 Waiter boy bring me a cappuccino. Yes, ma'am. Hold on. Don't go just yet Now listen carefully. There are three things that you need to remember First I need skin milk not full cream and definitely not you HT Second it must be a double shot and third I need extra chocolate sprinkled on the top Yeah, three things. Can you manage that? Yes, ma'am. Yeah, remember Oh, I'm so sorry. Sorry. I'm late again. No problem My boss gave me some work in the last minutes and the traffic just terrible Hmm. Don't laugh. Don't laugh. I'm sorry. You always seem to be on time How can you do that? You must have a Vespa No Vespa for me anymore darling. That's why I asked you out today here Wow You never told me that you learn how to driving a car Yeah, I only started practicing last month That is got takes six months. How have you already get the license? Well my human resource people took care of everything in less than a week I had to pay of course, but only 700 us So next time when we go back to the village our drivers. Hi girl I can see us now Grouncing down the main street Pass all the communal house and temple Get something with the roof the sunroof. Oh, no, no, no, maybe a convertible What are you driving today? Just a little Toyota. I borrowed it from a Belgium college who's gone home for a few months But I've got my eye on a BMW That would be amazing You know when I was studying in Australia, I could have bought a cute hash for $15,000 the same one here is more than double that price and the BMW is five times more than that I'm starting to think that car drivers are an oppressed minority The government this whole country is so gang and took a so got off I'm sorry. You have to go through that my dear The fact that we have to pay so much in taxes and registration Shows how far Vietnam is behind the developed world It's as if Vietnamese are not good enough to own cars as if ambition is a crime As if success is a penalty Already you see the roads are pothold and crowded And every month another street in the CBD is he blocked off to cars. I might as well walk But kill my dear isn't driving dangerous. My husband says he never drive a car not in Vietnam at least I've never felt more sure of myself than when I'm rocketing alone in two tones of climate-controlled comfort Sure, I was nervous at first, but then I thought It's better for me to kill someone on a Honda or bicycle than for someone to kill me At least I can pay off the person's family with a couple of $1,000 They would probably thank me. I see what you mean But anyway, wouldn't be like the Chinese and a hit and run Remember that clip the clip of the delivery van crashing into that totaler in the middle of a Chinese market How could anyone forget the driver aimed at her? I almost wet when I watched all those people standing around her crumbled little body Yeah But you know that incident Confirmed an important lesson for me Most people out there They don't value life like we do Life is cheap for them. I suppose you're right. Of course. I'm right You know sometimes When I think of what makes the world go around I Think of that van crashing into that totaler Over and over again Have a soda change that and a place of french fries extra crispy for both of us. Yes, ma'am Careful with your phone Keep it close to you. I wouldn't even have my out except that I'm expecting some calls and Make sure you hook the strap of your bag on the leg of the chair like this You know, you can't be too careful We are in a very good restaurant kill that doesn't mean a thing It's not like they can search everyone who comes in I Reckon that guy over there has been sitting on his beer waiting for just the right moment to strike The waiters know better. He would happily give up his job in exchange for one of our phones or wallets Shameless crooks shameless. You can be a little heartless some time. I do My husband got nothing to do with it think about it If you were making $1 a day and saw this $1,000 phone just centimeters away What would you do? Would you worry about what would happen to you if and that's a big if you were caught? That's not I suppose I would would you stop to consider What your parents or teachers or back home told you about what's right or wrong? Maybe For millisecond just before you grabbed it and ran I'll tell you What's heartless is? Heartless is tempting them By leaving your phone out like that But we were poor not so long ago remember and our family and friends back home I still poor even if it's not as bad as was before I remember all right It's because I remember what it's like to be poor that I don't trust poor people It's because I know them so well that I hate them so much You know what I remember us coming to the city for our university exam Discovering how nasty people were I remember how our landlady evicted her when she found some student could pay higher Even now when I withdraw money, I remember how we are hot done together in that 80s book at night after studying under the street lights Yeah, everyone looked at us as if we were dirt they have blown on the dead horse And you know, I don't blame them because if the queue of back then saw the queue of today She would bash me over the head and run off with everything that I own Well, this skill has worked too hard to let that kill get away with it. Okay. Okay. I'm moving my phone Yeah, I'm moving it away from the guys in the corner with the warm beer away from the weapon away from all the nasty people And even away from the young kill who just arrived in the countryside Let's not talk about that anymore. So depressing. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, I remember how we used to share bank Chiang wait on a school how we cut the tiny stream and try to tear the wrong Rice paper. So what we each got the same number of streams. Yeah, talk about depressing For the price of this meal, we could have bought a month worth of rice wrong That's a good thing. Would you prefer to eat those filthy little wrongs? Perhaps it's so crazy, but sometimes I do and sometimes I miss village life Sure, we didn't have money, but we didn't have so much to worry about either Maybe I expected less back then so I wasn't so disappointed when things didn't work out That's crazy. All right, I'd rather worry about multi-million dollar hash funds than where my next meal is coming from of course Yes, sometimes I want nothing more than to dip one of those rice paper rolls in some tainting salt and munch away When my little heels start school I'm going to find someone to sell them and even get one for him and me to share just lies We used to do You're hopeless. How? Let me put it this way Do you want your son to eat french fries in a restaurant or rice paper in the street? He wouldn't last long on the rice paper He would be on your mom And do you really think your son school will allow people to sell rice paper at the front gate? It will surely have a canteen selling proper food like beef steak and french fries I suppose you're right Hey, um, tell me about your work darling if the rumors I've heard are true Your company's financial models are selling like fresh prawns It's going well enough and How are you getting on with your boss? I'm still reporting to William White. Did you see the power profile of him in Asia business in a quick click? No, but I heard about it. He sounds amazing Me 30s under a distance runner Harvard Business School Gave up his career on Wall Street to be a 12 blazer on the whole Jimin stock exchange He told me that we was inspirational You know, I used to think will was fantastic His father was a preacher He has this way of speaking to you as if he knows your deepest secrets and has all the answers And he has this dragon green eyes that fray up whenever he's talking about finance or fitness And he make this claw with his hand when he dig into conservation a conversation Like he's a wizard or something I've started it myself. Oh, that sounds impressive to me He's okay. We'll discover Buddhism just before he came to Vietnam now. He called himself a aggressive ethical investor He gave me all these books and read and tell me He's on quest to achieve higher financial lows with low yearly design But what short of books can I borrow them after you are done? You can have them That's how sourcing your business to Buddha and Karmic mergers and takeovers. It's all about packaging the orient for our eyes At least we're going On the surface his new edge and he loves with Vietnam But in reality, he looks down on us. I think they own too What do you mean? Well, he always talking about the need for a horizontal wood place restructure And he actually is the best friend boss, but watch out if you bring your lunch back to your desk What in plastic? We've got two Australian women like that in our office. We call them green Nazis One day will scream at one of our IT guys for dumping some paper in the West Bean Instead of the recycling bin It was like the guy's has committed mass murder or Strangereal a make-up catfish So how are you supposed to eat out of your hands? If you want to bring food back to the office, we have to use Stanley still tough in carrier and Watch them after work like you a housemaid Really how disgusting I can't recall the last time I watched dishes Will bought a collection of Z career's garment with the company logo printed on them He says is how Asian have carried their food for a century and use he with bright Just today. He left the building swinging the little none container wearing non-long and greening like an idiot But I think that's such a cute Wins its own for Vietnamese language and tradition He tried not to call us by our name anymore He prefer to use I'm cheap aim or whatever He gets it wrong half of the time Okay, I want to believe one guy jokingly asked me to call him the world. He's actually doing it Okay, that's funny, but seems harmless enough Maybe it was so difficult because Think that he knows Vietnamese better than we know ourselves. I don't know what you mean Well, every time he goes on a trip. He come back with the box of goodies for all the book in the office Lavender honey from Melvac fish sauce from Fuku rice wine from Tianyuan Everyone knows you can buy that stuff from the local market Probably for half of the price it paid, but no one want to tell him. Yeah, sure more stuff to throw in a waste beena That's for sure and you should see his house We'll got this display cabinet in the living room in which he collecting at least one thing from each of the 54 ethnic series in Vietnam He up to 23. It looks like a pie of junk to me Such to me like he loves Vietnam though, probably knows more about this place than I ever will I'm not sure about that either When we went to Hanoi for last as for work last month. He saw roasted dog on the street Suddenly Vietnam wanted to make him for meat. I'm not one for dog meat either to be honest Faina, but he actually stopped and protested Friends not food but Hong An he chanted to the butcher with his lonely planet Vietnamese Luckily for me the store owner had no idea what he was saying But then will make me translate for him. I was so amorous. I told the butcher I was a guy for a stick a sick Stories and that green has gone mad because he's good in the late states of brain cancer Oh nice work, darling. Very diplomatic You know sometime I look at will and don't know whether to laugh or cry He sits there on his sweet bowl in his shorts the underarm of his shirt raining sweat When block the air conditioner vent in the office because he said he doesn't want to be the rest to be responsible for Some extreme climate event that will kill millions of people in the Delta That's bizarre just insane He harmless enough though, I pretty much figure out To will and the industrial little lady with the thick green glasses As long as he think he's opening up all these new opportunities and guiding me along the way Yeah, I can pretty much do whatever I want agree Oops, I have to go business to attend to let's pay on the way out. Okay You out remember, but I chop the restaurant. So don't fight. Let's do the question or do how it sounds Okay, so I'll pay next time then Hang on Where's my phone?