"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles."- Audrey Hepburn

Dec 27, 2011

27.12.11

My cousin and her boyfriend from Germany are visiting Vietnam, and my cousins from my dad hometown are also visiting. Plus, most of my friends leave around a week after New Year, so that leaves me with very little time to hang out with everyone. My days end up being splitted into multiple parts to involve everyone.

I haven't seen many of my cousins for years, from both my mom's and dad's side and suddenly I got to see almost all of them within a day. It was, very strange. To most of my cousin, I have always been the baby of the group, and I kept getting comments for how grown up I am. We used to be very close when we were little, since some of my cousins lived with us.  I used to make my favorite cousin hug me until I fall asleep (that's probably where I got the habit of having someone sleeping with me). The last time I saw him was the night before I left the US to study for the first time, and I remember him holding my hand until I fell asleep, like I haven't grown up at all. Now he's about to have a family of his own and I those innocent days are all in the past. It's a bittersweet feeling.

On a bright side, my best friends are home. We've known each other for 10 years and have always done things together. Saigon has been so boring without them. So on Monday, I met up with some of them. We met at our middle school and started from there. We happened to run into our 7th grade English teacher, and she still remembered me. Obviously, I was the most brilliant student in English, and the most trouble-maker at the same time ;) The four of us went out for bubble tea and headed back to my house to play … Kinect, only after stopping at the market to go shopping for ingredients  for a hotpot. I felt like we've never grown up at all, still doing silly things like years ago. People must have been super annoyed when us 3 went shopping ;) Hehehe, we finished all the food in record time, and played Dance Battle the rest of the day. Quang is a dancer in a dance group and performs regularly on stage, so it was hilarious watching Phuong trying to beat him, claiming that she "had been practicing" at home. Lol.

Enjoying making a fool out of ourselves ...
I was doing good, until I wasn't, and got violent ;)

I'm spending a whole day w/ Momo and D today, the two members of BLOOM and the girls I count on when I run into guy, and fashion trouble. We hang out with each other so much that we also know each other's parents, family members and even the house helpers know all of us ;) We went to get our nails done, as always, before going out for lunch and heading back to Momo's place. Usually we do silly things like dressing up and having photoshoots. Sometimes I help Momo with her designing homework (obviously I can't do such a good job at sketching and designing as she does). We also often go shopping together. And LOTS of talking. We must be getting old since all we did today was getting our nails done, and talked and … napped.

Loving the design <3
But I love spending time with these girls. They are the ones who would tell me straight up when my clothes don't look good, or my nail colors are weird, or that they don't like the guy I'm interested in. We all have our own problems and are busy with school work and relationships. We don't talk all the time but we know we'd always be there for each other. Momo is transferring to a uni in San Francisco this spring, so one step closer to me and so many steps closer to D. So jealous of those two in the west coast.

Time is passing by real quick when I have so much to do. I still have many plans that I don't know whether I will be able to do all of them. My parents don't like it when I skip meals at home so often and, honestly, I feel bad not spending enough time with them. 2 more weeks and I will be back in the states.

Too much time going out and doing things non-stop, I decided to stop by the library and spent all my afternoon and most of my evening reading. Spending a night watching Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in One Day now <3 Looks like it's gonna be a good one, I have always had a thing for Jim Sturgess, ever since Across the Universe ;)



New Year's coming soon …
[az]

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