saigon

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before i procrastinate further - ho chi minh city 6-8 april. it was meant to be a getaway but i fled to the wrong city, from one noisy to a noisier one. being three days i didnt do much. being saigon, couldnt do much either. it's a city rushing to progress, to modernise, to get rich, and somewhere amid its hurry it lost its way and lost its soul. it's not hard to see what it would be thirty years from now: just look at singapore.

no wait, it is looking at singapore.

did the usual landmarks' visits, there was this temple whose religion (cao dai) counts shakespeare and victor hugo as amongst its saints, had some really good food and coffee, and finished two incredible books by sontag and kundera.