The Countries I have Conquered!

The Quindo Empire

It seems I have a long way to go before I paint the world completely RED!

Countries I have lived in:

China, England (UK), Egypt, Iran, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and last but not least Vietnam.

Countries I have visited:

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Isle of Man (UK), Jersey (Channel Islands), Italy, Luxembourg, Menorca (Spain), Northern Ireland (UK), Singapore, Scotland (UK), Switzerland, Thailand and last but not least Wales (UK).

So where have you been?

Comments from Yahoo

(6 total)

• moonl…

Hi little brother! I've been to Ireland, England, France, Greece (twice), Haiti, and numerous states here in the US.....I want to see more.....

Wednesday 26 September 2007 - 07:56AM (CDT)

• tabby…

Have lived in London (East - Bethnal Green), Zürich, Solothurn and now Feldbrunnen in Switzerland
Visited: Norway (Oslo), Sweden (Stockholm), Denmark (copenhagen), Germany (Braunschweig, Hannover, Stuttgart), France (Paris), Russia (Leningrad in 1966), Italy (Rome, Bay of Naples, Florence, Lake of Como, Milan), Morocco (Marrakech), Liechtenstein (Vaduz), Finland (Helsinki), Austria (Vienna)

Wednesday 26 September 2007 - 10:25PM (CEST)

• tabby…

Forgot to mention USA (New York)

Wednesday 26 September 2007 - 10:26PM (CEST)

• Morga…

Easter US from CT to ME, Western US from Seattle to Oxnard,(and the stretch of HWY in between each dozens of times) Japan, Korea and Hawaii!

Wednesday 26 September 2007 - 04:44PM (PDT)

• Moon

I have lived in Holland, China, England (UK), Saudi Arabia and VietNam (of course :-D). I have visited Japan, Scotland, UK - Isle of Mull ;-), Wales (UK), Singapore, Hong Kong. I'll be visiting lots more countries in the near future :-) xxx

Thursday 27 September 2007 - 09:56AM (GMT)

• Sai

ok so u world travelers have me beat...

i haven't traveled outside of 48 state territory!!!

Friday 28 September 2007 - 06:22PM (CDT)

Privacy and the Virtue of Sharing

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Everyone has a right to privacy and I cannot stress that enough. Precaution is sensible in a world that unfortunately has the predator and the prey. Internet fraud and identity theft exists. It happens and it's a reality.

Yet I can’t help but feel that some people’s precautions are taken out of a fear that has not been put into perspective. What are the true motives behind those who choose not show a picture of themselves or their family on their websites or blogs? The internet is a bit like a public place just as a shopping mall is. Do you walk down the shopping mall with your family and put paper bags over your heads so that you can all be 'safely' not recognised by anyone?

So what about the internet bullies, harassers, stalkers and those nasty people who prey on the naïve, the innocent, the young and the vulnerable... what about those who will snatch at any opportunity to use your identity for their gain?

It’s a good question but I believe we have to put these things into perspective. Nasty people whilst they exist are not 'everywhere'. Identity fraud, relatively speaking is not that likely to happen to you, especially if you take right kind of precautions. There are means and ways of dealing with internet bullying and harassment without having to close your world to a wider audience. The act of sharing yourself and your life in my eyes is a human virtue which brings great pleasure to everyone including the sharer. We should not deprive ourselves of such virtue.

Due to the rise in internet and identity fraud, banks have made counter moves to increase personal security measures. We are now in an age where most of our trivial personal data is rapidly becoming useless for the internet fraudster. Although there is still much to be improved and there are still some businesses for which you could easily set up an account using somebody else’s identity with a minimal amount of personal information, this should soon become a thing of the past.

On the matter of perverts and paedophiles (English spelling!) again there are simple precautions to take on the kind of images you show on the internet. However it's very sad and we are living in a defeatist world if we can't show innocent photos of our children. How I wish the world didn't have this excessive fear of paedophiles. I was really angry when at my own son's birthday party one year at a swimming pool we hired for the occasion the staff prevented me from taking photos of the kids having fun in the pool. Why should the depraved few spoil it for the decent majority.

How I also hate the media for generating excessive fear for all manner of things! To my mind this media generated 'fear' is a bigger crime to humanity than everyday petty crime!

Maybe I'm too much the idealist, the hoper of a better world to come. But I feel it's not a step forward for humanity to live with over-precaution. I'd rather choose the way of vulnerability and of exposure because I am human and I love humanity, the innocence of childhood, personal freedom and peace. Perhaps once in a while we have to fight to maintain these noble standards. I will also fight to fly the flag of being vulnerable and honest. And to sustain these noble standards we have to accept some risks. If we don't take risks in life we can never move forward.

In Yahoo 360, I enjoy reading blogs about people’s lives, seeing photos of them and of their friends and families, the places where they live and go. It's a fascinating window into other worlds where I cannot always be. And I take a deep pleasure to share mine with others too. I know there are risks.

I realise that in the case where an individual has gained a certain high level of popularity or fame then because of that greater exposure to public life you have a higher likelihood to encounter the depraved and mad cranks of this world. Thus protecting against harassment and stalking becomes necessary. There is a price to be paid for being popular but even in those situations I have great respect and admiration for those who dare to allow themselves to be approachable to their fan base.

I see it as a good thing to share with others about our lives that the common good may enjoy, learn from, and value what is shared. To survive in this world it's only natural to take precautions and be on our guard but to make humanity a good thing we have no choice but to take certain risks and fight to maintain and uphold our noble standards and virtues.

Qu’ove Revolution ©2007

Comments from Yahoo 360

(2 total)

• tabby…

I couldn't have said it better. I always wondered if I was "doing the right thing" and seem to be a bit of the odd one out in my environment, although my friends and family always enjoy reading what I write.
Perhaps it is my age, but things disappear so quickly from this world today which is probably one of the reasons that I leave something behind in the shape of a blog with a few stories. Most of all I like to read about other countries and other experiences. As far as the education of children is concerned, I am glad that mine are not longer "children". It is difficult today to know what is right or wrong in their education today - but there are too many people who seem to know everything better.

Wednesday 26 September 2007 - 11:19AM (CEST)

• Diana

I tend to not post pictures of my kids but then most of my post are poems about life happening to me or my friends. I feel as the kids get older they can choose to post pictures or not.
I do agree that media does tend to make the whole thing worse; but even one is more then enough.

Wednesday 26 September 2007 - 09:54AM (MDT)

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skaviva wrote on Oct 28

Well said.

Let’s make a Mesh of Yahoo’s new Mash

In 1974 I was 8 years old. At that time there was an advertising campaign on TV for 'instant' mash potatoes called Smash made by Cadbury's. The ad slogan was 'For Mash get Smash'. With the introduction of Yahoo's new social networking service 'Mash', I speculate that Yahoo is actually run by the Smash robots!

Reading various posts on 360, I’m coming across various rumours about Yahoo 360 closing down and being replaced by a mish-mesh facebook called Mash.

Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to get myself an invite to this new service from Yahoo.

In the early stages of development this service was apparently going to be called Mosh!

But now it’s called Mash… hmmm, I came across an idea in their suggestions forum about Mash to rename it Mesh.

From Mosh to Mash to Mesh! What do you reckon guys? This is Yahoo’s attempt to provide a social networking service to compete with MySpace and Google’s Notebook. If we are going to have the M word then I think they should really go with Mesh rather than Mash since that more logically represents a network.

I’ve read a lot of criticism about Mash and some of it not particularly constructive criticism either and lot of it unsurprisingly from Yahoo 360 users. Now if it continues that way I can imagine that might only increase enthusiasm from the big boys in Yahoo to do what has been rumoured and shut down 360.

True, Yahoo are late to the fancy dress party with their version of a social network. I’ve no idea if it will work well or not. I know it’s geared to the younger market and I’m aware that Yahoo are looking for ways to increase their revenue. And certainly they may well get more revenue out of this service than with 360.

Some people have asked where is the blogging feature on Mash? Now I don’t know if they intend producing a new blogging feature to it or not but what I can tell you is that it’s probably not really necessary since it is very easy to produce your blog (from absolutely any internet blogging service with RSS 2.0) in the blog module on the Mash Profile page.

I personally have found it very easy to set up the Mash profile and to play around with the modules. You can delete any modules you don’t want except the four mains ones namely; Photo & ID, About Me, Tags, and Friends modules. You can juggle round the order and place the modules on the main left hand side or smaller right hand side of the page.

You can have plain and simple backgrounds or fancy HTML backgrounds. When you go to other people’s profiles if you see a module you like you can grab it (essentially copying) and have it added to your profile and even to the profiles of your friends if they have allowed you to do that.

Mash is still in it’s experimental stages and Yahoo are still working to debug certain features and add new features. Hopefully they will listen to the many suggestions being made in the suggestions forum and provide a product that will appeal to everyone.

It bothers me a little bit that many in the ‘mature’ crowd are giving Mash the cold brush. I realize accommodating change is something a lot of people don’t like doing. However, this is the twenty-first century and very much the age of rapid-change. Personally I’d had thought people should be getting used to change and learning to adapt by now but some people really don’t change!

The way I’ve set up my profile is from the point of view of using it as an interface to my 360 blog. If Yahoo’s Mash does succeed then I might be able to use the Mash profile and it’s network to find even more people who just might be interested in reading my terribly very dull blog (nah come on it’s not really is it?) on a regular basis. Maybe in later months it will also be a useful place to find specific groups of people I’d like to know or meet. After all that’s what this social networking is supposed to be all about isn’t it?

The tags module is precisely for the purpose of allowing you to connect with those with which you might have common interest. For example if you’re mad on photography you can add that word to the tags and hey-presto one click gives you a list of people who have also put the word in their tags.

You don’t have to be an HTML expert to master the Mash Profile. Once you’ve learned a few little simple tricks you will find that the Mash will be your Oyster!

If you are already 'Mashing' then you will be able to see how I've set up my Mash Profile to support my 360 blog. If you haven't already joined, I recommend you give it a try and I can send you an invite. When you have time I’d say make the effort to give it a go for a few weeks. Remember it’s still in development and Yahoo haven’t got to the stage of announcing this service with full fanfare. Hopefully when they are ready, they will give the full fanfare, and the network might expand very rapidly. If you want to join, send me your email address to my “Send Messages” mailbox on 360, and I’ll invite you to join Mash. If you’ve got questions I’ll try and help if I can.

Here is the link to: My Mash Profile

Comments from Yahoo 360

(9 total)

• Roo

Well I hope that I'm not just being an old stick in the mud, but I really was not impressed by Mash when I took a look at it. It actually seems to be two steps backwards after Yahoo 360.

I'm always willing to give something new a try and, indeed, have set up both MySpace and Facebook pages, but they both seemed inferior to 360. Mash seems pretty much the same as Facebook to me, so if 360 does close down I'd probably opt for the real thing over the economy pack (although I don't really have much enthusiasm for Facebook either and would probably just drift away from social networking - a phrase I hate btw, LOL).

Oh well, maybe Yahoo will keep 360 for us old timers...now where did I leave my zimmer frame, sonny?

Wednesday 19 September 2007 - 10:45AM (EDT)

• Phil-…

When I first learned about MySpace and I went to take a look, I couldn't make head or tail of it and never looked at it again. Similarly with Facebook, I looked at it and couldn't see what all the fuss was about and nor could I see how it could be useful to me.

And yet, upon learning about Yahoo's Mash I decide to give it a better try than what I'd given to Facebook and MySpace. And sure enough I could see that it's actually a lot easier to use than I had imagined. And what I really wanted to know was how perhaps I could use it with Yahoo 360.

I have managed with great ease to set up the profile to support the blog. So, all that remains is to see if in some point in the future whether my Mash Profile will serve as a good shop window into my blog.

I believe it's worth a try. I also believe that Yahoo's Mash does have the potential to be a useful product not only for the youngsters who love to play around with HTML graphics and display videos of their favourite music and whatever else they're into, but also for those of us who want to use it in a more serious way.

Thursday 20 September 2007 - 04:17AM (GMT)

• MATRI…

I've blogged about Mash myself. It's still very bare bones and basic at the moment and I'm reserving my final judgement until it's developed further. As it stands I can't see Mash competing either with established networking sites such as Facebook or with 360. I realise this is why it's not open to the general public yet. The big difference between purely social networks and Blogging sites such as 360 is that you don't get the same insight into the other people as you do by reading their blogs. I have a facebook account but use this purely for connecting with people I already know, with 360 you can read and comment on people's blogs and get to know them this way before sending invites, giving you more opportunity to make new friends. As I mentioned in my blog, for Mash to work it either needs to be linked directly to 360, or the two sites combined into one, giving existing 360 users the oppoertunity to import their blogs and profile detail to the new site.

Thursday 20 September 2007 - 11:06AM (BST)

• Phil-…

Thanks for sharing your comment on my post. To be honest I don't care what Yahoo do. I'll go along with it and make the most of what they have to offer.

I'm frustrated that many people in 360 are not prepared to have an open mind on Mash. I don't know any more than anyone else about the fate of 360. But I do know I really like a lot about what 360 is at the moment and I'd love to see it improved. I find 360 the best blogging platform around... far better than Blogger etc...

As for Mash, I have my profile, and I'm waiting to see how it takes off and how it will be improved. If I can see it can be used to my advantage then I will use it. As simple as that.

Thursday 20 September 2007 - 10:46AM (GMT)

• moonl

I think that part of the problem is that if we wanted something along the lines of Facebook or My Space, we'd be at Facebook or My Space. The reason that 360 appeals is that it is different. Yahoo is too quick to abandon a good thing, to jump on the same bandwagon that everyone else is on. Why not improve what is there? Why not incorporate what they want from "mash" into the 360? People have put a lot of work into the development of their pages, built up social circles, etc. They don't want to be told that it's all going to be scrapped, and that they have to move....I've heard a lot of people talking, they are just getting disgusted with Yahoo, I'm afraid that if they are told that 360 will close, they won't stay with Yahoo, it's not the only game in town...they've already had it happen with the photos, which is a disaster.....many are upset about that.....and right on top of it, now we start hearing about this Mash Mess.....

Thursday 20 September 2007 - 09:19AM (CDT)

• Nguye…

Have got a quick look on Mash, and seem it's not interesting to me much ... Or because I've been so familiar with Y360 ... Let's wait and see ..

Happy weekend, Phillip ... :-)

Saturday 22 September 2007 - 08:02PM (ICT)

• Phil-…

Just as a mention: the terms & conditions for Mash are broadly similar to Y!360.

These can be found at the bottom of the page. For Mash there are also extra terms. It is always worthwhile to read the terms of service before engaging in a Yahoo service so that you know to what extent Yahoo can use your work for their purposes.

On the matter of intellectual property rights, if in the highly unlikely event that the material was used by Yahoo in a way that is not to your liking, then from the moment the content is removed from Yahoo's pages they cannot continue to use the material for their benefit.

At least that is my understanding of how I read the terms anyway. See last sentence of 8(b) of the terms. These terms in most of all the countries Yahoo operate are similar with them being subject to the laws of that particular country.

In my own opinion these terms of service for both Yahoo Mash & 360 are quite fair.

Sunday 23 September 2007 - 04:30AM (GMT)

• Trees…

I found this blog.. excellent. a good critical analysis..

I'm too am seeing lots of people in 360 dissing Mash... without really giving it (or them a chance). In away we should view it as a learning process... Web 2 technology is for ever 'changing'.. and 360.. that I love to use catching up on my friends blogs (and they on mine)... is a little restrictive in what 'else' you can do... the front page is a little limiting... whereas Mash appears to give me the 'front page' social freedom and creativity I like... but without the 'blog' (but as you say this can be added from any RSS feed ... assuming your blog is public.. which mine isn't).

Mash and 360 compliment each other... you don't need both... (actually you need neither.. but some might like to .... and others... well its there choice.... but change happens.... and I'm enjoying being part of this change.

Sunday 23 September 2007 - 01:40PM (BST)

• tabby…

I am one of the critics that wrote about Mash. Perhaps it is a sign of age. I have no problem with templates or such, as I have done simple web sites myself. I think I was just annoyed at the way the system was being introduced. A chosen few that may give out invites. Eventually I got myself an invite (if you can't beat them join them) and after playing around with backgrounds and rss feeds I seem to have reached more or less what I want.
I just find that Yahoo has not been very honest with its members. The information concerning mash seemed to have been given out by other web sites and not by Yahoo itself, with the result that no-one really knew what was going on. Perhaps Yahoo 360 is something for the older, I only know that up to now I had no real interest in being in MySpace, MyFace, Yuku or whatever with their gags, tricks, flashy colours and other add ons. It now seems that Mash will just be a surface for the complete Yahoo and everything else stays, so I suppose, as someone mentioned it is all based on popularity and probably money. Long live 360° and Mash may also exist as it doesn't seem to be doing any harm at the moment.

Wednesday 26 September 2007 - 11:29AM (CEST)

Improving Yahoo 360

I have been using Yahoo 360 for over a year now and in that time I've done 66 posts not including this one. I have to mention 66 because it's kind of like my lucky number even though I loathe superstition. This is a small number compared to many 360 users on here but for me it's personal achievement to have managed 66.

It's fantastic to have this service for free. I have enjoyed posting in 360 and I've met some really interesting people online. It's provided me with an opportunity to learn much more about other peoples' lives and also to learn about so many different facets of life through the reading of many posts on other peoples' 360 blogs.

Of all the blog sites that are available I have found 360 to be the easiest to use and understand. I like the fact that you can assign a list of friends thus creating an online community. Blogger, Google's blog site, doesn't offer that feature so it's difficult to advertise yourself on Blogger. It might be that I'm not aware of mechanisms which would allow me to do that.

I hope Yahoo will continue to support 360 for a long time to come and I hope they can continually make it accessible to many people and make improvements thus allowing it to evolve into a very useful and dynamic blogging site.

I am also a Yahoo Beta email user having held a yahoo email address for several years. A few months back Yahoo made superb improvements to their Yahoo email service. The web based Yahoo Beta interface has really suited my needs well. I prefer to keep my email 'post-box' web based and I don't bother using email software such as Outlook or Lotus Notes anymore. The unlimited size of the Yahoo mailbox is a big plus. The spam filter works very well. Yahoo provides free anti-virus protection on all emails and attachments. Ever since I stopped downloading emails to my own laptop I have suffered far less from virus attacks to the computer. I'm hoping that the Beta email interface can be used as my main hub for all my online communications. The chat feature is really good but I have found that it doesn't always work reliably and messages are failing to be received or transmitted. Sometimes that happens in Yahoo Messenger as well.

Yahoo Flickr is another service which generally I like very much. There are some annoying aspects to it and it also seems quite complicated to use for organising photos. I have Flickr pro free until the end of November. I now have well over 1000 photos uploaded to Flickr and I intend to use Flickr as one of my main storage bases for all my personal photos. I also keep a back-up of all my photos on USB memory sticks. I don't trust CDs or computer hardrives as a permanent place for storing electronic photos.

Here are five ideas on what I'd like to see improved about Yahoo's services and Yahoo's 360.

1. A closer integration between the Yahoo Beta email and Yahoo 360 Beta.

By that I mean I'd like to have an easy one-click link straight to my 360 page from the email interface. I'd like a dropdown menu on the email interface for a variety of the 360 features. In a way I'd prefer it to the Notepad feature. Perhaps a Yahoo 360 folder could be incorporated that would open a tab in the email interface for editing a post.

2. A blog posting facility directly from my Yahoo email.

I would like to write my posts directly from my email. This is one really useful feature that Google's Blogger has which 360 doesn't have. Furthermore, I would like to see it work in a "WYSIWYG" mode with a simple 'switch-over' click to HTML view.

3. An improved mechanism for posting images (possibly also for videos and slideshows etc).

Especially images from Flickr. I haven't yet found a way to easily post images. The method I use is slow and very clumsy. I have to open Flickr, log in, find the photo I want, open it up, click on 'all sizes', select the size I want, 'grab' the URL link by copying and pasting it into the 360 editor in HTML source mode. And sometimes I find that tricky because I'm no expert on HTML and it's often difficult to read and find the location in the HTML text to paste the URL. The solution is to make some software that allows photos to be posted easily and quickly into the 360 post editor.

4. Incorporate an auto-save feature.

In editing mode, while writing up a post, there should be an auto-save feature. Again this is a feature that Blogger has that 360 doesn't have. I don't know how many times I've written a blog and then clicked on 'Post this Entry' and lost all the work! Of course these days I'm more careful. I always copy the text first in case that happens then I can re-paste the work. An auto-save feature would be much better though.

5. Facility to make individual posts private, friends only, selected-group of friends, or public.

At the moment we can only make the whole 360 blog do this. I would like to be able to write individual posts that only my friends can see, or even only a particular selection of family and friends to see, or to make completely private, or to make public.

I hope the operators of Yahoo will somehow pick up on these ideas.

One more thing that completely astounds me, is that on Yahoo.com homepage there is absolutely no mention of Yahoo 360! The main menu on the lefthand side doesn't show 360 as a link! You have to click on the "More Yahoo! Services" link before finding the link for 360. In fact it seems that Yahoo! doesn't so obviously advertise it's blogging service very well at all.

What are your ideas for improving Yahoo 360?

Comments from Yahoo 360

(3 total)

• Roo

I have a feeling that 360 won't be around for much longer once Yahoo Mash gets up and running. It's a pity because 360 is light years ahead of MySpace and Facebook as far as I'm concerned.

I'm also none too impressed by Flickr. Yahoo Photos was far superior by the end of its run and free to use, but now we've got the less good Flickr and we have to pay for it. Gee, thanks Yahoo, I don't think.

Thanks for the tip about keeping photos on USB memory sticks. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Monday 17 September 2007 - 08:37AM (EDT)

• might…

I took a look at "Mash", and I wasn't impressed. It's would be fine for teenagers, and I think it was designed with that age group in mind.....I do wish they would just fine tune 360, correct some of the glitches, tighten up the security and then leave it be.....I love it here....

Monday 17 September 2007 - 07:45AM (CDT)

• Astra…

Good ideas, Phil!!

I gave Yahoo my two-cents some time ago, as being a 'feature' was actually intended to give the platform a heavy workout and gain feedback. The ability to block comments to individual blogs was one of my big ones, too.

There are several Yahoo groups for 360, and they're all VERY active. I'd suggest that you post your suggestions to them, as well, and see if we can't get some action here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Y-360/ - Yahoo/360 User's Group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/360-Bloggers-Anonymous/ -- 360 Bloggers Anonymous

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/360-Friends/ -- 360 Friends

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/360-Forum/ -- 360 Forum (tips and help)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/360_made_easy/ -- 360 Made Easy (tips and help)

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kk7QoHEierBqvRXolmQH?p=1#comments -- "Keep 360" Petition

http://blog.mash.yahoo.com/ -- 360 "Mash" Blog (comments welcome)

http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=mash -- Yahoo "Mash" suggestion board

http://360.yahoo.com/profile-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1 -- Official Y/360 Team Blog


Phil - these are ALL good sites - you might post these in a separate post for your readers to use -- when you do, let me know; I'll create a 'blast' to do a little promotion here.

Thanks for a great and informative post!

Wednesday 19 September 2007 - 06:20AM (PDT)

A Crazy Day Out

During May this year Moon and I visited the romantic city of Da Lat in Vietnam.

One of the places we came to visit in this small city was 'Hang Nga Guesthouse' which in English translates to Moon Guesthouse. It's also popularly known as Crazy House. The owner of the hotel calls herself Hang Nga. She's an architect by trade and has made the building of this hotel her 'Life' project.

You can stay at this hotel and experience its wonders at small cost.

The hotel has been made to appear weird and wonderful with a naturalistic theme. Each room in the guesthouse has an animal theme.

Fancy sharing a night in a room with a glowing red-eyed tiger?

I loved her 'crazy' furnishing style and colours. One thing for sure, Hang Nga has a passion for mirrors by the bed... She's got a rather naughty mind! I like that!

See what I mean by mirrors and beds. Every bedroom in this guesthouse featured a mirror viewing the bed. This particular guest room was split on two levels. The toilet, shower and relaxing area was downstairs and to get to this bedroom you had to climb up narrow winding stairs.

I love the twists and turns in the wooden structures of her house with outside corridors and passage ways.

Her guesthouse is still under construction and is an ongoing project. At the present Hang Nga believes she will finish sometime around 2010. One of the impressive things about this place is that integrates the trees and plants well with her buildings. She has aimed for a harmony with nature. In that respect I believe she has done really well.

A part of her guesthouse structure features a giraffe. And here I'm standing behind it! I just love it! I really do!

Hang Nga has designed into the walls anatomical features of both animals and humans. Like this Cacophony of boobies!

The dining room is perhaps the nearest you are going to see in this house that has any resemblance to being normal. Even here the design and layout remains impressionable. Now to let you into a little secret! The picture on the wall is her father, Truong Chinh, who was the president of Vietnam from 1981 to 1987. To think that we met the daughter of a former president of Vietnam! Many tourists and visitors to the guesthouse are oblivious to this interesting information. We found Hang Nga very approachable and friendly. She is seen working many days in the guesthouse ticket office and even when she isn't there, you can find her at her design studio.

Mirror mirror on the wall! Who's the Craziest of them all? Is it Hang Nga the owner of Crazy House in Dalat, or is it My Hang Nga? Well, I'll leave that assessment with you readers. What I do know is that I found this guesthouse to be a wonderful inspiration and not at all crazy! Walking through the many passage ways and rooms of this house with my Dear made me feel Crazy in love with my Crazy Hair Dear... But it's crazy only because She is crazily the most beautiful woman this crazy world of the Earth and Moon has made for me!

Yahoo 360 Comments:

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dianeoart wrote on Oct 21 Nice tour....I really enjoyed this place, great blog. :)

jansen68 wrote on Oct 21 What a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing!!!

absynthedeath wrote on Oct 21 Yet again, I read a blog where I realize that there is another place to add to my list of places I want to visit and people I want to meet! That red-eyed tiger might have been a bit scary trying to sleep at night, though.

arolkayalkfay wrote on Oct 21 So many wonderful places to visit. Thanks for the tour.

aramink wrote on Oct 21 What a cool place! I love seeing unique things and places to stay. I would definitely try to book a room here if I was traveling in the area.

herbaliva wrote on Oct 22 Wow, I have never seen anything like it.