Anyway, the lunar new year has rolled around again, and what I love most about them is driving out with my Dad to choose and buy flowers for our garden -  always knowing that this is one of the things I’ll one day look back on and miss unbearably.

choosing flowers

At about 30-50.000 VND a pot, I don’t think these flowers are meant to last so mostly we let them beautify the gardens during the holidays, then throw them out when they eventually wither.

this pot cost 30,000

so many flowers

The next day we did our annual thing, which is to drive out at the last minute possible before the new year, looking for flowers that are going at dirt cheap rates as their sellers are just eager to finish up and go home. We found two young men and after a little bargaining, bought their entire lot of sunflowers for about 120k.

all for 6 dollars

men stuffing flowers into the trunk

a Cadillac full of sunflowers

Ending the post with a picture of me sitting on the trunk of my dad’s Escalade. You can’t see it, but I’d had a couple of beers and my heart was brimming with happiness, stealing glances at the backseats constantly during the drive home. It doesn’t matter that the flowers captured here would go on and wither on the very next day, I finally have a photograph to keep and my heart is at ease.

rise of the watermelon seeds season…

Cắn mỏi miệng, mẻ cả răng mà chẳng ăn được bao nhiêu -.-

Finally moved to my parents’ again, and in between stuffing myself silly with delicious homemade goodness and skype-ing with my best friend about our horoscopes, Alya and the Blonde came over for a sleepover. We took hundreds of pictures sitting on my balcony until 2 am, though most of them will never see public light. But of course that has nothing to do with the fact that I was in poodles pajamas and looked like I was on drugs the entire time…

In thirty years please bless me with the clarity of mind to age gracefully (and not become one of those middle aged women who wear leggings with a short tight tank top, plus bangs and purple hair).

Thanks, I’d totally appreciate it.

Jade