hello people. i'm back. i bet you guys missed me;) hahahaha wow. seven days.

day one. tuesday, 5/12
see below post for details on what i did at the airport. heh.

reached hanoi airport at 7pm. met the tour guide who looks like a fattened version of adrian pang. hahaha. went for dinner at some restaurant with forest decor. heh. food was good. left me with a nice hope that vietnamese food was good. yeah. then went to the hotel. sunway hotel. the room's small but nice. nice cos the aircon could go as low as 15! yayee! poor jeremy though. hahahaha.

day two. wednesday, 6/12
went to the mountains for a boat ride down a river. dayung sampan. went through three caves. i've got pictures. coming up soon. hahahaha. the old lady rowing our boat was damn pmsy la. got me and jeremy quite irritated. yeah. then went back to hanoi to see the water puppet performance. quite interesting. for the first part. the music and the cramped leg space finally got me wishing to get out.

day three. thursday, 7/12
went on this trishaw-lke thingy called a cyclo. and then jeremy and esther came up with this phototaking service where they speak in vietnamese voices and go: "want a cyclo picture? take speedy- cyclo sevice!" yeah. hahahha. anyway. the guy cycling me around was damn friendly, in sharp contrast to the lady on the boat. heh.

then went to the airport for our flight to hue. [pronounced: hu-ay] met our new tour guide. forgot his name. anyway. went to see some king's tomb and i tell you. the tomb was like it jumped out of some jade empire cinematography. complete with flower blossoms, a lake, wind, a bridge, and a mysterious crypt in the centre. i got the idea for a story which i might write. hahaha. then took a boat ride to our hotel and it.was.bad. it had this really creepy chinese brothel feel to it and we ended up congregating in aunty koon sin's room to practice the CIC dance. yeah. and to eat cup noodles;) hahahah

day four. friday, 8/12
went to the king's palace and walked around. hot and humid. hahah. then went to visit another king's tomb. apparently all the tombs are damn nice. very grand, very jade-empirish. yeah. then went by bus over the mountains to danang. i tell you, my ipod is psychic. i put it to shuffle mode, and as we were going over the mountains, the song did you feel the mountains tremble and ain't no mountain high enough came on. hahaha. and then on the plane ride back to singapore, crash and burn:/ hahahaha. anyway. went to this resort hotel thingy which looked quite pretty. and then we went to the rooms. and THEY WERE HUGE:D hahahaha. BUT. we went to bathe and we realised it was RIVER WATER. SALTY river water. heh. aye.

day five. saturday, 9/12
went to this ancient, forest overgrown temple. very nice scenery and stuff. and the structures there are very.. phallic, if you know what i mean. heehee;)

then went to the old town to shop a bit and to see all those 200 year old houses. yeah. was in a heck-the-world-and-get-the-f-outta-my-way mood. hahahaha. if you've seen me in one of those before, you know how scary it is. yeah. but an ice cream brownie and an ice mocha cheered me up. hahaha.

day six. sunday, 10/12
went to visit the marble mountain in the morning. it's really a mountain with marble inside. as in IN the rock. cool huh. took a few pictures and climed over the mountain. heh. then went to the airport for our flight to ho chin minh, or saigon. i'll use saigon cos it's easier to type. hahaha. yeah. went to our hotel. the NEW WORLD hotel. sounds lame, i know, but president clinton stayed there when he visited vietnam and you klnow what that means. IT'S DAMN NICE:) hahahahha, went into the room and almost fainted with joy. the tv had 40 channels, the water wasn't salty, the gym was world-class and they had a damn nice pool! hahahah.

went shopping at some nearby market and got three shirts and two shorts. all for less than $45. hahahaha. then went to converse and, after six months of searching, found a shoe with size 11! yay:D hahaha. then went to eat at this beef noodle restaurant which was... heavenly. hahahaha. ate TWO beef stew noodles:D and had the best sleep of the whole trip on my nice bed with three feather pillows and temperature at 16. good stuff. hahahah

day seven. monday, 11/12
woke up at 6.30 to go to cu chi tunnels. apparently they're part of the network of tunnels used by the vietcong during the vietnam/american war. altogether 200km long. hahaha. fired an AK-47 and watched everyone else fire, the girls did an M-16. i forgot to cover my ears on one instance and some idiot let loose a ten- round blast on the m-60 machine gun next to me. nearly fried my eardrums. yeah. then went into the tunnels to go and crawl and see how the soldiers did it. the tunnel's about 80cm high and 60cm wide. quite big. we wanted to go into the second set of tunnels which were much smaller but some clown said that we had to go up. aye. ohoh. and i saw some kid from speech and drama who recognised me as eddie goodtime. ohmy. i'm so flattered. heehee;)

then went back to saigon to have lunch. ate at this fast food thingy which was LIKE kfc but not quite. the chicken was super oily and the meat wasn't that fantastic. aye. can't complain la. hahahha. then went to the war museum and went to see all the tortures and jails and stuff. quite cool. heh.

day eight. tuesday, 12/12
stayed in the hotel and swam. finally. peace at last. heh.

i'm going to watch open season at 9.40. and then a match tomorrow. hahaha