nicktay & sarafoo|our lives together

Hey, Its the Lamer’s Birthday. Beleive it or they boy if finally 19!. Time to grow up Kiddo!! Anyways, Your cell leader is sorry he Can’t be there to celebrate, But when I get back we will go for that Banana Leave Rice I promissed you okay?

For your info. The No.1 Song when you were born was 1984: ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’ by Stevie Wonder.

Prayer : “Lord Jesus, I pray as bruce grows one year by one year, you continue to pour out your blessings on his life. Oh Lord Help him with his walk Lord, his studies, and Show him your plan for this future. In Jesus name I pray. Amen”

To celebrate our new sucess we went for a seafood dinner. We travelled the only way to travell when you are in Vietnam, on motorbikes. You have not lived till you zoomed through Hanoi on a 110CC Honda. It was the 4 of us, Thuy, Duc, Hien and myself. Duc brought me on her bike, and she actually got lost.We also almost got into a major accident with a BUS!! Scary!!

We arrived at this small seafood place and they ordered. The first dish was prawns. And they were great. Steamed with coconut milk…Heavenly. The next was interesting. French Fries fried with garlic. The vietnamese eat this with chopsticks and dipping them in Soya Sauce. Hmmm…Next was the Spinach, and then the Slugs. I had 2 of those guys.

Then came the crabs. I have learned something today, there is no way to eat crabs without getting your hands dirty, and boy mine were as soiled as they could get. Even Duc laughed at me while I ate them. One more thing to add to the list of things I can’t do. Eat crab decently.

The meal ended with soup, chinese tea and believe it or not chewing gum. This was the first time I have seen this, but sure enough when the waitron served the tea, there were 4 sticks of Pepermint Gum.

Tomorrow is gonna prove to be hectic, the other Vendor is comming and we are gonna really push to get the MasterCardâ„¢ logs out before the end of the month. I actually have wedding to attend on Nov 1st. Its one of those wedding where I am actually looking forward to.

Well, More Later

wait·ron (wâ’trŏn’, -trÉ™n)
n.

A waiter or waitress.

[Alteration of WAITER]

Yes. Part One of our Visa online test has been completed. Tomorrow we will do part two and then if all goes well, we can close Phase 1 and Go Live! w00t!!!!!! (Word of the Day). If all goes well, they promises to buy me a good dinner tomorrow. Now this is a dinner I look forward to.

News Flash : Today is Vietnam Women Day! Interesting. Allot of the ladies in the bank have received flowers and stuff. Not sure on the significance of this day, but somebody hinted that I should buy the girls flowers…I think I’ll pass on that one. Its one thing to give flowers to somebody you know to cheer them up, its quite another to give them to clients

Since we are in the topic of Flower giving. Guys. Wanna give flowers but don’t have a clue what to do? Fret Not. Click Here. Don’t you just love google. Sometimes I wonder how we survived before it. And what happend the the old search engines like this or even this.

More tomorrow.

And Yes, If you are a young working adult, and you are in Malaysia, and You have nothing on, Why not Drop by to our Event of the Evening, Get Connected. Its will be a time of fellowship where you can “Network” with people of your age. Its actually a great event, and I wanna go soo badly. For more reasons then I would care to share here

The day today is going slow, I have a big issue to resolve, which I need support from Malaysia, and Guess what? I am the only person working on a Sunday! Hmmm…I wonder why?

Tomorrow is gonna be a really hectic day, where I have Visaâ„¢ Online test schedule with Visaâ„¢ Singapore. If all things go well, we will have completed one stage of the project and I will sleep much better.

My Favorite Vietnamese girl is back from Taiwan, but I have not really spoken to her much. I think she is still mad cos I didn’t reply her emails. I know I get angry when people don’t reply mine, but I can’t really be too friendly with the clients. It may sound strange, but really I can’t. So I keep to myself when I am here. Wish I had friends out of the office like Dora in Indonesia. (Miss You Sharkbait-Huhaha!) If you are reading this. Seriously, you made my Jakarta Experience really memorable :).

Yesterday, I took a walk to the VCD/DVD/CD stall, I see everyday on the way back from work. This shop was pathetic. They did not have any VCD’s or DVD’s worth buying, all Karaoke and Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese Shows. Fortunately they did have a few CD’s. I purchased an Elviss CD for VND 20,000 (RM 4.98, USD 1.30). It would have been a good deal if the CD had worked. I decided that It would take too much effort to go back there and get my money back, especially since it took me like 10 minutes to tell the guy I wanted to buy the CD in the first place.

There are 3 things about Vietnam that really gets to me:

1. The way people stare at me. Seriously, its like they have never seen a Malaysians before. They don’t stare at the White Folks as much as they stare at me.
2. The way the motorbikes and cars keep pressing thier horns. Its sooo noisy. The level of noise polution can drive anybody mad!
3. How nobody has change! The biggest note they have is VND 100,000. I can understand not having change for that. But you give a taxi driver VND 50,000 or even VND 20,000 and he can’t give you change. How do people do business like that?? Seriouslly. I have to store soo much small change in my wallet, that its soo uncomfortable to sit. Oh Vietnam does not have coins. And the smallest note they have is VND200 (Try and convert that into USD) which buys you absolutely nothing.

Tonight Miss Thuy (the Lady Boss) is suppose to take me out for a seafood dinner…Hmmm. I am actually not looking forward to it. Its not really enjoyable having dinner with your Clients. Its hard to explain the feeling, you can’t really be yourself, you have to be extra carefull with your manners. Almost like meeting your girlfriends Parents for the first time. Oh Well… I will report back later on how it went.

Today, I discovered another reason why I wanna be back in Malaysia. One of my close friends is really hurting emotionally. She has been avoiding most people and well, is not doing too well. Usually she talked and shares stuff with me, and with me being away for soo long, I feel that I am not there for her.

The Seafood dinner tonight has been cancelled! YES!! I am actually happy about this! I will be going back to the Apartment now. I wonder whats on TV.

Later