Ho chi minh day 4

I fell sick i think it is the food. Run toilet many times and fever so basically i slept in hotel for the whole day till 9pm. Whole day gone. Met up with ali and her sister they bring me to a restrauant to eat. Thats all. 

Oh ya. Also visit the very boring night market. 

Back in hotel watch ipad and tv. Happen to see tyna on vietnamese music video channel. So funny. 

Ho chi minh day 3

Day 3 is an unproductive one. Van and martin and chi anh all need to fly on today and then will be me staying another 3 days alone. 

They want me to change ticket and go together. No way. So many part of vietnam i had not seen yet. And my snake meat still got no chance to eat. 

Before she go i was invited to chi anh new house where i understand more about the background of this 2 ladies. When out for lunch one last time before van takes the afternoon flight at 2pm. 

Me and martin went back to this salon and do our hair wash and massage again. Waiting for chi anh to come back after her errand. She did her new hair and me and martin wonder off to unknown place. 

Finally get to try trung nguyen No. 1 coffee. Which is our starbucks equalvent. Coffee is thick and robost. 

We were out last time to have dinner before martin and chi anh catch their flight at 9pm. After which i was all alone. A feeling of anxiety overwhlem me. All alone in HCM is not the safest thing to do. But i will survive. 

Head out to lush club alone to try my luck if i can pick up girls alone. I mean alone is making the already hard thing of pocking up girl more harder. 2 round of heniken sitting at a corner, observing how the place functions. 2 ladies beside me seem all alone but i got no ball yo approach them. They stood up and leave after 1/2 hour seeing i didnt make any moves. 

Then 3 ladies took a table infront of me, they had order bloody mary and i had the rush to approach this table cause all looks extremely pretty. Didnt do so because i scare they are with friends. So i walked around because sitting around too long made me looks like an local drug dealer. When i was back shortly to check out these 3 ladies 2 angmo had hit up on them. Wasted. 

I guess sitting around isnt gonna help me much hence i order more beer to get my kick going, and tried to moves myself inside the dance floor. People at dance floor is more open and they do give u direct eye contact but they were all with other expat. 

Finally i saw a single out lady on level 2 and i was drunk enough to speak to her. Toast a few drinks and i pull her to the dance floor and start dancing. She was initially here with a friend but had lost her friend inside the dance floor. Perfect right. From dancing to grinding and then touchy touchy hug here and there. You know all the drill. I had a total of 6 heniken and we decided to call it off at lush. Went supper after that and she even offer to drop me at my hotel before she goes back. Ok. Basically no second half. Sad but still enjoyed myself alone in HCM. 

Ho chi minh day 2

Day 2 woke up early like 9am to accompany van to shop for clothes. And by shopping, you do not stroll along the street. You ride from shop to shop.  Basically all human in vietnam is on a motorbikes. 

Van and her family sym bike which is shared among her sister and mother. 

Our breakfast has to be vietnam exclusive dish. The beef pho and "sting" strawberry energy drink that is only available in vietnam. Similar to our redbull. 

Crossing of road in vietnam is difficult for most people, i found i had no difficulties. I even want to ride in vietnam. I observe there is certain orders within the chaos. Depsite both sister disagree me for riding, i had done ferry them on the main road. I insist i can and i had no prinlem with anything. Just be as chaotic and crazy as the local. 

It is just like malaysia custom traffic just that this is never ending. 

She is posing for one of the 20 dress she brought. 

So morning had been dedicated to shopping, evening time had dinner at street aide seafood 

Basically i came to a conclusion, don't have to worry about what to eat cause anything you put inside your mouth turn out to be awsome. No wonder ramsey had endose vietnam cuisine to be one of the best in the world. 

Went to hooka in district one have sisha, beer and street food. 

Ho chi minh day 1 part 2

Continuing... 

Van is out for full body spa after lunch. Her sister just went around to run errand for us. Jessica had the housewife attribute. Helping us to cook, change money and fetch her parent to and fro of house. I kinda of sleep inside hotel due to restless night previously. Martin just start his auto roaming and venture out to zuo wu zuo bo. 

Finally all came together and then travel together to this chinese bbq resturant. 

The buddah sit outside watching over the peace of the resturant. 

The usual 7 pac. And having all of us in a picture is kinda difficult. I insisted on having one. 

The food is not bad. And i just love the local brew 333 beer, only $1.20 sgd and having 5.3% alcohol content. 

Having our desert of 10 scoop ice cream fondue at another location. I had my 3rd cafe su dai of the day. Hor ehhh. 

Then van decide to pull me out of the desert and bring to across the street to try BABY DUCK EGG!!!! Finally it is like a dream come true for me. 

And guess for the price of 24,000 dong ($1.50 sgd)

The special prepared sause, sour plum powder with lime juice. Pepper mint leaves, 2 full duck egg (duck included) and half dozen of quirt eggs (bird included) and 2 small tea cup for u to house the egg. It time for me to open my first baby duck. 

The membrane still intact, the moment u brust it the juice came squirting out and it have the after taste like chicken essential. Sticky sticky. The whole duck taste like sweet egg yolk and the last part is the bone. 

This part taste like sweet egg yolk

The bottom half where the bone sit. 

This part is the breast and the soft bones. You just chew it away. 

The quirt egg where u just stuff it all into your mouth. 

So now the dawn had fall, it time to visit the best that saigon had to offer. The night life. Went to pandora sky loft at dunno where

Van had skip this outing and sleep early. Left me, marine and jessica. 

 Hor ehh!

Ho chi minh day 1 part 1

It a restless night and met van at airport at 5am. Touch down met up with her sis and parent plus a new singaporean friend, martin who came over also for business trip. The sister treat us and her parent to the chinese resturant and i was skeptical at first about how nice they had said they vietnam counterpart prepare chinese food. I was impressed. 

The suckling duck is skinned in front of us and rolled carefully into presentation and served. 

Then 2nd dish is a round of crab meat soup which the presentation couldnt justify the taste. But believe me it is awsome. 

When they brought over the 3rd dish i was like think it is a orange bamboo or something, cause it is the size of a toilet roll centerpriece. At close observation i realise it is prawn!!! Or shrimp whichever term that is larger. It is the largest fucking prawn i encounter in my life. 

I placed a soup spoon beside for ur comparison, the prawn is gargantuan. They are all shelled off in front of you, you wouldnt need to move a finger literally. Correction you need cause the prawn is consume using fork and knife. 

For prawn/shrimp this big usually you get it dry up, but the preparation is correct making the whole prawn succulent. 

4th dish is a plate of hong kong noodle. 

Lastly, my favorite. 虾耙子。Or commonly know as the squirting prawn. As usual comes in xxl portion. We were bloated and satisfied. The sisters foot the bill to a total of 3,000,000 dong. The meal cause 3 million dong and is equals to $190 sgd for 7 persons. Around $28 per pac and it is considered luxurious by vietnam standard. 

After meal, van wants to part us to shop for herselve, so she sister host her hospitality by bringing us to a local beauty salon and she say it is very good. I was a bit wary of the pricing initially. Cause the serve is so good, so attention to details and all putting their heart and soul with very single stroke of massage. And the hair washing is by no mean wishy washy. I soon realize why. 

Vietnamese practice tipping cause they close relationship to the westernized culture. It is service first, tips later. Not like singapore, price is fixed and customer service in singapore is just being taken a ride for. 

I was so tired, i fell asleep during hair cutting, styling and washing. The whole duration took almost a 2 hours. Majority of the time is spend washing, conditioning your hair, wash face and apply mask and during waiting time they provide excellent massage to your head and shoulder. It is too nice not to fall asleep. All in all 3 person combo is only $50 dollars including tipping. Why should i keep worry about money when they only cost peanuts.....

To be contined

Taka with jennifer

World. Miss me for 5 days. This another hour i will be heading to airport for my Vietnam trip. It gonna be good. I will be back shortly to update my travel log. 

Tonight went out with jennifer to shop at taka and use up my voucher. Thinking of getting a good belt. They are all in 500 range. 

Which gucci belt do u think it is nice? I kinda being laugh by jennifer as she saw i was amazed by reversible belt. I mean i really never see it before. Love it. 

Got a coach coin and key pouch that i had eyeing very long at ion coach. Brought it with taka. 

Get myself a masculine perfume and got a salegirl from portuguese kept laughing at my joke about finding the perfect perfume. She kept saying i am funny and she kind of stumble for words when she tried to bid my farewell after i paid for the perfume. So funny, i think i swept her off her feets loh. 

Lala with mervyn at star vista. Got drew in by the hongkie setting. So cool. Food suck thought. 

Met up with lorjean after so many years. She is getting married soon. 

Well, i pray for a good and safe trip later. Bye world. 

Nightmare lucid dream

Oh. So scary. I just woke up from a bad dream. Citibank had a getaway trip and most of it i had forgotten. Just remember the last part, where there are couples of car lining up in convoy and i think i was choosing team to move off to the next location. See jonathan mandy and visan was inside a same team i go with them as a team. Jon is driving visan's car in the driver seat i sit beside mandy follow by visan at the other end of the window. I remember visan turn over and speak to me, face pale and sweating. The next moment we move off driving. The scene is at the road near queenstown mrt. Jon made a right turn into the opp direction of the car. Car start come toward us from bind spot and couple of near miss and tire scatching sound. 

So jonathan reverse and made a 3 point turn near the traffic light. The next moment i know he zoomed off at top speed. The next moment the car skid and crash into the tree near by, the car caught fire shortly. Mandy visan and i was threw off the car far away, i pick myself up and dash to resuce jon in the car and next moment the car explored into a ball of flame. 

Next my vision is like the end screen credit, i saw my name was written being remembered and why i was given a serial of number. I believe the number belong to my tome's number. Fuck and i can't remember what is the number. If not i can buy toto liao. 

End of my nightmare and i pondering inside toilet why human cannot remember his own dream. Googled. 

Trang is back with coffee

Saturday is a stay home day for me. Suppose to be at Tangs Vivo but I just can't do Tangs Vivo period. AB booth stay from PS3 "Last of us" and vietnam coffee better. I had been drinking 3 cup of coffee daily and the coffee Jenny gave me is running low, and just at the time when I was out of coffee guess what?

Trang is back to Singapore bringing me some more coffee powder and Vietnamese delights. Do you miss her? I sure do :p

She was here with another friend but unfortunately her friend got held up at custom and later deported back to Vietnamese. Sad. I don't get to know her pretty friend.

Last of us at 61% completion

Met with Jackson and YS recently over coffee shop and chat up a bit. They are all doing good, Jackson got his new flat and YS GF didi is here in Singapore with him.

When with Fyn to Raining bar and later Ali joined us and than I took Ali to supper. Super and beer session. 

It is suppose to drink and eat at the same time and talk. They say it is the culture of Vietnam. I hope my coffee powder can last me till 12th. These few days are working hard so I do not lose my virgin again.

When to anchor point myself to get me some sashimi craving. Well, that made me $45 poorer on my pocket. I had totally no control over my spending now. Gonna start earning to save and make very cent of mine counts.

2014 resolution & wishlist

Now time to do resolution and summarize past year effort. Out of the 4 resolution I set last year, met only 2.

For year 2013

Achieve 3k/month profit for buyincase shop
Lose 8kg body weight to 72kg (kind of look thinner)
Get a property agent license (Achieved)
Get to 3 different country this year (Went to Shen Yang)

Year 2013 Review by Facebook

Alright at least the most important aspect had been met. I had already obtained my RES licence and I am going to plan Vietnam trip this month. Hence, nutshell 2013 is fruitful year for me. Most importantly, I had myself a job that is providing me what I had always wanted in life. Although tiring but still more or less fruitful change in my life. Importantly, CPF contribution starts coming in. It is good.

Haha, so far already 4 DSO packs bag and get out of the job and punch card liao. They were Shermine, Keith, Mo Cheng and Mandy chronologically. What doesn't kill you made you strong siol. Saying me, I had made a promise to myself to work harder in year 2014. $8000/ month is not a dream, it is all in my mind. 

So speaking of which my resolution in 2014 as follow:

1. Get paycheck of 8k a month in Citibank
2. Close my first listing in Property
3. Euro Trip

Lastly, I would like to end it short. Happy new year 2014 to all!!