Vietnam Pics III

wHeRelse cAn yOu fInd This 'EYE'???

InsIde the Cao Dai Temple, Red rep Confucianism, Yellow rep Buddhism and Blue rep Taoism

foRtuNate fOr hIm, tHe grEnAde iS faKe, so aRe oUr BudDies...

tHe faMoUs tunNel, Cu Chi Tunnel

tuNnEl at Cu Chi Tunnel

nOt tt muCh shoRteR leH

BooBy BoBbY tRaPPppee

shAdEs aNd icE-creAm okIe, not the UglY faKe NIKE pouch!!!

we contracted the two-finger syndrome, but apparently quite happy abt it.

BuN is aCtuAlLy noOdLes!!!

LittLe HAnOi,duhzzz!

seAsemE chIcKeN, frOm liTTle HaNoi

FrIed SprInG rOlLs, froM LitTle HanOi

yUmMliciOus Kangkong w/O chiLli, frOm LiTtLe HaNoI

A scEne FroM tHe fAmOuS Water Puppet Show...

harDly aNy cArS!!!

Part III...Did you know that there are abt 18million motorcycles in Vietnam??? The traffic in Vietnam is crazy!!! They have traffic lights and junctions but the people do not follow or use them at all!!! No helmets too except on expressways!!!

Vietnam Pics II

cAn yOu sPoT wHo iS imItAtiNg mE???

Us iNspEctIng iF wE cAn fIx e proB wItH wInGs...

GiAnT

a BoMb tO Be rEcKoNeD wItH...

cOllaTeRaL dAmAge & aTroCitIeS oF tHe ViEtNaM wAr

tHe ReKnoWn Pho2000, a pLaCe fIt foR PrEsiDeNts

BeEeeeEEeF NoOdLe frOm Pho2000

PoRk 'SlaB' wiTh rIcE aNd soMe vErY nIcE saUcE frOm Pho2000

oNcE uPoN a tImE CoLa botTles!!!

oUr tRanSporTatIon, a 1Hp 'FeRrArI'...

InSiDe tHe bOaT tT tOoK uS aRd MeKoNg RivEr

Mekong River

A loCaL mAkiNg soMe riCe pApEr sNaCk

Second Installment of the pictures from my Vietnam trip. We were at Ho Chin Minh City(HCM) and visited the war museum, the Mekong river and Pho2000 ( a restaurant which Bill Clinton ate at when he visited HCM in 2001 ).

Vietnam Pics I

Finally! Got my hands on those much 'coveted' pics taken during my visit to Vietnam. Introducing some of the food section......we ate some really cheap ones while we indulged in some ridiculously expensive ones(by Vietnamese standards)...all in the name of filling our tummies...

ElEphAnt FiSh

sOmE siMplE VieTnaMeSe fOoD. ThEir 'sPriNg roLls' aRe kiNd of a sTapLe.

'Augustin', a FrEnch reStuRanT whICh cOstS uS a boMb to Eat, bY tHe waY.

Some sOuP, oySteRish iN tAsTe, aPpeTizEr. yuMMy!!!Dip frEncH toAst In iT aNd yOu wIlL fEel liKe yOu aRe in cLoUd niNe!!!

BeEf steAk iN sOme SpeCiaL saUcE...

mYseLy wItH mY sAlMon kEvIn, mY brOtHeR wiTh hiS sTeAk

AnNa, mY tO-Be siStEr-In-lAw wiTh hEr jUiCe & stEaK

(L-R) JaSmIne, jAbriEl, mE & kRiSteL

Teresa Teng II

Was feeling nostaglic all of a sudden and decided to listen to some classics. Yue liang dai biao wu de xin is an everlasting love song. This beautiful song was of course sang by a fabulous singer, Teresa Teng.

Teresa Teng was like the Madonna of Asia in those days. She captured the hearts of our parents and grandparents. Teresa visited Singapore in 1992 before her untimely death in 1995. She was 42. It's pretty strange that talented people usually do not live very long. Leslie Cheung jumped to his death in 2003 at 46. Marilyn Monroe died of drug overdose at 40. She's one of the very first Asian to enter the western music market.

If angels have voices, the female ones will sound like Teresa Teng and the male ones will sound like me. NOT! What audacity for me to compare myself with her. I cannot even be mentioned in the same breath as Teresa Teng.

For ppl who frequent Taiwan and have run out of places of interest to visit, why not visit Teresa Teng's tomb? She is buried in a mountainside tomb at Chin Pao San (金寶山; jinbaoshan, literally Golden Treasure Mountain), a cemetery near Jinshan, Taipei County in Taiwan. A memorial was built at the tomb with a statue of Teng and her stage clothes on display, with her music playing in the background. There is also a large electronic piano keyboard that visitors can play by stepping on the keys. The tomb is well visited by her fans, a notable departure from traditional Chinese culture shunning visits to burial sites.

Teresa Teng

鄧麗君 - 月亮代表我的心

This is a classic which I used to listen pretty often when I was in secondary school. It has been sang by other singers, notably Lee Ming.

Ring Finger

Have you wondered why wedding rings are worn on the "fourth" finger?
Came across this email that explains why. Here it goes:

Thumb represents your Parents
Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
Middle finger represents your-Self
Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
Last (Little) finger represents your children

Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip
Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents)..., they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later.

Please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings)...., they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.

Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children)...., they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day.

Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your spouse). You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT....., because Husband & Wife have to remain together all their lives - through thick and thin!!

Kinship

A show that is worth catching (occasionally). The storyline is passable and the cast is relatively unknown. Least for Chen TianWei, XiangXun and Lin MeiJiao, the rest are fairly new to showbiz. Acting needs some improvement though the looks of the cast are already there.

Dinosaur(Elvin Huang) is really cute but Yusheng(dunno who) is even cuter! Dinosaur is the silliest lover since Romeo while Yusheng is the silliest lover since Dinosaur.

A concise summary of the storyline; Dinosaur is in love with Lynn who happened to marry Dinosaur's father for money while Yusheng is a step-cousin to Dinosaur who is hopelessly in love with him and does the craziest things for him. Villian Martin is out to manipulate Lynn, Dinosaur and his father.

Do tune in. Personally, I like Darren Lin's character who spices things up. Veterans Xiang Yun and co. add variety and substance in the otherwise lacklustre plot and inexperience newbies.

Ratings: 3/5