January 2012
13 posts
Who knew that going to see temples really meant...
… and in case you were wondering, my palm read that:
I will live a long life,
I will marry a Vietnamese man
I will have beautiful Vietnamese children
I will continue to travel, and no matter where I go, or how I go, I will have safe travels
Oh. And I have a beautiful, straight, smile and look beautiful, like I am from Thailand.
After nine days away in hot, sunny Thailand, I have returned to the bleak and cold Hanoi. Admittedly, my arrival in Hanoi was less than desirable - it was cold, raining, and, due to the influx of people coming back to Hanoi, expensive to come into the city from the airport. It didn’t matter how many times I said oi gioi oi, dat the, or cut di, there was no getting the price of a taxi down.
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brb, elephants and beaches
To Hanoi expats, or at least the expats that need to set up their own housing, finding the ‘perfect apartment’ is incredibly elusive. Whether it’s finding the perfect location, size, or housemate, the entire process is quite exhausting. Since Vietnam also uses the double-taxation system for foreigners or khoai tay, finding a nice, comfortable apartment suitable for a...
This past weekend, I went to Siem Reap for two days and Luang Prabang for two days. Although flying from country-to-country is absolutely obscene, I can’t help but love getting only snippets into countries, largely because it gives me some idea of if I want to go back, and if I go back who the best travel partner (if any) would be, and what my idealistic itinerary will be.
Although Siem...
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I was never one to take well to my worlds colliding. Whether it was a friend being introduced to a new group, introducing someone I was dating, or welcoming someone into part of my world that they had otherwise never been introduced to before - it’s always been something that I’ve taken with caution.
However, it’s also the inevitable. As well as I have become at hiding certain...
The holidays are always a time of chaos for me. While others go Christmas shopping and have family dinners, I do the immediate switch from exams to working full time, and then as soon as Christmas hits, overtime.
The constant stream of work surrounding Christmas was nothing new to me, although this year my bank account saw no benefits to the hours of time spent between both jobs this year.
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jocelin on: "The Chinese steal H'mongs!" →
jocelin-on:
Due to my ignorance of Vietnamese holidays and lack of recent blog posts, I have decided to talk about a current issue among the minority villages in Vietnam.
A few weeks ago while I was travelling around Sa Pa, I asked one H’mong about the relationship between the Vietnamese and H’mong….
