Today was my first day off in a week from work and school. I awoke to the sound of Trang’s keys jingling in the hallway and so I guess I woke up grumpy & still extremely exhausted. I then got super stressed out about financial things (stupid $500 camera that I will love like a baby when I get it), school work, and work work. I wasn’t planning to do anything. I really just wanted to bum at home or go to the mall and sulk at things that I can’t afford anymore. Well not really, cause I could afford it since my Hello Kitty Credit Card is my best friend <3. Anyways, Trang dragged me out to the Eden Center (for anyone who doesn't know, its basically a little Vietnamese plaza filled with bad drivers and 90% bad restaurants). It took us quite a while to find parking. Probably cause instead of helping her, I was too busy camwhoring LOL!. After a while we followed a cute couple, and even though Trang almost ran over their dog (DEATH GLARES!!) they gave us their spot.

The Mid Autumn Festival, or Tet Trung Thu, is mainly for kids. Trang & I missed the one last week cause we were super bum so we decided to come to this one. It was a lot smaller, but I guess more entertaining? They had a singing contest, which only one person entered. An art contest for little kids, which Nam & Trang were supposed to volunteer for by bouncing parents from helping their kids but YOU KNOW VIET PARENTS. DON’T LISTEN TO NO ONE so they gave up. & a beauty pageant for Miss Eden. OMG! Only four people entered the beauty pageant and like first place got $1000, second place got $500, and third place got $250. I would’ve sooo entered if I had an aoi dai (traditional Vietnamese dress). Basically all you had to do was walk across the stage and answer one question!!! SUCH EASY MONEY. But the winner, IN MY OPINION was super pretty so I would’ve lost for sure anyways. Everyone else I was with was rooting for the third place winner. I didn’t take pictures cause I was too busy making cat calls. Next year, though. I will be sure to win a crown & sash .

Trang driving. (Put fish eye lens over Canon Powershot)

Perfect weather! | Camwhoring!

One half of the plaza.

Some were pretty good.

Some, not so much.

It literally takes 30 minutes to get boba from here, but Trang wanted.

My cafe boba | Trang’s Mang Cau (Sour Sap)

Nam, Miss D.C. (Who is Thai btw), & Long.
MAUVSA REPRESENTTTTT.

I always look tired no matter how much concealer I pack on -__-;;

Little kids and their lanterns that they literally raped the emcee for @__@;;


MINI STORY TIME
Nam & Long were checking out girls at the festival (typical) and I saw that parents were ripping lanterns off of trees&tents (was part of deco) for their kids. I told Nam I wanted one and whined, whined, whined. Nam then told me that if I asked for the age of one of the girls, then he’ll get it for me. I was like all sparkly-eyed “REALLY?!?!”~ So I went and did the dirty deed. She was most definitely jail bait (younger than Trangg!!) and in the end I sent Nam on a race against parents to get me a lantern :] END.

Afterwards we met up at Viet Bistro. I don’t know WHO’S idea it was to eat here, but GAAH!! We sat outside behind old men who WOULD NOT STOP SMOKING. I was dyinggg =__=! Long got cha gio (egg rolls), and shared some with me. It. Was. Chewy. WTF?! It looked like it was clearly fried, but apparently not. Trang & I shared the combination pan fried noodles. Uhhh. I know its called “pan fried noodles” but I don’t think that the meal should be literally cooked that way. Unfortunately ours was. Basically they fried the noodles in a circular pan and then cut it up into pizza pieces and just put seafood all over it. It was sooo double you tee eff. The noodles were soggy on the outside and chewy on the inside. We were pretty much disgusted by it. But I guess aside from the huge amounts of second hand smoke, a creepy waiter staring at me, and chewy fried foods, it wasn’t TOO bad. I mean, the inside of the restaurant had a nice atmosphere!

Long & his eggrolls.

Long & his silly rice.

Hoa Nam & his pad thai.
Mann, I could so draw something so inappropriate into here LOL.

I CAN TAKE BAD PICTURES OF MY SIBLINGS TOO

Nam & his com tam.

OUR FAILED PAN FRIED NOODLES.

WHAT ARE WE EATING, SOGGY PIZZA?!

Anyways, after all of that, we went to Nam’s place for some partyinggg ~ I met tons & tons of new people and started over a new leaf with Iris and her dog. Khiet wasn’t there though (thank goodness). I did kinda leave her a threatening message, even Nam thought it was harsh but MEH! Someone has to wake her up from her crazy delusional fantasies of calling my brother her boyfriend. I mean, pfft, yeah sure who DOESN’T want to date people in my family? You just kinda have to get through the Nguyen Siblings first. We’re a bit infamous for making people cry, if you haven’t heard. It was a lot of fun! We karaoked (LOTS O TAYLOR SWIFT! Love story like 10x), played guitar hero, and other festive activities.

Meeting new people = fun! I met this guy named Alex. He told me he was in-between jobs. (Okay, well I asked so it’s not like he randomly put it out there). He said he was going to try and get a job in New York since he has already been in Virginia for twenty-three years of his life. He tried to get info about me, school, age, major, etc. But since he told me that he was going to get an interview on Wednesday for his NY job, I told him that we would probably never see each other again so no point in wasting breath. He said he would be glad if we never met again, & I hope you guys can figure out why without me saying. Before leaving Nam’s apartment, I yelled, “I HOPE I NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN!” across the room as a push of good luck, I hope.

Heck, another guy even gave me his business card. Apparently he moved here from Boston just for a job. He didn’t know anyone, and even though he was being a jerk at Eden (He asked my sister, “Can you understand Vietnamese?” and before she could even answer he said, “I highly doubt you can.” SO UNCALLED FOR!!) he was pretty nice at the party. It’s a good thing my brother is much nicer than me or we would’ve seriously never invited him. He gave his card to another girl (so flashy!) so I’m not really expecting to feel special or some crap. I’ll probably give him a call to show him around though, so hopefully one day if I move to a far away place, karma will rub me the right way .

(Don’t worry, I met tons of girls too!)