Terrible

Unbelievably, the Vietnam Record Organization has recognized “Mrs. Tan Vlog” as “The fastest female farmer to receive the YouTube gold button in Vietnam”. Shockingly, no longer “stuck in the country”, “Mrs. Tan Vlog” is also in the Top 3 YouTube channels with the fastest increase in subscribers in the world in 24 hours! An astonishing speed, a number that makes many people smack their lips in envy, admiration and the same feeling of “unable to understand”.

What's going on? A personal page with a few dozen simple clips about cooking, a little "different" like "giant" or "super spicy" or "super awesome". Perhaps the charm is the simple, honest, rustic and a little bit funny nature of the grandmother: "Hello, kids", "Do you think I'm cool?", "My life has been almost 60 pots of banh chung".

A group of young people were chatting, when the topic “Mrs. Tan Vlog” was brought up, one of the group members excitedly explained, “Because our people like it that way, everything has to be super, the best, and awesome.” Oh, that makes sense! Every dish she makes is awesome! Did Mrs. Tan scratch the itch of the world or did she activate the “awesomeness” point of the Vietnamese people?

I have a habit of shuddering so I don’t want to mention this again, but really, thinking about the “1,000-person pho bowl” last year, left on display all day until it swelled up and smelled of decomposition, and after no one could stand standing next to it to take pictures anymore, they all gathered to take it away and dump it… I should take anti-nausea pills! Wastefulness is one thing, but the culture of showing off is the real issue. Pho is a world-famous Vietnamese dish, its value is delicious, not its size. Just looking at the bowl of pho with a diameter of more than two meters and weighing nearly a ton and a half, oh my, I must find someone with a mouth as big as a washing basin to be suitable. Is it true that after cooking that bowl of pho, they have to mobilize a thousand people to surround it, all slurping with their chopsticks? Poor thing, but people still do it, still have to be the champion, still be huge, huge and huge!

Speaking of giant bowls of pho, I remember the story of a mountainous province that shocked the whole country because it suddenly came up with a project to build a 1,400 billion VND monument just to "Create a cultural highlight" for the locality. Oh my, that "cultural highlight" which is frankly a "term highlight" costs 1,400 billion VND, while the annual budget revenue still has to be extended to the Central Government. Not to mention that every winter, the remote schools of that place thirsting for a highlight are filled with the sound of wind rustling through the poor thatched roofs.

A district in Hanoi "burned" more than 117 billion VND to build a theater on a total floor area of ​​7,100 m2, with a capacity equal to the Opera House, started construction after 2 years then was shelved due to... lack of capital. The HN Museum costs 3,000 billion VND, is huge but also deserted. The square and monument cluster is 34.23 hectares wide, with a total investment of 1,543 billion VND, considered "huge" in NB province, after 8 years they still ask each other "When will October come"? The great project "Three Conical Hat Theater" was granted a certificate by the Vietnam Record Organization, but on the opening day, it had to be moved to another location because the rough construction was only completed! The scale is huge but the progress is... slow, the finances are... anxious! Those are stories that are hard for anyone to tell in an excited mood.

It is a fact that on May 30, delegate Hoang Quang Ham, Standing MemberFinance and Budget Committee of the National Assemblysaid that in 2019, 9.3% of the Government's domestic debt portfolio was due. "The need to borrow to repay the debt due in the 2019-2021 period is about 700,000 billion VND, at times borrowing to repay the principal debt is up to 20,000-40,000 billion VND per month. The author would like to not comment on these numbers, because they are enough language to say it all. However, the project of huge capital increase still seems to not be... "cured"! While the state of being hungry for money is like a chronic disease, people have just dragged out a "tycoon" who poured 3,000 billion VND to make fake gasoline. 3,000 billion, huge! Why did he ever slip through the net? Or is there a "huge" box? Not yet, speaking of the word "huge" reminds me of a delegate who proposed to collect a "farewell fee" of 5 dollars, equivalent to a breakfast. Wow, a 5 dollar breakfast is about 115,000 VND, I admit that the delegate's breakfast is really "huge"!

Talking about the word “awesome” on the weekend, I started to imagine, if there was a script about social stories with “ingredients” of “awesome pho”, “awesome construction”, “awesome drugs”, “awesome smuggling”… then how would “Mrs. Tan vlog” introduce it? Hopefully that 32-kilo youtuber wouldn’t say: “Hello everyone, today I will show you a super spicy, super bitter hot pot. Do you think I’m cool?”

No matter how terrible, don’t let it be a…crisis! The journey to eliminate irrationalities is long and it is not the responsibility of any one person. Let “people know, people discuss, people do, people check”, and there are quite a few people, more than 90 million “viu”!