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“But the most significant derivation from the meaning of as ‘water’ is the concept of people who have gathered near a body of water to grow rice for one another, and founding a stable community, sharing rain and drought, plenty and famine, peace and war: from ‘water,’ its basic meaning, has come to designate ‘the homeland, the country, the nation.’ It is in this ultimate exception that the monosyllable nuoc reverberates throught the deepest and farthest recesses of the Vietnamese collective unconscious and stirs there the most potent feelings. The nation’s fateful course, marked by ups and downs, is figuratively rendered as a ‘tide of water’ (van nuoc) with its ebb and flow. The highest virtue demanded of a Vietnamese is that he or she ‘love the nuoc‘ (yeu nuoc).” –Huynh Sanh Thong (no relation)

Viettel 3G Data Plans

Got an iPad 3G today so I signed up for a monthly data plan. Here are Viettel’s options:40.000 VND Plan: 600 MB, 65VND for each additional MB
80.000 VND Plan: 1.3 GB, 65VND for each additional MB
120.000 VND Plan: 2.3 GB, 65VND for each additional MB
220.000 VND Plan: 5 GB, 65VND for each additional MBSigned up for the 5 GB data plan, which should be more than enough. 220.000 VND is about $11.52 as of today. Back in the States, 2 GB is $25 per month.Got 150% more data, pay more than 50% less. Yay.Vietnam sits pretty in this list: http://www.theipadfan.com/ipad-data-rates-high-worse/