japanese healthy living

ハノイ在住の皆様


ハノイへようこそ！

この度、当院、インターナショナルＳＯＳハノイクリニックは、ハノイ在住の皆様の健康上
のお悩みにお答えし、また、新たにハノイへいらっしゃた方への歓迎の気持ちを込め、「ハ
ノイで健康に過ごすには」と題し、座談会を開くことになりました。


日付: 2009年 8 月26日 水曜日

場所: ソフテルプラザホテル ハノイ、19階 Summit Lounge, 1 Thanh Nien Road

時間: 午前10時－午前 11時 (受付開始 9時半）

講師: 榎本 小弓 医師


座談会では、医師によるベトナムでよくみられる病気のお話に加え、皆様が日頃疑問に思っ
ていることを解消すべく、質疑応答のコーナーをもうけています。コーヒーを片手に皆で楽
しいひと時をすごしましょう。インターナショナルＳＯＳクリニックはこのような機会を通
し、皆様に健康について考えてもらう機会を提供できれば光栄に思います。

参加ご希望の方、少しでも興味がある方は、事前にお電話090-821-7773、または、
0439340666（Japanese Staff 宛）またはE-mail：kenneth.oka@internationalsos.comでご
登録下さいませ。
締め切りは8月21日(金)とさせて頂きます。
(当日参加ご希望の方がいらしゃいましたら、お電話でご連絡下さいませ)
皆様、お誘いあわせの上、ふるってご参加くださいませ。


インターナショナルＳＯＳは世界最大規模の医療アシスタンスサービス、医療ケア、セキュ
リティサービス、委託医療サービスを提供する会社です。
ベトナムでは、ハノイ・ホーチミン・ブンタオの3箇所にクリニックを設け、日本人医師を
含め、多国籍で成る医師、専門医、歯科医等が、夜間・休日を含め、365日24時間体制で
皆様の緊急事態に備えております。ハノイ、ホーチミンクリニックでは、日本人医師、看護
師、通訳が常駐しており、皆様に安心して日本語で診察を受けて頂けます。

それでは、座談会でお会いしましょう。


International SOS Clinic Hanoi
岡 健二 / Beatrice Seeber
Japanese Business Development Executive / Marketing Executive

Central Building, 31 Hai Ba Trung Str., Hoan Kiem Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam
Clinic Tel: (84 4) 3934 0666 Fax: (84 4) 3934 0556
www.internationalsos.com

live healthy in hanoi

We would like to take the opportunity to introduce International SOS to you and invite you to join our "Welcome Session" for newcomers to Hanoi and everyone who is interested in getting medical tips on how to stay healthy while living in Vietnam.

When: August 25th, 2009
Where: Hotel Sofitel Plaza Hanoi, Summit Lounge (19th floor), 1 Thanh Nien Rd
Time: 10 - 11 am

International SOS is happy to invite you for coffee/tea and during the meeting there will be a medical presentation, you will meet some of our doctors and have the chance to raise questions during a Question & Answer session.

If you are interested in joining this meeting please register upfront and RSVP by email to Beatrice.Seeber@internationalsos.com or by phone (04) 3826 45 45 ext. 143.

Please note that the closing line for the registration is Friday, August 21st, 2009.

International SOS is the world’s leading provider of medical assistance, international health care, security services and outsourced customer care.

In Vietnam International SOS operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in 3 international standard clinics in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Vung Tau with medical teams of expatriate and national doctors, specialists and dentists.

killa kela

My brother, Michal, is in town from Hong Kong and has been commenting on how Hanoi has changed since he left a year ago. The new buildings, more park space, and the small improvements in the flow of traffic are all minor in comparison to last night's performance at the Friendship Cultural Palace by the talented beatboxing Killa Kela. Although the main beatboxer's origins were easily identified by his strong London accent, he was preceded on stage by some of Hanoi's own rappers, break dancers, and beatboxers.

The whole event was impressively organized and executed by Noi Zee, a local event group. Noi Zee (as in noisy and means "say what?" in Vietnamese) had just started with a few events when Michal moved here two years ago. Their DJ's standing at a folding table at Hanoi's Piano Bar are a distant memory from the two-stage, smiling Heineken girls, true talent-filled night with Killa Kela. The beatboxer was able to entertain the crowd with well-known songs like Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" by not only singing the lyrics, but accompanying himself with the beat and music to go with it.

What a wonderful change to see, not only in Hanoi's social scene but in the talent that is sprouting amongst young Vietnamese. Thank you, Noi Zee, for the venue for them to express and nurture that talent.

i think i'm turning japanese

One day while at the Happy's Mart on Linh Lang Street in Hanoi, I ran into a bit of a situation where the shop attendants were straining to make sense of what a Japanese woman was trying to tell them. It seemed as if she wanted to find something in the store but couldn't communicate to them what it was since her English was limited and the shop clerks didn't speak Japanese. Since I used to patron the shop fairly often, the girls who worked there asked me to help them decipher what the woman wanted.

After what was more of a series of gestures than a verbal conversation, I took her to the isle with plastic wrap for food, or saran wrap, and the big smile and "tank you, tank you!" that erupted confirmed that she had found what she was looking for. Those smiles continued as she rattled something off in Japanese to me and although I shook my head to show I didn't understand, it wasn't long until I had exchanged phone numbers with her and had agreed to meet her for coffee the next day.

This is how my coffee dates with Sachi began. We always meet at the same cafe, AIM cafe on Linh Lang street, just a few doors down from the Happy Mart, and "talk" about ourselves. Any onlooker to the conversations we have would think that we are both deaf, since we sit with a computer between us and use an online translator to communicate.

Now, understand that the translations are not always right. Last time we met, Sachi was headed back to Japan and asked if she could bring me back a potato. I invited her to a party recently and following was the email I got from her:

"Lia,
Is it cheerful?

I invit it thank you.

I e-mailed a PC before but I worried about how an answer made it not be it. and was marriage fixed at the party?

Do around several people gather?

I inform it of whether i can go

-sachi"

I can only imagine what my messages to her say.