when one asks the kitchen to cook sweet soup for the colleagues, it signifies that the end has come. that person has resigned from the company & as a final act of goodwill to all, he/she will feed everyone sweet soup.
i'm not sure if this is a viet tradition but it is in our company. for my 1.7years stay here, i have had more than my share of sweet soup partings. now the time has come that the colleague i'm closest to the most has said bye bye.
her name's hoai hiep tran. she's the 1st viet colleague i've really talked to. i remember when she was transferred from accounting to my office. other colleagues would laugh at her bec she got stuck with a foreigner. sure it was awkward at 1st but gradually, we became real friends sharing boy troubles, in law & baby problems (her case), office gossip, & all else under the sun.
her dream was to become a chief accountant of a company. after waiting for 6 years, she finally got her break! just when she was offered that position, she got into another position which would prove to be more important than anything else. she had little bao nam.
as any mother would do, she let go of her dream to unselfishly take care of her little angel.
as she would quip, "my baby will only be a baby once." so to her, CHEERS! as the viets would say, "goodluck-y to you & your family!" and may there be a time when our paths would cross again!
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