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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
On a roll
I have felt atypically productive in the last few days, knocking a few nagging items off my to-do list (finish writing report cards, renew my car’s expired registration, book my return flight to Cayman after Christmas).
While I’m in this productive mood, I thought I’d take a few moments on this hot, sunny Saturday morning in [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Vietnam by Brent
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Catching up: Goodnight Saigon
My mother, among others, demands to know why I have stopped taking pictures.
A fair question. The answer: I haven’t.
I feel I need to catch up here before I can move on. After posting arguably my best photograph to my Flickr account, I have taken 2,384 pictures without uploading a single one. It’s not that I [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Vietnam by Brent
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
The Winds of Change
I am sitting on a bed inside a condominium on the Cayman Islands. Right now I am listening to the gusts of Hurricane Gustav blow belligerently against my shuttered window. It’s night already, so even if I were to draw back the metal shutters, there would be little to see. Still, I’m tempted to step [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Cayman, Weather by Brent
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Wear Sunscreen
Does anybody remember the “song” Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) that filmmaker Baz Luhrmann unleashed on the world in 1999? A litany of advice to young people originally written by Chicago Tribune writer Mary Schmich, read by voice actor Lee Perry over a remix of Quindon Tarver’s “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)”, it was [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Vietnam by Brent
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
On Preparing to Leave
I will leave Vietnam in five weeks’ time. Between now and then I have only one weekend without commitments. My parents will be here for two hectic weeks at the beginning of July. The end is barreling down on me.
MCC has provided reading material to help us prepare for the process of reentry. We’ve been [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Vietnam by Brent
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
It Looks Worse Sped Up
Someone known by the rather inscrutable handle “v!Nc3sl4s” has posted a pretty decent video of Hanoi traffic to the video sharing site Vimeo.
The time-lapse video of an intersection near Hoan Kiem Lake adds considerable excitement to an already dramatic experience by speeding everything up.
The video really gets good around the one-minute mark when you get [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Vietnam by Brent
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
A Look at Laos
I have uploaded two photosets from my trip to Laos. Click the pictures below to enter the albums.
The first is of Luang Prabang, which I wrote about previously.
Luang Prabang:
The second is of our MCC regional retreat in Vientiane. Expatriate service workers living in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos came together for a few days [...]
