ThucLam is Better than Nam

Hôm kia con đi đám cưới chị tí với lại nhà con. Nhà Kally và Anh Vinh cũng đi cho nên là vui lắm. Có nhiều đồ ăn ngon. Con, Kally, và Vinh chụp hình đẹp. Ai cũng đẹp lắm và có nhiều người. ThucQuyen cứu ngồi chơi phone thôi tại vì ThucQuyen là buồn quá không có ai chơi. Sao khi đám cưới nhà Kally và Vinh đi qua nhà con rồi nói chuyện chơi tới trễ lắm thì bạn đi về. Con là mệt lắm rồi tóc con rối lắm tại vì con làm tóc nhiều. Rồi con đi ngũ.

on october 20th, 9pm mst, taylor swift released her newest, and her tenth album; midnights.

i was asleep. but when i woke up i immediately and listened to it. i had to listen to all the songs on repeat throughout the whole school day to really formulate my opinion on it. so, here it is.

midnights is taylor swift’s tenth album. big milestone there. before this album, it was red (taylor’s version). red is one of my favorite albums that taylor has released (always assume i’m talking about taylor’s version cause those are always better). and because of this, i was expecting as big of a banger as red.

it was underwhelming, to say the least. it definitely wasn’t her best work, because folklore and lover exist. but i wouldn’t say that it was necessarily bad. i think a lot of the songs in this new album are great and i’ve come to really enjoy a few of them. i was interpreting the lyrics of these songs, and a certain number of them have a very passive aggressive tone which i think wasn’t anticipated. i heard that it’s getting hate online and people are saying that it was a flop. they are wrong. it’s only been out for a little more than 24 hours and i think people need to start really listening to it and understand what she’s saying. cause some of these songs are really good. even so, i wouldn’t say these songs could rival my favorites from her other albums.

i love taylor swift.

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what is up dudes, yesterday i went to a wedding. that morning thucdan, mom, and i went to the bride’s house for the morning ceremony or something, but that was kinda boring since we were just sitting around and watching. there was some food and thucdan and i took some naps after the ceremony. then we went home and got ready for the actual wedding at the reception hall. i wore a strapless green dress and had mom curl my hair for me, then mom asked me to curl her hair. none of us were color coordinated but it didn’t really matter. when we got there, it was this huge white ballroom and there were tables and chairs and flowers hanging from everywhere. i texted kally and vinh to see where they were but neither of them were gonna make ituntil after the actual ceremony, which was fine i guess. after the couple literally got married vinh came and we were just talking and waiting for kally to show up. when kally showed up there was food served and vinh literally went crazy since he was so hungry. after eating a bit we went to go take pictures which actually turned out so good and funny. then we ate a bunch more food and there was boba given out. then we took more pictures with the whole gang and family. then we talked and ate more and kally dragged me onto the dance floor to catch the bouquet. thucdan really wanted to catch it, but she didn’t. then kally and i made vinh go onto the stage for whatever the guys were doing, don’t ask me it was a little confusing. then we were all pooped out and just drove to my house to rest and hang out. we were all laying down in the guest bedroom and just talking and playing games. then kally fell asleep and vinh and i were already super tired so i also fell asleep. then, kally and vinh left around 1am and i brushed my teeth and went to bed. it doesn’t sound like that much fun but it was. 10/10 would recommend going to a wedding with your best friends.

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sometimes i decide to go onto this website and actually read the blogs, and it’s mostly fine. but when i make the mistake of clicking on y vien’s blog i expect to see a hilarious post by some 6 year old who seems to only write for my entertainment, but i end up getting incredibly irritated. her posts lately are slacking, now i know that i post every millennia but at least i don’t put my family members into a ranking (because it’s kinda egotistical and i am a humble servant of god) or make pointless arguments. now, because i’m petty, let me tell you why y vien needs to do a little more research.

first of all, can someone go onto y vien’s laptop and log her out of my disney+ account. this is genuine. when tq went over there i forgot to ask her and now my chance has been blown away. last time i was in florida i just wanted to watch age of ultron and forgot to log out. now i have a bajillion unfinished movies on my continue watching. another note; y vien, why do you only watch the same three movies. endgame, age of ultron, and MoM. that’s it. occasionally wandavision shows up. do you not watch anything else? is that why your marvel knowledge is worse than the average 3 year old’s memory? also, the other day i tried watching age of ultron, and i paused it to watch the next day, and boom. SOMEONE crashed it. it is so annoying to go into my account and see y vien’s circulation of 4 movies a day(THAT SHE DOESNT EVEN FULL WATCH SHE LEAVES IT HALFWAY FINISHED CAUSE HER ATTENTION SPAN IS EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF A GOLDFISH)

you can’t argue that wanda is the strongest avenger if you’ve never watched a single thor movie, or any other movie that doesn’t have wanda in it. of course you think wanda is the strongest avenger if you ONLY watch movies with her in it. also, the captain marvel post was actually hilarious. knee slapping. you should become a comedian y vien. have you watched the captain marvel movie? i doubt you have the attention span for it. and the whole thing about wanda having the power of all the inifinity stones, bullcrap. you cannot be considering that YOUTUBE SHORTS is a reliable source of information. if you actually paid attention to any of the movies you watched, you would realize that wanda doesn’t just have the power of the mind stone, she’s also the scarlet witch. which is a whole different thing from the infinity stones. if she had all the power of the stones, she would probably be the super baddest villain ever, she almost is.

the important thing here is that my disney+ account is for two parties; me and my family(mostly me) and tien. that’s why it’s named “tien and thucs”. having y vien on there messes up my continue watching too much. it irritates me so much. she never even got permission from anyone to use it. i would respect her slightly more if she would finish everything that she watches and or watched ANYTHING ELSE. i am so irritated.

i really want pet snails

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Hôm qua con không có đi ra ngoài, nhưng mà ngày vẫn còn vui. Lúc mà con dậy con làm hai miếng bánh mì và cheese cho con ăn. Con không có làm cho em tại vì em là hôi quá. Con muốn làm bánh crepe nhưng mà con cần whipped cream cho nên con phải chờ cho chị hai về mua cho con. Mẹ làm burger ngon lắm. Sau khi con ăn thì con chơi roblox với em và bạn của con. Chơi roblox vui lắm con muốn chơi lại hôm nay. Rồi con làm cái bánh crepe tại vì ThucDan về mang whipped cream cho con rồi. Mẹ đi chơi ở nhà bạn mẹ cho nên con và em và chị ở nhà một mình, và Connor. Con coi tv rồi đánh răng và đi ngủ lúc mà mẹ về.

first day was mediocre, considering absolutely nothing happened and it was mostly me getting lost and other freshmen trying to survive. i had a decent first three days, i got used to the routine and settled in. and then all the work piled on like crazy and i began to hate every second of it. i have gym last hour, which is the luckiest class since it’s at the end of the day and i won’t have to be sweaty and smelly in the rest of my classes. however, every time i get into mom or thucdan’s car, they HAVE to tell me how much i smell. thanks. i got put into algebra 1, the class i took in seventh grade. i expected to be put into algebra 2 since i already took algebra 1 and geometry in middle school, but my counselor said something about my middle school class credits weren’t eligible for high school since my middle school wasn’t in the same district as my high school. i would’ve taken this as an answer but my friend, in the same situation as i’m in, got put into algebra 2 honors. i would claim this is racism but my friend is south asian so it’s not a very evidence-backed-up claim. so now i’m stuck in algebra 1 for a whole semester until i can test out of geometry and into algebra 2 next semester, i’m wasting time in this dumb class filled with dumb people. my english class is boring but there’s a few entertaining people which is nice i suppose. my production design class might be my favorite cause the teacher is pretty laid back but still fun. but, i have a lot of friends in pe so they might be tied.

anyways, high school is cool.

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Năm nay là năm đầu tiên con lên trung học. Con rất hồi hộp, không biết sẽ như thế nào. Nên tới gần ngày đi học đầu tiên, con cứ nói hoài con sợ lắm, nhưng có vài bạn con quen từ tiểu học cũng học chung trường này nên con bớt sợ một tí. Trường rất lớn, có cả hai sân tennis, một loại thể thao mà rất ít trường có được. Đó cũng là một trong những lý do mẹ chọn trường này vì mẹ muốn con chơi tennis. Mẹ đã mua hai cái váy màu trắng và đen để chuẩn bị cho mùa tennis tháng mười này. Đó cũng là đồ trong cái list của ông coach gửi cho mẹ. Mẹ nói có thể phải mua thêm một cây vợt mới cho con, để con có thể để sẵn trên trường, không phải mang đi mỗi ngày. Tới lúc đó con sẽ rất bận rộn, vì sẽ chơi tennis trong trường ba ngày một tuần, thứ hai, thứ ba, và thứ năm, dĩ nhiên là sau giờ học, vậy là con sẽ về nhà trễ hơn. Còn thứ tư và thứ sáu con vẫn đi học tennis ở trung tâm thể thao ở thành phố Litchfield như bình thường.

we took a two hour bus ride to the train station. and then a two hour train ride to another bus station located in a city in the mountains, really nice by the way. i don’t remember the exact name of the city but it was pretty cool i guess. there were a lot of little shops and restaurants everywhere. there were also a lot of racist restaurant employees which made me want to punch everyone in sight. we had to go into a small motel and drop off all our stuff before getting on the bus up to the ruins. by the way, i wanna know why khoi is so petty about wherever we stay. he’s always complaining about the smallest things, like, yeah all the places were kinda crappy but i can’t blame cau for struggling to find a nice place to stay, on a budget, in a foreign country. every time khoi would complain i wanted to kick him out and make him sleep on the streets. anyways, we had to take a bus all the way up the mountains, where we  would hike a little ways up and see the ruins. another reason why i don’t particularly enjoy traveling with khoi and y vien; they get very motion sick. which, isn’t their fault, i know, but that makes it harder for the kids to actually enjoy what’s happening and just makes it harder for everyone else. yeah sure, pay a lot of money for your kids to go up mountains and fly on planes and ride trains, even if they get motion sick, it’s about the experience right? i think they’ll forever remember peru as the place that made their heads fall off. also, i think thucquyen wasn’t used to the constant changes of transportation and speeds, the bus, then a train, then another bus, and then climbing up the mountain. and she was having a hard time breathing. but yeah, make her scale the mountain for a few pictures. i wasn’t really having any major problems throughout the whole trip but seeing everyone else have so many difficulties, it was hard to enjoy myself. i was barely even looking at the ruins cause i kept hearing khoi and y vien complain about how they wanted to get down. i feel like if we had waited until they were older to bring them along with us on all our trips i would be able to tolerate them more. it’s whatever though, nobody ever listens to me. the ruins were cool though, i wonder how long until a walmart gets built there. i’m joking i’m pretty sure it’s a natural reservation or whatever it’s called. machu picchu experience: 7/10

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cusco! cuzco? emperor’s new groove was kind of iconic. was.

we took a plane from lima to cusco and a van up to the airbnb. when we got off everyone seemed tired and dizzy, especially khoi and y vien. thucquyen and i seemed okay until after we got into the airbnb and we realized that the high altitudes were making us all very dizzy. we all needed to go eat but khoi and y vien were so dizzy that we left them with thucquyen while we went to eat. we found this very small but cute and super good restaurant, very nice. we all got nice food and we’re eating but dad felt really sick so we left early to go take him to the house and lay down. cau ngan had found out the hotel right next to the house was much better quality and bought two rooms. except nobody had the strength to even get up and move to the rooms, so it was me and mom in one room and grandma and ba hong in another room. it was a really nice hotel that also offered oxygen through a tube for anyone who was so dizzy and needed it. which we used to our advantage. i felt fine after a super long shower, and when i went back to the house i saw a bunch of dead bodies. for sure, we would have to get out of here as soon as possible. i honestly didn’t really have anymore headaches or problems after a shower, so maybe everyone’s problem was that they were stinky. i tried telling everyone that the hotel was great but they’d rather suffer there then get and move and then suffer more. maybe it was the house, but our experience of cusco wasn’t very luxurious.

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about a week after staying in cape coral, my family drove to miami, and we flew to lima, peru. with just the five of us, it was actually pretty cool and chill, but i knew that once cau ngan and the rest of his family arrived, it would be a reoccurring nightmare i get every time we travel internationally with him. but the first night was great! just the five of us, we bought a bunch of quail eggs which were really good and we ate a small restaurant aside the road. the airbnb wasn’t that great but i thought it was pretty decent, and i knew khoi and y vien would disagree with me. gladly, i fell asleep by the time they arrived. lima is very cool, there’s a lot of really wide streets with barely any cars, and a small chinatown where we had dim sum. we walked around a lot and even took a metro, which was an experience. a very squishy experience. and then for dinner we ate a vietnamese restaurant. i feel like he always does this. “lets go to a foreign country and then eat food that isn’t originally from that country!” i was dying to eat an empanada. also y vien got really fussy that evening, probably cause we’d been walking around all day. but then i was talking to her about car traffic or something, and then she told me to throw myself into traffic. how exciting. like i said, khoi and y vien did not like the airbnb, they complained about the water temperature, the lights, the wifi, even the windows. i thought it was cozy. thucdan, thucquyen, and i slept on the same bed the last night, but now that cau’s family was here, one of would have to sleep with y vien. i lost the rock paper scissors game, so i had to sleep with that little gremlin.

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