Alley
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I left W Palm Beach where some called “paradise” for Saigon alley. Going from beach to bunker, I got a bump up in the Happiness index. Costa Rica for example has led this chart for quite sometime. Vietnam, according to latest survey, ranked behind Costa Rica. In fact, having moved up on the Happiness Index, it is de-listed…
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On the way to the gym, I saw a casket being carried out of an alley (with funeral band playing “Soi Da cung can co nhau” – pebble and stone still need each other). Then to my amazement, the pall-bearers swung the casket around 180 degrees, dipped it three times without spilling the whiskey glasses on top then, another…
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Instead of a snow-bound scenario in a vacated hotel, we have a newly-wed couple of the House in the Alley The bloody ax, the shattering glass and the medium-rare steak. We were placed immediately inside a rain storm. That fateful night, like in Misery, the first domino that starts a chain of mishaps: married sex life,…
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This Valentine Day, Vietnam dating scene will be scary! That is, if they picked “House in the Alley” for a date movie. Dan rented a house in District 3, and during the course of trying to find the right film treatment, discovered something about the house in the alley which he had rented (French villa).…
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Last night, when I got back to my alley, I thought they had turned on extra lighting. Turned out I did not notice that it was full moon. No wonder people were going to the Temple, buying and selling fake dollars for the dead. It was supposed to be the second important date on the…
Thang Nguyen 555 