I am really annoyed by NUS Myisis(Stupid thing to say out loud). I can't print out my giro form on Chrome because it can't process it and I tried using IE and the page doesn't. even. load. Okay I bet no one cares about the trivialities of my life but considering how mundane my life is, this is quite an event.

Today I vacuumed the floor of the house voluntarily due to how terribly bored I was. And I found 2 dead cockroaches around the house. This means that my house is really disgusting such that is not not even adequate for cockroach survival. How very disturbing, since cockroaches survived and thrived for 320 million years.

I am currently eating:

It has been quite a while since I've had some. There was once a time in my life that I was completely addicted to this cereal, and I had it every morning without fail for around 3 months. Then my mom decided to not buy it because of rising prices, and the next time I had it, I decided I didn't like it anymore.

I wanted to go out to spend some money today but I decided on staying at home to watch Atonement. Sloth, a poor girl's best friend. Anyway here I am, watching Running with Scissors instead. And I think if I had a movie about my life, I'd have Alec Baldwin act as my dad too. Telling everyone that Alec Baldwin is my Dad(kinda, in a sense) would be awesome stuff.

360deg

Ah, Lomography has a new camera, the spinner 360 and the pictures are awesome! I want very much but it will most likely end up unused after a few rolls. But these pictures are so cool, it's pretty much the horizon kompakt's awesomeness multiplied by around 7.

Right up there in my wishlist!!!!!!!

Pictures from here!

The dream is real

Dear Mr Nolan,

Thank you for creating such a masterpiece.

xx

(By the way the soundtrack is AMAZING. Goosebumps x a lot)

Void

I am really apologetic for my lack of posts for the past few weeks! I honestly have nothing to post about, considering that work has consumed my life and there is hardly anything worth telling the interwebs about. But! Work ends in 11 days and I'll start living again!

The past 2 days I spent doing 2 things. Reading and watching documentaries.

I read '36 arguments for the existence of God: a work of fiction' by Rebecca Goldstein and enjoyed it very much. The book left me feeling smarter and wanting to become smarter! Recommended many times over.

National Geographic and Discovery channels were my best friends! Whale, polar bears, killer jellyfish, hammerhead sharks, prehistoric crocodiles(they fed on dinosaurs!!!), Kazakhstan, Venice, unhealthy American food, gorillas, giant octopus. (Y) I love documentaries.

Saigon: LC-A

My LC-A photos! So glad they turned out fine because I was quite worried about the x-ray machine at the Vietnamese airports(they didn't have a film-safe tag on).

Best left over of French colonization, cafes with seats facing the streets.

Hehe adorable sign.

Uncle Ho!

Saigon

So I finally got over my laziness, and here's my Vietnam post!

First thing I learnt in Vietnam is DON'T TRUST CHINESE SPEAKING TAXI DRIVERS. The above image is of the street we stayed at, Bui Vien Street. Very lovely place sprinkled with road side stalls, bars, restaurants, cafes and souvenir shops. Anyway, the taxi driver we got from the airport claimes that although our street was in district 1(main city district), it was really far away from the city center with all the sights, and located beside a park that heroin user congregate in, and that leads to a large amount of pickpockets.(We later found out it was only a 10 min walk from the city center, and there are pickpockets everywhere anyway) So he convinced us to take a look at some hotels he recommended. Anyway turns out they were all a bit overpriced and since we already paid for our deposit at the one we booked, we just decided to make our way there. He became very bitchy after that and kept telling us about pickpockets and whatever fabricated tales of horror he wanted us to believe in. He stopped at a road side opposite our street and we initially made a deal of USD10 for the ride, but he claimed some ticketing system at the airport costs USD5 and we had to pay him that!?!?! That is really ridiculous because USD5=VND94500 and a bowl of noodles there cost VND20000. Considering that average Vietnamese people go to and fro the airport all the time, it cannot be expected that so much money is paid just for that!!!!!!!!! >:( Anyway we sat in the cab for around 10 minutes being very unwilling to pay but we paid him USD2 plus SGD2 in the end and ran off in the rain. HATE!!!

Our hotel was really great though, and such a relief after the stupid taxi driver ordeal. AC+Private toilet+Cable TV for less than USD10 a night. The staff there were really nice and friendly too.

Okay I am lazy to type any more so pictures(from phone):

Weena my travel buddy and some carrot cake thing from a road side stall. The uncle selling it was from somewhere in China so we could communicate and he was really friendly! The mochi-like thing on top was good stuff.

PHO!!!! I love Pho.

Some egg pancake thing that you wrap with Wasabi leaves.

Spring Rolls! With loads of mint leaves inside. Ugh, can't stand mint leaves but I finished it!!!! And blue nails haha we went for a manicure and we didn't wanna leave a tip but the forced us to.

SNAILS. I ate snails. Tasted like squid.

Ice coffee in Vietnam is awesome. Super thick+super sweet.

Road side ice cream from in front of the cathedral and Weena's boob.

Bahn Mi which is french loaves with Pate and ham stuff. (Y)

And to end it off:

Battle scar from a snatch thief attack! They were on motorcycles and the guy at the back reached out his hand towards me. I was quite confused for a moment, thinking he wanted to high five me or something. The next thing I knew, he grabbed the stuff in my hands! But he didn't get anything, my plastic bag just tore+my pouched opened up. I dropped my phone on the floor(D:) but yeah, thank goodness I didn't lose anything. I was traumatized for around 3 minutes.