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So blessed, I can't contain it...
So much, I've got to give it away,
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my deepest desires: go to Australia to get my degree. do humanitarian work. backpack. find my 'knight in shining armour'. and finally..MIGRATE! (:
My name is jiamin. i'm just a simple ordinary girl struggling to excel in my studies and to find my true identity. i have come to realise tht hope is, but, a very important thing for all of us; tht in the darkest moments, only if we cling on to hope can we find peace within ourselves. God bless! Title: BACK FROM VIETNAM!!!
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009
touched down at 1am this morning. it's sorta nice to be back in spore..everything is in order; traffic isnt crazy, air quality is good, i have my comfy bed, everything is just more peaceful. i am in my room typing this entry with the trees swaying to the wind outside my window....
BUT dun g
et me wrong! this trip has been nothing but GREAT! in spite of all the mess and dirt and poverty (tht is so disturbing) the company was just plain fantastic. wonderful bunch of people. made new friends. it was great.
so we stayed in Hanoi for one night before taking a 9 hour train to Sapa. i loved the train..it was a four bed to one cabin kinda thing and since there were 9 of us one of us wud have to sleep seperately in a different cabin. but the guys were so nice to accomodate 5 pple in theirs..so one of them slept on the floor haha. the train was so Harry Potter-ish :)
Sapa is up in the mountains so basically it's inhabited by mostly the ethnic minority groups. being there
just opened my eyes to so many things. it brought me first hand up close to how poverty is like. hafing small kids come up to you begging with torn and tattered and dirty clothes it's just so unfair to them. the part tht was even more sad (to me) were the old pple who were so desperate to sell the things they'd made so tht they cud afford to at least buy smth to eat. literally living from hand to mouth; it rrly broke my heart. these pple walk up and down hills the whole day (and rrly literally till 11 plus in the night) to make a living...life is just so hard for them.
it just makes me so ashamed of how we complain of our lives when we rrly do have everything. when we ventured into the villages seeing some of the kids running around playing in the fields and climbing the sides of the hills they look so innocent and happy. and some of the folk sitting tgt making their fabric and laughing away it's so amazing how pple can make the best of their situation to be happy in spite of everything. wad more us? im glad i came on this trip it rrly brought me out of my comfort zone and definitely exposed me to the world.
the scenery was just breathtaking man! it's like looking at God's works and im left speechless and in awe of the magnificence of it...absolutely ABSOLUTELY beautiful. all the photography can NEVER capture and do justice to how it rrly is.
And i got to see terraces where farmers grow their rice; rmb we learnt this in geography in secondary sch? it suddenly all made sense..the bunds, the irrigation system, the flooding season and so on..if only i had come here when i was in sec 3 maybe i wud have done better for geog :)
Sapa's weather was rrly great esp on the last day we were there. it was rrly foggy tht day; visibility was like 20-30 metres? and when you walk thru it your hair gets wet..and it feels like it's raining but it's fine tht you dun get drenched..very nice.
Hanoi's traffic is generally crazy and the air quality is real bad. but ytd when we came back to hanoi it was cooler and less polluted..my guess was tht it rained the night before. lucky us i guess =D and im glad we managed to experience extreme gourmet on the last day..crickets definitely took the cake!
to the great pple i travelled with..just wanna tell you guys how honoured i am to have had the opportunity to travel with you guys. it was so much fun! thank you for the laughter. Cheers to our friendship and to more of such trips tgt! *qing i missed you and your laughter*thank you God for making this trip a success. for curing Jac and making her well again. for the bringing all of us tgt. for the nice pple we met along the way during the trip esp the staff at Elegance hotel. and most importantly for keeping us safe. once again thank you God for everything. Amen.
&so much I gotta give it away; 2:51 PM
et me wrong! this trip has been nothing but GREAT! in spite of all the mess and dirt and poverty (tht is so disturbing) the company was just plain fantastic. wonderful bunch of people. made new friends. it was great.
just opened my eyes to so many things. it brought me first hand up close to how poverty is like. hafing small kids come up to you begging with torn and tattered and dirty clothes it's just so unfair to them. the part tht was even more sad (to me) were the old pple who were so desperate to sell the things they'd made so tht they cud afford to at least buy smth to eat. literally living from hand to mouth; it rrly broke my heart. these pple walk up and down hills the whole day (and rrly literally till 11 plus in the night) to make a living...life is just so hard for them.