Bye Bye Saigon.........

I know, I know...I am kind of slow redbabe already finished blogging about our Saigon Trip and she is already in Macau with her husband. Like I said before (Mun more stamp for you, hahaha) I'll just share the photo, as for the write up redbabe said it all.

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The beautiful Vung Tau beach that we visited on the 4th day of our tour.The beautiful architecture. The War....... it's so sad to looked at all those photo in the museum. The bombs and guns.

GI in action........Mr Tai showing a bullet hole to the new GI. Things that we did and have good laugh over it.

The unusual sight that we saw, especialy her sock....

The sunsilk promoter models. The nice and friendly Malaysian family that we met .

And lastly the birdeye night view of Saigon from our departure plane.

Overall, I like Saigon, if there is a chance I'll be back.

3rd day "MyToh"

It's was not a very good day right from the minute our not nice and grumpy tour guide who picked us up 15minute earlier and yet complained that we are late. Overall...both daughter and me can't wait to go back to our hotel. For this 3rd day I'll just show you photos as for the write up you can read it here in 'redbabe' blog, she already in the final day of our Ho Chi Ming trip, hahaha.

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Numerous of boat ride from ferry to sampan. Some singing performances. Tasting and trying to sell us honey. Making

of coconut candy, also trying to sell us. Making the rice paper. Pony ride .

It was a bad tour with the tour guide dropped all of us at a unfamiliar destination, latter we walked almost a kilometer to our hotel. We found out from one of the guide the following day that he had no job for a month due to quite a number of complains.

Bye for now, and come back for more photos, made sure you visit 'redbabe' blog for more information or introduction of Vietnam, Saigon.

Cuchi Tunnel

Our 2nd day here in Saigon. The itinerary was to visit the Cuchi Tunnel, our tour started at 7.45am with the tour guide Mr Bang picked us up in a mini bus, together we picked up a family of 10 Malaysian malay and a German girl. **** Mr Bang is a funny guy with sense of humour making our tour interesting. The whole group of us get along so well and was really fun throughout the tour in Cuchi. Honestly, I still cannot believe how people can live in those rat hole for more than 20yrs.To survived and the safety of their family should be the motivation. We went into one of the tunnel which has been expanded to twice the size for tourist like us to go in and have a look, even it has double the size we still need to bend real low, really thump-up to the guerrilla who lived in there. Redbabe was afraid of darkness so she kept flashing her camera flash light making route easier or else it was a pitch of darkness. Just by looking at these trap made my hair stand, it's terrific. **** A group photo here on the tanker was taken by Mr Bang he had at least 8 camera and kept telling us 'not to worry I have done this a thousand time', just look at my photo it almost lost the top guy, lols. All I can said is Mr Bang really love his job. **** At the entrance of the Cuchi Tunnel there is this tree, I have never seen a 'Jack fruit Tree' that bear so many fruits. After taking the photo of the 'Jack fruit Tree' our 'Cuchi Tunnel' tour ended. **** We joined the Muslim family to have lunch in a Hala restaurant. From here Mr Bang was so nice and took us to 'China Town' without extra charge. I had a very good bargain here in china town bought some hand made sandal, USD30 for 4 pair very pretty right? I bought some tiaras for a friend's daughter birthday party. Well, there are more photo and a better write up at: Redbabe cozy Conner. Bye for now.........

Our Vietnam Trip 2010

It was our last destination of the Airasia zero fare trips. And here we are in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City also known as Saigon. As we arrived at the airport, we felt like superstars with hundreds of people welcoming us.

We spotted our pick-up guide, Mr Thai, a very warm and nice fellow who loves his job tremendously.

"Queen Ann" is the hotel we stayed in.

A very nice and pleasant hotel but our room was not ready when we arrived because we were kind of early. So Mr Thai brought us to try the famous beef noodle of Vietnam.Surprisingly tasty and yummy. In Vietnam, all meals come with a plate of fresh vegetables. As for the price... I am not too sure. About RM3.50 per bowl. Here are the various kind of beef noodles we had tried throughout our stay.

Here's our room. Very nice and comfy bed even though it was without windows again (don't know how come).

Our exploring of Saigon started almost immediately. Daughter went to the reception to enquire the locations and the two of us set out on own tour to the 'Cua-Tay Market' (also known as the Ben Than Market) one of the popular tourist attraction. As we were walking toward the market, we couldn't bring ourselves to cross the road. The traffic here do not follow the traffic lights system and there were thousands of motorbikeswhich make it more so impossible to cross the road and extremely scary. Thank God we saw our lucky star, hahaha, a group of westerner with a local guide walking towards the same direction, and quickly we follow them but after a while we lost them. Our nightmare begins... but we manage to arrived at the market somehow with a few missing heart beats, lols. It was very tiring to shop there because the mark-up prices were way up too high making it impossible to bargain or even to buy after a 50% of discount. We ended up window shopping to gauge the prices of things that we intend to buy. Went back to the hotel to freshen up and rested for a while and off we went for dinner at the side walk sitting on low children tables and chairs. Oh yes, by the way, the favourite pastime of the people here is to sit on low table and chairs drinking coffee or tea facing the road watching traffic going by. It's a scene you will see everywhere in the city of Saigon.

It's kind of interesting on the first day for us, will tell you more about 'Cu Chi Tunnel', Mekong River and blah, blah, blah!! Have a nice day!

Away again.

Opps!! Sorry for disappearing, I was away with daughter to Vietnam, still editing the photos, will try to share them as soon as possible. See you soon........

Ovenly hot.....

There is still no rain or any improvement from the last entry about dry season.....we did the rain dance, only rain through seeding, hot like an oven, plus fire.....

Finally after 25mins, the fire engine arrived, fire man trying very hard to put off the fire with very low water pressure.

The bird eye's view of the fire.......... At last the fire was put off, but the smoke lasted for 2days.

Water ratio is so low..........If any of you is thinking of visiting me, please bring me water instead of cake.......hahaha

It's HOT and DRY

My little hometown, Kluang, also known as the 'bat town', smacked right in the middle of Johor, South of Malaysia, has been hit by a dry spell. There were only 3 to 5 minutes long of rain

here since January and our reservoir is at the verge of drying up. The whether is so freaking hot that it is best to go out in our birthday suit, hehehe. The temperature is about 35-40 degree on average. Water level is very very low and the water department had to turn off the tap every alternate day just to save some water, hoping that our reserve can last longer and that the rain will start pouring down soon. We have to store water in these big containers for the house and shop's usage.

It created so much extra work and inconveniences. Just look at these grass. All dried up.

The river that I used to swim when I was young even have grass sprouting out in the middle. Which mean, the river is also drying up. Bush fire was everywhere. This small fire is just next to my house.

The best part is, our state (Johor) have been selling water to Singapore since 1950 something. So you see, maybe it is the Singaporean that have drank up all our water supplies... hahaha......

When I was young, if it rain, I used to sing "rain, rain, go away, come again another day". And now it definitely had to be "rain, rain, come and stay, nothing like a rainy day" erm.....maybe I should be a lyric composer, Wa.....ha.....ha

Kuching-----Cat??

It has already been more than half a month since the last day of Chinese New Year and yet, my entry for 'Chap Goh Mei' is still on. I have been missing in action and let me tell you of my disappearance. The reason is, I've been lazy. Been waking up late and didn't even goes to the gym for more than a month already. Had put on a hundred kilo, sob... sob... terrible right?

The other reason was, went on a holiday with my daughter 'Redbabe' for a 4d/3n holiday to Kuching, a little town in Sarawak (also known as the exotic Borneo), Malaysia.

I have nothing much to said except it's super clean and the hotel we stayed in was nice, cosy and just 3 months old. It was very new.

As for the sightseeing, you can actually see all in a day, but we split it into 2 days. On the second day after we arrived, we visited 'The Cultural Village'.

Let the photos do the talking.

Cultural dance shows, aborigines straw houses, bamboo bridges, and some real human skull that the head hunter hunted.

On day 3, we visited the 'Orang Utan'.

According to the guide/driver we were very lucky to be able to see the wild 'Orang Utan'. There were times where visitors have to make 3 to 4 trips just to see them. Yes we are one of the lucky people, saw not just 1 but 2 adults and a baby orang utan.

According to the local, waterfront is where all the action will be, but... still nothing much to see except some food stalls with a few tourists.

Temple, oh yes we saw a few temples.

Went to Chinatown had coffee in a very nice cafe specialized in coffee. Entertaining ourselves with photo taking. Trying to be MJ's long lost sister, hahaha. I must said the food here is not as good as those in Kota Kinabalu.

Overall, my 4d/3n trip here is totally unlike all the places that I have been before. There were not many young people there especially young or modern girls. Not even in the malls. It's kind of quiet, and I must said the man there was different too. They would stare at us as if we were aliens... quite scary. Not sure if it is a compliment or there is really no female species in Kuching...hahaha. Nevertheless, it was a good experience. We actually can't wait to go home and almost miss our flight because the hotel airport shuttle didn't turn up in time and we have to go to the airport in a taxi. My daughter had to run to the check-in counters and asked a kind lady to let her check-in first because it was the final call for our flight to check in.