Have myself a [sweet] merry little christmas

It is definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Now that my friends are coming home, there are suddenly so much more things to do in Saigon.

Immediately the morning when she arrived home, Quyen called me up for the long-awaited girls' night out between the two of us, accompanied by cocktails and, well, stories.We wouldn't be the two that hang out 24/7 and call each other up every other day to gossip. But whenever there's something going on, she'd come to me. I'm the older one after all. Sitting on the balcony overlooking one of the five star hotels and the most luxury streets of Saigon, sipping Cosmo, we felt like real cosmopolitan girls with troubles that we could temporarily forget about.

Cosmo <3

It felt like  we haven't changed much since high school.  It reminded me of all those times when she would barge in my room asking what the hell happened that got me into a relationship over night. Or  when I lied to the teachers and deans to sign us out for the weekend to my friend's college so that she could have her first drinking party and stop worry about the jerk that broke her heart. Or all those times when she would make me dinners when I got sick. Or when we went on spring break together and I taught her how to ride a bike and we went on tons of picnic. Or when she called up my parents so that I could go on the 4 day weekend trip to the island with her, when I was feeling down. The list of things we did together goes on: making food for International Club, planning the fashion show, burning the kitchen down attempting to make biscuits and biscotti (thanks to that we're both excellent bakers now), covering for each other to sneak out of the dorm, skipping classes to watch movies, getting ready for dances, doing nails and facial at 6am. I definitely did go pick fights with tons of people on her behalf, and she stopped me from punching many girls in their faces. Heheheh, for the Pres and VP of Dorm Council, we definitely broke more rules and caused more troubles than anyone else ;) As we walked the crowded streets of Saigon, reminiscing all the teenager stuff we did at boarding school, it felt like those good times were so long ago.

Saigon suddenly looks so much better when I'm not drinking cocktails by myself anymore. The streets are crowded with people taking pictures. I've never been a big fan of dressing up in pretty clothes and high heels, and doing my hair and putting on make up, so that I could go take ten thousand pictures in front of a Christmas tree =.= I like to dress up to look pretty all the time, but I don’t think I need to have the confirmation from all the people on the street, or the competition with the girl standing next to me to see who can strike a sexier pose and stop more guys from walking away … But I mean, I have no right to judge what people do. They do what they want, certainly an admirable trait. It is definitely super fun to watch, hehe. So we spent the entire night at the coffee shop just staring at people passing by down on the streets. 

Saigon by night.

Nice spot to stalk people ;)

It is going to be packed with people on the night of the 24th. I'm planning on staying at home to avoid being pushed around, getting lost with friends and ending up stuck in traffic for hours. I've already got my Christmas party plus sleep over with friends. So may just midnight mass and a good night sleep. Sometimes I wish I could be little again to get presents from Santa. Although, I was a really curious and smart kids, I figured out that my parents were behind the presents hid away in the closet when I was, like, four. And my older sister still hates me for ruining Christmas for her. Oops.

But Christmas without presents is kind of, sad. Maybe I will buy a present for myself, but I don't even want anything this year in particular. I was planning on making my annual Christmas wish list as I've been doing for the past few years but scratched the idea because I couldn't think of anything to put down. Maybe I could wish for Santa to make me a little bit less cynical and logical, and stop looking at things in such a rational and factual way, and stop ruining fantasy and romance. Meh, if that's the case, I may as well just ask him to bring me a hippopotamus, or a unicorn.

Christmas this year will significantly lack of wishes from everyone too, since I have deactivated my facebook, the only mean for me to keep in touch with many of my friends from all over the world. Maybe I will reactivate it again for the day, or maybe I won't. After all, the ones who care won't give up only because they can't find me on Facebook.

Anyways, breakfast with friends tomorrow, and more desserts after. One thing I would never miss on Christmas is truffles and chocolates. Too bad I couldn’t give out my truffles this year as gifts for everyone, it's  one of my favorite things to do.

Hope that wherever my friends and people I care about are, they would have some form of sweet treats to celebrate this season, whether it's Ferrero Rocher, a double chocolate fudge cake, or a night spending with their loved ones (added in some extra sweetener like a kiss or two, and more ;))

Merry Christmas!

From az.