Jakarta. 2010. Di Wilayah Pelabuhan yang penuh kesibukan truk yang berlalu lalang mengantar barang yang membangun ekonomi nasional, orang orang kecil yang tidak diperhatikan pemerintah hidup dengan caranya sendiri. Kurang dari 1 Km dari pelabuhan, terdapat sebuah perumahan kecil yang padat dan ramai, semua suku ada dalam perumahan yang malang itu, semua hidu...
The local pop band became a nightly feature at the hotel. Their mixture of Western and Vietnamese love songs were very popular. Many of the older villagers who had never had access to regular entertainment other than Karaoke stood outside each night listening and singing along. John walked outside one evening and saw them standing around. "Why don't they c...
This next interview would be the seventh candidate that I had to meet with today. And I was scheduled to meet with two additional applicants after this. And my HR director was being extremely inquisitive about how I selected the final list of candidates to interview amongst the number of otherwise qualified applicants who had applied to be my personal assist...
The rain had started pouring without warning, as was usual in the city. It was also his first time foraying out into the wild streets of Vietnam, and he hadn't brought an umbrella, as was also usual for a clueless tourist in Vietnam. He had jumped into a nearby restaurant and taken their only empty seat in the corner, to the curious cursory gaze of the owne...
I got in to Hanoi on Monday morning, having taken an overnighter from Delhi to Bangkok and then up to Hanoi. It was August 2013, the rainy season with the morning temperature at 26 degrees celsius. It had been a sleepless night with moments of somnambulant drift; visions of the last couple of days with my Indian maid, Sunita. It had been a difficult parting;...
Visits from the Vietnamese Prime Minister the Australian Trade Commissioner and the delegation from John's home state caused local provincial officials to take much more interest in the feedlot. The provincial Party hosted a stream of senior Party officials from all over Vietnam. Many of them had never visited the province before. Ruby told the family that...
For the avoidance of doubt, the following is a true story that describes the occasion when I lost my anal virginity - I was well into my twenties and the young masseuse I guess was about 20 or 21 years old. I was chatting online to someone the other day sharing experiences of losing our virginities. It was obvious, after a little while though, that we were...
Glen decided that John was becoming an old prude. Lelani told him that her massage girls were unable to accept his request to go to his hotel room. She winked when she told that she could arrange for him to meet what she called local widows who were in need of extra money. "You should set yourself up with a place," He kissed her and slipped her some money to...
Have fun! As always, I welcome comments and suggestions! 1 After explaining to his twins, as briefly as possible, the situation between Scarlett and Mrs. X, Raoul puts on a nice suit and heads to Kappa Phi Theta. As explained earlier, that is "the Asian sorority" at USCLA in 1987, when only one is necessary. Raoul, however, is less excited about this t...
John was in a good mood. He sipped his coffee and recalled all that had happened to him since he first visited Vietnam with a cattleman's delegation a few years back. He had arrived in Vietnam after the death of his wife depressed and dispirited. In the course of a couple of years he had been transformed from a disinterested visitor to the largest single fo...