went on SIA flight. i thought it was a great company but i was so wrong. the captain's skills were not good at all. china airlines were so much better. the entertainment system in the plane feels like it has beeen install for 50 years. not the shows available but the controls. food in flight is great though, or i just love flight food....
reach vietnam!! and wait... and wait... and wait...
there is about 100 people in this group, (its a company tour) and everyone knows almost everyone. so we wait for the tour agents and whoever is in charge to make sure everyone reach here safely. in the end one luggage was missing.
went to visit the museum of the vietnam war. this is the second time i go there. after 3 years, the place did not change much. images of the war and real bombs an tanks display there. the most amazing thing of all of this is the photographers. they risk their lives, going to the front line and using those types of cameras that they used to have to take photos. think about 80 over photographers died while doing it, including some from singapore. this camera receive a shot but the person holding it survive. what happen? go there to check it out.
The earth-SOSdon't you think this picture is very calming? it is drawn by a 12 year old kid called Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Truc. it is a exhibtion placed in the mesuem. out of the hundreds of drawings, i love this the most. it is done in water colour.
went to a island and got a chance to sit on a "sanpan"?? anyway the boat is very small and only four tourists and sit in it plus one local to row the boat. is move down a small river and the whole feeling is like those going thru the jungle in animal planet. very relax feeling... until the storm comes.
luckily we managed to get into a bigger boat, those bigger ones that go to pulau ubin, when the storm hit. but we got stuck in that boat as the storm is too strong. one will wonder if we can get back alive. the rain was splashing in our face and the waves on the water was quite rough. but we survived else i won't be writing here.
as part of the trip back, we were each given a coconut...^^
The market
This shop sells dried stuff and in this part of the area, everyone sells the same thing. to get to this store, i pass by about 6- 10 other stores selling the same excat thing displayed in the same way. how do they earn?
this is outdoor.
the most market around the area opens about 4-5 am and close at 5pm. because at night is when the night market opens. so it is quite intersting.by later afternoon, everyone will be closing and on the other side, people will be rushing around opening their stalls.
everywhere we go there will be people rushing to our bus trying to sell stuffs to us. it has come to a point where you will notice that you can recognize some of them. the things they sell are very cheap. like some beautiful bags that taka sells for about $25-$40 per bag cost only $2 each! and quality is quite good. but for me no point. unless you guys want a gift that cost $2.
remember few years ago when i was in vietnam, i went to this temple and, for fun, when to write my father name and pray for good health. cos his is the only name i can remember in chinese. what i dun know is that back in singapore, my father slipped and had a hairline facture in his skull. and seems getting serious. yet the day that i did the praying, he suddenly seems to get better. so who knows what is going on.
coming back to present day, surprise surprise, we went back to the same temple as part of the trip. we did a bit of praying. firstly to say thanks for my father's recovery then to pray for my mon's good health. lol, cos no one remember my mom's chinese name so we wrote in english, hopes whoever is reading it up there knows english...
