Long time no see. A lot has happened over the last few weeks. However, being lazy as I am, I’ll just give you a very short version of my updates.
Well, to implement my “New Year’s resolution”, I have been more active these days. I started volunteering for the Vietnamese School in New York to help teach small children Vietnamese. I will tell you guys more about it soon! Besides volunteering, I have been trying out a few highly-rated French restaurants in NYC but wasn’t impressed. Nothing beats home-cooked Pho’? or Spring rolls after all!
As for my social life, I have had the chance to see a Vietnamese play called “Missing woman” written and directed by Minh Ngoc starring Thanh Loc. Never a fan of Cai Luong or Vietnamese theatre, I must say I was impressed this time. I also got to see a Vietnamese film “Trai Tim is bong” and met with actress Hong Anh. The film was moving and meaningful but not too impressive. I will write a review on these two events soon!
In my spare time in the evenings, I have been watching lots of DVDs. I really love “Ratatouille” and “The Prestige”! I am still stuck reading the book “A thousand barrels a second”. It is very educational and interesting but so dry and full of information that it’s taking me forever to finish. However, recently I had the chance to attend a lecture at the Brandeis house in New York on the topic “How are Arab Oil-Exporting Countries Investing their Petrodollars?” which is very much related to what I am reading.
Oh by the way, I recently discovered the wonderful world of Podcasts and got addicted to it. Now I can download shows like Anderson Cooper, Mad Money with Jim Cramer, BBC World News, and French Lessons into my iPhone to listen on my way to and from work. That is an extra 1 hour of information I can absorb instead of daydreaming on the subway everyday! That leaves me more time in the evening to read newspapers, magazines, and books and watch movies at home.
If you haven’t been following, my mom went to two different fortune tellers beginning of this year and both said I was getting married this year. But it’s already mid-April and no sign of a fiancé yet! What am I supposed to do now? My search for “Mr. Right” is still on going and I’m running out of time. The Vietnamese circle in the US is so limited, there’s not much to choose from L What’s worse, guys my age nowadays are looking at girls born in 1988 or later. That makes me one of those “ba chi gia”. And somehow, I only managed to attract younger or older guys ("cac em trai tre" va "cac anh lon"). Oh dear, will I end up being a spinster? I also realized that maybe guys find me intimidating. Maybe I should try to speak with a sweeter and softer voice (“Annnhhhh oooooiiii….”) or learn to use "make up"? Hmm…
I am quite happy these days because I have had the chance to meet up for lunch/dinner with many friends I haven’t seen for so long. Went drinking a couple of times with friends too. Bad news is that my famous high tolerance is going down. Twice I got tipsy for having just a few drinks. Maybe I’m getting older and can’t act like a teenager anymore L
Work is still the same. Just waiting for the H1-B result. CFA studying is still very slow. I am so behind and only less than 2 months until the exam!
Oh by the way, I recently got into a car accident. Well, yes, I am a bad driver. But NO, I wasn’t driving. My friends and I were driving on the FDR in New York when we got hit from behind by this expensive Bentley car. I was sitting behind and hit my head on the backseat. Luckily I had my seatbelt on. However, I have been having slight headaches since. Just went to the doctor today and was told I’m okay but need to sleep as much as I can, work as little as I can and exercise more. The first two (sleep more, work less) is as easy as pie for me. But the exercise thing, I’m going to have to work on. Haven’t been to a gym in 2 months L
That’s it for all my boring ranting. I promise to update my blog with more interesting writing soon!
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Hi ban Mai. Khoe ko cau? Doc blog doan "Mr.Right" voi "ba`chi gia`" funny ghe. O truong to trong dam con gai VN, moi m` to 84 con lai la 87-89. That really makes me feel old, lol. Neway, to hoc duoc cau nay: waiting for the right guy while having fun with the wrong ones, hehe to nghi la nen hoc tap :))
ReplyDeleteMai update qua troi thong tin ma moi nguoi tap trung het vo doan "Mr Right". Nam nay ma Mai lay chong thi nho select luc Tu duoc long holiday de Tu di dam cuoi voi nhe. Keke :-P
ReplyDeletechắc là Mr. Right của chị cũng đang wondering là tại sao chưa thấy Ms. Right thôi ;))
ReplyDeletehehe; Annnnhhhh oooooiiiiiii chac la co tac dung day ;))
ReplyDeletekeep ur promise hehe :P
ReplyDeleteA monthly or quarterly report, right? friend? :)
ReplyDeleteGod bless you with good health ;-)
ReplyDeleteMai di lam roi nhung van di ho.c them ha? hay sao?
ReplyDelete"I have been having slight headaches since."
ReplyDeleteHopefully it's not because of this that all these thoughts running thru your head since?
"there’s not much to choose from"
Sadly this is true. How many guy friends I know just throw up their hands and stay single. There's not much variety and quality is varied. Guys this age looks for younger girls, only to ask where the hell they are. Then we start looking into girls this age, only to find out that the girls are looking for older guys with more experience, money, and hopefully not married :D. Then desparately we look for older girls, and found out all the "ke^'t nghi~a" sister or sister's sister's friends are all married or acting like our moms at home.
I'm contemplating in writing a 100-page research book with the title ...
Inequality in expectations of Girls-Guys in the new Millenium and the Intractable Issue of Work, Money, and Age.
I'll sell this book for $10, sell 100,000 copies, make myself $1 mil and just sail the world looking for the answer.
To sum up, from a guy's standpoint: girls always go in group. Once you are dating someone, the girls are always surrounding. When you are single, you can't find the damn group anywhere.
Sound similar to your situation? I have to admit, we are doomed.