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Finally here i am sitting in front of the pc thinking hard where to start off. Many complaints received and it somehow told me that i have to start somewhere and make it on the go again… Some eager for the Vietnam trip update, some for the small trips around that had kept me occupied for the last two months and some wants to know what happened to me recently and what caused the MIA.. so where should i start??

Might as well start with something that is still fresh in my memory aka the Hanoi trip beginning of last month. Continuing to the previous post i typed out in Hanoi city itself, i’ll recap a lil of the Vietnam trip and top it up with the photos.

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One of the handsome that made our stay so memorable.

One thing i missed the most from Hanoi apart from the two guys and a wife is the FOOD! We ate so much yummy food as we get by day by day. From breakfast till supper. People there eats everything..when i say EVERYTHING i mean EVERYTHING. (sorry minh, but i have to repeat the dog story again) From things as small as the snail to something as big a doggy. maybe there are more, just that we are not aware off.. On the way to Hung’s House on the 3rd day, i actually saw a ‘barbecued’ dog by the road side on a chopping board. Scared the hell out of me but its their culture so have to tolerate. They have this ‘dog meat’ place that we didn’t visit,according to minh they serves all kind of cooking method, be it deep fried, barbequed, in soup..you name it they have it…..K nuff said time for some pictures of yummylicious food.

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The ‘wrap ourself’ spring rolls.

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The snail noodle that is one of the ‘MUST TRY’ item.

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Deep fried spring rolls in smaller sizes. Whatever size it is..its still yummy and thats the main point!

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Check out the prawns.

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The traditional Vietnamese salad.

After the heavy meals, some cold desserts just completes the whole meal…

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Mixed fruit with milk and coconut milk (by the road side on the small stool duh)

Ok Ok nuff bout food?? I think its bout time to get on with some picture of sceneries and ME..(there are more food blog later kkk….)

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Navigating the map is not the main prob in Hanoi and better still when you don’t need a map to move around as the local tour guide will bring u to the places u wanna visit. Cool huh??? Thanks to Minh and Nghiep for the hospitality provided. So we went around on the bike which is freaking scary. Imagine the traffic are so complicated that u find motorcycles coming from every freaking directions. Luckily we came home in one piece.

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A ride at nite (notice the imbalance of the traffic, so many motorcycles in the on coming direction.)

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One of the mornings after breakfast. !@#@$@ how come not many vehicles wan??? @!#!#!#

Once you reach Hanoi, the fist thing you will actually notice how this —->

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Notice the hat?? almost all the ladies have one of it and at the end of our trip we end up like this—>

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And like this –>

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And to make it timeless —> tadaaaaaaaaaa

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NICE??? Just a short trip i turn into some illegal immigrant (according to esther) SO think think think and seek consultation from me if anyone wanna visit Vietnam..Kidding la…Vietnam is a sure MUST go destination if you are ready to tolerate the hygiene issues.

Back to the photos. As my previous post, i went to Halong Bay and Catba Island and here are some photos of it…—>

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Crusing into some Water Caves side by side with another sampan motorboat.

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The scenery was breathtaking!!

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Agree with me???

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Finally saw smth like the market on the river ..

Ok la folks… boys n gurls stay tuned for the next episode of the Vietnam trip… to be continueeeeeeeeeed

I know its abit late for this but what da heck.. its my blog so i can crap on whatever outdated stuff rite??

So it was erm..how long ago since i touched down on Malaysian soil? Almost two months six weeks to be exact. Aww i miss those ppl in the pics. *wondering when will i see them again..* Even on my last day in Luzern, Vi was so kind to gimme a suprise..Made me ran like mad to sent out some stuff to her apartment. Long story short, she actually got a seat and flew bk with me..Swweeeett rite.. So my 13 long hours were cut short to half.

In the morning of my flight, i was rushing around to settle some of my left over stuff and also had to clear up my apartment. Tanja at first said she couldnt make it to the airport to see me off but in the end she went all the way with tears and all till me n Vi entered the Passport Controlle. Very emotional scene. We spent so much time together at work and felt so comfortable with each other. We hav the same perception towards our Ex’Boss, so we r kinda on the same cruise ship haha.. Its sad to say bubbye to her. Miss her la.. and her mom too…

We got to the airport pretty early and checked in our luggage luckily without any complications. Luckily i sent home most of my stuff like 20kgs. phew…. And lucky enough we get to sit next to each other on the plane even though the plane was full. Its always good to be earlier even though i missed the chance of a free business class upgrade..*shin day dreamin*

Since were early, I had a last Schweizer Starbucks session.

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Thats Tanja..Guess how old is she..???

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With Vi and Tanja in front of Passport Controlle.

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With Paul..dont know when will meet hm again. Probably when he comes n visit his in laws.. haha

Thats the last photo b4 me and Tanja got all teary and ugly.

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While waiting to board the plane, we notice that we have lotsa ‘barang’.
Look at how much stuff ‘we’ had there. So paiseh, Sheeshhhhhhh..

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The plane that flew me home.

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Got on the plane, took off smoothly, getting comfy in my super shaky seat and its time for some photos. When i took that most of the passengers on board were fast asleep. One thing i hate when travelling with Vi is, She always gets to sleep soundly and me..stayed awake lorr.

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Almost reaching Andaman Sea and i’m still awake. Finished two movies but still not sleepy.

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After hours of good sleep, Vi woke up then we started yakking away. We later noticed that we actually yakked for 5hours straight..Super Kepo rite?

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Then Breakfast is served. means reaching soon.. in about an hour or so. YEAH..

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One hour and twenty minutes to go.

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And one last pic before we land..

Before my departure from Luzern, my ex collegue and husband thats like my family in Swiss took me out for dinner in La Fenice, an Italian restaurant that serves extra yummy pizzas..

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We enjoyed the food so much i forgot to make my camera go clicking. Got the menu cover and some photos of us before the food came.

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The two person that treated me like their sister when i was all alone. I owe them so much i dont know how to thank them enough.

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Then after dinner, Markus insisted that Qi join me with the rest of the gurls in SeeBar.. yup SeeBar the place we hung out most of the time. Gosh i miss that place so much, i guess everyone of us misses that place. The Latte Macchiatto is just..emmm good..

So we went on from old town to meet Vi, Violet and Henry in SeeBar. Had a great time there and thanks guys for comin all the way jus to spend some time with me.Muaks…missing all of u.. (vi: miss those starbucks session la.. n the cheesecake. )

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Our lunch, grilled Bratwurst, schwein steak, and hamburger. Not exactly yummylicious but its enough to keep us filled till dinner time..

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The place we came across. Just right across the river from Berlin HauptBanhof

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The big soccer shoe which i have no idea what was it for, maybe for the World Cup event few weeks back.

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Sampai sampai je they started d.. click click click non stop

I especially like this batch of photos.. Photos are taken during a short break to check the map. We were trying to locate The East Side Gallery–>Berlin Wall and we couldnt find it. Basira, our tour guide actually went thru the Berlin Tourist Guide but not much info about the place, only a street name and a S-Bahn station or something similar..At the end we found out that we actually refered to the wrong name… sheeesshhhh

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The group photo after lazing for some time. The weather was so hot it felt so nice to ‘roll’ around on the cool grass (eventhough my whole body was itchy later but it was fun..)

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Everyone went on doin their own stuff, mostly checkin on the photos taken earlier, or deleting to make more space for more poser photos later the day..

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Me and KK studied the map and Berlin Tourist Guide to figure out the route to East side Gallery

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Thats the photographer that took our photos without us realising… bravo bravo…

Finally get a chance to update my blog.. no internet access can actually drive me nuts.. the only available cyber cafe that dont charge me is Vi’s room and definitely paiseh to sit infront of her laptop and start typing like theres no tmr..and i dont feel comfortable wit other ppl’s laptop cos all my poser pics not in there of course hehe…so here the outdated post that i dragged for about a week plus..

My visit to Berlin was jus fantastic..i was more to the scenery type of person and Berlin is a city with all the high tech ambience..The buildings were all ‘wow’ so nice.. new..huge..glassy..and with different designs.. hard to describe and only pictures will tell..but but but today most of the pics

will be of us.. camwhores…poser pics.. what else..at the end of this trip we had so many nice group pic that definitely categorized under ‘must post’ photos.. so check it out…

oopps before i start with the photos i have to briefly go over my flight … damn, my EasyJet flight was delayed for about 2hours due to lack of staff in the airport to deal with the luggage.. i was totally speechless about it.. waited waited in Basel airport alone worried bout my transportation to the city when i get to Berlin..luckily at the end i get to BulowStr and KK had waited in the station for ages.. paiseh paiseh…

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the ‘budget’ airline…EasyJet

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Early morning on the nex day.. in the station already started the posers look..

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First stop Brandenburg Gate..

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Berliner Mauer….

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The Mafia walk.. Basira missing ..photoshop later..

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Then we head down to molest some bears.. (thats the Malaysian bear ok…so proud to find it there… )

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And tried to be bears too..

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Daric, whats behind the wall??? (went to Berlin wall later that afternoon)

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bunch of posers la..nth special about the Berlin wall actually… jus a wall with alot of artistic paint.. some of it are really nice though

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Guess where he visited to hav that kinda smiley face??? hmmmmm

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Who is Who?? stay tune for the nex batch of Berlin photos…