Sunday, May 20

Leaving Singapore

...argh! Had to wake up really early to clean up the place, before we all took off. Girlfriend and I had a flight out of Singapore to Hanoi at 4 PM so unfortunately we didn't get to do more stuff with the bride and the groom.

Made it to the airport, flew into Hanoi, got ushered into a cab, told the cab-driver where we wanted to go and got taken to a completely different place because 'our hotel was full'. Decided not to make a scene because the hotel looked nice enough. Possibly except for the huge cockroach in the bathroom, which neither girlfriend nor me dared to remove. So we decided to give it a name (Gregor, after Kafka's Gregor Samsa) and decided that it'd be a pet.

Did some Hanoi exploring at night and found out that it's overcrowded with mopeds, noisy (you're apparently supposed to honk your horn continuously) and that crossing a street takes a whole lot of faith in the moped-drivers-ability to avoid you. Eventually decided it was too hot for walking around and went back to bed.