I should have written the Crystal's traveling episode a long time ago. But...nevermind, I'll start now. So previously, I have a few traveling episodes to Hochiminh and Hanoi from Malaysia. I had a last minute trip back to Singapore on Thursday afternoon and left on Sat morning. It was urgent and unpleasant. This was the 4th time I visited Singapore. The previous trips were for dance competitions, so I didn't have much time to enjoy as a tourist. This time, I took a full advantage. I booked a ticket with the First Coach to travel to Singapore by bus.
The bus was clean, the service was good. It made the 8-hour bus ride more pleasant and enjoyable. My round trip ticket cost me RM115 (quite reasonable I think). During the waiting time, they gave me a complimentary drink (coffee). While on board, they gave a bottle of mineral water and a small bread. The seat was so comfortable that I could lie down. They have a small TV installed in front of my seat. I didn't expect so many great things from a public bus to be honest. I arrived in Singapore around 10pm. The first meal I ordered as soon as I arrived in Singapore and It was quite disappointing.

Compared to the KFC meal in Malaysia, my regular fried chicken set looked like a set meal for kids. It was S$3.50 in total which equaled to RM7.(Malaysia ringgit). I would never try KFC in Singapore again, I told myself.

After dinner, I managed to find my way to the hotel, Fragrance Rose hotel with a little help from some random people. I thought I just needed the hotel name and the driver would get me there. Had I known there were many Fragrance hotels in Singapore, I would have jotted down the hotel address. There was a kind lady who called every Fragrance hotels in Singapore to see if they had a reservation under my name. She found that my reservation was under Fragrance Rose hotel, gave me the hotel address and her phone number in case I got lost. I could call to "bother" her again. I was touched beyond words.

After twenty minutes, I made it to my hotel room.

This is the washroom, it's also a small as the bedroom.

...I didn't blog anything new so far. I know that I'm supposed to post 2 days 1 entry or at least 3 days per entry but well as the number of visitors in my blog has gone up steadily ;) (I knew it), but I got tons of works need to do. And I knew some are so desperated for my latest photos, lolz...Here you go! I satisfy you all. This was done by my own hard work, my own creation. Hence, copyright is printed in each photo and don't expect to copy my idea ever, hehehe....Just enjoy them! OK? I am still doing the complete collection for about 100 photos i have with different themes, different feelings and different angles. These photos are just some samples of my collection. Hopefully it's gonna be great! Does anyone have any comment on my photoshop skills? :p Coming up will have other collections, i still haven't come across about what is the style yet. Will definitely update once they are done. Just wait and see! Love ya all!

I kept my promise to update my blog on today! You are viewing the small angle of Vietnam during the biggest festival in a year. The New Year in Vietnam is always special to anyone who lives far away from the country. It consists of the cold of winter, the hurries everyone rushing before year ends, the jam in every markets, giving out a lot of sales to clear stock, the warm of each family for reunion after a year. I always miss it and the first thing when i was in Vietnam, i had to go out for shopping. Sometimes not to buy anything, i just wanted to join the moment of the year end preparation with people. But unfortunately! Easier said that done! Everytimes i went out shopping, i would come back with many small bags, big bags, Hahahha! Hard to control! Picture was taken when i was standing at the middle of the road :p People looked at me like one kind, lolz. None of their business! I put on 2kg! -_- This is the latest update from me after New Year. I bet some of you might be in same case like mine. Hic hic, gotta exercise more to reduce some weights. Just within 2 weeks time, I did nothing besides eating 3 main meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) a day and all were heavy, not including those cookies, sweets, junggies etc.... Every where i went, i ate. Not because of I'm big eater, because people invited, thus I couldn't deny. So once a year for whatever excuse, reunion, year end, new year celebration, farewell, welcoming dinner...Eat! Eat and Eat! I didn't have time to take all photos abt the foods as some of you have requested earlier. Just a few! Here it goes! This was the first lunch in my student's house. Reason for the party: New year celebration and also welcoming me back home! Hmmm, so sweet! Don't look at the food! Look at the wine bottle that I was holding! Fantastic, man! It's very uniquely tall and tasty :D I love see food and the prawn there was specially cooked for me! :D Am I so special? ;) So, that's about it. I was confident with my appearance to start up all friends, relatives visiting during New year. We went for karaoke singing on New Year Eve as usual. I don't know why in here, youngsters like to sing Karaoke so much during this time.

To answer you all: I'M STILL FINE even though the weather is very cold here in Hanoi but i'm not death yet. I still can blog, ok? There have been some of you sms me to ask: "How are you?" How everything? What are you doing? How is the weather? How is your family?, bla bla bla... So many "how", lolz...and I couldn't reply each because costly :D and am lazy typing again and again the same sms, so here you go! I landed in Hanoi in the afternoon 3pm on 8th becaused after staying in Hochiminh on the previous night. Even in the afternoon, and it was sunny but the wind was still so cool and strong. Now it's the winter time. Luckily there wasn't rain, it was just dry and cold. My parents of course were at the airport with my uncle and cousin. The relatives couldn't rekon me after so long time i've not seen them and i've changed a lot too. Everyone looked at you one kind, lolzzz...(*funny). I had a reunion dinner with all relatives in that night itself. Wah, I ate until my tummy alsmost wanted to explode. I didn't snapped any photos at that moment. Then the next day, I went to visit my ant clothing shop. When i was in chilhood, i used to go back hometown and help her to sell clothing. Was i hard working? Lolz, no ah...Actually, I loved the moment she gave me a new cloth each time she got a new stock, hahahah....They all were very nice. The one i was wearing also from her shop too coz i dont have any winter clothing yet, hehehe. Next day was the day for shopping and friends meeting up. Yeah, as i always said, i love to shop in Vietnam so much. Everything is so cheap and various. I went to the market to buy clothing materials, went to buy fruit, managed to visit my dancing fashion tailor. Here are some of samples. Maybe i'm gonna start a new partnership with this shop owner soon for my fashion business. Some of my close friends were waiting til the evening just to see me. I haven't seen them for 2 to 3 years. Oh ya, picture was taken at my ex-dance partner's studio. As usual, everytime i went back, they had to take me to eat :D Perhaps, they are afraid of i'm gonna forget the vietnamese cuisine :D. When you visit Hanoi in winter, you shouldn't miss the chance to try the steamboat. There are so many type of steamboat that you couldn't find in Msia or some other countries: i.e: chicken steamboat, duck steamboat, vegi steamboat, seafood steamboat is just a normal food here, etc...The one i tried here is duck steamboat This one is "shellfish soup and vermicelli", my ex-partner took me to eat in the afternoon. This is also one of famous rice noodle in Hanoi besides beef noddle:) but perhaps none of tourists knows if without the guildance of local people. The 3rd day, i came to visit my God-son, you see how cute he is. When seeing a kid like this, i could just hug him whole day, kiss him until he gets angry, lolz....So cute and lovely! This is his mother- a little girl (to me) younger than me 2 years old. We had been staying together last time. She is now a fashion designer too! The next day, I went to visit a temple. It becomes a habit, whenever i have time, i'll go to visit this temple because i felt that this temple is hidenly having a spiritual connection to me. It's hard to explain but yet it's is. The temple names: "Tran Quoc temple" built up on the lake, a very huge lake of Hanoi where couples like to go here for dating and enjoying the wind and the view. I couldn't take any photos inside, so I took the photo outside ok :D. The view from the temple to the lake. This photos was captured at 5pm in the sunset :) Next post, it's gonna be happening New Year preparation and Celebration as my Dad told me, this year the whole family is gonna travel a lot. So i hope i could have something interesting in this New Year! Btw, thanks for all the text, msg, email...I'm still keeping you guys updated! No worries!