Today when I heard this song about Saigon ( Hochiminh city ), my tears went out and could not hold my feelings about the memories of Saigon.
Saigon is a really young city. One time you were born in Saigon, you will never forget the love for it.
" Have you still remembered or forgotten?
Saigon, the city of sunny and rainny together,
The night lights wait for you in your sleepings
And the mornings say hello with you by the green leaves.
Have you still remembered or forgotten ?
The full of streets, noisy and busy
The sleepless nights of the poor people
The sounds of the rains in a sunny day.
That is the Saigon, you love.
Although you have gone away,
The city will never forget you
Always waits for its children come back
Have you still remembered or forgotten ?
Because the streets remember your foots
In every ways.
Two seasons come and leave,
Only the streets hear the rains and sun....."
I moved to Hanoi 9 years old ago. In the 3 years, every nights in my dreams was the sound and image of Saigon. I cried and thought that I could never return the city I love. If somebody says Hanoi is as charming as a princess, but with me Saigon is more than that. Saigon is the mixing of old and new. It has the old feelings in its breathe and its own dynamic .
Saigoners can proud of the city because 300 years ago, the first people came this land, all were poor people, the people that old country left and forgot them. They were prisoners, workers, farmers, poorers...and the first thing they saw that this land were deep in sea and water. All their doing were made a land that could live a normal live. And after 300 years, 2 wars with French and American, Vietnamese has a city in dream.
And until now, I am still proud of being a Saigoner.
