Random Thoughts (updated periodically)

Random Stuff

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Vietnamese brands:
Honda = Hongda
Bebe = eBeB
Puma = Pima
Why worry about Copyright infringement if you're still gonna keep the same logo. ie. Honda wings, Puma picture.
People here represent american brands as if its the shit ie. starbucks t-shirts.
Dudes take pisses on the side of the road like it ain't no thing. Its kinda obvious too cause their backs are facing the road but in front of them theres buildings with people working inside. I've seen both dudes in suits and blue collar people do it.
Spitting and digging for nose gold is no big deal.
Purse and bag snatchers hook up their mopeds to go faster but you can probably hear them comming.
According to my godfather, I'm a big fish and all the girls have fishing poles.
People compare their moped make and model like we compare cars. Hondas sell for 8k USD while Vespas sell for a baller 23k USD.
These mfers over here can drink me to sleep and they drink that bat wing stuff like its beer.
Its weird greeting people by older/younger brother/sister/aunt/uncle.
I smile and nod when someone is talking to me and I don't know what they're saying. Laugh when they laugh.
That old school vietnamese music rips through my ear like country music.
Weekly power brownouts suck.
I'd rather ride on a moped than ride in a Taxi. I want a motorcycle so I can cut the shit out of these asshole drivers. Thus, effectively turning me into an asshole driver.
I want to walk out to the middle of the busiest intersection and throw 100,000 VND bills into the air and see what kind of stuff I start.
They need to put things like "Low Radiation" on monitors or "Real beef" on hamburger signs because apparently everyone that doesn't is just a bootleg asshole thats trying to kill me.
I've met some of the nicest people I've ever met in my life here.
Not all girls here want to marry an American and get a green card. Some want to marry a green card and get an american.
I'm seeing more and more whores on the streets near the tourist hotels and resturants.
Experienced my first storm today. It started out with alot of wind and dust blowing everywhere. Alot of it got into my eye and it hurt pretty damn bad.
There are signs everywhere saying that you should stay away from drugs (big skull with two syringes forming a cross) and protect yourself when having sex (a big smiling, walking Condom).
Saw a shopping bag full of money today that was how you say under the table money. It was the biggest pile of money I've ever seen.
Passed by this wedding dress shop today. Saw a bunch of models that were, um hot.

8/3/08

I heard this story today. My aunt has a live-in babysitter that takes care of my baby cousins. The babysitter had to go home to the countryside today because her whole family was dying. Her older brother and younger brother were already dead, her mom was still sick and even she started getting bloody diarrhea and shes like 100 miles away from them. Her neighbor in the countryside was emptying a bucket of wet garbage into the street and her dad asked him not to because it reaked. The guy didn't say a word and went back inside. They've had a suspicion the nigga practiced black magic, but they never did anything to him for them to be worried. Now her entired family was dying including her.

8/6/08
Saw a guy with a rifle driving on the back of a moped today. He had it in a guitar bag, too bad the barrel was sticking out the top.
Gas here is 92 octane so basically everyone here pumps super.
I'm about to start a business with myself, selling myself to myself. The girls here seem to make a good living out of it.
I've started to work at this Scientific supply company and theres this one girl who shall now be referred to as hourglass(or HG). I've been going to coffee shops and restaurants with BJ and I told her that HG wanted to show me around town at night. Not to sound conceited but I think she is jealous. I dunno what gave me that impression, maybe the fact that she got tired and quite all of a sudden after I told her about HG.

8/10/08
Today after a morning at the pho shop, my uncle and I went back to our alley to drink coffee. As we sat there, I saw a young couple(in their teens) come out of the Hotel thats like 30 feet from my house. They didn't seem to be too intimate when the girl got on a Xe Om(which is like a taxi but the driver drives a moped). She looked at him, he looked at her, they exchanged a few words and she drove off to my left. Then he got on another Xe Om and he headed right. The guy probably has 2 or 3 other girls, and the girl probably has 4 or 5 other guys. Life here is kinda casual like that.

8/17/08
Two days ago I went out with my cousin and his friends. Got drunk. Either I touched a girl or she touched me. It was probably the former. She shall now be known as "STD." For stop touching my D. Yesterday I went with HG and a couple other people from work to this big ass outdoor cafe. It was pretty damn big. Like the size of a football field with a big ass pond in the middle. I felt like I was in a fucking jungle drinking $8 fruit drinks. Then we went to eat street grilled chicken I tried chicken feet for the first time, all it is is skin, I guess it was ok. HG couldn't drink beer because she was eating vegetarian for the month for religious things. I've tried to get her drunk on several occasions. She playfully slaps me when I make fun of her. And I always catch her turning her head away when I turn around to look at her. I swear shes got a boyfriend or 2. If I'm lucky, I can be boyfriend 3, 4, and 5. I will prevail. Went to Long Hai yesterday with BJ and her family. Swam a bit, ate seafood, and got drunk again. Then went to Vung Tau to eat some more. HG was at Vung Tau with her family too. Still buzzed, thats why this post is rather bland. You can tell its basically all about girls. Fun fact: 50% of the Vietnamese population is under the age of 30. Guys outnumber girls.

8/19/08
Toyota Corolla = Toyota Corona
Back of this girl's jacket read: Authentic Star Fucks. I'm gonna assume she meant Starbucks.
Got HG drank last night. I couldn't drive her moped and she was too drank to drive home.

8/23/08
2 days ago we had this thing like halloween where the country celebrates the dead. We put a bunch of food and flowers and crap at the front of the company's door and people drove by, stopped and started taking stuff. Thats how halloween is done here. Fuc saying trick or treat. I've heard stories about rich people throwing bills into the street which start mob fights and stabbings. We started "celebrating" at the office at 11am. My bosses came down and I got drunk with them. We stopped drinking at 3:30pm. They're a bunch of pervs. The ones who were sober enough to drive went to drink coffee. HG drove me even though she had like 4 beers. Yesterday I went out with my cousin and a friend. Went to this cafe called SoHo Cafe Lounge. Its a swank little cafe/bar. I had a Long Island Ice Tea. It was pretty good. I like riding home drunk at the end of the night with the wind blowing at my face. HGs on vacation for the week up north so I'm gonna have to find someone else to flirt with for a week.

8/28/08
I met a girl. And will continue to met her until I come home.

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