In: Travelogue| Vietnam
14 Jul 2007Day 13 – 21st June 2007
Thus this is a concluding entry to my entire Cambodia-Vietnam backpacking trip, something I’ve been putting off to complete as I didn’t really want to relive the ending moments of my final days in Vietnam. It was something I had been dreading – returning to negaraku Malaysia, that is – [...]
In: Travelogue| Vietnam
9 Jul 2007Just got back from dinner with Ryui Bynn, Shawn, and Andy (close to 12am at the time of writing), celebrating RB’s birthday at Yuen Fatt Steamboat, though it’s more of a ploy from Shawn to get RB to treat us rofl. After filling my stomach to its limits, when I reached home I dumped myself [...]
In: Travelogue| Vietnam
5 Jul 2007Day 10 – 18th June 2007
As you may have gathered from the previous entry, the horrendous 12-hour bus ride left us in an almost sleepless state in the town of Hoi An (supposedly a World Natural Heritage site, incredibly famous for its tailoring, where supposedly that it could produce imitations as good as the original), [...]
In: Travelogue| Vietnam
2 Jul 2007Day 8 – 16th June 2007
A searing headache consumed me the moment I woke up, with fatigue enveloping me. It’s like having my brain cocooned by silks of pain, and I didn’t have the appetite for a breakfast – left my meagre baguette with butter alone after several small bites, though I drained the orange [...]
In: Travelogue| Vietnam
30 Jun 2007Day 6 – 14th June 2007
7.30am to 4pm was an insane journey from Saigon to Dalat – insane meaning long, though I slept quite a bit and read only the first 40 pages of Haruki Murakami’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
The scenery on the right of me (was sitting near the window) [...]
In: Travelogue| Vietnam
27 Jun 2007Day 4 – 12th June 2007
Our staple diet of morning comedy consists of a runthrough of The Ellen Degeneres Show on Star World at 8am (Cambodian time of course). Strange I didn’t discover her when I’m in Malaysia as she’s really hilarious, but then again I’m not much of a TV person – I get [...]

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