Ho Chi Minh City

Beef butcher for the Vietnamese,

Coffee Maker, Stacker of Nón Lá,

Player with Motorbikes and the Country's Stunning Traffic;

Windy, stormy, baking,

City of the South China Sea:

They whisper to me that you are blazing and I trust them, for I

have seen them students and teachers under the shed

dripping salty sweat from their foreheads.

And they whisper to me that you are a tornado and I reply: Yes, it

is true I have seen the umbrellas pulling humans and flip over to

pull again.

And they whisper to me that you are bustling and my reply is: On the

streets of District One I have seen the skid-marks

of rapid driving.

And having replied so I spin to those who

scorn at this foreign city, and I return them the scorn

and say to them:

Come and show me another city with rising beef aroma,

so pleased to be international, fruity, unpredictable and talented.

Weaving threads with needles making cloth

on cloth, here is a white áo dài specially made for the

striking Vietnamese women;

Hardworking as a bee flying around for honey, creative

as a cobbler making slippers, sandals and shoes,

Diverse,

Buying,

Cutting,

Digging,

Building, building, and building.

Nón Lá

áo dài

A Vietnamese woman wearing a white áo dài with a nón lá on top of her head

Updated

Book

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

Movie

This Is It

And guess what?

Only 12 days till New Moon!

Aren't you excited?!

And Eclipse's poster

30 June 2010

The Lifeless School

Chocolate is a powerful food, building

Fat out of the skinny bones, adding

Sugars and satisfaction, confusing

Desire with regret.

Chocolate kept kids hyper, filling

School grounds in crazy screaming, making

The school grow to life.

Speaking of school, I just realized it's the graduation season.

It was supposed to be my graduation season.

But it's not.

All my friends that are my age are graduating,

I'm seeing graduation pictures and shout outs all over the place.

My graduation is 2 and 1/2 years later.

People around me are 14, 15, 16 whilst I'm 17.

Is it normal to feel sad?

SSIS Idol again

I recorded myself singing some of Jolin's songs

I need some recommendations about which one you think suits me

for me to sing in SSIS Idol

All of the songs are recorded in one shot

so you will hear a lot of out of tune notes and wrong lyrics

and the volume is low

so you have to crank it up

Very sorry

《假面的告白》 《柠檬草的味道》 《假装》 《开场白》

《一个人》 《非卖品》 《节拍器》 《降落伞》 《我的依赖》

Lauren and her piano

Let me tell you a story.

Lauren has been learning the piano for ten years.

She started since she was six.

Playing the piano wasn't her hobby,

reading was much more fun than playing the piano.

But she's played the piano for ten years.

When Lauren was seven,

she was asked by her parents if she wanted to have her own piano.

Lauren was excited.

The idea of having her own piano was unbelievable to her,

to own something that was heavier than her.

She said yes to her parents.

Her parents made her promise that she must treat learning the piano as a serious thing.

And she promised.

She had kept her promise for ten years.

But she wasn't happy.

Sometimes she question herself,

what was the point of learning the piano?

In those ten years,

Lauren found out that her family didn't really listen to what she played.

There were times when she asked her family about a song that she has played for weeks,

asked them if they liked it,

but they weren't aware that the melody has been lingering in the household for weeks.

How disappointing.

Lauren used a different path.

She played songs that she knew that her family already liked.

However, she never saw the enthusiasm that she was expecting.

Never.

Sometimes Lauren did have her family's attention when she was playing the piano,

only when they wanted her to be quiet.

She had their attention only when they wanted silence.

What's the purpose of Lauren's promise that she has kept for ten years?

What do you think about the story?

Was it weird?

New Moon Spoilers Again

27 days more!!!

These clips are torturing me!!!!!

Jacob's Transformation

More seconds of what already shown

Again, don't watch if you want to keep the whole movie as a surprise

Enjoy!

I can't wait!