Control your barf reflex
Avocado smoothies are delicious. Thanks for broadening my horizons, Vietnam!
Month: October 2017
The Many Poses of Den
I was giving a student visa talk the other day, and my wife, who knows me all too well, was in charge of taking photos. She managed to capture much of my “special” body language. Clearly, I need to get some life coaching, or go to finishing school. Or just stop talking in front of people.
As usual, my humiliation is your entertainment. Enjoy.
Sunrise over Vietnam (and Cambodia)
When I was on a survey trip to the Mekong Delta last week, I stayed one night in a hotel that sits on the bank of the river that separates Vietnam and Cambodia.
The (very) little town of Châu Äốc.
I was awakened at 4:30am by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque (thanks for nothing, guys), and since I was up anyway, I took the opportunity to do a time-lapse video of the sunrise.
75%
We’re 75% through the year, and I’m over 75% through my goal of running 2,017 kilometers this year.
This happens every so often
I work in Asia, and most of the people that I interact with on a daily basis are Asians, with Asian facial features. It gets to the point where the Asian face becomes the “norm” for me. Then when I see a Western face, I get confused.
It’s a strange feeling. I look at myself in the mirror, and my reaction is: what a funny-looking person. His eyes are sunken in, face is pale, and look at the size of that dude’s nose!
How I must appear to my colleagues here in Vietnam
This phenomenon reminds me of the line in the famous Robert Burns poem:
Oh, would some Power give us the gift
To see ourselves as others see us!
Not really a gift, of course. Especially in my case. Sheesh, the schnoz on that guy…