250607 – 270607 Days 23, 24 & 25
The buffet breakfast at the hotel is fantastic. Im very satisfied with it. In the morning we went for a boring talk, then followed by a walk around the city area. We saw a famous cathedral called the Notre Dame, went to visit the French-styled Municipal post office and I managed to get my postcards finally. In the afternoon, we visited the History Museum and the Unification Palace, which were all very boring. In the evening, we went to Ben Thanh Market for awhile. I will definitely go back there again to get my stuff. Dinner was fabulous as we had steamboat, a room with all of us. After dinner, some of us went to the night market and I managed to get 2 board shorts at a very cheap price. We even had supper there before going back.


Tuesday morning we visited the Vietnam-Spore Industrial Park, which our MM Lee visited Jan this year. Basically we were given an introduction into the operations of this park, and what kinds of businesses it involves. Lunch was okay at this village like place. After lunch, we were given a tour around the industrial park and visited a factory. Dinner was buffet at this nice place, and I saw Snails, or rather Escargo. I wanted to try it but discarded it eventually as Zi Liang said it smells bad and Cheng Hao even spit it out after eating. The kebab, bbq sotong and fries tasted good. We went to this departmental place after dinner which is really like Spore. Nothing much to get there. Then me, KB, Xinyi and Jie Hui wanted to go KTV so we splited up with the rest. But the stupid KTV was fully booked, so we went to an ice cream parlor in the end. I had a pinochio looking ice cream! As we walked back, we dropped by the casino at this posh hotel. There is nothing much as it’s merely machines inside, no dealers whatsoever.
@Ice Cream Parlour
Wednesday morning we had a meeting with the Consulate of Spore and had a talk with the consulate general. I was damn sleepy, dozed off many times. I was only alert when the pastry was served at the end of it. Lunch was buffet again, at a very posh place and the food is superb. I ate many clams, which I used to dislike last time but the clams really tasted very good. Pizza was nice, fried rice, fried pancake… and there was Siew Mai! I just ate till I’m very full. In the afternoon. we had another talk. Then we went to a shopping complex which is something like People’s Park Complex. It is very cramp and there was nothing much for me to buy. After that, we had a super nice Singapore dinner owned by a Singaporean. We had sweet sour pork, fried chicken, kangkong, curry chicken… made us all salivate manz! After dinner, some of us went to this street to shop where I bought a tie, a top and a berms. And I went to trim my hair at a barber! I couldn’t communicate with the barber so just have to tell him through actions but overall, I was quite satisfied with it. The trim cost me $2. It is indeed a fruitful day :)
Spore DInner 
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Hansel Des rolled on Saturday, June 30, 2007, 3:06 AM