I had just got up to shoo a gecko further up the wall toward the ceiling ( Read more... )

Woke up to a text message from Mme Chau inviting Trash and I to go to Da Lat with her for the weekend.

Dammit. We would have jumped at the chance, but we're both at work on the weekends, and I need one week's notice before asking for time for a holiday.

Damn.
Instead, tonight we enjoyed some of the local fauna ( Read more... )

I feel very sorry for the tourist photographers here in HCM City. These are the guys who have rather nice, albeit old, cameras who loiter around tourist spots ready to take pictures of you at same. All day now, they just sit and wait* and watch the tourists gaily snap each other with digital cameras. There used to be three guys who hung out at the ( Read more... )

Hah!

I bet none of you had to ride to work dodging little people dressed in red vests and tams handing out flyers while they darted around in the middle of the street like moving traffic cones!

You can feel it building. Three days with little to no rain, a sprinkle here and there only, and the pressure builds. It's not hot or muggy, but the air forces you to work against it in any direction you try to go. It's like the sky is holding its breath ( Read more... )

A shocking picture for all y'all who thought you'd never see me doing something ( like this! )

So there were these big blue banner signs up all round our street and some surrounding streets the past few weeks. Since I can't read Vietnamese, I didn't pay them much mind ( Read more... )

Johnny Trash would like all of you to visit Viet Nam, especially if you'd like to see traditional Vietnamese fan dancing.

( I TOLD you they were mad for PINK )

My dear friend Ðiẹp had her baby this past weekend. The baby was due on my birthday, 12 July, but the pregnancy has been high risk all along with Ðiẹp on bedrest and in the end, the doctor induced on Friday night.

( I got to see them in the hospital this morning. )

A lot of modern art just makes me say, ( WTF? )