We had dinner last Sunday at a very cozy Japanese restaurant, Geisha at 85 Pasteur St in Dist 1. The ground floor was a boutique. The restaurant occupied the 1st and 2nd floor. They had a set dinner special at 150,000vnd (S$9). For that, I had pork chops and potatoes (it was really good; one of the best pork chops I've had in a long time), desert - peach and mango torte (my kind) and iced green tea. Joyce had fish and a mixed of carrot and ginger juice, which definitely did not go down well with us. Desert was fried bananas with coconut cream (my kind again!), and hot green tea. Geisha's a very nice and cozy place for a meal or a drink to while the afternoon away. Books and free wifi available. The couches on the 2nd floor looked most inviting. And they have shisha there too - 120,000vnd (S$7).
This is where I buy my phone card top-ups.
A 100,000vnd (S$6) card goes for 95,000vnd here.
Once a month, there'll be a 3-day period where there's free 50% for every top-up (used to be 100% a few months back).
What you see below are prices for new SIM cards. Pay 25,000vnd and you get 65,000vnd for Mobi-phone. For Vina-phone, 33,000vnd gets you 117,000vnd worth of calls. So many Vietnamese have 2 phones - one permanent line for incoming calls (free) and one phone for new SIMs. This has led to the ridiculous situation of them discarding SIM cards (and the accompanying tel numbers) and buying new ones just to take advantage of the offers. There are an estimated 85 million people in Vietnam. If 1% buys new SIMs every week, can you imagine how many numbers would have been discarded every month?
School No 3 (The Happy Schoolhouse) is up and running - have finally completed most of the preparations. Updates are here and the website (temp) is here.
3 comments:
Hi teacher! Long time no see! I wish you happy and healthy!
Hi Nam, sorry - missed your comment. How are you? Hope things are fine with you. Next time, email me - you'll get a faster response. Cheers.
Thank teacher! I am fine! I now working for VTV1 - Vietnam National TV Chanel. I work as an editor of a TV program. That program is called "Luc Lac Vang - Ket noi nhung mien que" (Its name may be translated into English as "Golden Tintinnabulum - Connecting every countryside" (on a horse harness; we have sentences such as: the tinkling of the tintinnabula on a horse's neck)). The program broadcasts on VTV1 every Sunday night at 8:30PM. We help poor people living in countrysides in Vietnam. In every program, 12 cows will be handed out to 6 poor families. We give them knowledge and money (1 million and 250 thousands VND) to help those cows drop calves, and those families have the rights to possess them. We don't take back any cow or calf. We hope with those cows and calves, poor people will nurture them and get money for their kids to go to school. The bottom line of the program is: all for poor children have opportunities to go school.
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