Saigon's Art Museum

As an Art student I can’t skip this place, keep in mind this is just the main building, I didn’t have time to visit the side buildings. 

One of the edited photos of the hallway (I like this one best haha x)

From Ben Thanh market the vintage yellow building will be the first thing your eyes will be focused on. Antique yet , so alluring. Walking towards the building the image will be clearer as your eyes will be glued to the gate, rusty and old but still so beautiful.

The "majestic" gate

You will have to pay the fee of 10,000, VND (50 cents) but it’s little compare to the things you will be able to see.

With a very classic and old school structure the building still attracts many views and visitors. The walls are covered with a fresh pastel yellow colour and are decorated with clean white details. Upon the walls are balconies with pastel-ish mint colour windows, which blend with the background nicely.

The structure

Look at those coloured glass panes though!

As you walk up the stone plated stairs, you will be able to see the intricate designs. First step in the building the pleasant smell of Art will gently wakes you up.  Time seems to stop and you are just there in wonderland. Everything looks breath taking in that building, including the ceiling.

So beautiful!

Gorgeous ceiling 

Made up with many floors this building contains many fascinating things but I especially love the balconies and hallways. Personally, I don’t want to go into detail about the art works, perhaps in another post I will, or else this post is going to be very long and boring ha-ha!

Some propaganda paintings 

Propaganda art

Well you guys deserve a lot of catch up photos so here are more photos of the place

"Hey strangers!"

That stair-case though, ouuu so attractive I swear

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8tracks account and first playlist.

Hi! Firstly I would like to apologise for my absence in the past few days, I had many tests to do, I was going through a minor depression and my sister also came back from Australia to visit so I couldn't uploaded any new but I promise, new post soon.

Now my 8tracks. 8tracks is a very interesting site where you can discover new songs, personally I've used 8tracks for quite a while, more than 1 year, but I never had the courage to make an account and upload playlists. Yesterday an amazing idea just popped into my mind and I decided to create an account, long- story- short, I uploaded my first playlist (even though I was supposed to revise for my Biolody test) *giggles*.

Main point of creating an account is that I want to express my feelings through music, my mental state right now limits my ability of communicating with other people, and I just feel like music really helps to boost my mood. Listening to music helps me to forget the world for a while and it just kind of blocks out all the negative thoughts.

As the purpose of this blog post is to tell you guys about my 8tracks here is the link! http://8tracks.com/9cloudschild

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Saigon, Bon appetit!

On Saturday me and some of my close friends decided to take a trip back to our childhood, a trip on our memory lanes to Bến Thành Market. Here is the consequence to the trip, a blog post about Saigon's "street" food. 

Food, Saigon’s food will make you say “Yummy, yummy in my tummy”. I find it so hard to finish writing this blog post without my mouth drooling or my stomach constantly drumming, demanding for food.

Bến Thành market

Don’t bother to go to fancy restaurants, try street food instead, even the look of it is incredibly irresistible. Warning, don’t take risk and try to sniff in the smell. As soon as the exquisite scent diffuses into your nose, you will need an extremely strong will to not charge in and order every dishes. Bắp xào (Stir-fried corn with margarine), Bánh tráng trộn (Rice paper “salad”), Cá viên chiên (Fried fishballs), Bột chiên (Fried steamed flour cubes with eggs and soy sauce), Bánh Bèo are some of the most common, underrated yet intimidating street food that will make you crave for more.

Bánh bèo

Sweet food game in Saigon is just way too strong; Chè is a must for all those sweet tooth out there! Some of the Chè I recommend are Chè ba màu (mixture), Chè bắp (my personal favourite, corn fans, must try.), Chè khoai môn (taro) and Chè đậu (Beans, red, black, green).

Chè bắp 

Chè Ba Màu

Bánh Flan 

Cơm Rượu (rice in alcohol, light alcohol)

Did I even mention about the sticky rice? Oh yes! Xôi dò, xôi gất, xôi bắp (corn sticky rice, with a pinch of sugar on top), xôi đậu phộng (Peanut sticky rice) are the things that were sent from heaven to Saigon.

Some of my friends

All of the food above are available in Bến Thành market!

Saigon and Bến Thành market

Notes: I'm sorry I couldn't take photos of all of the food but when I do I will update on this blog! Thank you guys x

Saigon in my eyes.

Xin Chào!


 Saigon, maybe not the most familiar word to many of you but this word means the whole world to me and I think it’s my responsibility to introduce you guys to my world. Saigon is a little city in the South of Vietnam; it comes with another name of Ho Chi Minh City. With a population of 7.396 million people it’s the largest city in Vietnam.

Saigon's post office

 Enough with the facts, this is Saigon in my eyes. Saigon, even the pronunciation sounds inviting. First step outside of the airport you will be able to feel the warm air rushes against your face as the sun shines upon your bare skin. Heading towards the central of Saigon your eyes will open to the busy view of the city. “Beep beep” the sound of motorbike horns ringing through your ears and wake you up from your daydreams.

Post office: Inside

 Different from other places, Saigon will overwhelm you slowly as you discover the city. It doesn’t take long for you to adapt to this little place, there is no limit for anyone. If Saigonese(s) are in Tinkerbell they will surely be the tinker fairies. All the architects and the details of buildings are just pedantic; each and every cm square of the building must be flawless and perfect. This doesn’t apply for just one single building but for many buildings, so insane. As difficult as it’s to look away, there are still many other things that you need to explore.

Nhà thờ đức bà (The Notre-dame) 

 Walking across the street is like an adventurous journey, you have to watch out on those monsters, roaring, ready to attack but the feeling of safely crossing the crowded street is just so relieving, and when all your muscles just relax as you breath out that ginormous breath you have been holding in just sends a sensation of pure happiness up to your brain. Walking around Saigon might sounds like a fun idea but be careful! The percentage of being lost in Saigon is not small at all; all the detours and alleys will be the cause to your headaches, so a map is an essential if you want to survive.

Waking in district 1

Back to the main topic, Saigon. It doesn't need all the city lights to make it beautiful, simplicity is what brings out Saigon. Saigon is like a rare gem that glows brightly in all conditions. No matter where I go,  in the end I will always return to petite Saigon.

Tạm Biệt!

*All the photos above were taken by me