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My fourth visit to SeaWorld and I still enjoy. The Shamu show is still the best.

One of the best universities in the US. A Fulbrighter from Vietnam gave us a tour of Stanford.

A nice university in Houston.

Nice to see it again....from the ground.

Today I went to San Francisco via Caltrain. It was an interesting but long ride. It was the first time I passed Sunnyvale and Mountain View, my birthplace, in a long…

If you want a good Vietnamese buffet in Houston, goto Kim Son. This is a really great restaurant but be fotewarned, you will eat a lot. :-)

They are a great way to fly around the US. So far I have flown with them to Houston via Chicago and San Jose via Las Vegas.

Two hour flight and now I am in HK. Next flight boards in one hour. U forgot how nice this airport was.

I miscalculated the taxi time to the airport today. I got here real early. Good news, I got upgrades for most of the flights. Now need to stay awake until I get on the…

This driver of a Jaguar. I just saw this driver on Nguyen Huu Canh street. How did he...

The Saigon River is an important part of the landscape in southern Vietnam. The last week, the Saigon River overflowed it's banks on several occassions creating wide…

Today is the 235th Birthday of the US Marines. I want to wish my fellow and former Marines a big happy birthday. I left the Corps over 14 years ago but deep down inside…

Yesterday I installed Sabayon Linux 5.4 (Gnome Edition) on my faithful IBM Thinkpad T60 (I bought the model before the switch to Lenovo). I wanted to return to a…

Waiting for Red to start Megastar has the best theaters in Saigon.

Enjoying lunch and a movie at the Parkson in District 5. California Wow has a gym here.

Decided to get a blog post up while waiting for Koshin. There is a socalled Canteen Day at the Nguyen Khuyen School in District 10. There are many food tables with…

For those Seattle-natives living in Saigon, there will be a Seattle Meetup next Tuesday night at Java Cafe. This meetup is long overdue. Our last pseudo-Seattle meetup…

I visited Ms. Chau, my friend, at her company this morning for coffee before I headed to work. She is the Associate Broker for Beta Securities located in Saigon's…

Meeting my friend Chau from Beta Securities. It is located near the Saigon financial district, aka Wall Street. It is quite busy this morning.

In the Thao Dien Ward. Sunset in about 45 minutes.