Good Morning Vietnam
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It’s not Les Parapluis de Cherbourg , or Catherine DeNeuve with her trench coat. Just anything over the head to stay, well, less wet. We got out of the pool, just to be wet all over again. Tropical summer. Impeding traffic and time planned. Here in Vietnam, it takes a lot just to stay cool…
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Our own Duc Huy has sung “Toi yeu…nhung loi noi thanh that, toi yeu ly ca-phe buoi sang” (I love sincere comments, .. morning cup of coffee). So do I. Especially when it’s cappuccino prepared with care and passion by our UVT Hospitality students. They even brought it up to my office (perk!). I love…
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Last night I said goodbye to a good friend. He was going back to California. We sat and listened to Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World (Vietnamese singer but if you closed your eyes you would think the black legend was there in person). I recalled a scene from Good Morning Vietnam whose subjective shot…
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It’s time to celebrate. Harvest time. City folks here in Vietnam go home where beer and Banh Chung (Bean Cake) are waiting, while country folks truck in their flowers and fruits in the opposite direction to sell in the city. This year, we don’t see the return of H5N1. So eat on. Chicken and ducks. A…
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Two men were caught on surveillance camera for stealing $2000 worth of Victoria Secret panties. http://www.wpbf.com/news/22568081/detail.html 73-year-old Tampa man was arrested last week for robbing a bank to pay his mortgage. In California, a unionized plumber got laid off, now sleeps in his truck. When the city of Tustin laid off people, an employee, a…
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