Tet Xuan! Or Happy New Year

Cau Chuyen Dau Nam
Nhu Quynh
*My favorite Tet song*

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Cau Chuyen Dau Nam

The weekend was a blast! Spontaneously last Friday night I beamed up Alex with a short and to the point IM: "hey-new year IU-free food!" But all I got back was: "I'm away from the computer right now..." haha I was talking to his away message. He called and then we were on the open road. We really didn't know why we decided to proceed with the trip...maybe it was a calling for a FREE Chinese dinner that sibo mentioned to me several days back and the expectation of seeing something culturally interesting.

Our expectations for this IU trip:

To see sibo do his yo-yo performance or aleast witness the modern day chinese torture test, sibo jumping in and out in between two giant rods or get his foot smashed to pieces! MUAH!
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We brought along our umbrellas because the forecast predicted rain in the Bloomington area. The trip to IU was fairly calm and nothing out of the ordinary happened. But however, ordinary turned extraordinary when we hit the IU campus, as if Jimmy Hendrix sudden shot us with some of his funkyfied random coolness! We saw rows after rows of empty parking lots calling out our names (the parking lots were close to where the event was taking place). I didn't know what to think. Alex suggested we ought not to give in since we didn't have a parking permit in the multiple 24hr tow zones. It was not until 15mins and what seemed like 50 blocks later, did we find a public parking spot.

We walked the narrow sidewalks and Jay-walked across the streets and finally arrived at IU auditorium. "Golly Secret-Asian-Man-Phuc this seems like a really formal event. What shall we do?" inquired Alex. "CountryBoy-2-Rapper Alex, don't worry we'll act like we're from IU and stay cool! Lets give sibo a call." "Good idea," replied Alex. We called sibo again and again, but Bei Jing-Kaoya-Sibo did not pick up his mobile phone. Secret -Asian-Man-Phuc, "he 's prolly inside changing his costumes, greasing his yo-yo strings, you know getting ready for the show."
CountryBoy-2-Rapper Alex, "fsho"

Alex and I proceeded to the registar table and signed in. We lined up to get food. The line got shorter and shorter, and from the corner of our eyes we caught a very familiar image.....it was sibo. "Sibo! good to see! we called so many times" "So sibo what will you be performing on stage?" "hm....I'm not performing." You're WHAT?! what/!??! what are you doing?!?....You're part of the trash surveillance team!? HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! After that ordeal, alex and i found an empty spot and enjoyed our delicous dinner from Chow Bar Restuarant. Indeed excellent. Almost made the trip well worth it.

Lets skip to the performance...Alright lets just say Alex, Sibo, and I didn't understand a thing. This is not because we couldn't understand english...but simply the ENTIRE show was entirely in Chinese! WHAT?! How the heck am I suppose to get any of the jokes. Although I do recall saying, "hey sibo is that your teacher singing? she's 'hen piaoliang.'" (very pretty). haha

Let me break it down to you, after the performance the general thoughts were, "what just happened?", "I don't get it." , "hey sibo your teacher is hen piaoliang!" haha

We headed to Nothing Noodles where alex and I were introduced to Connie, Casie (sp), Lisa, and Andrew. We all went to Andrew's place to make Bubble Tea and played teamed Turbo Cranium. Fun times! Ack this is a long post already. Let me just stop here then. But before I go:
Happy New Year! Be sure to listen to my favorite tet song above :-)