Hi!

Hello! I'm YueN. (just in case my estranged blog forgot me)

I'm currently just into my 5th week of holiday =) exams went surprisingly well (distiction - yay me!)and tomorrow, i'm going to begin my 1st day of the dissection programme thing. Basically, a bunch of students volunteer to dissect cadavers so that the other students can poke at 'em and study 'em. And according to the SMS, we're supposed to bring:

1. labcoat
2. mental prepareness

3. refreshed knowledge of the lower limb

4. punctuality

Well, that's what it said. In fact, it actually said "refresh lower limb". and my good fren tot it meant that we should have relaxed legs cos we'll prob have to stand quite a bit. (going to tease her about it tmr...mercilessly)

Two weeks ago, i went to vietnam. Ho Chi Minh (aka Saigon-which sounds very cool, HCMC, Motorcycle City-8 millions motorbike in the streets!! or was it 4 million? a LOT la basically) it's really a great place to visit. Especially the Cu Chi tunnels. U know, those dug up by the Viet Cong and are really really complex. and scary. The landscape there is really different from Msia's too. Check it out... so dense

And we ate some "pho" (please pronounce as 'p-her', or something like that) Which is a nice noodly local dish. We ate at the Pho2000 which boasts a pic of Clinton when he was president eating there...
Then we saw the Notre Dame church...

... the central post office ...

and walked the streets of Saigon =)

The Cu Chi tunnel is a pretty interesting and amazing place. Here you can:

1. Pop out of the ground

2. Check out scary booby traps (all of em involve some spikes, either metal or bamboo) and let ur imagination run away with you

3. Fire your 1st few shots from an AK47 (btw, i missed the 'tiger' i wanted to hit =( aim lowerrrr ppl)

4. Run around underground ala mole-style (it's actually REALLY narrow, the tourist ones have been widened to allow passage of.. tourists, i could run around quite comfortably in those)

So the tunnels are the MUST see.

Vung Tau is more of a holiday beach resort area. THe view is spectacular, esp from the top of the Jesus statue hill (i don't know what it's called) Here you can see:

1. Tien Hou Gong temple of the five races, the Whale Temple (that's exactly what they called it in the itenerary) and it's true!!

2. Buddha statues (looks like a pretty new place)

3. Statue of Jesus Christ (no offence but it looks kinda extra-terrestial, i think it's the circular stuff at the top) very majestic as u can see
Shopping is pretty fun there too... i bought some handbags, a pair of wooden slippers (they're actually quite comfy) and some tops.

Speaking of tops, i got a top which says "MICKEY MOURE" as a brand. And i think i should proudly wear it out someday. (we now sing the mickey mouse song as M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-R-E)

OOhh, btw, i started the basic level Sign Language course at the YMCA =) It's really fun. Tell more in next post.

Time to sleep... must bring punctuality tmr.

(you should've seen this sky... )