Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam 23012008

• pigsticker

  9 Feb 08, 13:13

  u stay at Great World Hotel mah??

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 13:19

  I stayed at Dai Nam (3 stars), 2 streets from Ben Thanh market, next to a Courts lookalike mega store, and next a popular discotheque...and the disco started BOOM BOOM VERY LOUDLY every nite..

   

  I stand by the balcony and watch the activities from my room above...pretty interesting to see their crowd streaming into the club..  and the security are the fierce fierce type.

   

  Me, my auntie buddy and another uncle buddy wanted to take a look, they saw us (knowing we stay at the hotel and are tourist), they usher us in personally to the club.  When walked into the entrance, the staff bowed..  i was like...errhh..paiseh paiseh... 

   

  we stood there and look at the for 3 mins and decides to leave.   we thank them as we walk  out, and they also thank us and bow at the same time..   wat exxcellent service...  we are so impressed....

• pigsticker

  9 Feb 08, 13:25

  hmmm... went there in 06 for company trip and stayed at Great World Hotel....

  Crossing the roads there is a nightmare... very unlike singapore.... takes lots of balls...

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 13:26

  It started to rain... ran into a hotel (5-star really grand one).  while relaxing (air con air con) myself, the fire alarm went off..  i went ...wtf..

   

  the young good looking ah-moh manager came to me and smile sweetly and very courteous and charming and said: "u may stay here and relax, we are having a fire drill". 

   ohh....huh huh...i thought...hmm....i like..

   

  

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 13:27

  Originally posted by pigsticker:

  hmmm... went there in 06 for company trip and stayed at Great World Hotel....

  Crossing the roads there is a nightmare... very unlike singapore.... takes lots of balls...

  i was crossing the road like a true local after the end of Day 2.

   

  just look forward, walk in a normal non-stop pace... ignore the rest..  they will not bang me..

  it's like i am not looking at the traffic at all...  let them siam me !

   

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 13:35

  streets and traffic after rain...and crossing  them.

  

  

  

  

   

   

   

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 13:40

  aiya... I remembered where i parked my vehicles liao..

   

  

  

  

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 13:50

  Lonely? ...Call Me..

   

  You go Pinky !

  

   

  then Kana HIV, who u gonna call?l..

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 13:59

  yes i am hungry again...  this one looked interesting, we decide to join the locals.  and it is cheap..  the dinner cost us 32,000d (S$3.20) for 2 person.   LOADS OF FREE VEGE..

   

  I had eaten so much vege (raw somemore) for the 5 days... = ... ONE YEAR of my usual INTAKE OF vege..!

   

  the place is next to a tennis court.. and yes, i sat on the short chairs (my legs were so numb after a while) and the chair almost gave way...

   

  Chairs/tables laid at the street, cooking by the street..

  

  

  

   

  We were ushered into the enclosed area, next to a tennis court (hopefully the balls dun come hit straight into my head).  See the green chair at the centre, that was my mini-chair.

  

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 14:12

  

  

   

  that was one of my best dinner... yummy....

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 14:15

  the walked around...not too full...go eat their local pizza stall

  and they were more interested in gamblig in the store then serving us.. 

   

  Ice coffee

  

   

  Local Hawaiian Pizza (~S$5.00 for a personal sized) not cheap leh

  

   

• LOTUSfairy

  9 Feb 08, 14:24

  tired...update more tmr...

• Rhonda

  12 Feb 08, 15:52

  Erm... where are the updates har? 

• gigabyte14

  12 Feb 08, 15:59

  the tunnel in the first post, i went there too!

   

  but luckily the giant millipedes are not inside

   

  hot and stuffy too

   

• LOTUSfairy

  12 Feb 08, 16:11

  updates...soon soon...tired leh...i shall try to upload some tonight.. hehehe..

   

  and..giant millipedes ?  no one warn me about that leh...eiikkkk...

• bcloud23b

  22 Feb 08, 21:17

  woah i would personally go and visit the city after my uni study ^^

• Lin Yu

  22 Feb 08, 21:40

  cool   

   

• Torandoz_88

  23 Feb 08, 12:16

  I stayed in vietnam for 2 months lor for my overseas student internship program. Its a quite interesting place. Have been to HCMC for quite alot of times though. Went to the cu chi tunnels too. It was raining at that time lor. But quite fun coz all of us have to wear raincoat and walk around the forest.

• LOTUSfairy

  24 Feb 08, 23:44

  i shall take some time this week and upload my rest of my pictures..

• Rhonda

  25 Feb 08, 06:18

  Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:

  i shall take some time this week and upload my rest of my pictures..

  OK!  Yi4 yan2 wei2 ding4!  Si4 ma3 nan2 zui1! 

• LOTUSfairy

  25 Feb 08, 09:13

  hehe..been lazy lah..

• Rhonda

  25 Feb 08, 09:15

  Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:

  hehe..been lazy lah..

  Nebbermind... lazy or not, we lub you, birthday girl! 

• LOTUSfairy

  25 Feb 08, 20:52

  seen more colourful stuff along the streets ..getting more cheerful..

  

  

  

  

• LOTUSfairy

  25 Feb 08, 20:54

  Local Fast Food Restaurant

   

• LOTUSfairy

  25 Feb 08, 20:59

  Day 3

   

  Early morning, decides to take bus to Notre Dame Catheral..which is about 8 streets away.  We walked to the Bus Terminal (2 streets from our hotel) and after enquiring many people..oki..it's bus 19.  Hop up the bus and sat there and wait. 

   

  1st, a monk got up...we went huh..

  

  then notice every bus got a vase of flower and their deity for protection.

  

   

  Hawkers start streaming into bus and sell food and newspapers..

  

  then, bus driver came, and a lady bus conductor board bus.

  collected 300 from each of us.  (ie. S$0.30 for the entire journey, irregardless of stops).

  

   

  we still one chicken one duck..told them Notre Dame Catheral we want to alight...nod head (dun know understand or not)...then....