Asia Steps

This year, our trip to Asia will be prefaced by a month long stay in HCMC. I have accepted a job in Ho Chi Minh City at a mobile content company called Mobile Solution Services (MSS). I am super excited!! I already have my plane ticket, housing in the city (thanks to Aryeh) and plans to meet with friends in Vietnam. This will be my first time in Vietnam not as a tourist and I am eager to find out what everyday life is like.

A real added bonus to working in tech while in Asia is being able to skip NY winter. I am dilligently researching beach options. Mmmm, I can almost taste that fruit shake!

At the end of my project with MSS, Kevin will come and meet me in HCMC where we will start our trip to Singapore, north Thailand and the islands. We are both so psyched!

Hoan Kiem Lake at 6:45 this morning

After 4hrs of sleep, we got up all excited and energized this morning and went for an early morning walk around Hoan Kiem Lake to see all the early risers work out. People gather at the lake very early in the morning for Tai Chi, stretching, dancing or just meditating. It is a very special way to start the morning.

We had our first Pho and walked around the old city and market area. We are now enjoying Cafe Su Da (Vietnamese ice coffee) in a cool cafe called Puku which has wireless internet. Everybody is wearing long sleeve shirts, some even wear sweater but it’s hot! I’m walking around in my flip flops. Ok, time for another quick meal!

For the past few days, I’ve been checking the weather forecast in Phu Quoc (dreamy island, pristine beach, sunny destination and my home for a week in about 4 weeks). To make myself feel even better, I open the NY weather forecast in a new tab right next to Phu Quoc weather and smile…

This is my 3rd winter in New York and I am definitely not getting used to it. True, I stopped converting to Celsius (it’s too scary to see those temperatures in Metric system) but that doesn’t mean I stopped complaining. In Israel, there’s only 1 thing you can always count on-gorgeous weather. It’s sunny, it’s warm and winter there feels more like a week long mistake than a real season. As soon as New York winter starts, I am all ready to go away to some tropical destination, I check plane ticket prices daily and have a mental suitcase all ready to go.

Leaving the cold, the rain and the snow in a few days is one of the things I am most looking forward to.

So goodbye coat, goodbye scarf, hat, gloves, socks and hat, I shall not miss you at all.