The Hustle and Bustle of Vietnam

Hey everyone! How was Christmas! I hope everyone of you spent great time with your family and friends :D Anyway, I didn't really capture much images for Christmas because i was too busy Cooking, Eating, Playing i just wanted to enjoy the moment! i'll still blog about my christmas though! But for now, the long awaited... VIETNAM blog post! i think i've mentioned somewhere in my previous blog posts before that i was in vietnam from 4th-7th december!

Well... Vietnam isn't really a developed country, so you can't expect 5-star toilets everywhere you go, or high tech gadget-y stuff there, but its a humble country full of its own kind of life! The traffic is so different from Singapore's you'd have to brave up and #YOLO when crossing the street cause no one ever stops at the zebra crossings.. :x

Their roads are full of motorcycles, and the people uses horns like crazy!! It's so noisy it can be your daily alarm clock cause it goes "BEEP BEEP BO BO BEEEEEEEEEEEP" early in the morning ):<  But then again, i guess it's their way of communicating (?) Or at least we know they aren't hypocrites.. they let you know upfront if they ain't happy man! But anyway, their taxis are SO much cheaper than singapore, i'm not complaining, every ride is approximately...$5 or less? So we took the taxi everywhere!! Either that or we walked, good excercise okay! Must work for all that yummy food!

Typical fruit stall! Their fruits are so HUGE and rich in colour!! Really yummy tooo!

Beef Pho

Pork Chop with Broken rice (The rice is really like 'broken')

Fried Spring Roll -- MUST TRY!

Roast Chicken with Fried rice cakes

Stir-fried Pork with Onion

Meat hot pot

Rice Flan with Shrimp

Now... Food in Vietnam is tricky, you can't just walk into any random stall or roadside stall and expect to find yourself yummy food. NO, you have to make sure that 1- It's clean, 2- It's famous. Trust us! Jesslyn and I have experienced really lousy food ): In fact, the best food we had wasn't Vietnamese.. haha maybe we don't really know how to appreciate their taste for food :x But there's one thing we sure know how to appreciate!! and that is... Being PAMPERED! Yes, all the beauty-related stuff in vietnam is VERY affordable. Facial, Massage, Spa, Manicure, Hair dressing... You name it!

So you can get your nails beautifully painted, both hand and feet for $16? You know.. having design on your nails in singapore would probably cost you $50 for both your hands and feet right? so $16 is really cheap! But... you might have some language barrier because they don't really understand english, so if you're having design, choose something SIMPLE or something that is blatantly on the template given. Trying to change this and that isn't going to be easy... they might end up getting confused >.<

We also attempted to take a boat ride along Saigon River that was nearby our hotel -- BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER. PLEASE, DO NOT EVER trust roadside boat men when they tell you "Very good! See the city and floating market. My boat go to small lane, see many nice thing" it's a LIE!!!!! we trusted this boat men and followed his boat.. we were led to a SWAMP. with over-grown mangroves everywhere, the whole place seemed the same: Brown, muddy, leafy, stale water... we were TERRIFIED man!! if they had murdered us there and then, no one would even have found our corpse lah! And no, i'm not exaggerating, it was really that much of a dead town. And what was their floating market? 3 men on a small boat carrying a few baskets of leaves. YUP, that's the floating market #WTH? I was so so frightened i was SO happy when they we were on our way back and there were some more people it called for a photo. 

So it seems... this is a great dating spot to the vietnamese? WHAAAAAAT???

 

 

 

Oh yeah, and that's my daddy #nomakeup #bareface #nofilter .. I know, i look super different from when i wear makeup right??? WELL, maybe if i had worn makeup i would have been raped in that swamp :O At times like this.. it's better to look a little uglier, don't you think? HAHAHA nah i',m just kidding, you pay for what you get. If you're not a natural beauty and you're too lazy to put make up like me, TOO BAD, you just have to embrace your ugly face! #nooffense #justsaying

But i have to say, going to Vietnam taught me some really valuable life lessons, like 1: DON'T anyhow  trust people, 2: Bargaining skills - because that's important for shopping, 3: Maths - Yup, you need to work fast and calculate currency! Hehe :D OH! yea... their fashion sense isn't great, but you can LOADS of nail stuff at really good prices!

See how happy Jesslyn is? And how bored i was? Hahaha Jesslyn going to kill me for taking candid photos of her.. #oops

 So yup! I think that pretty much sums up our Vietnam Trip.. I would say it's still a good trip after all. Whether or not we really had a great time shopping? No, but it's still precious time spent with my loved ones, So i wouldn't want to go back to vietnam, but it'll still be an unforgettable trip (of course lah, the boat ride so traumatic i had a nightmare okay!)

Sayonara friends - xx