(TBKTSG Online) – Entrepreneurs and students seem to have no distance in the night show for their singing and communication at the HCMC University of Architecture – an event jointly held by Saigon Economic Times, Saigon Times Club, and HCMC University of Architecture on October 25.

Around 700 students and more than 20 entrepreneurs took part in the show. They sang together and laughed merrily with funny stories, and the show ended in sweet feelings remained.

In the student eyes, the view on serious and impersonal presidents or CEOs seemed to be eliminated in the outset by the humorousness and delicacy of Le Ba Thong, the MC also an entrepreneur and the CEO of the leading interior contractor TTT.
His warm voice and sincere attitude in his language was the first tie connecting the entrepreneurs and student’s feelings. He warmed up the climate with student games. Slippers, bells, tops… were willingly contributed by students to join his game “Architecture needs.”

Gifts exchanges, peals of laughter, and the game of hand clapping against the rain rhythm had opened the show in interesting moments of waiting. On the large screen, images came out, the audience kept quiet, the applause followed instructions on the screen, and the show started in the students’ excitement. Then, the light was off to yield to the resounding music.

It was the familiar song Rainy Day’s Love but the sound was soulfully lingered on. The light was yellowish enough to see those indulging themselves in the song “…love a lot, though going to rack and ruin, being away still missing each other…” Four entrepreneurs themselves were playing four musical instruments and singing. Their seriousness and tense in doing daily business gave way to the role of artists.

Truong Viet Vu, the CEO of the pharmaceutical firm Duy Tan also devoted himself in Dream of You. His youthful performance style was why his song was warmly welcomed.

Students were not only singing together but also waving their hands and sending their endless peals of clapping hand to singers in response to the call for by the two MCs – Thanh Phuong, the External Chairperson of Saigon Times Club also the journalist of Saigon Economic Times, and Le Ba Thong.

The communication was more intimate when Tran Minh Tam, the BOM Chairman of TTT, talked about his days of Students Sing at this very University of Architecture. He talked friendly as an old brother being away from home for long, now coming back and recalling a distant time when he set up the band T-ke for earnings to cover his difficult student life in 1980s and for satisfying his fond of music.

Furthermore, Tam had invited the former members of his band for coming back to the University and performing a Spanish song in the junior students’ applause.

The former students’ memories of a distant time under this school roof made the show more meaningful when audience-students had no feeling of a border between entrepreneurs – who were always busy with their business in fiercely competitive marketplace – and students with their main concerns of exams and tuitions.

To refresh the atmosphere, Duong Tan Son, the CEO of V-Home Group, sang the song “I want” and the climate came to zeal with constant rapturous applause.

“Can business successes be possible with the artist’s inspiration?” The first question of the communication raised by a student to Duong Tan Son was not simple but his answer satisfied listeners: “Both music and business are in need of inspiration. Singers need inspiration to sing heartily and win the audience’s support. Business people need inspiration to have new ideas, device strategies, and come to success.”

Not worse than the songs performed by entrepreneurs, “Waiting Days” sung by a group of students were warmly applauded for its professional ebullient youthful and modern performance. Entrepreneurs and students then sang a song familiar to most of students, “Pink Flamboyant.” An architecture student and Thong performed the song to recall the feeling of “everybody understands but only one does not” of the two generations in the courtyard.

Le Chi Hieu, the CEO of Thuduc House was playing guitar and singing a song composed by himself. With his tough appearance, the romantic lyric songs composed by himself surprised students.

Having asked by a student why he was so serious in such a hilarious show, he said that was he, who had a cold face and a warm heart. As he had once talked in an online communication with the readers of Saigon Economic Times, “Business may come to a halt some time, but music goes with me until I have no breath to sing. But even though I may be then exhausted, I could still compose music for others singing if my emotion still exists.”

Nguyen Hoang Hai, BOM Deputy Chairman of Vietnam SOCO, looks like more an artist than an executive. With the song “Away from home boat”, he displayed truthfully and soulfully the emotion of a person being away from home. The song was moving because the singer had also come back home after a long time being away.

Questions were continuously raised and the show went on with sweet songs by entrepreneurs or students. The repertoire left unforgettable marks.

Among them were the entrepreneurs’ sentiments towards students. Ten scholarships of VND2 million each were extended to 10 poor students who had been overcoming difficulties and studying well in the University of Architecture. This is a moral gift to encourage students in fulfilling their study dreams.

The communication night ended in full of happiness. Entrepreneurs and students sang together “The Great Circle of Vietnam”. The circles of hands appeared to be far but actually so close; distances seemingly shortened; and sentiments were subliming.

This is the third time Saigon Economic Times and Saigon Times Club have jointly held the show of Entrepreneur Sing, but it has for the first time connected with students. Succeeding shows will follow to communicate with students from other universities. The entrepreneurs will go on singing and sharing ups and downs in their business life, and scholarships will be sent to difficulty-overcoming students. Saigon Times Foundation will go on doing its task – bringing entrepreneurs’ sentiments and heats to students.

THANH THUONG