Monday, 20 November 2006

• Introducing Truong Trung Nam

  This morning I felt very Vietnamese.  One is that I was donning my typical bicycle-gear going to class, as usual, but another was being like the rubbish lady in Labyrinth (yes, another reference to that movie), which is really a good picture of how people transport things in Viet Nam.  They strap anything and everything onto bikes or motorbikes to get them from point A to point B.  Well, being Vietnamese Teachers Day today and having three teachers and a language center director to gift with things, I got strapped up. 

  

  The striking right-profile shot . . .

  

  The intensity of the head-on . . .

  

  The left-profile that catches the eye . . .

  

  . . . And "the look" to seal the deal.  Yes, my frontal-lobe has corporate sponsorship. 

  Look for me in the next issue of GQ. 

  Besides that, learned many an interesting thing in class today about hopes and dreams of the emerging-generation of adults in Viet Nam.  Have yet to process it, but it's a curious forced-merger between the traditional and conventional.  More as I "find a place" for it all. 

  As a side note, I didn't get a good night of sleep again last night, partly with the aid of my thinking, and a mosquito finding it's way in my mosquito net.  In the infinite wisdom fruited from the delirium of no-sleep, I thought "fine, I'll let you sleep under the mosquito net, and I'll be outside."  So, I unhung (is that even a word?) one-half of the mosquito net and let it flop against the other side, keeping the mosquito inside.  You'd think the thought "doesn't that lay you open to the mosquitos outside the net?" but I really didn't care at that point.  In the end of the day, I still slept. 

  One more side note, I heard about a new movie with Christian Bale in it called Rescue Dawn.  Don't know if ya'll heard about it, but it looks pretty good.  Seeing as it's about a part of the world I'm in now, I have cause for favor!  Can download different formats of the trailer at this site if you haven't heard about it already.  Kind of big download, but really neat looking movie.  When I can, I'll watch it. 

  Final side note, fellow Xangans, if I make the switch to Windows Live Space, will you still want to post comments?  I don't know if you need a Hotmail account to post one, but I'll try if I can keep it without needing one. 

  *****  For those confused by the title, "Truong Trung Nam" is my self-ascribed Vietnamese name, playfully so because it alternatively means "the school for average men."  At least, that's the meaning I give it from other ways of translating the words. 

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