Taken with instagram
Man and Ultraman
This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
Fishing Boat, Phu Quoc (Taken with instagram)
Sunset, Long Beach, Phu Quoc (Taken with Instagram at Sea Star Resort)
Traffic, Pham Ngu Lao (Taken with instagram)
Mmmm, Snails (Taken with instagram)
The Temple of 10,000 Buddhas (Taken with instagram)
Petrosky’s Mauseleum (Taken with instagram)
Taken with instagram
Sleeping Man Outside HCMC Fine Arts Museum (Taken with instagram)
Tiny Pagoda, Saigon (Taken with instagram)
Motorbike Ticket Taker (Taken with instagram)
Morning caphe sua nhong (Taken with instagram)
Come to Vietnam and you too can have a street massage with heated glass vacuum jars on your back. Just $3.
Sunday at Cafe Plié, Saigon
Obama to call for $53B for high-speed rail
Funnily enough, this is almost exactly the same figure Vietnam insists on spending - even after the National Assembly officially deep-sixed the idea last year - on a high-speed rail project linking Hanoi and HCMC.
At the June National Assembly session, lawmakers struck down a US$56 billion project to build a 1,570-kilometer long high-speed railway linking the two major cities, arguing that it was economically unsound. The assembly also recommended that further studies on its feasibility were needed. Earlier this month, the Minister of Transport, Ho Nghia Dung, said the government will consider submitting the high-speed railway project to the National Assembly again, in three years.
Granted, roughly a quarter of Vietnam’s $56 billion would vanish into the pockets of government officials over the course of the project’s funding and construction. In the U.S., that money would probably be funneled into private contractors, then to lobbyists, and from there into the pockets of pro-business government officials. In other words, it’s a wash either way.
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