Goodbye, September
Crap, now I'm feeling pressure to even blog once a month. It's about 11 p.m. on the last day of September and, predictably, it's been a month since I wrote anything here.
Today (tonight) was Tet Trung Thu, or the Mid-Autumn (or Moon) Festival. This holiday has been described as the Vietnamese Halloween, which isn't quite accurate but I suppose it's close enough. It's a children's holiday, really, revolving around dressing up and harassing people and eating stuff that makes you feel gross.
I spent the evening at Dam Sen Park, which I believe I have probably written about before. It's the Vietnamese version of Disneyland, but even for Vietnam it's decided downscale and cheezy. But fun! They now sell "package" tickets at the entrance that get you in the gate, and also let you go on "all the rides." (Except for the ones marked "Not included in package ticket" once you get into the gate, which is about 20% of them.) I rode the ferris wheel (paid extra), went on a log-flume ride that got me drenched, rode a pedal boat across the lake, went on two separate bumper cars, walked through a very easy house of mirrors, rode the monorail, watched an extremely cheezy "Main Street Electrical Plus Power Rangers" knockoff parade, and ate fried fish balls. Pretty good holiday, if I do say so myself.
Not much else going on here. Baseball season is almost over, and I've been paying close attention to that (Tigers, A's, and fantasy). College football season started with a bang but has quickly become uninteresting. I'll watch the MSU-Michigan game but probably won't bother with waking up early/staying up late for anything else this year.
Work has been very busy for a few weeks, but both of the bosses are in America this week so I'm looking forward to some 9-to-5 days.
I wish I had more to say but I kinda just wanna go to bed. Hello, October!
Today (tonight) was Tet Trung Thu, or the Mid-Autumn (or Moon) Festival. This holiday has been described as the Vietnamese Halloween, which isn't quite accurate but I suppose it's close enough. It's a children's holiday, really, revolving around dressing up and harassing people and eating stuff that makes you feel gross.
I spent the evening at Dam Sen Park, which I believe I have probably written about before. It's the Vietnamese version of Disneyland, but even for Vietnam it's decided downscale and cheezy. But fun! They now sell "package" tickets at the entrance that get you in the gate, and also let you go on "all the rides." (Except for the ones marked "Not included in package ticket" once you get into the gate, which is about 20% of them.) I rode the ferris wheel (paid extra), went on a log-flume ride that got me drenched, rode a pedal boat across the lake, went on two separate bumper cars, walked through a very easy house of mirrors, rode the monorail, watched an extremely cheezy "Main Street Electrical Plus Power Rangers" knockoff parade, and ate fried fish balls. Pretty good holiday, if I do say so myself.
Not much else going on here. Baseball season is almost over, and I've been paying close attention to that (Tigers, A's, and fantasy). College football season started with a bang but has quickly become uninteresting. I'll watch the MSU-Michigan game but probably won't bother with waking up early/staying up late for anything else this year.
Work has been very busy for a few weeks, but both of the bosses are in America this week so I'm looking forward to some 9-to-5 days.
I wish I had more to say but I kinda just wanna go to bed. Hello, October!