Saturday, October 17, 2009

Poverty and Luxury

Vietnam is distinct by the poor and the rich.I will list out an example of the poor.

One of the objectives for our VSL trip is to repair and maintain a dilapidated IT Lab.
The moment we reached, dust piled up the computer desktop's screen and keyboard.
The lab was so ill maintained, one would wonder how could the students attending IT lesson be able to learn in a conducive environment.

The maintenance were rather basic. We've got to check whether the programs, keyboard, mouse, screen and CPU are working or not. Afterwhich, purchase were done at an IT store.

The new computer screen looked so new I wish I could have it. Mine was three years old. I hope no dust pile on it after we leave.

The final time we returned back, we'd replaced the defected parts with new one. Borrowed an air pump from one of the shop and cleared all the dust in the CPUs.

This is how dirty it is!
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Besides the IT Lab is a abandoned playground. Sounds like a ghost story? haha there's nth much about that. Juz that it looks old and no one use it anymore.

So these are the recreation the commoners get.
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Now let's get to the paid to enter theme park. It's name? Dai Nam Themed Park. Inspired by so and so dynasty architecture. What I observed were that the Vietnamese had a strong bond with the Chinese.

Even at the place where we had breakfast. It's built upon oriental design. For this place, not every Vietnamese can afford because of the wide income gap. It's not really a rich playground but nt a free playground. Therefore, it's kind of a constricted access.

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