Intro 1

📍 📍 Hello. My name is Michael. And, uh, I'm from San Francisco, from the Bay Area. This is my first YouTube video. And, um, I'm 29, I guess, if you guys care about my age. And, um, yeah, I just wanna make a YouTube channel documenting what I'm up to and my journey of figuring things out and building a life in Asia. So follow along for more. So currently, I'm in Ho Chi Minh City um, and I'm walking towards the, the metro. So I just got ... I'll show you guys around So this is where I currently live There's a tennis court Fun fact, this is the first metro, uh, line for Ho Chi Minh City. I believe that it was opened in 2024 or 2025, although I do not know and I think there's gonna be more metros and stuff in the future. Previously, I've lived in uh, Bangkok. I was born in, uh, Shenzhen. I lived in San Francisco. I lived in Taiwan for a bit as well. But yeah, I'm currently in Ho Chi Minh City. , I forgot my mask. That's not ideal. There's Hmm. But today, the air is not super horrible Right  So yeah, I'm just trying to figure out how I can get more comfortable on camera. I think it's quite important that I start documenting, documenting my journey  Me holding a obnoxious vlogging camera. I can't believe it has turned to this, my friends. That my life has turned into me holding some obnoxious vlogging camera. But it is what it is. You gotta deal with it. Roll with the punches.   📍 Do-do-do   📍 📍 📍 📍 📍 So here's the train station So I bought a one-month ticket. It cost about $10. Uh, you can ride the train. Okay. I would say that living in a new country , You, you definitely feel more alive Or I feel jolted, you know, jolted out of my, uh, comfort zone for sure just to give you guys a little bit of Ho Chi Minh City geography that I learned. So, uh, currently I'm in Rach- uh, oh, my God, I can't pronounce this thing, but okay. I'm in this, in this place. And from what I understand about Ho Chi Minh City is that it's not a very, um, super legible city. Like, if you take the b- uh, you know how every city, they kinda have the hop-on, hop-off bus for tourists? Like, if you go to Ho Chi Minh City and you take the hop-on, hop-off bus, it literally just covers, like, this area. It's like the, the legible core of, uh, of the city. But the city is actually, like, super huge. There's like, you know, like something like 12 districts or there's m- maybe more, and they're con- they're constantly renaming and merging things. And so the hop-on, hop-off bus, they only sort of take you, like, around this area. They just circled... Uh, the rest of it is, like, motorcycles and all sorts of random stuff going on that tourists c- can't really get involved with. So the city is actually much more interesting than, uh, what it appears to be if you just come here, I think. Wow. Wow Look at the sky Look at the sky Oh, but check out the fit though Dollar hat and dollar shirt, baby. Let's go.