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Senso posted:Fun part: turning the faucet, drinking the water, repeat. Wow I forgot about that luxury. Clean air is another one for me. I mean when Houston's air seems like it's something out of a John Denver song you know you live in a polluted place.
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ReindeerF posted:Clean air is another one for me. I mean when Houston's air seems like it's something out of a John Denver song you know you live in a polluted place. Definitely, coming from the 8 million people Saigon to a small 200,000 city on the sea shore, the air is so pure. At least in Vietnam if you drive out of the city, you get that good air. Even just driving through District 7 at night and it feels like any US suburb, in the quietness and the air.
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Senso posted:Definitely, coming from the 8 million people Saigon to a small 200,000 city on the sea shore, the air is so pure. At least in Vietnam if you drive out of the city, you get that good air. Even just driving through District 7 at night and it feels like any US suburb, in the quietness and the air. I was gushing at the blue skies in Saigon.
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Senso posted:Everything is closed on a Sunday. No, but seriously, gently caress this.
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Senso what was your job in Vietnam? I'd happily take it.
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Brimmy posted:Senso what was your job in Vietnam? I'd happily take it. I was Lead Sysadmin for the Asia region, for a videogame company. Meaning I "managed" a team of about 7 linux sysadmin spread over Vietnam, China, Korea, Indonesia, NZ. Excellent salary, chill job but I have to admit that after 2 years, I got very bored. I think they're replacing me with a Romanian colleague, who will cost much less than I did - I was transferred from Canada and did not accept any salary drop even though I was moving to a "third world" country. I even got a small raise, depending on the exchange rate.  The plan now is to work for the same company, but from home, in France. I'll know if that works out in maybe 2-3 weeks. Senso fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Aug 19, 2013 |
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Senso posted:The plan now is to work for the same company, but from home, in France. I'll know if that works out in maybe 2-3 weeks. Gamer nerds all over. Lemme know if they ever need an English writer. (You know, if HR is too lazy to throw a rock.) I used to do community writing for ArenaNet and wouldn't mind veering back in that direction. I'm a tad burned out on social services at the moment. Hitting Penny Arcade Expo next week, actually. (And Vietnam the week after that!)
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South East Asia Megathread - Gaming Nerds Can Actually Get Laid
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Play posted:South East Asia Megathread - Gaming Nerds Can Actually Get Laid Hush, you. Girls who game can always get laid. It's like the world's shittiest super-power.
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Please God do not go down this road in the SOUTHEAST ASIA THREAD.
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I'm not talking about hookers at all! Edit: Looks like I've killed the thread. 
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All of you Vietnam goons and your SEX TALK!
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ReindeerF posted:All of you Vietnam goons and your SEX TALK! Jealous.
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kru posted:Voting Duckmaster for new OP Please please please please!!  I moved into a house on the weekend (for $85 a month!!!) and have already pissed off my housemates by inviting some woman off the street to clean up the garden of plastic and rusty metal. Then I charged her five dollars for the privilege. Apparently the poo poo lying around the garden "wasn't mine to sell" but they're just jealous cos I made five bucks by lying in a hammock watching someone else working and they didn't. gently caress em.
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Pixelante posted:Jealous. duckmaster posted:Please please please please!! Tytan and I met up and I'd been up since 02:30 the night before working and then traveling, then on the sauce for a while with a few hours' work in between, so by like 11:30 I could barely keep my eyes open and abruptly fled the scene. The rest is mostly a blur and the trip home is non-existent, but a very nice Khmer man shook me awake gently sometime in the middle of the night about three feet from my Hotel door and said, "You go inside." and smiled, gesturing, at which point I looked around, walked inside and passed out. First time that's happened. I am also minus one iPhone, but it needed replacing anyway. Oh Cambodia, what won't you do to me? ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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ReindeerF posted:o no u dih ant Yeh but I'm in Siem Reap. There are no jobs here but who cares? I went out to buy beer last night and bought a TV for 20 dollars on the way home. Some guy was just chilling by the side of the road, selling a TV. A single TV. At 9pm. What kind of business model is that? Well, a pretty good one, since he sold it. I love this country.
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It truly is a Kingdom of Wonder, duckmaster. lemonadesweetheart posted:It really surprises me how few of the people in this thread aren't dead yet. Sheep Goats will still be here posting from New York decades after we're gone.
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I'm behaving myself these days. I'm even going on a fact-finding day out with some guy who runs an NGO, apparently it's a 12 hour day and involves visiting a 'childrens prison'. Whatever that is. I don't know many of the details, I only agreed to this to impress a girl when I was drunk.
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duckmaster posted:I'm behaving myself these days. I'm even going on a fact-finding day out with some guy who runs an NGO, apparently it's a 12 hour day and involves visiting a 'childrens prison'. Whatever that is. Be sober and report back. (About the prison not the girl.) (Oh please god no details about the girl.) (Don't get shived. By either prisoners or the girl.)
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We're quickly going from Vietnamese sex talk to joking about Cambodian children's prisons. Pretty soon it'll be woke-up-next-to-a-Thai-ladyboy stories. Those of us who live here are supposed to keep the reality of Southeast Asia under wraps and just talk about trekking and elephants and temples and markets and things. FIRST RULE OF SE ASIA, DON'T TALK ABOUT SE ASIA. Anyway, off to try some curry at the temple on my way to feeding the elephants 555 narak ^__^ ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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Is that the temple by the ladyboy children's prison?
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ReindeerF posted:o no u dih ant Haha, I was expecting an interesting story but that's pretty impressive. I love the response from the Khmer guy, almost as if he's used to seeing random passed-out foreigners. To be fair, I was pretty wrecked later on. Started heading towards the lakeside with a bunch of people, before remembering it no longer existed and stumbling to street 51.
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Tytan posted:Haha, I was expecting an interesting story but that's pretty impressive. I love the response from the Khmer guy, almost as if he's used to seeing random passed-out foreigners. Tytan posted:To be fair, I was pretty wrecked later on. Started heading towards the lakeside with a bunch of people, before remembering it no longer existed and stumbling to street 51. It's too bad you didn't make it to the Lakeside, that would've been a sight. All of you banging on the big tin wall surrounding it and the doors of the two streets they left there on the edge demanding they open up and serve you. On an unrelated note, gave a moto taxi 50 Baht last night for a 10 Baht ride home. He didn't have change, so he gave me his vest number and name. Ran across him today and he gave me 40 Baht back. I did the same in reverse for a guy a few months ago who I had to stiff. Stuff like that I love about this place. Then the museum at the children's prison where they feed kids to Tigers and then sell elephant tusks in the ladyboy market. That comes after. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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ReindeerF posted:It truly is a Kingdom of Wonder, duckmaster. Who was the casualty? If all goes according to the lifeplan I'll be moving to Saigon this time in 2 years (1 year detour to study first), that's if I don't move there in February for six months, in which case I probably wont make it to this time next year nevermind two years from now. I'm back in Korea six days and I already miss Vietnam. Hate you guys and your living in tropical paradises.
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Brimmy posted:Who was the casualty? Brimmy posted:Hate you guys and your living in tropical paradises. EDIT: Good luck with your eventual move to THAT OTHER COUNTRY. Ahem. sextourists ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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lemonadesweetheart posted:It really surprises me how few of the people in this thread aren't dead yet. Yeah I'm frankly surprised I'm not dead.
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I once went to the island on the night boat, which usually docks at 7am. That night, it docked at 2am which to me meant I had time to go party. I don't have much memory of the night, but I woke up in the office of the bungalows I usually stay in there. I'd only lost 2k baht which, given my hangover, was probably spent on buckets and shots. Maybe we should change the thread title to SE Asia: We should all be dead.
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In the China thread they have this same discussion, but it's about pollution, tainted foods and gutter oil.
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ReindeerF posted:In the China thread they have this same discussion, but it's about pollution, tainted foods and gutter oil. And prostitutes. I will never forget the "Yoda of paid sex."
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Haha, yes, I still keep that Photoshop on my desktop in case it comes up again. I've always hoped we won't have our Yoda moment here.
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Hey guys, I heard about this place called Pattaya...
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Jeoh posted:Hey guys, I heard about this place called Pattaya... The whole city should be quarantined and studied by sociologists. EDIT: Or transplanted wholesale into Sihanoukville or Angeles City. \/\/\/ Haha. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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A friend of mine visited Pattaya after it being recommended by her uncle. She said a lot of his life now makes more sense.
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