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Sometimes it's nice to have (female) friend totally addicted to korean (so-called) singers. So you can enjoy photos of something related to the super famous (afaik) Rain.

Or, much better, you can enjoy a videao of super straight korean guy showing off for the camera only pleasure...

Isn't it time to come (my) home ?

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

For more you can check:

• VnExpress
• VnExpress
• A flash slideshow

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.

Dry season ?

Normally it's the rainy season in Ha Noi since a month but as you can see on the picture it's still possible to have huge amount of rain. Hopefully, i have a submarine mode on my motobike (full power & prayer).

Water sport

or being prepared to live in Ha Noi, the city of 1000 lakes.

(Sorry for such a bad title ^_^)

Well, Ha noi has not anymore 1000 lakes but there are still plenty of lakes. For example, there are 3 lakes near my home.

Thus Hanoi is a water city which means that when the rainy season comes, comes the problems (well now the season just ended, woohoo!).

By problems i mean:

• If you have a non-pro appointment and it's even slightly raining don't ever hope the person to come (90% of the time from my experience so far).
• Learn how to drive under heavy rain with a neat "raincoat', which often means putting your foot in the middle of the motobike to avoid "splashs" from cars and other people.
• Learn the submarine mode! It's a special mode of the vietnamese motobike but hard to get.  Sometimes, you'll need to drive right in the middle of water with a depth higher than your gaz exauster. The only way to succeed is to take a run up, go max power and pray!

What happens if you fail...push your motobike in the dirty water...

Nevertheless there are a few reasons to like the rain:

• The city gets quiet (almost)
• The temperature falls down greatly (and yes rainy season is also hot)
• I love the rain