Dear Hanoi

Dear Hanoi,
I miss you already. Be good and take care. We'll meet again soon.

Wanna hug Hanoi so tightly...

And never let go.
I've been here over 3 months and I'm falling in love with Hanoi all over again. They were right, Hanoi is like a 17 year-old girl, shy, pretty, energetic, and always changing. I can stroll around on my bike or on foot all day long and never get bored. There are streets that I want to explode, there are small alleys that I want to know where they lead, there are stores that I want to see, food I want to try, coffee shops that I want to visit, moments that i want to capture. There are people I want to see, to hang out with, to go to breakfast very early in the morning with. I want to watch sunrise on Red river, I want to watch sunset on West lake, or simply just watch people pass by from the balcony of a coffee shop. Wanna go to flower market at 4am for once, and pick out the most beautiful flowers to bring home.
Sometimes, I had this sudden feeling about how beautiful hanoi was. It felt so great strolling around, and suddenly saw something that makes you stop and stare, and gasp "Oh pretty". It could be just a small house, a corner, a tree, or the new area with tall and fancy buildings. Me and my friend loved to go to the top floor of Horison hotel, and looked out the tiny window, and pointed "that's my house somewhere over there", "oh look now I know where this alley leads to". Doesn't matter if you're a busy office worker, a student, or an unemployed person like me, you will always fall in love with Hanoi in the same way. Hanoi and memories, wish I never had to leave.

It's too hot

The weather is just too hot, hot and humid, it's hard to breath.
We went Laser tag yesterday, it was fun but it was too hot in there. I got minus score by the way haha.
I had a plan to go to a free japanese class this morning, but then my friend said we couldn't go anymore because it was an intermediate level, kinda sad :( I want to take japanese so much.
gosh it's all boring stuff. We took a lot of pictures but not with my camera, so I have to wait to get them. Im spending way too much money im almost broke now. Almost $200 in a week including that $80 pair of shorts at Esprit that Im kinda regret now, but I love them, they're just too expensive.
Hmm im thinking, i really dont have that much friends at home either. In Knoxville, I dont have any friend, at home, I have about 5 or so. And the rest I dont even talk to them. Maybe i really have a problem. Everybody hates me.

A boring Saturday

It rained last night, so my mom's plan was cancelled. She wanted to take me around to say hi to relatives and stuff... oh boring. So it was raining and I didn't have to go. Of course I didn't have anything to do either, so I went to sleep at 9. Super. This morning I got up at 6:30, went down for breakfast and got bored, so i slept again till 9 or so. I stayed at home all day, because my friends had to stay at home too, so I did nothing today except washing dishes after lunch. Now im extremely bored, just want to eat the whole bottle of Vitamin gummies, because it's so soft and tasty. But the bottle said no more 2 gummies per day thou... sad. Whatever, im getting one more gummy.
Anyway, time for pictures.

Me posing on Hang's bike, pretending that I could drive it too. Well, I can, but I haven't driven in so long, kinda scared. My mom never even let me learn how to drive it, but I did behind her back anyway.


Me and Hang.


My breakfast one morning. That's plain yogurt and fruit, yummy. Yeah... it looks kinda gross

Im bored and sad

Yeah who say home is sweet. Im sitting at home doing nothing right now, and really upset.
Last night me and Hang wanted to go eat sushi, but her mom was being moody so we didnt go. Today at lunch, we wanted to go sushi, but my mom was being an ass so we didnt go. Why? Her reason was, that I didn't eat dinner at home last night, well more specifically, i didn't eat dinner with my grandparents last night, so I have to go home for lunch. I was speechless. We didn't go eat sushi last night and we were not allowed to go eat sushi today because we were not allowed to go eat sushi last night?
Me and my friend are talking right now, we came to a conclusion that being at home is like being in jail. We can't go anywhere, can't have fun without having to worry about going home for lunch and dinner and no going out at night. I guess im luckier than her cuz she can't even go anywhere during the day.
That's why i need to get a job, buy a membership at the gym, take classes so I have reasons to go out, even thou i prefer just going out and having fun, not classes, not bursting my ass at the gym... oh god! It's $110 a month at the gym, not cheap, but that's our get-away place every afternoon.
I guess the only one who's happy is my dog Cotton. Doesn't he look so happy? I can't wait to go back to Knoxville, it's boring there but at least I dont have to deal with my grandma and my mom.

Today was cool

The weather was so cool today. It was still hot, but cloudy and occasionally I felt the cool wind blowing. It was a pleasant day even thou my body is still sticky yicky. Yikes.
This morning I went out for breakfast again with Hang, Ducky and Ken, just like yesterday, and we have plan to go out for breakfast again tomorrow. Haha. There's no homemade breakfast here, unless you cook instant noodles. It's always fun to eat out and everybody eats out. Well.. I have to eat lunch and dinner at home thou, that kinda sucks. We almost went to sushi for dinner today but Hang's mom was being moody, so we had to postpone it and my mom didn't make dinner for me.
This morning Hang mentioned that we should take dancing classes, and by noon my mom called: "5pm at Unesco there is a dance class you guys should come". So we decided to give it a try and we had fun. We learnt Salsa and Tango today.
It's not that fun at home you know. Curfew and such. I hate curfew. I hate having to ask to go out and all that. I'm so looking forward to HoiAn resort, we're planning on going sometimes in June hopefully, away from home. All we do is go somewhere and eat. Eat and eat all the time. After breakfast would be coffee or dessert for breakfast, i would love to go eat more but Hang and Ducky have to stop me. We're planning on buying membership at Horison hotel to go to the gym, swimming pool, massage and sauna and tennis, because we can't eat all the time and not exercising like that. Dont know how much it would cost but who cares, daddy is paying anyway haha. We want to go on a "jumping the bus" tour around the country too... but im afraid my mom won't let me go because it's like backpacking. Gosh!

Oh by the way, I just bought a new phone. Motorola Z3. Yeah for some reason I always use Motorola, have never had anything else. Awesome huh? And im not nuts. My phone in the US is locked and Verizon's phone doesn't have a place to put sim card, so i can't use it anyway. So it's a perfect reason for a new phone huh?

Here comes summer, and I'm home

Guess what, my flight from Chicago was delayed again, and I had to stay over night in Japan again, just like last Christmas. No more American Airline, next time i'm flying Korean Air, they're never late, and their food is just so awesome. (Bibimbop, my fav korean food of all time).
So i'm home finally, one day later than schedule. As soon as I stepped out of the plane, the hot and humid air almost suffocated me. It is so hot, all the time, hot and humid, my body is sticky all day long even right after shower. Just too hot to handle.
I've been really tired, probably from the heat. I can't get rid of the headache, Advil could not help at all, and when I have headache I just dont want to do anything. Hope fully i will be better tomorrow.