Duc Ban’s blog | Standardizing your mind

“To be King, everyone have to fight” - Ban, Nguyen Duc.

Web 2.0 Vietnam are Zero. Everyone can say that. I have my own thousand of reasons to tell you, and my network pals too. They don’t build from people needs. They don’t have any platform to rely on. They cannot make money by their services blah blah blah…

The point is we still need these services alive. What’s for? To keep hope alive. Web 2.0 is our hope, and if these services getting better, we will use them.
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“There are three kinds of Vietnamese Apple iStore. Suck, fucking suck and Future World.” - Ripped and edited by me.

Two months ago, I bought a Macbook Pro from Future World, one of Vietnamese Apple iStore. At this time, they don’t have any 4Gbs RAM Macbook Pro to sell. They was gave me an advice to buy a 2Gbs RAM Macbook Pro, and they will upgrade the RAM to 4Gbs whenever I need. The stupid me, who was stupid to believe these lies, was bought a 2Gbs RAM MacBook Pro and really happy with it.

Today, when I call to this iStore to talk to its manager that I need to upgrade my RAM to 4Gbs, he refused me. He explained that 4Gbs RAM’s cost is now too high for them to keep the deal. He said “I am sorry but you, the client, should be the one who suffer the damage, not me”.

Wow, what’s service! How can they do that? I means keep given promises and become some fucking liar? I cannot do that, and I cannot believe there are any human being can do that. Thanks Future World for teach me a lesson about Vietnamese after-sales services. What can I do now? All I can do is just write this blog to make an announcement for my friends. That’s all!

When my best friend ask me about my work, I gave him a smile and said: “I am travel to the future!”. He doesn’t know about it, because he aren’t kind of romantic man like me. He said: “Give me a ring when you guy back from future!”.

My friend never get what I mean. No one can see my future, although it’s right here, at them sight. Because the future just a simple concept, not the term about time. I mean if you think your future is waiting for you in the next 20 years, you must know what are waiting for your in this milestone. What if when you reach this milestone but not reach your will? It’s mean your future isn’t your future because they aren’t the future you’ve been dreamed. We cannot sure about our future if we cannot handle our present. I am kind of people who truly know about my present. That’s the reason why I make sure that what will my future are.

You know, I am now working at ASALEO jsc. I love my web developer job. Everyday I learns English, Chinese and design concepts, to improve my knowledge and my professional skill. I am happy because I learns all there fields from the best. I can wait to say thanks to them, and I will try my best so I can be one of them. Get to know what I want to know, and do what I want to do, how easily for me to define my present, and target my future.

My Wedding Website has been done, you can found it here: http://anhthu.ducban.com. The site was built under the magic of jQuery and the very easy to use API of Flickr. I am using redmine to track the project and svn as source version control. Thanks for coming and sharing our special moment. Now it is visible to view, let do your review to find where are you in these photos.

We are too busy in the last two days. Yesterday, we go to Singapore Zoo and Under Water World. Singapore Zoo is so amazing, the animal is very beautiful, and the Zoo’s environment is wonderful. Overall the Zoo is great, we enjoys many interesting shows, and learn about the animal in their private zone. But sometime we don’t see what we want to see, such as the butterfly, even through we have a deeply explore the butterfly kingdom.

Unlike Singapore Zoo, Under Water World is not the wonderful place to see like what they introduce in the flyer. Just the Pink Dolphin’s show is good to see, the Under Water World’s dome is not what I imagine they has to be. A little disappointed for my lady, she really love to see that place, but the truth is too different.

Time to talk about the food. In Singapore, their most favorite foods are steamboat and frog rice-soup. I really agree with them. The steamboat, made by Singaporean, we chose many kinds of food such as beef, chicken, fish, scab, vegetable, tofu… to fry or to put into the red hot chili sauce soup. It’s very delicious!

The frog rice soup is the rice soup with the frog. Man, you can eat many rice soup in Vietnam, but with the frog, you must come here to enjoy it. A different taste, a special sensation. It is really touch, believe me.

I meet some of my friends here, they are Thuy, Huyen and Hung. Thanks for spent your time for me, hope we can hang out in the future, love you all.

Well, today is our last day at Singapore, we also miss Vietnam a little. I think I love Singapore, the people is very friendly, the air is so fresh and the traffic is very safety. Now I know the reason why my friends like to go to Singapore to buy books. I have found so many useful books what I can’t find in Vietnam. (I don’t want to talk about buying something from Amazon.)

The only thing I don’t like of Singapore is all about the whore. I can see them everywhere in the Lorong where we are staying. A experience for you, in Singapore, the even Lorong is specially for “whore”, and the odd Lorong is for “food”, I have no idea about this. Another fun fact, most of the whore I met in the street is very old and un-pretty, who will need them?

Tomorrow, we will leave Singapore. The last thing I want to share with you is me and my lady really love Singapore. It’s so easy to live here, even if you don’t have any instruction from the expert. We found out how to use MRT easily, and you can ask any one you meet to ask for help. I think all of Singaporean can speak English, from the child to the elder. When will people in Ho Chi Minh City can use English like that(?) Bye, Singapore! We will be back soon (hope so). Thanks my lady for sharing this very interested trip with me. Love you babe!

Goodnight Vietnam, see you tomorrow.