Last night was an interesting one. I attended a “Software Solutions” companies opening party at the Sofitel and met a few guys in the computer industry. It was only Japanese and Vietnamese except for me and one other guy. The presentation was also only in these two languages and it reminded me of my extremely…… Continue reading Saigon Stories – Last Night
Author: Mateo de Colón
Global Citizen! こんにちは！僕の名前はマットです. Es decir soy Mateo. Aussi, je m'appelle Mathieu. Likes: Languages, Cultures, Computers, History, being Alive! \(^.^)/
Old Entries
I had so many problems with my last MT configuration that I had to re install everything. So I lost some of my old rants, but have pasted them in the excerpt…. ——————————————————————– I spent all day working on the website. For some reason there is an internal server error for the archive and recent…… Continue reading Old Entries
En Español
El razón que tengo este catagoria es solamente que a veces quiero practicar mi español. Es una pena para mi porque me gusta estudiar idiomas pero todo el mundo habla íngles bastante bien. Entonces tengo este catagoria para no olvidar este idioma y tambien a veces quiero hablar sobre gente que no entiende Español!
Saigon Stories – Today’s Adventure
Today was actually not so adventuresome. However, today the Buddhist funeral infront of my house ended. The old lady who spoke to me in French not 6 months before and told me to “Firmez le porte doucemont” passed away. They then erected a shrine and had chants, prayers and visitors for three days. It was…… Continue reading Saigon Stories – Today’s Adventure
Movabletype finally works
Today I decided to try and tackle my Movabletype problems one more time. Before, I had trouble with the comments, archives and basically any link that Movabletype was supposed to take care of. So I deleted the whole thing, downloaded the new 3.6 version and reinstalled everything. This time I made sure everything was uploaded…… Continue reading Movabletype finally works
Saigon Stories – Vietnam Business Entertainment – KPMG First Fridays
Big surprise for me recently. I was going through all my old Vietnam contacts for information I could use on my blog which lead me to the company "Events Vietnam". I remember this company well since they were the ones that as their name implies, put on business events. A bit of history is in… Continue reading Saigon Stories – Vietnam Business Entertainment – KPMG First Fridays
Big surprise for me recently. I was going through all my old Vietnam contacts for information I could use on my blog which lead me to the company “Events Vietnam”. I remember this company well since they were the ones that as their name implies, put on business events. A bit of history is in…… Continue reading Saigon Stories – Vietnam Business Entertainment – KPMG First Fridays
Controversy for the Whole Family
Controversy for the whole family! By tok_matthew January 19th, 2005 @ 1:19 PM Uncategorized I just had a chat with someone we shall refer to as “the patriot,” which got me thinking about this subject. Most of us hard core ex-pats who truly try to integrate with the host culture often find ourselves in a complex situation.…… Continue reading Controversy for the Whole Family
