Happy holiday!
Btw, it’s a full moon holiday today in Myanmar. As my friends in Malaysia implied, “asyik
cuti full moon je korang ni”.
Yeah, we are blessed with lotsa public holiday here in
Myanmar :D
That’s the best part of working here. Hehe
The only not so good thing is, most of the shops and
attractions will be closed during the public holiday. Kinda weird knowing in Malaysia, public
holidays are the time where people will flock all malls and tourist attractions
(read : getting things done).
I discovered about this the hard way though. When I ‘m yet
to get a house here, the thought of having a public holiday enticed me to plan
a head of what I’m going to do during the hols. Cos, I dislike the
fact that I have to just stay in the hotel room. So, that day, after eating breakfast that can
last till lunch, I decided to walk to Bogyoke market.
The shortcut way is
to cross a bridge behind Bogyoke and voila! –arrive at Bogyoke. Somehow that day, there’s wired fence at the
bridge entrance. The smart me thought I’m
early to Bogyoke, and the bridge is yet to open. So, I turned back and walk to another road
that’s parallel to Bogyoke market, and head to Bogyoke market. Somehow when I arrived there, all the
entrance to Bogyoke was close. After asking
some locals there, turn out to be Bogyoke and all of the other attractions are
closed during public holidays. There you
go-walk back to the hotel room and just kill the time.
Today-a public holiday in middle of the week.
Of course, going back to Malaysia or planning
for a short vacay is not in the picture.
Plus, drilling and logging operations are on-going, and we need to
standby for those. Important things
always happen during holiday, middle of the nite, when you are asleep, or when
you don’t have internet connection, kan.
Not complaining, but sometimes I just like to vent things out. Haha.
So, my car-mates already started to make plans yesterday on how
should we spend our holiday. Sound gigih,but
when you stay in place like this, planning ahead is a must. Morning will be eating Mohinga at Foodfare
followed by picking up clothes at tailor and sight-seeing to any place that
open. OK! Dont have to cook for lunch. Ngee
Hence, we had our bowl of Mohinga. Since the tailor asked us
to come at 11am, we had 1 hour time to kill.
The driver suggested to go to Yuzana Plaza, which none of us has been
there, due to traffic on normal days. And
we go. First impression, not bad, looks like they have everything in this
plaza. The plaza looks like plaza version of Chatuchak, and we realized that
most of the items look familiar-Bangkok stuffs. Mental note-should go Bangkok
again. Padehal 3 weeks ago was in Bangkok. Hehh.
After circling around, which lasted only for 30mins I guess,
my friend decided that we should call the driver.
Boring lettew. Haha.
Ok la, we had our sightseeing moment. But to buy stuffs, I think it will be better
to get it elsewhere (depending on what you want to buy). I shall blogged about my tailor-experience here later. Btw, the guy tailor successfully sew the skirt just like the sample given. Yeah, to few more new clothes!