Dam Cuoi Nha Binh ♫

So since the day at the zoo with Jason I’ve attended to another rehearsal during the week and finally PERFORMANCE DAY!

Ai-Van, Jason, Andy, Trinh and Huyen came at 4ish and me and Ai-Van were on time even though we went to pick up Jason and go to the petrol station to sniff petrol :) …no we really filled up the tank that’s all hehe

So we got to the police academy at 4pm, practiced with what the people we have, fuddled around on the swinging rope things and basically mucked around until we decided to go home and get our stuff together before meeting up again at 7.30

So as everyone was leaving, Ai-Van, Jason and me hopped into Ai-Vans’ Toyota yaris and went back to her place where we ate banh xeo (asian pancakes, they’re yellow!) and played Mario kart with Khang and watched Nam play legion legends or whatever (LoL, apparently for short)
After eating and taking a tour of Ai-Van’s room and mucking around we got back to the police academy, practiced some more and watched Hien My and Anh Huu perform and it was so super :OOOO

And then we performed right after and we did the dance we choreographed. We choreographed and practiced and rehearsed for a total of two weeks and I think the outcome came out really well for something that was really planned in a small amount of time and put together by people who don’t dance at all!

So we did the dance and performed really well, a few mistakes were made by everyone and I can proudly say that that only occurred because of the blinding lights… I swear I was having a seizure while performing on stage D:

But we all had a lot of fun, rehearsing AND performing and I’m glad I didn’t pee my pants :)

Mum was proud, I don’t know about dad … he’s not totally happy me being with Jason but dads never been really open to relationships even though he was the guy who had ALL the girls he could have when he was my age! And plus dad takes relationships too seriously, mum takes it seriously too but she’s got a lot more heart than dad when it comes to the teenage years – trust me, I’ve noticed.

But then after we performed, Jason decided to be all ‘LETS CELEBRATE BY GOING TO YUM CHA AT LANDMARK IN SUNNYBANK’ and yum cha was a very enticing choice but Huyen Tran seemed a little iffy about it all because it seemed like she couldn’t really afford to take us all out to eat. And I mean who can blame her? That’s like 8 people, plus Tuan Lu (Huyen Tran’s boyfriend) and Tuyen. So that’s ten people and ten people is a lot to pay for.

But in the end we went to the Manor and had century egg soup, chicken and corn soup, lots of dumplings and of course, chicken feet in black bean sauce :) but we only went after we’d all promised we’d stick together as a group and perform and do things together in the future :) and who couldn’t promise that after all the fun we’ve had together?

After that we finished at about 1 in the morning and headed home and I slept really well :)

It’s really nice when you feel so accomplished and rewarded and simply, really happy for what you’ve contributed to and as a group who you’ve all stuck together and did something you know? Sure, its not amazing and we didn’t change the world, but having that sense that you belong somewhere, to achieve something together, to enjoy each others’ company, to have so much fun doing something outside of your comfort zone… it really makes me happy :)

But after the wonderful night of sleep and fun…

Oh and did I mention that Anh Huu won a prize from the raffle? And so did Jason!
Anh Huu won shampoo, socks, moisturizer cream? And… REFRESH PLUS

Anh Huu: “Oh! Refresh Plus! This’ll be great for my eyes! Woo!’

And Jason won ‘Gas-On’ was it gas on? I’m not sure what it was called but it was a gas burner! It was really funny when he opened it because it was just SO asian to have a gas burner = =

Then after the raffle mum came up to me and Jason (as I was wearing his pants coz all I had were shorts and I borrowed his pants coz he wasn’t wearing them) we talked about the performance a bit, where we were going to go later on (The Manor) and congratulated Jason on winning the gas burner and made a joke that he could cook fish and chips with it – Definitely a good sign :)

So then this morning rolled around and me, mum, dad, aunt, uncle, other uncle, and two little cousins went to Landmark for yum cha to celebrate mum’s coming birthday on Tuesday! (20th of July, also me and Jason’s 9 months!)

I’m also going to mention that it was slightly ironic that the night before Jason suggested Landmark yum cha, but we went to the Manor instead?

Well, we waited outside landmark for almost 2 hours from 11am – 1pm and I ran into Samantha Ye from high school! It was so good to see her again and we talked about high school, uni, grades and GPAs. Turns out next semester we’ll be studying two of the same units together! No idea if we’ll be in the same lecture room or tutorials but still, its nice knowing you have someone there still :)

We also talked about Irina and Griffin hooking up. I thought it was a joke, but apparently it was for real. Whaddya know? :O and …excuse me but Jason’s going to call me a guy attracter for putting this up here but apparently a Taiwanese/chinese guy from high school was planning to ask for my number once… asked Samantha if she knew if I had a boyfriend or not and if she had my number. HAHA made me laugh coz I had no idea. And who’d really want my number anyway? The way I act around school!

Jason’s never seen me around school and I’m absolutely terrible at school. I talk loudly, laugh loudly, prance around (no joke, I prance), run, yell, scream, hop around, pretend I’m flying a plane with arms outstretched through the checkerboard area, yelling ‘LONER TREE’ everytime we walk past the tree, kicking people, punching people, emptying peoples wallets to see the look on their faces as they juggle their cards and IDs putting them back in their slots… yeah I was obnoxious

Who’d want MY number?
No one.

I’m not even pretty, so no ones gonna pull the whole ‘Pretty vs. Personality’ on me. Dunno what Jason loves about me, but I love him :)

And so back to the day, Samantha, it was really nice bumping into her but while she was explaining what the chinese words on my hoodie meant (something along the lines of chemistry, mixing chemicals and reactions) I didn’t get to hear it all coz my uncle called me and I had to leave coz our number was called to go inside and eat!

So I ate and stuffed my face and I was super full but slightly sick of yum cha, but I still love yum cha. But then we stopped by Boost to buy juice and Hot Cake House to buy Danish twists and boy are they yummy! My stomach was going to burst but I ate one anyway :) I’m such a clever duck, but ngl one day I’m going to die because either a) my brain exploded or b) my stomach exploded or c) both.

So after that we went to the hospital to visit a friend of my parents (or Khoa’s mother and grandmother) (note for future Leanne who reads this in the future: Khoa is the kid who killed my goldfish – my first pets – by overfeeding them their fish food) (note for present Leanne reading this right now: gonna find that kid and smash him in the balls)

Anyway, his grandmother was in the hospital because something happened in her blood stream? Where the blood vessels just popped… maybe similar to haemorrhage? And now everything just doesn’t function properly and she can’t eat and can’t move, and she’s not even getting a drip because its unhealthy and the blood vessels and the drip chemicals clash and makes her skin swell….

The doctors say she’s going to pass away during this week… maybe the next… dad told us in the car he reckons she’s only going to last 3 or 4 days… considering she can’t eat and now lives on morphine…. Its really sad. Mum says she used to be so healthy and vibrant, and she was also a rather large woman too.

And now she’s so small and curled up in the hospital bed. Looking at her today reminded me of the sculpture of the old woman curled up in the cloth made by Ron Mueck… it was really sad.. nobody knows what caused this… and it made me realise how fragile life can be
When I pass away, I’d want to pass away in my sleep; calmly. But I guess that’s what everyone wishes for don’t they?

Well I guess that’s all I’ll be writing for today, I’m a little tired coz its almost 11pm and I have uni tomorrow….

Well wish me luck on my new units and trying to figure out the KG campus…
Goodnight, ciao.