GUESS WHAT?

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends]GUESS WHAT?

This may be easy for some of you, but GUESS WHAT? Hint - Forrest was there 12 years later. tha^n MThuy

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Theme of the Week - Guess what?

  Cher(e)s ami(e)s  Pho Nhom  en Herbe ,

 

   Avez-vous  dejà vu  ces yeux   ?  et où  donc ?  

   THg 

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gentle reminder to PHO NHOM EN HERBE, HOA SI :-)

"Just do it!"

I was strolling on Union Square, saw this ... burst of energy suddenly appear right before my eyes!
At the time, i was shocked, it was so unbelievable! Reached for the camera, got this shot!
Now looking back,
i think it's because the fog (SF is famous for it) was quite low,
and the late afternoon sun from above was still shining into the windows,
and reflected back into the fog, hence the rays.
As the fog passed over really fast, the sun was blocked, and the rays disappeared.
Altogether, just a few minutes -- seconds even! -- of a stunning phenomenon!

Union Square, San Francisco 

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] gentle reminder to PHO NHOM EN HERBE, HOA SI :-)

Dear EmCi,

thanks for reminding me of sending.  

Guess what ? 

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I'm only one step ahead of exp(i*Pi)

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Glycine bleue de mon coeur!

Dear MC forum friends:

I have about 5 minutes of break at work and can't think. About 15 minutes ago, I bent down to retrieve a dropped paperclip and as I sat back up, I hit my head hard against the edge of the heavy steel desk in my office. I now have a bump in the back of the cranium (and hopefully no hematoma later). Being conveniently in an unproductive daze, I wandered into our MC forum and came upon Thuy Chau's poem which completely and absolutely jolted my artistic sensibility. Since my brain is not working properly yet, I am going to rest it a bit by loosely translating Thuy Chau's poem into English. I dedicate my little ode to spring and the joy of gardening to our forum. I didn't get to hear any music because  when I tried twice to download music, nothing happened. It is a consolation that  we are forbidden to listen to music at work. Here we go:

Blue wisteria of my heart

Towards whom are you leaning?

You have forsaken me

To romance your hunky sweaty gardener 

Thus Steve the master of his castle

Teases his snow-white azaleas

And tenderly winds around the white pillar

Crimson tea-scented camellias

Steve only has eyes for his flowers

And they only live for him

For them he has gone "green"

And offers them his choicest composted soil

For us his friends, he immortalizes

their floral beauty in photography

We see them stroll in splendid rows

And shout in unison: "Aren't we pretty?"

Oh blue wisteria of my heart

For your intoxicating scent

The hunky sweaty gardener

Labors day and night with his hands

OK, this is not a verbatim translation of Thuy Chau's masterpiece so you will see added or deleted words here and there which may change the meaning of each verse. It is freestyle poetry, meaning that I am not following any rules in particular and nothing rhymes. I have tried to keep it whimsical in order to remind us of the fickle and ephemeral beauty of spring. I didn't get to hear Duc or Triet's music because of  where I am when I email you but as I translate Thuy Chau's poem, I suddenly hear in my mind the lush lyrics of "Beautiful Maria of my Soul", a nice bolero/rhumba from the movie "The Mambo Kings". Does anyone in our forum remember this old film? Antonio Banderas wrote the lyrics in Spanish then sang it in the movie. Los Lobos wrote the English lyrics. At the Academy Awards ceremony, Antonio Banderas refused to sing the song so his fellow Spaniard Placido Domingo stepped forward and obliged the delighted audience. OK, my five minutes are over, the bump is still the same, my brain is less foggy, it's time to say good-bye to the MC forum and return to work reality with a thud. I would like to thank Thuy Hoa and Thuy Hao for writing me in the middle of their sorrow. I would also like to ask Doug Phan: "Weren't you sitting next to me at Quan Tao on New Year's Day?'

Hugs to all, friends or strangers,

Diep

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My last entries for Guess What?

Dear pho' nhoms\ en herbe and Forum friends,

These are my last ones for tonight. Just kidding! These are really my last ones for the theme.

For the second photo, guess what I stood next to. Mot to^ pho*? ga\ voi*' la' chanh ....by BiTi for the first person with the correct answer :-).

Good night

from Be^n Bo*\ Nam

MC 

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Fwd: My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Cher Anh Tuan,
Tes fleurs sont tellement belles. Quel est ton secret? Ce n'est pas seulement la glycine qui te fait rêver. Avec toutes ces fleurs, ton jardin est un havre de beauté où camélias, azalées rivalisent en couleur. Bravo!

Glycine bleue de mon coeur
Vers qui donc t'es-tu penchée?
Tu m'as oubliée dans ton ardeur
Avec ton jardinier en sueur

Et c'est ainsi que Steve chez lui
Entraîne ses blanches azalées
Et fait grimper à la colonne blanche
Des camélias rouges au parfum de thé

Steve n'a de yeux que pour ses fleurs
Et ses fleurs n'ont de coeur que pour lui
Pour elles, il s'est mis au vert
Et leur composte la meilleure des terres.

Et pour nous ses amies, il arrange
Ses belles fleurs en photos
Où elles marchent toutes en bandes
Et en criant: "Voyez, comme c'est beau!"

Ah glycine bleue de mon coeur
C'est pour ton très lourd parfum
Que le jardinier en sueur
Jardine soirs et matins.

tc

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] my third entry for Guess what?

Dear Pho Nhoms en herbe and Forum Friends,

These are my third ones. 

More to come...

MC

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My second entries to Guess what?

Dear Pho' Nhoms\ en herbe and Forum friends,
Here is my second entries, no connection between the two objects. They were just random things that I found in the house and took close up photos of.

Since I had a lot of time on my hands, more entries from me, for you to guess, in the next email...

MC

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My first entry for the theme Guess What

Dear Pho' Nhoms\ en herbe and Forum Friends,

Here is my first entry, dedicated to my M&M (Mentor and Muse) twin BiTi. There is a connection between the two objects to be identified. BiTi would be the first one to my second one :-). 

MC

My entry for the theme Guess What

Dear Pho Nhoms en herbe,

My entry to the theme Guess What.  Hint: it's not an object but the lyrics refer to a merry go round. TNS

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Theme of the Week - Guess what?

Dear  Hai ba Chu Pho-Nhom block,  Thuan,  Duc, Doug, Mr. Kiu, Triet, Khiem-Hien,  Tuan, Diep, TNS,  MC, CTT, Hien-Lan, T-Huong, Tuan, BeLan, HyHoa, Caro, Minh-Thuy

Pho-nhoms & All MC Friends:

 

Here is my photo "Guess what?"  to your imagination!

 

(Clue: location: in a park in Pasadena, California)

Have fun!  Cheers,

Liem

 

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Theme of the Week - Guess what?

Dear Kiu, MC, BT, TC, and Tuan,

Thank you all for your encouraging words. Mr. Kiu, you have such a way with words that I'm sometimes amazed at how you find so many ways to describe seemingly simple pictures and express your emotion/reaction to them. When I'm at a loss for words, can I borrow some from you :-)? BT, pray tell what's the prize for effort and persistence?

Tuan, thank you for sharing the gorgeous pictures of azaleas and camelias from your yard. The red camellias contrasted against the white column are a feast for the eyes, and the picture is going into my Favorites folder! I can see you're a loving gardener by the state of your beautifully tended garden. I love gardening too but my yard is showing the ravages of the harsh winter we just had, with its ice and wet snow storms inflicting severe damage to our dogwood and crepe myrtle trees. It's discouraging and disheartening to see how many trees will have to be replaced! 

The pictures I sent were of hyancinths and forsythias. I love tulips but can't have any as they are devoured by the hordes of voracious deer living in the woods surrounding our property. Our azaleas are hit-or-miss each year, some years they get to bloom and others the deer eat them bare. There seem to be no real deer-proof plants, except maybe daffodils and irises which the deer inexplicably stay away from, and  hyancinths, roses, and lilacs because of their fragrance.  

So as not to be a laggard yet again, I'm submitting a couple of entries for the Guess What theme. You all can guess the name of any of the landmarks in the first picture, and in the second, the statue location and name of the author. If they prove to be too easy, I promise I have others that are weirder and harder to decipher.

Trang

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Theme of the Week - Transitions

Dear Hai Ba Chu Pho Nhom,

Attached is my (very late) entry for the Transitions theme. Wracking my brain all last week and this week, I couldn't think of a picture to submit, as it seems to be an "anything goes" theme. After all, isn't life about transition, passage, and change? Any and all living things are always in transition from one state to the next, because we all know what happens when we stop moving and changing - we're dead! 

This Sunday dawns with a perfect opportunity for me to capture the transition between seasons: spring flowers blanketed by snow. Herewith are two pics that illustrate this theme (as well as my original suggested theme of spring). 

Thank you for your continued good work, and deep thanks also go to all you talented pho nhom, poets, artists, and musicians on the forum who have continued to contribute such marvelous pictures, poems, music, and artwork. Though I struggle to keep up with the mail at times and am not always sure who took which picture, it's always a pleasure to view the results on the blog and marvel at the creativity of our forum members.

Trang

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