"You will surely die!"

Haha, this is the pet phrase of my guide today, but I shall leave it for later

Got a pleasant surprise this morning as I got wifi. The Vietnamese girl whom I gave my contact details to, emailed me this morning. I guess she was just curious abt Singapore, and would like to brush up her English (just replied another email of hers as I'm writing this)

Anyway, I'm on a half day trip to cu chi tunnel today. These tunnels were constructed against the American troops, where the Vietnamese would fight against the US troops using guerrilla tactics

For breakfast, I've decided to go for more authentic coffee (u know like how the coffee shop kopi is more authentic than Starbucks etc). So they actually provided me with coffee where I sort of have to brew and filter it on my own. I was looking at him wide-eyed when he serve me the coffee pot (I was like...u expect me to make my own coffee)

Here is this weird looking coffee instrument

So it was the cu chi tunnel tour after breakfast. They brought us to another handicapped handicraft museum again, just like the one I went to yesterday. I met the 5 Malaysians whom I befriended yesterday, though sadly, they were on a different bus tour.

After the handicraft was straight to cu chi tunnel. The tour guide actually spoke rather broken English and I had a hard time understanding him. But when u hear his pet phrase "you will surely die", u know that he is showing you some gruesome traps on the floor meant for the American troops...and indeed, if u ever fall into one of them...just make sure u dun fall into them 

If u actually step on these trap hole...there is actually not much I can write abt what happen next

I think I will just barely fit into the tunnel. It'a for the comparatively petite Vietnamese after all

Clipping armpit trap...awkward sounding name for a sure way to die 

I think this is rather cool. If u ever open a door u are not suppose to, u will see this flying into ur face, and it is suppose to make u impotent as well (it bends around the groin area 

Did a crawl in one of the tunnel, not the most comfortable experience.

It was a half day tour which ended pretty early. So I decided to go look for a shopping mall. Couldn't find one so I settled at some place for lunch. Proceeded on to Ben Thanh market after that to buy some stuff for myself and others. 

The most interesting was the Lebron jersey. I was originally quoted 600,000 dong but I was really not interested in it, so I tried to leave and he kept lowering his price till 150,000. Moral of the story: the best bargaining technique is to genuinely not want something 

Lunch...I'm quite impress with this Claypot-ish fried rice 

Coffee beans for some of my friends...I'm not sure if I'm suppose to get the filter

A pair of shoes for myself...$32 to $25

I actually seem to be ending my day earlier, but tmr will be a long day at the Mekong delta tour...river cruise, bees, honey etc

Mark

Wouldn't want to fight against the Vietnamese 

PS: I dun like my hostel...so unfeeling. Wash laundry also put on weighing scale and ask to pay immediately. Humph