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Or whatever “Hong Kong” really means. 

Nice to get lost in a city for a while. Except for a short trip a few months back, I haven’t been to Hong Kong since the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. 

For the past two days, I’ve just wandered around, not bothering the few friends I have in town. 
I’ve noticed [...]

Some friends like some of the posts, some friends think I’m boring.  So another old tall claim, hoping to make you laugh.  “I always give a woman what she wants, whether she wants it or not.”
 

 
Oh well. 

Arrived in Hong Kong yesterday—rainy, misty, the heat not so bad.

 
The flight was crowded and I was upgraded to business class, and sat next to a gorgeous 25-year-old Vietnamese fashion plate, big sunglasses and red and white striped shirts with short white jeans, from port city of Hai Phong. She spoke no English and asked me [...]

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How dare she write my book? 
  

I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon has just been published – author is Crystal Zevon.  Library Journal says it “brings him back to life in all his dazzling genius.”  Booklist says, ‘“This often searing, humorous, and brutally honest book captures him at his [...]

To follow if you wanna ride a motorcycle in Ha Noi. 

 
1. What are you waiting for?  You only have two weeks before getting on your motorcycle.  Go put your thumb on the horn.  Now.  Press hard.  Keep pressing for the next month and a half.
2. Never stop.  Resist the urge to stop.  Even if you’re [...]

A silly essay I wrote just after the U.S. invaded Iraq.
 

It’s been a while now since I stopped worrying about what people think of the food that I eat. 
“What’s that,” people used to ask in my first years in America. 
It was hard to say “fish sauce.”  
People would make a face.  I learned to say “Vietnamese seasoning,” [...]

A month for weddings. 
I wrote this story in the late 1980s, when I was living in San Francisco.
Things I thought about then are more true now. 
 

 
WEDDING TALES  

Weddings depress me.
It’s always in June, impossibly hot and humid. I’m not talking about any old wedding. I’m talking about Vietnamese weddings in America. Old rituals and ceremonies, improperly cobbled together. The traditional costumes [...]

It’s mother. I wrote this story some fifteen years ago. I should have posted it on Mother’s day, but I was traveling.
   
MOTHER
Mother has developed a new habit. It’s rather annoying.
She routinely hangs up on me when we talk on the phone.
I normally don’t tolerate anyone hanging up on me. It’s not something I can forgive. I think it’s impolite, [...]

Oy.  I took the posts about Vinamilk off and have been asked to re-post them.  This was found on the Vinamilk website. 
   
Notice young mother for the first birth     
If there is a couple only. It comes to give birth soon. Advice : clay pot, salt, coal, licorice, cinamon alcohol… All of them make you troublesome so [...]