Understanding Vietnamese Life Partner

[Sha_Gua75]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

I tot they always 1 day ahead of the lunar calendar...

they are ahead for yr 2007...and I have ask sme vietnamese abt thisb4...and they claim that the government is the one who count when is the chinese new yr and even after they know they make the mistake of earlier one day when compared with the rest of the world...they actually refuse to change back to the correct one....this is what I heard...dont know how true is it

I just checked the link here Holidays Calendar ...and it seems that this yrs their Tet and our Chinese New Yr falls on the same day 7th Feb 2008

[SingViet]

Originally Posted by Sha_Gua75

they are ahead for yr 2007...and I have ask sme vietnamese abt thisb4...and they claim that the government is the one who count when is the chinese new yr and even after they know they make the mistake of earlier one day when compared with the rest of the world...they actually refuse to change back to the correct one....this is what I heard...dont know how true is it

I just checked the link here Holidays Calendar ...and it seems that this yrs their Tet and our Chinese New Yr falls on the same day 7th Feb 2008

The Vietnamese government in hanoi is always at odds with the Chinese Government in Beijing. The Chinese - Vietnamese boarder war in the 1980s has seen hanoi losing face. Chinese armed forces were all the way into Vietnam and surrounded Hanoi. In fact, Hanoi wouldn't have won the Vietnam War against the americans if its without the Chinese backup and support in logistics and many other areas.

After the boarder war with China, Hanoi had anti-chinese sentiments and even started to drive out Vietnamese Chinese. Many of this vietnamese chinese ended up in the western countries. Until recently, Vietnam and China are still at odds over terrorities and other matters. But one thing Hanoi is good at is to brain wash its people. Majority of its people are not interested in current affairs. They are only interested in the translated Chinese drama serial shown on VTV, HTV and the many other TV stations thru out the country

[SingViet]

Originally Posted by Sha_Gua75

they are ahead for yr 2007...and I have ask sme vietnamese abt thisb4...and they claim that the government is the one who count when is the chinese new yr and even after they know they make the mistake of earlier one day when compared with the rest of the world...they actually refuse to change back to the correct one....this is what I heard...dont know how true is it

I just checked the link here Holidays Calendar ...and it seems that this yrs their Tet and our Chinese New Yr falls on the same day 7th Feb 2008

The Vietnamese government in hanoi is always at odds with the Chinese Government in Beijing. The Chinese - Vietnamese boarder war in the 1980s has seen hanoi losing face. Chinese armed forces were all the way into Vietnam and surrounded Hanoi. In fact, Hanoi wouldn't have won the Vietnam War against the americans if its without the Chinese backup and support in logistics and many other areas.

After the boarder war with China, Hanoi had anti-chinese sentiments and even started to drive out Vietnamese Chinese. Many of this vietnamese chinese ended up in the western countries. Until recently, Vietnam and China are still at odds over terrorities and other matters. But one thing Hanoi is good at is to brain wash its people. Majority of its people are not interested in current affairs. They are only interested in the translated Chinese drama serial shown on VTV, HTV and the many other TV stations thru out the country (btw, all these drama serial are shown in the morning, during lunch time, in early afternoon, late afternoon and in evening, KNN, have never seen so many drama serial shown over the TV thru out the day.)

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by I<3Ivy

Chao anh trai SS08,

Sorry i took so long to get back to you on this....

The ao dai she chose the tailor herself. Basically i was quite hands-off on this matter, apart from giving her the 500k VND to buy the materials and the sewing.

No problem, guess most guys will just give the $$ and forget about the hassle

I wanted something different and also unique, original Ao dai but with a chinese twist if possible, thats why I need to talk to the tailor

Cheerios....SS08 ^_^

[papillon30]

Originally Posted by Thom07

Is it true that they had this weird 'old-people' saying?

I bought roses for my gf and she said that she cant bring this home unless the roses were given to her at her house in the first place. Otherwise, we might break up.
Furthermore, I also bought some DFS perfume for her and she say she must 'pay' me otherwise we will break up. Yup, she did 'pay' me but only VND10,000. Haha.
Again, the same weird reason.

She explained that the elders in her family taught her that. Hmm their traditions/customs quite conservative and weird? At the same time, I also find this amusing.

Another weird 'old-people' saying - to avoid breakup, must open joint bank account(u put in, she takes out).

[baggior]

Originally Posted by SingViet

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Understandable that comparing is inevitable, but vietnamese tend to compare too openly for comfort. Listen to your wife's conversation with other vietnamese ladies and you will surely encounter what i have encountered.

Hi everyone, 1st time posting in this thread but i totally agree with what bro Singviet has said, somehow or other my bx likes to show off to her friends about how nice i am to her, how humorous i am and stuff like that, but never show off how much $ i have or how much i earn la cos im poor......

[Torres_Mok]

Originally Posted by baggior

Hi everyone, 1st time posting in this thread but i totally agree with what bro Singviet has said, somehow or other my bx likes to show off to her friends about how nice i am to her, how humorous i am and stuff like that, but never show off how much $ i have or how much i earn la cos im poor......

maybe u hv not encounter yet! basically viet gal like to compare every things

[baggior]

Originally Posted by Torres_Mok

maybe u hv not encounter yet! basically viet gal like to compare every things

yeah seems like face very important to them as well, only say good things like how good i am, then bad things about me she never say haha

[SingViet]

Originally Posted by baggior

yeah seems like face very important to them as well, only say good things like how good i am, then bad things about me she never say haha

Of course got to sell her foreigner ong xa well.... you will even be better if you bring out US$1000 for her to buy gold chain

[baggior]

Originally Posted by SingViet

Of course got to sell her foreigner ong xa well.... you will even be better if you bring out US$1000 for her to buy gold chain

heh luckily she's financially not a problem to me.... initially like u had some financial problems but i always educate her about managing of finances and all that. so now everything about $ she will ask me n she knows i dun like it when she wants to buy stuff. even buy stuff for me i also dun really like. its my $ after all!!!

[KangTuo]

Got zapped again with a reply to my signature...
Dunno the zapper got how many account.

Thread: Understanding Vietnamese Life Partner
Date: 23-01-2008 06:30 PM
Comment: Of course I do eat rice and EPL forum is designated for soccer discussion but as for your dog's food there is no room for discussion here & you all only wasting bandwidth. Shawn Koh

[Torres_Mok]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Got zapped again with a reply to my signature...
Dunno the zapper got how many account.

Thread: Understanding Vietnamese Life Partner
Date: 23-01-2008 06:30 PM
Comment: Of course I do eat rice and EPL forum is designated for soccer discussion but as for your dog's food there is no room for discussion here & you all only wasting bandwidth. Shawn Koh

I want to up u, too bad i hv up b4 roi.

[Honey Boon]

how about the Viet men? Do they also like to compare?

Originally Posted by Torres_Mok

maybe u hv not encounter yet! basically viet gal like to compare every things

[I<3Ivy]

Originally Posted by Honey Boon

how about the Viet men? Do they also like to compare?

Not sure, but if you ask my BX she will say viet men "thich uong ruou".
Haha...

Lunchtime can see them downing a cold one at the corner pub, hehe.

[I<3Ivy]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

I also bot her perfume.. but it's me who tell her to pay me abit. she did pay VND2,000. But than she say if i buy perfume for her, i will not be lucky. so everytime go out, she will spray on me... whao lao, a guy spray gal perfume.. so flowery smell so more.

My BX likes perfume also and she even hinted many times before I started buying it for her... haha.

But there was no "unlucky" or "break up" thing from her end. I suppose it's just a passed down tradition.

But damn shiok la, to have her cuddle up to you smelling of the perfume you gave her.

Though i find vietnamese girls in general, love using ALOT of perfume! Wah kaoz, those designer perfumes (which only come in 50ml bottles) she spray like nobody's business... After hugging her i come off smelling of her too.