I supposed to put somethings on my blog about my trip to Vietnam long long time ago but i was so lazy to do that. There is not much feeling about the trip left in me now
Just try to have a quick summary about things happened to my trip back to Vietnam.
- 7:10AM Sunday, Feb-03-2008: I arrived at Greensboro Airport of North Carolina. I had my two bags checked in, thing went smoothly. I went through the security check and guess what ? I got a full body search, my carry on bags got checked too. I realized after 5 seconds. My new hair cut probably got me into that kind of trouble.
- 03:15PM Sunday, Feb-03-2008: I got on the airplane to go from Detroit, Michigan to Manila, Philippine. There were so many Philipinos and they kept talking and laughed like crazy. They drove me nut.
- 10:35PM Monday, Feb-04-2008: I arrived in Manila, Philippine. I got a bad news, the departure gates are not in the same building with the arrival gates. It meant that I have to get my luggage, go through customs. I had no passport, my Vietnamese passport expired, and i do not have a US passport. So after a long talk with the airline company agent, I was asked to stay in a room from 12:00AM to 6:00AM, sat in front of me was a security guy.
- 6:30AM Tuesday, Feb-05-2008: I got escorted to the departure gates by the security guy, customs officer, and airline company agent. I got stop by another security guy, he wanted me to weight my carry-on bag. Damn, this guy was good, one of my carry-on bag was full with candy so it was about 20Kg. I had two choices, throwing some of the candy away or paying $115 to check that bag in. I already carried that bag from USA to Manila, i did not want to throw anything away, so i lost $115 bucks.
- 10:25AM Tuesday, Feb-05-2008: I arrived in Saigon, I was so happy to be in Saigon. There is no place like your home town. Now only Vietnamese customs stood between me and "freedom". I had with me 1 iPhone, 2 laptops. So i did the "first procedure" but it was not clear enough, i got called back to do an extra "first procedure" then i allowed to go free.
- 11:05AM Tuesday, Feb-05-2008: I met my friend's brother. I gave him his stuff and asked for a favor, using his phone to call my family. Genius me, i did not remember my brother cellphone number but finally i got hold of my sister-in-law. My brothers were convinced that airplanes from Philippine would always arrive late so they were just on the way to the airport. I had to wait another 40 minutes before i could get on the mini-van to go home.
- 01:15PM Tuesday, Feb-05-2008: I got home, asked for some coffee. I wanted to push myself to adjust the jet lag as fast as i can. I ate some pre-order food that my Mom cooked. I also met some friends, they stopped by to visit me ! [Nope, to get stuff that i took back for them
]. I am just kidding, they stopped by to visit me.
- For the rest of Tuesday, Feb-05-2008: I went around, visited some relative and ate like a pig. I got passed out around 10:30PM
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