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- Tuyet
- San Diego, California, United States
- In Vietnamese, my name means "White Phoenix". It's not a car! It is a beautiful rising bird, re-born. Like the amazing phoenix, I am a bird. A bird on fire. The fire of life!!! I want to rise from the flames of the bad things that have "happened" in my life and not let the flames engulf me with their bad karma. I am going to become the woman I have always dreamed of becoming, like an oak tree, growing from an acorn! I am going to drift on this river of life, and not allow the droplets of other people's bad thoughts get me so wet. I want to dip my oar into the shallow waves of the people who support me, and use them to push off of as I take this journey of self-discovery! Like the innocent new fish that hatch beneath the waves, I am going to swim along and avoid the "big mouths" that surround me and try to take bites out of me. With the powerful name she gave me, my mother inspired me to rise above all the obstacles and to shine with my own inner light. As I enter middle age, I aim to do just that. I hope to share my journey here. I moved my blog here from my old site at "MySpace", hoping to attract more intelligent readers as I take this journey.
Thevetia peruviana (yellow apricot flower)
The yellow apricot flower is the symbol of Tet in south Viet Nam. It belongs to the family of hoang mai (meaning "yellow apricot" in Chinese), which is a forest plant.
30 comments:
Gee sorry to hear about your discomfort. Are you bloated?
I read something about rubbing your belly with flaxseed oil. I hear that clears up indigestion.
I hope some of the luck of the Chinese rubs off on you.
Someday me and my kids will visit the oriental people.
Oh by the way, you could know this. I got grass stains on my new Levis whilc playing touch football with my sons. How did I get those stains out?
Ben: twi whahshin dem in duh whahshin muhsheen! Duh!
Ben --- thanks for stopping by, but now I feel I must correct you about some of your erroneous thinking habits.
1. I do not have indigestion, I have uterine cramps. These pipes are not connected.
2. I am not Chinese, I am from Viet Nam.
3. We prefer to be called "Asian" or even better, "Viet Namese" people. "Oriental" is as outdated as saying "colored" about negroes.
4. Why would I know about laundery? Oh, I get it, because I am "Chinese"? I am with meanie on this one.
You need to consult an atlas and an anatomy book. No offense.
Oh well, I get cramps in my calf muscle. You can treat that with a little IcyHot.
Are they kinda like having Charlie Horses?
Sorry about the confusion. Viet Nam eh? Yeah these other guys that I met recently went there. It looked like hell from the movies I saw.
I found some Shout left over. It got rid of the grass stains.
Hey, you're from Nam right? Do you know anyone with one of those pointy hats that the farmers wear?
Ben,
Please don't come to my blog just to insult me. Either you are some kind of clown who thinks that "pointy hats" are funny (and yes, my family did wear them, thank you very much), or you are truely ingnorant like many of your countrymen who think that "Nam" (we prefer to call it Viet Nam, thank you very much)was just this undeveloped place where people ran around with pointy hats in rice paddies, and where screwed-up veterans came from. Well believe it or not, it was a real country with lots of beauty before communism wrecked it. There is a lot of culture and a lot of pride in the Viet Namese. We aren't just some tiny little Kooks or Gooks to be made fun of!!!!
I think I know which Viet Nam veterand you are talking about, and at least they lived the horror of war and are able to talk about the damage it did to their lives. Nobody who survived that era went unscathed! They're not just hiding behind ignorance and lies.
I hope for your sake that you are just undereducated, and not thinking that coming here and saying things to me that are so obviously insulting. If you really just don't know, I apologize for going off. But I just can't imagine being like that on purpose!!!
Thanks for coming by.
Oh, my cramps are better, thanks.
tyuet,
I'm sorry if I upset you. Maybe I can calm your anger by reciting an haiku by the ancient Shri Lankens.
"If not a cloud, then I drift like a cloud....if not a cloud, then I drift like the rain from a cloud, then by a cloud, do I drift like the sun. If not a sun and not like a cloud and not like the rain, then I shall drift like a man"
I'm so happy about the cramps!!
No offense, but I am taking a little break from replying.
Pleasure to make your acquaintance. Sorry about what happened during the war. I'm all torn up inside, my roomies are fucked up and my girlfriend has really fucked things up this time.
You remind me of a girl I used to see anytime I came to the fun part of Saigon.
I find it interesting that some men seem to blame any bad mood on PMS, do you get that.
Hope you feel better soon =)
wow, girl, you know how to get the commentors!
the little garbage can that allows you to delete comments works wonders!
I agree with Miss Creek, I don't like that Denny guy. You should delete his comment.
Yes, trash his comments... that's where his comments belong. You never have to be nice to abusers and their trash talk.
Jo
Where do jerks like that get off?
Hey you all,
Thanks for taking such an interest! I felt like I was losing control of my own blog for a little while! The next rude comment I get, I am deleting!
By the way, I am much less bloated --- I guess that flaxseed oil remedy worked! I didn't rub it on my skin though, I gave it the old "turkey baster" treatment, if you know what I mean.
That was uncalled for.
Way to take your power back Tuyet!
Yeah, woman power!
This is my blog, after all.
glad you are feeling better and you are in control...
You GO girl!
Even though you're only 4 foot 9 inches tall, you are woman!
"One giant step for a tiny woman, one giant leap for womankind"
I recall a haiku created by the ancient Pupas of New Guinness
"Always drink responsibly."
Thanks for all the support. Are you for real?
I hope you're feeling better! Those cupcakes on your latest post look like a surefire cure.
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