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.

Ocean and Fishes - 100th Posts!

Hola ladies and gentlemen,

I'm so sorry I don't have much to give out to my wonderful blog stalkers except the warmly hello and thank you from these two strange sea creatures.

Saigon Pearl celebrates its International Children's Day. I had to go with mum because it's her work, but I did enjoy a delightful painting session by myself under the hot sun with cookie ice-cream!

Paris Deli again today with Eunice and a person (let's call her M)

A special handmade book order from Eunice arrived in her hand and I received many happy feedback. Serve the customer as God! hahha

Yup yup yup! Good laugh.

And then Eunice and I painted and drew stuff.

I was so inspired to draw and paint again, to make lots and lots of artsy things.

Although, the three of us got stuck in some sort of psycho loops of bad music, and had to declare today as "Bad Covers' day".

Artsy update:

-Currently organising all my past works into little heavy duty envelopes with photos taken for a digital one as well.

-Nearly done with "The 2 Person Book" - a collaboration paintings/drawings with Eunice on a handmade book made by me.

-Going well with "Little Bit" Project.

-Also working on another Art Diary.

-Getting the hang of photoshop. (as you can see!)

-Check out my photos on AISSAIGONPHOTOGRAPHY - I'm updating one every week.

-My apologise to "Post-it" Exhibition at Out2Studio - Eunice and I were going under a very busy and stressful time in the past few weeks with Exams and other school works.

With love to you all on our 100th Ocean and Fishes posts!

Catch the Little Bird!

I wondered what I should do today and this little birdy came to mind.

An inspiration from Geninne's Art Blog.

She drew the cutest little whimsical birds ever!

I'm hoping here that I'm not violating any copyright works of Geninne.

You can see though, that her's is much more sophisticated and beautiful.

She also uses acrylic ink for fine line.

p/s: The next post will be the celebration "100 posts" of Ocean and Fishes!

I'm planning on a give-away for a few Ocean and Fishes's stalkers.

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