At 7:55 PM on Saturday, October 08, 2011

Another item off my wishlist!! Been wanting to do this for the longest time but it's no action talk only. Plus the fact that I've been on constant painkillers so I put this off for so long. Plus I saw swee's pic on how big the needle is! Ok maybe that's the real reason, I'm a scardy cat. So anyway, i was on the way to get lunch where I saw them handling out the tissue paper for this blood donation drive. This guy approached me and told me about it and got me excited. But I was afraid to do this alone so I got my ever so brave little sis to join me. She is really wonderful I tell you. She skipped her lesson, drove down all the way from NTU, and the fact that she's been rejected 3 times before but she still came. So there, WE FINALLY DID IT!!
I was so afraid while waiting for my turn to take the test cos some idiot told me this is more painful than the real thing! But, IT WAS JUST A PRICK LA! Scare me for nothing. But he's not wrong! Cos the real thing doesn't hurt at all! Totally no feeling so rightfully the test is more painful la. I'm so impressed can! Such a big needle went in without any feeling at all! I remembered telling the nurse, 'Amazing' after she told me to look away. Halfway through, the guy lying beside me went into fits!!! I tell you!! THIS IS DAMN SCARY LA!!! I swear i went all cold. The nurses all rushed over, pull out the needle, put his legs up. Wah piang commotion. That's probably the only scary thing, even needle go in also not so scary.
I'm so glad i finally did it!

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CarysMummy



At 7:39 PM on

Mummy's birthday on the day we came back from vietnam. Birthday dinner was at Town Restaurant at Fullerton Hotel. 

Acting all touristy and shooting on our way there.
Dad trying his Sir Stamford pose.
More photos before starting dinner and waiting for the Pehs.
Darling with the new ladybird helmet we got him from Vietnam! So cute right!?

The wide spread. Really worth it.

Hmm.. looks like the little boy forgot what he's supposed to tell mama. Getting hints from his mummy. *cheeky*
Aha! Finally remembered! Prize and card presentation.

Wonders why Wayne is always in the picture of making wish, blowing candles and cutting cake.

I totally love this pic!!!! My wallpaper now. Another good photo to add to the collection! Look at wayne's expression!! Makes me laugh each time i look at it. =)
Happy Birthday Mummy!! I LOVE YOU!!!

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CarysMummy



At 5:44 PM on

Totally unplanned trip. Totally impromptu. Started when I casually mentioned i had 2 days leave on 29Sep and 30Sep and that makes a long weekend. Forgotten who came up with the idea of going somewhere, the next thing i remembered was me checking up on flights. Macau? Hong Kong? Taiwan? Ended up with booking a flight to Vietnam just less than 2 weeks before. First time going on such impromptu trips. Good in a way don't have to wait so long. But very insecure feeling cos very much unplanned.

Our first time on Tiger Airways. Comtemplated for awhile considering all the bad reviews esp on delaying and cancelling flights. But it was all pleasant for us! To and fro were both ahead of schedule. Landing and taking off was good. Nothing to complain about.

Our first meal in Vietnam. Reached around 10am and couldn't check in to the hotel so we found ourselves in this Vietnam restaurant just opp our hotel. Vietnam cuisine was ok. Didn't like the spring onions and parsley they put generously in their food though.

Our hotel. Very bad experience. Unfriendly staff. Poor wifi. That reminds me i've yet to submit my review on the hotel at agoda. Sure to give very negative comments.
Met a few singaporeans on the street. Spotted from their accent. So dad made friends (as usual) with them and they very nicely brought us around and introduced us to what we can buy and eat. So they introduced this dessert stall. Come to think of it, we were really quite brave to try coconut based dessserts the first thing we reached vietnam, on our first day. Lao Sai is really no joke.
Tried the chendol, bobo chacha and a banana dessert. Really really good!
Checking out the area. As you can see my TRA is totally disrupted from all the 边走边吃。
MASSAGE! How can we miss this?!?! Although it's abit too early but who cares?! Totally worth it!
Back to Ben Thanh Market for more 'shopping'.
Found our way to this Independence Palace. One of the attractions in Vietnam. But seriously, nothing much in here. Just a palace lor. All their dining area, slping area, meeting area, cinema, entertainment area.

Ngon restaurant, recommended by the tour agency. So-so only actually. They have weird system there. We dunno where to order and wondered if we really ordered because they look like they don't understand us after waiting for awhile.

Daily hotel breakfast. Quite decent. Fulfilled my TRA intake of carb, protein and veg.

1 day tour starts! Waiting by the roadside for our tour bus.

Stopover at Handicapped Handicrafts where all their handworks are done by handicapped people. Impressive.
Going to some island. Forgotten the name. Journey of ferry change small boat change sampan then change back small boat then change ferry.

Made honey lime for us to try and the liquid in black is banana whiskey.

Treated us fruits.
Picture taking with the python.
Change to hand rowed boat. Interesting ride.
Feels like some refugees.
Move on to bigger boat.
To have our lunch! Lunch was provided in the tour package but it was really 寒酸. But at least it had all my carb, protein and veg. Don't start judging cos it really taste not bad! Can't tell right? We were taught never judge a book by its cover!
Proceed on to coconut candy factory where they produce coconut candy.
Back to the boat to second part of our tour!
Water puppet show. Another attraction in Vietnam. Quite interesting but didn't understand a single thing cos entire show was in Vietnam language.
Dinner was on board this cruise. We were arguing if they do sail off. Mum was 100% sure they are stationary. Me and mei thinks they are mobile because it reads on the board outside their set off timings. We finished our dinner and there are no signs of them cruising off so we were decided if we should get down and head back to hotel to rest. Thankfully we didn't cos soon after the caption sounded the typical ship setting off horn and announced that we are setting off! This is exciting cos it wasn't in our expectations. There was entertainment on board. Sang and make merry. Oh and there was an eye candy from korea on board! He's really quite charming and he sings quite well! Awwww..





Our nightly activity. This hotel has complimentary wifi but just for our room it's available at our doorstep. That explains why we can only camp at the door for our wifi. I told you this hotel is lousy already. I was totally in awe when the staff told me, 'yes window don't have, only here have.' -_-
Another day tour that we signed up. Cuchi tunnel. If you know about the vietnam-USA war, you will know this. So it's a tunnel the vietnamese dug against the american during their 17 yrs war.



This is the entrance of the tunnel. Because vietnamese are all so small size, they build this tunnel so small that americans cannot enter. This hole has already been modified to cater to tourist. Actualy hole is even smaller.

Vicious traps the vietnamese created.

They treated us to tapioca after making us crawl through the long and small tunnel which left dad with severe muscleaches the next day. It's really no joke.

Resting while the rest went for live firing.

That's the end of our half day tour. Next stop was the War remnants museum. But dinner first at this restaurant next to the museum.
Food of the entire trip gotta be the salted fish fried rice (bottom left)!


War remnants museum. Really felt quite sad after looking at all the victims.
Our last night in Vietnam. Finally got to try Pho (Vietnamese noodle).

Not forgetting the sticky rice that we've been wanting to try but didn't have enough stomach space.


A good impromptu trip. Anyway which trip overseas isn't good? As long as it's outta singapore it's good. Bye Vietnam. Finally realised my wish to visit vietnam. Probably will not visit again in near future. This is one of those, visit once is enough countries. Vietnam is very similar to Thailand but i prefer Thailand anytime.
That marks the end of our 4D3N vietnam trip!

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CarysMummy