Half-year ramblings (Part 2)

As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been here for exactly half a year now. I’ve adjusted considerably well after about just one month. In fact, I haven’t really missed Singapore that much. Maybe just the food LAH. But then again, it’s not too difficult to find Singapore cuisine here. I just had laksa for lunch today, and at times, I get my char kway teow, carrot cake, and murtabak delivered to my place – for free!

Labor cost is low here so many places staff up, some to a ridiculous extent. At times, I don’t know which is worse – an efficient society with high unemployment or an inefficient society with low unemployment. It’s interesting to walk into the meeting room and see your staff sleeping on top of newspapers laid out on the floor.

Anyway, let me introduce you to.....

Piggy’s Top Signs of Living in Vietnam!!!

1. Eating pho (pronounced “fur”) is not longer a crude sexual euphemism.
2. The final price you pay is at least 20% less than the ‘original best price’.
3. No one wears the yellow-star red tee except for backpackers and yourself.
4. You sit at two-foot high tables on one-foot high chairs.
5. Dinner on the table looks like a congregation of field slugs and animals.
6. Each meal comes with a minimum of 5 different types of fish sauce.
7. Motorcycles outnumber cars 43,000 times to 1.
8. Every road looks like the one you just passed.
9. Policemen break the law.
10. Anything can be done if the brown envelope is thick enough.

Wonder what's inside...hmmm