Spring Cleaning

Chuc mung nam moi everyone! Best of all, it's nam Mau Ty, the year of the rat, and in honor of the occasion, I bring you pictures of rat poop. Here, my coworker is all gloved up (I personally would have preferred a HAZMAT suit) and she gallantly enema'd the bookshelves, emerging triumphantly with the results:


Trust me, you do not want to take a closer look at the contents of that box.


At work, we take our cleaning seriously.

Dedication

Seen by Nicholas on a theater playbill: "Ho Nguyet was a fox who acquired the power to turn into a human after knocking herself up for a thousand years."

Au Delice

Sometimes all you need to perk up the gray skies are some tomatoes. With feta and some zippy olive oil with lemon!

Not that I'm leaning in any way...

but this is a particularly amazing un-shopped photo, no?



Courtesy of the NYTtimes.

Banking Benefits

Managing your banking affairs when you're 14 time zones away can be a real pain. Even though all my meager assets are socked away online, and I can make customer service calls through Skype, not having an actual functioning bank branch here in Hanoi has put many a crick into my neck. Plus, there's the added complication of getting paid in Vietnamese dong (VND), which can only be used in Vietnam. I can't make direct wire transfers to my American accounts without first withdrawing my VND, exchanging that, and then sending it through Western Union, all the while getting nipped in the liver by usurious vultures along the way. It burns my miserly heart.

On the other hand, how many of you have banks that come with your very own personal Kitchen God, huh?!