(PLO)- Good – funny – unique – strange always happens around us sometimes with just a sentence, a fleeting image or a chill song containing a small slice of the vitality story.
This song is so good, so chill! This style is so unique, so quality! This view looks so strange!… Those are the sayings when someone is interested in seeing something a little out of the ordinary, unusual or unusual.
Spring morning. Seeing the familiar street every day suddenly transformed into a strip of yellow apricot flowers by the unique design style. Beside Gia Dinh Park, people were full of flowers for Tet. Every year, there is a “unique” tree or flower species for customers to hunt for Tet display. Like a certain year, the Dien pomelo tree is full of branches, costs millions but still has a fever. Last year, there was a red-eye tree with a Malay orchid that was sold out. This year, expect a strange flower to land in Saigon. Every time I see flowers, I feel a good feeling because I’m sure I’ll hear many friends lament the fun and cool saying “I can’t see anything this New Year, I just feel old!”.
Drop by a trendy coffee shop, order an egg coffee, nibble on a butter cookie. Chill spread. The shop opens a young music video with a curved screen. Pretty. Wow, there are many songs of young people now that sound unique and strange. Remember a few years ago, Hoang Thuy Linh’s straight personality pulled the wife of A Phu (My) out of a literary work to role-play on stage and then boldly told “Let Me tell you.” Last year, Black Vau was filial, earned a lot of money and brought it all back to his mother.
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This year’s young music is so ecstatic with a unique style. Mono played peek-a-boo on stage, causing fans to panic. Toc Tien very cool shows three rounds in the song “hit” 90-60-90 – expressing the pressured dreams of many ladies and gentlemen.
Noon. The sun is too late. Dinh Tung Huy called “Binh Minh, have you woken up yet? Morning coffee with me?”
On the way back, passing a few street vendors on the sidewalk, hearing the fragrant pepper cake, the stomach was immediately awakened. Stop by to buy some cakes wrapped in white paper to take home. Eat and voraciously contemplate life. Well, Vietnam’s fruit cake has a strange name that doesn’t match the content of the dish. Pepper cake but why no pepper? Orange cake why can’t see oranges? Pig skin cake but no skin… pork? Then why is a toad not like a toad?…
The other day on the way home from work, while the traffic was stiff but not “crowd”, it was nice to get lost in the woods from time to time to think regarding Saigon. Think regarding the passage where Saigon is a big city, why do you have a neighborhood? So go to District 4 and meet Xom Chieu, visit District 5, see Xom Chi, Xom Cai, Xom Voi, cross Thu Duc city and hit Xóm Thuoc… But when you hear some streets in Saigon, you will find it strange, the road is strange. High Voltage Electricity, Black Water Canal, Missile, Cong Lo… Then there are times when you are sad and lost in the spring maze with a series of roads named flowers. Hoa Orchid, Hoa Mai, Hoa Phuong, Hoa jasmine … surround the floating shrine area near Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal (but I can’t see any floating shrines on the canal).
Yesterday, when I went to Ba Chieu market, I went and thought, Saigon is really good. Things related to markets and places often see Grandma more than Grandpa. Like a market, there are Ba Trieu, Ba Chieu, Ba Chieu, Ba Hom, Ba Hoa, and Ba Nghe (Thi Nghe); In places, there are Ba Queo, Ba Diem, Ba Hat, Ba Tang, Ba Lai…
You only see it in the temple and on the bridge. Ong Ta and Ong Bon Temples, neighbors in Binh Duong have Ong Cu Temple; The bridge is named Ong Lanh, Ong Dau, chained to Binh Duong and immediately met Mr. Bo (but why is there no Mother’s Bridge?).
Winter evenings are not cold. In Saigon, it’s not strange if it’s not cold in winter. It’s strange to feel cold. It’s sweltering winter, it’s nice to hear the familiar voice, but it’s been a long time since I know exactly what the “lyric” is. Hear “who is sticky rice with chrysanthemum, sticky rice with chrysanthemum… sticky rice or something”. Listening to it once more and once more every morning, every followingnoon from the alley to the market alley, but until now, I still don’t know what the seller advertised in that “what” is. Strange!
Life is like that, always familiar, strange, interesting, unique. Sometimes if you want to find good, funny, unique and strange things, just try to live slowly, listen and feel the sounds around us, things that alternate, forming a symphony of life. It sounds familiar, but it’s funny.
Late spring followingnoon, receive salary, receive bonus, buy Tet gifts for the whole big family. My heart is filled with small joys. Arrange suitcases to go home to celebrate Tet. The bon bon car ran through the passes towards the highlands, playing Justatee’s song “pressing” Den Vau… right into the third topic. “The way home is to my heart, despite the rain near and far”. What’s cool?. On the side of the road, nameless wildflowers bloomed to welcome Tet.
NGUYEN LE
