my cousin posing in a street of Reservoir, Victoria
We wandered around the neighborhood in hope of finding a nice park but the green space in Google map turned out to be just a 'reserve' land. So boring!
A street in one of Reservoir neighborhoods.
The typology is stable: all are 1-storey detached houses with similar front garden and almost-the-same architectural style. I paid attention to the gardening work of each houses which reveal partially about lifestyles of the owners.
me and the guyz in a graffiti allley in Melbourne CBD. This alley is perpendicular to Bourke St.
behind these 9X guys was Quach Thi Trang roundabout.
After dinner, we caught a taxi intending to get into the city center. The taxi driver refused to take us to where exactly wanted to go for traffic jam. He was right. If he had taken us by the usual route, he would have slept in his car, stuck among the huge crowd of people and motorbikes. Therefore, we arrived at the back of Ben Thanh market and walked to the city core where people were sharing their Xmas celebration.
After traversing the crowd of Saigonese citizens, tourists and hyper-young guys disturbingly spraying artificial snow on passerbys, my friends took me to Sheraton Saigon Hotel and Towers' 23th floor where NightSpot located. It was a really exciting place, much more interesting than those where fashionable guys come to show off. Prices there are really expensive but worth-paying for their excellent and sociable performers, elegant but friendly ambient and spectacular views down to the city below. There was also a more peaceful cafe' rich of outdoor breeze next to NightSpot that I promised to myself I would visit next time.
The dance floor from our seats.
We joined the crazy dancing several times during their 3 sessions. Unforgettable!
We then went to Pho 99 on Nguyen Trai street and got home at about 2:00 p.m. Not drunk at all. So the next morning was fine with no headache but a late wake-up.
credit: photos by Felix Nguyen (with his so-well Sony NEX-5n)
well, tomorrow is 24th, and I won't have time to blog. So I wish you, anyone who visits this boring blog before the magical night, a merry merry merry merry Christmas !
Here I have some stuffs to share with you as Christmas gift, hope you like'em :
First, this is a rock coverage version of " Last Christmas" from my friend's band - KOP. I think they really did a good job. This band is emerging and debutting their songs online.
Thank you KOP for sending me this song before sharing in any website!
Now, a tutorial for anyone who wanna design a 2011 calendar with Adobe softwares:
Finally, after riding my bike to the city center to buy a tripod, an X'mas gift to myself, I realize this year the city center's urbanscape changed a lot since Eden Mall was under demolition. As always, the streets became extremely crowded even though it was not really X'mas yet. Well, so in love with how this special event changes cities landscape. I won't join the crowd tomorrow but I won't be hurry cuz I and my Mom is joining it on the last night of 2010.
And here are some photos from recent years ( that I googled) New York
Chicago
Singapore
Hong Kong
Melbourne
This corner looks similar to the corner of Eden Mall and Continental Hotel, shot from the city theatre. Sydney
Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City
such a huge crowd ! It's my hometown !
Photography: Quoc Huy Make-up: Ha My Stylist: Le Thanh Hoa Art-Director and Graphic Designer: Duong.H.Nguyen (R-kudo) Concept by Duong.H.Nguyen ----------------
(This set of images was published on Doanh Nhan Cuoi Tuan magazine, 06th Jan 2010)
