I’ve found some useful extensions for Chrome browser. I’m listing them down so I don’t forget.
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Baby Can I Hold You
An attempt at the Tracy Chapman song. On my Barron River Milo Ukulele.
Hunter’s Song
So I’ve been wanting to write Hunter’s Song for ages now. I had a song in mind starting with:
They call me Hunter
With my long slender body
And my…
It pretty much stopped there for a while. From time to time, the ideas would pick up again.
A few months ago, I finally put more words in and ended up with this:
They call me Hunter
But you won’t find a rabbit in my mouth
They say looks can kill but mine will break your heart
My long and slender (golden) body
And my oversized paws
There are no laws
When it comes to Hunter.
I always imagined it’d be sung in a Leonard Cohen-ish kind of way. Low. More spoken than sung.
But today, I was strumming around on my ukulele, and I just put stupid words down and made up a tune. It is not at all close to the idea that I started with.
So here is Hunter’s Song.
Vietnam Day 17 – Hanoi to Singapore
Okay, not quite counted as a day because it’s just travelling home, right?
Nothing major happened, except that the connection was so tight, there was a staff member of Dragon Air waiting to escort me to my connecting flight.
Vietnam Day 16 – Hanoi again
Last day in Hanoi and I spent the entire day… walking. From 0940 till 1640, I did not sit down at all.
Breakfast at the hotel was pho, and I asked for two eggs boiled. After my boiled eggs, I was excited to see if the hotel could do it. I wasn’t disappointed.
Vietnam Day 15 – Ba Be Lake to Hanoi
Woke up to a wet morning. Actually, I’m not even sure I slept. The wildlife were really noisy. As was the snoring next door. I recorded the sounds.
After breakfast, we were off around 0840 to a nearby cave called Hua Ma cave (Horse head), so called because they found a horses head in the cave.
Vietnam 2013 Day 14 – Ba Be Lake
Breakfast of too-sweet pancakes.
Vietnam 2013 Day 13 – Beo Lac to Ba Be Lake
Breakfast was finally different with a street-side banh cuon. It’s like chee cheong fun, only with less filling and a lot more folds of thin rice flour layers. The filling is minced pork and it is dipped in a pork broth. The broth came with a pork tube as opposed to a pork ball, and you can add chilli, lemon, coriander leaf, chilli and so on to the broth.
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Vietnam 2013 Day 12 – Meo Vac to Bao Lac
After breakfast – yes, it was pho again, but this time, they had smoked pork, so I tried that. The broth was very mediocre but the smoked pork was… not really memorable either – we walked from the hotel to the Meo Vac lookout point.
Vietnam 2013 Day 11 – Dong Van to Meo Vac
Today, we went to Lung Cu to see the biggest flag in Vietnam positioned at the most northerly point. It is 52 square meters representing the 52 ethnic groups in Vietnam.
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