It’s been a long time since my last diary pages. I’ve always been like that, never stick with something long enough to make it a good habit. But I guess I gotta get back to this, coz I cant imagine how wasted these days would be if they are not preserved and treasured as much as how meaningful they are to my exciting life!
Especially a day like today!
A mooncake from sis Hoa kicked off the day perfectly. It was very nice of her to bring a tasty mooncake from the store nearby her house to treat us. And it’s indeed was yummy. Not
Too expensive or branded, its simple flavor reminded me that I have not had moon cake for such a long time. During the day, things just went on as usual, except for a ceremony secretly setup by Event service team in the Ballroom for Hungry Ghost festival. Ours was last week, and it was quite neat and formal, yet this one was way more exhilarating, with roasted pork and money, the best part: 2 bottles of wine sitting proudly on the ceremony altar. Our team included me, sis Truc, sis Lily and bro Khanh rushed up to the place in order to get the best deal. It was so hilarious when we already stood by there, each put his hand on the thing we would about to snatch later, almost like we were guarding the offerings against other dealers /snatchers. The second all the ritual ended, the battle began!!! Things were in a chaos, money was floating in the air, in any direction. Fortunately, I grabbed around 60.000VND, bro Khanh and sis Lily each held a bottle of wine with them, the best part was sis Truc with a huge plate of fruits and pau to eat with roasted pork. Sadly, the pork was snatched by the Florist team :( and even more pathetic, when we diplomatically intended to share the plate with the team later for a return of half of the pork, they selfishly had it all for themselves. Ouch, that sucks I know.
But who cares, we got the money and a feast of yogurt for afternoon snack was guaranteed! Plus, we had a full plate of fruits to share and 2 bottles of wine for next week’s KTV night!
Hang on, isn’t it too terrific for a day already? Not yet, wait til around 3pm, and there came another treat from our colleagues from Da Nang Regency. They dropped by to say goodbye to us with a big bag of goodies, fruits again! We were literally stuffed with yogurt (over ordered again) and fruits that afternoon!
There was another event in the evening that brought a brilliant ending to the day. According to schedule, we were supposed to have a MC training class at 37 Han Thuyen. Who knows the lecturer could be that boring, his speech kept going on and on in a pathetic mono tone that rapidly the class reduced to more than half, well, counting us too, one of the runaways. We thought we could have a small chit chat over a cuppa smoothies. Too bad, it’s drizzling outside, plus the other two girls got somebody to pick up later so it ended up bro Minh and I rode around for dinner together. He introduced me to a good food house that offer great authentic Hue’s cuisines: specialty were Banh canh cua and Bun bo Hue. And Hollywood, he was absolutely right, there is one word for the food: Fantastic!!! The stock was flavorful, which blended in so well with sweet shrimps and thick yet elastic rice noodles!!! Completely delicious in every mouthful, together with an A plus for the Bánh nậm dish. What complimented the atmosphere was the waitress of the restaurant, they were all native speakers with made us feel like we’re really in Hue, the voice was way so adorable~~
While we’re over the dining table, there were plenty stories to share between us, about family, childhood, hometown, moon cake festivals and so on. It’s interesting to know we both came from Hue, which means we have tons of things in common: the food, the mindset… Bro Minh at first had a date with his friend at 7.30 but the guy cancelled it so we ended up heading to the Sweet soup house called Chè Mỹ nearby cầu Muối. It was raining cats and dogs, but didn’t bother us that much. This guy is one heck of craziness too, what he said was, I’m anything. So we just rode under the storm like two morons and it’s kinda fun too! A heavy shower rain was flowing down our heads like a waterfall, we screamed to the top of our throat and the max of our speed XD, yet still able to recognize the magnificent beauty of a building next to New World hotel at night. Strips of light going down looked amazingly like shooting stars in the middle of the tropical rain….
We were completely soaked, I was wondering why we put raincoat on after all, since they did not save us from being wet that much. And yet we were still happy to see 2 tall glasses of all-in-one sweet soup for us!!
All and all, it was one of those exciting Fridays that I’ve always felt missing since I’m back in town. Lots of laughs, craziness, fearless and no pressure at ALL!!!
