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Dear friends,<\/p>\n
Today (Feb 19th) is Cindy’s Birthday! Please wish her a happy birthday by buying a bunch of stuff on our Haptic Industries Store<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It really brings her a lot of joy.\u00c2\u00a0And if you’re curious, yes that birthday cake does say “HPBD (Happy Birthday) ‘Simly<\/strong><\/em>‘ (I guess that is how you write ‘Cindy’ in Vietnam).<\/p>\n Also wish her a happy birthday on Instagram @hapticindustries<\/a><\/p>\n In an attempt to be romantic, I also wrote her this little love poem:<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Honeydew eyes, —<\/p>\n One new thing I’ve been doing is uploading these 1-minute video slideshows to Instagram @erickimphoto<\/a><\/p>\n It has been super fun, pairing music with my images. I recommend you to try it out as well. I just use iMovie, add some music, drag in some images, and then use the ‘Flume<\/a>‘ app on the Mac to upload to Instagram. If you have a PC, you can just use Windows Movie Maker, sync your video on Dropbox or Google Drive, and upload it from your phone.<\/p>\n I don’t know why, but I’ve also been inspired by poetry, reading a lot of Horace<\/a>, and Zen Haiku Poetry (inspired by Basho, thanks to Lyn for the recommendation).<\/p>\n You can read my cheesy poems here:<\/p>\n Today on Cindy’s birthday, we are just enjoying a nice tranquil day at the cafe here in Hanoi. We finished a phenomenal workshop from Hanoi to Sapa, and just moved into a new apartment, which is closer to her new archives (where she does her research for her Ph.D. in Vietnamese History).<\/p>\n Life is beautiful, calm, peaceful, and tranquil. We actually only have 3 months left in Hanoi, and we’re going to try to live it up, and keep you updated.<\/p>\n Remember friend, the point of life is to live well. To enjoy that nice coffee, the love of your loved ones, and the quiet moments.<\/p>\n Here are some new articles I just wrote to hopefully inspire you:<\/p>\n Until next time, Stay updated with my experiences living in Hanoi:<\/p>\n Dear friends, Today (Feb 19th) is Cindy’s Birthday! Please wish her a happy birthday by buying a bunch of stuff on our Haptic Industries Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-kim-photography-hanoi-0007367-2.jpg?fit=3264%2C4928&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"eric](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-kim-photography-hanoi-0007605-800x1208.jpg?resize=800%2C1208\")
<\/p>\nHoneydew Eyes<\/h2>\n
\nI follow you
\nInto the depths of the turqoise-blue.<\/em><\/p>\nInstagram Video Slideshows<\/h2>\n
Poetry<\/h2>\n
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Tranquil Cafe Day<\/h2>\n
Enjoy your life<\/h2>\n
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\nEric<\/p>\nHanoi Diaries<\/h2>\n
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