hello people!
i havent blogged in AGES
=P

anyways...
went to Vietnam for an overseas service trip from 9th nov to 18th nov.
one word to describe it all.
WOW

hahaha
i shall try and remember what happened there!
oh yes.. PICTURES are in the link on the left...
under "picture me", then "OCIP Vietnam"
yep i know.. it's been like.. 10 days since i came back
i was just too lazy to blog cos uploading the pictures itself was already killing me =P

Day 1:
flight at 5 am, changi airport terminal 1, row 4
sis and wang sent me off =D
sooo exciting..
with gwee and tricia
boarded the plane
slept. and slept. and.. slept.
it was 7 in the morning for goodness sake
arrived at Tan Son Ngat Airport
Met Ngoc, Mai, Le! =D
had breakfast at Pho 24, chicken noodles and twister
(which everybody hadn't heard of and allll wanted to try)
bus ride...
had lunch at this really cool restaurant with really cool view
seafood, rice noodles, veggies, giant rice ball! =P
bus ride...
ferry terminal place.
got stuck "behind bars", laughing at ducks 0.0
took a ferry
reached ben tre, quite disturbed at the scene.. hmm..
bus ride...
Dong Khoi Hotel
dinner at restaurant...

Day 2:
breakfast - bread and eggs =D (yay i can remember)
bus ride...
reached Hung Nhuong Primary School!
began our first lesson on alphabets A-P
kids were sooo cute
lunch + stone
second lesson!
bus ride...
dinner...

Day 3:
breakfast - pork leg with rice noodle
bus ride...
third lesson on alphabets Q-Z
kids were sooo cute
lunch + stone
fourth lesson!
bus ride...
dinner...

oh oh oh i have to say this
i hated our toilet in the hotel!!
hahaha...
but tricia and i were soooo amused.
the flush wouldn't flush properly so i was kinda having a REALLY hard time flushing down what went into the toilet bowl.
it was sooo pissifying tricia and i decided to ask someone to help us unclog the toilet bowl.
and fair enough..
the flush was.. BETTER. =D

Day 4:
Breakfast - bread, jam, cheese, butter
bus ride...
fifth lesson on shapes
kids were sooo cute
lunch + stone
sixth lesson
bus ride...
dinner...

oh oh oh we had lunch in a house there...
homecooked food!
it was soooo delicious.
hahah gwee tricia and i wanted to award her with the best cook award. =P
but there was quite alot of beef in the dishes..
so i kinda could only take alot of dietary fibre.
but thanks to that i had a smooth trip
HAHAH (trying to not sound crude)

Day 5:
Breakfast - bread and siewmai
bus ride...
lacquering! painted the tables..
hahaha... quite fun =D
but i got alot of paint on myself!
yepp clumsy mee
so typical rightt
lunch + stone
sitting in for lesson on basic phrases and numbers
kids were sooo cute
volleyball game with the staff...
hahah so funn
and everybody was like.. zai
seriously. ;)
bus ride...
dinner...

hahaha okiee angela and tricia had their secret adventures on certain nights
and gwee and i were left to rot ourselves.
LOL
but oh wells..
we had our secret adventures too!
hahaha
so funn
but i taught angela how to play taitee!!
cindy and nikki came over on one night too!
i taught nikki bridge YAY

Day 6:
Breakfast - bread and eggs
bus ride
second last lesson on body parts, animals and numbers
kids were sooo cute
lunch + monkey with the kids! sooo funnnn
the rest of the team left for somewhere else..
programmes stayed back to teach the afternoon session kids =D
we just couldn't bear to leave heh.
last lesson with the kids...
haiys.
ceremony of completion of courtyard...
dinner in the school with the staff
pictures!
bus ride...
back to hotel.
sighs.
packing...

Day 7:
Breakfast - bread and eggs
left Dong Khoi Hotel
bus ride...
Mekong river tour
quite cool! seriously!
coconut candy, fruits, honey and tea
lunch...
coconut...
back to Ho Chi Minh, Rainbow Hotel
went out to walk in the city
dinner...
cards and crapping in Gwee's room
hahaha... angela went to have a secret adventure with tricia!
yuteng and lijie came over
played guitar sang songs watch tv

Day 8:
Breakfast - noodles
Cu Chi Tunnels!
coolest sightseeing place we went in this trip =D
looked at some exhibition stuffs...
crawled through the tunnels..
went all the way! =D
hahaha quite surprising for my claustrophobia rightt...
oh wells at least it was really interesting!
tea and tapioca...
lunch...
back to hotel.
went out to walk walk
dinner
water puppet show!
soo interesting.. and i still have no idea at all how they control the puppets 0.0
back to hotel
yuteng and lijie came over to write reflections
until like 3.30am?!
haha trust me we were distracted enough to write 1 paragraph in 1 hour.
HAHA
dieded in the morning cos of lack of sleep though =P

Day 9:
Breakfast - Bread and eggs
War remnants museum, Reunification Palace
Lunch
Ben Thanh market for shopping!
walked with angela tricia and gwee...
ate yoghurt at some restaurant while waiting for time to be up cos apparently we shop quite fast and we are very decisive people
back to hotel to change and stuffs
off to YMCA Vietnam Headquarters
cultural night and buffet dinner
caught in flood 0.0
still went back to hotel though...
talked and snacked through the night...
didn't sleep heh.

oh oh oh!
yay there was an angel-mortal game throughout the entire trip!
my mortal was Tor and...
yep i only had 1 letter from him cos he found out i was his angel and refused to reply anymore -.-
yay my angel was yuteng
and at least we still wrote after i found out he was my angel. HAHA.
hmm kinda my escape everyday after a day's work, other than phonecalls back home.
yepp... =D
yay angel!
hahah but i could've been smarter and found out my angel sooner then can take more pictures. hur.
oh wells.
oh yes. erm. please go learn how to differentiate a leopard from a cheetah
HAHA
the one in the person's office is a leopard. 0.0

Day 10:
Breakfast - bread and eggs
bus ride...
Tan Son Ngat airport again...
quite alot of things happened...
huiqi wasn't feeling well, david almost lost his passport, coco got stuck at customs
oh dear...
but at least allll of us came back in one piece =D
GREAT.
parted at changi airport...
quite sad really.
didn't want the trip to end just like that...
sigh.

loveloves to OCIPVietnam08! we rock.



but actually.. i was really glad to be back home too...
guess it was enough of seeing the world for now..
i'd be contented to stay in Singapore for a while longer...

really really glad when i saw you at the airport =)




went to sentosa today!
with shinyi zijia jiahui and kaihui!
yayyy shinyi and gang rocks my socks! hahaha
pictures will be up very very soon in the link to the left too!
hahhaa...
and hoorays to our forbidden city 0.0
haha it was soo cute
i like the bridge the most! =D
love you guys and can't wait for our christmas dinner together!
=D


i'm a happy girl =D

heyy guys..
i'm off to vietnam today!
yays

be back in 10 days and i'll update again then!
till 18th nov!

byes~
i'll miss you...