here i will (possibly) update you with pics or interesting facts about my vacay to 'nam and hong kong. ok so it isn't really a vacay but i will update you anyway.

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i'm leaving tomorrow!!!

1/13/2010 9:44:15 PM

man i seen some shit go down in nam, shit you dont wanna know about maaaaaan

1/13/2010 9:44:49 PM

have a good trip

fuck TWW. don't update us until you get back. don't fuck around with the internet while you're on vacation

1/13/2010 9:45:20 PM

enjoy it

hk is epic

1/13/2010 9:46:02 PM

Enjoy it

Just remember that I will always be a better dresser than you

1/13/2010 9:47:15 PM

I seen a few good men killed on pork chop hill.

1/13/2010 9:55:50 PM

hiiiiiiiiii

i haven't really updated

look here is me holding a snake in vietnam:



now i am in hong kong in bed cause i am pooped. and i feel ill from either: airplane food, chinese mcdonalds, or the very windy curvy bus ride we had on our tour today. or perhaps from the total 10 hours of sleep i've gotten in the past 3 days. probably a combo

highlights so far: meeting people, getting lost and almost sold into sexual slavery by a "rick shaw" driver, my roommate/friend's luggage got lost and we had to share clothes for 3 days and ummmm oh yea she got mugged last night in vietnam.

other than that goooood times.

toured the theodore alexander factory in vietnam which was meh and the scancom factory which was totally awesome. http://www.scancom.net/ - really cool company (in my opinion anyway).

in vietnam we visited the cu chi tunnels and mekong delta. those were our "touristy" things. oh and on the last night (last night) we took a bonsai cruise and it was totally touristy but really really really fun. buffet and an amazing magician - best slight of hand i've ever seen!

then we visited the factories, the gannon group (a cool logistics company) and one law firm. very busy at least 12 hour days but i've had a ton of fun. i really liked saigon/ho chi minh city. def dirty w/ an infrastructure that cannot keep up with the pace of the economy so there are power outages, unreliable water, bad roads, there is just trash everywhere...and the traffic is beyond insane.

i don't know - traveling with a structured group has its pros and cons. mostly cons i'd say though. i'd love to return to asia in the future on my own w/o such a set schedule. of course then i wouldn't be inside these factories or networking with really interesting people.

1/20/2010 8:41:23 AM

why are you there if it really isn't a vacation?

1/20/2010 8:43:52 AM

did you get some Bia hoi

1/20/2010 8:44:34 AM

^^ for school

^ haha no. i only drank the tiger beer and the saigon beer. if you are talking about the bia beer. the one they call ba ba ba.

and i met these swedish boys and we taught each other bad words in our respective languages. so mature.

oh and in vietnam (or at least in HMC) people do NOT understand what "shots" are. language barrier definitely provided for some hilarious conversations

[Edited on January 20, 2010 at 8:46 AM. Reason : .]

1/20/2010 8:45:56 AM

which district of hk are you staying in

1/20/2010 8:47:17 AM

what in the god damn hell is a vacay?

1/20/2010 8:48:27 AM

^^ Kowloon...i think?

my hotel looks out on the harbor!

^ vacation - duh

[Edited on January 20, 2010 at 8:50 AM. Reason : .]

1/20/2010 8:50:15 AM

oh and a guy in our group got really sick from eating a beating snake heart. taboo style.

yuck.

1/20/2010 9:01:05 AM

nice.

kowloon was where i spent the majority of my time there too.

a little bit in macau too.

that was right before the olympics, and it was really shoved down your throat.

HEY HERE'S WHERE THE EQUESTRIAN EVENTS WILL BE HELD

I DONT GIVE A SHIT

i think that was the only part outside beijing

there's some ballin' dining to be had in HK, although it's quite an expensive town compared to the surrounding areas.

1/20/2010 9:05:16 AM

i may/may not do macau. what do you think? i don't care about gambling so i dunno if it'd be worth it for me.

they showed us the horse place ton because there's some horse shit going on tonight. they love that place!!

i am excited about eating. but the thought of food right now makes me want to die

1/20/2010 9:06:52 AM

Quote :

"^ vacation - duh"

can you not just fucking type vacation instead of sounding like a fucking stupid 10 year old?

1/20/2010 9:10:09 AM

yeah the gamblin' was about all i did in macau

to this day, the only cantonese i really remember involved things needed to handle yourself in a bar, or at a casino.

1/20/2010 9:11:06 AM

Tiger beer =

1/20/2010 9:11:57 AM

Be careful on the sampans

We had some dumbass driver who tipped us twice

1/20/2010 9:13:31 AM

^^^^ i will consider it if you consider using your brain to infer what certain terms MIGHT mean

^^^ yea i prob won't end up doing that. i only remember one vietnamese word. well 2 actually. and the second has like 12 meanings like all their other words so i think i'm doing pretty well. haven't learned anything here yet!

^^ meh it was ok i guess. i liked the saigon better

^ so you fell in the water?!

1/20/2010 9:22:00 AM

okie dokie well here


nihao (hello)
xiexie (thank you)
buyongxie (you're welcome)
zaijian (bye!)
bei zau (beer, something close to that)

[Edited on January 20, 2010 at 9:25 AM. Reason : my spellings going to be off, havent thought about these in like a year and a half]

1/20/2010 9:25:35 AM

Yes

The water there is beyond disgusting

It makes the East River look clean

[Edited on January 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM. Reason : x]

1/20/2010 9:31:32 AM

i'm BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!

1/24/2010 9:40:03 PM

1/24/2010 9:40:36 PM

pictures???

1/25/2010 12:45:37 AM

I was wondering where you were...

MISS YOU!*


*by "you" I mean "your posts" because I only e-know you

1/25/2010 12:52:05 AM

i didnt miss you. go back to nam

1/25/2010 12:56:02 AM

I wanna see some cool pictures from 'nam + Hong Kong.

I hear really great things about Hong Kong. My grandparents went there back in the day and my grandmother loved it.

1/25/2010 10:16:32 AM

pick up any parasites

by sold into sexual slavery do you mean he talked to someone else rapidly and pointed or did he try to run you guys down into a dark isolated ally?

mugged? they beat you up and robbed you?

1/25/2010 10:27:24 AM

oh i thought you were doing a semester there or something

1/25/2010 10:55:47 AM

you're lucky, now you get to tell stories bout your days in 'nam
but i hear their sea side mountains are extraordinarily beautiful

1/25/2010 11:48:11 AM

Quote :

"toured the theodore alexander factory in vietnam which was meh and the scancom factory which was totally awesome. http://www.scancom.net/ - really cool company (in my opinion anyway)."

I've always wanted to do a tour in 'nam.

1/25/2010 12:12:35 PM

I've done multiple tours in Nam and I'm telling you, there are some crazy shit over there. I love it so much, I'm going back in March.

1/25/2010 1:28:39 PM

[Edited on January 25, 2010 at 1:47 PM. Reason : x]

1/25/2010 1:40:52 PM

i have a lot more pictures i will post laterrrrr. i tried to upload them to facebook last night but got impatient and stopped.

1/26/2010 8:37:58 AM

post more here. especially the sexual slavery ones

1/26/2010 9:03:16 AM

that picture was pre sexual slavery scare

LUCKILY i made it out of the ciclo before i was sold into slavery

1/26/2010 9:10:43 AM

haha, i was jk about the sex slave shit. would like to see pics though. ive never been to asia

1/26/2010 9:12:41 AM

my camera sucks but i did take a lot of pictures so i'll def post more

but seriously - the ciclo scare was real. my friend and i were both taking a ciclo tour with crazy vietnamese men (see previous picture) around saigon (which is scary in itself due to the traffic situation) and we got separated which was really freaky. and it was at night. and we weren't just separated for like 3 minutes. it was like 10 minutes. i was seriously thinking to myself "how bad would it hurt if i jumped out of this right now"

luckily after lots of yelling (language barrier!) we were reunited and immediately deboarded our respective ciclos.

later we read in our guide book that it is advised that tourists NOT take ciclo rides after dark. whoops.

1/26/2010 9:15:47 AM

dont worry, i am not a picture snob.

i dont give a shit about framing or lighting. i just wanna see some shit.

1/26/2010 9:21:25 AM

Have fun--but be careful! That guy in the pic above looks like he's about a rice dumpling or two short of a combo plate.

1/26/2010 9:25:59 AM

hahaha

he was

and he spoke like 5 words of english "boat...very old" "statue...very old" "hard rock cafe...very old"

1/26/2010 9:30:36 AM

the left-handed peace sign is freakin' me out

looks like y'all broke yo wrisssss

1/26/2010 9:36:22 AM

FREAKIN ME OUT

1/26/2010 9:39:16 AM

haha

they freaking love the peace sign. i didn't even notice it was left handed.

1/26/2010 9:42:01 AM

If you hear, "I boom-boom long time," run!

1/26/2010 9:44:38 AM