Highlights of Cambodia/Vietnam

Doing this post even though I still have not started on my individual assignment/report I SEE I HAVE MY PRIORITIES SET STRAIGHT :-D 

But in all seriousness in my defence I usually do work better late at night and it's only 7pm lor haha. The night is still young!!!!!!!!!!! 

Some photos I shamelessly ripped off my mum's Facebook because I don't take photos of people (esp. me) very much hahahaha. More photos when I finish uploading and editting because wts I have like 150+ iPhone photos and 700+ DSLR photos i_i 

18/12/13 

Spongebob themed airport hahaha 

Setting off to Phnom Penh around noon with my mum and my brother!! 

Posing with political demo outside our hotel cause we cool like that 

Found my love even in Cambodia nyehehe  

 And more Spongebob stuff 

Early celebration for my father's birthday at a quaint little ice cream shop!!! The place was really pretty la must wait for photos!!  

19/12/13 

Went to visit my father's factory which was really really cool!!!!! 

PET is the material my father recycles or what and IMEX means IMport and EXport.... And Sun is just there because apparently the name PETIMEX was already taken wtf 

Eating raw sugarcane that my father's employees plucked (??) for us hehe 

It was weird I didn't like it but the whole thing was so cool I just continued eating HAHA 

Weight check on the weighing scale hahaha 

 And thank goodness my weight didn't change during the trip even with all the junk (good) food I haaaad 

Shopping at the Russian Market and managed to find PJ pants for USD4. Also really happy to find this striped skater skirt (among all the notsonicestuff) for USD4.99 in this extremely pink store outside the market hahaha 

Froyo at the Pencil Mall (ikr) where I didn't get to look at much because we were all tired :-( 

20/12/13 

................6 hour coach drive to Vietnam/Ho Chi Minh which was not fun at all..................

Super yummy Banh Mi (bread?????) by the road side 

With the statue of the man Ho Chi Minh was named after?? 

hey hey 

21/12/13 

Early in the morning for private whole day tour to the Mekong Delta river (floating markets/small islands/villages etc.) 

At a breakfast stop on the way there 

Us on our own personal (huge!!) boat hehehe 

Feat. my awkward smile 

Brave me *~* 

Feat. my awkward smile (again) 

Making of local snacks like rice paper and coconut candy 

Family photo with performers who sung and danced for us.... While we were served tropical fruits on this random island HAHA 

Feat. my awkward slanted pose u_u 

Changed to a smaller boat temporarily....... 

The poor boat lady had to row all of us for like 20 minutes HAHAHAHA 

And check out our hats!!!!!!!!!! 

 Reached the city area again and went to Saigon Skydeck where I bought my first Topshop item nyehehe 

Us in our funky PJ pants (my butt looks funky here sobs) 

22/12/13 

1/2 day group tour to Cu Chi tunnel (some war zone area) 

 Where I shot targets (miserably) with a real REAL REAL gun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

So loud could hear my ears cry (ha ha hear my ear) 

 Me and my father with some statues haha 

And I very on one!!! I'm wearing my new pj pants and new shirt that I just bought from Saigon Square 1 like one and two days ago HAHAHAHA 

Lunch at Barbecue Garden 

AWKWARD POSE/FACE/ME IN THE FIRST PHOTO EW 

But this is us at this roadside seafood place in the night market near Ben Tanh??? Feat. our burning prawns in a coconut which I enjoyed very much (esp because the waitress helped us plucked it HAHA) 

23/12/13  

Me and my father at this famous and massive post office 

 Spent the whole day shopping so sorzz no other photos 

My brother's DS Lite got stolen/pickpocketed on this day btw it was sad and tragic :-( 

24/12/13 

6 hour drive back to Cambodia......................... Didn't do much that day cause we reached so late 

Christmas Eve dinner at Paddy Rice which is some irish bar and restaurant hehe 

Some scratch card thing we constantly played HAHA 

25/12/13 

 Silk Island day tour as a Christmas present from my Godpa (who also resides in Cambodia) 

 Boring ~1.5h journey there so I slept on a makeshift bed I made from pillows 

~Photos of silk worms and silk in the near future~ 

Our super huge boat just for us!!!! 

Tuk-tuk on the way to Sorya Mall/Central market 

My father bought a 3DS for my brother because he wanted one to play Pokemon............ 

Just in time to replace my brother's stolen DS lite hahaha. Out with the old and in with the new lolsie 

Central Market which we weren't too interested in HAHA but my father bought a pair of shoes 

Had Gong Cha at their 2 storey cafe!!!! 

26/12/13 
Had amazingggg breakfast buffet where I pigged out and ate like 2.5 plates of food and stayed in the hotel till night time

Met my Godpa and had dinner at this bar called Free Bird 

Portion was so huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ate 4/5 of my soft taco wrap (and dabaoed the other 2 haha),1/2 of the chicken cordon bleu ball and bites of everything else here and there!!! 

BASICALLY HAD 2 HUGE MEALS IN 1 DAY HAHA

27/12/13  

Breakfast buffet again hehe and to the airport to fly back to SG sobs 

Happy to be back home because I really miss my peanut butter and apples and cereal :-) BUT not happy to have to start doing my individual assignment (yadda yadda) :-( :-( :-( 

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Anyway reflection time haha machiam primary school field trip 

Traffic in both Cambodia and Vietnam is so different from SG!!!!!! For starters you see motorcycles are WAAAAY more than cars esp in Vietnam (ratio of people to motorcycles is approx 2:1 no joke). CROSSING THE STREETS ARE SO SCARY because not many traffic lights so you mostly just cross whenever you can. And traffic is so slow wtsssss getting from one place to another is the most sian thing because of the duration..... Going to and fro from all the tours we had takes a total of like 3 - 5 1/2 hours!!! And even the journey to and fro Silk Island was more than twice of the time we were actually on the island itself. 

And......... Cambodia and Vietnam was so cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The photos look deceiving and sunny la but 95% of the time I was freezing cold because of the super strong winds............ I wore my grey jacket 9 days in a row HAHA SMELLY ME. I was all prepared for super hot sunny weather but noOooOOOoooo 

Also surprisingly toilets are way cleaner than I had expected with maybe like the exception of 1 or 2???? I like it way better than Malaysia's public toilets because in Malaysia it's mostly smelly and wet and toilet bowls aren't very common. Whereas in Cambodia/Vietnam the toilets are much cleaner and more dry AND 99.99% ALL TOILET BOWLS... WITH TISSUE PAPER!!!!!!! But one thing I noticed and found weird was that there were rarely hooks on the toilet doors in Cambodia/Vietnam to hang your bag HAHA WHY :-( :-( 

Also had bread and eggs for almost a whole week in a row... Got a bit sick of eggs towards the last 2-3 days but I'll never get sick of bread :-))))))) 

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This post took way longer than I had expected to write HAHA it's 8.30pm now ok no more escaping from my dreaded work BYE!!! Healthy eating starts tomorrow HHAHAHA NEED TO "DETOX" FROM EVERYTHING