SirHonkersTheFirst

Wildlife and human traffickers - the lowest form of sub-human on earth.

The Chinese are a savvy bunch. Not the nicest, but very savvy. And they thrive on chaos and corruption, which is abundant in many, many countries (including their own). Now in Vietnam, and those Vietnamese that say they hate China are the ones that haven't been offered a healthy lump of coffee money by their neighbours just yet.

Leaving next month, tidying up some odds and ends.

Was driving to Hanoi this morning at 5am, on a highway from Haiphong, always super busy with container trucks and all manner of other vehicles. Now I'm not sure who's worse - the Thais or the Viets, but the Viets IMHO are <deleted> horrendous. Traffic came to a near halt, and we all proceeded past what must be a daily occurrence - a lifeless corspe with his head split open like a watermelon, lying on the road. Methinks he went under a truck. Haven't seen a fresh corspe in decades. May well have some nightmares tonight. Honestly, the way some people drive - they don't deserve the right to use the road or operate anything with wheels, besides a wheelbarrow.

Who change their minds frequently and erratically, depending which side of the bed they woke up on. That also applies to the imbeciles who afford their luxury lifestyles based on how much they can charge and extort for business visas, work permits and Residence Cards for foreign workers.

I've lived in both. In BKK for a week right now getting a new visa for VN, and the traffic and noise and road user etiquette is light years ahead of the selfish, homocidal clowns on Vietnamese roads. Almost everything is better in Thailand - food, weather, air quality, people, infrastructure, vacation destinations, etc etc. Working in VN is painful - so much corruption and hoop jumping. Only to be treated like <deleted> (and cheated) by your employer. The students are, for the most part, alright. HCMC and Hanoi are big, noisy, polluted, and in comparison to BKK, bland and backwards. The coastal cities are ok-ish, beaches ok-ish. Some nice natural scenery, if you survive the roads to get to these places. VN is 15-20 years behing Thailand. And it is still a communist/socialist country, with pig-headed nationalism ever loitering. It's like a poor version of China, with mediocre food, sh1tty infrastructure, low pay, and no option to settle long-term, if you were foolish enough to make that choice. On the upside, for every a$$clown there, there is a decent person, the COL is low, and there is some decent natural scenery. I'm noping out of VN in the next 6-12 months. Too many better places/countries to see and do. And I just can't handle the noise and near death I face every day as a road user.

Tu Hao is a derogatory term used in China to refer to 'new money with no class'. I have no idea why he would call himself that.

Zolplistad 7.5mg (Zopiclone) available in most larger pharmacies. 24-40k VND/10 tablets. Haven't prices Cialis.