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DoD  5 25 June 2015 Like Watching Cement Dry …or to be more accurate….like watching concrete dry. They have poured yet another floor. As we wait for the concrete slab to cure, work goes on doing other things around the house and I am busy buying fittings and also working on projects (which in turn generate the income to pay for the house and purchase the fittings etc…simple economics really) Work progresses slowly but surely… and I watch as the house inches slowly skyward but my bank balance descends at a much faster rate. For most normal people..(hehehe…. Normal?) it is not uncommon that the financial experience of house building is unique and often stressful. Even though the figures are considerably smaller here – you can build a quality house in Vietnam for about 25% of the construction costs in a big city like, say, Sydney- they still are significant  in our household budget and they are rapidly creating a serious dentin my accumulated life savings. So n...

All in all…just another Brick in the Wall 1 June 2015 The weather is getting hotter. The middle of summer in DaNang is hot…hot with clear skies and a biting sun. Often the midday heat climbs to 37 or 38 Celsius. Our rental house has proven to be advantageous. Obviously it gives us an affordable home with an opportunity for Thu to have a small, elegant showroom and a home office to run our businesses  http://chuonchuonboutique.com or  Fanpage:  https://www.facebook.com/tuixachoppo  But also it turns out that a quick check of the compass (I rarely travel without a compass and a tape measure these days… when you are building a house it becomes habitual to whip out the trusty Stanley 5metre tape and check the dimensions on something you like the look of… be it a room dimension or a small sink for under the stairs toilet etcetc)…anyway… a quick check of the compass shows that our rental house is aligned in exactly the same direction as the house we are buildin...