I wanted to blog about my Vietnam trip once I came back here, but there are a lot of things I needed to do so I didn't have much time. But here you go!

This photo I took on the way from Malaysia to Vietnam. The weather was just pretty good, the clouds look pretty and clear.

During the first 2 weeks, most of the time I stayed at home and cooked lot of food. 2 meals a day for 8 people, you believe? This is my food, I cooked. Delicious? Tasted good too!

Then only the day before New Year, I went out shopping with my brother, my father, my mom (different people, different day). This is how the night market in Vietnam was during New Year.
  The world of handbags and hats. I bought 2 hats and 1 handbag home. Unfortunately, I left it in Vietnam. My mom was so happy because she got a free new hat.

  The crowded street with thousands of people, a lot of goodies, accessories for New Year. Especially, this one is so unique...

 
And then, we went back to our hometown to pay a respect to our ancestor. Every time I went back to my grandmother's house, I would go to visit my grandfather as well. He is "resting" here.

 
Then we went to the farm to buy a New Year tree, I don't know how you guys call this, but the Vietnamese name of this sounds similar to Mandarin. We call it "Dao hoa"

 
Then, I went to meet up some of my high school friends. It's has been such a long time we haven't seen each other...

They are so funny.

That's all we did before New Year. After the New Year? Morning, eat! Lunch, eat! Evening, eat! It was repeated the same from the 1st day until the 7th day. I felt like I couldn't breathe and I thought I was putting on weight at least 2kg.

One of the highlights of my trip was a visit to this famous temple which is a Bronze temple (fully made of bronze). That temple was so powerful that so many people who died on the way back home after they had offended this temple. I have never been there before until last new year. Many people said that you wish could become true if you pray to the Buddha with sincerity. The other special thing about this temple is it's located on the top of the mountain which is higher than the ground 2000meters and almost vertical mountain, not the type of diagonal way that is easy for you to climb. However, every New Year, there are more than a few thousand people from all over the country came here. You can see how crowded it was with a narrow staircase.


It looks simple, but it's actually not. All made of real bronze which is very high value. It's said that there was a thief who came to this temple before and he tried to steal the Buddha statue to sell. But he was unlucky because he slipped on the stone staircase and fell down into the chasm, then died immediately.

Here, there is 1 very big bell which, if someone rings the bell, it will rain later 15 minutes. Perhaps, it's too near to the sky.

  I don't know about others, but to me, after visiting this temple, I felt so peaceful. I could forget all the bad things happen and obviously, I felt much better, happier, more optimistic like some intangible spirit pushed me up. And I could get ready to come back Malaysia for the next 2 days and could be stronger to face a lot of new things. End of the trip is the photo taken on the cloudy sky in Vietnam


Hanging up in the sky and below is the forest! The feeling was so nice but also so.....scared :D
  Introduce to you, this is my beloved God-son.  I want to blog more, it's already too late, 2.02am now and tomorrow I have to go to work early. So next time then.

As promised to you guys earlier when I was in Vietnam, I'll update you my latest image. I told you that I'd cut my hair and had a new hairstyle. It cost me RM17x including perm, treatment, color, cut. It was pretty cheap compared to the service in Malaysia. Well, some said I look older, some commented I look younger. I don't know whether they were telling me a lie or the truth. But anyway, a new hairstyle made me feel much better. Crystal today is so much different that my colleagues also couldn't reckon me when I came to office.

I hope you guys are not too shocked when you are seeing this :D.


Don't look at the 2 glasses of beer, OK? It's not mine. :D Someone will think "I'm the type of alcoholic and naughty type".

Hi, guys!

Just a quick update. I have been in Hanoi for 6 days so far. The weather here now is 5 degrees and even lower next few days. Rainy-->Cold-->Frozen-->Sad. Since it started raining, I stayed at home most of the time, lied in bed and watched movies. I'm freezing now. Those who wanted to visit Vietnam, don't ever go in this season unless you can stand the cold and love winter so much. To me, it sucks. I only love Autumn and Summer. Normally, people here are so eager for the New Year, they go out to buy new clothes, foods, accessories to decorate their house. But this year, as the temperature suddenly goes so low, everyone is lazy and the street looks empty.

By the way, I've changed my hair style. I wanted to make some changes after so many old things in the past. It's time for changes. I will update photos later for you guys to see.

In the next 3 days, I'll go out to shop, and will take a lot of photos and show you guys how different New Year in Vietnam compared to the one in Malaysia.

For now, do enjoy the new year with your family, take care of yourself and don't forget me.

There are only almost 6 hours left before a NEW YEAR. I would like to take this chance to make a wish to all of my friends and your families for a coming new year with HAPPINESS, LUCK AND SUCCESS.

Those who haven't got a job will be employed this year.
Those who are still single will have a boyfriend/girlfriend this year.
Those who are in Love will have even better and happier Love life.
Who is having financial problems will gain much money this year.
Who is having health problem will be healthier and stronger.
And all of us WE WILL HAPPY FOREVER.

This 2008 year is Rat year, according to the Chinese horoscope, this might be not a good year for me. But I do believe that, ATTITUDE WILL DEFEAT THE BAD LUCK. So tonight, I'm gonna go to pray. This is my usual routine every year end to wish for a better coming new year.

Career will be more stable. Love will be happy forever. And family will be happy always.

Look back last year, I think I've achieved what I want so far. And I'm happy with all changes in my life.
So i hope you guys will be happy too, and don't ever forget:
THERE IS NOTHING IN LIFE GOOD OR BAD BUT THINKING MAKES IT SO.

A little small talk at the year end with you.

I don't know why lately I received quite a number emails, writing about love stories from my friends. Perhaps, they want to cheer me up when I'm in Love? Or they want to teach me something? Anyhow, I also thank you for all these sweet emails. Some are really very interesting to read. You may say I'm very arrogant or picky or whatever, but my style is:

• I don't like to receive all those forwarded SMS, the type of 1 sms can send to 10 people. That's why you will see normally, I don't reply those email or sms. (Sorry if I offend your kindness or care for me, I didn't mean that). But if you just write sms by your own to me, no matter how busy I am, I definitely reply it.

• I don't normally share my own personal story life like love story, love relationship etc.... So don't waste your time asking me "How are you and your boyfriend, husband?" You will receive the answer is always "I'm fine. Happy :) "

But anyhow, I still need to thank you, friends so much for your care. Just want to share with you one of the stories that I've received.


Love is always the most beautiful and splendid emotion in the world. I assume that a Love like a Tree which needs to take care by water, sunshine, and anti-worm treatment every day. There are so many types of worm on the Love Tree.



There is one name JEALOUS. This worm when it is small, its color looks almost like tree color, thus it's very difficult to find. At first, when it's small, it just plays around on the tree, tickling here and there. And the tree just feels nice and comfortable like being massaged. However, the older it grows, the more damage it causes slowly from each leaf to the whole body.

The second worm called COLD worm. COLD worm is very formal and careful in its move because it also scares to damage the tree. However, when time goes longer, this worm will spit out many ICE or even SNOW to freeze the tree and then Love tree will die.

Another one is ANGRY worm. Normally, this worm will hide quietly inside and hardly see it. But when it explodes out, its power can destroy the tree within 1 night.

Fourth worms usually are STAGNATE one. It seems to be the least dangerous worm, but it always injects into the tree the anti-growth vitamin which makes the tree can't grow up but also can't die so fast. And finally, there is no producing by the end.

Last worm is TROUBLE. It's a very stupid worm. It tries to bite every single leaf everyday to destroy the whole tree. When people discover and throw him away, he still tries to come back and do the same thing. And his purpose is only successful when people are too tired to kill the worms, they don't even bother to solve and just let it go.

So be careful with all these worms because no tree can immunize with the worms, can defeat them to survive. However, people can kill those worms because.


So below are the prescriptions for each worm. I will give you with FOC. However, you can't cure it by your own. You need to seek for the agreement and togetherness from your boyfriend/girlfriend as well. Then here you go.

PRESCRIPTION 1: Anti- Jealous worm treatment.

3 tablespoons of TRUST everyday. (Trust needs to build up not only by words, but also by action to prove people to trust you.
Remember! DON'T EVER BREAK YOUR PROMISE OR SWEAR)
5 tablespoons of HONESTY everyday. (There is nothing more terrible than telling lies because sufferers will be both listener and speaker)

5 tablets of FAITH everyday. (If you commit to something or someone, try to keep yourself consistent and loyal)

Make sure you and your boyfriend/ girlfriend remind each other to drink together every day.

PRESCRIPTION 2: Anti- COLD virus
4 tablespoons of CARE (caring each other every day to make sure he/she is OK and you are always with her/him. Caring is not only PHYSICALLY (by email, sms, phone call, meeting...) not also just BODILY (health, pain, sick, etc...) but also EMOTIONALLY (mood, feeling, happy, unhappy and so on.... This is the most important, I guess).

3 tablets of ROMANTIC. (Girls are always crazy for it. That's why most of the girls like Korean movies if I'm not wrong). Romantic can be a surprise gift for non-occasional day, a kiss on every morning and before sleeping, having a holiday, taking shower together....and many more.

This prescription must take every day, even though the worm hasn't appeared yet.

PRESCRIPTION 3: Anti- ANGRY worm.
6 tablets of RESPECT (When we are angry, normally we won't care about other's feeling. Respectfulness means we can't offend each other while we are in anger)

3 tablets of CONTROL. (Learn how to control not to be angry to live healthily. Even if you are very angry, try to avoid talking and only solve problems when you are calm down back)

PRESCRIPTION 4: Anti- STAGNATE worms
3 tablets of CREATIVE. (Think of something new for both to do to boost up the feeling, go for a holiday...)
5 tablespoons of SEX. There are many cases that the husband/wife can't find the interest in SEX with their partner and slowly they feel bored and then no feeling for other things. This is extremely important. And you need to learn how to have a good sex life.

PRESCRIPTION 5: Anti- TROUBLE worm

5 tablets of SHARING (Without sharing, your bf/gf can't know what you want and feel because he/she can't read your mind. Instead of sharing with other people, why not with him/her to settle your own feelings. The person from outside the story can't know exactly what going on to give you the best solution, it's two of you yourself)

Caution: Sharing to the third person might be very dangerous. Because the third party is always sweet and caring, slowly will "switch player". Third party replaces a main one. There are many TRIANGLE stories come from this.
3 tablets of ENCOURAGE. (Always encourage each other to overcome difficulties in life. Let her/him know that you are always there to support).

DON'T EVER FORGET ALL THE COMPLIMENT FOR HIM/HER. YOU NEVER KNOW HOW STRONGLY IT CAN MOTIVATE HIM/ HER UP.

4 tablets of ACCEPT. (Learn how to accept him/her weaknesses because no one is perfect)

So I hope these prescription really can help you and your boyfriend/girlfriend stays happy together. Love and challenges are always together. Challenges will judge how strong your love is. So don't be afraid of it. If you can overcome all this, your Love is going to be eternally. However, remember.


Do take these prescription everyday to make sure your Love Tree is growing up healthily and rapidly. It needs PATIENCE AND CONSISTENCE too.

I think I also need to take "medicine" for my Love before it's too late :D

Happy all!