Quick Update: Glenda and Jun left Vietnam for the U.S. this morning. A taxi picked them up at my place at 5:30am – their flight left at 7:00am. So they’re in the air and on their way home right now. They came back into HCMC yesterday afternoon about 3:30 or so, and we just hung [...]

I am very pleased to report that as of yesterday, I officially have a new job here in Vietnam. Starting February 18th, I will be teaching business law – and maybe some other business courses as well – at a local business school here in HCMC. The school is the Vietnam branch of a foreign [...]

Sorry I haven’t posted much the last few days – there hasn’t been a whole lot to report as I have been sick with a bad cold and/or sinus infection. It has been kind of nasty, so I will spare everyone the details. Let’s just say I’ve been sick. I definitely get sick more frequently [...]

Following my post re the Radiohead covers, my friend Wood pointed me to this video of Radiohead playing their entire new album – In Rainbows – live on New Year’s Eve 2007. If you think Radiohead is just a “studio band,” watch this video of them playing these songs live – you won’t think so [...]

The Randy Watson Experience Morning Bell (Radiohead Cover) The Randy Watson Experience is a side project of Amir “?uestlove” Thompson of The Roots, here live at Coachella: Sia Paranoid Android (Radiohead Cover) Damien “Jr. Gong” Marley Welcome to Jamrock (Not a Cover – Just Plain Ol’ Badass)

Now that we’ve gotten some of our equipment set up in our office showroom, a lot of the employees have started working out on the equipment in the afternoons after work. I’ve done it with them a couple of times – primarily the rowing machine and the stationary bike. It’s really convenient to have the [...]

Tet, which is the big Vietnamese/Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, is coming up in February. I think the actual first day of the new year, which is the year of the rat – appropriate given Jun’s dinner last night! – but it’s basically a ten-day-long celebration from roughly February 2nd through the 12th. My school [...]

The internet (I don’t subscribe to the whole capitalized “Internet” thing – lowercase is fine for me) continues to amaze me. Just recently, I’ve wanted to chat/IM with two people who didn’t have a Gmail account and so couldn’t use Google Talk or the built-in Gmail chat application. In one case, Glenda and I were [...]

This is probably my favorite photo that I’ve taken since I’ve been in Vietnam: When Glenda and I were walking around town yesterday morning, we saw these construction workers taking their midday nap and I had to stop and take some photos. There were five guys – all sleeping in a very small area: But [...]