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Poetry 1: Express my heart - Dang Dung

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This is the famous poem of Dang Dung , a general in the 14th century.  Express my heart Affairs of this world are endless, but I’m old already; what must I do? The infinite universe comes into some drunken songs. When good fortune comes, a butcher or fisher can become weirdly successful. When chance is gone, heroes will only drink much resentment.  I wanted to help the king and held the ambition of lifting this earth's axis to turn it around. I wanted to wash all armor, but there was no way to pull the river on galaxy down. The nation is not avenged yet; hair turned white first.  How many nights have I sharpened my sword in the moonlight? (Thuật hoài Thế sự du du nại lão hà, Vô cùng thiên địa nhập hàm ca. Thời lai đồ điếu thành công dị, Vận khứ anh hùng ẩm hận đa. Trí chúa hữu hoài phù địa trục, Tẩy binh vô lộ vãn thiên hà. Quốc thù vị báo đầu tiên bạch, Kỷ độ Long Tuyền đới nguyệt ma. Sự đời dằng dặc mà ta già rồi, biết làm sao đây! Trời đất mênh mông thu vào trong cuộc ...

Hello World!

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Hello World! After so long, more than 10 years, that I have kept a low-key profile, I would like to be open to the world again by starting my personal blog.  This new beginning will be more exciting and deeply thoughtful than my previous blogs when I was a student in Hanoi, Vietnam. I stopped blogging a long time ago, as life has changed so much for a young; things came and gone, people came and gone, and my heart and soul have been transformed by traces and scars. I took a long time to ponder life and the world and untangle myself from the tangled things that came to me. Now, as I become more apparent in my mind and purer in spirit, this is the time to give back my thinking to the universe. Because this is the first post, I want to insert a beautiful image. Looking for a photo on my laptop, I found only the picture of Prince Tran Hung Dao - a famous general in Vietnamese history, during the TRAN dynasty. This great general led the Vietnamese people to defeat three times the invasi...