Big Boys Playing Water

Last week Hanoi was raining non-stop for a few days, and what you get was flood everywhere.

Area around my working place was flooded, area around my hotel was flooded. Taxi's starting to refuse to go to these two areas and we were stranded in our own office...

But... big boys are always big boys... we decided to walk back.

And therefore, a 2km journey has begun...


The starting point.


Marcus.


Everyone's excited.


Victory to the rain.


"Malaysia has this smart tunnel...blah blah blah"


Knock knock, who's there?


Oh, it is me, me and me with victory.


Heading to the unknown.

The journey so far, everyone's wet and no matter how hard we tried to get the taxi, no taxi driver wanted to go to our hotel.

What to do? Continued walking lo...

And here we met the biggest challenge of all.

There was a very serious flood along the road. So far we tried to prevent our shoes to step into the water, but the flood was at knee level...


It was actually very deep.


But we conquered it.

And officially got wet from head to toe.


Helpless guy.


Arif.


I gave this rain a 10 points.


Nowhere is safe actually.


The 3 wet musketeers.


It was unwise to drive through the flood.


Look at the water level.


Another spot that was flooded.

This part of the road was beside Hoan Kiem Lake, which was flooded very badly. Cars were stranded on the road.


Hoan Kiem Lake overflowed.


Everyone needs a picture like this.


Jump.


The journey ended here.


The cameraman, Chee Yuen.

It was fun to walk in the rain, funner in the flood, but stupid to walk for 2km.

Anyway, thanks a lot to Chee Yuen for the wonderful pictures by using his non-water proof camera and only appeared at the first and last pictures.

What is ngsehlim?

Google Pinyin Input.

While trying to key in my email address, I accidentally activated the Google Pinyin Input.

This was the Chinese characters it suggested according to my name...

Come on, Google... you can come out with better suggestion right?

p/s: 脑梗塞换里面 literally means "Cerebral infarction, change the inside", which is totally not a good thing at all.

RIP Britney

Oops!... I Did It Again

Tomb craft in Hanoi, Vietnam.


紫薇

It's a very bad idea to become spokeswomen of such business.

Funny Vietnam Menu

I do know Vietnam has very exotic food before I came here and I don't fancy those.

So there's nothing like those food in this post.

But they sure have some funny menu.


Pigeon? Chicken?

Kinda confusing when I wanna order...


I thought tortoise is 乌龟?

Maybe is just typo.

Either way I do not eat 乌龟 or 甲鱼.


Bombed rice.

I wonder... Don't they have copy and paste function?

Fried Rice with Chicken and Fish has been translated to Bombed Rice with Chicken and Fish.


Money wrapped.

I know their money face value is very small... but la... wrapped with money wor...


Hmm...

Isn't eating cock testicle is kind of extreme... ...ly not enough?

Wonder how many cock they need to prepare such a dish.


Hmm...again...

I have a Muslim colleague.

He was hesitating whether he should order the BBQ Beef or not.


What I had ordered.

So I picked the Bombed Rice with Chicken and Fish along with two other colleagues.

The first bite of the food was weird as the food had a funny taste, but once you get used to it, it was consumable.

Yet I still wonder my taste bud got problem or not, when I was the only one finished the dish while the other two barely finished half of it...

Rakuzen, EAT-ALL-YOU-CAN

Rakuzen

We went to Rakuzen for the eat-all-you-can japanese buffet on Sunday.


Trying to be Cyril

After we order the first batch of our food, Fish tried to pretend he was Cyril.


The menu

A lot of choices, we ordered a lot at first and then the captain gave us the weird look and said..."You can order more 'cause later when more people come in, the longer you need to wait."...Huh...OK...


The decoration

The environment was pretty nice, the decoration added the sense of Zen...


Light through bars

The lighting also was very soft, good for the eyes and couple to do what they want...


The bulb

One light bulb per table, NIAO...


The meditation

Meditation during the buffet was a must, abuthen where's the word "Zen" in Rakuzen coming from?


EAT-ALL-YOU-CAN-?

The slogan said eat-all-you-can, hey, we were trying...


CAN-YOU-EAT-ALL-?

After the buffet... I think the slogan should be can-you-eat-all-? 'Cause we can't.


Chopstick split

Rakuzen buffet can make you become Cyril, Fish finally could split the chopstick.

So this concludes the trip to Rakuzen, thanks for reading.










Eh? Where are the photos of the food? Aiya, we were busy eating, where got time to take photo of the food, result of the food maybe I can help lah...

OK, OK... actually I managed to take some of it before we put it into the digestive system.

Here goes.











Fight for the last one

The makimono was nice, you have to fight for it. But don't eat too much, rice can make you feel full, you won't able to eat the rest of the buffet.


Real men only eat fried stuff

Real men only eat fried stuff. Oily fried stuff.

No... actually they weren't as oily as we thought.


Don't know what beancurd, not really nice anyway

Forget what's it called. Doesn't matter anyway, I don't like it.


Most popular food, eat non-stop

Refreshing is the keyword. One scoop was definitely never enough.


Too hot, spoiled the mood to eat it

Suppose to be nice... but way too hot...


Me not food

Most delicious ones...

But don't eat me please...

Bali Panties

PENTAX Optio S4, 1/60, f/2.6, 5.8 mm, ISO 100
Taken on April 12, 2007

During the Bali trip, we went for a SPA massage.

These were what they asked us to wear for the whole process of SPA.

Air-conditioned room + nothing but pantie + sticky skin scrub = cold-like-hell-out-of-this-world experience.

Not bad at all.