Con mèo phật

These cats were 'om om-ing' right before I took this shot. Seriously. For anybody who is puzzled by the sudden burst of Americana pictures on my allegedly Vietnam, Mangos, Beaches, Street Food kind of blog, I'm going back to Vietnam in a couple weeks. Hang in there. I am.

Indeed

So my blog is a month and a half out of date, yes I know. In spite of my personal attitude toward life, my life's attitude toward me is such that it keeps on going with a fair degree of alacrity, independently of my state of readiness to deal with it, or of course, to put it on my blog.

After saying all that, I will just post a slew of pictures from the last 7 weeks and leave it at that.

It seems I've been working a lot lately, so, some pictures from within my cubicle walls:




My job involves a lot of darkness. A lot of being awake when you should be asleep, and of being asleep when you should be awake, eventually leading to a perpetual state of bleary-ocrity, deftly controlled with coffee or assuming a horizontal position, as appropriate.

Occasionally the darkness actually improves one's view of the world; masochistic asthetics.

But usually it just makes me sleepy...

Peace in the Park

And when I'm not working I can go to the park and watch the lake in the kind of silence that Hanoi never hears, play with my camera and read a book :)

Family Festivities

My brother got married in August, which was a great occasion for everybody involved. Ran into loads of friends and relatives whom I hadn't seen forever, and generally had a fine time in every respect. And apart from me having fun,

MY BROTHER GOT MARRIED!!!

...dude, who woulda guessed...

And while my family was all in one country - and one state - we went to the mountains for a long weekend, just to be sure we were tired of each other before leaving again.

choma-ed some nyama...

...and sat in the woods with our feet up.

Mia Familia Grande

This is my family. The people who know me better than anybody else and who still put up with me.