Hanoi day 3

Day 3 woke up at 6am and prepare to go halong bay which will be 4 hours drive away from hanoi. Recommended by the locals and clp so its on my top list although its expensive. 

The bus trip took so long we watched huo yuan jia and god of gambler 2 movies and i listen music and sleep so many times in the bus. 

Inside the cave is just some artifical lightning and i don't really know how to apreciate the nature wonder. 

Thanks sandy for being the tour guide and ask me to randomly crash into other tour group to heard what they say. End up i crashed into a japanese group. 

On the boat they brought us around the ocean to see some stones that the local said represent something. Just like the one printed on vietnam dong. The actual stone the actual spot where they took the picture for the notes. I don't find it fantinating to me. 

The stone above is said to be a man and women kissing. Well you need to use a little imagination here. Well they say our imagination is limitless. 

Me and tracy tried kakaying to some hidden spot like you need to pass thru some hole to reach them. We found the zao cai mao in one os the holes. 

Can you see the "cat" with its tail??

The setting sun is nice but only near evening. 夕阳无限好，只是近黄昏。

At night they promise to bring me seafood because we skid lunch on the boat because it is just simply too much. Too expensive. 1kg fish is 750,000 dong. The 2 kg fish cost us around $100 sgd. crazy. 

Its too late we had to lodge at halong. Went shop some nation for tomorrow. They stuff my bag full of combat nation like as if we were refugee. 

Hanoi day 2

Day 2 should deserve a title of it own cause there are so many checklist in a day. The most promient is the task to test the SNAKE! Yes i had finally accomplished snake challenge. We met up during lunch at my hotel and set off to a deserted location quite far away in seeking of the legendary snake meat. And that shop is popular in hanoi. We were presented 3 option ranging from 1mil or 1.2mil or 1.7mil for the king cobra. We chose the 1mil $60 sgd equivelent.

Preparing snake is a long list but i guess i can wrap up by post a video. Which helps to speak a thousand words.

Before the snake parts are out in dishes you got 3 items out. The beating heart, red blood and green bile which surprising is a very nice green looking liquid. 

All in all i can't really taste anything thru all the snake disk except the snake fillet ginger fried. The snake meat is tender but not too grewy and it tast better than it looks. 

The mid day is hanging out with sandy and her husband at a cafe just beside the duck rides. 

At night i took tracy motor and ride her to the famous lake. It takes a lot of courage being pillion behind me. Somemore the vietnam crazy jam and traffic. Moreover tracy front brake was not respondsive. Tip riding inn vietnam is you gonna be decisive. Make your intention clear, the rest is up to the experienced rider out there to give way to u. Ignore traffic light, ignore traffic direction. Just follow what the front rider is doing. I am impressed with myself doing things so out of the box. 

I praying for coconut worm. The restruant called and told us that the worm had arrived. We went down and i got to try out the exotic live coconut worms. 

The komodo dragon is not for feast. Display but is a live pet. 

The coconut looks hard to swallow and for a hardcore exotic food eater. I do face some problem stuff the wriggling worm inside my mouth. My first try i got too gentle with it and it bite my mouth when it is on my tongue. I split out the whole muthufucker. I attempt to bite off the head first but the body is so chewy i can't split it apart. Plus the body liquid just spirt out like a bad ass. After seperating the head from its body. It still wriggle there for 1 hour. 

We finish at 11:45pm and they have to ride back on the empty street 1 hour away back home. Poor things. 

Hanoi day 1

Just touch down airport and i am angry with myself for not checking in luggage caused me delay and additional cost to post my item back to singapore. My expensive facial form and the 5 toothpaste gonna be quick post back to home. 

It is the 3rd time i go oversea alone and expect some people just turn up at airport to fetch me. And this time like previous 2 time. I moment i exit arrival somebody is here welcoming me. So lucky. 

Tracy still have to work so sandy was tasked to accompany me for day 1. I headed to hotel then exchange some money and off to get my duck egg first. Followed by the rooftop to have a tea break. 

Hotel i booked thaison and i do not really like the place even it has a rating of 83 on agoda. Bathtub too small and cramp. Lobby kinda smell funny. The sliver lining is that the staff speak english and extremely funny and friendly. Got a free upgrade to superior room. 

Street food is good and tasty if you can reqlly overlook all the cleaniness issue. I think they are better than thai. Maybe personal preference. 

Rushed thru 3 place of interest. First we went visit the first university of hanoi and i am surprise to find that the teaching was in chinese. A lot of pretty syt at the uni taking graduation shot. Second place is the famous lake at the center of hanoi which was rumoured that a sword was taken from the emperor by a turtle to the sea dragon lord within the lake. A lot of couple taking wedding ahot near the lake. 

Dinner for pho cuon and stop over at a random themed cafe and then head to the famous night market similar to bugis street. My impression of night market had further detoriate due to repretation and imitation of stuff. Absolutely nothing to buy at all night market. 

Pho cuon is popular in hanoi. Hcm had their version in rice paper. Both are nice in their own ways. 

Unlike HCM where u can party late. Hanoi is very strict with crefew and all stire closes latest by 11pm. Police will be on patrol. 

Wheat a nice restaurant at raffle place

After 2 tier 3 run. I am at my bottleneck. Comm scheme had changed to stirred some sentimental within dso. All ntb runner including me was at a loss. Had not been working much for the past 2 weeks. Lost my momentum. I am planning a getaway to rest my mind. Compliance leave and boss agreed to let me go for 7 days.




I love this picture taken with my z3 compact. Actually it is really a very wonderful phone. It took low light shot perfectly.




Smor is a Swedish start up serving food out of passion. The boss say life is not all about earning money.




She suppose to bring me go try the salad at ion but we sort of change to raffle place as i would like to bring her to try "wheat" a healthier and taster choice. I say all food wasn't cooked. I misrepresented. It was pre cooked.




Thanks clp for posting for my camera effect. Z3 compact had a function to defocus background. Can i spot the difference between the 2 photos?

Her red hair just got more red. She remind me now of fire phoenix jean grey from marvel. A class 5 mutant. Strongest character among marvel hero.

Changed comm scheme

This quarter is good job. I hit comm on the 6th and hit tier 3 on 10th of Sept. One of the better performing months. This month ended with 100 Ntb 290k, 450cc approval and 70% credit shield. I had gun down 2 quarter with tier 3 and I had been loving the money. With these rates, project income per quarter will be 35k and annual can hit 140k. This is where I want to be. Where I am going to head towards.

Unfortunately at the best time they decided to fuck up the comm schemes. They had made changes to requirements for hitting tier. No longer base on 200ntb per quarter but 18000credit per quarter. Another words you have to comm in 6k every month without considering credit shield. The impact is yet to be seen but that will impact greatly on the way I carry my sales. I thought I wun wun eat beehoon Liao.




Just like these image taken with z3 compact. I am as blur as the photo.