Tết 2012 ~ ♥

Happy Lunar New Year ! ♥

Although I couldn’t spend this Lunar New Year at home with my family and although the weather was just horrible today I had a good time with my friends who accompanied me to the Vien Giac Pagode in Hannover ♥

Finally arrived at the pagoda!

Arrived when it was starting to rain, so my camera lens had raindrops on it (

It’s a kind of new experience for me to go praying all by myself so I was glad my friends came along (they weren’t even all Buddhist)

Pagoda

When we arrived there the Pagoda really looked scary and abandoned.

Because it's New Year the Pagoda looked like a haunted place because usually it should have been flooded with people...

Because of the bad weather there was nearly no one (outside) in spite of the big Spring Festival, but in the end we did find some people in the hall and downstairs at the stage and the food booths.

People were gathering downstairs because of the bad weather and cold outside~

After praying we got traditionally lucky money and a mandarin as well as a cute piggy bank for free ♥ x3 Earlier this day I was just thinking about buying one so this may be real luck! Haha ~

Practice in Praying haha♥

Taking a group picture as memory

And one of the other important reason I went to the Pagoda is: FOOD ! ♥

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Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot like usual but at least I was able to buy a lot of Rice Cakes and Banh Bao ♥♥♥

There's a lot to buy !

Yummy ~♥

Myammyam~♥

Later when we went home a really hard hail combined with icy wind and rain hit us with no mercy so that we were completely soaked!

Having a good start into Lunar New Year, at least we can take heart with the cute piggy banks and the Lucky Money haha ♫

Piggy Bank family xD

Today's achievement haha ~♥

Lucky Money !☆

Thanks for the nice day, wish you all a happy, successful and great New Year of the Dragon !! ♥

Tags: 2012, Chua, Lunar New Year, Pagoda, Tet, Vien Giac

Last Christmas Day

Asian-Style Spaghetti ;D

Have you been having a good time ? ^^ Christmas is already over :/  But New Year is near !!

Are you looking forward to 2012 ? Have you already set up a to-do-list for the coming year ?

I’ve got so many things I want to do but  which I unfortunately can’t set on my to-do-list yet Have to wait for some certain results >__<

Tags: 2012, Christmas, New Year

1st Christmas Day 2011

Homemade dishes are best ♥

Since I’ve been home it seems like every day is about eating hahaha xD

Breakfast & Lunch

 

Dinner

Tags: 1st, 2011, Christmas Day

Merry Christmas <3

Merry Christmas to all of you !! <3

Thanks a lot to all those who keep reading my blogs :3
How was your Christmas Eve ? Did you get a lot of gifts and spent your day with your family or friends ?
I went home over Christmas vacation and helped my mom with cooking for today <3

Our Christmas Eve-Meal \(^~^)/ Yummy <3

To those of you who I promised to send a Christmas/New Year gift: I’m going to send it to you by next week ! Hope it’ll arrive as soon as possible

If you’re looking for Christmas music don’t forget to check out lunardragontunes.de.vu <3
Wishing everyone a nice holiday !
Take care

LdT

Tags: Merry Christmas

Post from Japan ♥

Today, I got post from Arisa-chan from Japan ♥

So I’d like to share some pictures with you

The suddenly arrived 'Letter' which I should take from the post station turns out to be Arisa-chan's package for me ♥ I was soo excited to open it, so I already started to unpack it a tiny bit during lecture haha xD

A Toys 'R' Us Bag, A Totoro Bag and a Tonari no Totoro postal card *__* ♥ It's sooo cute!!!

A Micky Mouse Bag from Tokyô Disney Sea Japan Halloween post-it paper & a candy calles 'Unchikun' xDD Wth, is that eatable ? :'D

Two mysterious packed things *__* Wonder what's in there ♫

Unpacked 1 - The Minnie Box with the handkerchief around it has got Minnie Candy in it Cuute ^~^

Unpacked 2 - Totoroooo !!! ♥♥♥ OMG it's sooooo cutee *___* That's my lovely favourite ! *happy happy* ♥ Had to immediately free little Totoro out of that biiiig acorn ♥

Dômo arigatô Arisa-chan !!! I’m so happy! \(^o ^)/ ♥

Really love all those things but I’m really in love with sweet little Totoro ♥ *__*

I’m sooo grateful that you even had to go to that shop and bought it for me because I like Ghibli T___T ♥ *moved*

*love love love* and arigatô !!  ♥ :*

LdT

Tags: Japan, T-ara, Totoro, Ghibli, Merchandise, Candy, Sweets, Halloween, Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Disney Sea, Tokyo, A-peace, letter, Toys R Us, Bag, Nibariki

Day two – Grandmother’s Grave ~

With my aunts Co3 & Co Trang, my Grandpa and my two Cousins (Ti and Li) we took a taxi to my Grandma’s grave in Thu Duc early in the morning.

Vinasun Taxi - One of the 'save' taxi companies in VN xD

In the taxi I noticed that the driver had a cool radio station !
Whatever Radio station it was, I’d like to have it too !! ♥
There was American,Korean, Chinese, and Japanese music as well as New Vietnamese music x3
I wonder which station we were listening to hm…

Election Campaign

On the way we saw a election campaign because the election will be in a few days. It really made a lot of noise and many people were participating…

The campaign was really long but I couldn't take a good pic of it >__<

Graveyard Entrance - Grandpa, cousins and Co Trang

Burning of paper-mades (money, clothes) for the Deads...

Ti & Li - My 'rank-elder' and younger Cousin ♥ xD

Later I went with Co 3 to a Gold Shop in Cho Vuong Chuoi (Banana Garden Market) and she bought me a pendant made out of white gold (*__*)~♥ (Actually I was changing it with my pair of gold earrings which were broken..)

Each time I am in Vietnam I have to visit at least once the bookstores in HCMC :3
Well for this reason I took a short visit at Nguyen Van Cuu Bookstore and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Bookstore, two of the biggest and (out of my 3 favourite) bookstores in the city.

Paper-mades in Nguyen Van Cuu Bookstore

Hnadcrafts out of wood x3

Present articles at NVC Bookstore

Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Bookstore

NTMK Bookstore 1st Floor

I love the things they sell there ♥

Let’s see what will be tomorrow  ~

Cherry ♥

Tags: American, Banana Garden Market, Bookstore, Chinese, Cho Vuong Chuoi, Election campaign, Gold Shop, HCMC, Ho Chi Minh City, Japanese, KOREAN, music, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Nguyen Van Cuu, Nha Sach, radio station, Saigon, taxi, Thu Duc, Vietnamese

Day One

Today I got a Vietnamese simcard for my mobile.

The simcard is from Mobifone, one of the popular providers next to Viettel and Vinaphone. Just right after I put it in, I instantly got 20 new SMS and 1 unknown call ö.ö (the SMS were of course advertisement stuff)…

After that I went to the market with Co 3 and we bought lots of food and some clothes. ‘Walking’ around the market makes me realize:

The vietnamese market is not for the faint-hearted !

You can often find market barkers around there ( I just met one who was calling :”Me oi, Me!”, which means something like “Mama mia!” xD). It sounded really passionate *lol*. But also begglars are often around there. Sometimes you see little children, disabled or really old people who are selling lottery tickets.

Some can be very obtrusive but some really make you feel pity for them :/

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When I let my hair cut in the evening I went shopping with Di 3.

We were looking for draperies to tailor me some ‘Bo Do Bo’ (vietnamese typical In-House-Clothing).

Drapery

and even more x__x

Then we went to a special fashion shop to buy me jeans and tops. Because my aunt knows the vendor we were taken to the shop upstairs for the ‘V.I.P.s’ xD

V.I.P. Store (upstairs)

–> Total costs for clothings: ~ 6 millions $VND ö_ö

I looked for the Copic Shop (in Le Thi Rieng Street) but unfortunately it was closed so we visited Ba 5 and after that bought a delicious cold smoothie (Sousop Fruit) ♥

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Tags: copics, Drapery, Le Thi Rieng, Mobifone, Street, Vietnam, Viettel, Vinaphone

Departure

Today was my flight to Vietnam ! ♥

Bremen Airport

Some weird situations which happened to me on the way to VN :

I. 18:05, Bremen, Germany

Woman: *hit me with her luggage accidentally* Oh, I’m so sorry !
Me : Don’t worry. No Problem ^^
Woman : Gehen Sie ruhig durch ! ^^
Me : …öhm.. danke ? ö.ö

She could have just speak German right away but whatever xD

II. 18:35, Bremen, Germany

*indefinable noise and a loud crash*

Pilot: Ladies and gentlemen, the present turbulences may occur more often during this flight [...].

It just sounded like the airplane was going to hit the ground though we were already in the air…

Sky Lufthansa

I love taking photos out of an airplane window ~ <33

III. 20:50, Frankfurt, Germany

Women: *with strange accents and wide-opened eyes**shouting* Jakarta ? Jakarta !!

We: Uhm…no ? xD

While waiting at the airport for the flight to Bangkok…some strange women came towards me and some other waiting passengers. They didn’t seem to notice that we were sitting next to a screen which displayed ‘To Bangkok’…

IV. Made a new Friend

When I was sitting around waiting at Frankfurt APT, I met some other Vietnamese who were a mostly older than me. One was a friendly guy who I lend my mobile because he had no SIM card for Germany. He seemed to be a student from VN.

Another one was a young woman (Chi Sang) who came from South Vietnam, too and is living with her husband in Germany.

We started talking and became friends and fortunately we also had our seats next to each other.

It turned out that she had to fly back to VN because her father died and she told me a lot about her family.

I really hope that she is okay, now. I’m really happy to have had her as my seat neighbour. It made the flight less arduous and we also had some funny moments and a lot to laugh.

Bangkok Airport

Later, we both met many other Vietnamese on board who neither could speak German nor English.
We decided to take them with us because at least I was able to speak German (and English) so that I could ask for the way.
In Bangkok it’s always very difficult to find your gate because the airport is not just big but also confusing with the stairs and doors (!) which leads to another part of the airport.
We nearly got lost if we hadn’t ask.
When we were still sitting on the plane there was an old couple who seemed not to know what to do and where to go on the airport and then decided to just stay on the plane.
When we were down at the airport we feel worried about the ols woman and man so we looked for them on our way.
When we finally found the gate we saw them already sitting in the VIP block because they had travel guides xDD
However, we went over to them just to check out if everything was okay because the old woman was somehow worried.
It turned out that she was looking for her husband but she couldn’t notify that to the guides so I helped her with translating everything into English.
I really had to translate a lot on this flight because all the Vietnamese there weren’t able to understand English but at least I was happy that I could help them and on top of that, luckily I was so used to English with Asian accent so that I could understand the board/airport personal without big problems :’D

Bangkok APT

Meal on Lufthansa

There was a very friendly German stewart on the flight and it was quite funny how he always spoke English with me but German with Chi Sang.

Waited until 22:40 (GTZ+1) in Frankfurt.

The flight from Frankfurt to Bangkok took altogether 9 hors and 55 minutes (a total of 5597 miles).

Extremely exhausting !!

Tags: Airport, Bangkok, Bremen, flughafen, Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh Stadt, Lufthansa, Saigon, Tan Son Nhat

1000th Inbox Mails ! ♥

Wow ! Ö__Ö

Just saw that my inbox hit 1000 mails !

Thanks a lot for all the nice and lovely mails to all my mailpals from all over the world ! ♥

Don’t want to name you all but special thanks to those who write to me regularly ♥

I’m always really happy to read your mails and share thoughts with you x3

Also a big thanks to the one who send me the 1000th mail :  J.Y.

Let’s stay in touch like now and also in future

Peace, love and greetings from Germany to you all ! ♫

Cherry

Tags: 1000, ch3rrymint, Cherry, cherrymint, inbox, mail, mailpal, Thanks

3D Puzzle ! =D

For all of you who are bored  or just looking for a new hobby =D

Here I got something for you xD

It’s…

3D Puzzle ♥

Really enjoyed puzzling this little house and the characters on it are really cute.

There are thousands of different versions with different buildings etc. you don’t have to cut anything but simply pull the soft paperboard shapes out of the given board piece and puzzle it together.

Easy, Fast, Fun ! ♥

why don’t you check it out or build one yourself ? (^-^)v

Unfortunately I don’t know where to buy it in Germany but I guess it might be found somewhere to order on the Internet haha xD

Mine is from Vietnam and I think this time I’m going to buy some more of them if I find them …

Tags: 3d Puzzle, animal, Buildings, characters, Easy, Fast, Fun, House