Jetstar seems to be extending this week’s Friday Fare Frenzy through the weekend. The booking window for sale fares usually lasts from 2pm to 5pm every Friday, but yesterday’s JetMail newsletter contained a link to sale fares on six routes good for travel during two periods: September 9 to October 29 and October 30 to [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 19, 2009
Expat Alert: Girl Talk Hits Hanoi
The year is shaping up to be a small step forward for live music in Vietnam. Already we’ve seen acts like Brooklyn-based Ratat, dancehall singer Lexie Lee and Beijing indie band Rebuilding the Rights of Statues swing through Saigon. Now, DJ Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk will be bringing his signature blend of hundreds-of-samples-strong mixes [...]
July 16, 2009
From Buffalo with Love
A few months ago I was rather surprised to receive this link from my sister, Kate DiChristopher, an HR specialist with Marina Maher Communications in New York City. Unbeknownst to me, Kate had become a blogger.
Okay, so she’s not terribly prolific just yet, but her single blog post, an endearing love letter to our hometown [...]
July 12, 2009
Jetstar’s Friday Fare Frenzy
With only one true budget air carrier operating in Vietnam — Jetstar Pacific — there’s not often much to report on. But in June Jetstar initiated its Friday Fare Frenzy promotion, offering customers discounted fares on select flights booked between 2 and 5pm every Friday.
So three weeks into the promotion, what’s the verdict?
A search on [...]
July 11, 2009
Nordic Food in Vietnam
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down with a couple of visiting chefs from Sweden during the Equatorial Hotel’s Nordic Week. At the start of the event, I had swung by for a press dinner and left utterly smitten. Executive chef Niclas Wahlstrom of Stockholm’s Den Gyldene Freden and Magnus Johansson, [...]
July 10, 2009
Ed Lessons: Beware Bloggers
It’s been about a year since I joined the editorial staff of AsiaLIFE HCMC, my first post at a real-life, in-your-hands magazine. With the job crunch caused by the recession back home, I think it’s fair to say that if I hadn’t moved to Saigon, my year spent educating myself and trying to break into [...]
July 10, 2009
Saigon in Miniature
A guy named Joe Nafis reached out to me to see if AsiaLIFE HCMC was interested in running something on his recent film project. We get lots of requests for air time, but this one really stood out.
Employing tilt shift photography (and a lot of patience), Mr. Nafis managed to cobble [...]
July 10, 2009
Update Saigon: 11,500 Hours … and Counting
9000 Hours in Saigon. You may not think it’s much, but as someone who’s chronically unable to title his work, I was pretty proud when I hit on the blog title. Now, sixteen months–approximately 11,500 hours–after moving to Saigon, I’m still here, and looking back, I can only surmise that I somehow tapped into some [...]
