tomato_kute’s last login was Tuesday, August 4 2009.
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Hi there, it's a long time... how do you do? Anyway, I want to ask if the next February you have free time. Maybe this time, my friend from Malaysia wanna travel to Ho Chi Minh city and she actually needs some help. But ":) as you knew, I'm not in Ho Chi Minh til the next July. So, in case you have free time...
Hello tomato_kute! Ahh, but I think some things got mixed up-- I too am in a tropical country, perhaps even more hard hit by the sun than Vietnam of the higher latitudes. I don't see any snow either but it would really be nice to some time :) Hmm, when I say cold I guess it's a subjective experience, cooling fans and the rest are still hard at work at my and the neighbors' houses even as I gather the blankets around, so I don't know. Maybe if you would ever visit our country in Christmastime in the future you would even find it warm.It's wonderful, the celebrations you shared about Vietnam. Here we don't do much, just the exciting fireworks display, the general noise-making...tourist guidebooks would still leave the impression that we still possess some authentic Filipino feel, like baskets of round fruits and leaving coins outside windows and doormats, but I guess it's just not happening anymore. But it really is nice just to have the whole family around and staying up the whole night and see the sky blaze...Anyways, yeah. Thank you for sharing a lot of things. I'm glad you get to spend this Christmas with your family. I wish I could get to see that special Tet celebration sometime!
Hy tomato_kute! Thanks for the warm greetings... I hope that you would be in for a God-filled, happy, fulfilling, successful, and healthy new year! Christmas here is a chill, which isn't so happy for me as I feel as though the wind would flay my skin away, haha but it's nice to have all the blankets on top, along with good books and the family all round! On Christmas Day, well, not much happens except that I get to eat more or less continuously... I think more :) How are you celebrating New Year? Do you set up fireworks? I haven't touched one since birth since my family lives in collective fear of those things, haha. All things dear to you, all things you want to happen for yourself, all your highest aspirations, I pray that they be yours to keep on 2009.
Hello tomato_kute! Just dropping by to greet you a Merry Christmas! Hope you have a fruitful year :) in all ways.Lord M
You're right! Books are INCREDIBLY expensive. What are you taking up in the university?
Here? Well... Everything is so-so. Just getting by... but God works His miracles :) Even so, I'm pretty annoyed with a lot of things that get me away from my books, like school, but we cope the ways we can... :) I don't have military training, but I have hospital duty arranging records and so on. Major boring rote work. Is military training a must for all males in your country?
Military training? Really? Wow. I hope it isn't too taxing... And I know what you mean in the despair of not having enough time to read books. I just hope that, since you posted this two weeks ago, you just have two weeks more to go before it's over and you can read once again!
really? interesting. I didn't know that.
I've been thinking that you're a girl, but now that you telling me that you're joining the military it makes me wonder if my assumption is correct. Would you mind clearing up this confusion?
have fun. enjoy your summer!
Makes me want to read Yoshimoto more :) I'm not really sure about favorite authors. Generally, it's just a case of trusting the author once I've read one of his works, that I go and read the rest of his works... I'm not sure if it qualifies as favorite though. Tolkien, certainly, maybe that's the closest I could come to saying favorite; he was superb. For the longest time I thought Michael Crichton was my favorite and I would try to read everything of him- but really, almost every author I've read seems great to me, so I'm at a loss O_O Right now, I like Murakami and his magical realism and his Japanese spirit, barring the explicit scenes, which I feel somehow diminish- but yeah. Probably him. Tolkien. C.S. Lewis-- I guess? Ian McEwan? Ahh, mostly I don't bother with favorites, I just read the books and realize how uniquel special each is. Now that was long-winded...Anyways, who is yours? :)Take care and keep close!And stay glad...Lord M
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What do you mean... you're Vietnamese right? It's a Vietnamese name
It's a nickname from when I was in high school...
I mean... Yoshimoto.. :)
I actually want to read Banana Yatsumoto! But I haven't had the privilege yet. I hope I would get to, though. Why do you like her more than Murakami? Personally, I feel that Japanese writers have a distinct quality that distinguishes them, similar to the term, say, British wit.Nah, my college life is panned out to be boring. Nothing to study but nursing. I certainly wanted to study foreign languages-- but it's not in the offering. :) I'll be learning them when I get past college, though.:) Take care.
Hello there?
And you...what do you do there?
I was born there :) I have yet to come back to visit. Thank you for the compliment on the shelf. I just added books that I liked best and the most recent ones that I've read. Most of my reading are geared toward young adults because I have to keep up with what's out there. I fit in an adult book now and then, but I am forever stuck with YA books. You were having a discussion about Murakami. My brother gave me a book titled "Sputnik Sweetheart". Have you read that one?
Ahh, I might have misunderstood this when you said you haven't read any Murakami yet, but you've read Norwegian Wood, right? That's quite representative of his works already, minus the magical realism quality of the others. I haven't read much yet though. It's wonderful that you love Thailand! I'd love to see the place someday. And it's wonderful that you're learning a foreign language-- I'd love to learn so many languages someday, if I have the time to do what I want in life. As for now, I'm just keeping the dreams alive...Are you in college already? What are you taking up?Take care...:)
