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VIETNAM | Friday, 3 Apr 2009 | Views [1879] | Comments [4]
Vietnam is readjusting to an influx of foreigners. In 2007 the country saw 3.6 million overseas visitors enter the country, a 3.7% increase on the previous year. And with scores of English teachers and businessmen relocating here every year, these ... Read more >
Tags: ho chi minh city, immigration, nigerians, saigon, vietnam, visa
VIETNAM | Sunday, 1 Mar 2009 | Views [673]
Vietnam, that aching wound of a country, saps in the rot and
garbage from elsewhere. Here those very things that outgrew their novelty back
home live on in a second life of endearment and idolization. It’s like an early
90s school disco you’re ... Read more >
Tags: annoying, backstreet boys, boyzone, cotton eye joe, irritation, phlegm, vietnam
VIETNAM | Sunday, 4 Jan 2009 | Views [709]
Nothing raises more jubilation than a hard fought victory.
The conservative attitudes of the Vietnamese nation were thrown out the window
last night following their dramatic victory over Thailand in the AFF Suzuki Cup.
What followed were scenes ... Read more >
Tags: crazy, football, sport, suzuki cup, thailand, victory, vietnam
VIETNAM | Thursday, 11 Dec 2008 | Views [840] | Comments [1]
Yes, I think they do. But do you know it’s also Christmas
time here in South East Asia, a largely non-Christian region? It’s bloody hot,
sweaty and sunny. No snow falls here, and the only Father Christmas I have seen
is very thin and ... Read more >
Tags: christmas, saigon, santa, vietnam
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 9 Dec 2008 | Views [922] | Comments [2]
There is a trend in Vietnam. Largely followed to a tee by
the nation’s hordes of young bike owning women. The trend in question? Covering
up.
Vietnamese girls seem to go to extreme lengths to escape Mr
Evil UV Ray. Hats, scarves, gloves ... Read more >
Tags: caucasian, gender, patriarchy, roles, saigon, vietnam, white
VIETNAM | Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Views [740] | Comments [1]
Take the test now! 1. You
want to hire a motorbike. You look around and scout out your options. Do you…
a) Rent
a lowly old manual from your local bia hoi?
b) Rent
a more upscale tidy automatic ... Read more >
Tags: honda, motorbike, saigon, vietnam, xe-om
VIETNAM | Saturday, 6 Dec 2008 | Views [614]
Don’t petrol bomb us. We’ve moved and doesn’t out guesthouse
hate it? Every bloody day I get a call telling me I have outstanding payments. What
cheek! They raised my rent each week without telling me. Some Vietnamese are
slimy bastards I’ll ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, house, saigon, vietnam
VIETNAM | Friday, 5 Dec 2008 | Views [887]
Everywhere I go in Vietnam there is usually some person doing some strange gyrating. A quick swivel of the hips, a stolen moment lunging, some prostrating at irregular angles, it all happens sporadically and potentially anywhere. Spend a moment walking ... Read more >
Tags: aerobics, fitness, pool, saigon, vietnam
VIETNAM | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Views [1254]
I’m a little xe-om driver short and stout, I drive on two
wheels, with my jacket inside out… My name is Phuc, which is hilarious to most
of my customers. I come from a long line
of motorbike taxi drivers, my uncle drove the first Honda to ever ... Read more >
Tags: driving, motorbike, saigon, vietnam, xe-om
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 26 Nov 2008 | Views [615]
Teaching, travelling and living. Not a bad way to see the
world eh? In the meantime however, one has to put up with sudden pangs of
horror. “Oh Christ, I’m actually a teacher and therefore expected…” Whilst row
upon row of young eyes bear into me, ... Read more >
Tags: abroad, celta, efl, english, teaching, tefl, tesol, vietnam
VIETNAM | Thursday, 6 Nov 2008 | Views [554]
Don’t drink in Saigon. It’s cheap and tempting I know. I
agree it’s alluring to sit on those flimsy little plastic chairs with your
rotund backside nicely nestled at your local bia hoi, however stand up and the
chair is still surprisingly stuck ... Read more >
Tags: bia hoi, drinking, drunk, vietnam
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Views [587]
You hear about gangsta rappers banging on about “life on the
streets”. It’s the same ones who cruise around in their flashy cars, eat at
gourmet restaurants and incessantly upgrade their latest home entertainment
systems. Well, in Vietnam ... Read more >
Tags: bia hoi, noise, saigon, streets, vietnam, xe-om
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Views [1148] | Comments [1]
Writing postcards is bloody difficult. “Hmm, let’s see, must
write six weeks of experience in six sentences”. Will the erstwhile recipient
even care?
In Saigon posting them is like a top secret government
mission. First you have to haggle ... Read more >
Tags: ho chi minh post office, postcards, saigon, stamps, vietnam
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 4 Nov 2008 | Views [552]
Saigon is both ghastly and a wonderment. Motor horns pepper
all hours of the day, fruit markets remain endless and its residents never tire
of staring at that new foreign face. Life in a Goldfish bowl. One can, however,
forgive its ... Read more >
Tags: district 1, district 7, saigon, vietnam
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