Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Holydays

It's becoming cold ( less than 20°), the sky is grey, it might rain any day... it's the perfect time for a motobike trip! 

I'm going north with some friends for a week...i'll bring back some photos... will there be any cuties?

Sunday, November 9, 2008

action man & flood photos

I promised more photos of the flooding of Hanoi, here it comes... right after Mr President:

Transportation in the rain

Motobike?

not a good idea

Car? seems better but you risk more money...
Traditional? The safest one?

Consequences

If you are lucky: just dry and change the oil of your motorbike
i just did that ^_^


More serious situation for underground park

Oh shiiiiiiiiiit situation



People can get very wily

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Friday, November 7, 2008

Don't trust' em

Last friday was the birthday of a colleague, we had to celebrate that... let's go to bia hoi!

Conveniently, our boss were not there and the idea to go to some bath & massage place in the countryside popped quickly during lunch. Although, it was raining and the decision was made to go to a classic massage, tam quat, nearby.

When i say classic, i mean in the vietnamese way:


Traditional medicinal vietnamese massage

As you can see it's very tradtionnal but if you prefer boyz it may be possible, samson example (not kinky at all...unfortunately :p).

Actually, i really disliked that because it was obvious it was a place for happy ending as the masseuse acting quite frankly (seating on me in a very direct way, touching everywhere, etc). I was also displeased by colleagues thinking i would enjoy that but... actually they were not surprised i disliked that.I forgot, the masseuse was a girl and not pretty :p.

Conclusion
Vietnamese birthday coworkers parties suck: bad food, (bad) beer, bad massage.

Note
i'm thinking more and more prostitution, maybe "soft" like this or not, is so common in Vietnam because:
  • You see many massage/haircut/tam quat/karaoke om (om means to hold someone like you do as a passenger on a mototaxi: "xe om") places with pink light, frosted glass and opened very late
  • You can see them everywhere (countryside, city center, surbubs, etc)
  • A colleague had his first time there and was ready to bring there too
  • Another colleague go there from now and then
  • I even experienced proposition for this kind of service in a traditional medecine institute which seems perfectly ok before

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Mandatory post



Obama wins... should we have some :

?
... I mean in general for the lgbt community only

As would say SF about:

he looks really "officialy not gay“.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Flood survivor



No school today


A quick post about Hanoi floods: our house survived though we were stuck in the neighbourhood for two days. We went to the supermarket as we were out of food on saturday afternoon... we had water up to the half of the high (and we avoided several deeper area).

Though it was quite an athmospher in the street at that time, people finishingin the lake, walking around to see how is it outside or just drying their motorbike by all means (dish towel, hairdryer, mini "flame thrower"... this one is to dry and clean spark plugs), it was not the case for everyone. I saw pictures of underground car park with car covered of mud and probably totally broken. Moreover i heard that around 20 people died in Hanoi only.

I guess it was safer to stay all the week end home.

The famous submarine mode (with the optionnal ultimate umbrella)


i'll post some more (stolen) photos later.