Hey hey, I'm back from vacationing. I'm pumped!
Everyday was glorious day hahaha. It was really a great 2 weeks holiday. For those who don't know I went to Penang and Vietnam (HCMC-My Tho-Vung Tau-Chu Chi).
Started from 17 Sep, a surprise visit from my cousin, Evi, who came from Brisbane. We went shopping (I shouldn't shop but I couldn't resist!! Thanks for paying my dress, lol) and chit chatting like old times. It was good to meet her again, I wish she stayed longer. Then fetched my parents and sis from Harbour Front and I miscalculated the time to go there, I was late and had to take taxi.. money oh money! Hate to spend money that I shouldn't spend.
The next morning on 18, we flew to Penang by Tiger. It was my first time flying from Budget Terminal. One comment: it really is Budget Terminal. Everything, from interior to toilet to food, is lower grade from Changi's normal Terminal (T1-T3) hahaha. So, we reached Penang and couldn't find our transport, y'know, the guy who hold paper with name written on it. I called the local tour agent to ask where the hell the driver is, 15-30 mins later, he finally came and apologized (well, he should be), he said he was waiting at the bus station as he read that I booked the hotel and transportation from Konsortium, so he thought we took coach to Penang. DUHH.. I know Konsortium is widely known as coach agent but they're also selling tours etc. Yah anyway, I wasn't really mad or anything, we still hired him as our driver for a day.
We went around Penang island, to temples, malls and food courts. My honest opinion, as Penang has always proudly promoted as THE food paradise, it doesn't live up its title. The food was ok, some are good some are just ok-so so-forgettable, it was cheap and the portion is kinda small. The ones that I considered great was Asam Laksa (LOVE IT!), Chendol and one dish that I don't know the name haha. There was one night the hotel had blackout when I was showering! Luckily, I wasn't in the middle of shampooing or pooping I was just about to finish haha, I mean, isn't it rare for a hotel to have blackout? I thought they always have generator or sumthing..
It's funny that I always saw Penang through images, doing travel brochures, posters etc., so when I finally went to Penang (well actually I went to Penang once on 2002, but I totally have forgotten what Penang felt like) I have this kind of feeling, something's like, "Ohhhh finally, picture comes to live! Finally I see the real thing of thing that I did so many many many times!" haha. Lame, I know.
Back to Singapore. Two places that die-die-must-go when my father is in Singapore are Mustafa and PPC food court. He loves food, ghetto places and supermarket! If it's cheap, a lil bit 'dirty ghetto you need to sweat' like Mangdu or Pasar senen kind of place and something a lil bit unique or unusual for him, he's totally IN. It's always been a lil bit difficult for me to please him. He loves food, particularly chinese food (and Indo food, of course), and I'm not really familiar with great chinese food restaurant or stalls here.. cos when I go out I seldom go to Chinese food restaurant. Chinese food that I think it's delicious, for him, it's just ok-good. He's always comparing with ones at Jakarta. Another problem is he isn't really into Indian food, Western food and Japanese food. Oh well.. but anyway, we always managed to please him whenever we go to PPC food court and Geylang food stalls, lol. Re-read this paragraph I just realised why I'm talking about my father, this is supposed to be a show-off-vacation-post! Lulsie.
Ok back to topic, we flew to Viet on 23, it was exciting cos it was my first time taking Vietnam Air one of the stewards is good looking, pretty boy kind of type, yannoww, my liking lol. I love to fly with different airlines, too bad I don't have money to keep up, budget airlines are my best friend...
Vietnam was wonderful. The places were good and the food was great!
Errr.. I'm kinda lazy to continue writing so I will post the pictures to tell the story haha. I need to upload 800+ pics from my trusted camera -..-
Oh and, I went to Sentosa to watch Song of the Sea. My sister and me agreed that the effects are cool but the whole show wasn't as great as ($10 we spent) I expected. Sorry Singapore, but the so-called story is friggin lame and kills the show. I think it's better just to put effects to awe people or change the storyline. It is that bad.
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