I realized that on my way to the visa office this morning, a weird feeling - somewhat lonely- fills up inside. I got out of the house at 9:15, didn't have any plan for the rest of the day. Not even breakfast with the girls, not even a cup of coffee. Everyone's busy working and i'm the only one on vacation. How sad!
I got my visa, but the interviewer caught me off guard when he asked "what's your mascot". All i can say was "Smoky!" I wasn't supposed to be nervous and I was. He declined a lot of people this morning, and i think he was being very reasonable. There were people who couldn't even speak english but wanted to go to college in the US. This one guy even had a list of questions he might be asked during the interview and an acceptant letter from West Texas A&M, and the interviewer asked him "What color is my shirt, what day is today, what month is it..." Of course he was rejected. One girl got really upset but she didn't speak any english and she picked the school because her relatives live in that city => she probably will end up at a nail shop instead of college.
I finished 2 designs for the cover of my portfolio yesterday. The 2nd one looks better, maybe the color is not quiet there yet. I tried to pick a different color but they didn't look right, didn't feel right. Red is just too girly, yellow is too bright, blue is depressing, purple is cheesy, green is the right shade and lime green is perfect.
Got my hair cut, not too short thou. I told the hairdresser to cut it whatever way he wanted, he was super excited and did a good job. The salon was super busy thou, you can't really walk around in there without getting into the way, hazard hazard.
Dear you: Hanoi is not the same without you but I can deal with it. Can't find anyone to go to Nhac Tranh with me thou, how lame. I miss our "people studying" afternoons over coffee and tea, people think i'm weird for doing that and no one would do it with me.
Traffic is terrible by the way, it's worse than last year, there's no easy way to go home without getting stuck in traffic, any time during the day. What caused all these madness? I feel like the population of Hanoi has multiplied by n+1 times. I see a lot of 17, 34, 19 license plates, and more cars. See that big red light at the theater, true they have left turn signal but at the same time, the other side get to go too so it's a bundle of people trying to get thru a knot in the middle of the intersection. Plus, people would start going when the timer hits 3 seconds or they just simply run the red light if there's no cops. And I really can't deal with driving a car here, driving a scooter is hard enough. Remember those day we strolled around slowly, just really relaxing? Yeah i can't do that anymore because i have to keep dodging people and cars. 1 day of driving can easily costs half a tank of gas because of all the traffic. What caused all these madness? Where did those people come from?
Went to see your mom the other day, I met your cousin for the first time too. She looked well. Why didn't i get to meet her before? Hanoi will never be the same. I want my 5000d bowl of pho but it costs like 20,000d now. Inflation sucks.
