Properties and relationship

Went to have beer with Sofia and Fox yesterday in cafe Belga. Sofia and Luc are planning to buy a duplex appartment, actually they want to buy a house, but the price of property in Belgium climbs up everyday...Also, buying a house together means a lot, many things apparently were taken into consideration, besides, the contract of buying the house, they also have a mutual contract between themselves, what will happen if they go in seperate ways? Selfishly speaking maybe Fox is right, he suggested that Sofia should buy a place of her own, if something happens, she has her own place. But what's about Luc, he probably not feel like the place is his...

Sometimes, I think I live in an ideal world that I build for myself, I don't like to enter into a relationship in the view that it won't last. Thus, there won't be "mine" or "yours", but "OURS". It is a bit in contradictory because I also don't believe in marriage, we never know whether we will love a person for the rest of our lives. But that doesn't mean, we do what we want, there is still trust, honesty, commitment and of course compromises.

Talking about having kids, there are so many things to think of, whether financially we are ready to give our kids a good education, and not selfishly because we want to be parents. On the female point of view, does that person deserve to be the father of our child? a father to be proud of? have we done what we need to do? so we don't regret that kids hold us to follow our dreams? It is all about given, to love in order to be loved.

It is sad that nowadays, some people don't realise how lucky they are to be loved. Anyhow, I don't like to have a relationship where both person calculate the amount of foods, how much money I pay, the oven is mine..bla bla. What about sharing the merry, sickness, and all? Isn't that what love/partnership is all about?sharing and support in all aspect that the chaos of life turns us in...

I bought a house in Namur, well, not really mine, haft of it only and finally can sign in two weeks ;-). It will be for renting after my uncle finishes his house near the commission. His longterm project is to buy a big buidling, renovate and sell it. Look like this will become my long term project, too. He already has a few partners.

This Monday I am invited to go to the Casino in Namur for an Asian show and foods..Apparently Asians are the main customers there, so the Casino decide to organise an evening for us ;-). This is funny because I am not interested in anything that relates to gambling. I remeber when I was small, every New Year occasion, there were a lot of people gambles, different sort of gambles...Even by curiousity, me and my sister went in to have a look, if my mom or grandfather saw us, we were sure to be punished! "You can never be succeeded in your life by starting to gamble", grandpa used to add. That explained why I don't know anything about cards or else...But anyway, will be fun to see the show.

"Dear B*tches and *ssholes"...

Yeah, this is one of the ways to help you to get fired that Ben sent, but he also suggested that we should stay home without asking for permission for a week or something ;-).

Fox went out from a budget meeting (I think) this morning, and as usual he was angry at the woman he has to report to. Apparently she asked him to let her read his mails and asked him not to reply, which in any cases Fox refused to do but I think this time he had had enough. Tell her to f*ck off, I said (for those who know me, I rarely swear but sometimes, it feels better to swear to let the anger go).

The thing is Sony might not be a bad company to work for, but unfortunately for us, we are working for the Sony CRM, Sony online shop, where we have the worse management ever. We are currently the only department which has 1 director, 2 general managers, and the rest are all MANAGERS!!! Of course nobody wants to do the shitty work, so they all become managers. I am glad I am not in charge of e-mail marketing anymore because yesterday when we had the e-mail meeting, the new guy whom I am helping for the e-mail is asked to send an e-mail in two weeks. It is true that given the business pattern, we should go along, and business is changing so fast that requires flexibility. However, at Sony Style, this seems to be impossible due to a bunch of stupid *ssholes!!

I know I won't stay here long as the atmosphere is getting too boring for me to bear, most of the people who left Sony Style or Sony is having a good time in other companies. Plus, it is too far for me, that wasn't a problem when my motivation was high, and I wasn't mind to stay late with colleagues, but now I can't wait to get home, or having drinks with friends after working hours.

When we had lunch, Luca mentioned the mail from the HR general manager announcing the profit of Sony and all the craps, it seems like they are preparing us the worse news. Hmm,hopefully the situation will get better as I still remains a loyal customer to Sony's products, before and probably after working for them. After all, I have to admit that the design of their products is very nice. BTW, I am gonna buy a Sony pocket hard disk audio player, NWHD5, silver colour, very cute!! Also when I saw the black pearl AIBO, there is still something about Sony!!

Oh yes, just received an e-mail from the biggest *sshole, apparently he expects to reach budget for April by tomorrow 17.00. I wish someone hit his head real hard!!!

Thoughts...

Mom called me this morning, she was not happy and probably crying because my sister was back to Belgium yesterday. Lately, grandmom is stressing me out about me getting married, she is worried for me not having any kids later :-). All my friends come to visit them, and they don't really help by bringing their children to my place :-).

People think differently in VN, at 25 years old, you should be expected to be at least engaged.

I told mom to except the fact that I am too tall for VN guys, so as she used to say no guys would want me hehehehe. Well, the true is there are still so many things to do, many places to go, 30 years old should be a good age :-) . There is time when we think we are lost, and exactly at that same moment, we find what we are looking for. I am having that moment now!

One of my best friend just got engaged and is complaining that she doesn't want to leave with husband's family, she is too tired to cook for them bla bla..Yeah, it is modern now in VN :-)

With Irina 

With Irina and Cris 

Celebration of North VN history

Yes, 30-04 is the day South VN was taken over by the North's army...

Anyway, Cris has an interesting idea of promoting P Rico but probably encounters discourgements...She told me in her country, it is easier because we do not have to take appointment to discuss things but here in Belgium, everything needs to be...She finds it is difficult. I think Cris is feeling a bit lost in her current situation. She asked if I could help her building a business plan, I am no good, but I said yes anyway. I don't think Cris needs me to help her, just someone to encourage and push her. If she feels support, I think she will be stronger and I believe she is a doer.

Weather is so depressing today, hopefully after the rain, the sun comes!

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Cheese and wine party

It was nice to see Irina and managed to talk to her a bit. We had different sort of wines, mainly Italian and French to see what kind of wine, year, region, that is cool. For me, I can only distinguish whether it is French or Italian and maybe a bit of luck the year but not the region.

Everybody was surrounding Aibo, patting it like a real dog :-) "Come on doggy, stand up now", or " Owner, registration, dance", "oh, he recognised me" (???). Well, one thing we have to keep in mind that we shouldn't walk around the house naked, it takes pictures and send it wirelessly. It was funny when Cris told me that Aibo was chasing her dog, Chica around the appartment, nd was not happy when she pet Chica. "c'mon, get real" :-))), "no, it's true" :-). They just pet him where there wasn't any sense, like a real dog. Just hilarious. We didn't have good music because Jeremie is not a music kinda guy, so Fox became the DJ.

I took a piece of chocolate cake with me when I left :-)

Girl night

Went to Italian restaurant in Place de Chatelain with the girls yesterday, it was a pity that Irina is not in Belgium. It has been some time since our last girl nite. Cris quited her job but she is now starting her own project in tourism (she plans to take MBA in this subject), promoting Puerto Rico. Conversations go from jobs, no jobs, staying in Belgium, not staying in Belgium, babies (well, seems like 2005 is the baby boom year!!), then jobs again, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, fitness, language lessons, gossips, foods, drinks, philosophy, smoking, quitting smoking..etc like any other typical girl nite.

Me and Sofia left around 12.30pm while the rest of them still hang out in a bar, we were too sleepy, don't know why, probably because of the wines and cigarrettes. The Russian girl and Spanish girl Irene insisted that we should stay but nah, I longed for my bed. Anyway, it's gonna be a busy weekend with Chinese lessons on Saturday morning, cheese and wine party in the evening (which will probably end in the next morning if we decide to go out), maybe brunch on Sunday with Ben and the gang if schedule doesn't overlap with my basket ball training ;-). Yeah, I am learning how to play that.

Weather is great otherwise, but it might not last until weekend...

This morning, on the way to work, I was thinking about "Euthanasia"...Recently, we heard on the news many cases where patients reuired a national right to life, some cases were accepted, some cases were not, created a drama where husband or father had to be in jail...What future will we be in? When will we arrive to convince the goverment or politicians to pass on a law in acceptance of people's will on giving their live? Since when, we have the right to decide for others? Imagin how much painful for them to live? Of course, it has never been simple to say "yes" to such decision, there are other things involved like heritage law, life insurance (what if someone died with will, will their family benefit on this?). But I am sure we will have resolutions. Meanwhile, my opinions tend to agree on euthanasia if someone not wanting to live because they are living like vegetables, and suffering a lot. It is better to let them go.

Miscellaneous

I have been occupied on an unclear issue, I try to ignore the unpleasant facts but they just keep on coming, the most unpleasant part is that I knew more than what I was told. I need the patience of a saint ;-).

Anyway, I decide to diverge my attention on other stuffs...I just checked out the Earthwatch site, there are several projects going on. I am thinking of booking my space there for August to be in Wales or Yorkshire, UK. Project in Wales lasts two days, and it's about measuring the fertility of soil, trees..etc or helping scientists in Yorkshire entering date about dinosaurs, learn about them...That's my short term affordable volunteer travelling plan. My volunteer travel dream is to spend time with a group of scientists in Mongolia to do research on horses.

Other than that, I enjoy reading some travel stories on bootnall, they are hilarious. I am also reading another book of Haruki Murakami entitled "After the quake". It is a short interesting fiction of stories about people after the Kobe earthquake in Japan (almost 5000 people killed in 1995). Before the quake, the economy was booming, people had more money than they could spend, and the Kobe quake was like an echo of untouched issue, of a hidden past...

Look like a bird 

Impressive? 

Peanut 

Japanese bonsai 

Chinese banana tree 

Gent Flower Expo

I went to the flower expo yesterday, apparently this flower expo happens every 5 years only, and it was stunning! Anyway, the weather was not good, grey, and cold, so it was a perfect time to visit an expo ;-).

It covered more than 2km, and we had to queue for an hour to really get in because of the large amount of people that were there. Since it was crowded, I missed seeing some beautiful flower compositions. Everything that relates to flower was there: garden art, art of entertainment...flower compositions on table, in the park, flowers in Thai, Chinese, India, Dutch, French, Canadian styles...lilies, roses, peanut plants, cocoa trees, bananas, fire flowers, Japanese bonsai... and exotic floras.

I loved the butterfly garden where there were plenty of beautiful butterflies, it felt like I was in a fairy tale or something. I always wonder why there is never such expo like this in VN given the fact that our culture also relates to agriculture. Vn is going industrialised in all sector except in agriculture where we are actually good at ;-(.

Next Saturday, again going to Leuven during the day, then back to Brussels for the "Cheese and Wine" party at Jeremie's place. Acc to some Coca cola and Toyota ppl, Italian wines are better than French wines, so we will be tasting to see which one is better ;-))). From what I saw in couple of mails, the argument has gone from wines, champaigns, football, and even to s3x, those perverts ;-)

YAAAAHOOOO,  

OOOOOh, sure wanna do this? 

Look like a control room on a ship 

...and Mugs

..glasses 

Do you know those beers? 

Beer festival 

Welcome to the beerland, Ciney

Have been in bed last few days due to laser surgery of eyes, today my eyes are getting better but still watering, so I guess I just need to wait until they are completely healed..It's funny that I still have the habit of taking off glasses when I go to bed or looking for them in the morning when I wake up and realise I don't need them anymore ;-).

So, now I can see the rain clearly without glasses ;-). Last Sunday, we went to the beer festival in Ciney. It was quite impressive, there were cheeses, sausages, and beer, beer, beer!!!Some beers I have never seen before. I tasted several ones (ok, only eyes were operated), there was one called flore something, tasted like a perfume..yuk... I wore my sun glasses but was so curious to see the name of each beer, so every time i took it off. Of course, my eyes could hardly open, so I looked like I was drunk, one lady asked me "cava mademoiselle?". Probably she thought I was an alcoholic ;-). Anyway, that was fun, and the celery cheese was mmmmm. BTW, I also got the Ciney beerland T-shirt, isn't that cool? ;-)))...Although the result is now my right eye get infected, but doctor says it will be fine, just it will take longer for the right eye to heal.. Well, like that I get spoiled longer hehehehhe..

This Sunday coming, we will go to Gent for the world flower festival, maybe I will also ask my uncle to come ;-) hmm, good idea?

Random thoughts...

At the moment, I am bored with my job. The thing is if I am not busy, I get bored! Well, I talked to my boss, so she is gonna plan or give me more work...Let's see

I am quite happy at the moment, probably because of spring/summer time where you see the flowers such as peony bushes, lilac, tulip, roses began to burst into bloom. The colour they give, even big trees have become green so quickly. Last week, I went to the market in Flagey, just to look around, the flowers smell so fresh and gorgeous. Some birds are also busily clambering in the ditches for nesting materials. One can feel so alive when spring comes with all the beauties it brings.

So, Irina gets her visa, and will be back to Bonn soon. I still feel sorry that I had been too straightforward to her re. her job situation. I am upset at myself for being judgmental although my perspective re. people is that everybody has different way of leading their life since we all have different experiences, and I am as a friend, I should be support but not judging. Plus, sometimes I do not know clearly what I want, at least Irina knows what she wants..So, who is lost here? I found my disappointment in many aspects, and once I was mad at myself for being so naive...But I think that wouldn't change anything, I think everything again happens for the best or at least for a reason. Once I am able to forgive and forget, I feel relieved and happier. Although the question is now, will I be able to trust and take the risk of getting hurt again? Maybe it it just a matter to telling how I feel, how I will be, expose my heart and give myself a chance to be happy again?

I have so many things planned in my head. I have to paint my apartment, so I am currently reading a so called "Paint Recipes, Paint Effects, and Special Finishes", one of my colleagues in Sony also has a colour sample booklet, she asked if I wanted to borrow, I think I would ask her. My terrace also needs a special care, after winter, now some of the plants are starting to grow, but I need to plant some flowers, it is looking so grey and ugly at the moment. Well, like that Mika and Yoda will enjoy more their butterflies chase ;-). Painting plan is on my agenda for May, but the terrace, I have to do in one of those weekend coming.

Besides, planning going to Bonn for a weekend to visit Irina when she is back, I have one long weekend in Rome in June, and of course the annual car trip with my uncle, we want to visit Romania in August...

Look like this summer, I will be stuffed with plenty of activities...Can't wait!!!

preparing to land 

The jet 

Spa Sky diving center 

Landing 

After diving 

Change mind on the death penalty

Apparently, this punishment was not taken into consideration, is it because they want to get rid of their citizens? And what is this for flogging before death penalty?GRRRR

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Motorbiking

Yesterday, I went to a concert of a colleague in Sony, he belongs to a band that play funk music, it was great, the bar was full, I think they were very good.

Nothing special today, I had my first Chinese lesson in the morning, then had a motorbike ride in the afternoon.

The weather was nice, so we took the small road from la Hulp all the way to Leuven, it was enjoyable although after the sky-dive, the speed was nothing!!! :-). I think have become an extremist, now I have to think of something more dangerous to do hehehehehe

We stayed in Leuven to have a beer, the center of Leuven was full of people, this small town has always been my favourite place.

I called Cris in the evening, she is in Porto Rico, and is missing Brussels :-), probably hearing us partying all the time here :-)...

Hmm, I don't feel like getting to work tomorrow...

Sky-diving

Weather was excellent, we had clear blue sky, sun was shining although the wind was quite strong..

So, I dived. Gosh, what a sensation it was!! After a detailed explaination of how your body should be when you jump, at the freefall, hen the parachute is opened...At the freefall, arms folded, legs joined behind your butt. When the parachute opened, arms need to be in Jesus Christ positions :-) etc..

The sky dive center in Spa was full of Germans, and next to Francorchamps, many people dived this morning , mostly professionals who were practicing for their publics performances...

When I was at the edge of the jet door at 4000 meters, I could feel the wind hitting my face, the pressure, and god, the next "0" second I was in the air, I was thinking of nothing, didn't have time to think but to do what the intructor said "open your arms now". When he opened the parachute, it was abit unstable, and we fell slowly..."you see, there is the racing Francorchamps", " that is your friend over there"...Oh man, it was just fantastic!!!, what a sensation!!!! The instructor gave me the corde to control the parachute, "no, no pull the right side now...now left...".

2 mins after, we landed, so that was it, I alive, and I think if something could have happened, I would not have time to think that I would die either :-) gotta do it again, and will do it on my own :-). Such a beautiful experience, and it's all mine!!

I got DVD, pictures, and a certificate that I did the sky-dive, so I will post them soon. I just checked the DVD, and my face look like Jim Carrey when he put a mask on in the movie called " the Mask" :-).

After that we wanted to do karting in francorchamps, but when we got there, there was a karting race, so we just wated abit...there were some racing cars on the other side...Although we could hardly see them, only heard the engine, they passed like an arrow. No wonder why guys love this sort of thing (hmm), motorbike is nice though :-)

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Boarding time 

Saigon, Vietnam

01/03/2005

At last, I was home!!

I arrived at Saigon airport around 1am in the morning, and took a taxi back home. It has been only two years since my first trip back home, and there were so many changes happened or going on. I chated with the taxi driver a bit, although I tried to make believe that I were not home just for a short time, but I couldn't hide it long. I couldn't recognize the way home any more. The big streets seemed like they were larger while the small roads got narrower. More houses, more people, more Honda, Suzuki motorcycles, more taxi, and public buses!!..

Knocking on the door, called out "mom, mom", "who is that?", " it's me, Thao", "Thao?, what are you doing here?" "yeah, I am bored living with uncle :)". Mom looks a bit older now, but sexy :-)

We talked until 5 in the morning with grandma, and my youngest uncle still did not know that I was back. So, I told mom I would also surprise him in the morning. But in the morning, grandmom already told him, and his wife was running into mom' house, "where are you?, dont try to hide" :-)

I went to visit the War Ramnant museum, i felt overwhelmed, why is there always a war? The torture, the use of chemical agent that kill many people and the worse was to see many fetuses died young or having two heads or a woman with her body heavily burn, I remained speechless the whole day, and many French turned to me "how could they do that?"...

I took the public bus to go downtown to buy cheap new DVDs instead of taking my motorcycle there because I was so horrified. I felt others just running to me.

My aunt from Vancouver was back two days after me, and we had so much fun, every day we went out eating, shopping during the day, and in the evening I went out with my friends who were from the same South East Asia studies when I was learning Chinese with them before I came to Belgium. They are not married yet (yehh!), well most of them are very ambitiuos and having a good life. All of them speak Chinese fluently, I was impressed.

Many of them told me not to marry a western guy, "they don't speak our language, how can they understand you, and they are so stingy. I worked in the hotel, they stole wines, and we had to take them to the polices". Ai, oh, well, not all of them are that bad, I said. " You girl, lost your VNese blood" :-).

I also saw two best friends from high school, well, actually I think if I did not make way to come to Belgium, I would have been married to one. We are always good friends, he went to visit my mom almost every New Year. He was trying to convince to come back soon forever, "there are a lot of opportunities now here, you should go back"...

My mom, grandmom and friends pampered me with so many good foods, crabs, lobters, fishes, fondues with vegetable, I gained 4 kilos since my last measure in Langham hotel, HK. Even my friends were completely stunned when they saw me eating :-) Everything they ate, I ate double, not one bowl of noodle soup but two :-) plus plenty of snacks. They said "you told me you did not eat a lot in Belgium, how could you live there?" LOL

I felt I was so home, and I left VN with sadness, hard to leave...:-(

12/03/2005

My flight back to Amsterdam in HK airport was at 12pm, and I flew from Saigon from the afternoon, arrived at 9pm. I met an Aussie, who was even earlier than me, he had arrived in HK airport at 3pm :-), So he told me he went to the city a bit, then come back there, waiting, he was pretty happy when we finally boarded.

There were some turbulences with my flight, but it went fine, I slept all the way, only awoke for foods :-)

13/03/2005

I had a hard time in Gare Central to bring up my suitcase, it was overweight, plus I had my big backpack when I travelled in China...always managed to shop, no matter what :-)

Biking, bamboo rafting and meeting Sherry in Yangshuo

27/02/2005

That morning, I took the express bus at 9am to go to Yangshuo, and David recommended and arranged a hotel there for me. It belongs to one of his friend, Jimmy and Jimmy's girlfriend (who turned out to be a Belgian). He also asked one of his friend to show me arround...

When I arrived in Yangshuo's bus station, Mike (David's friend) picked me up, we went to the hotel to check in, and I met Sherry's sister at the reception. The hotel was very clean, and very nice as well, it has an European touch (just by looking at the curtain, the setting, furnitures, lights..). I picked up the ferry ticket that David sent me for Guangzhou-HK. After checking in, I and Mike went to have breakfast, Yangshuo noodle (YEh!!!), only 2 yuen, and so good. I rent a bike and went to the village with Mike, we did 25km that day, to the Moon Hill, and 1000 Buddhas cave (the cave was very dark, very natural, full of mud, slippery slopes, plus they want to save energy, so the light was turned on only for me-I was the only visitor ;-), but still not enough light. Despite that, the guy who showed me the inside was very good in moving inside, he is used to show tourists. Although the name is 1000 Buddhas cave, but just of few of the limestones look like a buddha...well again "use your imagination")

I enjoyed the cave because it was a bit like I was going to a mine or something, and had to use robes to climb up and down to avoid falling down. It was quite dangerous to be inside. Also, the cave located in a small neighbour in the village we were, so, it was nice to see every house had their own green vegetable little garden, some very cute Chinese dogs, and curious eyes of the children looking at me. There was one group of children that reminded me of my childhood, they were trying to make a fire place, very young ones like around 7 or 8 years old, I asked Mike if they were trying to cook something, he said they were trying to make a fire to warm themselves up ;-(. But they reminded me of when I was used to also make a fire together with my friends in our neighbour (once used to be very green, now is full with big cimented houses!) at lunch time to cook something, especially VNese pancakes ;-).

I didn't know Yangshuo was famous for its grapefruit, apparently Yangshuo's soil is very good for this pomelo tree, and everywhere, I saw plenty of them. Even Sherry's house has them. Since I love this fruit, Sherry even tried to get home from downtown Yangshuo to go to her place in the village to pick them for me.

After the bike ride, Mike asked me to write my impression of Yangshuo in his guestbook, and insisted that I should write it in French ;-). So, I managed to write a short paragraph.

I walked on West street (it is a foreigner street!!!-plenty of cafes, pizzas, a lot of European restaurants, and of course plently of Westerners) after saying bye to Mike, trying to buy a mask, and a silk top for Cristine, thought she would like it. But it is very bad to shop here although the price is cheaper but we need to be very good in bargaining...didn't buy anything.

It started to rain, so I went back to the hotel, wanted to take a shower, but the water was freezing, so I called Sherry's sister and asked if she knew...I just needed to let the water on until it got warm, it took at least 10 till 15 mins or so...I asked if she knew any good places to eat beerfish in Yangshuo (fishes from the Langjia River that are cooked with local beer-delicious!!). She said if I could wait her sister (Sherry) would come with me to show me a real place to eat beerfish. That was how I met Sherry.

The rain stopped, and Sherry was waiting for me, and she was such a sweet girl!! She worked at the hotel also as the reception to save money, so she could go to school again to learn English with an American, and she was all the time trying to speak to me, and although I have to guess a lot, I enjoyed her company. The place where we went to have dinner was on the New West street, I told her to join me for dinner, and we ordered beerfish, stuffed snails..etc, I had an excellent dinner with great company! I asked Sherry about the mask, and she told me she would help me to bargain. So, what we did, we walked to shops, I had to keep quiet, and only she talked ;-). We managed to buy the silk top for Cristine, but with the mask, I didn't like any of them, or the one I like the wood was not good quality, too soft or also they could be too expensive. But Sherry told me her friend owns a shop, so she would check out for me if they had any nice masks.

It was still raining, so cold, also getting late, plus Sherry had to be on night shift that night, so I went to my room, watched Chinese Kingfu movie on TV.

28/02/2005

I checked out at 12am, and invited Sherry again to have lunch with me since she finished her shift, we had rice that was cooked in a earthen cookware, with vegetables, so nice. After I went to a supermarket bought a bottle of water and cookies for my night train back to Guangzhou. I gave Sherry a chocolate bar, she was thrilled.

I was back to Guilin train station around 3pm in the afternoon, so I just went in, waited for my train. This time I was in the same compartment with three Chinese girls and one of them had a child. God, I was completely exhausted the day we arrived the next day in Guangzhou for the whole night they were eating, opening doors, and talking constantly with the light on!!!

01/03/2005

I arrived in Guangzhou and took a taxi to to the harbour to catch my ferry. After about 3h, I was in HK harbour city again ;-). I went in a restarant to have dim sum again, and then took the metro to Mongkok area to visit the bird market that I hadn't managed to see before. It was not as impressive as I imagined it should be, probably because we used to have this kind of market in VN (although now I think we manage to eat them all ;-), only in some big Buddhism festivals, some people bring cages full of small birds inside for people to buy to free them-well, good for your karma)

After that I went back to downtown Kowloon to buy Chinese films ;-), bought a couples of films of Anita Mui, and the guy at the shop was saying one of the actor that I know is called "HK Jim Carrey" (well, if you see the Chinese film that was out some time ago of a guy/monk who played football very good, that's him)

I met Ada (a colleague in Sony)'s father to pick up some stuffs that her family send to her, then went to the airport. At that time, I couldn't wait to surprise my mom...

The flight was at 9pm in the evening, so I was a bit early there. I walk around, and then decided to get a rest at the gate, reading my "Lord of the flies" book (btw, Cris I finished your "Susan's diary" book only in one night, it has very good ending ;-)).

Boarding at last, VN airline ;-)