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[seabass]

Originally Posted by Director

When was your first trip? The cheapest roadside banh mi was 1000 dong. I don't think you could have gone earlier than me 😅wantan Mee at Mac thi buoi was 2000 dong.

....... 1990

[seabass]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

how to believe what a fish is saying...

dun think he ever walk down the tarmac of the old hcm airport...

This reminded me one time we had to walk the tarmac of the Budget airport of sg, this old vn lady laboured to carry her barang 2. The gentleman in me( very rarely seen) offered to carry her wet market bag which was totally heavy and was rewarded with a beautiful succulent mango when we reach the inside of the airport.

The old airport really is a good memory. That time can give ‘imported’ cigarettes to the shabby uniformed Cong Ann. That time grease money was a twenty dollar greenback that disappeared inside an X-ray machine macham like magic. That time

[langpalang]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Actually hor most of the ones that go overseas are those that have already outgrown their "expiry" dates at home, so need to go overseas so lesser competition from those younger new waves

Thats why most of the time when they are overseas they are much more fiercer as they are old birds & eagles liao

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

dunno leh, mayb i never explore enough in viet.. .hahaha

i still find viet bu here more swee leh... hahha

haha... i forget, u like the young ones, tht one must come from the source ... hahaha

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Melaka KTVs damn jia lat cos mostly run by those syndicates that basically "enslaved" those poor naive VBs years back when they first open up there were quite a number of poor VBs that got trapped in this and one of those was our dear Zaryl's old flame and she told us those real stories

Thats why they will practically escort them to your hotels and escort them back

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

the one i go ok leh

we actually hv to bring them back ourselves. i remember got one time, 6 of us plus girls. i hv to ferry two times to go bck. its only the picking up, cos they dunno the place. but we can opt to send them back to their apt also. I know where they stay

not that restrictive lah. cos hor, i did ask viet bu out couple of times, direct call them to take off and come accompany me. they did. i just go their apt pick them.

[Director]

Originally Posted by seabass

....... 1990

hahaha you win. My first time was in 1994.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by Director

hahaha you win. My first time was in 1994.

hearsay lah...back in 1990 already hv 10k and 50k dong notes...20k notes in 1991...

budget terminal was 2006 and fish can remember budget terminal and not hcm old airport terminal...

[Director]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

hearsay lah...back in 1990 already hv 10k and 50k dong notes...20k notes in 1991...

budget terminal was 2006 and fish can remember budget terminal and not hcm old airport terminal...

Huh? I remember that time girls sitting tips was 20K. Yes there was 20K. maximum was 50K notes. I remember old airport terminal only. Need to take bus from tarmac at that time.

I was based there from 1994-2000 (my first overseas posting).

[langpalang]

Guys, 1990. Exchange rate how much??

[Director]

Originally Posted by langpalang

Guys, 1990. Exchange rate how much??

10000 vnd = 1 usd

[langpalang]

Originally Posted by Director

10000 vnd = 1 usd

Wow...like that sing =5k+ nia. Haha. So much diff.

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by seabass

....... 1990

Oh......you are slightly earlier than me, mine was 91 or 92 if I can remembered correctly, 1990 was only travelling to BKK & JKT for work nia nia haven go Wetnam yet........

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by langpalang

dunno leh, mayb i never explore enough in viet.. .hahaha

i still find viet bu here more swee leh... hahha

haha... i forget, u like the young ones, tht one must come from the source ... hahaha

the one i go ok leh

we actually hv to bring them back ourselves. i remember got one time, 6 of us plus girls. i hv to ferry two times to go bck. its only the picking up, cos they dunno the place. but we can opt to send them back to their apt also. I know where they stay

not that restrictive lah. cos hor, i did ask viet bu out couple of times, direct call them to take off and come accompany me. they did. i just go their apt pick them.

Lucky got people like you, I lesser competitors liao

Good to hear that now MY have already improved, those days were when Sinkie start clamping down on all the VBs so they no choice all start flocking into MY then kena these types of traps many of my SBF kakis here have old flames that started to work in MY as cannot come into Sinkie anymore and start to send them distress messages for help when they were stuck there with their passports being "impounded" with the syndicates and unable to go home with no $$$ & no passports

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

hearsay lah...back in 1990 already hv 10k and 50k dong notes...20k notes in 1991...

budget terminal was 2006 and fish can remember budget terminal and not hcm old airport terminal...

Budget terminal was a silly failure to save $$$ on construction, only 2 or 3 year after construction many things start looking like crap especially the wall painting peeling and the toilets, really sia suay Sinkapor image

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Director

10000 vnd = 1 usd

Dont have so much lah uncle, I google liao its about 6500vnd to 1 USD in 1990, yours should be in 1994 si mm si??? nowadays no need to try to remember as too long ago so google is the best option

Anyway that time USD damn big deal liao not like now fallen so much against SGD

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Director

Huh? I remember that time girls sitting tips was 20K. Yes there was 20K. maximum was 50K notes. I remember old airport terminal only. Need to take bus from tarmac at that time.

I was based there from 1994-2000 (my first overseas posting).

That time I still farking greenhorn in Wetnam, even go KTVs also our rep handle all the transactions including giving tips to the VBs

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Director]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Dont have so much lah uncle, I google liao its about 6500vnd to 1 USD in 1990, yours should be in 1994 si mm si??? nowadays no need to try to remember as too long ago so google is the best option

Anyway that time USD damn big deal liao not like now fallen so much against SGD

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

I am quoting 1994 la. Not so sure before how much. For a very time it was 11000 to 1 usd.

That time catwalk was called le lai. hottest place in town.