Don't ask me why but some days in Vietnam are sooo special and commonly predicted by local fortune tellers for Vietnamese weddings. In western culture you would expect to pick a day because the Hotel conference room is available or not available but here it is all based on numbers so today being January 11, 2006, it means 1/11/06 and can be used for couples tying the knot.
I have been invited to two lunch weddings today but could only goto one because they were held at the same time and in locations far apart from each other. The wedding that I ended up going to was a best friend of Minh Nguyet's and I knew about it 2 weeks ago. The other wedding I wanted to goto was my ex-girlfriend Minh Thu's but she called me late last night and also it was out in the country side far away from work. She is getting married to a Vietnamese man who lives about 20 minutes away from her house and now will be moving on the next step in her life. Perhaps motherhood will be following her footsteps. I was surprised when she called but I knew this was the life she wanted and we became friends after our relations after a year and a half.
Tonight I finally added my favorite fish (Tin Foil Barbs are the common English name for those fish lovers who want to know) into my fish tank at home tonight. A slow process of introducing them because you have to let the bag float for 30 minutes and then every 15 minutes you have to add 1/2 cup of water from the tank to allow the water temperature and chemistry to balance before letting them gain their new freedom.
I don't have names for them yet but I will be watching their personalities and then the names and pictures will appear on the website.Stay tuned for more exciting action of Scotty's fish tank in Hanoi!!!
