The other day I parked beneath the Bitexco Building. I looked up and took this shot: … [Read more...] about Saigon Bitexco Building from below
Installing Project Fedena, Nginx, MySQL, Mongrel on CentOS 6
Edit 1: Added HowTo section at the end to get ImageMagick and Rmagick gem to work with CentOS thus allowing users to upload pictures to Fedena. Edit 2: Added HowTo to get Postfix email server running on localhost so users can get Password Reset emails. Yesterday I finally got Project Fedena running on CentOS 6.0 for my friend's international school in Tunis, Tunisia. … [Read more...] about Installing Project Fedena, Nginx, MySQL, Mongrel on CentOS 6
New World Hotel at night in Saigon
Not sure what compelled me to take this picture of the New World Hotel the other night. I pass it everyday most likely taking it for granted. … [Read more...] about New World Hotel at night in Saigon
Highlands Coffee, Seattle’s Best Coffee Clone?
I first visited my first Highlands Coffee by the Opera House in District 1 back in 2003. Since that time, I had visited many of the Highlands as they starting spreading across Saigon. One of the questions I always asked to myself, though, was whether it was a Seattle's Best Coffee clone. … [Read more...] about Highlands Coffee, Seattle’s Best Coffee Clone?
Guy slaps Vietnamese girl in front of police
Last Saturday night, an American friend and I met at Zoom Cafe. It was actually a boring night in the Pham Ngu Lao area until we both noticed a Vietnamese girl walking towards Tran Hung Dao followed by two policemen on a motorbike. It was strange but it even got stranger. … [Read more...] about Guy slaps Vietnamese girl in front of police