Vietnam, a place of its own.
A quick post from Indochina....
I know I haven't been writing for a long time, but I really needed to have 48 hours a day in the past two weeks to keep up with the load of work I had, both private and work related... plus, I was internet-challenged (nice politically correct citation...) for the whole month of January, simply because that wonderful provider I had, and it's not even worth mentioning it as I won't provide them with a free commercial, forgot to charge me, and subsiquently blamed me and cut me out of civilization... go figure... for the past 6 years no problems, new management, and a whole new world of f**k ups... well, now I'm free from them and I actually regret not switching to the new provider earlier...
In any case, presently I am in Hoi An, central Vietnam... I know I haven't been writing about my trip to Cambodia last November, my stay in Budapest, my Xmas celebrations in Italy, and the birth of my niece Lydia on January 24... it will all come, as I get back... but for now, I just flew here from Ho Chi Minh city and it's a big relief... HCMC sucks... it really does... no one has really heard me complaining about Asia, ever... but HCMC has really near-to-nothing to offer... the only highlight is the War Museum, where the war atrocities are well documented... of course, it's part of the ruling regime's propaganda, but there is no denying that the Americans f**k it up pretty badly here... few years back I saw the Vietnam's Veterans Memorial in Washington, with people still grieving and weeping after so many years, now I had the chance to see the other side... and the thing that struck me the most was the silence in the museum... no one was really in the mood to talk or exchange even a simple word... the pictures of the undescribable situation during the Vietnam war didn't need any comment... you will see pretty soon what I'm talking about...
But apart from this, HCMC doesn't have much to offer... I arrived to HCMC the eve before the Lunar New Year, and it was a mess... but for that, the next post... I'm just glad I find myself in central Vietnam, on my way to Hue and eventually Ha Noi and Halong Bay, where I'm really looking forward to sail for a couple of days...
See you soon... for my next post....
I know I haven't been writing for a long time, but I really needed to have 48 hours a day in the past two weeks to keep up with the load of work I had, both private and work related... plus, I was internet-challenged (nice politically correct citation...) for the whole month of January, simply because that wonderful provider I had, and it's not even worth mentioning it as I won't provide them with a free commercial, forgot to charge me, and subsiquently blamed me and cut me out of civilization... go figure... for the past 6 years no problems, new management, and a whole new world of f**k ups... well, now I'm free from them and I actually regret not switching to the new provider earlier...
In any case, presently I am in Hoi An, central Vietnam... I know I haven't been writing about my trip to Cambodia last November, my stay in Budapest, my Xmas celebrations in Italy, and the birth of my niece Lydia on January 24... it will all come, as I get back... but for now, I just flew here from Ho Chi Minh city and it's a big relief... HCMC sucks... it really does... no one has really heard me complaining about Asia, ever... but HCMC has really near-to-nothing to offer... the only highlight is the War Museum, where the war atrocities are well documented... of course, it's part of the ruling regime's propaganda, but there is no denying that the Americans f**k it up pretty badly here... few years back I saw the Vietnam's Veterans Memorial in Washington, with people still grieving and weeping after so many years, now I had the chance to see the other side... and the thing that struck me the most was the silence in the museum... no one was really in the mood to talk or exchange even a simple word... the pictures of the undescribable situation during the Vietnam war didn't need any comment... you will see pretty soon what I'm talking about...
But apart from this, HCMC doesn't have much to offer... I arrived to HCMC the eve before the Lunar New Year, and it was a mess... but for that, the next post... I'm just glad I find myself in central Vietnam, on my way to Hue and eventually Ha Noi and Halong Bay, where I'm really looking forward to sail for a couple of days...
See you soon... for my next post....
posted by Raf at 5:43 PM
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