Sunnyvale Pictures - Outside Headstrong office

Had some picture taking yesterday outside Headstrong Sunnyvale office with Chryshyll and Abhishek. Yes! We went to the office to finish testing since we have to deliver the data to the client for their testing.

Holyweek Adventure - Singapore

Our last stop in our holyweek trip is Singapore. When we arrived there and after checking in at our hotel, Tita Sheila met us for dinner at her apartment. We had videoke sessions there hehehe...

The following day, Laiza, Manang and I didn't join the others in roaming around Singapore since we were able to do that 2 years ago and we don't want to spend our money going there again. So what the three of us did is go to Sim Lim Square and buy portable hard drives and memory cards. We planned to go to Singapore Night Safari but the fees are too expensive so we just decided to meet up at Suntec since there a Body Shop sale there. After their shopping at Body Shop, we had our dinner.

Tita Lai, Shirley and I had an extra day at Singapore the following day since our flight is 12:00 am via Cebu Pacific and the rest of the group had an early morning flight back to Manila. We tour around Orchard Road and met Tita Lai's barkada.

BTW, we saw Jet Li at one of the malls that we visited!

Holyweek Adventure - City Tour at Ho Chi Minh City

Visited famous landmarks in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) - Notre Dame Basilica and Post Office. After the roaming around the city, we went straight to Ben Thanh Market where you can find lots of things to buy, from souvenirs, shirts and of course, bags! I was able to buy some souvenir shirts, ref magnets for my collection, and 5 North Face bags - 3 backpacks, 1 belt bag and 1 body bag - all for the price of USD60!!!

Holyweek Adventure - Cu Chi Tunnel

After a nice adventure in Cambodia, we took a bus and went to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The bus trip, which crosses the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, took us around 6 hours of travel before we reach our city of destination. We didn't had a hard time completing the different forms because the bus personnel did that for us! We arrived at the hotel at around 7pm so what we did is find our hotel and eat our dinner.

After dinner, we checked the rates for the different tours that the hotel is offering. We were really interested going to the Cu Chi Tunnel so that is our itinerary the following day.

Going to the famous Cu Chi Tunnel (they featured it in one of the episode of the Amazing Race) took us around 2 hours by bus. Cu Chi Tunnel is a netwrok of tunnels that spans for at least 200 kms. These tunnel were built by Vietnamese as hiding place against enemies.

Warning: If you are claustrophobic, better not try entering these tunnels.

Holyweek Adventure - Choeung Ek Genocide Museem

After visiting the Tuol Sleng Museum, we went straight to the Choeung Ek Museum popularly known as the Killing Fields. This area was where the Khmer killed their enemies. This is a mass graveyard of some 9K plus of Cambodians. Right now, it is a buddhist memorial to the terror brought by the Khmer soldiers and Pol Pot. You can find here a stupa that contains human skulls and numerous grave pits.

Holyweek Adventure - Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is one of the two gloomiest places I've ever been. Before this was converted into prison and torture center under Pol Pot, this was originally a 5-building school complex. While inside this complex, you would really feel the hardships that the prisons felt when they were here. I got so affected that I almost throw up. You can see in every prison cell the different pictures of those who stayed here before they were brought to the Killing Fields. Some of the rooms where converted into a museum where you can see how they were tortured and killed.

I'm very thankful to God that this didn't happen to us, Filipinos.

Holyweek Adventure - Royal Palace, Phnom Penh

After several days at Siem Reap, we went back to Phnom Penh. As soon as we got back from the capital city and a little bit of rest, we started our tour riding a tuktuk. Our first destination, Cambodia's Royal Palace. Compared to Thailand's Royal Palace, Cambodia's Royal Palace is less grandeur. Though the structures inside are very beautiful, they don't have any golden temples or golden structures inside it. But still, the palace looks very interesting!