Expat blog February Gathering on 8th Feb 2015

We will meet up before everyone go back for TET holidays. February monthly gathering will be as follows

                   Date: 08/02/2015 Sunday
                Venue: Highland Coffee
                            181 Ham Nghi, P HguyenThai Binh, District 1   (opposite Ben Thanh market)           
                            Time: 3.pm-5pm(come anytime)

When you reached Ben Thanh Market , the Highland cafe is at the opposite across  the big roundabout..
Please go upstairs and look for "Expat.com" sign on table.
We will move elsewhere for dinner together if you would like to join us
Please order your beverage at the counter and all are welcome. .
Those with bike,please bring extra helmet.
Hope to see you all soon.
Cheers,
Richard

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Great!

I am coming from Brunei durring these days and I will be happy to attend this party to meet new friends.
sala.

Some pirctures of BBQ party on 25/01/2015

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Great!
See you soon!  :)

I am a new member. Can I join the group

Please come and join us. It will be fun and you get to network with many new friends from all over. All are welcome local and expats. We will go to dinner together so if you are free ,do join us too. Hope to see you all soon. Happy Lunar New Year.

noted

I doubt I can make it because of the combination on work commitments and distance, I will see what arrangements I can make because I would like to show up. 

However, attend or not, I'd like to thank the originator for making the venue a Highlands, which has great coffee and cake, instead of a bar.  That rocks.

I'm vietnamese i never expat can i join

We encourage any local to join as we need help and advices too. Now we have a group of regular local friends who joined  our gathering and activities  regularly.  So come and join us this Sunday. See you all

Unfortunately I will not be able to join you all at your gathering. I regret this very much.

However I would like to say something:

Today I deleted all of the people who had requested to be in contact with me on this website.

Why?

Well, at the time of the New Year I sent New Years greetings to all those who had requested to be on my contact list.

Not one person responded.

So I have now deleted all of them.

I'd like to meet in person with real people, but maybe next time.

But in future, please don't ask to be a contact/friend if you do not intend to communicate.

Chuc Mun Nam Moi!

Matt

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eodmatt wrote:

I'd like to meet in person with real people, but maybe next time.

But in future, please don't ask to be a contact/friend if you do not intend to communicate.

Chuc Mun Nam Moi!

Matt


Thanks Matt,
I hope to see you in the monthly gathering soon. You still want to give me a bottle of red wine ;)?
Chúc mừng năm mới!

Sadly, I missed the BBQ :(

Definitely will join this Sunday! See you there!

It is a good idea richard, i will try to come :)

eodmatt wrote:

Unfortunately I will not be able to join you all at your gathering. I regret this very much.

However I would like to say something:

Today I deleted all of the people who had requested to be in contact with me on this website.

Why?

Well, at the time of the New Year I sent New Years greetings to all those who had requested to be on my contact list.

Not one person responded.

So I have now deleted all of them.

I'd like to meet in person with real people, but maybe next time.

But in future, please don't ask to be a contact/friend if you do not intend to communicate.

Chuc Mun Nam Moi!

Matt


Matt. I think that: on social network, you sent New Years greetings to person who you know and talk with they, don't sent to all people. They don't know who are you, so they don't care about your greeting. But if you talk with me, I welcome and I very happy

I'm very eager for the meeting- up before the lunar new year. See you all guys then! :D

It is so great!
I would like to join this.

hi everyone,
I am coming from Brunei on 7th Feb for few days, its my pleasure to attend such type of party to share our experiences.
thnx sam
see you there.

My husband and I are wanting to retire in Vietnam and we wil be visiting early April, just wondering if you have a gathering scheduled for early April as we would love to meet some expats  and find out some information regarding living in Vietnsm

Cheers
Chris Brown

Hi everyone.  Nice to know many will be coming this Sunday.  We only schedule our gathering   month by month and sometimes we have some activities organized among the regular members.  So we have not schedule for the next month until further notice.
Hope to see you all soon.
Cheers,

New guy in Binh Tan.
I hope to make it this weekend.

Hi,

I am John - vietnamese, usually come to Expat.com and read news. I do know that you have been stayed in vietnam long enough to know what vietnamese thinking. I also guess that you ll be great friend. Great friend is always look for great friend who usally know how to behavior with others. If can, i wish to be your friend, a trully friend. What i am looking for is an experience friend who love to share their experience in life.

I would love to drink coffee sometime even i usually busy but can arrange apointment for serious friend.

Thanks,

John Vu

0909880784

Hello,

It happens 1time/month. If you really wanna know about vietnam for further things then dont mind to contact me when u arrivea hochiminh city. I dont say that i know everything about vietnam life living, but i ll share you what i know to help you in any cases.

John Vu

Hello all

Do not forget to share with us a photo or two or your gathering ;)

Enjoy!

Kenjee
Expat.com Team

Hey all, i will join you guy too. So excited,  :)

Hi Kenjee,
I am sure we will all have a great time. We will definitely post some photos for all to see here. Hope to see you all soon.

Thank you all for coming. We all had a great time chatting and getting to know each other. There were 32 attendees from 8 different countries. We also discussed about a short trip soon. We continue our gathering with dinner together and some of us decided to go for karaoke to sing our hearts out. I had a good time and hope we would see each other again. Chúc Mừng Năm Mới to all who celebrate Tet and happy holidays. Take care and cheers to our new friendship.

The next gathering will be announced soon. Thank you

Hi Richad,
Thank so for such a greatime last night. I had so much fun hope we will meet everyone again,

sorya.sok7 wrote:

Hi Richad,
Thank so for such a greatime last night. I had so much fun hope we will meet everyone again,


You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed. See you again

:kiss::kiss: I love everybody, we really had a great party last night. All of you suprises me with your sudden dance :D:par: .

Thanks expat-blog to bring us closer :one but today I got hoarse and couldnt say any words after the karaoke show. :(

yes .Last night was awesome  I was really suprised at karaoke  . Especially  Theresa sang Vietnamese was so good and Richard danced as well  . So regretted that I had to back home soon , couldn't stay longer .

Jinny Nguyen wrote:

yes .Last night was awesome  I was really suprised at karaoke  . Especially  Theresa sang Vietnamese was so good and Richard danced as well  . So regretted that I had to back home soon , couldn't stay longer .


Correction there was just movement to rhythm....no dancing in karaoke,,,,just plain singing. Yes...we all had a good time as we need to relax at some time. We tried  to get everyone sing and enjoy themselves. Hope we can do it again. Happy Tet holidays to all

hi Richard, thanks for organizing. I had lots of fun laughing and meeting so many people =D

zlisik wrote:

hi Richard, thanks for organizing. I had lots of fun laughing and meeting so many people =D


You are welcome.  We are glad to have you with us. I can hear you laughing at the gathering. I'm glad everything turns out good. Hope to see you again.

Here some pictures of this gathering:

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