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It's not the fuel station BP however...

Batu Pahat. 4 days 3 nights trip.

Drive down in 2 cars with 6 of us to Lynn's and Mcee's hometown

Walk a lot, eat a lot, talk a lot, laugh a lot, gossip a lot, play a lot, being bullied a lot, bullied people a lot, have fun a lot ........

on the other hand revealed some mysteries A LOT .... lol :P

The coolest tour guide!

The mission for FOOD...

Gone to Muar too, for this .....

Lynn's mum take extremely good care of us. Thank you, Aunty!

Extras fun....

Being bullied.....but Nie nie took revenge for me alrd :p

Have fun baby-sitting Lynn's nephew too...cute Enzo

Conclusion: too much fun making my brain retarded temporary currently!

Their stories......

I had a good time exploring Vietnam.

If only i had more time and freedom there , i want to know more of their culture and eavesdropping the stories behind the people ......

Nothing defeated them ......

A young girl presenting songs entertaining the tourists....

Shock me - the promoter in orange giving out leaflets in the middle of hustle bustle road.....

Met a new friend. Friendly bell boy in the hotel .... he looks like Jacky Chan if u notice ! :P

Another step towards my dream....

Am back ! Am back from Vietnam!

This trip is quite a sudden decision. As i'm still in the middle of my semester and there are hell lot of assignments needed to be accomplish plus it's all year 2 subjects . Honestly, at first i am doubt about my decision. But no regrets after all ............

I went with a tour .... me alone with another 28 aquintances + 1 tour guide . Kinda excited !

What's in Vietnam?! Yea, it was this curiosity that drew me there. This trip is to souhern part of Vietnam ..... Saigon , Ho Chi Minh, Cu Chi, Vung Tau and bla bla.....

Coclusion of my trip : weather, HOT,HOT,HOT + traffic TERRIBLE,TERRIBLE,TERRIBLE ..... but

FUN,FUN, FUN

All i can see on the roads are MOTORBIKESSSSSS ..... man, traffic in Vietnam is terrible. We were told that there are thousands of road in southern Vietnam but only a few hundreds with traffic lights. Imagine KL without traffic lights ! And, i guess if these drivers get to Singapore they will kena culture shock - drivers in Vietnam just like to HON ! They will hon whenever they go .

OMG.... look at the wires !

Vietnam is quite a poor country .... undevelope , people poor, salary very low, suffering living .....

Look at the history of Vietnam. Before Vietnam get independence, they have been conquer by lots of country.... such as USA, French ..... lots of violence and wars that time.

Lots of historical place left behind though ....... Notre Dame Cathedral- very old church in the centre of Ho Chi Minh city. Beside the church is another historical building left by French, once the general post office of Vietnam.

once a palace ......

We visited lots of old temple (which is BORING ) !

It's not all about historical places ..... or else i will be bored to death !

And of course, people like me who just like to EAT ..... FOOOOOOD ! I expect something more extraordinary but.... am dissapointed ! As i am with the tour, most of the time we went to high end restaurants which serve ordinary food , nothing different from Malaysia. Except only a few dishes such as Vietnam steamboat - all seafood even lala also, but i enjoy the freshie prawns and fish ! The soup are sweeeeeet !

Drooling? Am still......

Had the steamboat on-board ! It's a some sort of boat restaurant or can i say a moving restaurant, on the river of Saigon. So you can have your dinner while your eyes buzying enjoying the Saigon river bank view.

What do you think about it?

I thought i am in Vietnam?! Lotsa French loaves in Vietnam ! French left this behind too .....

Dinosaur egg ..... they called it ! It's actually a kind of tradisional kuih. Taste sweet and yummy!

Waitress demonstrating how to made Banh Trang. A kind of fish meal. Where fish meat, mee, cucumber and pineapples are wrapped in a paper like wrapper which is made by rice.

Ugly fish ... but sedap! Ta da~ ready to eat !

Ok.... can't miss this ! Coffee is famous in Vietnam. Though i am not a coffee - addict, but when people say something is nice, i have gotta try. Not bad ! It's called the ' dripping coffee'. There's a method drinking coffee there. The coffee powder is apply onto an apparatus, poured hot water and then wait for it to drip.

Another can't miss food.... Vietnam beef noodle! Delicious..... i had it every morning during the trip .

We travel a lot from one place to another ....by bus, by boat .

Mekong river .... damned wide, and even got 4 small islands. We traveled to 2 of the island: Phoenix island - also called coconut island because some time ago there was an old monk staying there. He established a religion called the coconut religion. All the followers of the religion suvived by eating and drining coconuts only. This old monk at last also wanted to be nominated in one of the election (not sure what election is that) , then people called him nuts.

Lesson : too much coconuts will makes you nuts!

Another island ..... Tarzan island. Where you can buy some famous food there- the coconut sweets. It's extraordinary tastier! We had a fruits banquet there too. Some villagers performed a few songs. Villagers on Tarzan island are mostly farmers who plant fruits. And since this island has become one of the tourism place, their part time job are entertaining the tourist.They can sing well!

The story behind a women .......

Well, travelling alone - although with a group of people, good experience for me though! But ..... i have got hard time though .....


Part of the pics are like this ...... blurred! Next time i will get a profesional companion!

Camwhoring all the time..... even when i was eating my banana split alone in hotel's cafe .....

HAhahHAhHAhhHAHha........

Eat in Malacca

Finally done with the Malacca trip assignment's presentation as well as the paper work ! Yahoo.....but very tired , had to sacrify my sleeping hour for it.... learned my lesson - never do last minute work ! hehe...

Obviously when i go through the pictures and video we took during the trip .... it makes me hungary. Well, of course Malacca has good food and they are CHEAPPPP too !

ADVICE : prepare tissue paper, you might drool ! :)

Does this makes you drooling ?

Our group need cendol for everyday's meal .... hahaha.....
This is mango cendol .... i didn't ordered durian cendol because ..... i dislike durian !

Well, amazingly this time i break my personal policy .... i ate durian dodol ! Man, i guess maybe too long i did not take durian that's why everytime i ate it , i have to run for toilet. I still have durian dodol at home now, obviously now nampak pun dah nak muntah ..... conclusion : i ate too much !

O yea .... the pineapple tarts are nice ! You can get it anywhere in Jonker Street ... this box i get from LW Nyonya Pineapple Tart House RM 6.90 per box, if i'm not wrong .... tasty and all freshly baked. The dodol i also get it there. It's super sticky .... my friend said this prove that it is super fresh ... i don't know .... what i know is it is quite delicious compare to the TKM brand , cos TKM as i remember is not as sticky as this one and the price is cheaper than TKM . Maybe i have weirdo taste bud!

This is the icon of the LW Nyonya Pineapple Tart House....

And..... nyonya laksa ! We had this in one of the stall in Jonker Street the first night . O yea, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night they have the Jonker walk ! Don't forget to try out the nyonya food in Malacca .... this time we missed the nyonya specialty , cos rushing of time !

These are the nyonya kuih i ate before we had our chicken rice ball for breakfast ..... nyum nyum !

Then i had 5 chicken rice balls for my breakfast ..... another was in digesting process while i was taking this picture .... hehe !

I had a chance to try out the popiah there. I get this at a 'moving stall' . An old uncle with his stall which he will cycle around in Jonker street . RM1.00 .... SEDAP ! He put some sort of sweet sauce on it with chili sauce . The last day, 10 minutes before we left for bus station , me and another two friends ran around Jonker Street searching for this .... no fate ... we didn't manage have our last one ! Maybe next time, hopefully there is !

Satay celup ! Celup, tunggu dan makan !

I wonder how big is the prawn's brain ???

My team ....

OK, i know .... sometimes we do stupid things .....