Tet holiday

Tai — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:49:48 +0000

The year of Dragon is gonna be on January 23rd. I officially have nine days off for the Tet holiday or the Lunar New Year holiday. Only some Asian countries celebrate it. Chinese people are everywhere on the globe so people just call it Chinese New Year. After two year studying in Australia without Tet, I lost the motivation for preparing for it and I don’t like this holiday anymore. I used to help my parent to sell flowers at the market (my parent grow traditional flowers for the Tet holiday), clean the house, decorate altars of our ancestors, cook the year end dinner and run many other errands. So, it’s all about five years ago. I’m lazier, I don’t wanna do anything for it. I don’t feel connected to the tradition and costumes anymore. It’s not only me but other people also have the feeling. They want the holiday go faster. They travel somewhere on these days. I don’t have anywhere to go so I go to my parent’s and stay there for some days. I actually don’t want to but I don’t wanna make them sad and I don’t wanna answer a lot of questions from my relatives and siblings. The only one thing I wanna do is to visit my grandma. This afternoon or tomorrow morning, I’m gonna ride home. The national route might be over crowded as usual. Haizzz!!

In time

Tai — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:54:20 +0000

Last night, I watch an interesting movie, In time (2011). In an imaginary age where people life span can be obviously seen on their arms and everything in the the society can only be exchanged by their time. At 20 years of age, the clock starts to run. People never get old, they’re gonna die when 13 numbers on the clock run off to zero. People who are rich in time can live their youth for thousands years. Poor people are always in rush to get more time to sustain their life. People are like machines, they’re gonna just stop breathing when their time is up. The idea was great but in my opinion the storywas not so great. It could have been done better. When their life is counted by day, hour, minute and second, people can’t move so slow by cars or buses.

What are you gonna feel and what are you gonna do when you time is up? I haven’t in such situation but I think I’d be panic a bit. The death (in the movie) wasn’t too scary so I think I might sit still and look at the clock ticking till the end.

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