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a hitchhiker's guide to vietnam

Journal Entry: Sun Mar 30, 2008, 7:22 AM
  • Mood: Dazed
  • Listening to: Marcus Intalex Soul:ution Radio 08/02/08
  • Watching: D.Gray-Man 76!! Akuma no tameni!
  • Eating: PHO!!!!!
  • Drinking: too much rice wine... :/
This is for those of you wondering what I've been up to for the past month... it's kinda disjointed, but hey, shouldnt all the best things in life be disjointed as well as free? This way, you can have a fulfilling life without chasing those blighters down! :confused: ^^;

DAY 1: Step out of the airport terminal to a rockstar's welcome; realize that foreigners don't come here often to work... :giggle:

DAY 2: realize that persistent tropical haze in ho chi minh city prevents all flights out... situation looks dire

DAY 3: Finally recover from strange time difference, eat so much food I don't eat at all the next day

DAY 4: don't eat at all but drink. A lot.

DAY 5: eat so much food I don't eat at all the next day

DAY 6: well, you get the picture by now...! :D

DAY 7: get bicycle, get laughed at by passers-by on motorbikes

DAY 18: get motorbike, get laughed at by passers-by on bicycles

DAY 8: get introduced to Pho, most addictive noodle soup ever created :drool:

DAY 9: find out company is buying its first 'legal' software... after 15 years

DAY 10: learn first chinese word!

DAY 11: Owners of Pho shop now know exactly who I am & who I work for... learn that the waiter's sister fancies me! :paranoid:

DAY 12: realize that all coffee in vietnam is made with condensed milk; panic for first time

DAY 13: Go to spanish architects' conference, speak spanish in vietnam... go figure!

DAY 14: have first stomach ache problems, cant figure out why but overdose on pills anyway

DAY 15: mystery forces move my fridge & unplug my toothbrush

DAY 16: fridge moves again, hire local shaman to exorcise it

DAY 17: become an instant millionaire at an ATM, realize it's only about $60 AU! :w00t:

DAY 19: person nearby finally realizes I've been sucking the speed from their wireless network for the past 2 weeks... busted!!

DAY 20: learn first vietnamese word!

DAY 23: get sunburnt badly at vung tau, swim in pristine yet highly polluted waters :lmao:

DAY 24: start of 4-star hotel schematic development at work... 4 days to prepare!! :fear:

DAY 25: owners at highlands coffee now know me as a regular too, start making house calls

DAY 26: challenge colleagues to a rice wine drinking contest and win... but lose motor function 30 minutes later!

DAY 28: recover from rice wine, though strangely remember every sobering detail (and the phone number of some guy named Binh for some reason)

DAY 29: after giving a 45-minute presentation to hotel clients, they then demand a 1000-seat restaurant as well... :faint:

DAY 30: stomach problems die down... maybe the alcohol killed it! :dance:

Cháo from Vietnam!
Tom.

aka. ~a1106047

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Xin cháo & Ni Hao to the following DA clubs! :wave:

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my sitooterie, still there... somehow! :winner: [link]

[link] < warning! bad grammar and hilarity awaits YOU!

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 23
  • Current Residence: Ho Chi Minh City, Some apartment in District 7!
  • Interests: Architecture, 3D graphics, Anime, insomnia...
  • Favourite movie: The 5th Element, Spirited Away, Hackers, atm? Naruto Shippuuden!
  • Favourite genre of music: anything and everything adelaide drum n' bass!!
  • Favourite artist: Architects are artists too!
  • Operating System: Vista... FX-60 2x2.6ghz; nvidia 8800gts, 2.5gb ram
  • Personal Quote: adoiii! (my malay is really troublesome...)
  • Tools of the Trade: Form*Z 6, ArchiCAD 9, 3ds Max 9, Photoshop CS3, AutoCAD 08, Sketch Up 6 +Vray!

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~a1106047:icona1106047: Apr 3, 2008, 5:19:02 AM
haha, where have you been eh?! long time no see! :lmao: i graduated last year, have been working @ an arch office in vietnam for 5 weeks... have you graduated yet? :D

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Postgrad arch. student, adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? ~ArchiByte is 4 u!
~saaraa:iconsaaraa: Apr 3, 2008, 4:31:05 AM
hey have you graduated yet? ur work is great, have u got a job yet? i like the idea of your last project you uploaded with the glenelg one with open space
~thebailey:iconthebailey: Feb 22, 2008, 2:15:31 AM
love your work dude : thanks for the add! allow me to reciprocate...

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architecture is voodoo... (buckminster fuller)

*ArchiByte
~datazoid:icondatazoid: Feb 11, 2008, 7:59:28 PM
Thanks for the favourite. It means a lot having seen your own gallery. :)
~damsel-distressed:icondamsel-distressed: Feb 7, 2008, 8:01:24 AM
well congrats! I think getting real life experience in the industry is important...thats what im thinking of doing before I do my masters. But its all fate I think.

So who are some of your favourite architects?
~a1106047:icona1106047: Feb 6, 2008, 9:47:14 PM
kinda both... as much as I love adelaide, there aren't many job opportunities here... hence the moving part :D

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Postgrad arch. student, adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? *ArchiByte is 4 u!
~damsel-distressed:icondamsel-distressed: Feb 6, 2008, 7:06:11 PM
awesome...did you want to leave your country or did it just happen that way?
~a1106047:icona1106047: Feb 5, 2008, 12:22:24 AM
lol! I just changed my signature~ i graduated in december last year... I've just been hired as a freelance at an arch/construction firm in Vietnam, so exciting times! :dance:

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Postgrad arch. student, adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? *ArchiByte is 4 u!
~damsel-distressed:icondamsel-distressed: Feb 4, 2008, 8:15:09 AM
Koolhaas is the man of the moment right now I think.

So what are you doing after you graduate?
~a1106047:icona1106047: Feb 4, 2008, 2:11:02 AM
agh, my heart reaches out to you then! :glomp: great gallery project ideas, i've got the koolhaas book too... no idea how im going to carry it from aus to vietnam though! :cries:

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Final year arch. student @ adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? *ArchiByte is 4 u!
~damsel-distressed:icondamsel-distressed: Feb 3, 2008, 6:20:12 PM
I totally agree that architects are artists too!

I am a fellow architecture student! Sleep deprived as well!
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~mekram:iconmekram: Jan 30, 2008, 11:53:20 PM
thanks for the fav!

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*ArchiByte
Check out my gallery!!! [link]
~a1106047:icona1106047: Jan 30, 2008, 8:16:00 PM
hola hombre, estoy muy bien! No 'os preocupeis,' :D ya tengo algunos projectos nuevos para ti y tus amigos! :w00t: disfrutalos, y feliz ano nuevo! :dance:

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Final year arch. student @ adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? *ArchiByte is 4 u!
~feRssh:iconfeRssh: Jan 28, 2008, 8:58:48 PM
que tal!?
solo visitando por aca tu dA y viendo que cosas nuevas nos tienes, jeje
adioss!
~yusuf-Abdelbaky:iconyusuf-Abdelbaky: Jan 18, 2008, 3:35:28 AM
Thank u for the fav :D

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There is no in Architecture small project and big project.
I think that !!
~a1106047:icona1106047: Jan 7, 2008, 6:19:31 PM
hey, thanks for the kudos! we all have our own style & method of using programs anyway... it's all about personal taste :boogie: ;p

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Final year arch. student @ adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? *ArchiByte is 4 u!
~a1106047:icona1106047: Jan 7, 2008, 6:17:43 PM
you're welcome, feel free to ask if you have any more issues! :handshake:

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Final year arch. student @ adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? *ArchiByte is 4 u!
~garfield101:icongarfield101: Jan 5, 2008, 1:47:02 AM
hI! i just remmeber. thank you for helping me with my ipod problems before. i already worked out the wav issue. thanks!

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Sex is like math: Add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, and pray to god you don't multiply. :giggle:

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly :hug:
~Catherine-Supernova:iconCatherine-Supernova: Jan 4, 2008, 7:58:45 AM
i just want to say that your work is most impressive and that i admire it. i use almost all the same programs you do, but obviously i still a lot of learning to do to improve ;)

excellent.

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Don't vury...I vill protect you from ze coming of ze night monkies!
~ibor282:iconibor282: Nov 27, 2007, 6:16:23 PM
no doubt!! u rock....!!!

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~hakankeles:iconhakankeles: Sep 18, 2007, 2:13:39 PM
thank you architect brother!
~a1106047:icona1106047: Sep 1, 2007, 7:03:50 AM
you're welcome, thankyou for your support!! :boogie:

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Final year arch. student @ adelaide uni!! :paranoid:
hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge, [link] [link] !

do u drink & draw? *ArchiByte is 4 u!
~pieceofmiiiind:iconpieceofmiiiind: Aug 30, 2007, 7:37:44 AM
thanks for adding me to your watch

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