AIS bloggers

Kevin has pointed out his ‘Linux Lab’ over at AIS. My ‘Windows Lab’ as I suppose it would be is next door. Here I teach Grades 6-9 about using technology to express themselves creatively (whenever possible).
I started the AIS school blog near the beginning of the year to showcase student blogs which I had them [...]

Talking about traffic : Real Solutions

A while back a gent called Neil Fitzgerald wrote a piece in Thanh Nien called ‘No Through Road’. The piece talked about solutions to HCMC’s increasing traffic problems. I wanted to comment on his thoughts and add a few of my own, by no means written from any area of expertise, just my opinions. Sorry [...]

Another Day

Another day, more unabated madness.
Reporting on Thanh Nien Online, Minh Duc’s quote pretty much sums it up :
“What the @#%&?!” said a foreigner unlucky enough to get stuck in a jam on Nam Ky Khoi Nghai Street in District 1, the city’s main thoroughfare to the airport.
Minh Duc is talking about everyone’s favourite topic, the [...]

Random Pictures

Ok, some randomness here that has been captured on camera.
First up, the yellow Ferrari. Spotted this baby around a few times. Saw an orange Porsche Boxter the other day on highway one.

Next, a bizarre chunk of some part of the city floating down the canal.

This is just plain odd. From Vung Tau.

A quaint little picture [...]

An everyday journey

Here I am reposting something from over a year ago. This piece will be published in an upcoming book called ‘To Vietnam with Love’, from the same people as ‘To Asia With Love‘, due out ‘early summer’ 2008. I am not quite sure of the final edited version that will go to print, but [...]

TFW beaten to it

Expat Advisory is a resource site for expats in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and South Korea (so far). Great site for finding out what’s going on where and when - updated daily.
When I found out that Expat Advisory were running a monthly blog competition worth $100 to the winner, and with my reams of wonderful material [...]

Lacquerware

The entrepreneurial spirit of my wife took us Saturday to Binh Duong, one of the outlying districts of the city to the north-west. The urban density of HCM slowly fades away yet civilization clings grimly to the highway through the heart of what is the production center of the region. Factories with their mysterious hanger [...]

Development - Latest Round Up

As the city continues to demolish and build, changing it’s face literally every month, I’ll attempt to round up the latest developments. Nguyen Thi Minh Khai has suffered recently from the totally absurd story behind the Pacific building. WHAT a joke.
Over in Phu My Hung, things have really gotten crazy. I am talking about the [...]

Helmet Style

With the introduction of the helmet law, what I am about to show you was inevitably going to happen. Helmet fashion gone mad. Not happy with wearing a hat under the helmet, now we have to strap a good old sun visor around it, or a ‘pretty’ bonnet. Here they are, flapping in [...]

New Years Day

Yesterday was spent in county Cu Chi, and it turns out that Grandma lives just a few kms down the road from the main tunnels site. The family (this is Chi’s mum’s side) have a good sized plot of land. Here you can see Grandma’s newly built house and one of Chi’s uncles lives in [...]