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

Dear Mai Châu,
These photos are not required to submit to blog,
just a thought for you : the United Nations in GVA.
3è photo : le Conservatoire de Musique de Genève,
du temps où Franz Liszt enseigna le piano.
Cette année, on fête les 175 ans de l'établissement.
Good morning from this side of the lake,
CTT

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] MY ENTRY FOR MONUMENTS

HELLO MC , BT AND FRIENDS ,
UNE PHOTO DE ROME ,VILLE ANTIQUE CHERE A MON COEUR
MC OI, BT AND THE GANG PLAN TO BE IN NEW-YORK NEXT FALL . YOU AND QUANG WILL BE AROUND ? CHA GIO ALSO ? BIZ HL

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

Bon weekend à tous ,

THg

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

Salut EmCi, BiTi, Lan Dior, LH- Khiêm tc and PNEH friends

Thank you EmCi for holding the blog whilst BiTi went wanderring with the fanciful gang in the city of lights

I appreciate your great collage of Grand Central (with its dreamy ceiling), the ultra modern buildings of LA, Chicago and San Diego and the green perspective of L'Arche de la Défense of our PNEH friends

Here are 3 pics for the week's theme:

1- le cadran solaire( gothique flamboyant) de la cathedrale d'Autun en Bourgogne du sud

2- Les cheminées de Gaudi, sur le toit d'un immeuble à Barcelone

3- L'abside d'une eglise en Auvergne

Belle soirée,

TD Caro

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for Buildings, monuments

Dear hai Ba` Chu? blog, and fellow bloggers:

Thank you all for the fabulous photography, painting and poetry. Special thanks to Queen LH and Diva BL for sharing pictures of beautiful people in beautiful Paris.

I have a very modest contribution of a few pictures of views seen from the Griffith Observatory building in Los Angeles. In the first picture, one can see the "HOLLYWOOD" sign, and in the last 2 pictures, the city of LA is seen in a distance. Not great pictures, but go'p mat cho vui.

T.

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] my entry for buildings & monuments and ... retrouvailles in Paris

Dear Mai Châu & Friends....

You did such a great job without your twin ! I love your surprise on the blog this week just wondering how you do that MC ?
Technically you can be chu? Blog on your own and we can borrow BT another week ...in Paris !
We had so much fun and good laugh just like the good old time !Next time you should tag along with BT and the gang will be
"au complet".

LH, & Khiem , Thank you for the nice pictures, you have immortalized it: It is not everyday that we can get our friends from
all the continents...in one place !

BT and Hien Lan it is so nice to see both of you together, Hien Lan I have not seen you since 1975, and found you in Paris, is just
amazing, You have not changed one iota. And of course I am so pleased to find the same BT Bac Ky as ever...and "chua" mais pas trop...I love the way you are BT ! I really appreciated our PJ party, short but the spirit was there !

To all friends from MC74 : CTT, Henri, VTDung,CTHiep, HyHoa, Patrick Durban, CTuyet (MC75) BKLuong(MC75) and others if I miss out somebody ... It is so nice to see all of you in Paris, some I have not seen since the diner at the Château in 2009. THuong, and KHuong, Finally , I got to meet you in person ! Mission accomplished ! It is always nice to put a face to a name !

To ba' chu? Blog MC , I am back t work so attached are my 3 entries for your new theme, I took them at La Defense ...
and for the bonus: few pictures of your other half of chu?Blog in Paris ...with Hien Lan and myself....(CTT was not with us because she was playing run away bride...while LH & Khiem were so busy... as usual !)

Cheers from me LDior bên bo*hô Léman

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Fwd: Buildings in NYC

This entry is for my friend Mr Kiu. I snapped this photo in New York China town while I waited for Quang to show up for dinner. Thanks again Quang for a great time. TNS

Buildings in NYC

NYC 6th Avenue

NYC 5th Avenue

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] Buildings in San Diego

939 Coast Blvd, luxury high-rise building in La Jolla Shore (San Diego) is famous for its sweeping ocean view condominiums.

TNS

A Triet un poème d'amour sur fond de gratte-ciel.:) Merci pour les photos.

O monument grand,
Je te vois de mon coin,
Te dresser jusqu'au firmament,
Et Amour ne s'en ressent moins!

O Chicago céleste
Tu ne m'as jamais dit: 'Reste!'
C'est pourquoi j'ai pris l'avion
Et fait mes adieux à ton horizon.

Et pour tes tours longues,
Drapées de brumes et d'attentes,
Moi qui vis dans l'enfer de Dante,
Je me raconte de pieux mensonges

Ô Dieu! Mon Amour et ma croix!
Que le ciel me garde de tes bras!
Que ta tour grande s'estompe mille fois
Mais qu'elle reste toujours en moi!

Et je te vois toujours de loin
Quand je rêve sur mon balcon
Monuments jusqu'aux quatres coins
Parfaites et étonnantes constructions.

tc

Buildings in Los Angeles

Dear MC & Romantic PNEH Friends,Luckily, I have some pictures in L.A. from my photo class to share:

The Walt Disney Concert Hall is a pretty artistically construction in Downtown Los Angeles.There is a famous alley to walk to the Hall that is so fantastic to see as well.

& the Blue Building is the famous Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood area named the "Blue Whale" ( where the post-Oscar parties are held )

Hope you enjoy some of the Los Angeles landscape

Cheers from Liem

My entry for Buildings, monuments

My dear fellows PNEH, hoa si, thi si and art critic Mr. GQ, One of my most favorite places in Manhattan is the very romantic Grand Central Terminal where I spent many lunch hours walking around, to look at its ceilings and lights, take pictures of the people, the building and the shops, and sometimes buy my lunches at its food market. Here is my collage in tribute of the GCT.
The photo of the Gemini constellation on the ceiling is for my twin BiTi, Trang and all fellows Geminis; since the Cancer is right next to it, the photo is also for all the Cancer members of the Forum to enjoy :-). The day I took the photo of its big windows, there was some people who were probably doing some restoration survey, standing high up there, across the windows area. I thought to myself how lucky I was to be at the right time, as this added to the coolness of the windows. If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you could see some of the people wearing hard hats and holding most probably some architecture plans.
The chandelier in the shape of branches is right at the Lexington entrance of the GCT Market.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday
from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC

Cafifornia Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate park in SFO

Thank you MC for all your great work and you can see that we appreciate it.
This is the Cafifornia Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate park in SFO, which is one of the greenest building in the city and support a green roof with an area of 2.5 acres. Visitors can be seen on the roof.
Tuan

Entries for this week's theme: "Buildings and Monuments"

Dear Twins and fellow PNEH members,Since this week's theme is what Americans would call a "gimme" for a Chicagoan, I want to be the first instead the last to post my entries. Here they are: (1) a view of the Chicago skyline shrouded in fog, taken from our Navy Pier; (2) Two Chicago landmarks side-by-side, one old (the Wrigley Chewing Gum building) and one brand new (the Trump Tower); and (3) a view of the skyline from the Chicago River that runs through the city.Next, let's see if anyone can come up with poetry on Buildings and Structures (probably won't be a love poem but TC may surprise us yet!).

Amities,
Triet

Late entry on the theme of :"Posters"

Dear EmCi and other Pho Nhom,

My apologies for the late entry but I just came across this poster today:"See Red" (Voir Rouge). It's for our Chicago Bulls basketball team, who are enjoying their best season since the Michael Jordan era. Sorry about your Lakers, dear L.A. friends, but it's time for a new NBA champion. :-)

Triet