Nov 05, 2007 03:32
Woke up by 6am and i could hear sound of motorbikes roaming on the street and the dawn has just begun!! WTF! i lazed myself on the bed, hey after all i am on holiday, so i reckoned i should be relaxing as much as i could, no?
When i'm ready to go, it was already 6.45am. it was cold morning, in fact according the Luong, the winter has just started. but to my surprise, the hostel is "closed", locked, i can't go to the lobby, and when i peeked out, the main grill and door were all locked up too!! So much of the plan to visit Hoan Kiem Lake and watch old folks tai chi by the lakeside, cause i have the staffs still sleeping soundly even when there's doorbell rang outside... i supposed there are ppl who want to get in as much as me who want to get out... but the "jaga" still haven't "terjaga" yet... hahahaha...
After about 30 minutes of reading the first chapter of "jungle of Norway", i tried my luck again downstair. this time the cafe is finally opened. i ordered a brekkie (30000VND, RM7) and a Vietnamese dripping coffee with milk (10000VND)... quite a pricey breakfast i guess, but i thought the second morning i'm not too ready to step out of my comfort zone yet, and it was drizzling outside too! so i might as well had breakfast in the warm cozy lobby cum restaurant of the guesthouse... occassionally there's chatters coming from 3 angmohs across my table. the pace in this little cafe was really slow and i seems to enjoy it quite a bit, i thought i could get use to it too. outside the street, the life is busy, we have bicycles selling flowers, another lady just passed by singing but i couldn't figure out what she has in the 2 styrofoam boxes she carried on her shoulder... wait a minute, I also gotta talk to the cute counter guy to teach me how to really handle and drink this dripping coffee properly... hahahaha!