The last two days were full of parties ^_^!!!
First, it was the one with Tony and Indonesian fellows. The gathering was planned to be taken place in Tony's house but because of the changing weather, it was moved to the campus. Just met them once at Sugi's farewell party but I felt quite comfortable being among people. Tony was nice, of course, and he was the one who invited me to the. Everyone talked to him just like talking to an elder family member, respectfully and trustfully. I just now find that one of Tony's favorites is photography and he has a finely designed website here. Ima was like an elder sister of the Indonesian community and took care of almost everything: preparing food, giving speech :-D, taking photographs, etc. There were guests from Cambridge: Agi, Ade and another man to whom I talked in pleasure. Ade, Asim (a Malay guy, thanks Ade ;-) ) and I also had a funny discussion about planning the family perspective. Other people were also nice and even I couldn't remember all the names, I remembered almost all the faces ^_^. Photos will be posted once I got them from Ima. Now UPLOADED.
The other party was the one to say goodbye to Khiem to whom we played a wonderful match against Chinese guys. Taking place at Thang's house, the party was delayed due to an unexpected problem with his car and thus some ingredients for the food. I was hurry to get to the bus in the morning, so I didn't have my breakfast and was desperately hungry ^_^. But there was finally the second for us all (Thang - Thuy, Long, Hieu, Quynh - Ly, Khiem - Mai Anh and me) to raise the cups and say "Cheers" to our defender who would be drinking beer in Vietnam in a couple of days. Foods were absolutely delicious not just because they were prepared by our, or more exactly, Khiem's, great cook Mai Anh but also because most people were all hungry ^_^. The most impressive thing was "nước cà cuống" (Belostomatid essence) - a special liquid spicy extracted from a kind of small creatures found in Vietnam farms. I'm not too sure if such creatures could be found anywhere else in the world or if people there know how to squeeze the precious liquid from them. "Nước cà cuống" in the UK!! Just incredible!!!
We then spent the whole afternoon to talk about... everything. We went from a topic to one another: Photography, education, politics, life in the UK and things that we missed in Vietnam, etc. All people had their all experiences, examples and arguments, so the discussion was really nice and full of knowledge. By the way, Khiem took most of his time to sleep - he had to wakee up too early in the morning, and I spent some time to play with Jack - Phong's son, and Cyndrella - Thang's daughter. Having a child seemed to be sweet and it's even sweeter watching him or her playing around and laughing...
It was a cheerful weekend! The only pity was that I didn't have time to talk to my family and to you.
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4 comments:
It was really great, indeed.
however, I'm not a guy, you should say a girl, and by the way although I can always pronounce me as a Malay girl, but it's just in my country as it one of the tribe there. But I took as a compliment, thank you.
We can do have more disscussion about things sometimes.
Very nice to meet you, meet other people, nice food, hm..can't complaint at all ;)
Cheers,
A.
Belostomatid: Cà cuống
Belostomatid essence: Nước cà cuống
:p
@Ade: yes, you misunderstood my words but it was also because of my writing capability. I knew that it could be confusing while I was noting down, but couldn't find another way to do that :-D.
@Anonymous: Thanks. I have updated the blog with your English terms.
'The only pity was that I didn't have time to talk to my family and to you', who is 'you' in this sentence? I often confuse the 'you' in your article?
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