My three trusted suitcases -- all ready to go for a great adventure in Saigon
The suitcases have been packed. The furniture have been sold – washing machine, bed mattress, bamboo lounge sofa, etc. After more than a week of advertising my stuff in those furniture wanted ads, I can say I just acquired a new skill over the TET holidays – selling and delivering 2nd hand furniture to buyers. With my pitiful smattering of Vietnamese words, I managed to make my neighbor, who owns a motorbike, understand that I need some help delivering the goods – during a period when all delivery trucks are so busy delivering lucky orange trees to every soul in Hanoi!
It’s rather a lonely sight when you see your flat of more than six months look so empty – but clean for a change! I wonder how I accumulated so much stuff like clothes, books, documents, even shoes over the years. After the nth time of moving, seeing my clothes and shoes packed in suitcases and carton boxes made me swear off buying more MNG, Zara and GAP clothes for the next few years. But then – I might change my mind . . .
Goodbye picturesque Truch Bach lake! It was great sitting beside your placid waters on many afternoons, looking at the playful sunlight on your waters. Goodbye West Lake! It was great to see your sunsets and better views when the government banned the operations of every floating restaurant moored at your shores.
Goodbye long dreamy walks along Tran Vu road skirting the periphery of Truch Bach Lake, amidst cold January days that threatened to give me frostbite and stripped the skin off my feet!
Farewell my dear Hanoi! I intend to visit and maybe live in your quaint streets again.
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