Entries from July 2007

July 31, 2007

Yearning for Madness.

There is this place in Vo Van Tan Street, Saigon, where photographs after photographs of the Vietnam War are kept. They mean to tell us something- that Vietnamese once suffered and are still suffering from the consequences of war; and the West, are the culprits behind it all.
Yet, in another corner of the same perimeters, [...]

July 28, 2007

Irony.

Vietnam- a country that defines her own time, sense of orderliness (rather, the lack of it) and normalcy; and expects you to adapt.
Fast forward to Singapore, en route to Malaysia. Neat, clean and quiet- just like a manicured lawn. As the green light turned red; so the road section for pedestrians turned bare. People waited [...]