Another season of Queen’s Crape-myrtle begins at TDTU. The flower season also signals an upcoming rainy season which accompanies the traditional Tet holiday in neighboring countries affected by the Southwest monsoon such as Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. Quite incidentally, this afternoon, while listening to the singing performance of Laotian students in their dormitory during the traditional Tet holiday, I could notice a faint smell of Queen’s Crape-myrtle.

The university yards are always full of flowers all year round in parks A, B, C; Square House, Round House, but the shade of purple from Queen’s Crape-myrtle and Aster hardly blend with other colors. Aster blooms several times a year. Unfortunately, its life cycle is usually short; Queen’s Crape-myrtle blossoms once a year, but flowers last for several months. In a few more weeks, when the first showers of rain start to fall, the color of Queen’s Crape-myrtle will blaze along Road No.5.

Everyone has their own perception of colors, and no one really cares about why one likes white and another one likes red. That’s life. TDTU has deliberately created many colors from various types of flowers over the years, so that lecturers and students can enjoy them all year round. The habit of thinking freely and critically is the basis for science and innovation. Every specific month, mindfulness people at university will recognize the appearance of flowers somewhere, either in one color or another, and feel cheerful that life around them because of its freshness. However, purple is special, perhaps because it recalls memory, or it reminds people of their youth time when a song like “Ngan thu ao tim” or “Hoa trang thoi cai len ao tim” was popular, even though these songs are pretty melancholy. Perception of colors varies from person to person, but it is certain that the color of Queen’s Crape-myrtle stands for romance, as numerous poets and writers wrote about this kind of flowers with all their heart.