Diep Chi's "wishes"

(Baonghean) - “The 7th Wish” has finally returned after 60 days of being “suspended” due to the incident of the “unreal fairy tale love story” of a Thanh Hoa boy for a blind Nghe An girl. Because of that incident, Diep Chi – a famous female MC and editor of VTV had to go through a difficult broadcast: Apologizing to the audience for making mistakes during her work. That was probably the most memorable memory in her journalistic career and 9-year journey with VTV of this emotional and tearful Vinh girl – her strength and weakness…

“Apologies are given without expecting anything in return…”

Unlike the times when she hosted the Golden Bell, Do Re Mi or chatted over a cup of “Morning Coffee”…, Diep Chi’s voice had probably never been so small, almost tearful, the tearfulness of someone who knew they were at fault but it was an unintentional mistake: “…Like many other 7th Wish programs, we came to this story with a completely pure heart, with the desire to bring a better life to characters in special circumstances. No matter what our purpose was at the beginning and how many reasons we wanted to explain to you, right now we would like to take responsibility for the mistakes because we were not determined to go all the way in our professional work, causing a truly regrettable incident to happen in the 7th Wish program broadcast on January 10, 2015 on VTV3…”.

MC, Editor Diep Chi.

Compared to the apology that caused offense in the past by the female lead in “Nhat ky Vang Anh”, Diep Chi’s apology - on the contrary - impressed with its sincerity and “property”: “The apology is not made in the hope of receiving love or forgiveness in return...”. Because above all, Chi understands that the mistake that she and her crew made was not only with the people involved, but more broadly, its consequences could lead to the audience losing faith in kindness, in “modern-day fairy tales” - the treasure that The 7th Wish has been trying to find and bring to the audience for so long. “I hope that the audience will never lose faith in human kindness, in the human values ​​of life…” - she said.

Then, when she returned to her personal page, she reminded herself once again: “If you make a mistake, correct it, stumble and get up. You've been foolish enough, it's time to be "smart". You've bowed your head sincerely, now lift your head up and move on...", "I was wrong, I don't blame anyone. I only feel remorse when my mistake causes many people to be involved. Without this "incident", I would have rushed forward like a moth to a flame, would have worked hard day and night, would have loved blindly... And then, if I don't stumble now, I will fall later. It's worth the pain to "grow up", right?"...

“Will still love and believe…”

“The storm season is over”. The 7th wish has been “unbanned” to the joy of the crew and the dedicated female editor of the station: “Exactly 60 days..., the neatly folded blue shirt is now about to be soaked with sweat. I miss the trips so much, I want to hug strangers again, bring them joy and make myself happy. I am grateful for the countless shares and encouragements in the past 60 days, hundreds of loving messages and even the reproaches that have been read and remembered. I am grateful for the patience and the touching urgings, not a day goes by without someone asking "When... will you come back", "When will you continue?". It is so nice to know that I and many people share the same nostalgia... It is time to come back, Wish! See you on a beautiful April day...". And then that day has come: “Today - a beautiful Saturday, The 7th Wish officially returns, after a year on air. 1pm today on VTV3, everyone (it's been a long time since I've been informed about this so I'm jumping up and down as I type!” - Chi almost skipped on Facebook.

Diep Chi in a program of the 7th Wish. Photo: Internet

And now she is taking her small family to a faraway place: Colmar, a pretty little town near the border of France and Germany, the capital of the French wine route and the only place in the world that sells a strange commodity: sunsets. “Perhaps nowhere else is the image of the end of the day so glorious. Thousands of people wait, lining up to choose a seat from the moment the sun is still vertical, and then, without anyone telling anyone, all applaud when the last halo of light drifts down to the Aegean Sea. A wonderful “performance”!... ”. It is also a rare “relaxing” time that this extremely busy and especially in-demand female editor and MC has tried to filter out from her tight work schedule to “give a gift” to her small family - where her greatest asset is baby Sumo and a husband (MC Trung Kien) who is always willing to pick up his wife at the airport between busy business trips.

If she can't go far, Chi's "gift" will be meals that are decorated very attractively and to be able to create that menu, that "housewife" is usually "no ordinary person".

Swallow tired but go

The life of a journalist, especially a visual journalist, and with the added “sin of loving the job” like this Nghe An girl who possesses a “regional specialty” of a determined personality, it is strange that it is not hard and busy! Chi recounted, once after her “Morning Coffee” shift at the beginning of the day, she met her colleagues at the station, they exclaimed: “Oh, you are not human anymore!”.

Chi admitted: “The sleepless nights from last month to this month. The programs continued without a break, and if you still had the energy to laugh out loud, you are definitely not a... mortal anymore!”

Although it is not easy to have much time for her family, Chi does not regret the passion she has put into her work. Not only because the opportunity Chi has at Vietnam Television is not easy to come by for a girl from the countryside, but it is also the place that marks the most beautiful time of her youth; where the name Diep Chi was first known in the program "Ring the Golden Bell"; where she and her young, dedicated colleagues "laughed heartily and sometimes hugged each other and cried until there were no more tears left. Glory and storms, happiness and suffering - because of things not done for themselves...". The most memorable memories of Chi's career are "not the beautiful makeup, the lights and the applause, but the endless sleepless nights, the pale faces silently looking at each other, the urgings to "try to get some sleep", the scolding - "eat it now, do you want to die there"; when people and families reunite, the whole group stays awake, swallowing the hardship. Only knowing how to lean their heads on each other's shoulders when exhausted, dreaming together of warm blankets, soft mattresses and young children...", because "this job is not glamorous, not light, not easy as people think...".

Miss Nguyen Thu Thuy once told me: “People whose lives seem to be in chaos due to pressure and a busy work schedule…, actually stay young for a long time, compared to those who are idle and passive. Simply because their bodies and minds are always active and that is what creates the source of life that nourishes their youthfulness.” This sentence is indeed true in Diep Chi’s case!

Nguyen Le