A day with my flowery pants.

A great day always start off with a great breakfast! Not bluffing but the breakfast buffet in my hotel, (under my uncle's supervising) it was good. They served a lot of traditional Vietnamese dishes as we were still cracking our head googling what food must we try over here, they already served the real food for us. Of course without hesitating I tried most of it. One of the special ones should be the Vietnamese sticky rice, served with chicken floss on it. I personally like chicken floss and sticky rice very much, so yah. It's definitely a thumb up for this one from me!

First stop of the day : Independence Palace

In order to visit the museum you would need to purchase tickets, I could not remember the ticket price but it won't be more than MYR5. It's a cozy place with good view on top like blue skies and cotton candy clouds, and also good sunlight. But, I am not the kind who likes to research or study on history, on contrary I hate it so much. So basically I did not pay much attention on the information they provided in the museum, I literally just walked around with aimlessly and took some selfies whenever the lighting is great (I'm so sorry for being such apolitical). 

2nd stop of the day : Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica 

The cathedral was build back in 19th century, all using red bricks. We chilled at a park near the cathedral while my grandpa smoking (smoking is bad nah ah). While we were walking towards the cathedral which is located in the middle of a cross road. There was this beautiful park right at the roadside, and we had to walk pass it to reach the cathedral. There were some stalls selling street food at the park! YES, food. 

I really have to say, there are so so many kinds of street food in Vietnam! I've tried a few but i think there are endless to try! This one, was a really crunchy thing, but too bad I can't remember its name. See the white colour piece of thing? That's the crispy part of it, and inside there are some meats, spring onions etc. 

3rd stop of the day : Highlands Coffee Shop

 Highlands Coffee is just like Starbucks in our country, their shops are all over Vietnam. It is very easy to find. We tried Banh Mi, which is the bread. It's like Vietnamese Subway, but I don't really like it, because, hmm, there are raw onions and parsley and I'm like ewwwww. I will just focus on my drinks then. So one the left was the Green Tea Frap and on the right, their signature coffee. My fav - green tea *heart* ! It has some green tea jelly inside which makes it really special. A must try! Amazed by the space of our stomach? Dont be. Because you will be just the same like me, cannot even resist the food you see in Saigon.

Final stop of the day : Night Market (near Benh Thanh market)

Here we are, at one of the night markets in Saigon. I don't know what market is this called, but it's right beside Benh Thanh Market. Okay, so the original plan was, to visit Benh Thanh market. Benh Thanh Market is like the largest and a must visit place in Saigon. So I checked online saying that it is open 24 hours, and guess what happened? We reached the place at around 9pm, thinking of spending the rest of the night being a shopaholic. Aha, and 10 minutes after I stepped in the market, people started to pack up and clean their stalls. I was like, errr...? Apparently, what I saw online was a total contrary with what was happening right at that moment. There and then we found out another night market was about to open haha, lucky us! But most of the stalls are selling the same type of goods, hmm but worth a walk. 

So that's basically what we did on 2nd of the trip! Stay tuned for more hoho. Two swaggers spotted at the park, xo. 

Love,

Betty. 

Vietnam - The city of FOOD

Oh dear dear, I know. It's been a really long time. This time I would like to share about my sort of food trip to Saigon, Vietnam. or also known as 'Tan Family trip' coded by Raymond Tan (my uncle). He's working over there as a chef at a hotel there and yes, he is gonna bring us all around for food!

As I stepped out of the airport, and I was amazed by the amount of people waiting at the arrival hall. Luckily we were able to search our 'friend' quickly and he brought us to my uncle's hotel afterwards. After checking in, we had lunch at the hotel's restaurant, which my uncle is working at. He claimed that all the dishes we were eating he had tasted it for like hundred times haha! Of course the meal was really nice. After some brush ups, we went out for evening walk. 

Some random streets nearby our hotel. One thing I learned about Vietnam from these few days is, their traffic behavior are really, really, really, BAD. There are a lot of motorists and they do not care about the pedestrians at all! I nearly got killed when I was crossing the street. The cars can even drive on an opposite direction of the lane (imagine if this happens in Msia, the driver would probably be honked to death). Their traffic rule is 'as long as the driver does not hit anyone or anything'. So a kind reminder, just cross the street <like a boss>, because all vehicles will avoid you very naturally (literally like a boss huh?) 

The first thing I put into our mouth in Saigon was, ice cream! And it's drizzling at that time hoho. The ice cream has nothing special, but the fun part was we could not communicate with the seller. She cannot understand 'how much?'. Okay let alone telling us the price. So, I showed her my phone's calculator and ahhhh, *bulb lights up*. She showed me the price then! 

After some ice creams, aha, the real food is here. This roadside stall we accidentally found, sells the very well known 'carrot cake' which is also known as 'chai tau kuek' in msia. I bet all Malaysians are very familiar with it right. As you can see, it's different from our version of carrot cake, and it tastes different too. It is served with dried mango and chili. I personally would prefer to eat it with their chili because the chili is the main key! 

Oh yes, this one, my fav among all Vietnamese food! Hu tier nam vang *slrppp* 

It tasted really good especially its soup. It is served with kuew teow with soup, and fresh prawns, meat and some internal organs of pig..? Okay I don't eat organs but I eat prawns! (although I'm actually allergy of it but nah I dont care) The prawns are really fresh as if I was eating something crunchy. After we finished our first proper meal in Vietnam, we headed to Nguyen Hue Street, a very famous street in Saigon. 

See the city lights of the street, very pretty isn't it. I personally thinks that Saigon actually uses well of their lighting because everywhere is full of colourful lights! Also, right at the end of this street there it stands the statue of Mr. Ho Chi Minh, and the people's Committee head office. 

So the end of the first day in Saigon. 

To more food and pretty little things! 

Love, 

Betty. 

Twenty Sixteen.

Dear bloggie,

Oh my gawddd it's been a decade since I last blogged. I was so so so busy with everything from September 2015 onward, until the end of the year. Wait, what? It's 2016 already! I. Cannot. Believe. This! Twenty fifteen just flew past like nobody cares, every single day in 2015 there will be some interesting things happening. Of course I'm not going to blog about that. There are way too many to be written in one post, and yes I actually have no time.

Fuuhh so yah it's the sixteenth day of 2016, and I just got back from ice skating session! today is actually the third day I gave up on myself *hahaha that's just a metaphor* After the hella final, I literally had three continuous money spending day, and guess what, tomorrow will be the fourth day. And there will be fifth day, sixth day, seventh day waiting on ya. Gosh! I just love life like this! What? Dont judge me, I had one horrible month locking myself in the room eating books you know. Now that final is forever gone..... keke. You know what to do after kissing your exam papers goodbye.

Okay I'm kinda sad if I didnt have some falshbacks on 2015 at all. So, one remarkable thing that happened on 2015 was >>> I'm wearing braces! Yes yes yes... I used to say "I'm very satisfied with my teeth and I'm not going to get braces" when my mom asked me to go and get one. Okay so what happened to me, I can tell you I have no idea. Maybe I just started to dislike it now lol. So yah, I got that bar of steels on my teeth from 28 of Nov 2015, which made me, literally and officially, The Ugly Betty. *oh man*

Summary of places I went in 2015.. Hmm. I went Bali, Indonesia in August 2015 with my family. And one short trip to Penang with the bunch of foundation bitches in June 2015. Oh ya and one more trip with another bunch of bitches (#bitches) to Ipoh in August 2015! I need to write down how yolo I was back in August 2015, because I went to Ipoh one day right after I came back from Bali. I dont know if that's considered yolo to you, but that's considered yolo to me.

Hmm so how was my degree course? alright alright, I think I chose the right course, they are the things that I'm really interested in. BUT, when it comes to exam, ha. ha. ha. There are too much to stuff into your brain man, and with those scientific terms and shits.. I never felt this stressful in my entire life. and they told me first year will be the easiest? Okay, I'm gonna die in three years time then *sighing* Alrighty shoooooo let's not worry about that first, I just wish that I can get satisfying results, then it will be fine.

So I think that's all for now.... actually there are a lot more to write tho. but, nevermind. Save it for next time. Oh and, Betty Lim! you're finally travelling to your dreamland in 2016?! *OMG I CANT WAIT* *silent screaming* Kay bye, till next post!



Love,
Betty.

When you're in Degree Year 1

Dear bloggie, it seems like I've abandoned you for quite a long time. Days and nights after I entered degree life, are insane. 24 hours per day will never be enough anymore, I need 48 hours instead. You're in degree and you're in choir, is even more extreme. People are saying that "it seems like you're in a music school". I actually once thought of if there is a course called 'Choir', I think I will probably be in that course now. Tho I already am in that course. haha hey I', actually doing double degree now, BMed and Choir! back to BMed, it's pretty beyond my imagination .. it's kind of overwhelming. But luckily I find everything interesting, it's just you need to time to know the stories behind every part of human body slowly.. and the thing is, I'm running out of time. If and only if I have more than 24 hours per day, life will be much much much easier. Nahhh just complaining, yes it's tiring, but I am absolutely happy with what I am doing right now, because I know this is what I am meant to be :)