I've never been overly keen on circuses, they've never been on the top of my priority list as entertainment. I don't particularly like animal acts because there is always the thought in my mind that cruelty has been involved in the training process somewhere and anyway, isn't it demeaning to parade around a bear dressed […]
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I've just signed up for a course from the University of Virginia in the US that's facilitated and conducted online by a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. The company is called Coursera and their aim is to create a future where the top universities are […]
Could this be the newest trend in marketing children's clothing? An "up yours" sort of attitude? "If you don't like our gear well too bad, up yours!" Recently seen in Parkson District 1
Just last week, Tous les Jours, a Korean based French pastry chain opened a new outlet just a few hundred metres from our house. This is very dangerous to a healthy lifestyle and trim waistline, but very handy for a quick treat also.
These brightly painted gates caught my eye on a recent visit to Go Vap district.
The rooftop garden on our house in the middle of Sai Gon city may not be large, but it never fails to intrigue and relax me. When the weather is not too hot, it's my place to go and get away from this computer.
About 30 minutes ago I was walking back from eating lunch at Now Zone on Nguyen Van Cu St and was on the pavement verging the Nga sau Cong hoa roundabout midway between Ng. Van Cu and Pham Viet Chanh outside the German beer restaurant. This roundabout is the confluence of Ng. Thi Minh Khai, […]
As I mentioned in the previous post below, last week I travelled up to Buon Ma Thuot in the Central Highlands for a week helping young children with their English. Although the trip itself (9.5 hours by bus), and the actual teaching were very tiring, it was certainly worthwhile and a lot of fun. I'll […]
At least I had an attractive table decoration to admire while my cappuccino got cold (previous article).
To the uninitiated this may not look all that appetising, however, this is one of my favourite things to eat. It's xoi ga, or sticky rice and chicken. In this version the chicken is mixed with mushroom, tiny shrimps and a quail egg and encased in the sticky rice which in turn is wrapped in […]
I witnessed an event yesterday that left me feeling very disturbed. I was riding my motorbike along Nguyen Huu Can around 11.30 when suddenly, right in front of me I saw what at first appeared to be a traffic accident and a resulting scuffle. I assumed that one motorbike had somehow accidentally clipped another and […]
This is on Le Loi near the corner of Pasteur Sts in downtown Sia Gon yesterday at 4pm after a deluge inundated the city. Fortunately these types of flash flooding usually dissipate soon after the rain stops.
I just downloaded a new camera app to my mobile phone which has some really neat effects. The app. is called "Paper Camera" and I think I'm going to have some fun with it so stay tuned for more image uploads.
These curtain or towel rod holders have more uses than I realised.
This morning we were stuck in a traffic gridlock so dense we didn’t move for just over one hour. To people living in Sai Gon this type of occurrence is only too familiar, particularly when you happen to be on a main arterial road leading to a bottleneck such as a bridge or major intersection. […]
