Final post on Singapore Trip!

Finally! Took me almost 2 months to post this entry. *sigh*. I know. It took me forever to do everything now. That includes blog design. *ampuunn*. Anyway, some more photos of my no-so-recent trip to Singapore. We went to visit the new landmark for Singapore, the Marina Sands. But first, we headed to the Singapore City Gallery. This is where you can find the masterplan for the whole Singapore development and even models of the development! I wonder how long do they take to make all the models. Look at them!

Next, we went to the Singapore National Museum. The building is a mixture of colonial and modern design. 

 There was this one exhibition area, and the theme was 'beauty in black'. They showcase some of this famous dresses designed and worn by famous people The only name I know was Karl Lagerfield :P The designed the display looking like a runway.

Next, to the Marina Sands. This building consists of 3 towers. Casino, Hotel and Apartment. The viewing deck/sky deck is open for public. Tickets can be purchased at the entrance of the tower for S$20 I think.

 on the viewing deck. On the right side is where the famous infinity pool is. You don't get that effect from this view though.

Finally, we went to this public housing called The Pinnacle @ Duxton. 

This public housing design is really amazing. With sky gardens interconnecting with the towers. If you're wondering what is public housing, it is a development for to make affordable homes for the residence. In Malaysia, we called it 'rumah flat' :P

If this is how 'affordable housing in Malaysia is, count me in!

 Well I guess that's all peeps! On Singapore trip I mean.

Sorry for the looonnngggg delay!

Ho Chi Minh City {Day 2}

Day 2 of the HCMC visits, we went to the War Museum. The surroundings were full with tanks and planes from the war. We spent 1 hour and half here.

By the way, I realise, Vietnamese loves to hangout and have a drink  by the sidewalk. With the small chairs and small tables.

Anyway, that's me and my colleague Ben and Khoon Seng in front of the museum. I just bought the top by the way prior to my visit to Vietnam and shawl sponsored by my sis, Skewed Sunday :P

When I came in the museum, there were walls full of photos from the war with stories written below describing each and every one photos. The photos were pretty graphic and some of them really made me want to throw up and some of them really touches my heart especially ones with babies because they reminds me of Hariz :(

On the bottom right of the above photo, you can see a glass box and inside is actually a fetus of an unborn babies with deformations caused by the deadly toxic called Agent Orange that left Vietnam citizens cripple, deformed and some even deaths.

The "Tiger Cages" where they torture prisoners in this weird and sick kind of way. Like pulling off their nails, electrocutions, pulling off their teeth and chopping of their heads!

Kid's playing on the sidewalk like no body cares.

I saw this makcik selling these hats outside of the Museum and I asked her "can take?" showing her my camera and she suddenly just froze. LOL. and I quickly snap but I didn't buy the hats tho :P

Trung Nguyen Coffee is one of the famous coffee in town. You can find it almost everywhere here in HCMC. The way the serve it is by pouring the coffee inside the can above the mug and let it drip into the mug. Then we drink it! The verdict? The coffee taste way much better and kinda sweet.

Saw this spiral straws in the restaurant we went. They make a very nice combination with the colours and shapes.

To be continued....

Ho Chi Minh City through my lens...

Goooddd mooorning Malaysia!!! Hehe.. Has any watched this movie before? No? Good! because I'm not here to talk about the movie by the way :P

Since it was a 4-days trip, so I'm going to split the entry into 4 okay? Or maybe 3 :P

Anyways, let's start with the flight taking us to the city shall we? For us staying in Penang, we had to take another flight to reach LCCT which was Firefly  and for the 1st time in my flying experience, I've never seen a boarding pass written in hand, have you? Unfortunately, their computer system was down and they had to write all the passengers' details by hand. Can you imagine there were like 50 of them? Fuh!

(above clockwise) The view from the plane. Can you see the city below? Or was it a Mekong river that we passed? and this is how my boarding pass looks like :P

Once we arrive the Saigon Airport, went through the security and custom, get our luggage, I was surprise to see there was a HUGE crowds outside the airport waiting for us. ...... Nah.. just kidding!:P But the crowd part is true! I don't know what they were waiting for. I asked our tour guide " is this normal?" she said not really. Well maybe they are waiting for someone or something. Uh.. I feel like a celebrity for a moment there. :P

One of the building that we passed and below (male) is our tour guide in Vietnam, Ken and the lady with the yellow t-shirt is our tour guide from Malaysia, Ms. Ho.

These are things you will see in Vietnam , hundreds of motorists! They said, the amount of the motorcycle owned by an individual is 2 person per bike. That's a lot! and they have a special traffic light meant for motorcycle only. The traffic was crazy! I don't think I could ever drive or ride a bike here. *shrugs.

Can you tell what's that entangled cables? They are phone and electric cables! OMGeee!! I wonder how do they maintained that.

(clockwise from left) The city council building, Kim Do Royal Hotel (where we stayed), one of the apartments and State Treasury, Nguyen Hue District 1.It's a conservation building with new glass building design at the back. The tall building behind is Financial Tower, Ho Tung Mau Street.It is a 68-storey office block design by an American Architect Carlos Zapata.

Then we went to have lunch at a muslim restaurant. The food was ok. I think they taste much more better than Bali.

After the lunch, we went to visit Villa Riviera, District 1. This is the first gated community in HCMC. The price? Minimum 1.5mil USD.

Okay. That's the end of Day 1. Not so much things to do. I was exhausted from the trip and once we got to the hotel, we went to had dinner at this Singapore restaurant and later, went back to the hotel and tido! That will be my 1st time sleeping through the night after 8 months! Huaaaa...!!! I do really need that rest ;)

To be continued.....

I'm leaving on a 'jet' plane..

If you ask me, 'sedih tak nak tinggal Hariz, the answer is yes'.

'will I miss him?' .. Hell yes

'sedih tak nak tinggal abah dia? ' .... 'errr... lagi sedih tinggal hariz'

'will you miss abah dia?' ..... 'rindu jugak.. but rindu Hariz lagi :P

Well, this will be my 1st time being away from Hariz *sob sob*

To tell you the truth, I don't know what my feeling is right now. I'm don't feel that sad or worried of Hariz being left. Gaa... This is suppose to be a good thing, no?

Owh I wish I could do this...

Bring him along :P But Hariz is 8.3kg dah. Overweight pulak luggage ku nanti :P

He didn't show any signs of fear of me leaving him pon. Happy je dia mama dia nak pegi.Heeee..(new stuff he likes to do, sengih nampak gusi and like almost can't see his eyes. Gigi bila la nak tumbuh...)

He got my dimples :P

My Breastpump bag and toiletries took over almost 50% of the bag . Even though I seldom breastfeed Hariz nowadays but the milk still keluar kan. So I will be away for 4 days!  Imagine kalau tak pump! >_< 

Forgot to snap photos inside the BP Bag. Well I'll tell you now what's inside :

1. Avent IQ Isis Electronic Breastpump

2. Safety First Milk Storage Bags - 8 pcs

3. Mom's Precious Ice Packs - 3pcs

Pray for my safe trip! :)

Will definitely miss you all!! ;)

p/s : in case you're wondering, I'm going to Ho Chin Min for a study trip organized by my company  :)