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

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".

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?

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...

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 -_-)

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.

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 !#?@!!

Back from the south

That's it!

I finally fulfilled my dream of going from Hanoi to Saigon by motobike, 2200km!

I saw many beautiful things like landscape, villages... and boyz! Unfortunately, i lost my camera on the way...

And so many more things to say, especially about Saigon but so little time since i came back. Consequently it will be for a little later!

Happy V. day!

I m currently totally lost in nha que land (countryside) and far away from my computer so... no interesting post.

"Also" so far from my dear... so i wish him and all of you a very nice and sweet valentines day...

Planet vietnam

Vietnam is not a country, it's planet!... according to a friend of mine. He's working as an architect and many world used rules don't apply here, why?  Because "this is Vietnam" or T.I.V. and it is the only answer in 99% of times. From my own experience it's very true also.

Another "funny" stuff about Vietnam within the world is that foreigners (probably expatriates only?) are 90% of the time expert in "foreignology". For example, we were talking with my colleagues about Thailand, Laos and Cambodia and i was the one expert even for countries i didn't visited yet! It's like my colleagues (and many friends) have no idea, and no interests, in their neighbouring countries!

In contrary they seemed quite well informed about China but it may be explained by its giant status in Asia and as it is a closer culture to the vietnamese one. I would also add that it's perceived as a major threat to Vietnam as far as i know.

To finish this international concern, i had quite a surprised from a book street vendor. There were several books of Obama in vietnamese... I was miles away to imagine they would be interested by him.

ps: i'm going for two weeks of crazy holydays on motobike, see you... if i come back alive!