Comments on: Saigon: Viet-namese New Year – TET 2009 – (Part 8) http://saigonkidsamericancommunityschool.com/saigon-viet-namese-new-year-tet-2009-part-8 Saigon Kids and Alumni of American Community School Saigon (1955 - 1975) - Kind Words Go A Long Way Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Admin http://saigonkidsamericancommunityschool.com/saigon-viet-namese-new-year-tet-2009-part-8/comment-page-1#comment-1489 Admin Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:45:37 +0000 http://saigonkidsamericancommunityschool.com/?p=732#comment-1489 Mimi ... thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed these. Several times while posting them I thought of your sweet mother, and her wonderful daughter, as well as, all the Viet-namese and French/Viet-namese Saigon Kids. Such beautiful memories of times I was blessed to share with some of the most wonderful people I've ever had the honor of knowing in my life. Please give your mother a hug for me and happy new year wishes; and, let her know that her kindness is still remembered after all these years ... and thank her for blessing the world with such a wonderful daughter ... :) Yes, maybe we should tape our stories ... of course there are some, many would never want their kids to know about ... LOL ... :) Have a wonderful day! Bob Mimi … thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed these. Several times while posting them I thought of your sweet mother, and her wonderful daughter, as well as, all the Viet-namese and French/Viet-namese Saigon Kids. Such beautiful memories of times I was blessed to share with some of the most wonderful people I’ve ever had the honor of knowing in my life. Please give your mother a hug for me and happy new year wishes; and, let her know that her kindness is still remembered after all these years … and thank her for blessing the world with such a wonderful daughter … :)

Yes, maybe we should tape our stories … of course there are some, many would never want their kids to know about … LOL … :)

Have a wonderful day!

Bob

]]> By: mimi http://saigonkidsamericancommunityschool.com/saigon-viet-namese-new-year-tet-2009-part-8/comment-page-1#comment-1488 mimi Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:20:17 +0000 http://saigonkidsamericancommunityschool.com/?p=732#comment-1488 It's quite a trip back in time to read these finely chosen pieces on the celebration of Têt. Thanks Bob, that was a very sweet( and instructive) initiative! I had forgotten some of it, I even learned many things I did not know. Back in Saigon, we celebrated Tet in the short version-in fact christmas and New Year were the big thing- but my mother often told me how it was when she was a kid in Hanoi, how her grand-mother( who was a devout buddhist) would go through all the customs and rituals and how fascinated she(my mother) was by all the small scale replicas of furnitures, clothes, toys etc which were burned for the dead. I always wanted to tape my mother's stories, and never did...now it's too late- Too bad! May be we should start taping our own stories for our kids, stories of our glorious youth, before we forget..lol Big hugs to all. Mimi It’s quite a trip back in time to read these finely chosen pieces on the celebration of Têt. Thanks Bob, that was a very sweet( and instructive) initiative! I had forgotten some of it, I even learned many things I did not know.
Back in Saigon, we celebrated Tet in the short version-in fact christmas and New Year were the big thing- but my mother often told me how it was when she was a kid in Hanoi, how her grand-mother( who was a devout buddhist) would go through all the customs and rituals and how fascinated she(my mother) was by all the small scale replicas of furnitures, clothes, toys etc which were burned for the dead.

I always wanted to tape my mother’s stories, and never did…now it’s too late- Too bad!
May be we should start taping our own stories for our kids, stories of our glorious youth, before we forget..lol

Big hugs to all. Mimi

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