The Name Dropping Victory

You know, I swear someone is cutting my toenails in my sleep. Not only are they too short to be indicative of sustained growth over a week and a half, but some just seem shorter than the previous day. Anyway. Back to class! Our bus was waiting for us! No wallet. Nothing. Tin hadn’t heard nothing from nobody. My iota of hope that for some reason it would still be present and accountable was hardly perceptible to begin with anyway. Oh well. Gears keep a-movin’. We learned more crazy Vietnamese cultural stuff. Buddhism was instituted to fight Confucianism. Any Chinese that attempted to move to Vietnam for cultural change (a term called Sinocizing, or the attempts by the Chinese to Chinese-ify Vietnam) actually ended up assimilating into Vietnam due to the strength of their culture. Interesting enough. Today also marked my shining day of glory: the visit to Glass Egg Digital Media. Steve, Kim and I were in charge of the initial presentation to the group about this company, and we were amped up and ready to go. Glass Egg sits on the 7^th floor of the rather impressive e.Town main building, e.Town being an office complex consisting of four large modern office buildings. The inside of Glass Egg, although at first sight just an ordinary office cubicle set up, definitely had a Google edge to it. It’s tough to explain. Every graphic artist had a cubicle of their own, most equipped with double monitors, incredible desktop towers (the towers themselves were clear and LED lit), and some artists had pin-ups of their current work coating the walls. One side office had four art directors inside, scrutinizing each and every bit of art that the artists currently were currently working on before sending it along the chain to be processed and sent to the client. Another side office had been dedicated to Glass Egg Online, a game Glass Egg is starting to develop. The white boards were covered in statistics about online gaming in Vietnam, and other stuff that I couldn’t grasp the purpose of at a glance. A presentation by a French guy showed how legit their operation had grown to; you know you’re too cool for school when you no longer have to seek out clients and they start coming to you. They have licenses with Microsoft. Enough said. The French guy was kind of… French though. But it was alright. After Glass Egg we came home briefly, and then Steve and I shipped out to Ben Thanh Market where nothing was purchased. Tee hee *wink wink*. We came home. Then went out to Barbeque Garden where we made our own food. Boo. They gave us raw skewers of meat and fire. I mean come on. Cook my damn food! I was tired and hungry. Any way. We came home again and, at the invitation of Steve Reid (CFO of Glass Egg), did some name dropping. We went to Lush again, said the name “James”, got hooked up with a VIP booth and an eventual chat with the owner of the club. Five hours later we left. It was awesome.