Nắng & Gió

 It sounds like a funny title but very true. A lazy cozy Friday that I have a day off, after browsing, listening, yawning... to enjoy the warm blanket, i finally slowly got up. It was also because of Nam thoi who crawling into the bedroom because he wanted me to play with him :). Weather was a bit like beginning of winter in Hanoi, a bit cloudy, yet dry, and chill. Suddenly i craved for some tea. I boiled the water and started searching for ingredient for my tea pot. Realized i have many things for a good tea. Found the dry longan I got from Vietnam a while ago, some Goji (Kì tử), hibiscus, ginger, lime, dried tea leaves, cut some fresh mint from the garden, Everything was put inside the pot and I poured hot water in. It felt like a witch mixing ingredients for casting a spell :)  Thats my teapot, with the Dalia (hoa thuoc duoc) flowers also just cut from garden.  I'm now drinking my amazing tea, admiring my flower garden (its been a successful year with planting flowers)...

I have a museum card (In NL, buying museum card (60e) is like buying a year museum subscription that you could go to most of the Netherlands museums, which generally cost from 10 to 25e/museum. I just bought it just before covid-19 started and could go to one/two museums only. So before its expired, and with 2 friends invitation for museums, on the Saturday end of July, we went to Denhaag for a museum trip.  I had visited these museums several years ago already, still this time I was excited. We aimed for Maurithuis and Mesdag, but on the website the ticket for Maurithuis was already sold out.  This picture is a piece of an amazing panorama painting of Mesdag in Mesdag museum. It felt like you are visiting a real beach because of its giant size >100x10 circular Coming back to Maurithuis around 4.30pm and we got jackpot, theres available space, so jumped right in. I've been there before but this time felt still almost new. We had so much fun taking mimicking pictures infront...