The “Are you a real Vietnamese?” test

(This was written some time last week and has been left to lurk around in ”Drafts” with about 50 other half-baked entries. Ugh! Bad writer! Bad blogger! Bad whinger!) Last night, at precisely 12 o’clock, yours truly was still up playing with a glue stick. Hmm… that doesn’t sound right. Well, before anyone starts imagining (inappropriate) [...]

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Nhà lãnh đạo của ngày mai

“Thứ hai là ngày đầu tuần, bé hứa cố gắng ăn chơi.” Lẽ ra bữa nay mình được nghỉ ngơi, xả hơi, ăn chơi, đi bơi, nói chung là sướng mê tơi. Vì thứ hai là chủ nhật của mình. Nhưng vì đã lỡ dại dột dấn thân vào con đường phạm pháp, ý lộn, [...]

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Beat. Dance. Not related.

One time we were breaking out some crazy dance moves in the middle of a gelati shop. As we do, you know. Granted, it was a long queue for a scoop of mouth-watering mandarin flavoured ice. But I also must admit, it happens quite often because I can’t listen to a good song without feeling this intense itch to twitch. (I’ve [...]

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Cultural Calendar & The Bar at Buena Vista

I thought I’d better keep track of the shows and gigs that we’ve been and are going to. Not to brag. Okay, not just to brag, but to have a record for myself. You know, so half a century later when I’m old and senile, when accessing the WWW from your laptop is something to [...]

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Tinpan Orange

(http://www.tinpanorange.com/) They’re this new band that I’m currently obssessed with. That’s to put it mildly. We discovered them by accident when Tam took us to Bennetts Lane to watch Renee Geyer a few months back, and they were guest performers for the night. Yesterday A. & I went to watch their own gig in Manchester [...]

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Note to self: Songs NOT to be played in public

In particular, not at the shop. No matter how much you’re obsessed with them and are just itching to belt along at the top of your lungs. No matter how cool they sound, pumped all the way up in the car, or at a party, or for those times when you feel like dancing around [...]

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The other Amy

You know, the Winehouse one? The one that went to school with me. She was 4 years below and I used to pull her hair and drag her to choir practice. We broke contact after the day I found her grounding up our teacher’s chalk & snorting it up her nostrils. I really should have [...]

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Randomly random randomness

The title says it all. There’s nothing exciting to write about. Sometimes my life feels like such a bore. No, that’s not true. Not sometimes. ALL THE TIME. It’s all as dull as dishwater. So vanilla. So beige. So B. O. R. to the I. N. G! B. O. R. to the I. N. G! [...]

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“Tré cem tư cũng céng lèm bốông”

Như đã đưa tin ở một kỳ trước (!), nhiều lúc đầu óc mình nó hứng lên là nó phóng loạn xạ, nó phi bậy bạ, nó chạy zich zắc theo một kiểu rất lạ. (Rồi, điệu này chắc sắp đủ tiêu chuẩn đăng ký làm rapper VN được rồi.) Sáng nay bà con hè [...]

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Priscilla the musical was flippin’ faaaaabulous, darling!

Well, I couldn’t really find any words befitting such a dazzling theatrical extravaganza. So I cooked up a few: Fabutastic, Magnivellous, Amazonishing! Especially for one who loves outrageously OTT costumes, the excitement was barely containable. Picture this: I was on the edge of my seat, eyes popped out bouncing on 2 springs, clapping so hard [...]

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