HCM City

Day 1 Activities
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10.15am: @ the toilet and mom was rushing me. Arghh...went to T3 and realised that I should go to Budget Terminal ( what was I thinking?). Took the shutter bus and gosh, it was like a warehouse! And the colour scheme sucks! 11.15am: Writing. Waiting for time to pass.

12.20pm: Waiting to board the plane and stood near a group of moms talking about their (what else?) children and studies. And OMG! The EL they used! I always tell parents that if they cannot speak standard EL, then forget it. Just don't speak Singlish to them and keep to CL. It's so difficult to have pupils speak StdEL once they have Singlish ingrained in them. Think interlanguage...

3pm (Vietnamese time): Reached. You have taxi-drivers coming up to you and offer their services. One of them reached me and asked for 300,000D which I eventually asked,haggled and settled for 170,000D (this is not good enough. 150,000D would be good). Reached guesthouse - Hotel Hong Loi, 47 Bui Vien Str, US$8 w/o aircon (which C termed it as hotel) - and then quickly went to buy a map. Damn, it was so complicated and in the end, I just roamed and reached Ben Thanh Market. Had their version of Chendol (15,000D) and bought 2 pairs of clogs @ US$10. C came back from his day trip and we had dinner at the Night Market (outside Ben Thanh Market). Nothing impressive (97,000D).