Day 2 - 4: Sapa

At the handspan office, waiting to board the bus which brings us to the train station




cause of the morning dews, the picture turned out blurry.


What a beautiful morning! look at the perfect skies :)


We checked into the Sapa Hotel.

the awesome view from our hotel room's window


cannot waste any chance of having earl grey tea and wang wang xiao man tou in the chilly balcony!




HAHA love wy's pose!


the trekking begins...

with the Hmong people




one thing about them: they tag along with us while we trek through the mountains (all the way you know!!) they also like to ask, what is your name, where are you from, how old are you etc. there is a mixture feeling when you mingle with them. at the end of the trekking, they would ask you to buy their handmade handicrafts. and if we dont, we will feel bad for not buying.








more beautiful views there! (:




the little children there are adorable.

At the end of the trip, Sapa is the most memorable place among the Hanoi trip. In Singapore, the streets are filled with people, cars and tall buildings. But here in Sapa, another world existed. The simple life and agriculture made me feel overwhelmed. maybe because back in spore, we are always so busy and stressful. and yet the people there are contented with the simple living and are so carefree.

"All things work together for good to those who love God"

Here I am, send me

"say goodbye to convenience and comfort, welcome change"

Isaiah knows God personally.

- he is able to relate to God

- relent because He is a sovereign God

- He is a personal God who wants to have a relationship with us

- He is always extending his hands to us

contact with God, conviction of God, compassion of God, commitment to God.

it is back to basics :)

Spruce

Weekend brunch at Spruce :) the weather was almost perfect, not too hot and not too wet. however the two hangover girls were late. but still, the company was great! thank god we made reservation beforehand. the crowd was coming in around 1plus two. i like how the outdoor was created with orange lights that give a cosy feeling.

we had hotcakes (sidedish) while waiting for cass and liting to come. and my main serving was The Spruce British Brekkie. Poached eggs, baked beans, baked tomato, Cumberland Sausage, Mushrooms, Bacon and Foccacia Toast. whoooo, filled to the maxxx!

always enjoying brunch with my fav girls! :)

(Starter for 10)

I want to be able to listen to recordings of piano sonatas and know who's playing. I want to go to classical concerts and know when you're meant to clap. I want to be able to 'get' modern jazz without it all sounding like this terrible mistake, and I want to know who the Velvet Underground are exactly. I want to be fully engaged in the World of Ideas, I want to understand complex economics, and what people see in Bob Dylan. I want to possess radical but humane and well-informed political ideals, and I want to hold passionate but reasoned debates around wooden kitchen tables, saying things like 'define your terms!' and 'your premise is patently specious!' and then suddenly to discover that the sun's come up and we've been talking all night. I want to use words like 'eponymous' and 'solipsistic' and 'utilitarian' with confidence. I want to learn to appreciate fine wines, and exotic liqueurs, and fine single malts, and learn how to drink them without turning into a complete div, and to eat strange and exotic foods, plovers' eggs and lobster thermidor, things that sound barely edible, or that I can't pronounce. I want to make love to beautiful, sophisticated, intimidating women, during daylight or with the light on even, and sober, and without fear, and I want to be able to speak many languages fluently, and maybe even a dead language or two, and to carry a small leather-bound notebook in which I jot incisive thoughts and observations, and the occasional line of verse. Most of all I want to read books; books thick as brick, leather-bound books with incredibly thin paper and those purple ribbons to mark where you left off; cheap, dusty, second-hand books of collected verse, incredibly expensive, imported books of incomprehensible essays from foreign universities.

At some point, I'd like to have an original idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but I'll wait and see. And as for a job, I'm not sure exactly what I want yet, but something that I don't despise, and that doesn't make me ill, and that means I don't have to worry about money all the time. And all of these are the things that a university education's going to give me.

- David Nicholls

credits: x

I have an exploding head

sorry for the lack of updates. when im back home from work + gym, im exhausted. oh, let me clarify gym. i signed up because it was for me to overcome my guity pleasure on food. i know right, ppl gym because they want to lose weight. but somehow it doesnt work for me. haha.

This week happenings:

meetup with serbian, raphael, shiling, edwin, jaclyn, junhao and bryan for dinner. both bryan and JH is enlisting in real sooon! its nice to meetup with them after so long of dilly dally. haha. went to thomson road, flaming grills for western food. the food was not bad plus price is really reasonable and we had beancurd for dessert. though was a short time spend, but i really wish the guys all the best in NS (:

& every tuesday seems to be movie outing with cass and wy. caught sex and the city 2, it wasnt that bad. i could hear all the ladies, "wahhh, ohhhh" when they spot brunches, beautiful clothes and shoes. the girls would probably gush about it while the guys might think it was a waste of time. haha. we had dinner at cuppage plaza and had once upon a milkshake. see what i mean... food again. lol. but still, im excited for this week's brunch!! :)










photo credits: wy