My first international consultancy travels
Ha Noi Viet Nam 2003. My first consultancy travel took place in 2003 when i was involved in the development of education sector master plan for Viet Nam, funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. I was still working with Nomura Reseaerch Institute as Senior Consultant and Assistant General Manager of NRI Manila Office. I was lucky to work with some NRI colleagues and a retired fellow from the World Bank.
This consultancy allowed me first travel to Ha Noi and got surprised how many motorcycles are ploying on any street of Ha Noi. I was lucky to stay in Hotel Nikko Ha Noi, where my room that was situated on a corner allowed me to see how many motorcycles are. There was a time that I can only count a couple of car or vehicle against hundreds of motorcycles.
Food was another wonderful experience I had in my first visit in Viet Nam. By the way, that time I got instant millionaire by exchange a hundred dollar to their local currency called Dong. For some days, I was practically a millionaire. That time, I am more of a cash person rather than a credit card person. I remember one night, me and my colleague Dr Yamagishi of NRI Tokyo, tried to experience eating Pho’ on the streets. We don’t how much per bowl, so we just showed our money, and the noodle shop lady just took the exact amount of what we have consumed. I am impressed of their honestly as they that lady did not take advantage of us.
For this project, I got a chance to visit as many universities I can. I remember visiting the 21 universities out of about 100 universities from North to South Viet Nam. I travelled both by air and land. What I can remember was visiting Hue University and them travelled to Nha Trang to visit the University of Fisheries. Then from Nha Trang, I went by car to visit Da Lat University. Dalat is a considered the littler Paris, France in Viet Nam.
TO BE CONTINUED.....watch for it....
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