It is TIME..... time to revive this blog

February 10, 2013........Chinese New Year .....The start of the Year of the Snake....that was the first post on this blog

.... Thank you, Yiman, for telling me about this....because I am a Snake.....

Place mat in a Chinese restaurant in Gibsons

A snake postage stamp on my Grouse Inn door in 2013

.. ..I wore something RED EVERY day for a whole fucking year....to remind me every day that I am not allowed to be lazy or to procrastinate........ONE WHOLE YEAR of living life to the FULLEST !

Chinese New Year's Parade in Vancouver in 2013

..and it was the best year of my life.....and at the end of the year, I thought.....WHY should I STOP?.....because this was SO MUCH fun ..... and then I just refused to stop .....otherwise I would NOT have ended up where I am now.

In addition, 12 years ago, I followed the example of Alan, my foremost Ferry Consultant, to write a BLOG about a SPECIAL year in my life.....

You can do the math.......every 12 years........it is time again for yet ANOTHER Year of the Snake.....

The coming Year of the Snake will start on January 29th, 2025..... but my gut feeling tells me that it already started EARLY ;-)

However......instead of turning 48 years old during that previous Year of the Snake, I will be turning 60 years old....and  that is a BIG difference, which I can feel in my aching body every morning.....

I don't want to think about the one after that, because I can't imagine myself at 72 years of age.....

 But I am prepared for this one......the same watch ends I was wearing 12 years ago ...

...and some new SNAKE underwear from Amazon

that Eda was very KIND to mail from Canada to Viet Nam.  

 

I AM READY......  bring it ON <GRIN>

Chúc mừng Ngày Quốc Khánh Việt Nam

 

 I feel privileged and honored to be allowed to live in this country with these amazing people !!!

And YES, there is a personal connection here  ;-)

..... and I cry when thinking about the high price Millions of Vietnamese had to pay for that freedom......

FUCK 'You know Who'  (U.K.W. ?  U.O.H?......U.W.A.?.....oh no, I just remembered.......  ;-)

Lest we forget......

 

On this day (August 6) in 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on a city of 300,000 CIVILIANS (Hiroshima)......

and in the last 79 years nothing really has changed......

SHAME....

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)

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 ....

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...