Ho Chi Mihn City

After a looong way flying and stopping, I got to Ho Chi Mihn City. The city of rushed people, motorbikes, no traffic rules (almost) and a lot of happy people.

First step outside of the airport and hot! 22:45 and it was really hot. Not like dying hot, but enough heat to make me start sweating in three minutes.
I traveled to the apartment that the company where I'm working these weeks, arranged for me. Little problem: they had no record whatsoever that I would arrive. I guess they are needing some software :P

No worries, after talking and having the reception person calling 5 people, he said he would get me a room. It was also my fault of course, because I should have printed their confirmation.
Anyway, they put in a temporary room that luckily happened to be the one they had booked for me.


Sunday, with a bit of jetlag and the bad idea of starting to watch a movie around 3 in the morning (The Transformers... I had it since long, so it was time to see), I woke up a bit late.

I went to the city with a new colleague from work, he showed me a bit around, taught me how to cross streets (no, not so simple as waiting for the green light and cross) and introduced to a nice Vietnamese soup. It was kind of spicy, or I had put too many red chilly stuff there. I tend to sweat with chilly food, so for me it was like I was swimming there! :D

Later on, a nice coffee, really good. But he warned me that it would be strong. Well, the fact that I only slept at 5 in the morning and woke up at 8 to go to work, proves he was right.

Later on, other guys from the company joined us in a bar tour. Very nice streets, food everywhere and a lot of people. Of course motorcycles are everywhere.

I forgot to take my camera on the first day, my fault :| but I will soon post some pictures here. No worries! :)

Probably tonight I will take some already.

Preparing Vietnam

In one of my last posts, I referred that one of the good things of being in Basel is that it is easy to be in other places, quickly. In Germany, France, Italy, which is a very nice to have.
When I wrote this, I was not referring to Vietnam, of course, it is a bit further from here :)

But the truth is that I started to prepare my traveling to Vietnam. So my preparation had in its list:

1. Finding out what to take in terms of pills, diseases, shots. I know I might get malaria so some pills are required, as well as yellow fever, pink fever, big toes fever, hair growing on the eyes, and a lot of other things. The best thing to do is to take a knife and kill all the mosquitoes that come in my way!
2. Second thing on the list is shopping. I must take "special" kind of clothes. Actually they are not special, it just happens that I don't have them. Anyway, this item passed to first place because it's done now. Shopping with friends is much easier, they chose, they say it's always great and that's it, 30 minutes shopping for special Vietnam clothes
3. Get some nice presents for the team in Vietnam. I will meet some colleagues for a work project and I must take something nice. I heard chocolates might melt... hum, that spoils all the fun!
4. I know there should be an item 4...I wonder what it is!
5. Prepare luggage. Boooooring! But not so hard, I'm used to prepare it every few weeks.