spent my christmas overseas this year.
had a taste of Vietnamese-styled christmas.
definitely comparable to Singapore. (lights and all)

hated the part when there's constant short circuits. imagine yourself in the midst of a shower and the lights went off and the water runs cold. =.=
otherwise, christmas in Vietnam was fun. =))

23.12.08-27.12.08

*enjoy the pictures*

off to Vietnam we go~

here we are in Ho Chi Minh City~

at the guesthouse. lovely place. cheap some more!!

life in Vietnam.

i told you traffic here was crazee...

at the war museum~

group photo before the whitehouse.

family photo before the church. Hallelujah~!!

took a similar photo while i was in Taiwan. loves flowers and bees.

at Meng Guai~ (it's not spelt like that in Vietnamese but pronounce like that, totally don't remember how it is spelt.)

it's totally a paradise on its own~

dinner at paradise~

we had like springrolls for every meal. (literally)

tasted especially good in Vietnam.

Mekong Delta.

me, Sumei (my cousin)

did i hear somebody asking me how the snake felt??

erm...picture yourself holding a super expensive Prada leather handbag.

100% hand-made.

the hole was damn tiny. the tunnel was damn dark.

good thing my cousin brought the camera along and we "flashed" our way through.

there is NO place we cannot cam-whore. haa~

sunlight~!!!

booby trap~

crazier traffic in the night.

the green man sure doesn't do his job.

(here..i shall interpret what the Vietnam traffic lights stand for)

the green light represents, "ALL CHIONG~!!"

the amber light represents, "ALL CHIONG~!!"

the red light represents, "WHAT THE HECK??!! JUST CHIONG AR!!"

so we ended our last day with a very hectic shopping schedule at Ben Thanh Market.

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there you have it!!

free and easy in Vietnam is actually no biggie~~

in fact, it's rather easy, other than the part that we can speak ZERO Vietnamese.

calling out to the peeps of ma da jia si jia!!! we can go free and easy to Vietnam next time!! =DD

year 2008 sure was eventful.
went overseas for 4times!! broke my own record. haha.

taiwan --> johor bahru, malaysia --> genting highlands + kuala lumpur, malaysia --> vietnam

will be blogging the following events according to timeline.

1. taiwan trip (done)
2. johor bahru (super lazy to upload photos, only exciting photo was i struggled to keep a baby croc in my palms)
3. UWA gathering (done)
4. genting + KL trip (done)
5. vietnam trip (done)
6. annual E8 gathering (done)
7. new year countdown with all =DD (done)

due to some absurd reason (or perhaps no reason at all), i was unable to upload my photos. i suppose the image was too heavy for blogger. =.=

whatever the reason, here are SOME of the photos taken during the Malaysia trip. =))

15.12.08-19.12.08

waiting for some verification procedure, afterwhich we can then proceed to check-in to our hotel.

at a restaurant~

i'm getting a tattoo(fake)!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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BBQ with the UWA people. =))

10.12.08

ethel, qiyan

1st photo (from left): daniel, brandon, nicholas, nicholasTAN, paul, (forgot name).

2nd photo (from left): daniel, (forgot name), jason

omg...seriously, it's not that i have a lousy memory but the person who sent me the photos took too long and now i don't remember everyone's name. O.o sorry~

from left: verna, reimin, me

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no group photos. group photos of girls are with ethel(who is hardly ever online).

i had to post up whatever photos that jason sent, otherwise i'll end up forgetting everyone's name. O.o

next Currie hall gathering: paintballing (to be confirmed on a later note)

as we welcome the year 2009, we mustn't forget the people that have stayed with us and brought us through 2008.

2006-2008 has been the lowest period of my life. (3 out of the 19 years that i had lived seem bleak but it was never in vain)

i thank Mr Ng (my JC civics tutor who was most encouraging).

i thank the various people and friends who had expressed their most sincere concern towards me even though i may not have noticed it.

i thank my ex-colleagues (be it the people at the airport, or my shifu, or the people at SDV) for guiding me along and thus moulding me into the better person that stands right before you.

i thank my family for being so supportive and for being there even though i may sometimes feel their concern was going in the wrong way but what the heck. i love them. =))

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this year...2009.

i have to thank my God of Fortune (CaiShen) who stood behind me while we were gambling away. haha. thankyou you hor~!! gam sia!!

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