One of my favorite things about living in my new neighborhood – Phu My Hung – is the relative lack of traffic as compared with the downtown districts of HCMC. It is really not safe to go running on the streets of downtown HCMC – you’re constantly dodging motorbikes, vendors, squid bikes, etc. – so [...]

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The above is a photo of the 2008 Tesla Roadster, a 100% electric car made by Tesla Motors.  It goes 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds, gets the equivalent of 135 miles per gallon, and can go approximately 220 miles on one $3 charge.  According to this video, http://qik.com/video/22264, it accelerates from 30 to [...]

Today was my second day at my new job here in Vietnam.  I’m now working as a teacher at RMIT University here in HCMC.  RMIT is an Australian-owned university whose parent university is in Melbourne, Australia.  It is the only 100% foreign-owned university in Vietnam, and is the largest employer of foreign citizens in Vietnam. [...]

This is more stupid than anything else, but I can’t help laughing at some parts: I think it’s technically “Old Gregg” vs. “Old Greg.” Props to Mary for emailing.

From the last couple of posts it looks like all I’ve been doing is driving around on my motorbike taking photos with my iPhone. And truth be told I didn’t do a whole lot this weekend. After work on Thursday, I went for a long run – around 5.5 or 6 miles. When I got [...]

“Well, I know you need me to bring that 7-foot-tall tree over there to your place, but you see all I have is this moped – I don’t have a truck or anything. Aww, to hell with it – me and the tree’ll be right over.”

“He’s a Vietnamese dude, he loves his mama; He loves horses, and America too…”

I said before that I would try to start taking more photos of the weird stuff you see the Vietnamese hauling around town on their motorbikes. Well, above is a guy hauling around a big plastic container of live prawns that I saw on my way in to work this morning. There were at least [...]

Tim is back from Bali with my camera, and I forgot I’d taken these photos on the eve of Tet. I was at my old place in Binh Thanh District, and took these from my rooftop. These photos are not really indicative of how impressive the fireworks were – because they were pretty cool. The [...]