Showing posts with label saigon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saigon. Show all posts

Monday, January 04, 2010

Unexpected work opportunities

An impromptu position as simultaneous interpreter of silent-film title cards, from French to English. The subject, a decades-old 8mm film of Laurel and Hardy, projected onto the wall in the front room.

Vrrrrooom

Standing still on Saigon's busy streets, everything blurs past you, from yoke-bearing street vendors to the many many motorbikes.