35.

I have just went back from my health check up for the study permit. It went well I guess, except for the fact that I had to re-check my urine due to high amounts of glucose =.=” Anyway I’m fine, and the blood taking was not scary as I thought.

I’ve just realized that these days I go pass 35 Tran Phu’ a lot. Actually whenever I go to someone’s house I have to go back through Tran Phu street. That house, those buildings, that small room that we met for the first time, and the Ton Duc Thang’s house, everything… Sitting there, again. That room will be closed again, with dust accumulating on it, again, until next year (maybe), when 10, or 20, or maybe the magical number, 12, youngsters meet, and prepare to embark on the most exciting journey yet.

Ahah well, memories… When we first met, the only ones to talk were our parents. Then we got into that abandoned room with tons of dust and broken air conditioner… And we messed the whole place up, seriously. Some people are accusing us for messing the whole room up, but fuck them. Nobody cares about that room anyways. We made use of it. In the most awesome way. Now it’s alone again, waiting for another 12 devil kids to go and rock it up again.

And the small meeting room of The Fund… Where we first met, and where we said goodbye. We had lots of fun there, either sleeping, having lunch, learning Japanese, teasing eachother, and most of all, that memorable night of June 21st.

Maybe it’s nothing special, but it’s special to me. I was sick, seriously sick, with a bad fever and headache, after I came back from the Japan Embassy. I couldn’t give up, since I’ve gone this far with you guys. So I slept, and took tons of medicine, the heaviest kind, to get me out of that sickness. Finally I got up, had dinner, packed, and left. Then I cought you guys learning Japanese in that room, with lots of laughter. Suddenly, my headache was gone, my fever was gone, and I thought, the thought that I’m sure that I’m gonna write down someday: “It’s amazing how well I’m feeling at the moment.”

And that saved me from missing this awesome journey, among you, my beloved tripmates, always there for me, always.

I miss the number 7 game.

I miss playing cards.

I miss Ngọc and her psychic skills.

I miss lunches.

I miss lunch breaks with sleeping people and people who are sleeping together on one bed but making noises :-”

I miss you all.

Here's something for you guys to make as a wallpaper. :P

Happy Birthday.

Well, it was my birthday yesterday, I think most of you guys have known. I haven’t blogged in a long time and am feeling like blogging, so here I am. I like WordPress a little more than Tumblr when I’m not mircroblogging, so I’m gonna blog with WordPress and feed to Tumblr. My Tumblr is currently the host of my Japan Picventure anyways.

I had a little party with my big family on the 11th. I haven’t been having this fun with my family for a while. We ate a lot, hoa quả dầm and white chocolate covered birthday cake was my favorites.

After the celebration, everybody went home. I stayed up until midnight to welcome my birthday and watch the World Cup final. It was so sweet xD! At midnight, tons of texts and wall posts came flying in. Thanks everyone who texted, tweeted, or posted on my wall saying happy birthday :) Especially Annie, who did all of the above in the sweetest way :)

I stayed up until 5 to watch the long yet exciting World Cup final. Spain, who played beautiful soccer, didn’t fail anyone. They wasted many chances but managed to come up with the winning goal in the end. While they rejoiced, I fell asleep.

Woke up at 10 the next day. Had lunch then went to Annie’s at 2. Her dad was still home so I had to wait until 3 o.O At 6 we left for Al Fresco’s for dinner <3

I had a little headache as I ate at Al Fresco’s. Annie has got a 250k card so I couldn’t care less about money =) We ate spaghetti, bread and pizza while she drew happy birthday to me and random stuff on the table :P She was so cute, I have lots of pics to share but I’m just too lazy right now =)

I couldn’t eat much due to my stomach problems. We then biked to Avalon Cafe and sat on the balcony with the view over Hồ Gươm =) It was awesome, and the weather chilled down with lightning and cool wind and such. I had some hot chocolate to fix my stomach problems while Annie had her Caramel Machiato :P We cuddled and took tons of photos. How cute is that!

I got home at 10 and my mom wasn’t happy. Slept at 12 and fell asleep immediately. Oh and I didn’t forget to left a note saying thanks on my Facebook! <3 My sweet birthday went a little like that, thanks everybody who wished me a happy birthday in any way. I love you guys!

Some feelings.

I will miss you guys.

Viết bằng tiếng Anh sẽ dễ hơn nhưng mình vẫn viết bằng tiếng Việt nhé :P

Muốn viết ra trước khi cảm giác này nó bay mất =)

16 ngày đến thật nhanh nhưng cũng đi thật nhanh. Và cuối cùng mình lại về nhà ngồi 1 mình, mệt mỏi, buồn ngủ, và thấy hụt hẫng.

Hậu quả là ngủ từ 6h tối đến 8h sáng mới dậy, quên cả ăn tối. Trong lúc mơ, hàng loạt hình ảnh của 12 ngày qua ùa lại, đẹp đẽ và rõ nét như thật vậy =)

Mới ngày nào chúng mình gặp nhau lần đầu ở 35 Trần Phú, qua 16 ngày, bây giờ mỗi đứa đi 1 ngả rồi… Cuộc vui đã kết thúc với quá nhiều kỉ niệm đẹp trong lòng mọi người =)

Ngồi với nhau trong phòng họp. Tập múa trong cái phòng chết ngốt. Party bệnh hoạn giờ nghỉ trưa. Ngồi ăn những bữa cơm đạm bạc của các bác nhà bếp. Học tiếng Nhật. Chạy ra chạy vào thay đồ giữa phòng điều hoà 25 độ và ngoài trời 40 độ. Pack đồ, pack sạp, kê bàn ghế. Cười không ngớt. Ngồi tự sướng với nhau đợi máy bay. Thức đến 1h xem bóng đá. Ôm nhau ngủ. Thức dậy cùng nhau, ăn sáng. Lên xe/tàu ngủ tiếp. Đi bộ ko ngừng nghỉ. Mua headphones với giá hời. Xem cái gì đấy trong phòng khách sạn :”>. Đánh lẻ. Quan tâm tới nhau. Đại Ka. Biểu diễn. Vitamin Water. Thịt nướng. Làm loạn Olympic Center. Dorayaki and pidgeons. pháo hoa. Ôm nhau. Tạm biệt.

Nhớ rất nhiều thứ. Nhớ các bạn quá :( 16 ngày rất đẹp bên nhau, mình sẽ giữ mãi :D Cảm ơn mọi người thật nhiều vì những kỉ niệm thật đẹp =) Đi khỏi cái nóng của VN với những áp lực, với stress, mình đã thực sự have fun và enjoy từng giây phút trong chuyến đi này. Mình không nghĩ là mình sẽ tâm trạng thế này, nhưng khi về nhà, chỉ còn 1 mình thì mình mới nhớ những lúc vui vẻ đầy tiếng cười bên mọi người. Về nhà xong thì thấy bao nhiêu đứa nhắn tin bảo là sẽ nhớ bọn mày nh lắm =) Mìnhchả nhăn gì tại vì ko thể nhét vào 1 cái tin nhắn đc, nên mình viết ra đây :D Blog mình để public nên ai cũng sẽ vào đọc được =)

Chắc là mỗi lần nghe RIOT mình sẽ nhớ đến chuyến đi này =) Mình còn cả chục GB ảnh và clip trong máy, 1 lũ documents, vé, ảnh, quà của IMM, cái thẻ tên, 1 đống souvernirs, một số bánh của Nhật và 1 lũ kỉ niệm đang hiện lên loạn xạ trong đầu.

Cảm ơn và tạm biệt.

Mình yêu các bạn <3

-Nick.

[06|18|2010]

Hiiiiii guyes. no I mean guys.

I’m just back from two hard days of training in a room with broken AC in the 45 degrees Celcius heat. My Japan trip is just 3 days away. I’m gonna leave on the night of June 21st on a flight to Tokyo :D

I met my tripmates, 11 of them. The crew contains of 6 boys and 6 girls come from across the globe country. We were pretty shy at first, but we got along well. Now everybody has shown their inner selves, which is farrrrr from what they seemed to be.

We had to practice a song, múa trống cơm and nhảy sạp. We had lots of fun, but it was really tiring =_________= We were practicing from morning to afternoon, in an abandoned house that dust has gone to several milimeters. Anyway we’ll leave that room tomorrow and go to a better place. With air conditioning, I hope.

Lunchbreaks were the best x) Lunches were pretty delicious. We had lots of fun playing games in the break too, or just partyin’ or talking about sex or nonsense. Yeah I sound like an expert ~

Anyway I have a very important project to do and I’m confident :) It’ll be the best ever. But I have to do it now cuz I only have 2 nights left. Bye everyone, I will tweet less from now on.

[06|11|2010]

Today was a really good day. :”)

Woke up at 10 and had a fight with my mom. I was excited about going shopping in the afternoon though, so I didn’t mind.

My house got blacked out again at 2PM so there wasn’t any reason at all to stay home any more minute. I changed quickly, grab a mil from my mom’s purse and went out to Annie’s.

We went to Vincom and looked through a range of shops, before stopping in BlueExchange. The whole time we were like 2 kids going in a shopping store and laughing uncontrollably at random stuff :”) It was really really fun xD The best part is when we went into the changing room and I saw how she looks gorgeous in white =x

So my day was: new shirts, sweetheart, holding hands, sitting beside eachother, donuts and drinks and laughter. ♥

POTD is the one I took in the changing room What do you think of this guys? xD

new shirts

Hello Internet.

Hello Tumblr, Hello Twitter, Hello WordPress. I’m back. After 2 days of inactivity (not on Twitter though). Thanks to our kind friends at the power plants, I got 2 days off from the Internet.

Blackouts happened almost every hour. They cut our electricity at random times for random durations. So I was stuck in a no laptop situation which sucked. So my days went as follows.

. Zany’s funeral. Nothing special except seeing my first grade best friend there. He looks very tired (or he always looks that way…). Anyway, I talked to him a bit and learnt about his cousin’s death a little more. I don’t know the details, nobody do, but I know that she got off a bus and a car went by and crashed into her (which is stupid imo, what bus would drop a passenger off ON THE ROAD?) :\

. Visa application. I sent in the visa application and got refused due to some minor mistakes. Well that was fast. I can submit the copy of my passport so I’m less worried =D Now all I worry is the health exam. Hopefully I’m fit to pass that.

. Blackouts and iPhone. Dad went on a 10 day trip so there’s no stopping me exploiting my mom’s iPhone. Good thing our good neighbor wasn’t blacked out when we were, so wi-fi was on all the time. I just had to sit on the couch, relax, and Twitter, eBuddy and Tap Tap. Gotta admit, I kinda like LOVE the iPhone! Especially when I found out a way to SSH data now xD iFunBox. With wi-fi, I can Tap Tap until hell breaks loose. I’m leveling up =D

. WANTS and NEEDS. Kay so I want some nice clothes for Japan. That’s why I’m gonna go buy some new shoes and shirts this afternoon with Annie =x Hopefully I will look nice in Japan xD. Also I want a haircut.

I’m gonna submit this before the next blackout happens, and I only have about 5 minutes to submit it with neighbor’s wifi and my laptop’s sucky battery. All the best, you guys~

My monthly top tracks ~ 2009

I’ve just used an external app for Last.fm and it listed my top tracks and artists since I started scrobbling, which is May 2009, monthly. Apart from telling my listening habit, this really told my life’s stories.

May 2009:

Simple Plan (170)

TAAR – Dirty Little Secrets (52)

My summer started here. With my love for SP still intact (I think :P)

June 2009:

blink-182 (193)

+44 – No It Isn’t (26)

I discovered blink-182 and +44 and their awesomeness along with AvA and made friend with Annie Tran who is a crazy blink fan. That’s the reason for the mass listening of blink I guess.

July 2009:

+44 (362)

+44 – No It Isn’t (38)

Downloaded +44′s album and fell asleep every night with it. Also broke up with NAna and got into a mood where all +44 songs made sense. Sigh.

August 2009:

Taylor Swift (71)

Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me (28)

Went to the Breaking Free camp and fell in love with Taylor Swift after playing it on the guitar everyday. Had a lot of fun I’ve never had. Also school is starting so I didn’t listen much.

September 2009:

Hellogoodbye (277)

I downloaded HGB’s album I guess. And loved it, as much as I liked a girl, but never got to her. (B)

BLG – Two is Better than One (33)

Ahhh I remember this ~ Going to Zakku’s every day when his parents are gone to Japan, cook lunch and go play soccer, stays in his AC rooms like best friends ~ And turn on BLG so loud I had to download LoveDrunk and fell in love with BLG.

October 2009:

Let me start first,
This is the month where I met Uyen. We saw eachother at the BLG concert and fell in love with BLG as well as eachother. We sang along to Hero/Heroine that day when we first met, also our first blind date. I called her my Heroine and a beautiful love has just begun ~ So there is no doubt as to who and what will be listened the most this and the next month i’m in love. We both love music so that’s the motivation for me to set an all time record in crazy listening with nearly 1000 listens to just that one artist.

Boys Like Girls (956)

BLG – Hero/Heroine (143)

November 2009:

Boys Like Girls (451)

BLG – Hero/Heroine (39)

December 2009:

Secondhand Serenade (372)

Muse – Undisclosed Desires (54)

An eventful last month of the year starting with me downloading Muse’s The Resistance and Secondhand Serenade’s A Twist In My Story and ending with my break up with my Heroine. It’s all over I guess and Secondhand Serenade is the ultimate love-and-break-up artist of choice.

So that was my year ~ My music year. I’ll make one for 2010 when the year ends. Bye bye.

[06|07|2010]

Okay it’s the end of day 13th of summer.

Woke up at 11 to two sweet texts =) I’m done with my letters now so I didn’t know what to do with the day.

I’m highly emotional today so that lead to some sweet and bitter moments. Anyway anybody who experienced them should keep the sweet moments to themselves, and throw away the bitter ones =) I hope I was good enough to make everybody happy.

Went out shopping for mom for the first time since Tet just because I felt like it. We went to BigC and bought a shazam of stuff. Well I don’t go shopping often so buying tons of stuff is normal. I met Thuy A1 0912 first thing when I walked in through the door, said hi. Then I had to try on tons of pants for my mom :} and met Thuy again buying pants with her mom just like I do. The thing is she walked straight into my fitting room with my stuff there even though I told her not to. That was some moment lol. My mom and hers were there and laughing hard.

So we bought 2 pairs of pants for me and tons of other stuff. I bought a pack of Chocolate Chips, 3 packs of Hello Panda and Oreos. What a chocoholic I am =) Right after we got into the supermarket, it started to rain heavily. When we left, the rain stopped but lightning and thunder were still around so close to us. To the west, the sky has lightened up, with scattered clouds and the creamy light yellow color of the setting sun. Pure beauty if you see it, but I couldn’t capture it in form of digital images, so I’m putting it to you right here in the form of words. We were actually heading east, which is like chasing after the rain. Under the open sky I saw lots of lighting strikes onto the buildings ahead of us. Again, I wished I had a camera with me to capture that, the flash of lightning lighting up the grey cloudy sky. I ended up getting naked and running home like a freak.

The rest of the day was spent for MTV Movie Awards and tweeting with my twitterfriends. Fun night, especially fueled by the MMA. I’m happy now :)

By the way, Tumblr painted their dashboard black. To raise awareness and fund for the oil spill in the US. Nice idea and since Tumblr looked great in black and black being one of my favorite color, I decided to paint my profile black also. Yes, transparent boxes and a black background works like magic.

I’m going to sleep now and wake up at 7 tomorrow for Zany’s funeral. G’night guys.

POTD for June 07th, 2010 ~ look what I got after going shopping ~

[06|06|2010]

Okay so day 12th of summer is over. Lots of things happened during the day I can’t even count anymore.

What I’ve accomplished today:

• Successfully recorded Welcome to my life xD
• Done the freaking letters for the Canada visa. Wow that took like a million years.
• Fixed a bug in my Tumblrcode :| It should work fine now thank you. (quoted Jayden: “@uncreativeboi lol you sounded like you’re at a major website or something xx”)

I’m sorry guys I got into an intense emotional breakdown at night. I’m pretty ok now. Thanks to everyone who tried to help or cared to ask what’s wrong.

G’nite now.

The thing that made my day was recording. So it will be photo of the day.

Recording of 'Welcome To My Life'

I will upload my recording if I find it decent.

Damned.

It’s raining right now.

I had to wait until I’m done with my work to write this. Or I’ll be out of control, and my work will be crap, once again.

I’m gonna write in Tumblr because that’s where my heart lies.

And don’t have to write it in my secret blog because it’s no secret anyway.

Anywayyyyyy.

Well I fought with my parents this evening but it’s all fine now, now that my work is (nearly) done. I hope my parents will be ok by tomorrow.

Something else made me this way. I’m always good at predicting when and how my heart will be broken. And I’m right once again. It was a perfect lie. Hidden perfectly behind my eyes is the truth, which is so painful and cold it could kill anybody.

I stayed up until 2 last night, completely unaware somebody was staying up until 3.

That’s probably TMI for everybody out there, everybody reading this, so I’ll just leave it there.

Well I tried to be happy. Tried the best I could. Tried to do anything, to be strong, to be a shoulder to cry on. Yet I was painfully let down. It doesn’t matter how hard I try anymore.

It’s better to just say it straight to my face, than hiding it from me. You are something extra important in my life, do you know that? Your happiness meant the whole world to me. But it doesn’t mean hidden tears and dark nights alone crying without a sound.

It’s like lying straight to my face, and it hurts. It hurts so badly.

Sitting in a dark room, only light is from my laptop, with the sound of rain outside, hot and wet summer night, reading heartbreaking.txt . It’s got something new, yes, and I’m reading it over and over again.

You may think I’m crazy. Well whatever. If you feels that way then you can unfollow me. Good day.

It’s still raining right now.

*too tired to attach The Bird and the Worm by The Used to this entry.*