Tuesday, October 24, 2006

First day of a new blog

Week 42, Tuesday
Just finished the daily newspaper and as normal find a lot of president did this and did that and told other people to do this and that... a lot of words. Also someone of the Cambodian government visited Vietnam for the 4'th time in a months to 'strengthen the ties between the 2 countries'. But the main headline today on page 1 was a report on the running activities of the National Assembly's Committee, as it was the main headline yesterday and the days before. Another news item was about the concern of some parents their kids getting anti biotics too often en too many. One women described a docter as being a programmed computer subscribing whatever they liked.
I noticed it myself a few weeks ago when someone from my staff went to a medicine shop to get something for a heavy headache. She came back with 3 different pills where i expected to have only one kind. Now i know why Vietnamese people always have a whole bag of pills when leaving a medicine shop. These shops get very rich i suppose.

The rest of the morning was as usual, a few sales promoting their hotel and a Spanish couple wanting some info about doing a short Mekong tour and a 3 day stay on Phu Quoc Island. As we donot sell within Vietnam we can give them a lot of information without any 'sales talk', and tourist like that as they hear a lot of salestalking all day long.

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