NOT KEEPING SCORE

Forget God, community, Mother Theresa or volunteerism; if one wants to feel a part of something greater than oneself, all one will have to do in the future is move to Bangkok. It was made very apparent that Asia is the new America, and culture is flowing at an amazing rate from this major world […]

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Jet set is right.
I’m a bit lagged, to be certain. But it’s not the few drinks I had last night-  nor the rapidly rising temperature in Hanoi today- nor the diesel fumes, rock quarry dust, days of notetaking, frantic attempt to grasp onto a few Vietnamese words or harrowing 7 hour car ride back that, […]

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“I travel half-way around the world, and all I get is this stinkin’ opportunity”
So, it seems like I can’t even get away from work, even when on vacation. Pfft! [rolls eyes disingenuously] Actually, I am very excited: I was speaking with my host-friend Jenny, who works in public health here in Vietnam, and she was […]

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Look Both Ways
At first I thought taxi rides were my favorite thing.
Weaving in and out of motorbikes, other taxis, and bicycles laden with every kind of cargo one can imagine: flowers, fruit, construction material, children, you name it. There is a chaos to it, but a kind of order, too.
Then I went for a walk […]

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A Review of Together:
Chinese violin soloist Tang Yun with the Vietnamese National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Tan.
This is NOT a review. I have very little working knowledge of classical music and am in no position of authority or expertise to critique it. So, when I say “review” I mean “re-view” as in the viewing […]

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Service
First thing is an apology.  
“We ah soah sorry to keepa you waitin,” she raises an eyebrow, extends a hand toward me, asking with the inflection in her voice to please see my passport. I show her.
“Miss Deeshjong,” she emphasizes my name once she is privy to it. “We ah sorry, Miss Deeshjong, to keepa you […]

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Reality sinks in as your friend in Asia sends you a last email reminding you to take a taxi cab from the airport to her house. “Just write my address on a piece of paper,” she instructs, “tell the cab driver 34 A Pho Yen The Can Ngyen Thai Hoc, but don’t let him/her use […]

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This is the honest-to-goodness, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die, real-live Official Slinky Collective Website. Promise.
For those of you interested in learning more about Project Slinky and the assocaited collective, please take a gander at the About page. Little by little, it will be populated with the creative endeavors of the collective’s participants, creative inspiration a-plenty, as well as future […]

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As a copywriter, it is often my job to develop taglines for products and companies. Oh, the difficulty of getting it right! Short, sweet, punchy, catchy, all while saying exactly what needs to be said, in under a dozen words.
God bless the folks who have come up with the automatic Advertising Slogan Generator. Now all […]

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Countdown to departure for Vietnam in T-4.5 days. There has been a decided lack of NotKeepingScore posting due to Visa-tracking, immunization-getting, and work-wrapping-up. Stay tuned for dispatches from Southeast Asia.

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