My birthday card ... I had a good laugh
Ms Van Anh, Uli & birthday boy and Ms Kim
Ms Kim who organised the cake and the beautiful basket.
The next day: Just before we were cutting the cake ... Ms Kim n Matt
Ms Kim is enjoying a piece of cake
Sharing the cake the with the receptionists and tour desk girls
Wednesday, 31st of August … A special day ….
Had breakfast in room today, we still had some bananas, not the one in pyjamas, the real one’s. And … 2000 dong each or 10.000 a kg ~ 46 cents!!!
Then at 9 am Mark Pham one of the volunteer at CoG came and we went lap top hunting!!! I thought we take his Honda, but no … it is not too far to the shops, we can walk. And walk we did, but it was ok.
First shop seemed ok, but not very friendly staff, about 8.500.000 million per laptop, mouse included, no discount.
Second shop, Thanh Nhan offered SAMSUNG laptops for a very good price. Mark asked about a discount … yes 50.000 dong. Then we were told a carry bag and a mouse was included in the price. Apparently Vietnamese people love to use the mouse instead of the touch pad!!! When you have an ‘8’ in your birthday you get a free 8 GB USB stick for free!!!
Little did they know … it is Matt’s birthday today, 31st of the 8th … Matt showed his passport and presto FREE USB sticks!!!
The shop wants cash … so we said we have to go to the bank and get the money. On the way to the bank we WALKED to another shop … a real big one and I thought … yes, that will be it. But no, what we had in mind was more expensive here, no carry bag, no mouse, no USB.
Now we had to convince Mark to take a taxi to the bank. Matt had his passport, but not the account details. We approached one of the girls and explained … “No problem” she said, “this is your account number Sir, I remember your name” Matt was flabbergasted. After all we have only been to the bank three times this year.
This is personal banking at it’s best!!!
Filled in the form, got the money and hopped in the next taxi back to Than Nhan, quan 3. Our sales assistant was happy to see us walking back in the shop. We filled in the forms, got the warranty papers, paid the cashier and then went upstairs to talk to the tech people to tell them what software we like and which version they should install. In Vietnam the computers come to the shop blank, without software. It takes about 45 minutes to install.
It was already 12:30, so we decided to pick the laptops up later this afternoon. Had lunch at the ‘Gon Café in De Tham street. We thanked Mark for his help; it would have been an up-hill battle without him!!!
Picked up the laptops at 5 pm … what a service … all with windows 7 operating system, MS office, Mozilla and the lot. Tested them, got proper invoices and then they call a taxi for us, carried them downstairs … helped loading them in the taxi, our friendly staff at the hotel helped unloading … wonderful. LED screens!!!
Now we go out and have a wonderful dinner!!! C ua tomorrow!!!
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