Myanmar day 6, 3 July
posted by misanthrope on Saturday, July 12, 2014 9:39 AM (
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Met jay for the first time that morning because I was already asleep when he arrived at our house.
I went out with the jay myself for nearly the entire day. I must admit, my first impression of him wasn't that good. Because he commented on a lot of things, like how he thought myanmar was a lot more developed than he originally imagined. And he stopped to take photos many times. Photos of everything! I've never met a guy who loved to take photos this much.
He is also the first person I know who owns a selfie stick. Haha. Honestly it is quite a useful invention and I'm quite impressed by the person who invented it because he met a need that many people have, which is to take selfies or group shots themselves from nice angles.
Then we went to PS Business school, met with nan oo, and then we tagged along to the monastery. The monastery was just O.M.G. It's like myanmar can never stop surprising me in terms of how dirty it can be.
I hate stepping on wet, dirty floors barefoot T.T
Anw at that time their electricity was also cut-off therefore the monastery was pitch-black because it was nearing the evening. We saw the Taiwanese teach Chinese for a while then had a short chat for a while, then the monk offered us the drink Shark, which is they local redbull.
After that went to the local market nearby for a bit so that jay could buy his bed sheets, blanket and umbrella. He nearly bought a women's longyi there -.- Good thing he didn't I guess. He also bought an umbrella which cost only 3,500 kyat. Without using the calculator I guess that's about 5sgd? Which is bloody cheap therefore I'm going to buy an umbrella before going back!
After that the monk sent me and Jay to our apartment. Actually I didn't want to go anywhere already but Jay wanted to have dinner and he kept insisting on a stupid Japanese restaurant that he saw was highly raved on some Japanese travel recommendation site. I think it's called hana restaurant. Since it was on the 20th street I just brought him in that direction. We did not see the restaurant initially and we eventually ventured onto the 19th street which is where chinatown is. And I bumped into Singaporeans there! Actually I saw this girl and guy walking and I had a strong suspicion that they were Singaporean, so I quickly went up to the guy and asked if he knew any Japanese restaurant there.
He didn't, but since we were all Singaporeans we decided to have BBQ dinner together! Learnt from them that they were on a 2-week holiday in myanmar and that night was actually their last night and they wanted to have BBQ dinner at chinatown before going home. We had BBQ and I had the BBQ fish because I tried some from the taiwanese people and I loved it. I also got a few other skewers. Chatted with the Singaporeans and two of the guys work at PwC and EY (Edmund). One girl works at NEA and the other works at AIG (chemistry girl). I was really happy to meet Singaporeans because I have been feeling quite homesick.
After that, we said our goodbyes because the singaporeans wanted to go back to their hostel already.
