February 2011

Had an afternoon meeting at Highlands Coffee. It is located on Ham Nghi street near Ben Thanh Market. Not a bad location.

VNPT, as well as FPT as home, seem to have resolved their bandwidth issues inside of Vietnam. Unfortunately, speeds outside of Vietnam are still kind of slow as you will…

I always take a short walk after lunch. My walking path goes along So. 44 which is unpaved and dusty in parts but paved at the end. Makes for a good walk.

Today, the Vietnam Stock Exchange (HOSE), took another big nose dive losing some 12 points settling at 470.02. Back on February 9th, it was up to 522.59 and everybody…

Had thus great lunch today. Two stuffed green peppers with salad. I really enjoyed it.

I choose a 8:30 AM arrival time to work in efforts to miss the big morning traffic jam. Most staff arrive at their companies from 7:30-8:00 AM. Today the traffic was…

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Very light traffic for Saturday afternoon.

There are about 6 stoplights along Ly Tu Trong street in District 1. I got a red light on 5 of them. Blog post...

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No traffic police this morning. I found three having breakfast at the First Hotel this morning. :-)

This is the nearest airport from Nha Trang, about 360,000 VND to take a taxi there. It is better to have your hotel take you if you can. The airport is nice. There is a…