Tus Ntsuag Kub—My Review
Posted on 13 July 2010 | 9 responses
I have to say, this is one of the BEST movie I’ve seen this year!!! I am very amazed with this movie and the story line!! I have to be honesty I did shed a few tears watching this movie too!
I will most definitely watch this movie over and over again, it’s that good!
This movie also features Pagnia Xiong’s song “Cia Rau Txoj Hmoo” from her latest album.
:::WARNING WARNING WARNING SPOILER ALERT!!!:::
Tus Ntsuag Kub (The Golden One), it can be translated into the chosen one, the golden one or the wealth a person can get. This movie is about Ntxawg (GER), a gentleman who has a dream of becoming rich. He fell in love with Paj Yeeb (Pa Yeng) his employer’s daughter, but unfortunately when Ntxawg was ready to tell Paj Yeeb she got married, he than lost hope in love with her and move on with his life. Ntxawg than became friends with Paj Yeeb’s father Txhiaj Npi, a rich man whom he worked for. Ntxawg accepted a job as Txhiaj Npi’s tour guide. Txhiaj Npi saw that Ntxawg was following his footstep when he was a young man, he than tried to help guide Ntxawg on a right path explaining that wealth does not mean happiness, it means drama in the family with no love at all.
Ntxawg’s parents went to a nearby village and met Nkauj Nag they than fell in love with not only her kindness, but everything that she was. Ntxawg finally decided that he’ll marry Nkuaj Nag for he had already lost his hope in Paj Yeej and becoming rich through the support of her rich father. Soon enough Ntxawg and Nkuaj Nag married. Ntxawg later found out that Paj Yeeb had returned home as a divorce woman and saw his opportunity with Paj Yeeb, his dream was coming true.
Nkauj Nag was hurt for the betrayal of her husband so she left him with her unborn child. A few days later Ntxawg was accidentally shot and was on the verge of death. His love Paj Yeeb left him because she was unable to support him and take care of him and did not want the title of a divorce woman and a widow so she left him. When Nkauj Nag heard about the accident and that Ntxawg’s second wife had left him on his death bed she returned to him and help nurture Ntxawg back to life.
Through the time of his sickness he than realized that money and Paj Yeeb was not his dream, but his dream was his wife Nkauj Nag who loves him unconditionally even after the hurtful ways he had put her through.
As I’ve mentioned before, this movie was well worth the money! I believe I paid 18 bucks for this movie since it was a two disc movie and man it was well worth every penny spent!! I’ll have to be honest, the acting was not all the best, there are room for improvements but it wasn’t all that bad to where I couldn’t dealt with it. It was manageable, better than what I can do. Anyways my first impression was man our lead actor is not handsome, his friend is much more cuter but I got over it.
I absolutely loved loved loved the script to this movie, they had many quote and saying that really touched the heart. My most favorite quote from this movie was said to Ntxawg from his father, the quote goes “Its not because she’s beautiful that makes you love her, it’s because you love her that makes her beautiful”. and also the quote said to Ntxawg from Nkauj Nag “Love is not how much you received, but how much you can give”. Not only did this movie have great quote and saying, but the storyline of this movie was very good and very powerful. They had put a lot of thoughts into this movie, well worth it!
This movie is not only any other movie, but a life lesson. The object of this movie is, money is not worth anything if the people you have around you does not love you for who you are, but the money you have; the person you love may not love you to care for you but the person who loves you will care for you unconditionally.
Well worth it, I recommend everyone to watch this movie, “open up your mind and see life through your heart not your eyes” (another awesome quote from the movie).
Pagnia Xiong at Sounder’s Concert
Posted on 12 July 2010 | 3 responses
Pagnia Xiong was a guest singer at the Sounder’s Concert on July 4th at the Epic Night Club in Minneapolis Minnesota and I was there to watch her perform 3 songs from her newest album (the album is amazing and I will review it at a later time) and she also sang a duet with the Sounders. But her live performance at the concert was a huge success, she was amazing and sounded great!! From her live performance you can tell Pagnia did not just give the audience 100% but she gave more than what she have.
Enjoy the clips from the concert!!
Indian Mounds Park in St. Paul MN
Posted on 11 July 2010 | 3 responses
We biked to Indian Mounds Park twice when I was in MN. My uncle lives not too far from the park so the first time he took us biking riding there; we started from his house than to a new park close by his house down this bike path which lead us to under many highway bridges and then up to Indian Mounds park. We continue the bike riding to the new Hmong Village mall that will be opening up soon then we biked to Phelan Park and continue onto Kelly Regional park and down this bike route then back to Phelan and back to my uncle’s house. It took us a good 3 and a half hours to bike all the way through. It was a good work out, my legs were pretty tired from going up the hills and what not but it was well worth it. The view from Indian Mounds Park was breath taking. Its an over look into downtown St. Paul and a small airport in the area and also on look the Mississippi River.
The second time we went it was just my sisters, a cousin we just met and I. We biked to the park and back only, didnt know the way to all the other places, but again it was well worth it. I really enjoyed the view.
Enjoy the pictures, I didnt get to take much pictures since when we went the second time around we did not have that much time. I was too tired to really do any photography so I just did quick snap shoots.
Sounder’s Concert: Puas Kho Koj Siab
Posted on 9 July 2010 | 5 responses
SCREAM!!!!!! What can I say?? I love love love love The Sounders and having the chance to go to their concert was a once in a life time chance, most of all, I didn’t buy the VIP tickets (which I should had), but it was close enough, I was right behind the VIP area so I still get front view!!! How sweet is that!!! And then towards the last 30-45 minutes I was able to go into the VIP area!!!
Oh and the concert was held on Sunday July 4th 2010 at the Epic Night Club in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Here is a video from the concert, the song is called “Puas Kho Koj Siab”, my all time favorite from them!!! Oh and best of all, they added a new verse into the song, I love the verse!!! This song is such a beautiful and bittersweet song! For the song translation and lyrics click HERE. I also provided a audio for the original song as well as the video from the concert.
I will do a full review on the concert as soon as time allows me, I am still feeling sick from the shoots (vaccinations)I had yesterday. I think my body is fighting one of the shoots because I sure did not feel good at all today.
By the way, I was a little lazy to cut the first few minutes off the video so just watch it.. I don’t think the singing starts until around 2minutes, but regardless this song performance made my night and blissful night as it was already a wonderful night, but this particular performance made it all the better!
I promise SOUNDERS CONCERT PICTURES will be posted SOON!!! and I will tell you guys how WONDERFUL and AMAZING this concert was!! It was worth every penny I spent on it (I had to give away 3 tickets since 3 of my people couldn’t make it, I paid for two of them and the other one was given to me, I’ll explain why they couldn’t make it, and two big regrets for not making it at a later post)
Sounders – V4 – Pais – 06 – Puas Kho Koj Siab.mp3
Blooms From My Plumerias!!
Posted on 8 July 2010 | 5 responses
I know I should be posting about my vacation, everyone is waiting on my take about Minnesota and my entire trip, but I am very tired today and both my arms are very very sore!! I had just gotten back from the doctors today and I had two shoots, one of my left arm and one on my right arm so I am going to do a quick blog today and then call it an early night to rest my arms so I can work tomorrow. After that I’ll get back to my normal blogging and it’ll be all about my Minnesota trip and all the cool fun things I’ve done and bought and yes lots and lots of pictures, well no not really, but lots of pictures. I didn’t do any photography related photography, they are more of snap shoots.
But yes, I returned home on Tuesday night to find a pleasant surprise!!! My plumerias had gotten so big with lots of beautiful strong leaves and one of the two plants even have beautiful blooms!! I am so proud of myself!! Two weeks ago before I left to Minnesota they were doing well, but with less leaves. I purchases these two plumeria plants when I went to Florida back in August of 2008, the last two years they didn’t thrive so well as I didn’t do a good job at taking care of it, I didn’t put it into a new pot so the plants can grow; this year I went ahead and purchased two huge pots and lots of soil and re-pot the plants, they are now glowing with beautiful strong leaves and one of them are now blooming with beautiful and wonderful fragrance white plumerias with a yellow center! Theses are not the first set of blooms, on the soil of the plants there are some dried fallen flowers as I am sure they had already bloomed while I was gone, which I was expecting it since when I left they were showing signs of blooms.
I cannot wait for more blooms. One of the plumeria will not bloom this year, but I hope for lots of blooms next from both trees!! I am thinking about keeping them in these same pots for next year and then after that I’ll find bigger pots for them. But I may just change my mind and re-pot them again next year. Again I am loving these beautiful fragrance plumerias!!
And yes I did water them as soon as I took these pictures!!!
My Take On The Sy Lee and Kos Lis Concert
Posted on 7 July 2010 | 5 responses
It sure does feel great to be back home again! But I have to be honestly, I am so very tired from this trip, as soon as I finish blogging I’ll call it a night, yes this early of the day. I really need to fully recover from this trip although I don’t remember doing anything so tiring during the trip, I think it’s the HOT and HUMID Georgia weather that is making me feel extra tired.
Okay so I did blog about Kos Lis and Sy Lee’s concert that was held on Friday July 2nd in Little Canada, Minnesota. Well As a huge fan of Kos Lis I decided to cancel a few plans so I can make it to this concert. I had to ditch my best friend’s birthday just to attend this concert, it was a once in a life time chance for me, I was truly excited and cannot wait to take a picture with Kos. Well we’ve arrived at the concert at about 8:15 pm, the concert was supposed to start at 8 pm. We found a unreserved table near the back (all the front tables were already reserved). We sat at our table for about 3 hours listening to a few singers sings their songs, a song per person, honestly the only enjoyable one was the song by Wave. Anyways, 3 hours into the concert they finally introduced Sy Lee to sing his first song, according to Sy himself, he said this was his first comeback since he last stopped singing. I have no idea who Sy Lee is, I’ve never heard any of his music before, or at least I do not pay attention to them.
After Sy Lee sang his first song, he announced that Kos Lis’ sponsor had a few announcements to make. Kos’ sponsor had announced that Kos will not be attending this concert as he never gotten on the plane, he had called his sponsor the day before the concert stating that his mother had been very sick and was unable to take the flight to Minnesota.
My cousin and I was very disappointing and not only us, but the many fans that came for Kos Lis was very disappointed as well. Honestly I wasn’t just disappointed, I was very angry with them. I know that Kos was very concern about his mother’s health and I respect that, but what I was angry about was that they never told us a thing about Kos not attending this concert until 3 hours into the concert. I wasted a good 3 hours sitting bored to the bone, annoyed at the table in front of us making fools of themselves while I waited for Kos Lis to appear on stage only I and his fans who attended was left disappointed. I honestly thought they should had let us know when we entered the building and they should had offered a refund of some sort who rather just have a refund than sit at the concert knowing that Kos will not attended.
There goes my hopes to finally meet Kos Lis!!
I only stayed at the concert for 3 hours, it didn’t end until 1 am, we left the concert at 11pm and went to Epic to celebrate my best friend’s birthday instead of dreading the whole night at the concert. The table in front of me was getting on my nerves, they were inconsiderate, the girls were extremely loud talking about getting drunk and trying to take shots and also taking photos. I thought they were not only rude, but they were making fools of themselves, these were ladies that were about 35ish years old. I was at the verge of going up to their table and tell them to hush up, we did not care about them wanting to get drunk and who can take what shots and scream off the top of their lungs, but we wanted to enjoy the concert and be able to hear the singers sing, but we left the concert instead.
The table I was sitting at, the guys that came join us at our table were 3 guys who was in the Hmong entertainment business. One guy was Kwm Lis, the famous Hmong actor, who I absolutely hate. Well I do not hate him, I just don’t think he can act and he isn’t my favorite actor. He used to live in either Thai or Laos but now resides in the US. I think he has a staring issue, the whole 3 hours I was there after they joined our table he kept staring at me as if he had never seen a girl before, I was truly uncomfortable. Another guy who sat at our table was his friend, I don’t remember his name, but he also played in Hmong movies. I believe he did played a movie with Kwm Lis before. The last guy was I believe the owner of Modern Jungle Art Production or whatever their production name was. That guy too had staring issue, he kept staring at me the whole night through (while I was there). He even camcorded me which I thought was a bit freaky.
Sy Lee did a great job, at least for the 2 songs we stayed to hear him sing. We left after they announced that Kos Lis will not attend the concert. Again, I was left very disappointed!
So this is my sad note and disappointment of my trip, tomorrow I’ll blog more about my trip, the goods, the bad and the ugly.
Again I am glad to be home!! Now I am going to call it a night and sleep super early so I can recover from this trip! Sorry about my ranting, I am just too disappointed!
I am Back Home!!
Posted on 6 July 2010 | 1 response
Hey all!! I am back home now! I had just gotten back about an hour ago so I will not be updating anything today but will start blogging again starting tomorrow. I have a bunch to blog about, all about my trip and much more!
It’s great to finally be home again, I’ve been gone for way too long; two weeks and a half sure is a long time, now I am back to my normal everyday life again! Back to work and school, full time both, no time to breath, no time for myself, but over all I am content!
I have to say, I sure did missed my bed and my car!
Kos Lis in Concert
Posted on 27 June 2010 | 3 responses
(I took the picture of the flyer via my blackberry only so the quality sucks butt, sorry!)
Kos Lis will be having a concert on Friday July 2nd at the Event Center on Rice street in Little Canada Minnesota. I hope to make it and see him performed live as a huge fan, I want to see him on his US tour. Good thing I decided to visit MN this year, here is my chance to see Kos performed live! Oh by the way Kos has a new album out, its vol. 10 and yes I’ve already purchased it last week although I had not really listened to it since I’m still vacationing. Will review it when I am back at home and blog with full force! MN is fine thuis far, one week down and another week to go. I am blogging from Hmongtown, a hmong flea market(helping my aunt and uncle) and I think I am being suckered into buying the album “ya nrog cua” by ya and hum! I like!
Okay guys, you guys can catch me this weekend during the J4 turnament at my uncle’s booth, at be at the Xiong VCD booth, come find me and say “hi”!
Good Morning St. Paul MN!!
Posted on 19 June 2010 | 2 responses
Hey guys, guess where I am at? Well I am finally in MN!! My sisters and I got here last night at midnight and we had a wonderful night here last night. Met both my aunts and uncles and the awesome cousins (haven’t seen some of them in a while)! I am having a great feeling I’ll have a wonderful time here. We have a lot of plans and I hope all our plans goes through! We do not have a real agenda for the stay yet although we already know some things we’ll be doing for sure.
It’s been 4 years since I’ve been to MN so I had forgotten how the weather here is like, my cousin was complaining how humid it was and all my sisters and I did was laugh at her, we told her that if MN is humid than she should never visit Georgia in the summer (she had always just visited us in the Spring).
I woke up to nice weather this morning. It felt like the beginning of Autumn in GA, nice cool wind just blowing although it was a bit gloomy at the time, but it looks like the sun is coming up.
So my cousins said she’ll take my sisters and I to “Hmong town” yes there is really a HMONG TOWN here in MN! I’ll be sure to take lots of pictures and post all about it. It’ll be one interesting post I bet!
By the way, if you guys see me don’t be shy to say HI!! Oh and I’ll be seen around the tournament during the J4 event, I am actuallygoing to be helping my aunt and uncle sell movies (I’ll let you guys know which booth at a later time).
I don’t know how often I’ll be able to post during my stay here which will be two and a half weeks, so don’t be surprise if I do not post very much, but when I return, I’ll go crazy at posting and tell you all how my vacation is and don’t worry, I’ll take lots of pictures!!!!
My Plumerias
Posted on 17 June 2010 | 2 responses
My plumeria’s are doing well, FINALLY! This is my third year since I had these Plumerias and finally they are showing lots of wonderful sign of growth! This year I was finally not so lazy so I finally put the plumerias in bigger pots and it’s finally growing. I have more leaves this year and one of the plant is actually showing signs of flowers! I am so happy, but I am sad at the same time. There’s a good change I’ll miss the bloom from one of the plumeria since I’ll be going on my vacation tomorrow and the looks of one of the plant, the flower should be in full bloom within the next week, lets hope it wont fully bloom until I return home from vacation so I can enjoy the beautiful fragrance plant.
Don’t mind the not so good photo, I shot these with my new canon point and shoot.
