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CrystalPhuong.net is a Personal Style & Travel Blog based in Singapore, written by Crystal Phuong. The blog was nominated FOUR times in Top 10 Best Fashion Blogs in the annual Singapore Blog Award from 2012- 2015, voted as one of the Best Lifestyle Blogs in Singapore in 2013 by Hotelclub.com, and Best Travel Blogs in 2016 by Foodpanda.com. Crystal hopes to connect and inspire young women to lead a healthy and happy life. Be confident, be positive, and be kind.
My holiday time!

My holiday time!


2 weeks have passed. Gosh! Time flies so fast. My holiday is running out of soon :(. I only have 5 days left to be home before I start my new journey in life. Everything is so great so far! I had a very fun time with all friends, students and family. Sleeping, eating, traveling, being taken care so well and enjoying work-pressure free. How good! Last week, i went to the beach with my brother and his friends. He made this trip for me as I wanted to introduce me to his friends whom was heard so much abt me before. It was on Saturday! Unfortunately due to the impact of typhoon, it was damn heavy rain until it was flooded in front of my house in the morning. I was so disappointed and sad. However, God loves me. Yes! It stopped raining in the late afternoon around 4pm. And our journey heading to the beach was still On as planned. Weather was abit gloomy, cold and foggy as in this photo:
but this couldn't stop us from going. We took a motobike to go there. 10 of us together on 5 motobikes :D Enjoyed so much the wind and the view on the way. Me and my brother! The wind blowed my hair! :D The beach is pretty near to our house, just 20 minutes drive! Here we are!!! The welcoming gate to the beach! It names Do Son beach *see my pinky glasses*
my funny, cheeky brother made fun of the light :D So love him! Can you see the buffalo statue behind me? THIS IS WHAT DO SON BEACH IS FAMOUS ABOUT!! Every August of the year they have the very big buffalo fighting competition in Do Son. This attracts thousand people from all over cities of the country to come and watch. The winner buffalo and the looser one will be killed at the end of the competition because they can't be joining the competition next year. People will take their meat and sell out to the market. The owner of the buffalo winner will get some amount of money as the prize. You gotta watch it to believe it! CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO Ok, back to my trip! We didn't plan to go to Do son to watch buffalo fighting, we went there to each seafood and enjoy the sea view. The main road leads to the sea! The food here is super delicious, tempting and cheap! See this First thing i have to talk about here is BEER! Yeah, RM3/ bottle like this! Can you believe? The first dish: Steam oyster with ginger and chili This is dried cuttle fish fried with spicy and sweet sauce Big Crabbies :DThis is called LALA in Malays, and you know what is their English name? It's called: ANADARA GRANOSA, bloody long huh? :DThis is one special kind of prawn which i haven't found out the real name of itThis is the oyster poridge, yummy! My brother enjoyed so much the COCONUT WINE And here, the big eatersAs usual, hmmmm.....photo shooting session. Yeah! :D. This time, my brother was photo grapher. Lolz, he was so funny, try to turn here and there and find the good angle for me, lolz.... HERE YOU GO!
OK, daddy is asking me to go back home now. See ya later in a next post Ciao~
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Enjoying!

Enjoying!


I'm sorry for late update. It's been 4 days since i arrived Vietnam. Everything is still fine so far. The only thing i did during the last 4 days were: waking up at 11am in the morning, having lunch, having a afternoon sleep and going out for shopping, eat again and sleep again. Super fatty i feel, lolz but it was cool, yeah! i'm not sure if it still continues this way, will i be getting on weight? Whatever, time to relax huh? Yeah it's me here, the latest look :) The weather here is super hot and humid as it's summer time now. Arggghhhh, so much hotter than in Msia. Rite now, i'm having a cup of vietnamese coffee and blogging... no stress, no pressure, no worry...How nice! :) Wonder what is my plan in next 2 weeks? Hmm, you're gonna envy me: My brothers and his friends will bring me to the beach, this is the beachy season in my hometown. Lotsa people will go there, i will eat seafood until i get fainted coz eating too much, lolzz...go shopping with my friends. I will be teaching of course for 1 week plus and will have a short vacation with my students. Not sure where about but i'm sure it's gonna be very fun and happening. Can't wait for it. So yah, basically, i'm enjoying so much my time right now. It's so good to be home after 4 years plus i've been living far away from family. This is the longest time i could spend with them ever. But no doubt, i miss Malaysia too :o(. I miss all my students, my colleagues, my works, my life there :o( Will be back soon, I can't wait for the gathering with all my lovies :)
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GOOD BYE MALAYSIA

GOOD BYE MALAYSIA


I have no ideas what to blog about even though there are so many things happening to me right now. A big change is all I can say. I'm still so sad for leaving all my students and friends in Malaysia...I need to take sometimes to get used to a new life from now.

I left Malaysia at 3pm in the afternoon on 14th April. I was supposed to reach Singapore at 8pm but there was an unexpected event happened. I was kept by the immigration officer in Johor for 45 minutes. Not because of I was wearing heavy makeup with sexy clothes (i was still sick by the way). I was questioned for being overstayed (one day) in Malaysia. On my passport, it stated the last day I could stay in Malaysia was April 14th. I thought If I leave Malaysia on April 14th, I should be fine.  Had I known that I would reach Johor Baru (JB) custom at 12.30am on April 15th ( I left at Kula Lumpur at 4pm approximately and it took 8 hours to reach JB, I would have left on April 13th. Technically, by April 15th 12.30am, I was still in Malaysia and that was a problem. The immigration officer named Faroug told me so. The consequence? "You could be in jail," he said.  No one, even the most experienced traveler, could stay calm when he was told that he could be in jail for offending the law. I was freak out. Perhaps, he saw how terrified I looked, he offered an easy way out. RM100 (USD25) cash penalty and it solved the jail sentence like a magic trick. Faroug was kind enough to help me catch the next bus to Singapore.

While sitting on the bus, I still couldn't believe what just happened and how easy it was for me to get out of a dark night. I reached Singapore around 10.30pm. Starving and exhausted. A kind gentleman, who could potentially be my boss if I passed an interview with his partner the next morning,  was waiting for me at the bus station. He asked me to come to Singapore for an interview and waited for more than 1 hour at the bus stop. He arranged a nice the hotel for me to stay,  bought me a yummy frog porridge and cold crab for supper. This was the first time I tried a cold-crab and they tasted so delicious.


This is my hotel room 

Besides missing Malaysia, everything is fine with me so far. I can't wait to go back to Vietnam and see my parents tomorrow after I finish the interview. I'm going to stay in Vietnam for 3 weeks and if I get this job that I'm going to interview for tomorrow, I'll start my new life in Singapore. Otherwise, I'll figure out something else. I don't know what yet, but we shall see! Good night!
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Crystal's traveling episode: 3 days in Phuket (part 2)

Crystal's traveling episode: 3 days in Phuket (part 2)


I had the first night drinking in Phuket with my gal. Only 2 of us sitting in the bar and ordered 2 bottles of Carlberg. It was pretty cheap compares to the same one in Msia, around RM4 something. No cover charge at all. When we walked into the bar, there were a lot of Western guys sitting while drinking the liqueur, the others were busy hugging the sexy waitresses whom am not sure whether they are female or she-male. But look at the gal behind me, that was SHE-MALE :D. They were starring at both of us with very unfriendly look as if we could take the guests away from them. But who cared? We just wanted to chill out! And God knows when gals are in the mood with some beers and where the story goes, lolz....

  We walked back to the hotel around 3am but trust me, the street was still happening as it was just 8pm, time to start party. And the thing i liked the most about Phuket as i said, it's so safe. No one disturbed us, flirted around even taxi drivers also didn't bother us that much unless you ask for their service. Perhaps, that time, we were the one who worn more cloths than other gals, so we weren't attractive enough, lolz....

*Random photo: Taken at the swiming pool of the hotel at 3.30am, lolz....
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Next morning, i had to wake up at 7am sharp for the next tour to James Bond island. God, that means 2 days i only had 4 hours to sleep. Thank God, I didn't have panda eyes, did i? ;)


Fresh and happy look in the morning. 


My yummy breakfast!

Camwhoring on the bus before we left! I was wearing the pinky flowerish long dress which i bought the night before. It costed me RM15, ^_^ So cheap and definitely matching with my earings and bangles, ;)
  Ok, the first stop of the day was the GEMS FACTORY. Phuket is very famous of real pearl all types, and some natural stones....This is some pure stones: ruby, etc...
 
Inside the factory where all the workers were so hardworking and focusing on their work. They didn't seem to be bothered by our appearance. Perhaps, there are so many people come everyday to visit so they just used to it :D Outside factory, it was a gallery where they served you free wine and drink. Leaving the Gems factory, we quickly went to the 2nd destination which all of us couldn't wait for it. The PhangNga island and James bond island. The weather outside could be 40 degree Celsius i swear, it was bloody hot and humid. Luckily we went by boat! So yeah, i could enjoy the wind.

See my pink hat? I bought it before we got into the boat, RM10 only, hehehe....

Camwhoring again on the way, how nice when surrounding you were rocky, watery and windy feelings ;) This was the place that we stopped for our lunch on the way. Yah, it stated there seafood restaurant, but we only tried few dishes of fished, prawn, squid...Hmm, i don't really like it coz it was too hot and spicy. So i purposely didn't upload any photo about food here. It's all about sight seeing, ok?
  We couldn't miss a good chance for out photoshooting after the lunch as all of us here are heavy camwhorers, lolz....See this! So artistic huh?

I love this pix the most! The most wanted girl! Yeah, it's me!

  The outside view of the restaurant! It was so nice!

  Good bye, seafood! We gotta continue our journey! Yeah, here we are! The James Bond island!

Why does it name so funny? Because the movie James Bond was casted here before (*if any of you have watched*)
See how strong i was? I could carry the whole big rock by 1 hand only, okay? :D

Hmm, sleeping beauty! I love this photo the most. When i first saw it, i came out with the idea of this pose! Many people were passing by and looking at me one kind, hahaha.....My boss said "Oh My God!" Hahahha.... Monkeys loved me, I loved monkey! This little monkey was not at the island, he was at the Monkey temple that we came to next after the island. Sorry taking photo was prohibited inside the temple (*it was a cave built temple actually with a very huge Buddha sleeping inside, so i could just take photo with monkey only :0(

. . .
End of day tour. We left monkey temple around 6pm something after that we went for dinner and got back to the hotel. It's free and easy plan. Yeah! I couldn't wait to see the AQUA show tonight. It's party time!
HERE YOU GO! THIS IS WHAT PHUKET IS ALL ABOUT!
Sexy girl-boys dancing on the street and inviting people. Damn, I hate them so much because they are damn pretty and sexy can? The legs are damn long and the all are soooooooooo pretty! Wondering how much money they have to pay for that face.

Disco pub at night! It was raining that time but people seem didn't care about that!

They were still dancing! *Yuck*! Sorry to say, if i was to stand there to dance, i could dance so much better and more attractive and sexier than them even though i'm short and not pretty enough. They'd better not dance to save the impression of others to them. I got rid out of that environment very quickly as going with me were 2 Malays ladies and my bosses, they didn't really get interested so much in this. So we just went away and looked for MASSAGE~ Yeah! That was all i was looking for!

Waiting time to be served! Tah dah!
Am not sure how old is this girl but she is so experienced for God's sake! She massaged for me very well until i got dozzed off. Perhaps because i lacked of sleep these 2 days.  Only one thing, my muscules are so painful due to some dancing practices few days back, so whenever she pressed, aiya, damn painful, until i was about to kick her away, lolz...... Oh yah, this massage duration was 60mins plus some body massage. It costed us BAHT200 equals to RM20. And bosses footed the bill! *thumb up*! Massage done! We reached hotel around 2am something.... I really needed to get some sleep

 Day 3: The whole day was Free and Easy plan so i made myself available for swimming in the early morning around 7am. Just perfect! This is a MUST for me everytime i go to the beach, i have to swim and i want to swim badly! I want to enjoy the sand, the waves...
YEAH!!! OCEAN HERE I CAME!
There was still not many people yet as it was still early! I could cam whore more!
Let's see my PHOTOSHOOTING SESSION ON THE BEACH!


I love this pix so much ^_^ No, I love all of them


Doggies also wanted to swim with me, lolz! This must be a rich dog huh? Here you go, my photographer! :D Nirah, my gal *kiss to you*!

She was influenced by my posing, I think, so i had to snap for her one, lolz.... 2 hours for us to swim was more than enough. We got back to our hotel as breakfast was waiting for us. I couldn't get my shower done, just quickly got something to eat then i had to get ready for my last shopping session coming up next ;) *Super busy*

This is not shopping, lolz! I just wanted to try to ice cream that they sell along the road, RM2 only

  We mainly walked along the road and stopped by any store that we saw, from the shoes shop to the slutty shop (* i should have taken the photo of trying some slutty cloths for you all to see  :D

Those AQUAs love to wear this I couldn't count how many kilometers that we walked, but it was quite a long distance, from a very big and modern shopping mall....

to the cheap and small market which offered 70% of the price. I personally love to shop here, coz things are very cheap and very unique that sometimes u couldn't find in the shopping mall at all.
  Ok, last stop! Having luch before the we left Phuket. It was 4pm that time we only had our lunch, lolz...My friend, the photographer gal kept telling me that "God! I don't want to leave". Arrggg, she made me feel like staying too, lolzzz...But we couldn't. So yah, we enjoyed the last meal, the coffee and some Thai cuisine before we left.

 
Cute? I meant my coffee not me!
So, that's about my trip! I definitely will come back there again, i'm sure! So love it! After all, i think Phuket is really a good place for relaxing, enjoying the cheap stuffs and nice weather, nice environment there. If anyone tells me that "It's boring", I think the correct answer is "You are damn bloody boring type of person" or "You don't know how to enjoy life" or "You are going for a trip with a bloody boring people". That's my comment, lolz. Have fun all!

 P/s: For more photos, you can click HERE or more HERE
P/p/s: Updated! One of my friends after read this entry told me that, his friend (a male) comment that Phuket is boring. Lolz! I know why he said so! Because, MEN CANT WEAR BIKINI TO THE BEACH AND CAN'T SHOP THAT MUCH COZ ALL STUFFS THERE ARE SLUTTY AND SEXY FOR AQUA ONLY. HAHAHAHHA
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