soon, we landed and thank you for making me feel so sick. i had a bad headache and the feeling of puking. fortunately we had an hour in our hotel, so i took a quick nap unconsciously. later in the day were pretty much boring stuff. going around to meetings/talks. nearly died. i took quite a while to clique with the new friends there. they were all funny at jokes but when it comes to attitude, i'm totally out on it. we had alittle shopping cos of all the boring meetings we had. got a few stuff which make me happy. oh fyi, time at vietnam runs an hour slower than singapore. so it made me felt that time was running pretty slowly. especially my sleep, i felt i had tons of hours. bad thing about their shops there was that they close shop as early as six in the evening and some about eleven. we tried going for some shopping on our own in the night but all were closed. how nice for us losing our way back to the hotel. fun part was that everyone slept in alan and ben's room after all the laptop madness.
then comes day two. traffic there were horrendous. horning everywhere every second, it sounded as though they were communicating with it. frankly, i was pretty irritated by it but what can i do? it's vietnam. as planned, we headed to Cu Chi Tunnel. its was so fun. all the azli kissed seri's butt joke and the sliding down the soild slide. spotted lizards, scorpion, snake etc which were bottled to drink. ewwww. did my full body massage at the basement of the hotel which cost me one hundred fifty thousand dong adding ten thousand dong on tips which sums up abt twenty five sing dollars. first time massaging, pretty cool. it'd be just better if they know how to speak england.
more meetings on third day which kinda made me feel bored. but my day was brighten up when we went to the post office cos the building was gorgeous. i felt like i'm at austrail or somwhere else. haha. next stop was the the Reunification Palace which has hundred different designs of rooms. took quite alot of photos but the more i shoot, the more i felt they were nearly the same so i stopped. next was scheduled Cyclo tour around the city for an hour. sat until my butt ache and all the dust breeze were insane. i could feel the choke in my lungs adding on to my minor asthma. well, it was fun in some way.
those guys couldnt wake up on time on the forth day which made everyone waited for them. how embrassing. dont remind me of the photo 'fun' of me you guys had the night before. yaaa, thanks for laughing off your arses. good news was that meetings/talks were all done for the trip. lining up next were temples and more temples. there was this weird one which consist of five different religions adding into one. weird mixture i must say. =/ then more to shopping, sadly, i didnt get anything. many branded clothes, bags but all were non authentic. honestly, they were tempting enough. they were all hanging in every shops. thinking what if all were real. dinner on Cruise were planned. i must point it out that they have weird planning. it'd be better if we have out dinner while the cruise starts its engine right? but it didnt, it turned out that we finished our dinner in half an hour and waited thirty minutes more then the cruise start. how boring. moreover there wasnt anything for us to see while it was moving just some women singing, blasting those speakers.
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very quickly, the day to home was here. the problem come up to one of the girl spent about three hundred sing dollars in five different rooms in the hotel phones which shocked everyone. even my own phone bill wouldnt cost that much. anyhow, lecturers paid for her on behalf. we then headed for some shopping where i got more coffee, a few bangles and a bag. but this time no one gotten much. so we all went to their local KFC and shared pop corn chicken with miss v but it ended up not very delicious. haha. well, their beverage served was with glass cup though. local Museum came in next and bow wow, seen many historical stuff and a corpse. Water Puppet show started, i wasnt really into it but i just watched. another temple was up, i didnt really want to shoot much cos i thought it wouldnt do much for me. we were stuck in the heavy traffic jam on the way to the airport. the bus driver was indeed amazing, reversing driving with all motorbikes around was an eye opener. here comes the terrible news. we were in the airport and out of a sudden came mr heavy down pour which delayed our flight. not only that, no one knows how long everyone got to wait. everyone plus other tourist were annoyed. it was delayed for about three hours in the end. got to the plane and seriously, i nearly puke when the plane set off. my body wasnt alright at all so i hurried into my sleep. surprisingly, we landed faster than before - three thirty. beloved mom and dad came fetching me home and ben home there after.
i'm finally done with this.
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the trip was somewhat below average, maybe becos i expected more than all these. i felt i got a little left out half way through but it returned back to square one soon after. i had a little home sick times and times but i guess it's becos it wasnt as fun. adding on to those wild thoughts, i did miss you there. i'm pretty amused when they said it's you who i was refering to. i dont know, but how'd they know? oh well. when i turned on my mobile back home, i recieve no messages which kinda frown my heart. so now,