Hello from Hanoi!

My first entry from Vietnam, Hanoi.

The place is.. *speechless*. It has its good and bad so I guess I still have to give myself the remaining 2 weeks and 6 days to get myself adjusted to the way of life here.

Yesterday

We board on the flight from Sg to Hanoi and it was a very boring one. Its not like the Singapore Airlines (we took Vietnam Airlines) and they didn't have those games or movies for you to watch while you're on the flight and bored to tears.

Instead, they give you newspaper and heritage magazines which helps to make the tear duct flow.

The food serve on board was okay, but I love the fish. They served us this set meal (take your choice of fish or pork) and it contains a bun,  mango pudding with lychee and strawberry sauce, fish rice and one set of sliced ham salad. I have no idea why the mango pudding for me and stephanie looks like campbell soup though. Maybe they boiled it for us. Heh!

After the plane have landed, we checked out and collected our luggage from the luggage claims. Wahliew, the luggage took so long to come out I thought someone else took it and was so nervous about it. We also met our liaision man here, Mr William Chu.

Mr William took the others to the hotel they were supposed to put up at but we poor things would have to put up at the hostel that is provided by our attachment company. Apparently the faci in charge of the booking and everything didn't do things well la.. WTH. Initially book a lousy hotel that've got nothing until relatives of some of the student interns complaint and changed everyone to this hotel that is newly built. Everyone was basically saying how she could do things so last minute without notifying us.

When the 3 of us (me, Zhijun and Ally) got to our hostel. I got a shock out of my life. Serious. I know hostel is supposed to be.. you know. Hostel. But it doesn't include having rooms that have this pee stench nor does it mean having toilet that are poorly equipped in ADDITION of this window gap that is like. bigger than my palm and cannot be closed.

Wash halfway people can catch free show leh! :S (Even Ally as a guy shook his head lor!)

So we girls insisted that we are going to the hotel and in the end we bunked in with the others and added an bed in 2 of the rooms.

and I...

realised I left my USD dollars in Singapore! Oh my fucking god la. Will have to ask mom to deposit into my nets account so that I can withdraw the money or at least use my master card.

I heard the nike shoes costs $10-20 only!!! Samsonite laptop bag that usually cost $100~$200 in Singapore is selling for below SGD$40 over here! WOOTS. This is big bargain I tell ya. And we're planning to buy Levis Jean at a super low rate too.

That is, if I can get my money from mom fast enough. If not I will have to wipe my butt clean and wash the toilet in the current hotel I'm residing for like. Duh?! years. :D

Today

After a eventful night yesterday, it was finally decided that Zhijun, Stefanie and I would share one room. We got woke up by Ally's phone call and the other guys. It's hard not to wake up actually. 3 consecutive calls and the phone is really loud! Or maybe the room is small, thats why. Lol!

Anyway we washed up, had our dinner at the restaraunt (they've had got the traditional fried egg and 2 piece of toast breakfast set) and I love their tea. It's the only tea here that I've drank so far which didn't taste of chemicals (because we had to purify the water in our kettle before we drink it, it tasted like we're drinking swimming pool water.) and its the only tea that is sugary. Another WOOTS for that! :D

Then we decided to change our room to a bigger one for a few dollars more and to quote Stefanie,

"Whoa! Even the toilet looks more styled."

The service attitude here is also better compared to the people in Sg. KNN, singaporeans ask them move abit will give you face but the guys here, they will voluntary help you with it. Not that I gave them tip or anything. Ok, maybe they were hoping but eh. I'll give it to them when I finished shopping. Hah!

Well.. then we got to our company and had this 1 hr company tour through the different departments and I'm now sitting down typing this prolonged entry with Ally sitting behind me prolly watching porn. I have no idea what's he doing actually since I don't have eyes behind me but basically we have nothing to do la.

My job is to walk around the different departments and see what can be improvised on and maybe come up with a solution for it. It is part of the supply chain management thing that I'm learning so its of use. Zhijun's down at the merchandising department surfing internet and Ally might be going to the other company tomorrow to be a teacher  since he is a biomed student and studied all the science modules. There's nothing that is relevant to his course of study in this garment manufacturing company la.

Oh! And did I mention.. Here they manufactures the clothings for Disney, Kmart and the other brands like PUMA?! The clothes really looks nice and cool except that they ain't that expensive as outside.

And they had nicer seafood pasta in here than in Singapore!!! OMG!! At SGD$3.90 only and a rather decent serving size. And real nice cheesecakes! And and.. they drink bland tea here.

It's like pouring water and putting tree barks in. No sugar, no honey no milk. Ewwwwww.

And we drank one day of swimming pool water because we purified the water with these pills. We never touched them again!

We also have this restaraunt in our hotel.. that serves fantastic breakfast. Their bread is like WOOO! so nice la. a little sweet and the gruel (porridge) is nice toooo! :X Can't wait to drop by the cake shop for some cookies later! :D