I wonder...

Had a little online msn pep talk with SW... I believe this is the first time we ever had such a tete-a-tete with each other. The feeling's like back to JC... But let's just say we got to know each other a little better.

But before that was our penta-K-box session: CW,SW,YC,TP and ME!! Damn cool la!! When the K Box kakis combine power ahz, it's damn fun one lo HAHA!! It's been quite a while since we come together to sing le and I am glad to see them manz... CW came in formal, although I am working I went in my normal tees and jeans... A bit off, and YC as usual has to point it out HAHA.. O well, then there's the ever so vivacious SW and TP hasn't seem to have changed LOLX... Wonder where's yz, haven seen her for a while too... O well, but K was really fun, more yelling and screaming than singing, really... haha, well the beauty of it all is the connection I guess :P When everybody starts to work, then hard to meet up also le... CW ends late then I might OT, then YC too far to centralise, TP prob too much stuff also, SW rush projects and stuff, so I guess hold on to whatever there is ba...

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Anyway, last stop Hanoi!! Met up with the sweet couple, Ph and her fiance (ok I admit I forgot his name, so sorry!!). They brought us around and even paid for our food!! So paiseh but when we tried to alleviate some financial burden, they said it's part of the Vietnamese custom that guests come they will treat... Then well nothing to say lo, but THANK YOU!! And we visited the Ha Long Bay with the stalactites and stalcmites, and its natural beauty. Well, no wonder it is a candidate for the natural wonders of the world.

Tennis at NUS

Tennis is really a sport I haven't got a chance to really explore. Well it seems I might just have a chance to play it every week now that my colleagues are pretty into it! Today tennis is at NUS, but 1 hour's a little too short.

Shit, I forgot to take picture... NVM next time i will try to take... Gotta know lots of my colleague's AD's friends. They seemed a pretty closely knitted bunch of friends, maybe cos they are from the same church. In any case, it was pretty fun time hanging out with them and playing tennis with J and PT.

After our short tennis matches, with me the most clownish of them all, we even went for a 2.4km run!! Ok more than 2.4km cos we ran the outer rounds; damn it was good!! The power of having people to run with you is amazing!! Being no longer in Redhill, means I lost YC as my running partner; not that we run regularly together anyway, in fact it was only once, but nonetheless... And the 3 of them can really run - JJ, HJ, AD!

After which we went to an Indian restaurant to eat Indian food.. duh... Got introduced to Naan, smaller and supposedly healthier version of prata, and Dhal, the soup and some other wholemeal pratas (?!?) Couldn't rem the names haha! It was really cool chilling out there, where I listened to them talk about their past, their current jobs and current situations etc...

I, as a fresh graduate, realised I am in league with (other than married men and women) experienced people who are willing to share their working experiences and life and I am glad I am so blessed once again to be meeting such nice people. Reminded me of lunch today where guy colleagues, think almost 12 of us, sat in a coffee shop and talk rubbish and lunch at the same time. Though they are much older, I was having so much fun listening to them talk. They are VERY entertaining indeed. And realised CB's a running fanatic, jio-ed me to run Standard Chartered *faint*.. Let me consider... HAH! Anybody else wanna join?

AD's planning to get married, stepping into the Hall of Fame for married men at our level 3, HAHA! Seriously, everybody's either married or married with kids, even J whom I thought looked so young (but much older) actually has a 2-yr-old daughter!! Gosh!
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Last day in Hoi An brought us to the late kings' mausoleums, 2 of them only actually, the supposedly more representative ones. Forgot the names, think they were Tu Duc (cos I think the Vietnamese pronounced it very intriguingly nice haha) and the other one dunno father or son of Tu Duc. One representing the romantism, the other forgot wat LOLX. But both are pretty nice la just that they probably have become worn out after years of war and rampage and disuse, and of course nobody actually uses them.. But it took us half the day to actually finish visiting the places, with the guide giving a lecture on both. SERIOUS! A LECTURE! Well ok nvm. HA!

YT with El's work of art haha!!

Our lunch!! nice hoh..

Seriously 古色古香, an obvious influence by the Chinese

tour guide said this was a true replica of a man then - a bit vertically challenged hoh..

another statue

Subsequently we embarked on our final destination in Vietnam - HANOI! Where we will meet Ph!! And of course her fiance, who is her legal husband now as we speak. Woohoo! Overnight train was the same arrangement... Somebody commented I got a tummy... I never knew I had one HAHA! Ok well, at least given the amount of exercise I do, I hope I would never get one... So I showed her my waist pouch under my shirt... zzzz... but it's quite funny cos nobody has commented that on me before. Something to think about.. HA!

train station
Wonder what's the ice for? Anybody can answer me?