Hohoho.

Been an enjoyable-to-some-extent 4-day holiday here in Vietnam. Celebrated their liberation day from the French. 30th April. Then next day is 1st of May, Labour day. ooooownage.


Pictures aplenty.

On the day i knocked off for the Holidays, there was a "company function" by the Country Manager at some apparently very famous KTV called X-Men. Reached there at like 9:30pm and then we planned to leave at like 11odd because there was gonna be a visit to the Ho Chi Minh Masoleum to see his corpse there at like 7am.

Not only we dragged till 12am, Me and Jimmy had to represent the whole of Pham Ngoch Thach branch against the MyDinh branch in the drinking challenge. First 3 cups of hennesy. Then 2 bottles of Heineken followed by what seemed like endless drinking challenges. I was kinda appointed the drinker of the branch because i was able to gulp down the beer with no effort at all. Must be the work of Hennesy cos it basically made me almost immune to the horrible taste of beer i once and will always hate.

Got drunk, Gwen(the other branch's manager) was chionging the beer with us. CRAZYYYYY. I was so drunk i was like crazy? But the logic that being drunk simply means knowing what you are doing and able to control it but it makes one more susceptible to crazy stuff like what i did; laughing crazily like some mad dog.

Hang over the next day. Tak Boleh Wake up for the masoleum. Only managed to join them at like 12pm at Hoan Kiem Lake. Went for a 1hr little Boaty Paddle ride thing.

$5 per hour. CHEAP DOG.















Shahirah, Jimmy, Juan, Kent, KimLan














Perfectly balanced swanny. :P















Epic wind. Check out the hair.

Then headed over to the oldest(i think) temple in Vietnam on some little island on its own. Quite cool.















Shirt was extremely creased. It was drizzling hard and the position to cycle was not helping. Behind the picture was lots of ang mo looking at us taking a picture. Damn extra like that. hah














Yuwen, KimLan, Shahirah, Kent, Juan, Jimmy



















Some mai siao siao pagoda thing.














The temple was littered with many of such walls.














Then we headed over to get some ice cream before heading back home for dinner. But just a few pictures of the roads...

























































For the 2nd day we visited the Temple of Literature then out to do some shopping at Hoan Kiem lake. I think its called the old quarters im not sure followed by extreme non-picturesque picture taking.






























some big ass huge drum that everyone hits for fun.















Middle of the temple leading to even deeper parts of the temple. Definitely smaller than what China has.














One of the many ponds in the middle of the temple.

























































Pillar hugging. Not only in Singapore. Bollywood actors hug trees. I hug temple pillars.

Then after temple we decided to walk a good 45mins to Hoan Kiem Lake. It was good exercise. I totally enjoyed the walk. We saw things I could have never saw. We managed to try desserts I would never have tried if we ever took a cab there. But not everyone liked the walk. Too bad.

Was at Dong Xuan market. Famous for selling wholesale goods. Considered a day market thing, I was all out to hunt for a new luggage. Naturally choosing luggage is part of the image proccess, i took my time. But too bad the shop attendants found this attitude a chore. I spotted them gossiping me about being so choosy. I stared back and walked away. 800,000DONG gone asses. Stare somemore lah. Selling China products somemore. TSK.

Then headed over to Hoan Kiem Lake after some shopping and took some pictures.


By some statue of a king. Instead of a place of respect, kids roll around on their scooters and fly kites and blow bubbles. Epic failure.
Candid FTW.
Experienced the night market. Nothing much. Everyone concluded that Hanoi was a fail city. Not worth going. Its basically a failed version of China.

Headed home for the next day.

For the 3rd day we decided to visit the Museum of ethanology aka the Minority museum that showcases the different ethnic or tribes that once or still lives in Vietnam.

Indoor showcase is FAIL. We got SO bored that we just gave up looking at the exhibit altogether. Me and Jimmy wanted the museum to prove us wrong by going a complete round around. But it failed. FAILED.

Luckily there was an outdoor museum showing real-life sizes ethnic housing.


Big ass house.Time past fast at the outdoor section. I drowned some red ants and we were off for dinner! We settled for BBQ Chicken nearby to our next location; A karaoke session to send Kent off. Singing was what he liked and he was gonna get that.


Shagggggg.

KTV time. Me ishh proo at cr8tiNg a neWw s0nG. Alot of my pictures. Somehow im always in it. Most are candid or im invited to take. Im so cool. LOL.


Accidental art piece.
Disgust.
DONE.
BACK TO WORK.

Taught/Relief teach a secondary 1 level class. GOSH. they gotta learn how to concentrate. Chit Chatting is their favourite thing.

Gonna be another english class tmr again. sigh.

32days more. Singapore still pwns Hanoi deep deep.

CIAO.