I guess, human's heart made of steel, no matter how many times you are brokenhearted you will stand up walk and find new journey to fall in love again, that's including me I guess...but lately no matter how hard (or maybe not harder enough)I tried to fall of let's say to find a new guy the road seems harder than before...some says I am getting more and more picky...but perhaps yes...or perhaps like what I said to all my friends..."Do I have choices?"
Last night I had a quick conversation with a friend of mine that he tried to convince me that who ever now standing in front of you or liking you no matter how he is not your type or perhaps just bit far from your type than I need to reconcile with my criteria...oh gosh that's for me even harder than no choices at all.
Many of my friends wishes me that this is my year to have a boyfriend, and I felt somehow flattered and in the other hand it's kinda ironic in a way that they do concern about my love life healthy life hahaha...
It is, it has been such a long time I never had any sparks in LOVE...I have no idea why...I surely no idea why...
One time on a New Year's Eve dinner with friends from Paris and a friend of mine here in Bali, they start to asked each other the question.."How long you've been guys together", my friend said "Eleven years", one couple said "Around fourteen years now" and other couple "Hmmmmm twenty years!"...and I, myself..."Zero", it is how wonderful to hear that some couple stay longer and longer together and again comparing to mine this is like "I never had any that long relationships...ever", now I am 35...getting into 36 years old...how much chances do I still get until I will have those long relationships?
God, hear my prayer...If I only have a short relationships please make it very long...or make it the happiest one in my life so there will be no regret...
Friday, January 6, 2012
Monday, September 5, 2011
been ages!
Gotta be too many to write...been so long I have never been write anything here...will do will do will do...later on when the time coming I will write any story that would be good for me!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
the bads...
Been such a long period I have never been write anything here...I guess been few bad things happen to me and yeah some of the good too...
Losing my date as he is an asshole...and I'm thanking God for it...long story and I kinda losing interest to write here...he is way cheap!
I will certainly come back again and write things soon...good stuff and good stuff and good stuff!!!
Losing my date as he is an asshole...and I'm thanking God for it...long story and I kinda losing interest to write here...he is way cheap!
I will certainly come back again and write things soon...good stuff and good stuff and good stuff!!!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
pre the big 35, the beginning of a good life...
Why it is again so important celebrating my own birthday? Is it because now even more important because of those big number? Or is it because he is canceling his trip to Bkk? Perhaps all those reasons...perhaps that I do need to celebrate it...
I am now in the middle of this concrete city called the city of angels or in the land of smiles...and all of sudden everything becoming so much moodier...I hate for being moody in this great place where you can have party all night...or perhaps party is not the thing that I really want...perhaps what I want is just two of us celebrating and blowing candle on those cute cupcake...oh here I go again...too much Carrie in the mind...
I hate doing the plan B...I want just stick to plan A...but it seems it is impossible for you to do it...another plan B must be accomplished...tonight perhaps I wanna go party and forget about the birthday itself...just go get drinks and have fun with it!
I am now in the middle of this concrete city called the city of angels or in the land of smiles...and all of sudden everything becoming so much moodier...I hate for being moody in this great place where you can have party all night...or perhaps party is not the thing that I really want...perhaps what I want is just two of us celebrating and blowing candle on those cute cupcake...oh here I go again...too much Carrie in the mind...
I hate doing the plan B...I want just stick to plan A...but it seems it is impossible for you to do it...another plan B must be accomplished...tonight perhaps I wanna go party and forget about the birthday itself...just go get drinks and have fun with it!
Monday, June 20, 2011
journey to the west...saigon part three
DOs & DON'Ts
Stay around District One...better stay around those cool area of Notre Dame or Opera House...best area to walk around
If you wanna buy something at the street vendor, do ask first about the price, don't just eat, drink or grab thing, otherwise they will charge you like crazy
If you wanna get taxi get VINASUN or MAI LINH taxi...others they can rob you as they will put a very very high price like what I had...at the airport please ask for MAI LINH or VINASUN
Walk around and getting lost in some alleys...you will find things that even more interesting such as cool cafes and boutiques!
Pho 2000...is good!
Au Parc Cafe if you wanna taste those Parisy feeling in the middle of the heat of Saigon...
Please visit L'Usine, to feel this quirky air...and the coolness of those young people of Saigon
Hochiminh Art Museum just awesome!
Stay around District One...better stay around those cool area of Notre Dame or Opera House...best area to walk around
If you wanna buy something at the street vendor, do ask first about the price, don't just eat, drink or grab thing, otherwise they will charge you like crazy
If you wanna get taxi get VINASUN or MAI LINH taxi...others they can rob you as they will put a very very high price like what I had...at the airport please ask for MAI LINH or VINASUN
Walk around and getting lost in some alleys...you will find things that even more interesting such as cool cafes and boutiques!
Pho 2000...is good!
Au Parc Cafe if you wanna taste those Parisy feeling in the middle of the heat of Saigon...
Please visit L'Usine, to feel this quirky air...and the coolness of those young people of Saigon
Hochiminh Art Museum just awesome!
journey to the west...saigon part two
My day two of walking around the city ended at this famous cafe called Pho 2000...why this place so famous while you will see this actually a humble and ordinary place? Well Bill Clinton ate here...perhaps I was sitting at a chair he used to sit when he was eating this pho hahahaha....but indeed the pho sooo delicioso...so good...
Walking around this city seems like fun yet tiring...and scary as the crazy motorbikes are everywhere and yeap I saw an accident but it seems all just like normal, like it's in their daily basis life of getting hit, fell off and so fort from the motorbike hahahaha....
Last days usually the day you found many great things that you have been looking for on your first days of the journey...such as those cool cafes I read on the blog, books, magazines....and I felt like useless and hopeless as you are running out of time and money to spend :)
Some of the places that I found is L'Apotiquaire, it is the well known french day spa near the Ben Tanh Market...and this place called Princess & The Pea a way of strange way to enjoy the coffee and tea in this such out of nowhere shop house, dark, and you need to take off your shoes if you wanna hang around the place...strangely many people coming and I was like stupid guy asking them for their menu before I realize that you need a company to hang around this place otherwise you will look odd....
Bitter Sweet Coffee Shop...cute and seems like a nice cafe in the corner of this street near again Ben Tanh Market....
Last day in this city, I went to see the War Remnants Museum, a museum dedicated to the bitter of Viet Nam war in the late 50s up to 70s...those pictures speaks zillions of words...all sad, scary, full with hopes...mixed into one...this place such a place for you to learn how stupid it is the war, any war in any way....
What I have learned from this city, if you walk through this city...you need to get lost in some alleys to find this cool places...get surprise by what you found...such as An Bistro, KEP Vietnamese Resto, Amber Room the lounge bar...
Paris Deli, my last stop of this cafe hunting...i like the place only the cheese cake not so good...but I do love the area...so nice and quiet...
Well I almost done really with the city at that afternoon...I really enjoyed walking around the Notre Dame, Opera House, People's Committee Building, Rex Hotel, Hotel Continental Saigon, Presidential Palace...and there was a time when I was just sitting there just under the statue of this Virgin Mary and looked at this grand Notre Dame while you are listening to the choir singing prayers in the mass at this great church...oh so romantic...
Walking around this city seems like fun yet tiring...and scary as the crazy motorbikes are everywhere and yeap I saw an accident but it seems all just like normal, like it's in their daily basis life of getting hit, fell off and so fort from the motorbike hahahaha....
Last days usually the day you found many great things that you have been looking for on your first days of the journey...such as those cool cafes I read on the blog, books, magazines....and I felt like useless and hopeless as you are running out of time and money to spend :)
Some of the places that I found is L'Apotiquaire, it is the well known french day spa near the Ben Tanh Market...and this place called Princess & The Pea a way of strange way to enjoy the coffee and tea in this such out of nowhere shop house, dark, and you need to take off your shoes if you wanna hang around the place...strangely many people coming and I was like stupid guy asking them for their menu before I realize that you need a company to hang around this place otherwise you will look odd....
Bitter Sweet Coffee Shop...cute and seems like a nice cafe in the corner of this street near again Ben Tanh Market....
Last day in this city, I went to see the War Remnants Museum, a museum dedicated to the bitter of Viet Nam war in the late 50s up to 70s...those pictures speaks zillions of words...all sad, scary, full with hopes...mixed into one...this place such a place for you to learn how stupid it is the war, any war in any way....
What I have learned from this city, if you walk through this city...you need to get lost in some alleys to find this cool places...get surprise by what you found...such as An Bistro, KEP Vietnamese Resto, Amber Room the lounge bar...
Paris Deli, my last stop of this cafe hunting...i like the place only the cheese cake not so good...but I do love the area...so nice and quiet...
Well I almost done really with the city at that afternoon...I really enjoyed walking around the Notre Dame, Opera House, People's Committee Building, Rex Hotel, Hotel Continental Saigon, Presidential Palace...and there was a time when I was just sitting there just under the statue of this Virgin Mary and looked at this grand Notre Dame while you are listening to the choir singing prayers in the mass at this great church...oh so romantic...
journey to the west...saigon part one
Sitting at one of the corner of this lovely cafe called Au Parc just near the Notre Dame de Saigon...I am so happy today as I finally found this place...and this place right exactly what's in the mind...
This is what so called my birthday journey...making a first stop in Saigon...this is the longest solo trip, five days...four nights...solo...
First day of my exploration was the iconic parts of Saigon, those Ben Tanh Market and so on and so on....glad to found this old man called Mr. Dung, he is such a genuine and knows everything that I need for my curiosity of old buildings...yeap he is a motor taxi driver I found just right out side of the market, smiled, showing off his tiny pocket book filled with opinion about him from his former clienteles :-) voila!!
He was showing me around this beautiful old houses, buildings, shop houses and temples, Cholon the China Town...from the Opera House to People's Committee to Post Office to HCMC Art Museum to all beautifully crafted buildings...again I was smitten!
Opera House...like most of the former capital of European colonial city have this beautiful building, Saigon not to mention also has it...in terms of scale this opera house not so big but it's beautiful and stand out in this luxury area of Saigon...very well maintained...I went here twice actually!
People's Committee Building, another french grandeur...in one of the most luxury area in Saigon side by side with Opera House and array of this high end brands...yeah yeah yeah...Chanel, Cartier, Burberry, Chloe etc etc...Chanel got a big place here...bet that is the flagship!
Another very interesting building is the Central Post Office, oh soooo nice....big and grand, the tiles, the facade, those old maps on the wall and those giant and nice picture of the founding father of the country HoChiMinh all so nice!
And Mr. Dung also taking me to this wonderful Chinese temple built in 1740, breathtakingly belle...old, quiet, just superb...lastly he was taking me for a lunch at the Chinese Traditional Market...for a yummy Nasi Ayam!
I found many old tiles here in Saigon...once I found it I am such a collector now...every single and different interesting tiles I snap...this is like when I was in Paris when I found those Space Invader icons all over Paris....I am soo addicted to it :-)
L'USINE...a brilliant and cool yet quirky shop...I found this shop as I was walking around this cool area and I was got dazzled with this 1930s typo and those clothes...I walked around and seeing this art arcade leading to some old bit creepy stairs and there you go a big signage leading to the second floor...I was so excited...I saw those giant glass doors and windows...right exactly and old building...when I entered the shop/cafe...youngsters most of the clientele were cool...and yes cute cupcakes, quirky stuff, clothes, old goodies, all and all...I just love this shop....bought book about Saigon here, ate their cupcake, the vanilla...so delicioso!
Oh I know I was soo bored as I walking around this city alone...on the 3rd day which is today I am seems gaining my excitement as I visited this HCMC Art Museum...goodness I got smitten by the charms of the building and the collection...the building just amazing...the ornaments, the 1st elevator to be existed in Saigon, the tiles, the stairs, the windows, pillars...gosh this building just beautiful without overly grandeur...the building itself used to be a townhouse owned by this great family from China who made their marks in this city as one of the most celebrated businessmen...you can still see who is living in which floor...and you also still seeing this family signature in every doors!
This Art Museum has the greatest collection of modern art era of Saigon...you may see great collection of paintings, sculptures and all...galleries not only one but more than three galleries...
Lastly for today...I am visiting this boring Presidential Palace...
Now I am sitting here at this cute cafe called Au Parc overlooking to the parc near the Notre Dame!
What a nice afternoon!
This is what so called my birthday journey...making a first stop in Saigon...this is the longest solo trip, five days...four nights...solo...
First day of my exploration was the iconic parts of Saigon, those Ben Tanh Market and so on and so on....glad to found this old man called Mr. Dung, he is such a genuine and knows everything that I need for my curiosity of old buildings...yeap he is a motor taxi driver I found just right out side of the market, smiled, showing off his tiny pocket book filled with opinion about him from his former clienteles :-) voila!!
He was showing me around this beautiful old houses, buildings, shop houses and temples, Cholon the China Town...from the Opera House to People's Committee to Post Office to HCMC Art Museum to all beautifully crafted buildings...again I was smitten!
Opera House...like most of the former capital of European colonial city have this beautiful building, Saigon not to mention also has it...in terms of scale this opera house not so big but it's beautiful and stand out in this luxury area of Saigon...very well maintained...I went here twice actually!
People's Committee Building, another french grandeur...in one of the most luxury area in Saigon side by side with Opera House and array of this high end brands...yeah yeah yeah...Chanel, Cartier, Burberry, Chloe etc etc...Chanel got a big place here...bet that is the flagship!
Another very interesting building is the Central Post Office, oh soooo nice....big and grand, the tiles, the facade, those old maps on the wall and those giant and nice picture of the founding father of the country HoChiMinh all so nice!
And Mr. Dung also taking me to this wonderful Chinese temple built in 1740, breathtakingly belle...old, quiet, just superb...lastly he was taking me for a lunch at the Chinese Traditional Market...for a yummy Nasi Ayam!
I found many old tiles here in Saigon...once I found it I am such a collector now...every single and different interesting tiles I snap...this is like when I was in Paris when I found those Space Invader icons all over Paris....I am soo addicted to it :-)
L'USINE...a brilliant and cool yet quirky shop...I found this shop as I was walking around this cool area and I was got dazzled with this 1930s typo and those clothes...I walked around and seeing this art arcade leading to some old bit creepy stairs and there you go a big signage leading to the second floor...I was so excited...I saw those giant glass doors and windows...right exactly and old building...when I entered the shop/cafe...youngsters most of the clientele were cool...and yes cute cupcakes, quirky stuff, clothes, old goodies, all and all...I just love this shop....bought book about Saigon here, ate their cupcake, the vanilla...so delicioso!
Oh I know I was soo bored as I walking around this city alone...on the 3rd day which is today I am seems gaining my excitement as I visited this HCMC Art Museum...goodness I got smitten by the charms of the building and the collection...the building just amazing...the ornaments, the 1st elevator to be existed in Saigon, the tiles, the stairs, the windows, pillars...gosh this building just beautiful without overly grandeur...the building itself used to be a townhouse owned by this great family from China who made their marks in this city as one of the most celebrated businessmen...you can still see who is living in which floor...and you also still seeing this family signature in every doors!
This Art Museum has the greatest collection of modern art era of Saigon...you may see great collection of paintings, sculptures and all...galleries not only one but more than three galleries...
Lastly for today...I am visiting this boring Presidential Palace...
Now I am sitting here at this cute cafe called Au Parc overlooking to the parc near the Notre Dame!
What a nice afternoon!
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