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Originally Posted by Hurricane88
haha...seniors coming out to say something...that is good... 
not easy for newbies who have not been to Vietnam...cannot envisage clearly...we live in the same open skies...but somehow Vietnam is like another mysterious enclave...can be 2nd home to many I knew...upon landing and breathing the air in TSN airport...you can felt the familiar scent...the sound of horning and the buzzing city life...this is the mysterious city that produced so many VBs going overseas to earn a living...a better tomorrow most VBs will guess and hope for... |
Appreciate seniors comments but as usual i dun just blindly listen to comments and make decision, i absorb, analyse things and ask myself what i want and i do it. Unfortunately typical singaporeans dont do that. Once again not showing off, but every single day i work towards not being a stereotypical singaporean who lives in the 'safety net' of what stinkapore provides ( u have sinkies going to other country, complain only and dont dare try their food, dont want interact with their people, dont want drop their ego to know different ppl).
I do not need to envisage anything to make the trip down to wetnam and understand their culture better, its not that dramatic and difficult. Previously i exposed myself to pattaya via sbf forum, in 6 months i paid my own budget tix and travelled solo there and stayed in a haunted hotel on my first trip, a super noob, dunno anything.
Managed to walk almost the whole of pattaya, till today i still dunno most parts of pattaya but i sure do know alot of places on my head by my own and not depend on ppl but i met alot of fucked up ppl and also got nice ppl. And at the patts forum in sbf, no one gave me a chance and believed in me but i earned my place there becuz i moved out of my comfort zone and walk the talk, simple, is it so hard? no, just heck care the typical feedbacks and go down and chill and be open ok liao....
Came across yabaa(thailand's ice) and gangsters and tio cai tow by a working lady on my first day. Had my fair share of raw grey prawn salad with chilli and vomited and got into diarrhoea, landed motionless in my hotel room for one good day, shrugged it off with a diarrhoea pill and go chiong till 7am daily in dangerous discos for almost every single day when i am there. Do i say shite about pattaya? no i love it becuz i travel like a backpacker and i embrace xxx tourism better than anyone.
However, patts was easy for me cuz i can converse in english most of the time and it was quite safe surprisingly and i managed to pick up very basic thai language not to get cheated by thai ppl and also i understand their women much better now.
I am massive fan of thai movies and music now and u dont see me watch Jiak Katan(eat potato) american movies like stinkaporeans. I am starting to become a fan of vietnam music and movies too(got ppl tell me to see all this? no i want to do it myself) I am not saying u cant watch hollywood stuff but i say no to typical shite. And also do i keep taking taxi like singaporean who go to johor and KL or bangkok? no i take motorsai or baht bus in thailand and then i take public bus in johor and KL. Do i really care if i drive a car in stinkapore? no , so expensive , i respect others have their say why the fuck i need to care wad others think? u have CEO who take mrt to work and they are quality workers at the top..... When i chiong , must i book ktv room lke in singapore? no i see how the cheong system is like in johor or thailand and i go with the flow and try it out....
To go vietnam, i think english is not as accessible and vietnam is not commercially as develop as thailand so therefore i want to find a viet WL(easier no need waste time go xian decent girl or wad, find one not so jialat WL) who can speak mandarin and english bring her go around HCM and see hows wetnam like.
Am i going to be like kiasee stinkaporean and back out and say shite about wetnam if things dont work out the way i want? of course no. Its an experience, its good to learn from the realities of their lives too. You wear protective gear too long also no good. And do i need to know some much like its life and death when i just want to pursue a normal r/s to gather my experience in love life? i dun think so...
And with 8 years under my chionging belt and me being a budget person and a cold blooded person who is so used to listening to grandmother story, why i need envisage so much to try out new experiences? LOL, however just keep a low profile , go there, dun act too smart, learn to say no, wayang(PR) abit sometimes and u get by.
I done that when i am in patts and anything tragic happen? did i marry their agg bar girl? the answer is no no no. Why i din fall into kc trap? not haolian once again cuz its how you think and behave and look at things. Do i act like a singaporean when i am overseas? is it useful to act like one sinkies when you are overseas? no.....
PS: keep throwing your comments in, i like to listen to them but once again i dont like to do things without logic. I do them becuz i want to do them. No right or wrong, don't share with me your taboos , i am not interested LOL. Instead share with me why u perceive this particular as a taboo? is it becuz u personally are afraid or is it becuz of other reasons? This is a open forum, move out of your comfort zone and start talking....
Then now seniors wil be thinking :'' ohh boy boy boy u disrespectful ah, y talk like so big? its a taboo u knoe... Boy boy why you talk so much, later you offend people u knoe...'' My military background dad always do this to me and i fuck care tt coz times has changed. And sure as hell no one here is my real boss on my company or wad...
I have made tons of comments and i always dun criticise ppl's on how they feel, at the same time i hope other ppl also can respect how i feel and we can openly talk about things. I know i haben earn your respect, i still a newbie who should keep quiet, but sorry i dont dig that coz i did nothing wrong, i just express not like a singaporean, its not about u laojiao , i junior or what, just share lah, if u dun want share , dun share lah, cheers.