Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sex training in Da Nang

Sex education in Vietnam?

It seems it finally happened! Even more it is a "Sex Training Tour" according to this article. Extract:
"Young people in Da Nang, Vietnam are enthusiastically taking a Sex Training Tour jointly organized by the Da Nang Youth Union and the Viet Da Tourism JS Company to learn about sex from health workers and consultants." 

How can they be not enthusiastic? Anyway what follows is more interesting:
"Unlike other tours, the sex training tour that began in mid-March at the Cham Museum in Da Nang is based on the Cham culture’s worshipping of sex organs and imparts sex education to youth through the precepts of the Cham culture."

I always knew Cham people were much nicer person than Kinh...too bad they lost the war against them.


Cham towers

Monday, March 30, 2009

A country i love to hate


I came accross a blog entry a while ago. The subject is not really genuine but i have to say that i agree on many points on the subject: "reasons to hate Vietnam", like:

  • Dual pricing
  • Noise
  • Vietnamese language
  • Traffic
  • Architecture
  • ...
My top 5 vietnam hate list would be:
  • Foreigner scamming: even when you speak vietnamese they try to scam (huge price or else)...though sometimes you have no choice and get scammed knowing it...
  • Road stupidity: while driving people often don't bother to look at where they go  even when they are changing directions, same goes for walking (crossing big avenues).
  • Noise: everything is so loud, karaoke, food stall, car horn, mobile phone (in cinema).
  • Food: so overrated, at least the north one.
  • Weather: so hot for 6 months, so cold a few weeks in winter and always so humide.
  • ... and let's forget: quite narrow minded on homosexuality but not only (get married by 25, make baby within 1 year, treat like shit people socially low, etc) and it also seems to bother some of my friends (mainly the south vn ones).
I globally agree with the author though i think i am more accustom to the country. I would also conclude with his word: "a country i love to hate".

Friday, March 27, 2009

Vang Trang Khoc (the moon cries)

Vang Trang Khoc (Nhat Tinh Anh & Khanh Ngoc)

One my favourite songs though according to my boyfriend it's very teenage oriented...

Vietnamese lyrics can be found here and the google-translated. If you prefer you have a subtitled video there (infamous visuals but nicer audio).


How do i know this one?

Because i'm getting karaoke crazy! (The karaoke version i'm so used to). As my friends and newsly arrived colleagues don't understand that i can guess many of you don't neither thus i should make a post about it.... soon?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Gay cruise anyone?

 According to Fridae, the first gay cruise in Asia will take place on the 28 March. It interrogates me on several aspects.

First, are countries such as China, Vietnam and especially Singapore "happy" to receive such guests? It's no secrete that many asian countries have no homosexuals or just prosecute them if found.
Second, i'm still prudish (no sauna... yet >.<)  but i can guess that such a cruise would a huge and long  group sex party, isn't it? (Anyway i don't see the point of cruises)

Third,  omfg... it's 2 weeks without a post and you know the less you post the less you feel like that's why i post that though there was a lot of interesting news topics to discuss...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Helmet?



The 15/12/07 it became mandatory to wear a helmet while driving a motorbike... I was surprised but the police was efficient to enforce this (probably a good way to write some "nice fines"?).

Although it may not be efficient enough thus some truth pictures might be of some help?

If you really want to see some more...really 'trash' pictures!


(yeah i fucked up again with the layout -_-)

Monday, March 9, 2009

MSM asia survey



MSMSexSurvey is a survey about gay men (though they ask what sex we are first O.O )in Asia. I decided to answer it as i would be very interested to know the result of such a survey thus i enjoin to take some time to do it (if you live in Asia). You have until the 30 of April to do so.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Aesthetic?

A not so overcharged website...
(you may notice the flash blocker i installed when i arrived in Vietnam)

Why vietnamese (and maybe asian in general) website have to be overcharged using Flash, javascript, etc, ?
It particularly does not make any sense as in Vietnam (at least Hanoi...), the internet connections are so crappy !#?@!!