Tuesday, March 4, 2008

I was so lazy

Hey buddies,

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 but my feeling for friends in Vietnam is still here.

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
The next blog will be posted soon, with more information about New Year Eva and other placed that i went to, other people that i met.

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