Antidote to Burnout

Language frustration...

I am growing increasingly frustrated at my inability to speak Vietnamese. I want to be a sociable person in my neighborhood, but I haven't gotten past "Hello, how are you" yet. Vietnamese people are very sociable people -- they love... Read more →

Is Viet Nam the next China?

A very thoughtful posting by Dan Harris, an attorney from Seattle practicing in China and other international venues, states that the next China is actually the interior of China itself. What we usually think of as the developing China market... Read more →

Out in the HCMC Countryside Part 2

Heading north out of Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh (TPHCM) east of Tân Sơn Nhất Airport, you travel on urban streets of Quận (District) Gò Vấp that take you to the west once you clear the airport grounds. Moving out... Read more →

Out in the HCMC Countryside Part 1

Thành Phố (City) Hồ Chí Minh (TPHCM) is as large in area as some provinces in Việt Nam, and includes a large amount of countryside. As we have posted earlier, TPHCM is a very densely-populated urban city. While averaging 10,405... Read more →

Street Advertising in HCMC

Productive work has intruded on my blogging for the past week, but I have now snapped out of it. After all, this blog is about the antidote to burnout. Meanwhile, both noodlepie and The final Word in Saigon posted stories... Read more →

The new urban area alternative for Ho Chi Minh City

The Vietnamese blogger Le Bao Tuan from Hue posted on his blog a while back several beautiful pictures and his thoughts about the new development Phú Mỹ Hưng in the Saigon South new urban area of Thành Phố (City) Hồ... Read more →

Working 365 days a year here....

Not me, of course. This blog is about the antidote to burnout, after all. But the vendors bringing by the food every day in our hẻm (alley) in TP. Hồ Chí Minh come by every day without fail. The most... Read more →