Tag: vietnam

  • Nice Barbecue Along the Canal in the Phu Nhuan District (Saigon)

    My Vietnamese friend's friend just opened a seafood restaurant along the canal near my house. It is located near Pham Van Hai street in the Phu Nhuan District (sorry I…

  • Traffic Police okayed to fine Foreigners in Saigon

    Just read this online at Thanh Nien News. The traffic police in Saigon will not be allowed to fine Expats and Viet Kieu for violating the traffic rules. Fines will be…

  • Seattle Dental Group Visiting Vietnam

    A dental group from Seattle will be arriving to Saigon later this week to spend a couple weeks providing dental education to orphanages, schools, and local people in…

  • Saigon Cho Ray Hospital

    Last weekend I visited Cho Ray Hospital in District 5. Cho Ray Hospital is the largest hospital in Vietnam catering to both Vietnemase and Expats. It is also considered…

  • Vietnamese Twitter-clone Saigonica violates AGPL

    Saigonica is no longer in compliance with AGPL for failing to to provide a Download Link to their modified source code. There is a new Twitter-clone in Vietnam called…

  • Vietnam joins Asianux

    Vietnam joined the Asianux open source alliance last week. This is definitely good news if you are a fan of open source software in Vietnam such as myself. From TMCnet…

  • Mad Buffalo Kills 2 (I'm Serious!)

    This was just posted by the VietnamNet Bridge newsite. I had to blink my eyes a couple times to see if it was serious and sure enough, it was. How often do you hear…

  • Lumineux Cafe - Best Saigon Coffee shop

    Update: Lumineux Cafe is now closed. Here is another new favorite coffee shop of mine in Saigon. Lumineux Cafe is located inside a former American built villa. The retro…

  • First Ubuntu Linux Lesson at AIS

    Finally, all laptops and netbooks have a variant of Ubuntu Linux running. Our first lesson focused on using the command line and apt-get for updates. (Ubuntu eee on the…

  • Nice sandwich at Java Cafe

    I ate a really good chicken sandwich at Java Cafe last week. As everyone knows by now, Java Cafe is one of my favorite coffeeshops in Saigon.

  • Missing the nice walks along the canal - Phu Nhuan District

    Just a little over a month until my lease ends. I am reminiscing about two years ago when I was able to take a walk along the canal near my house with my dog, Lucky…

  • (Memory Post) Constructions Woes Finally Over :-)

    Another memory post from Vietnam. This was one of my main popular entries regarding the construction in my alleyway that lasted nearly a year. From 2008 until early…

  • openSocial Hackathon and Barcamp Hanoi 2009

    Fresh off the press from the eXo Platform website. There will be an openSocial Hackathon next month and a tentative plan for Barcamp Hanoi 2009. The openHackathon will…

  • Smokey, my Vietnamese cat, is a murderer

    Smokey, my Vietnamese cat, did it again. At least once a year, he either 'murders' a bird or mouse. I do not know how either get into my house but if they do, they will…

  • Vietnamese Wedding Party

    Today, I attended Thang and his brides' wedding party at the Rex Hotel. Thang is a former student and colleague of mine from Indochina Capital. It was one of the best…

  • Having fun with the Xbox 360 in Saigon

    Today I had some really great excite over at Patrick's place in The Manor. I got to play with his new Xbox 360 that he recently purchased from the US. This was the first…

  • Ubuntu Linux Install Week at AIS Picture Gallery

    It all started at the beginning of last week. I wanted my American International School 11th and 12th Grade ICT students to start using Ubuntu Linux on their…

  • Best Saigon Restaurants - Soa Soa

    Last night I had the best hot pot in Saigon at Soa Soa Restaurant in District 1. Soa Soa fuses Chinese and Japanese tastes into one delicious hot pot. Their Soa Soa hot…

  • Changing Political Environment?

    Here is something I probably would not have blogged about a couple years ago. The National Assembly decided to shelve direct elections of People's Committees at the…

  • Typhoon Noul - Unwarranted Warning???

    This has got to be a tough one for meteorolgists in Vietnam. Obviously a lack of resources and international coordination caused them to bungle on this strom warning. It…