3:00
might as well get up.... and have coffee.... Duolingo.....
4:30
tipsy and try to nap.....
doze
5:30
A message to Phap "Ngu Ngon, tinh yeu toi"
6:45
Andrea calls..... I am stupid enough to call her back to save her money.....why do I always have to do this....that just cost me $5....
I get to hear about her inheritance affair.... and I know that she owns 2 houses..... I have to stop doing this....
Eda texts...... I'm tired and hopefully not too grumpy when I talk to her
NAP
huuh....hopefully I'll be less grumpy now....
8:30
Starving.... a small Papaya Pancake..... some pain in my right chest
9:30
A G&T and I'm starting to pack....of course, I pack too much, but I'm only taking ONE backpack today ;-)
10:30
OMFG....WHAT is THAT....the clear water is filled MYRIADS of what looks like TINY underwater bees..... they don't seem to sting.... but what ARE they?
Shower....some wine.....
11:15
I want to GO NOW ....
Getting more and more drunk...
12:00
I'm at the Monkey's house...... their other dog barks madly at me, but my former dog comes running out and nuzzles...... LOVE !
Off we go...... gasoline....the weather is nice, so only one smoke stop along the detour bay....I drive the whole way...... Haven...... Pina Coladas and Calamari, Chicken Wings (not that great today), and Fries....
FLC Sea Tower calls..... in Vietnamese only....
Monkey first tells him we'll be there at 16:00.... I tell him... "Call him back, we'll be there at 14:30. I'm NOT willing to wait".
The apartment is weird.....maybe just because the view from the Can HO is so depressing....
...but no, also because the owners of the Condo put no taste or effort into it..... Monkey parked the scooter and I go down to get the wine....and take some pictures of the interior of this place.....
I am in an Imperial Space Prison ! 
Darth Vader can't be far !
A look at the ocean......these Condos are sold as "ocean view".....see those empty building lots down below...
. not for long..... same BS SCAM as in Vancouver ....
nap
17:00 nothing from Quy.... I'm starting to be in a lousy mood... I text him..... he texts back 18:30 at Ba Beo.... I have to kickstart the Monkey to get there on time...
... we miss it and drive past it.....because it's closed..... Quy suggests a Pho place down the street ... I get even crankier because the food is mediocre and there is no beer...... we follow Quy to a grocery store....I buy 5 packs of Marlboro ... then coopmart while he gets his phone charger ... NO Vang Dalat ! ..... getting crankier and crankier..... we follow him and I still don't know whether we are driving to the BAR or the PARK...... the beach avenue....towards our hotel..... he turns into our hotel street...and again towards the entrance.... but overshoots by 50 meters......
69 Pub? The pothead hangout?
Right next to our hotel ?
With amazing live music ?
The rest of the evening is a bliss..... I really have to work on not getting my foul moods get to me...
22:45 I stumble home
23:00
sleep
5:00
Monkey's alarm clock goes off AGAIN..... "Turn that FUCKING thing OFF".....of course he only mutes it.....
I have my wine breakfast..... it's still ringing at 6:00....so I set my alarm and let it ring....
doesn't help ....he only mutes it again....
And I wonder where my foul moods come from...
8:45
Monkey calls the room rental guy.....we can just leave the key in the room and leave.....
OK....start packing.....
9:30
Leave for Big C....now called GO! it is Sunday and it is absolute Madness..... MUA DI, MUA DI is what the relentless music blaring from the speakers seems to suggest..... and entire families with babies seem to do exactly that..... they can't imagine a life without their boring and stressful work, so they can't even imagine the thought that saving money today would save them from having to go back to work tomorrow.... so they SPEND .... Capitalist Consumerism in Socialist Vietnam.... it's disgusting....
We get our shopping done and apparently both of us just want to get OUT OF THERE, we forget our backpacks on the 3rd floor ;-)
Ride to Haven for 'breakfast'...
.. the food isn't that great today.... and from the terrace we can see DARK clouds in the direction where we have to travel.....
The Monkey pushes me over the tricky tight edge between Life's a Beach and Haven ..... Then some weird yellow tanker/sewage truck blocks the tight village road for 4 minutes.... FINALLY, there is space and I gun it up to the highway....the scooter is fast today...... Looking left along the highway to assess traffic, I notice something ... a lack of something.... The Monkey is NOT behind me .... my first thought is that he fell off when I accelerated past the tanker truck ....OH NO ....I put the kickstand down and start walking around the bend and look down the hill ....there....way in the distance I see him.... and he is NOT limping !!!
The Drizzle starts before the gas station at the top of the hill..... we make it to the end of the village at the bottom and we can SEE the RAIN ahead..... I turn off the road at the scooter dealership....
We end up in the scooter parkade of the local market.....
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We could sit here for hours waiting for the rain to stop......but the forecast called for worse and worse weather today..... so I put on the $ 0.50 rain coat......
I'm not so worried about me, but about the computer in my backpack.....
I tell the Monkey to leave the beautiful baguettes with the old poor woman. Soggy baguette is no culinary fun. He splits the two bags between her and the old guy that was lying in his hammock while we were there.
We drive out of the sheltering bike parkade towards the highway.....
The Monkey says LEFT..... to the village by the bridge to buy more rain jackets...... I INSIST we go right to the village we're still in. And after 300 meters we find a store with NICE raincoats.....they are making a KILLING right now...... I buy three nice raincoats for a total of 110k (120k with a volume discount), leave the cheap one (the owner's one-armed husband right away picks it up), and fashion a protective bag for my backpack out of one of them.
And head out into the rain....much better now with the new rain gear ......
the rain subsides after the village before the little bridge .....it is dry after that .....
12:00
Home..... we're sitting outside.... and WHAT is THAT?..... it's Mathias (I'd spotted him earlier at his new hotel ) stomping along the beach.... I haven't seen him in a long while..... and now I can see his BREASTS from 40 meters away !
Welcome back, I call out.... I don't think he gets the sarcasm....
15:00
I've returned from driving The Monkey home.....
16:45
Is that Binh JOGGING?.... OMG it is.....
17:00
The Monkey and his Mother and the little twerp..... Bringing me enough fried veggie rice and spring rolls for 4. And I've JUST had a Papaya Pancake.... I eat one portion and freeze 3.
17:30
SO tired.....still didn't get to my nap.....
18:00
Monkey comes over again
I need to nap
he wakes me at 18:45
19:15
Phap video calls again.... for almost 10 mins?..... When I hang up, the Monkey is walking away..... let's hope he's not pouting again....but then he did have to go home for dinner....
19:45
What now?
I send the Bar video and the raincoat picture to Phap.....
he hearts the raincoat picture ;-()
20:30
running out of steam....
no sleep yet...need to blow off some steam....
21:30
No reply from The Monkey?......he better not be pouting again ....
1.5 bottles since I returned home..... I better get to sleep soon....
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