For God Glory and Gold!

Nobody wanted to sit at this hammock because it was so creepy, under a bunch of trees and all that. You gotta thing about disgusting insects and hantu somemore.

Stupid crabs gave me a shock in the morning, while I was walking around the beach and they all started scuttling back to their holes and I couldn't see what was running around me cos they blended with the sand. Curse you!

Another kampong scene. These makciks just love to stand outside the house and talk. At SEVEN in the MORNING.

We had a quick breakfast, and I ate some unnameable stuff and people scrambled to grab cereal (again) & all kinds of nuts (sigh) only to leave it behind at one point or another. And I had diarrhoea but that unnecessary information.

We saw a bunch of houses up a hill and it looks real pretty and all but, I wonder how they climb up and down all the time? Hard to get to the beach so I guess they have a swimming pool or something. Which is stupid and pointless.

Cik Sarip steadying the boat for them.

We took the boat at 8plus and arrived at Gonsai and it was close to 9 and our ferry was leaving at 9! So we had to scramble and Zaidah & Aye disappeared and the ferry was full with matsallehs and to sum it up, UGH.
Oh and it seems that the ferry stopped HALFWAY cos somebody got left behind and that person took a long-tail boat to run after the ferry. Giler. The person who even bothered to chase the ferry and the captain of the ferry, for even stopping. No rules ah you all?

We arrived back at Krabi super early like 10 plus and then, had no idea where to go. The uncles arranged something though, with a lot of "MUSLIM.MUSLIM?" in the whole discussion.

Aye disappeared to get a tattoo (henna) on her arm in Thai, which is suppose to say Queen. The others suspect it means something else or maybe just some Thai guy's name. Shrugs.

We dropped off our bags at this shady place (where my bag got infested with ants and I had to clear everything out in the airport toilet with the help of Kinah & Amche's lighter. Thanks. I will remember this.), and went in search of food. And just went CRAZY when we found a Muslim place. Ordered what seems like everything on the menu.

(Cows, nasi goreng dier SEEDAAAPP.)

After eating and everybody looked happy and contented, we walked around. ALOT. To do shopping apparently and oh my god. I cannot do shopping under pressure. I was just so annoyed! I bought some things for my friends, (under pressure) so I kind of just grabbed the 1st thing that I liked and bought it and bought one shirt for myself because I felt like I HAD to and then I was done and just, hung around. Dunno lah. I suck at this kind of thing. It's Izzah's kind of thing. I just get irritated.

Oh and I grabbed alot of turtle things and elephant things and alot of perhiasaan, all of which I bought none because it's ridiculous and impractical. They were very pretty though, and rather expensive for Thai things and I felt cheated and thus bought none. Then I proceeded to grab another turtle thing when we entered another shop. Sigh. I'm just like my father. Too stingy and practical. And the money wasn't even mine. Which makes it even harder to spend.

You KNOW I have to think about stuff for 3 weeks before buying! The fastest I've ever shopped and actually worn the stuff I bought was right before the Krabi trip, at the Mega Sale at Expo. Wakaka. And even that took me the whole day to stare at the stuff and think.

(No animals inside je. Cheat my feelings)

(Snake skin? Or run over snake?)

Gorgeous, pregnant cat, with one blue eye, and one brown. So unique!! I'm so sorry I didn't have food with me. Boo.

Pornpraset?!

Cool traffic light. And a bit creepy at night.

Just the beginning of the shopping horror and dorang dah pasrah,and blended in with the Thai crowd.

The policewoman under a Thai PolicePost. An abandoned police post.

Tina sempat run across the street to take a picture of our good friend Marilyn. Like cannot find him anywhere else gitu.

More sitting around on the ground while others shop. I remember this being the place where Mami Yam yelled out "PRATA GIRL!" to the girl who sold them prata on the second day. And Aye being properly horrified.

Hot (literally) little Merc.

Finally, we just sat under some trees and just blanked out. Kepale terbakar you know.

I think they were taking the boat to go to school. BEST KAN. Not for me uh, cos I don't really like boats and water.

Pasrah giler, we went back to the place where we dumped our bags and sat around and uh, I gave out very melted Chunky KitKat. And we had some nervous laughter and talks about some really old bands that we used to listen to. Until finally, FINALLY, we reached...

The airport. And my mum really shopped around. And we just decided to all check in our bags because it was such a burden with stupid liquids and ziplock bags. And OH. We got that hostile bastard at Immigration again. He's SUCH an asshole. And when we wanted to fly off, it was...

Raining. Even Tina got nervous when we took off because she looked outside the window and saw lightning and was all "AAAHH!". -closed eyes- And looks outside the window again.

After a while, to keep our minds off things, we shared her MP3 and started bouncing around our seat and headbanging and taking videos. Unfortunately, the sound from the earphones cant really be heard over the noise of the plane so the videos are of us looking very dumb, lipsynching to nothingness and shaking around in our seat.

I didn't realize this cute kid down the row was staring at us and laughing. He's so cute!! I think it's a he anyways. You can never tell with kids. And sometimes with adults.

Yeah kid, we made your day.

Finally, Spore! City of lights! It was so bright from up above, and looked so pretty that I can almost forgive them for outshining the stars. Almost.

I accidentally knocked a pakcik out of the way with my trolley, while queueing for our bags. Don't think I did it on purpose! -looks at Aye & Zaidah-
I hated the bag part. Every bag looked like my mum's and I almost grabbed the wrong bag lah. Bleargh. And then there's the anticipation when you spot your bag coming round the bend and you're like "Okay okay act cool, act cool" then you lunge for it. All the drama, I can't take it!

And when we came out, nobody was waiting for us. Thanks eh, Izzah & Abak. Iza was sleeping at home lah! AND when I came through the door, my dad just looked at me and smiled, not bothering to help me with the bags. Again, THANKS.

I know my friends wondered at my incredible stupidness for not putting on sunblock and as a result, started peeling here and there when I met them. I don't know okay! I don't sunburn! I don't become anything except darker! I've never heard of sunblock okay! Sigh. I look awful but hell, it was worth it.

-stretches- And THAT, ladies and gentlemen (& old man), is the end of my Krabi Trip updates. Omg I'm done! Okay no more about Krabi. Zip. Shush. That's all folks!

I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

*~*Excuse me While I Tend to How I Feel @
12:02:00 PM

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Survivor: Phi Phi Island, Krabi -- Day Three (Part 2)

Then it was time to go off in the boat and snorkel! This little matsalleh boy mistook us for the staff at the counter. Hah!

And I felt a little nervous about the flippers but hey! How hard can it be right? -shakes head at myself- I'm as panicky as a deer.

Again, not Photoshop people. I love this picture, it's going on the wall baby! We were all just whooping and waving oh-so-glamourously to other passing boats and shouting "HI! HELLO! WHOOHOO!!" cos man, this is the life.
Wind in your hair, sun in your face, cold drinks at your feet, in good company and off to see the fishes. Cows, now THAT is what you call a vacation.

Just some trivia - no females are suppose to go to the very front of the boat, because they believe that is where the Lady Goddess of Something is suppose to be or something and if a female does stand there, it's a sign that the boat is going to sink. Or something as terrible.

-nods head thoughtfully-

You gotta respect the sea, and all the superstitions above it.

Tina is just so step Phi Phi Next Top Model can?! I don't understand her hands.

THIS guy, is our instructor, Deo, and he's pretty whacked in the head. Swallowed a tad too much seawater and hung around with too many matsallehs, we think. But he's funny and it seems like he knows the sea pretty well so I felt quite safe. My cousins were saying (about the view while we were speeding around),

"Oh, it's beautiful! It's beautiful!" And he was like,

"No. It's not beautiful. It's fucking beautiful!!"

LOL. At least he knows to censor himself around the parents. Cows. -shakes head-
And they were asking him about the tsunami and if he was there and he said yeah, he was. And that when he saw the water recede, he knew something was wrong and so he ran up to the top of the mountains and people who saw him laughed at him and thought he was crazy. And now they're all dead.

And he said it so nonchalantly, very matter-of-factly. And terdiam sekejap aku. Very kesian, but like I said, I would definitely follow him, a survivor of the tsunami. There were actually Tsunami Evacuation Routes on Phi Phi Island and I told Aye that if anything happened, I would hang on to her cos I can't swim. Scary can!

We stopped at Gonsai Bay to refuel and this is what the tsunami left behind. They've rebuilt the place really quick though, such that you can hardly see any other signs that the tsunami ever happened.

We went to this island to snorkel, I think it's called Phi Phi Le.

There's something about these places that I wanted to say but I forgot. Limestone. Bird nest. Boulders. Gorgeous. Larger than life. Check. It. Out.

And oh, if you try climbing the rocks at night (or something, my memory is getting sketchy. This is what happens if you blog like a week later), you'll get shot. The area is very protected because of...something. Aiyah, if you want to know more, go Google is okay?

Sweet dreams are made of this, or rather, this water is made of dreams. It's more Izzah's dream than mine, to visit a place with clear blue waters that you can see fishes. My dream is to see a real life killer whale. Or dolphin. Oh and to go Old Trafford. But not before I go to Makkah. I mean, if I have money to go Old Trafford to catch a game, I MUST have money to go Makkah right?

What if I opt to go Manchester instead and my plane crashes? I will go to hell for sure.

Mastan & Tina, the youngest members of our family, preparing to go snorkelling.

I was looking forward to getting into the water with flippers actually, acting all mermaidy and graceful and it would help since I can't swim. I even put on my lifejacket backwards. I jumped in first and god, the first thing I felt was NOTHING.

I couldn't bloody touch the floor and my goddamn flippers were getting in the way, I wasn't used to there being something BEYOND my feet except maybe SHOES. Buggering hell lah. Amche was there to guide me and he told me to put my face down in the water and look. And bloody hell, I was close to panicking when I saw how deep the water was. I didn't want to let go of the rope. I mean, come ON!! Trust this stupid life jacket to keep me afloat!!??

Let's just say our attempt to not look stupid failed miserably as I flopped around like a fish on deck, except that I was a human in water. It's those stupid flippers.

Look flippers, I like you, I really do, but I just CANNOT, on my first time ever snorkelling in deep waters (to me), not feel my feet! I need my feet! It's not you, it's me.

So Amche told me to climb back up the boat and take them off. And I'm like YESSA.
And I tried to climb up. And I couldn't. Cos that ladder wasn't made for people with abnormally large feet. GODDAMN YOU

FLIPPERS! Amche told me to take them off in the water and I'm like, WAAHAAAT.

1) I would have to actually let go of the deathgrip that I had on the rope.

2) What if I drop the flippers? Then somebody (hopefully not me) would have to go DOWN to retrieve it! (And it didn't occur to me that maybe, the flippers could float on their own?)

So I continued to desperately climb the ladder, at last using my knees though it hurt! And Kinah looked at me taking off my flippers and immediately took off hers too! Curse you flipperscum.

Anyway, all pictures of us snorkelling are courtesy of my mother. When I was in the water, trying to breathe and float and let go of the rope, she kept calling my name, asking me how to work the camera. And I didn't answer cos I was trying to focus! But she figured it out. Well done Mak!

And Mami Yam was calling me to look at the fishes cos she was throwing pieces of bread in and all the fishes were gathering around us. And she threw a piece of bread at Kinah and all the fishes started attacking her! You can see the yellow-yellow fishes near the surface, around us if you look properly. I wish I had a waterproof camera sey.

I did finally let go off the rope and followed Cik Sarip and the rest further out. You can almost forget yourself and just float away, chasing a fish until suddenly, when you look up, you realize you're very far away from the boat and then PANIC at the disco. That didn't happen to me cos water kept entering my mask so I had to clear it out after a few minutes.

I saw an EEL YO! HEEHEEHEE. Flotsam! Jetsam! And these guys!

It's all super exciting and ohmygod and we saw big fishes and small fishes and Zaid saw a lobster! A seasnake and we all looked at each wondering, "Is it dangerous? Poisonous?" Nobody knew so we just kept looking. I don't know what I think about the corals. Maybe if I went nearer.

While in the water, and everything was muffled (though I could still hear Kinah mumble "I'm a piranha!" followed by Mastan's "From the Amazon!"), I was thinking to myself that humans are just so kepoh. The fishes eat bread! They're not afraid of us! They know us! Is that natural? I don't think so.

And oh let's digress. I watched the last episode of Planet Earth and there's this place that's just sooo gorgeous and all I could think was, "WOW. Excellent place for snorkelling." NO OKAY. Let's leave it be. The fishes are just so happy there, the place was filled with all sorts of fishes. And oh, they showed the brilliant blue whale, largest animal on the planet.

I was hoping they would put something beside it so you can see the scale. Like, we've always seen Great Whites right, and we know they're big. But I finally saw a HUMAN beside a Great White Shark and oH MY GOD, only then do you realize how HUGE they are. Gorgeous animals really.

Please save the whales! The numbers used to be at 300,000 a while back but now, only a little less than 3% of that number remains. COWS!!!! -howls with despair- It's the plankton! They need the plankton! Kesian sey. Oh and please, help stop deforestation in Indonesia, thanks.

This is me after I swam like crazy to the boat. Cik Sarip was right, I was struggling and close to panicking cos everybody was ahead except for Cik Sarip and cows, the boat just seemed so far away and at one point, I just put my head down and kicked like crazy and when I looked up, I COULDN'T SEE THE BOAT!

Cos I was going in the wrong direction.

Cik Sarip kept telling me to relax but yes, I'm a deer that is depending on my lifejacket to stay afloat and I can't swim. PANIC! But if you panic at sea, you are dead. Thanks eh. They should ban me from going to sea. The sea and me, we don't have an understanding. It's like, "HEY I'm gonna suck you in! And make you throw up!" even after I throw it compliments. Gggrr.

I already felt uneasy when I got on but come on I was doing so good! We went to another spot so Zaid & Aye could go diving and let's just say, after 19 years, I'm still a baby cos I couldn't handle the seasickness and uh. Let's just skip this part.

The water changed colour cos we were in deeper waters and Amche was happily swimming around and resurfacing to tell us that he saw a school of barracudas. BARRACUDAS! And Deo was telling us that at the edges of the area we were at, there were sharks. SHARKS! I don't mind. But yeah, I got in the water for a while before freaking out at the immense need to pour my brain out from my nose. I'm sorry Zaid and Aye cos they got left behind while the boat took us somewhere else.

But they saw a sea turtle! And chased it! And Zaid touched it! -shakes fist at you two- But they were at the bottom uh and oh, there are videos! I wish I got a picture of them in their diving gear. It looked so cool.

And this is the famous Maya Bay. That movie, "The Beach", was filmed here.

It had this guy in it, Leonardo Dicaprio.

"During the filming of the movie the film crew remodeled and flattened the beach using a tractor, making it unstable. The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 allowed the beach to be naturally restored to its previous state, much to the relief of the locals."

The tsunami had a purpose after all. Everything God does has a purpose, unlike humans. Self-destruction and all that rot.

Anyways, you have to pay 200 baht to step on the beach and there is no purpose cos all the beaches look the same so we just waved at it from afar. I cannot believe I was there! I remember watching the movie and marveling at the beautiful waters and HAH! I was there!
-traces my name in the sky-

When we got back to the resort, I was immediately rushed off for a Thai massage! Bubu mangaed to squeeze me in and I got this girl named "Kai" which means chicken. MASSAGE SAK. It didn't really hurt except for some parts and Zaidah said that this was actually a very soft version of the real Thai massage and as usual, my mum didn't feel a thing. And I went into a sauna! I felt like a Japanese man! Bloody hot my head felt like it was going to explode and everything was still swaying really bad.

But in a nice kind of way.

Tina had her huge sandwich again and Mak & me ate something called Phad Thai? Or something. I don't know I was just very hungry.

Followed by drinks with the cousins and my mum went back to the room and now I feel bad that I left her alone cos she said that she felt something was wrong when she was alone inside and that her bulu roma ternaik. And later in the night, Bubu said she heard scratching and NASIB it was on the last night cos I would get pretty freaked out. It never occurred to me lah. And at reception, they said that there was actually a Malay grave outside of the girls' room. Aiyer.

And when I told Izzah that the tsunami hit Phi Phi Island too, and alot of people died right? She said something like, "And you're still not scared? Go swimming and all that?" And again, I never thought about it. Hmmm.

The night sky was brilliant, full with stars. Singapore sucks sometimes. I wish we had time to lie down and just look at the sky. Oh well. And that's the end of that. One last day then I'm done! Oh by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBU.

Starlight
I will be chasing the starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore

*~*Excuse me While I Tend to How I Feel @
5:57:00 PM

Survivor: Phi Phi Island, Krabi -- Day Three (Part 1)

My third day there, I woke up super early for Suboh and also cos my mum was talking excitedly about the sunrise and all I could think was "Get the camera!" And so, my mum shall be my model cos she just looks so pretty.

I didnt't realize my lenses were getting all foggy cos of the cold and different temperatures from inside the room and out.
But Mak really looked all kampong2 cos I didn't let her change out of the kain batik. Phewweet!

She just picked up her kain and went striding into the sea. You can't resist the call baby.

I've said it once and I'll say it again. I wish there was two of me cos really, I don't trust other people to take pictures of me or anything except myself. And maybe Bah. And the both of us could giggle together sometime, and I won't be looked at suspiciously. I hate that sometimes, do you know that?

The 3 makciks, future Neneks Sarah, Hasnah & Bee.

Mami Yam is just so cute in her little get up, all set to go snorkelling! Hehe.

This are the elders, stopping to get food from this Thai makcik selling nasi and ayam and curry along the beach. Because getting halal food was such a hassle the day before, they decided to make good use of this opportunity. And you know, the nasi was actually very good! Huge compliment coming from Madah, the Fussy.

But they took so long to decide that we again, had to just hang around and fade out.

We had breakfast at like SEVEN IN THE MORNING, where they spread out the food through this function room and you're suppose to go around picking what you like. Doughnuts, chocolate, hasbrown, eggs, toast, orange juice, mango juice, coffeee, tea (I had tea!) and we went crazy over the cereal (like we've never seen them before). At least Aye & me only took 2 but Tina just grabbed one of each. Can you say KIASU?

After breakfast, we hung around playing mind games with each other...Okay so it's called teka-teki but really, it put alot of stress and pressure on Cik Sarip & Amche. I was just grinning and listening and then my mum made me tell them a few riddles, which I think made Cik Sarip feel even more tension than ever. I'm sorry! I have quite a lot of stupid2 teka-teki questions (thanks mostly to that bunch of Samba people & co) but either they are too long, too physical or I just can't remember and can't be bothered. -runs away-

I think this is actually an ashtray. They have the chop or what sey?! I would like one of those!

Okay people, this is NOT photoshop. It's just really super ultra bright and hot and the pictures come out almost all white.

Survivor or whaaaat.

The boat that we took later on, this time leaving for the 1st dive with Amche's family. They left and the rest of us went to grab that snorkelling mask thing to practice for later on. Cos you know, we don't want to look like fools. But we just do, naturally.

Kinah wanted to give her name as Tata bloody Young at the counter and the people cackled. Boleh ke, change name in Thailand? I thought, just gender. Like that eh, I want to be known as Senamuang! But just call me Lis.

Trying to snorkel and gosh we suck, water kept coming into my mask and at one point, instead of breathing in air, I sucked in a whole lot of seawater and almost drowned. Sigh. And I can't do that whale trick that Kinah does. -shakes fist at you- Mak came in after a while then Kinah & Bubs went for their spa and I just tossed the mask aside and floated my way to heaven,
with shades no less.

Makciks will be makciks. It's like a scene from kampong days, stepping outside to talk to your neighbour passing by your house. Drying clothes and sweeping the halaman.

I love this thing, thought it was a great idea. It's for washing your sandy feet before you step in. Every bungalow has it and at the main entrance too.

A scene from the "Room 117", featuring Tina the ghost of daylight.

ADUHAI! *cue jiwang lyrics and hindustan plots*

Pretending to live the life of the step-rich, in bathrobe and all. I was actually trying to dry off myself and I didn't really stay in that pose for more than 10seconds cos it was flaming hot and the floor was burning my feet! Couldn't even walk around barefooted lah. And we had two bags of towels delivered to our room. I really wished that I had let housekeeping in but Mak was sleeping.

Thanks Mami Yam for the elephant though.

To be continued with Day 3 later cos it's really long and I haven't even gotten to the fun part yet. Peace out.

*~*Excuse me While I Tend to How I Feel @
12:05:00 AM

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Survivor: Phi Phi Island, Krabi -- Day Two

This is the view from outside my balcony in Krabi.

It's all jungley and trees so you can understand why I didn't want to step out there at night.

The hotel was beside a river though and the view is bloody fantastic in the morning, all sunshine and daisies, boats zooming past and green everywhere you look.

Some of them went off to look for food and they brought back PRATA. It is conspermed. Prata is universal. I love you prata. (FYI, our captain's name on the flight back to Spore was Francesco PRATA.)

Goodbye Krabi River Hotel. (Though we were there again on the last day)

This bus of memories, brought us to the jetty/ferry terminal and this girl, Aye, gave us all a heart attack. So, we were all taking pictures while waiting for Amche to get back to the bus and Zaidah tells Aye to get down from the bus to take a picture of her. And while Aye was on the ground, the bus started moving away!

We were all so startled that we just looked at her and started yelling "Aye! Aye!" helplessly. And SHE was just standing there in shock, gaping at the moving bus. Then she started running ever-so-dramatically after it and hopping onto the bus Bangalore-style. And then the bus stopped. Because it was only moving a few metres to let a lorry move out.

LOL HAHAHAHA. Another classic by Zahirah Khan! What a complete YouTube moment that I wish I could pull out the memory from my head and post it all over the Internet. -wipes tear from my eye- More hilarious than Salman Khan going to jail for killing a deer.

Ferry terminal. Problems at the money changer because they've never seen Spore dollars before. USD? USD? NO!!! Got onto the ferry and we were all excited about going out to the front of the boat but we had to sit inside first because the uncles said so. Suddenly,

Ah! Feet beside our windows. And then Zaidah & Tina saw an "angel" and surprisingly, the uncles knew what we were all giggling about. Nick Carter was sitting behind Zaidah and we saw an Emma Bunton on the ferry home. The place is infested with BSB and Spice Girls lah. And AGAR-AGAR.

The ferry started moving and we were all sitting outside getting sun. Lots of unwanted sun. We don't tan, we don't burn. We just get darker, and darker, and darker, until there's nothing left to see except our teeth. Which was why Aye opted to stay inside and sleep, you smart ding-a-ling.

The matsallehs were all happy to be out there cos of course, they can tan. I have had enough sun to last me for a year. Panas GILER. But there was the wind and the sights and the act-cool-nie-ferry-bapak-kiter and all so it was okay.

One of the sights. HEH. Zaidah took this with him inside okay! I didn't ask for it! But thanks for taking the initiative. I don't know how I'm going to show my dad the pictures. Need to skip quite alot. Heh.

All you see is sea sea sea and it's so brilliant I wish I can go back. Curse you Singaporescum!!!

The back of the ferry was scary cos if the ferry stops or jerks, you would just fall off. There's no support or barrier anywhere! Nor anybody guarding it. AIYOH.

We went back down when it started to drizzle and Mami Yam & Mak turned around to include Cik Sarip & Cik Naya in a long discussion about Nasi Lemak's Sambal & Other Recipes. For goodness sake.

I think we reached a place called Gonsai Bay, on Phi Phi Island and then from there, we had to take this decidedly-dodgy-kapchaiy-looking boats called "longtail boats".

But it was enjoyable and the water just got clearer and clearer and SQUEALS. Gerek beb.

We dropped off a woman at some godforsaken place and our boat hit some rocks cos it was already in very shallow waters, and it made Mami Yam melatar, which made ME crack up like crazy.

The other boat. I don't know why we always overtook them even though they went off first. And I think it's called "Kittisak". Isn't that a football player?

Welcome to Phi Phi Island.

"I'm chilling at the Holiday Inn...-cue for Snoop Dogg to take over-"

(Whachu doin?) Nothing chillin at the Holidae In
(Who you wit?) Me and my peeps won't you bring four of your friends
(What we gon' do?) Feel on each other and sip on some Hen
One thing leading to another let the party begin

Okay that was unneccessary but the song was playing in my head when I stepped on the beach, but with much cleaner made-up lyrics.

We got complimentary drinks and I'm like WOW. Took a sip and never again. It had a ZANG, tang, pang to it. -shudders-
Then they gave us cold wet towels! Kinah told me it was to wipe our hands and faces and I enthusiastically did so. Sedap sey, I felt like such a traveller from the books I read. Been riding camels in the sandstorm and all that. Whoohoo!

They carried our bags (my bag at least) for us and brought us to the rooms. And Ta-DA!

I LIKE. VERY MUCH. Thank you Bank of Aishah and the organizers.

Tina immediately put on the furry slippers and flopped onto the bed and grabbed a banana. The question is,
"PEEL OR NO PEEL?"

She decided to peel.

I was amused while reading this but it's true lah. Got alot of geckos around, I kept jumping in surprise.

The view outside our bungalow. Sigh. JUMP IN!

Tina did, in her jeans. Just ran out and started snapping away.

Then we had a mini discussion under some trees (with Cik Sarip in the hammock) about where to eat, and we decided to just walk the length of the beach in search of halal food.

And we saw these schkids. Omg imagine living on Phi Phi Island and schooling there. Freaking awesome. I wouldn't be the stiff-bun, paranoid, neurotic teenager that I am today.

We walked in the bloody hot sun and everybody seemed to be getting annoyed cos it never occurred to us that there might not be halal food. So began another impromptu discussion under the trees.

And I just took pictures because it doesn't really matter where we eat and uh, I wanted to stay out of the line of fire.

Finally we just went back to Holiday Inn and just bought seafood stuff, which was bad news for me cos I don't eat seafood except for fish. All fish except for tuna and salmon so my choices were very, very limited. So I turn to seabass! Which was weird cos it had mango with chilli on it and I was just weirded out. I tasted tom yam for the first time and in little quantities, it's actually really nice. And oh THAI SAUCE. Yummay.

But nothing like iced Sprite with lime after a hot tiring sweaty long walk down the beach.

Tina got a huge sandwich and that alone was enough to make her happy. I wonder what's the deal with tuna. Why is everybody putting tuna on a pedastool? Sardine is just as good as tuna. It's ridiculous to put two identical type of fishes on different ranks!!! ARGH!!! -stabs tuna in the eye-

When we got back to the rooms, this cat was waiting for us. Super odd but HEY! Cat!

I gave it prata to eat and uh, it hung around for the rest of our stay.

We dived into the sea after that and no pictures from then on cos my camera's not waterproof. We waded out really far, almost like the middle and the water was still very shallow! I forgot how to float, then I relearnt it and Kinah learnt how to dog paddle but I just CANNOT grasp it. I suck.

It's kind of stupid to be vacationing by the beach when you can't swim cos it just sucks. But hey, we splashed around some and did synchronized swimming! And tried to be graceful while floating (I mean I WAS graceful, Kinah was just trying to be like me).

I ate prata for dinner then went out to the Leisure Room to watch TV cos there's no TV in our room!!! Just radio, no CDS and DJs speaking in Thai. I didn't know there was a leisure room! And they played Mr. Bean. -snores- If it was just us in the room, I would have changed sey.

Tina stole a magazine from there to bring back and read, even though it was in THAI. So we just read band names. And then went over to the girls' room, which was connected to ours to talk for a while. AND THEN, Aye gave us another heart attack when she started sounding like she couldn't breathe in her sleep. We just sat there and stared at her until she stopped. Seram can! But I'm told it's normal so...-looks suspiciously at Aye-

And then I fell alseep to Damien Rice. Thanks Bubs.

(I got so many things to blog about and now I regret putting everything off. Sya's Bday, Nuwai's MARRIED news. Gah.)

...to be continued...

*~*Excuse me While I Tend to How I Feel @
11:44:00 AM

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Survivor: Phi Phi Island, Krabi - Day One

Father came to "send us off" and then when we gotta pass through immigration, AIYOH. They really dig through your bag sey and PAT you down. Like really TOUCH you, you know. And yeah I beeped (stupid belt). And Tina nak act cool with her snow bloody cap (so the wrong season) had to take it off.

Got the window seat. I "freak out, let it go" a little when it took off cos I looked out the window and saw how high up we were. Jantung sakit. It feels like being at the top of the Viking at Escape but never going down so the crazy anticipation of just hanging in the air weighs down on you. But I got drowsy and fell asleep (thank you god) and completely missed the woman in the next row (the one right after my mother) throwing up in her hands.

Gross.

Take off, 1805hours. Cue: Panic! (at the Disco.)
It sucked because my handphone WAS my MP3 and I couldn't switch it on at all during the flight. Curse you aquascum!!!
Immigration at Thailand sucked too cos the guy was such a hostile bastard. I donch understand you, you great prick.

View from outside my window, nearing Krabi. Somewhere over the rainbow...

...and hullo KE-RAH-BEE!

Van to hotel and it was already night and we were all hungry so we made our way down to a dodgy little site, where people could not speak English and the aunts insisted on speaking Malay to them. Haiz. I wanted kway teow. But I was too afraid to poke around cos I saw a couple of dogs resting nearby and eh, what meat is that eh? Aiyer. And then it started raining and lo! they whipped out huge umbrellas lah.

Under my umbrella ella ella ella ella.......Okay stop it.

The kids ran ahead while we were walking back and when we were near the hotel, Kinah suddenly said,
"EH! Look at that lady in white! (At this point I'm like WAAAHATTT.)
She's human!"

And sure enough, some crazy matsalleh in her stupid nightgown was floating around the vicinity. Lu siao ah?!

Got back and it was lights out for Mak (because everything on TV was in Thai with no Eng subtitles but I did see one Thai soap opera that I might have enjoyed even with the language barrier) but Tina & me went upstairs to the girls' room and scared them a little (ALOT) with some gentle knocking. It was kecoh inside the room when we got there, until Tina quietly knocked and all activity ceased inside.

So I was like waiting2 by the side of the door wondering why haven't they opened it yet. So Tina knocked again. Silence. And then, in a classic slasher-flick voice from Aye,

"Siaper tu...."

HAHAHA! So kental. And we ended up talking abt Japanese/Korean men and their sexual ways.

But later that night, I kept waking up to some odd sounds in my room and hastily covering my head with a pillow. Freaky dude. Luckily we only spent a night there and in the morning, they played Finding Nemo & Da Vinci Code on TV! In ENGLISH! Hooray! I'm a piranha!

to be continued. . .

*~*Excuse me While I Tend to How I Feel @
12:32:00 PM

Monday, June 11, 2007

krabi patty!