Quite quickly, and almost unreadily, the weekend has been ziplocked and discarded into oblivion. Thinking now about it, I can’t help but sense the ‘it-almost-never-happened’ feeling that’s usually encountered after a short sleep. The Saturday barbecue session went perfect with the exception of those damn charcoals that refused to get alight, which saw Ramli and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Gastronomy’
April 7, 2008
On the 3rd Day in Saigon
On the morning of the 3rd day, we breakfasted on the frayed ends of a terrible history, comprehensively-documented and poorly-preserved by the Vietnamese government. The War Remnants Museum at District 3 (Metropolitan Ho Chi Minh City is divided into 19 administrative districts, by the way) is an informative and cleverly-run operation that simultaneously fattens the [...]
March 31, 2008
On the 2nd Day in Saigon
Vietnam is about an hour behind us. So rising at 8am wasn’t too bad, since it was actually 9am in my biological sundial. Thus began the 22nd of March, the 2nd day of the trip.
The morning was bright and warm, and after an average breakfast at the hotel cafe, we scuttled off, excited and unaware [...]
March 28, 2008
On the 1st Day in Saigon
And now, a vivid account of the Saigon trip from 21 – 24 March. I recall promising a comprehensive and lengthy account, and though I’m spirit-willing to keep to the deal, the flesh is mighty weak due to my aggravating back-injury and raging fever. But anyway, here goes:
Day 1
Set off for Saigon from Terminal 1. [...]
March 2, 2008
Le Cirque de Voyages
I’m so tired, my mind is on the brink. But this post deserves to be written, nevertheless. I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
In about 3 weeks from now, our traveling circus* will land upon the bosomy earth of Saigon. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! And for 4 days, I will be granted a rare opportunity to immerse [...]
February 27, 2008
Food Manchu
Dinner appointment earlier. The atmosphere was light, the orders were placed, the moods were merry and I was…late. My life is ingloriously furnished with maddening meetings and the nefarious expanse of highways. From dawn to dusk my horny sunny copulates with the sexy tarmac pimped by electronic road pricing thugs: on and [...]
