Vietnam

[bones]

I have been here for the past couple of weeks. This place is fucking awesome. Yesterday I went to the Chu Chi (?) tunnels and saw a bit about how the American War was fought (of course that's what they call it here). Also I got to shoot an AK47. Hell yes!

Also, some time last century they meshed all the known religions together to create 'Cao Dai' which apparently incorporates them all. I just saw a massive golden temple and prayed with them. The main symbol for Cao Dai is an eye, and quite often it is inside a triangle.

Just a few half-constructed updates while I'm still a little nauseaous from food poisoning. I will follow this up with some pics soon, maybe after Thursday when I come back to Australia.

[Doktor Howl]

The main symbol for Cao Dai is an eye, and quite often it is inside a triangle.

Well, now you're fucked.

[bones]

The main symbol for Cao Dai is an eye, and quite often it is inside a triangle.

Well, now you're fucked.

That may be so, Mister Doktor, that may be so...

Oh, yeah, and screw St Valentine! It was Tet yesterday, Chinese new year.  Happy year of the Tiger PDSpags!

[Shai Hulud]

It was Tet yesterday, Chinese new year.  Happy year of the Tiger PDSpags!

How was Tet? 

Also, I'm interested about Cao Dai, could you give us some more of your impressions?

[Lies]

I have been here for the past couple of weeks. This place is fucking awesome. Yesterday I went to the Chu Chi (?) tunnels and saw a bit about how the American War was fought (of course that's what they call it here). Also I got to shoot an AK47. Hell yes!

Also, some time last century they meshed all the known religions together to create 'Cao Dai' which apparently incorporates them all. I just saw a massive golden temple and prayed with them. The main symbol for Cao Dai is an eye, and quite often it is inside a triangle.

Just a few half-constructed updates while I'm still a little nauseaous from food poisoning. I will follow this up with some pics soon, maybe after Thursday when I come back to Australia.

Dude, why didn't you tell me?
I've been to the Cu Chi tunnels as well, good fun that ^_^

Give me a buzz when you get back to aus and we'll catch up soon

[Jenne]

I can't wait to see your photos 

THIS.  And yes, it was Spring Festival/Chinese New Year, we celebrated that instead of VD-Day.  Got the fresh fish fry at our local Asian market and fried up chicken pot stickers.

[Suu]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

[Doktor Howl]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Is that their rules, or ours?

[Suu]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Is that their rules, or ours?

Their's from what I understand.

[Doktor Howl]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Is that their rules, or ours?

Their's from what I understand.

Can't say I blame them.  We killed a few million of them because France whimpered after WWII.

[Suu]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Is that their rules, or ours?

Their's from what I understand.

Can't say I blame them.  We killed a few million of them because France whimpered after WWII.

Not to mention we sorta, you know, destroyed a lot of their countryside.

[Doktor Howl]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Is that their rules, or ours?

Their's from what I understand.

Can't say I blame them.  We killed a few million of them because France whimpered after WWII.

Not to mention we sorta, you know, destroyed a lot of their countryside.

Those are just "freedom regions", Suu.  You can tell, from all the "Liberty Cancers" the children have.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Whaddya mean? Isn't Anthony Bourdain an American?

[bones]

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Is that their rules, or ours?

Their's from what I understand.

Can't say I blame them.  We killed a few million of them because France whimpered after WWII.

So you're blaming the French? 

I find it delightfully amusing that Australian tourists are allowed to Vietnam and Americans aren't.

Pretty sure you're mistaken though. I'm kinda having a family reunion here. Me and my siblings were all born in the US, and my oldest brother currently lives in Buffalo, NY, which is where he's visiting from.

I can't wait to see your photos  

This whole country is insane in so so many ways.

[Doktor Howl]

So you're blaming the French?  

Where did I say that?  No, the French didn't FORCE us to do anything, so our actions are our own responsibility.  I was giving the sequence of events, not a rationalization...so you can jam the smiley up your puckered arse, Bones.

Unless you're suggesting that the Vietnam conflict DIDN'T come because we broke our word to the Vietnamese when DeGaul cried after WWII?  Is that what you're saying?