Of all the great injustices in the world, the least is that not one finds me even mildly amusing
Still, to make me feel better, God said: Ut res magis valeat quam pereat, for now you shan't be the one who amuses, but shall be The Fantastically Fawning Fan.
Of---

Their flag is red. And has a star. It's like I made it.
There is something about things being big in numbers and/or in size which I cannot resist. And Vietnam has plenty stuff of the sort:

An assemblage of motorbikes waiting to Go

More slowing down on a tiny flea market street

And yet more at full speed towards wherever we're going.
There is also something about things which offer a stark contrast to the norm:

You will find human-powered bike riders in hats like this lady among the motorbike riders, maybe 50 to 1. Or sometimes, more picturesquely, alone in the city street.

You may also find pretend natives in museum shops of war horrors.
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Comment from: Cynch [Member]
p.1 Love that flag; it made itself go dramatic-- all windblown and wavy.
I look cool in that non la. Fact. If I were skinny, I might pass for a Vietnamese. Haha.
p.2 I hadn't realized you had that many bowls of soupy/noodly things. I just had pho once. I was on auto-pilot to the sweets side of the spread. Each. Time.
The Viet Cong had such imagination and cunning. Maybe Beloved Team could take tips?
p.3 Your description of our hotel is just as easily the checklist for Ideal Man: would take care of you, and feed you bottomlessly always, and send you wine and a cheese platter... and would make you forget about "settling". Oh yeah. I just had some rice wine.
I miss those cookies with the muchest of muchnesses.
p.4 Grabe. I look like The Show Pony with all my photos (Kunyari, modest and of a retiring nature.)
You should have called RF "chump". It would certainly be more apt.
I look cool in that non la. Fact. If I were skinny, I might pass for a Vietnamese. Haha.
p.2 I hadn't realized you had that many bowls of soupy/noodly things. I just had pho once. I was on auto-pilot to the sweets side of the spread. Each. Time.
The Viet Cong had such imagination and cunning. Maybe Beloved Team could take tips?
p.3 Your description of our hotel is just as easily the checklist for Ideal Man: would take care of you, and feed you bottomlessly always, and send you wine and a cheese platter... and would make you forget about "settling". Oh yeah. I just had some rice wine.
I miss those cookies with the muchest of muchnesses.
p.4 Grabe. I look like The Show Pony with all my photos (Kunyari, modest and of a retiring nature.)
You should have called RF "chump". It would certainly be more apt.
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Comment from: Annsley [Member]
Re p. 3: Haha. Yes. The same way we equate football with love. And I, tennis with love. It's double the fun, too, because "love" is a tennis score. Hm. This deserves a full-fledged post...
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 @ 21:15
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p.s. Also, I just finished Around the World in 80 Days. And so. I think... :) :) :)
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Comment from: M [Visitor]
I didn't know Vietnamese were skinny?
Oh and A, I agree, the concept of the flag is entirely you. hahaha
Oh and A, I agree, the concept of the flag is entirely you. hahaha
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A, football may be love, but Arsenal FC is the One True Thing. Who cares that we lost to Porto because of our ghastly defending, classified by my Fab Captain, in atypical harshness as "schoolboy errors" by the keeper?
Fabianski, second-choice goalie, first netted an own goal (!) and then made a hash of a quickly-taken free kick by opposition. Before I could even blink, we were down 2-1.
Actually, M, the first paragraph might have better been addressed to you.
A, excellent.
M, the Vietnamese are generally slim. Not as slim as you, of course, but close. They don't have rounded tummies.
Their traditional dress for ladies, the ao dai, is a superduper form-fitting tunic, slit along the sides up to the waist (oh dear), worn over flare pants.
I am happy that God, in his infinite wisdom, made me a Pinay.
Fabianski, second-choice goalie, first netted an own goal (!) and then made a hash of a quickly-taken free kick by opposition. Before I could even blink, we were down 2-1.
Actually, M, the first paragraph might have better been addressed to you.
A, excellent.
M, the Vietnamese are generally slim. Not as slim as you, of course, but close. They don't have rounded tummies.
Their traditional dress for ladies, the ao dai, is a superduper form-fitting tunic, slit along the sides up to the waist (oh dear), worn over flare pants.
I am happy that God, in his infinite wisdom, made me a Pinay.
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