Travel to add topics to talk about...

This morning, our group of retirees were chatting about their recent trip to Vietnam again. It will take a while before the subject becomes stale. Yesterday, all of us had a good laugh over the word 'tiu' or 'tiew' which in Vietnamese, means toilet or salt. One can imagine how each time they were made to laugh when someone said, 'who wants to go tiu', 'all of us go to tiu at the same time' and especially when one intentionally asked another, 'want to go tiu or not'.

I still remember a lady colleague who called up to enquire about a housing project as advertised. Before finishing the conversation, she asked, 'You are Ms...?' and the girl on the other end replied, 'Ms. Tiew'. My colleague laughed out loud and the other person obviously did not mind as she must have got used to it.

Anyway, it is hard to convince my friends that I did not envy them because I heard problems of being stuck in a tunnel (one actually went in backwards!), jumping onto the moving boat and then realised the danger of 'what if the skipper accelerated at that moment!', and upon arrival at KLIA when they returned, the van that was supposed to pick them did not turn up and they had to wait another two hours for a replacement.

Besides the trip, topics of discussion included digital technology. One of them was impressed with Bluetooth technology while another was impressed with digital photo image-making abilities like adding on a jacket and a necktie to an old portrait photo. The following pictures were sent to me, giving another perspective of certain parts made invisible:

I think the last one was not digitally done. It so happens the dogs appear to fly!