Thursday 30 April 2020

Happy Reunification Day, Viet Nam !!!

Today is a very special day....

.....proud and hard-fought-for memories for some:


....a black day in the history books for others:



Guess whose side I am on:

45 years ago today, the People's Army of Vietnam finally ended decades and decades and decades of foreign rule by various foreign powers (China, France, Japan, France, USA) by liberating Saigon....

Just last night I was talking to people about what this country would be like if The Other Side had won...... we all agreed that we would not want to be here if that were the case......

Cam on rat nhieu, Viet Nam !  (I am actually shedding 'patriotic tears' while writing this)



Saturday 11 April 2020

Has it been 7 months already since the last post ? Pictures.... 2.9.2019 - 9.9.2019

Good Morning, VIETNAM !

Construction site visit.... (hard to imagine now)


might as well ENJOY it !






Mr. Gorgeous at Muoi's birthday




show some leg !





SHIT..... yet another gorgeous sunrise !




burning construction rubbis


things to come ....  like windows....


WHAT happened to my BROWN eyes ????






no words necessary ....



Friday 6 September 2019

Bai Bien Cua Toi (XV-XVII): .... Working & Existing & Eye-popping Moments

3:45
I wake up fine.... I start considering possible adventures for the day.... and then I remember the work I received last night ..... and that kind of ruins my mood for the day early.


6:30

it's raining again....

breakfast at Chez Lisa....Thanh is there too.... and he is strangely quiet today .....



11:30
It's cloudy during my walk but it's warm ;-)






12:30

could I get a fucking drink?


Phi cooked ;-)

13:00



15:30

I have just woken up when the guy with the gorgeous belly button asks me to swim.... but I have to work...and say "tomorrow"..... at the next cigarette break he is still sitting in front of my window....


Of course I offer him some wine...... WHY do ALL of the Viet guys grow on me so quickly? LOL.   A visit to Nha toi & Nha Lisa..... he comes along... 
(two years later I think:  HOW could I have been SO STUPID?!?)

20:30




3:00








6:45
time to deliver coffee ...
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8:45
11:15
enough sluggishness today.....

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time for some food...... at Bobby's
Lisa Calls....

I bring some wine to the constructions sites ....





HOW could I NOT ?


a sign of things to come ?

17:30
A perfectly wasted day......

A quick dinner at Nha Quang..... and drinking ruou Seahorse with Chau, Tam & Thanh......
.... who is not wearing a shirt tonight and keeps rubbing his chest and his gorgeous nipples..... OMG!........... Lisa must be right, LOL.


21:30


5:00
I can't get THAT CHEST out of my mind ...... 





7:00

I talk to the Milanese woman for a while and then Thanh shows up again..... shirtless again....  OMG....... what a body....

8:00
A walk.... as soon as I'm at the waterline, Puppy is at my heels looking for morning pets......


A ride to Song Cau.......
gas
cigarettes
lamp store.... the kid with the absolutely GORGEOUS BLUE-GRAY cat eyes is beaming at me...
Wine store
bank
Lamp store again (Lisa still has not figured out that on my phone e-mails don't make a sound)
incense.... I might as well buy the whole HUGE box for 50k ;-)

I try to deliver Lisa's lightbulbs...but no one is there.....

G&T
Johann actually has NEVER seen THIS music video ..... 

12:30
Back in my room.....
15:00
huh..... slept in again....

nha toi
 The neighbour across the fence says .... ong dep.... I have to laugh.... at least I am a Pretty Old Man, LOL.



Hmmm.... I'm finishing this post 2 years later and I have no idea what happened to the rest of the day...