szelee 诗理 。失礼

Last night…

She: Bla bla bla, bla bla bla.

He: Bla bla bla… That’s all.

She: That’s why!

Anorexic. That’s how his colleague describes it.

Behind the 400D’s back, he has secretly fallen deep into infatuation the plastic toy camera. Damn, he’s gonna get one soon!

Unlike Jiin Joo, he is not planning to write a thesis about it.

To quote something he learned from a colleague (and attempt to sound intelligent at the same time), tempus fugit.

Let’s start. He spent the first 8 years studying stuff that would soon be proven obsolete. In between he met his first girlfriend that would soon be proven his last. Then, he got a job that would soon be proven to be… just a job. He later bought a house which would soon proven to be smaller compared to his peers, but cheaper as the property prices shot up like crazy. Finally, he got married to the same girl that would soon proven to be something that doesn’t need any proof.

It’s not terribly exciting, but it’s not much different from most of the people he knows anyway. In retrospect, any fools could have seen all these must have already been orchestrated carefully in the grander scheme of things at the very moment they arrived.

The next 10 years? Let’s just say they have already booked their new one-way tickets.

Final stop - Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

Similar to any other places in Vietnam, two-wheeled vehicles dominate the streets.

Threesome. How sweet.

From south to north, their daily breakfast consisted mainly of baguettes like these.

She has to agree that map-reading isn’t her forte.

A sleepy cyclo driver.

Cha Ca (grilled fish), the one and only dish from Cha Ca La Vong at the 14, Cha Ca Street.

The famous (and no doubt expensive) Restaurant Bobby Chinn. Initially, they had planned to have a grand feast here on their last day in Vietnam.

However, convinced by another couple of fellow travelers from Singapore, they eventually indulged themselves in authentic Vietnamese buffet at Sen Ha Thanh, which was fantastic, and cheaper.

The rest of the photos.

Situated in the Lao Cai province in northwest Vietnam, Sapa is a quiet mountain town and home to a great diversity of ethnic minority peoples such as H’mong, Dao and Tay.

The Red Dao women shaved their eyebrows and foreheads as a sign of beauty.

The distinctive headgear of the Red Dao women.

On the other hand, the Black Hmong women have quite a different taste of fashion.

Must have been quite a burden to the earlobes

Many of the Black Hmong women carry their baby on their back to work, whether the child is awake,

or asleep,

or, in whatever state.

Of course, the Sapa experience would not be complete without the trekking, terraced fields and buffaloes (and not to mention their dung).

The cutest baby they had seen throughout the Vietnam trip.

And as usual, more photos.

He remembers visiting him when he was small, when he was sick. His parents and grandparents too look for him when they were not feeling well. His auntie had even worked for him. He was a good doctor.

When he (and later his brother) wanted to gain entry to a certain primary school, the doctor readily and voluntarily helped his parents to write a letter to the headmaster, with no obligations.

When the doctor pursued a full time career in politics, he believed that the man was trying to do something for the rakyat.

And he did.

He still believe the doctor is a good man who has made a mistake, and he has certainly always taken the bull by the horn.

Unlike the remaining of the rotten eggs in the basket.