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Wow, after one week of using Litter Kwitter's Cat Toilet Training System, I am thoroughly impressed. I watched the DVD included in the Litter Kwitter box which was very…

On my way to school today, I was riding behind to Vietnamese custom officials on 3 Thang 2 street. They are easy to recognize in their light blue shirts and navy blue…

When I moved into this house back in January, 2006, there was a room on one of the top floors that some called the "evil" room. Every time someone passed by this room…

Okay, I am currently having lunch at Mimosa, a small Vietnamese Italian restaurant in the backpacker area. I needed to email some pictures so I decided to see if there…

Using Gentoo Linux, you have to get used to things just breaking, especially in the last couple of years. Portage is probably one of the best package management systems…

Amazing, the new location of Texas BBQ (on Le Thanh Ton street in Q1 opposite of Skygarden) is now offering Dr Pepper, imported from the US, for 30,000 VND. Yeah, I hate…

Location: Mountain View, California, USA Date: April 16, 1972 Time: 6:28 AM A beautiful baby born to a Japanese mother and an American father entered the world. Normally…

From Expat Interviews: Do you have any tips for our readers about living in Vietnam? Patience, number 1. Also, come to accept that the 'Vietnamese-way' may actually be…

Well, Lucky is beginning to shed her fur again. She normally does this within a couple weeks of the season changing. Buy your rain ponchos now, we are going to have an…

The water workers found the leak today. They came roughly around 10:30 AM this morning and started hammering the tiles where the water and sewage pipes are located…

Well, I had to stay home tonight to get some work done. Things did not go as planned, though, due a power outage at about 7 PM. When the power returned, the internet…

Today the water repairman returned to our house. We were finally successful in explaining the problem. When he turned on the water again, I can tell he was surprised at…

I am beginning to feel at home with Gentoo again. Sound is working and I can watch my favorite Japanese Anime, and of course, Battlestar Galactica. A couple months ago…

Well, my landlord never fixed the water leak problem. Instead he just switched the house to ground water WHICH IS FREE. Problem solved, NOPE!!! The house is still…

It is 11:30 PM at night when normally the internet speeds are the best. For the last couple of days now, the bandwidth has been quite poor. I just did a Speed Test with…

From 8 AM this morning until about 9 AM, I could not access any websites located outside of Vietnam with FPT. All websites located within Vietnam were easily accessible…

Just finished adding a page about my trip to the Perfume Pagoda. (Perfume River boat ride to the Perfume Pagoda) View more of my trip to the Perfume Pagoda at this link:

Well, I am finally able to upload some pictures of my trip to Hanoi the previous weekend. I am working on the Perfume Pagoda pictures as you are reading this. Below are…

I have spent the last couple of days trying to get Gentoo 2008.0_beta1 installed. Each install attempt was followed by a kernel panic. First I thought it was with GRUB…

Smile This one little piece of advice will make life in Vietnam more enjoyable. As Western Expats living in Vietnam, we tend to be extremely judgmental in every aspect…