Lambada every day

Well, basically I get everyday an earworm in the office. Mostly it's the old Lambada-song. And why is that? When trucks go backwards they have this warning beep. In Vietnam the trucks play warning melodies instead of beeps when going backwards. And I somehow guess, that 90% of the trucks have this annoying Lambada tune on it. Some play "Für Elise", some play "Happy Birthday"... As mentioned in one of the posts before we are on the 12th floor of an office building with a gallery where I occasionally have a smoke. Then you see down to the airfreight warehouse, and of course there are always many trucks. See here the view:

When we open the window in our office, we of course can hear the trucks as well. Funny for the first time you hear it, but quite annoying after a while.

Anyway, my lovely colleagues almost everyday supply me with local fruits and candy. Just as an example, yesterday again something new:

The fruits look a bit like mini potatoes, and when you peal them they are white and rather juicy. Taste is sweet, but very difficult to describe, as I haven't eaten anything like this before. There are other fruits, which are similar to Lychee, which the Vietnamese eat very often. Don't have pictures of them now, will post, when I get a new supply :).

This week started with a typical problem: No internet connection in the office, which means nowadays, that you cannot work. Problem was, that someone cut the internet cable on the street of our provider on sunday morning. And our provider only started to repair on monday. Well, so we were cut off until the late afternoon. But this can happen, as all power and internet connections are not underground. 

We were visiting one customer this week, producing one of the main export goods of Vietnam: Pottery. We were invited to see the loading of a sea container heading to Switzerland:

One of the main production areas of Pottery is the Mekong Delta as there is the basic clay and you get rice waste as well for firing the ovens there. 

See here a few examples of what is produced:

I was a bit surprised about the packaging of the pots. Off-cuts / waste from shoe and textile plants is used for packaging the pots:

Few reasons: It is cheaper than carton and reusable many times. After the transport, the off-cuts are collected again and reused for the next transport. Quite sustainable.