Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Sup. Things are going well here. We're all getting along and having a great time. The companies we've been visiting are very interesting and applicable to business and engineering topics in the region. We visited the US consulate here a few days ago. Getting in for a visit was a big deal for us and I hope we all appreciated it. I did. It's on the site of the old US RVN embassy and has some important history associated with it.
Also we visited Glass Egg Digital Media, who designs in-game artwork for many major video game labels. They COEs there started Glass Egg from scratch and took great advantages of opportunities in the game industry and the VN economy to make a highly successful business. They also hold shares in the local night club, Lush. We went there that night and had a good time, met some locals and forigners, and danced with cute VN girls.
We went to Phu My Hung corporation. They are a city planner in South Saigon partially responsible for constructing the new city. Since Saigon was originally designed for about 40,000 people in French colonial times, today's population of 8M is straining it. New S. Saigon will have higher capacity infrastructure (larger sewers and streets, more electrical power, strategically-placed loading docks for shipping, etc...) for HCMC's large and growing population.
All these visits give a great picture of the VN economic scence, but we're also getting cultural education from our dailiy visits to UEF. More on that later.
I will now get ready for the day.

BTWs it's 07:36 now. GMT +7hrs, EDST +11hrs.

2 comments:

  1. Night clubs and cute girls, huh? You may as well have stayed at home. :) Sounds fun, and so happy you're learning lots along the way.
    How's the food? I'm reading the others' blogs, and so far everyone has liked what they've had.
    How are you managing with the language? Money? Have you been able to use an ATM... or even needed one? Curious moms want to know.
    Thanks for the update. All kinds of people are reading this, and look forward to your posts.

    Love you. ~Mom

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  2. Hope you're taking lots of pictures. Curious to hear about your upcoming weekend. We're getting together at Daniels grandparents on Sunday. We'll have them look at your blog while we're there.
    Keep on having fun!
    ~Mom

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