Fruity Hangout

I've been out almost everyday since summer started.

But I'm not doing anything BAD and summer seems exciting!

I've been drawing, painting, making cards, talking, chatting, laughing, roaming around Dong Khoi, Vincom, bumper car, reading books, Paris Deli, JUICE, Artbook, farewell, stay overnight at Eunice's, more HOUSE + TRUEBLOOD and more BLOGGING!

Arrived at Gloria Jeans at 10.30 and I sat there laughing with Eunice the Pear and Aries the Orange. I'm Emo Apple Ada who started the new trend for sunnies – The Bug Style!

Harith the Banana came late. Everyone was hungry so we dragged ourselves right over to Vincom. It took us a few minutes to decide we should head to MOF. Hmm yummy lunch! I had Yaki Meshi!

Paid the bill and we moved over to Kito since all of us are still hungry. A bloody 25k Ice-cream scope did not full fill my stomach. Next, Game Game Game time for the boys!

We came back while Eunice was still sitting with her Mac as a cover admiring a guy with incredibly cool clothing including a gold locket! Even I froze looking at him!

Harith and I together head to ArtBook on Dong Khoi. For the first time, I actually went upstair to see the exhibition. Good paintings! Harith caught his bus home while I stayed in ArtBook waiting for Meg to call.

And she did! I walked down to Juice and we had a nice dinner there before going back to school picking up Megan things. Her loads of books crowded the taxi but we could still sit comfortably. I picked up two photos from my Exhibition. I took most of the pictures in this exhibition in the foya at school and edited them all. I'm pretty much happy of the results. They are quite beautiful!

Megan's house - full of awesome and cool stuff. I came here to help her pack and throw stuff away but come to think of it, I didn't help much except the part where I took pencils, a bunch of cards and a paper cutting table and books too. Oooh! The cat is cute and didn't hate me at all. Very welcoming :)

Waking Up at Paris Deli

(Eunice)

No not literally and I woke up at 7 on Monday morning and I was not at Paris Deli until 10.30.

Hmm... Eunice was there.

We practically LIVE in PD. The waiter asks "upstair?" everytime we come.

PD is undergoing instruction at the moment so it smells real bad and the quietness of the place is constantly disrupted by... well ... constructing.

Spent time Macbooking-chatting-laughing until we couldn't bare how crazy we are so we PAINT!

Yes yes!!! The point of going to PD is to PAINT (mostly!)

Here is what we did, before and after I bought new brushes!

Megan as we predicted, arrived late 15 minutes.

More chatting, more facebooking, more laughing and more card!

(Eunice)

I left with Eunice and left Megan ZEEEEEEEEEEE ....

CARD

Mum seems to trust that Eunice won't kidnap or cut my head off and eat it... so I GOT TO STAY OVER AT EUNICE'S :D MORE HOUSE AND MORE TRUEBLOOD!!! AWESP,E!

Again, woke up early and read the most awesome book ever => SCHOOL OF FEAR!

EVERYONE HAS A FEAR!

(Eunice - It's a song by the way!)

PMH bus took us in town where I got weird people staring at me and Eunice's mum fed us Chinese food, which by the way was good except the egg noodles which made me incredibly full...

Box Full of Love

(Of course I'd bring this with me even it's as big as a dinosaur and yes I'm bringing you guys to London but you must shrink down to tiny dolls!)

(Very dedicated selection of box and ribbon)

(Perfect fit! Lovely painting of the sea - btw, MLinh was inspired by me haha and the cool awesome pirate grrr grrr)

(The Evolution of Aries! Well what can I say... He looks exactly like that!)

(When I first saw this, I went "duh! of course I'm Ada!" and then read the back...)

(SEEEEE! FULL OF MESSAGES :D I read it over and over and it still makes me cry!)

(Beautiful earrings Josh selected with help from others and the earrings I made at Ali's)

Note: This post does not include scrapbook flowers and leaves and an oil colour set!

BOOOOOOO! You people don't have an awesome group of friends like me!!! muahahha I'm the luckiest girl on earth!!!

THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SUPER MUCH TO ZE MOST AWESOME FRIENDS EVER EXISTED !!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU ALL SO SO SO MUCH!!!!

SURPRISE ADA SURPRISE!

(Eunice impression of me as a robot!)

Eunice told me last night to meet her at Saigon Centre, 2.30 because she wants to hang out. I arrived in a hurry and Eunice pulled me straight to MOF saying she was hungry and I WAS BALLING MY EYES OUT SEEING A GROUP OF AMAZING FRIENDS SURPRISE ME WITH A BOX OF HILARIOUS GIFTS, A WARM-HEARTED CARDS FULL OF MESSAGES AND A BEAUTIFUL PAINTING. Today is the first surprise party of my 15 years living. I feel so lucky to have such a beautiful and wonderful group of friends.

(my retarded daughter! I'm so proud of her :))

We then enjoyed a delicious meal at MOF filled with laughter. This box of gift include an awesome pirate pen, a parrot-looking-wig, gorgeous pair of earings, oil colour set and some scrapbook flowers!!! AWESOME! GUESS WHO RAN DOWN THE STREET WITH THAT CRAZY PARROT WIG WAVING TO PEOPLE? ME ME ME!!! (I dragged Josh along as well, showing the clip soon!)

This is probably the craziest thing I've ever done in my life!

(taking photo with a fan... no that's Aries! But he seems excited!)

(Yuki eating in extremely fast motion and Sotty Epic face)

While we said goodbye to several Eunice, Yuki, Linh, George, Sottypong and David, I thanked them so much for making my day more beautiful and hope to see some lovelies again. The rest of us walked down to Vincom Centre. Bumper car was next on the list.

Three times!!! I personally think everyone walked out with injuries all over their body! But it was great fun and we play table hockey next!!! Disc flying all over the place!!!

We ate ice-cream at BUD's afterwards where Ali broke a glass and paid 10k. I left with Josh, Nicole going to Ali's house. I made a pair of earrings! Thanks to Ali and we said farewell to Marsterton and his two cute boys. After that, we talked more and more until I had to go.

Thanks to Aka the Retard, Ali the Sexy, Aries the Evolution of Himself, Joshy the Indian guy, Nicole the Gorgeous, K.Linh aka China, MLinh aka Hilary, Harith my bassist, George the Jungle, David my sweet friend, Uyen-who-was-not-there and Eunice my love!!! YOU ALL MAKE MY DAY AN AMAZING-AWESOME-FUN-AND-BEAUTIFUL-DAY!!!!

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH AND I WILL MISS YOU ALL SO DEARLY!

From the Dearest Place in My Heart

To all,

My experience of the Art and Awards Evening was wonderful as I love helping and supporting you all backstage. I know I pretty much joined at the last minutes but I felt honoured to be there, moving stuff, organising little things and taking care of you great performers. It's really what I love to do. Thank you so much for acknowledging me with claps and smile and hugs and kisses.

Today, officially mark my teary departure from the AIS family. In my previous posts, I've mentioned that I'm moving to a new school in London with bigger opportunities but it has been 4 amazing years at AIS, where I found who I am, with great memories with my wonderful friends and friendly teachers. Some of you I've known for a very long time and It's terribly sad for me knowing that I might not see some of my great friends anymore as you guys move on with your families to new places but we'll keep in touch, won't we? After all, what's the point of having FACEBOOK and EMAIL for right?

I'm sorry if I didn't sign your yearbook or if you didn't get to sign mine. I'm sorry if we didn't take photos. It was a very crowded and busy place for many of those who are leaving. Please, you are more than welcome to email me (tulinh17@hotmail.com) or even send me a mail post if you want to send me an actual card oooh and post card as well :D (I love them!!! but you have to wait till I know what my new address is). I have promises to some of you beautiful and wonderful people that I will send cards on your birthday and other occasion as I will miss you all very very much moving to London.

I'm coming back to visit (if you are staying at AIS) and some around other part of Vietnam. Don's worry!

From the dearest place of my heart,

TLxx

ps: Still balling my eyes out!!!

LOVE YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE!!!!

EXTRA LOVE FOR MEG AND EXTRA EXTRA FOR EUNICE :D

"So What's the Plan for Summer?"

(making "See You Again" cards for some of my favourite people!)

It's exactly 3 days left until I'm officially leaving little old AIS !
It's been 4 years with memories and changes.
It has been a happy-sad-exciting-boring-stress-hilarious-wonderful-and-horrible part of my teenage life.
I'm going to miss it! Miss my Eunice and everything we do together (I know you hate me but I still love you baby), miss my teachers (even the one I'm not very fond of), miss the little vintage-french-old looking school and miss my VIETNAM life so much.

Let's do this depressing thing in a few more days and in about 2 more months!

I'm also happy.
I'm moving to LONDON baby!
Yes! It's London and I'm attending Mill Hill School.
(Got accepted 2 weeks ago)
Okay. I admit, I've never been to Europe, let alone England.
BUT I'm excited to be in such a beautiful vintage old and new city.

There is heaps to do this summer in particular includes
-apply for visa
-stuff from school for the moving
-spend lots of time with Eunice :D
-shopping for clothes, shoes, uniform and such
-packing some books (can only bring little)
-finish Post-It project
-make Andrew and Megan birthday cards
-Cambodia for a week with Kais Village kids :)

I spent this weekend working on farewell cards.
Busy Monday and Tuesday rehearsing and performing for AIS Annual Arts and Awards Evening.

See y'all soon!

Pescetarian

Incase you don't know what Pescetarian is, it's a word!

Don't worry. Most pescetarian don't even know that they are one

Pescetarian is a person who eats no RED meats (excluding land animals) but includes fish and seafood. Their diet include veggie, nuts, fruits etc. with or without the addition of Eggs and Dairy.

I've given thought on becoming a vegan.

I love veggies and I could totally survive on fruits and nuts.

But seriously I love japanese food.

Well, japanese food are mostly fish dishes.

I can't give up on that.

I believe that fish are animals (scientifically they are!) and think they can feel too.

So if I say I am a vegan, I'd be insulting the actual vegan.

I don't want to announce that I'm one when I'm not.

How I got to this subject is because I'm an Eco-Friendly freak (not that freaky!)

Once I found out that farm animals actually contribute to destroying rainforest and contributing to pollution.

I started learning more and more.

It did give me creeps seeing those farm animals factory but it didn't really alter me much on changing my mind to become vegan.

I do have feelings for animals! I'm against cosmetic testing on animals.

I love eating and what's better than finding a healthier diet with all the things I like and I can eat almost all the time.

Plus, veggie are so much easier to cook muahahha xD

My point is next time when someone tell you that they are a pescetarian. Respect their choices! Whatever it is you are going to do with your life should not be judged. I'm still not going to announce that I'm a pescetarian or vegetarian yet (just if I must put chicken in my mouth I'm not receiving hate mails =.= plus I might need brain food) But know that I do avoid eating pork, beef and chicken for ECO reasons.

Somewhat sounds ridiculous to me because I love fishes and the ocean. My blog is all about that and I'm eating them!

Saturday Live

Tell me I'm strange but I get high on camera.

They seriously cheer me up! haha

All photos above were taken with Meggie's wonder SLR.

I AM IN LOVE!

This is my best friend Eunice in one of our best photo together with her bookmark for me.

This is one person I will miss the most moving to London,

but of course I will survive.

My sweet Emu made this for a friend of her.

She made the most beautiful jewelry.

I noticed this the first time I came to Paris Deli.

Never capture the right mood for it.

You can also see a video camera right there and that's the process of Eunice creating my bookmark (back to the first pic and video will come up soon)

Everytime we land ourselves in Paris Deli, our creative minds embrace.

Eunice and I have been recording and taking photographs for the International HCM Choir - Music for a Summer's Evening on the 4-5 June at the Conservatory of Music. Later, we came back to school, laughing and going insane at our hiding corner while everyone else were enjoying their after party.