Vietnam Day1

8 Nov 04
Meet at Changi Airport at 7.00am, tagging my heavy luggage with Huiting. Saw a guy wearing the same T-shirt as us, and his name is Zhi Ming (preferably known as Lam Bei ). Funny guy, at that moment, I kept forgetting his name so he asked us to call him Lam Bei. Gradually, most of the group mates arrived at the airport. I bid farewell to my parents, they must be very worried. Becos their little angel will not by them side for the 18 days. Soon, we checked in our luggage and proceed to the departure gate. I took the last look at the departure gate, farewell Singapore!!!!! Here I come, Vietnam!!!

Depart Singapore for Hanoi. Time: 0915-1145, Flight no: VN 744

I thought I was sitting SIA, but to my dismay it was Vietnam Airline. Seating was so small and my hope was dashed. On the plane, I was assigned to sit next 2 people that I barely knew them except their names. Those 3 hours were totally unbearable, I was totally bored, and the airplane food was YUCKS!!!! No entertainment on the plane, too much time to kill. Due to the different air pressure on the plane, my cheeks were very rosy. Huiting and Effendi thought I was drinking on the plane. Nope, I was a good girl; I did not drink any alcoholic drinks on plane. At that moment, I somehow miss home. I dun know why? Maybe too bored …..

Finally, reached Hanoi!!! Yeah!!! The bird eye view from the plane window was flat land filled with rice padi! Very country style, another words very kampong!!! Haha!! Downtown Hanoi is about 45 minutes away from Noi Ba International Airport. Tired looking buildings line the roads before long stretches of padi fields break the monotony of the human settlements. Constantly distracted by the endless stream of motorcycles whizzing by and howling away, the dusty trails soon lead us to the mighty Red River where upon crossing the Thang Long Bridge, the city proper materializes dramatically.
Transfer by coach to Le Tonkin Vietnamese Restaurant to have lunch, the lunch was superb!!! I liked the Vietnamese style salad, very crunchy and delicious. The restaurant ambience was very Bali like, very calming and oriental. After the heavy lunch, Mery told us that we were heading off to Hoa Sua School. She told us that meals we are going to have are not like what we had for lunch today. Hehe>>> (We shall see huh!!!) quoted from Mery.

Transfer by coach to Hoa Sua School. The school compound consists of 4 main buildings, each of them are used for sewing, office, cooking and dorms respectively. Originally, I supposed to stay in the dorm mainly for the students. Due to space constraint, I had no other choice to share the room specially used for teaching hotel management (housekeeping) with Huiting, Wei Shen, Penny and Hooi Huang. Hah!! Although, unlike the rest of the girls. Five of us did not have our own individual bed; we had to take turns to sleep on the floor. Lucky we had a hotel style bathroom, which I liked it very much!! The place I got to stay for 15 days…………we shall see huh!!!

Dinner at Hoa Sua School, we brought to the Table Service class. We were invited to act as customers, while the students offered their table services to us. Due to their lack of confidence in speaking English, we hardly able to hear the dishes that they were offering us!!! Till the end, we kicked out a big joke.

The sims 2

Haha, yesterday at wenjie's house played the sims 2 for the whole day. i really got the kick, the game a bit complicated at first. I trying to get a partner for my sims, but it was either a woman or a young or a black guy. Sad meh, so i settled with the bad guy. Looking forward to wenjie house, so i can continued the flirting sage!!!!!!