Tag: work

After exactly three weeks, I am back in Ho Chi Minh City again. This trip is bit longer than the last one, and apart from staying in Ho Chi Minh City, I will also visit Hanoi on Sunday, then finally arrive back in Taipei on Monday.

Good that I am not single-handed this time, as country manager and marketing manager are also here. Nevertheless, problems still exist, and so as pressure, but hopefully I will get a bit more time to relax and do some sightseeing over the weekend.

I do want to see some old propaganda pictures though. I love communist artwork.

By the way, I saw SHE on the way to Vietnam. Actually, they just sat right in front of me on the plane. Hebe is nice.

Two days ago, a call from my boss, and two days later, I was on a 6am flight to Ho Chi Minh City. Quite frankly, I did not even understand the whole issue until the last few hours before I hopped onto the plane, and only if I knew the situation was this bad, I would have never accepted this trip.

So what’s the big deal about the whole issue? Well, to make story short, our Vietnamese customer claims we need to pay them USD400k, but at most we can only offer then around USD90k. Here, negotiate to the customer and come up with a win-win solution. By the way, do it fast.

Mmmmmmm…yes, to convince the customer to accept 90k instead of 400k. REAL EASY HUH??

Apart from work, I do find my hotel room quite nice. Although Vietnam is not exactly a wealthy country overall, but on the contrary, this is the best hotel I have stayed out of all of my business trips.