Re: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for Self Portrait

This entry is entered on behalf of my buddy, Mr Kiu. Since I know him well, I am quite sure that he will never submit one for himself.

Shy he still is, but I've never seen him happier. John Lennon says "All you need is love" and Quang says "Love is all you need" (smile).

I snapped this photo while we were waiting for the subway in NYC.

That was me doing my imitation of the Got Milk Ad.

Thank you Quang for capturing my silliness on camera.

TNS

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for Self Portrait

Dear fellows PNEH, hoa si, thi si, Mr. Kiu,

Here are my two entries for Self Portrait with 35 years apart between the first entry and the second.
The first one is a framed picture of myself on my 20th birthday, a present from my eldest brother. My brother saw this picture of mine in a magazine, so he put it in a frame and gave it to me.
The second one is my attempt at self portrait last week, amidst the beautiful flowers (from... euhhh...my neighbors' garden :-)), in the rain. Thanks to the suggestion from my in- house expert, I used the rotating screen of my beloved camera, hence did not need help from Mr. Tripod ( to borrow LH's words), and was able to zoom in the iris and rhododendron so you could see how gorgeous they were with the raindrops on them. Please glue the four pieces (no. 1,2,3,and 5 ) together to have a full picture of my face  :-), put BiTi's body in her bikini in the middle, and place my feet (no. 4), et voila\, portrait completed.

Have a happy and peaceful weekend
from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] MY ENTRY FOR PORTRAIT

AND TODAY ... WHEN WE ARE OLD ... :-) HL AND BT 50 years older as a matter of fact ...

Yikes,
BT

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] MY ENTRY FOR PORTRAIT

DEAR  MAI  CHAU , BAO  TRAM  AND FRIENDS
 YESTERDAY.....   WHEN  WE  WERE  YOUNG.....    BT  AND  HL
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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] new theme self portrait

Dear BT, MC and friends

I am so impatient to see BT new collage  of monuments and building theme since all the entries are so exceptional !

I also would like to congratulate to our forum 's PN old and new : your contributions are so valuable . we can have a glimpse of all the famous places immortalized by our globetrotters...I have enjoyed them very much and admit that we are all talented PN (mèo khen mèo dài duôi, excuse me !)

The last 2 weeks were very hectic for me with travel and work but I try to catch up your mails as much as I can...
Thank you LH , CTT, HH for sharing the pictures taken in Paris and I trully enjoyed the moment spent with BT and the cool gang.
Friendship should be this way : light heart and enjoy the moment and nothing else !

Hien Lan, I enjoyed so much your company : you are cool and truthful...I can only appreciate it and keep warm feeling in my heart.

Quang and MC be prepared ! NYC, here we come and it is sooner than you think ! You can see all your PN friends en chair et en os !

My dear BT,and sweet MC here attached my entries for your new theme : Je me lance pour que les autres me suivent...right BT ?
They all were taken by myself with my humble camera Sony with my long arm streched out above my head, so the face is a bit deformed but what the hell, this is just for fun and for the theme, we need no perfection ....

pict 1 my first test couple days ago
pict 2  was taken while I walked along the lake this morning
pict 3 was taken by my friend and I when we were attending the 40th BD of my friend last month and no one was there to take us together so we gave a try and it turned out  very good !

I hope you enjoyed it and I send you all my warm feelings from this side of the continent....

BL

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RE: [MC74 and Friends] Buidlings, monuments to be continued until this Friday, and theme for the week after

Dear 2 ba chu blog, fellows PNEH, hoa si, thi si, friends,

What a difference a week or two make.  I was wandering the streets of Opera in Paris with friends just yesterday it seems.  Today it’s back to be a lonesome cowboy riding the streets of Dallas L.  To contrast with the grand traditional architecture of Europe, below is a picture of the recently completed 2200 seat Windpear Opera House in Dallas designed by Norman Foster.  I certainly can’t do justice to the beauty of the facility so here’s the link that will provide a much better overall view (http://www.wayfaring.info/2009/12/10/winspear-opera-house/).

And since I’m a lonesome cowboy without “Jolly Jumper”, I have to drive around town looking for one.  Luckily, I found a bunch.  They’re called “The Mustangs of Las Colinas”.  Las Colinas is a suburb just outside of Dallas where many companies are headquartered, e.g. ExxonMobil, Fluor, etc.

Enjoy and have a great holiday weekend everyone !

Ktc

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Re: [MC74 and Friends] Buidlings, monuments to be continued until this Friday, and theme for the week after

Hi Hai bà chu² Blog

Thuy' Hoà's post allowed me to hitch onto her 

late posting and send you my contribution on Buildings and monuments. 

I wanted something that stood apart. 

I found this monument in 2009 in Da Nang, this Pagoda statue is actually a building . 

You can see the 2 students walking at its base, for scale. You can see the door and the 

round windows openings higher on the back too. Inside is a large library on Dharma 

with thousands of volumes and a stairway going to the top.

Mr. Xe ôm driver told the story of this statue, it was built in 1972 by an ARVN lieutenant colonel of the công-binh, 

and now restored by the actual local Town mayorship. 

There was a Spirou and Fantasio episode where they went to China-Tibet and there was a huge empty Buddha statue acting as a prison there...

Thanks Thuy' Hoà  :) 

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Re: [MC74 and Friends] Buidlings, monuments to be continued until this Friday, and theme for the week after

Dear hai bà chủ Blog BiTi, EmCi, fellows PNEH, họa sĩ, thi sĩ và các phê bình gia,

It has been such a pleasure and joy for me to admire the marvelous collages and wonderful chefs-d'oeuvre from amazing friends. Hats off to everyone for their superb talent, originality, and creativity.

Here are my contibutions for the theme buildings and monuments:

1) La cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims, gothique,13e siecle, France

2) Le chateau de Chambord, 16e siecle, val de Loire, France

3) La fontaine de Trevi, baroque, 18e siecle, Rome, Italie

4) Le celebre balcon de la maison de Juliette, Verone, Italie

Have a great weekend everyone

Cheers

ThuyHoa`

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theme of the week: Buildings

Hi BT

If you are going to the city this WE, you should look at this building accross the street from the Academy of Sciences as well, the De Young Museum

Tuan

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] theme for the upcoming week : Buildings,monuments

Hi Everybody

Just returned from HK and Singapore so here's my late entry... I have so many pictures of monuments, but as inspired by Caro TD, here's a collage in honor of Gaudi's architecture in Barcelona including the Sagrada Familia Cathedral..
Thanks to everybody for very beautiful and artistic monuments and buildings... I have to catch up reading some email...
Cheers
Caro

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] my entry for buildings & monuments

Dear Em CI, Mr. Kiu and friends,
Attached is my entry for this week's theme, I took these pics while
loitering with Z friends.
Let's see:
The centerfold pic is actually taken by H Lan, while I had my
head down between my knees as em Be weaved in and out of
traffic at the rond-point Etoile-CDG, but it's my camera so I
think I can claim ... some credit (right em CI? :o))
Then clockwise from the top left:
(1) a view of Notre Dame from our many walk-arounds ile de
la cite', to ile St Louis, in search of Bertillon ice cream... our
local guide (ahem) mai noi' chuyen quen ca duong :-) ... having
us cross and re-cross song xen (2) which I don't mind coz I love
the buildings along the rives like (3)
(4) Place des Vosges, the fire incident I already recounted that
allowed us a free drink at the cafe on the rez-de-chaussee
(5) Hotel de Ville, which we also passed and re-passed a few times
in the course of 2 afternoons
(6) not sure ... what building this is with the horseman, maybe one
of our Parisian friends can identify it?
(7) front view of Notre Dame where many group pics were taken
of many MC models :-P
(8) i won't mind having a chambre de bonne here :-)
That's it for now, stay tuned for a tabblo recounting more juicy
details in the near future.
Cheers,
BT

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for buildings & monuments

Dears friends PNEH

Today , a suspicious package at the Cité Universitaire station requires all RER B suburban southern terminus at Port Royal station . Walking along the Boulevard St Michel , I take this opportunity to play roving photographer .

The church of the Val de Grâce is the chapel of a former royal abbey in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and the dôme is a principal landmark of the skyline of this arrondissement .
The abbey now houses the museum of Armed Forces Medical Sevice , Central Library of the Health Department of Armies and the Ecole du Val de Grâce , formely School of Application of Military Health Service .

Au sujet de cette église du Val-de-Grâce, bâtie à la demande d'Anne d'Autriche pour la naissance de Louis XIV, Molière a écrit:

"Auguste bâtiment, temple somptueux
Dont le dôme superbe élevé dans la nue,
Pare du grand Paris la magnifique vue."

Ps : J'ai voulu faire 1 collage mais ne sais point !!! Phiên` 2 bà chu² nhom' giup' 1 tay nhé .
Thanks a lot . Chuc' cac' ban môt W.E âm' cung' và an vui .

Thân
KH

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