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Teaching ESL & ICT online magazine

I’ve added a new menu called “Magazines”. This is where I’ll list the eBooks and online magazines I have created with Scoop-it. Scoop-it is a great service for curating your own magazine style eBooks. Simply locate relevant web content then use the provided Bookmarklet to snip the page automatically into your eBook topic. The service allows up

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Bamboo bikes at Mekong Creations

These are bamboo bikes built and sold by Mekong Creations in District 1. I’d really like to buy one, and they are remarkably inexpensive. Perhaps I’ll pick one up this week. I’ll post more photos if I do. Posted via email from RockPortrait in Vietnam

Use the camera in your pocket.

Every day I ride through familiar streets, camera in pocket. Every ride unearths a strange, beautiful or unique sight. Every day my camera tends to stay in my pocket, as I don’t often feel comfortable stopping to take the shot. You never know who could be looking to snatch the camera from my hand. Sometimes I do

Time capsule – Jan 2011

A trip to the Saigon Horse Races and attending my first Vietnamese wedding reception. Photo jojo’s Photo Time Capsule January 8th to January 22nd, 2011 HuuWedding-5237.jpg Tinsel shower Taken January 8, 2011 at 7:18 pm Taking the whip between your teeth The final stretch of the 5th in Saigon, this jockey uses his teeth as a midway

Setting up Book Street

Setting up Ngo Duc Ke street for a book festival, as part of the Tet flower festival. The street will be closed for traffic for the period of Tet. The view from Jaspa’s balcony. Giant piles of books. I’m looking forward to seeing how this ends up. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location:Đồng Khởi,,Vietnam

Bobby Chinn’s pre-Tet party

Doubling as the Saigon restaurant’s soft opening, Bobby Chinn kicked off Tet 2012 with a bang. I was lucky enough to grab tickets and experience a night of elegant chic, free-flow drinks, a variety of signature finger-food, familiar faces, quality entertainment, tv cameras & photographers, and of course the very flighty but personable Bobby Chinn himself. Bobby

Of books and pools

See the full gallery on Posterous Two things we both love to do are swimming and reading. The question is, do we choose a book aesthetically or practically? Do we want the weight & texture of a page-turner, at the expense of content variety? Are we most interested in choosing what to read based on our mood,