lovers of today

I spend Christmas Day miserable, drifting in and out of sleep, sick as a dog. I’m alternating between a truly nasty Chinese cold cure Nim Jiom - which contains wolf and snake balls, Beechman’s Hot Lemon, and Advil. I will kick this damn travel cold, and the sauna that is Vietnam should help me sweat it out.

Nim Jiom claims to “expunge external evils.” But what about my internal evils? This concerns me. I don’t think I can get anything over the counter for that. I think I’m left to my own devices to cure those.

Today we will hit up Jolly-Bee to share a Pinoy burger with pineapple, and then walk to get sum dim sum. In the evening we fly to Vietnam, where we’ll meet my mom. I convinced her to come about 2 weeks ago so I wonder how she’s doing. She’s driving us to the village where she grew up, so I’m not sure how connected I’ll be to the internetz until about the 29th. Pretty sure I’ll be sleeping on a straw mat on the floor or in a hammock tonight.

I’m not sure how much interview footage I’m going to get through with her about her experience leaving Saigon when VN fell in 1975, but I’ll try. I stuck some duct tape on my (borrowed) camera to make me look even more touristy.

Oh, the unretouched photos are now up from the first leg of the trip in HK. I truly love it here and I’m already excited to come back. If I move, I have to meet some cool friends. I only saw one expat hipster in a coffee shop, but he could have been just a white guy in a plaid shirt with a beard.

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