A heart-shaped CD.

Hoai Nam, from the HCM City University of Technology, said that heart-shaped CDs containing good pictures of boyfriends or girlfriends and songs that they like is now a favourite gift to show laffection.

“I produced a CD as the birthday gift to my girlfriend. The CD contains a song that both of us love, a clip with my wishes to her and our pictures. There is nothing better than a CD made by yourself to your girlfriends, which have the pictures of both. Without real love, you can’t make such gifts,” Nam said.

Nam’s friends know about this special gift and asked him to help them make similar CDs.

Hoai Thu, a schoolgirl at an international school in District 7, presented a CD which has a clip in which Thu plays piano and makes wishes to her boyfriend, who went to Switzerland to study. The CD cover has a red rose.

“My boyfriend likes this gift very much. He often watches the CD. Our love seems to not change though we don’t see each other for a long time,” Thu said.

A “tree of love”.

Some teens present their lovers or friends flower pots or bonsais in special shapes.

“We think about each other whenever we see the flower pots. When you spend some time to take care of the pots, it means that you are missing the other. We believe that if our trees grow well, our love will be beautiful,” said Ha Anh, a schoolgirl from HCM City’s Mac Dinh Chi high school.

Ngoc Anh, a student from the HCM City Law University, boasted about her bonsai, which has the name of her boyfriend on the trunk. “I’ve kept this tree for over one year. The name of my boyfriend on the trunk was small when he carved it on the tree. It is now bigger along with the development of the tree,” she said.

However, some girls are naively made their boyfriends CDs containing their sexy pictures. When they said goodbye to each other, some boys posted these pictures on the Internet.

In an online forum for teenage, the photos of two young girls who tattooed the names of their boyfriends on their chests surprised many people who protested this way of showing love.

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