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Chim My  //  “But the most significant derivation from the meaning of as ‘water’ is the concept of people who have gathered near a body of water to grow rice for one another, and founding a stable community, sharing rain and drought, plenty and famine, peace and war: from ‘water,’ its basic meaning, has come to designate ‘the homeland, the country, the nation.’ It is in this ultimate acception that the monosyllable nước reverberates throught the deepest and farthest recesses of the Vietnamese collective unconscious and stirs there the most potent feelings. The nation’s fateful course, marked by ups and downs, is figuratively rendered as a ‘tide of water’ (vận nước) with its ebb and flow. The highest virtue demanded of a Vietnamese is that he or she ‘love the nước‘ (yêu nước).” –Huynh Sanh Thong (no relation)

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Jul 11 / 6:02am

My First (of many) tattoos from Saigon Ink

It has begun.

Ever since my Nam tat (which I got in Bangkok for $100), I've been ever so pining for another one. Initially, I wanted to get California on my left leg, but I ran out of money because I spent it all on roti.

Saigon Ink is located at 26 Tran Hung Dao St., D. 1, HCM city. Great service! (Note: not open on Mondays, open from 10-8pm usually). They were very welcoming, accommodating, cheerful. We used Microsoft Word to get the Olde English font I wanted.

This is a quote from a friend's brother. It cost 1.000.000 VND for about 1.5 hours of work.

I wanted to get a stanza of one of my friend's poems (8 lines or so) - and they were charging 2.000.000 VND for that. I'll just wait for San Francisco in that case.


More tats to come as soon as I finish the designs.

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