Vietnam Day One:3 places in one day

I am heading Ho Chi Minh City. I prebooked air ticket way half a year ago during AirAsia promotion season. I bought depart to and return from Ho Chi Minh City without thinking much.However, train from HCM to Hanoi take 33 hours, with my only 10 days trip in Vietnam, 33 hours is a disaster. So, we bought Jetstar from HCM to Hanoi.

I saw something funny in jetstar plane. Why the hell Jetstar has malay words. Jetstar is an Australian LCC and serves various destination in Vietnam. I wonder, didnt they buy old AirAsia Boeing airplane, did they?

I reached Hanoi at night, and we linger around Hanoi old quarter. Its kinda cold in the month of December and we lost in hanoi old quarter when we try to get back to our hostel.

However, Hoan Ho Kiem Lake at night is pretty nice to enjoy. It is a superb place for couple to date. Lots of couple make out there around the lake. Perhaps french colonial had left this big impact on nurturing the romantic environment for these vietnamese.

Hanoi has preserved its old vietnam style architecture in this old quarter. Though many tourists coming in, i do wish that Hanoi still remain its own style of old vietnamese atmosphere.

End of the day, i realised that i had breakfast in KL, lunch in Ho Chi Minh City and Dinner in Hanoi. Three cities are 2000 km away from each other.

Good Morning Vietnam!

USA has Uncle Sam and Vietnam has Uncle Ho.

Last year end holiday, i teamed up with my buddy backpack to visit Uncle Ho. We have yet to experience so many jaw opening phenomenons, drowning experience, strange encounter, eye opening scene, crazy bargain, all time emo and unique friendship.

Following blogposts will be my day to day diary. I am intend not to write what Lonely Planet can write at its best and so do other travel guide. i would just note down my view about the places and my personal unique experience which i hope readers would found it different from others and could not get from other places else except here from me.

Positive Energy

Atomics Physics tell us that atoms are surrounded by electrons, electrons possess energy and they jumping in and out, conducting electricity, forming bonding between another atoms and forming ions etc.

Well this is also true for human being. We have energies around us. I would like to category them into merely positive and negative energy. These energies influencing people around. Well...most of the time, people around you conducting negative energy like : oh thats difficult, oh shit, oh what the world is so unfair, you can never make it, thats sucks, forget it and give up and so on. Your friends might giving you a negative thinking and make our day down without noticing it.

Well, we should have positive energy around us. Things like we persevere, motivate, aspire and inspire are very important. You probably just wanna give a sigh on how bad your day is but this conduct some portion to other people around you.

Hence, you should keep positive, believe there is hope and the world is not as bad as you think. Change and empower will make up your day and light ups people's life and eventually they will shine you in other way some other time.

what will you do if 2012 dooms?

The movie "2012" is showing in theater soon, the trailers are indeed thrilling. We wonder, what if it is true in 3 years time. Will you still reading the textbooks in your hands, will you doing the routine activities daily, will you still keep the words you want to say, will you still restrain yourself from what you wanted to do long time ago?

If you answers Nos for above, then you haven been really doing what you want. You still have dreams to catch and wishes to achieve. Probably, you are trapped in this place, time and things.

Steve Jobs been diagnosed a heavy disease last time and he sense death. Everyday, he is thinking, if there is no tomorrow, what i want to do today. This thought lifted him to do a lot of extraordinary things and when he get back to doctor. It was a misdiagnosed. Having sensing death, he appreciated life.

Human will not change until we come to a point where change is a must to survive. Many times, we have been doing something doesnt really important in our life and keep the important ones aside for future. We would say, nah...there still a lot of time. However, mostly what left is regrets.

Hence, love your family, appreciate friends, care the youngs and respect the elders are the basics of all. Show them your love and care, live your life.

What i want to do in future?

In future, it will be the era of saving the world as much as you can. Europe is taking the initiative to develop the green technology, sustainable effort to preserve the Earth. However, developing countries keep their pace fast to catch up the developed countries status but they follow the old way which US and Europe did last time. Rapid development and taxing the environment. for example, building tall building in nights and install as many as air con as you can. Producing cars as many as you to satisfy the billions population. Do they think of redesign the product for green concept? not really.

In my point of view, speaking about green tech, clean tech, sustainable stuffs are only the games of Europeans and partially US. People in India, China, Middle East do not really care about this in order to achieve the longly admired American Dream.

Under served, less developed countries suffered the worst. They lost connection with the world. While all 90 percent of technology and innovations only benefit the top 10% of the population in the social economy pyramid. Poor people in Cambodia rural areas have no light at night. Edison invented light bulbs decades ago. This is really strange.

Having this thought in my mind, i think we should adapt Europeans' Ideas, practice Chineses' working spirit, and seeking sustainable solutions like the Africans and Cambodians. Being a global player, we should have only one home to be bounded. That's earth.

Think of sustainable solutions, think green, help the poor and lets turn the 90/10 principal down in future.

Vkuan happy birthday!

My 21st birthday. Its been a quite a pleasant one. I do plan for a special one for myself but somehow got engaged with lots of stuff especially after raya holidays. Well, i guess i ll have to celebrate with myself, used to.

30th sept, one day before the BIG day, i received my first wishes from my old buddy, Chen Kang from England. He's always being the first one to wish me.

Afternoon starting 2pm: wishes from course mates, secondary school friends, my college buddies.

Evening: wishes from course mates, secondary school juniors, wishes from Australia.

Night: wishes from course mates, wishes from Cambodia, wishes from seniors.

Midnight: Went out "yum cha", course mates who finished karate training sing me birthday songs at mamak stall. Sweet!

1st Oct starting 1 am: wishes from family members,wishes from the other potion of course mates, wishes from Peruvian Chicas.

2 am: Indulged myself seeing at my facebook wall.

Sitting and staring in front computer right now, been reminiscing what i have done, how i treat my friends, how i behave for last 2 years. I am pleased with wishes from all around. Love my buddies in university, Miss my overseas friends, If i were in the States right now, i might get seco. (bottom's up in spanish).

To my secondary school friends, thanks for still remembering me. To my friends in study/live in oversea, take good care and have a great time. To my oversea friend from Cambodia, thanks for counting down for me over there, Peruvians, i am waiting for your peru time to 1st oct.

Last but not least, my dear course mates, its been a warm night for me with all your wishes. I think i will have sweet year following up.

Lastly, to myself happy birthday, the 21st.

You can get drunk and gamble legally.

You can vote for your country and decide the suitable government.

You can marry a above 21 year old girl without parents' consent.

21 year old is the age you have to take the responsibilities of every action you taken or choices you have made. You have to be mentally, physically and financially independent. You must take care of people's feeling. You will not get forgiveness easily for every childish mistake.

Because you are a MAN !

Batu Hampar Waterfall

In a fine Sunday morning, my company and i cycle to find a nice hideout. If you want to stay away from campus and go for a speeding and refreshing activity, you may follow my trip.

Trip starts from USM engineering campus, head to bukit panchor recreation park. When you reach the small kampung area, instead taking the right turn for bukit panchor, take the left one head along till the end. If i am not mistaken, you will be in Sungai Kechil.

There will be another T junction, right is the detour to bukit panchor recreation park, and left is the place we are going to. take the left one, go along and you will see Air Putih. thats the place we want to go.

It will be a 20% slope i guess if you on the right track, it is a tough cycling experience, hate sloping. BUT, after you reach certain height for example, when you pass the ANISARI village resort, you can start sliding all the way down to the waterfall. It is indeed a very very fast cruising. Almost 80kph with your bike, imagine. Cruising down, we will see a board written Batu Hampar recreation park and immediately turn left and cycle for another 3 minutes, you will see the waterfall.

It is a very nice place especially for me. Not many universities is located near to a waterfall.

I like this place although it is not a very significant huge waterfall, but sometimes i would like to go there, speeding down the slope for more than 5 minutes, and take a cool dip in the water or have a natural waterfall massage.