Pho! Glorious Pho!

--- realized i never posted this while in HCMCity. well, better late than never. ---

Pho, Pho and more Pho.

That’s pretty much all I know about Vietnam.

Really.

It’s all about food again huh? Gawd I feel like such a pig =P

So, anyways, here I am, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Day #2.

Why am I here?

Work of course! Did you think I’ll get the luxury of time and money for a holiday? Pooh!!

Okokokok, to be very fair, I did get some time yesterday arvo to do a quick look around the Central Market, or Ben Thanh Market I think it’s called.

Didn’t buy anything there.

It’s a MARKET! We get ‘em in every Asian city!

But it IS my virgin trip to HCMC so I reckon, ah i might as well go look-see. Do the touristy thing =)

BBB’s first visit here as well. She did the shopping, not me. Hehehe!

Lots of bargaining involved here. Just like any other market.

We talked down the price of some fashionable accessories from 200,000vnd to 100,000vnd per piece.

You can try to bring down the prices of pretty much everything I think. We overheard some guys trying to get plates of fried noodles at 20,000vnd. It was going for 30,000vnd per plate (said so on the menu). Tsktsktsk. The (weird) things people do.

So apart from those few precious hours of shopping at the Market, we ate.

Noodles for lunch, noodles for dinner, noodles for brekkie today.

I skipped lunch earlier today. Am not hungry. At all =(

In fact, for a good part of today, I slept.

Time of the month…

New place, new bed, sleepless night……

Horrible, HORRIBLE migraine……

I went to work in the morning and came straight back around 1-ish. To sleep.

I’m still not entirely well now… but I guess I could do with some food.

Wonder where BBB and Ah-gor wants to go. More Pho? Hurhurhur.

Oh, oh, we managed to squeeze in a quick foot massage yesterday evening. Nice! 60minutes of pure pleasure for my aching feet + hand and head and shoulder massage thrown in. All for usd10. Very nice =)))

Hmmm… maybe I can skip dinner and just go for another massage??

The Internet sucks here. Ugh!

The connection is so impossibly slow it took me a whole night (I am NOT kidding. I left the lappie on till morning) to retrieve three, THREE miserable mails. THREEEEEEEE!!! How to get work done like this?!?!

I am just ranting and ranting on and ON here huh?

=(

I’m just bored.

If not for this horrid migraine, I’ll be out walking around. It IS after all the first time I’m here. Can’t even say if I’ll be coming back again anytime soon. Not my market. Vietnam I mean. I’m just lucky I got roped-in for this exhibition happening this weekend in HCMC.

On a separate note, this place doesn’t really feel very touristy! I mean… it doesn’t feel very tourist-friendly. I didn’t see ONE SINGLE GOOD MAP OF THE CITY!

Didn’t see any at the airport.

Don’t see any here in the hotel room.

Well, there is ONE here… but it’s the crappiest map ever! All it shows is the location of the hotel and a whole load of roads =P

Suddenly, the city maps made available in all the China hotels I’ve ever stayed in seem so, so, SO comprehensive. So very useful! Ha.

I seriously do not know why I’m even writing this.

I sound so… dull! So… argh, bored!

Abrupt end.