Waves of culture

Finito the super warm, pleasant weather that we had for the whole month of April here in the capital of Europe ;-), mind you, I am not complaining. In fact, I think it is good for the trees to have rain, and a wash. I always like looking at the leaves after the rain, they look as if they are painted with a gorgeous green colour or if we breath in the air after the rain, it seems so much fresher, and cleaner. And of course, bad weather like what we are having the whole week motivates you to take time to rest, and maybe thinking about something a bit meaningful in life ;-) (or at least that is what I am trying to do ;-))

I normally do not have time to do any extra social activities or gather, simply because I have final exams in a couple of weeks, and the defense of my thesis. Lately, I have stopped making myself stressed about that, it does not help when my nerve cells have to work double in everything ;-). Life is too short to not take chances on things (and I think I am good at this ;-)). When I was young, I loved painting (still do) but my grandfather said "don't be an artist, you will be so poor, choose another profession, but not artist". When you were young, you just not wanted to be grow up poor, have no money, you wanted to have a lot of money, so you could buy toys or eat stuffs that you were not allowed to ;-). Obviously, I dropped being an artist among many other things that a kid dreams to be or want to be when they become adult. Now, I think I am trying to make up with what I could not do when I was younger like taking dance courses, musical instruments, or at the very least I try anything that has my interest, so then I could say that I don't like it.

Talking about the what I can eat when I was a kid, I could only eat Pho when I was sick ;-) because it was a luxurious soup when your family did not have a lot of money. So, everytime me or my sister got sick, my grandmom always took us to the best Pho place, and we could have as much as we wanted (not only Pho but any sort of foods that we liked eating). But of course because I was sick, I did not feel like eating, nothing seemed to be good at the time. The sweetest memory was probably when I got sick, my grandmom used to force me to drink milk ' try to drink, it will make you stronger'. she was surely right, but I did not like it. You can't imagin what kind of milk it was, not the Danone or Vitalina or any of that sort that a kid has here. It was a sort of concentrated milk that we took a couple of soup spoon, then mixed it with hot water ;-). It will never end if I start talking about my childhood ;-). Those were best days I guess.

I had only travelled with mom once ;-(. Yeah, my mom is a not a big fan of travelling or maybe she is too busy to work to feed us. Mom said I was a super good kid because when we went somewhere, I never asked her to buy me anything, she always had to ask if I wanted something...I don't know why, maybe I was not a good kid, but I was too lazy to ask ;-)

I think culture is such an amazing thing, it could either bring people closer or dishtinguish them apart. If we look around, "globalization in culture" ;-) has done a good job in mixing different races ;-). How many couples in modern society have children not with their pure race? In fact, maybe in the next couple of years, there won't be a person who is a pure Vietnamese or else. The good thing is your baby automatically speak several languages, I think that is the coolest thing to be able to communicate with different people. Unfortunately, culture also spreads people apart if you don't try to understand why such an action...For instance, I find it is very strange that a colleague invited a lot of people for a BBQ, and then ask each to contribute 10 Eur, not only that, he then asked what do his guests want to drink, buy wines in carton...You see, in VN, this sort of things should be avoided, either you don't invite but if you do, you have to make sure that everyone you invite have good foods, and drinks, and that they bring what they think is good for you (maybe sometimes you don't but that's the way it is). Or when you are invited you should not ask the person who invite you what should you bring, but suggest what you can bring. Asians are well-known for their politeness. To be honest, I have lived away from home for quite a long time, but I am still shocked sometimes with the culture here. Sometimes, people are too blunt here.

Like we laugh about arranged marriages, but really how bad could it be when you see many couples still f*k their marriages up in the name of freedom in love. Our ancestors fought to win the right to choose those they want to marry, but I think because they really value love. Yeah, that is how human is, we never realise what we have, and what we do not have. So, we f*ck everything or be f*cked no matter what and in whatever we do. Mind you, I am at this moment having a super positive view on life! So, yeah, learning to love a person is doable, many parents had lived long together until they die. Isn't it what we all want at the end? To share a life with someone you love until the day you die.

Male dominated or Female dominated society? I don't give sh*t as long as the system works, and people do not suffer because it. That is why we invented plenty of organizations for that matter, but does it help or again talk sh8t and do little?