Chez Kraut (VIII-IX) Wine on a lobster float, "Your Momma!", ich ky people & hope

4:00
I can't go back to sleep.... to many things running around my head ....

6:30

Choi shows up.... we're going to feed Lobsters?  No-one told me about that !

7:30
pictures, wine

10:15
Fabian comes over....

and it's PHI walking by... OMG, I'm so happy to see him...he works in DaLat now.... I tell him that I'll be back in the house by 15:00

11:00

12:00

14:00
Dit me may...... You' Momma


16:45

I'm JUST about to fall asleep when I hear "Han, what you name?"... It's Choi after the wedding... His neighbour shows up too ... and Tobias & Fabian... 2 more bottles.... Lap Soi shows up from the construction site with two buddies ... I invite them.... Choi's buddy un-invites them..... NO NO NO... must do better tomorrow at the construction site and must NOT allow some guests to rule my house.... and need to stand up to my neighbours who use part of my land but can't even lend me a few chairs and even worse demand some back in a snotty voice .....

"Where are our chairs?" Tina grunts !

19:00
Tam @ Bobby's .... we speak Vietnamese without the telephone... Thanh still wants to build my lamps ;-)   .... I am SO much happier speaking to the Vietnamese in general and to Tam's family in particular than speaking to ANY Germans..... 

I am doing the right thing by learning Vietnamese the fast way !  Westerners are FLAKES!

21:00
I need sleep!

6:00
The dark rings under my eyes have assumed scary dimensions.... and I haven't answered any e-mails from the West for two weeks.....  I will try to have a very quiet day today...

7:00
Vancouver is blanketed in snow..... and Zu looks like someone out of Doctor Zhivago !

I'm still PISSED OFF at my neighbours' selfishness and inconsiderate behaviour..... the chair issue....  I really should start adding plants on my land and maybe even on their way to their toilet.

8:15

I'm behind on my schedule.... the bank closes at 11:00 .... and I need more money....

9:30

the weather is turning grayer .....

..... I can wait until tomorrow with my bank run.... and Fabian can take his own bike..... time to not let myself be pulled over the table anymore.....

10:30

Lisa surprises me... without her wife and her wife's family she is still the reasonable and even sweet person of before..... good to know !

trying to nap.... Aila wakes me

11:00

More issues with Lisa's wife.... she is like a Vancouver battle dyke who famously don't get along with Vancouver Gays.... 

...but maybe it's only a matter of communication... I sincerely hopes she learns it fast ....

PayPal is not working to donate to the BlueDragonFoundation.... WTF?

12:00 

trying to nap ... Gerda wakes me

What is it with All the lonely people....?

14:30

Wow!  Sleepy.....

Fabian is leaving...... but he booked a return flight for April, LOL.

16:00

17:00

I walk over to Bobby's and then to the old hotel..... just to meet Tin again..... he is SO NICE.... After I mention "qua nhieu nguoi Duc" he says "Germans never talk to each other.... they always sit alone... if it was Vietnamese they would touch and drink and laugh".... NOW he understands why I prefer to hang out with Vietnamese people ;-)

Bobby's is brimming with boring Westerners... but Tin & Tam are coming to nha toi tonight....

19:30

They are still not here..... and I'm tired.... frustrating!.... I foster a plan to LEAVE here on Wednesday....

19:35
Tam arrives while Tin takes a lot longer and has to leave early because of work.  Tam is guzzling....

... issues at the old hotel.... and WHAT is she saying?.... Phap will come visit me for 2 days during Tet..... "to play"....Oh Oh .... 

21:30
I conclude the evening with Conny, the birthday woman.... 

23:00