Phuket August '05 - Cape Phromthep

This was Cape Phromthep view point. A famous place to see sunset and sunrise.

It was good but not as magnificent as I thought it was.

Some people were playing music using indigenious Australian music instrument "didgeridoo", I think. I search the name from Wiki. I love their music.

There was a street magician there. He was kind of good. Everybody was excited watching him. But when he took off his hat to ask for money, most people just turned away. I didn't give him any money either...... In this photo, he made the card flew.

A lighthouse museum.



Sunset. See... wasn't very impressive, right?



Me again~

We were on the way back to hotel in the taxi. And the taxi asked us if we wanted to stop at a smaller viewpoint. It was already dark but we thought, what the heck, go and see it anyway. And I took this nice photo. The bay in the pic was Kata and Karon Beach. We were staying at Kata Beach.


Zoom in the Kata Beach.

Phuket August '05 - James Bond Island

We joined the tour to go to James Bond Island (locally named Tapu Island), where the movie "The man with the golden gun" was partially filmed. It's at the North Eastern part of Phuket. The water here are murky. But the (I can't think of the word I want to describe here...) view was breathtaking. All these are limestones, I suppose. They came up one after another, and another, and another, and another... they are endless. very very beautiful.

My bro and me. The Indian family on my back has 2 kids whom were so darn noisy! The youngest girl of about 4 years old, started crying even before she got on the transfer van. And she cried throughout the WHOLE day........... and I mean WHOLE day.

My camera doesn't have panaromic function. So I manually, agak-agak took a few photos intended to be combined like this. Thus the colour different was very obvious.


The one in the middle, is James Bond Island.

We had to take long boat to get there.

And this is... I don't know, I forgot. hahahaha....

Expensive souvenirs were selling there.
This is a 150 years old Muslim village entirely built on pillars, named Kho Panyi Village. We had our lunch there.


A poor gibbon kept as pet I supposed. I loveeee gibbons.....

They look so much like a soft toy......... sooooo lovelyyyyyyyyyy

The makcik, used only fishing line to fish, without fishing rods. And she had caught quite a few~

This was at Lawa Island. Which was crap. We thought we'd be brought to a nice beach as it was written on the brochure, we can either swim or snorkel there. But.... look at this photo and you know what I mean by "crap".

We had got nothing to do there. Not even a place to sit, unless we want to get our butt wet. Besides, we were there only for 45 minutes, even if the beach and sea were nice, swim what... forget it. But I found something interesting to do. There were many holes on the sandy beach. Of course, crabs. "Crabs" this time, not "crap".

The were so tiny~ So adorable...



And the "sand ball" they filtered out were also tiny of course. So it's very very cute.

Phuket August '05 - Misc

This is their er... electricity thing. Er... what's the proper name for this???? Pardon my poor vocab...

Pardon this super 自恋me again, I lllooovveee taking photos of me from the back because I see my face everyday but not my back side mah... heeheeheee.....

Dolphins~~~ must take photo~! This was taken at Patong Beach. Patong Beach was very lively and to my surprised, very clean. I love it~

Some artist working. If I am very good at drawing, I might consider working like this.

I love this dive shop~! Got a nice little pool, and a pretty little bridge. Fabulous~!

Dolphins again~~

I (thick-facely) think these 2 photos are "post-card shots".



Restaurants by the beach. I thought these situated by the beach must be expensive, but not really.

I had green mussels. The restaurant boss (or maybe just staff) was very friendly. Basically everybody in Phuket was very friendly, except perhaps, some chinese sellers.

Well, nothing much to write anymore.
Then it was the departure day.

I just love these kind of views..... soooooo nice..........



Unknown islands.

~~I.LOVE.ISLANDS!~~

Bad luck

Recently was soooo unlucky. I am always unlucky at year end.

The other day while driving company car, I kindly let a SBS cut my lane from my left to the right lane. Then that stuuuupid driver don’t know how he drove, his bus scratched my company car!!! Luckily I wasn’t driving my MD’s Mazda… He never even bother to stop, that stupid driver.

Then I went “da bao” duck noodle for lunch. The lady boss was sooooo.. busy, business was very good. So I thought I could take the chili myself instead of asking her to take. She had passed the noodle to me without putting in the packet chili. But taking a packet of chili, such simple thing also I failed to do. The chili dropped on the floor. And sooooo.. unfortunate that the packet broke apart and chili was all over the place……. That adds to the lady boss’s trouble instead of easing her job which was my intention. She got kind of unhappy of course. And I was so embarrassed I left hurriedly.

Lesson learnt : don’t try to be too nice. Bad things always hit back on me on the face when I tried to be nice...

And hor, I ordered duck noodle, yet she gave me char-siew noodle, sian diao….. end up I ate only the noodle. Cos I wasn’t in the mood to eat char-siew. Yeah, what things to eat also depends on my mood.

Then on that day, I hit my head on the car twice. Once on the back once on the top of my head. So unlucky.

I also “detour” to petshop while running errand, wanted to buy hamster food. But all but one of the petshop were closed……………….. and the one left did not sell the brand I wanted.

Sueh….

Go away go away... all the bad luck go away!

12 inches~

Last Friday I passed motion to an approximately 12 inches of faeces (aka "shit")~

I think I broke my own record but I don't think anyone can break that record ya? Of course it's approximate lah, I don't have a ruler in my toilet.....

I hate alarm clocks

I didn't sleep well yesterday night... had bad dreams the whole night. Woke up with a heartbeat of what must be over 120 per second. But I totally forgot what were my dreams when I awoke.

And I hate alarm clocks. When it rings it means you have to get up for work. The only exception is when I want to wake up early to catch a plan and go diving~ haha.. but that is like, happens once every year..

When I am on vacation, it's very funny how my biological clock works. All of us would set the alarm for next day morning. But it happened countless times that I would wake up just before the alarm goes off. Even when I set 2 alarms (one watch, one handphone), I'd still be worried that something will go wrong with the 2 of them and caused me miss my dive. hahaha... so usually, I don't know how, but I'll automatically wake up before the alarms ring. SS said I wake up before the alarm rings to check if the alarm clocks are working properly. hahaha.. very funny...

Lousy and good movie

Was at home today, watched 2 dvd movies. One was "The Nun". When it was being shown, the radio stations were praising it like the best horror movie, blah blah blah. I don't usually like to watch horror movies, but the way they described it, was like soooo... great....

It turned out to be the lousiest horror movie I ever watched. The actors were extremely lousy, the story was totally unconvincing.... in summary, everything sucks. I asked my bro to throw this dvd away. Not worth to keep at all. A movie you wish you never watch.

Then I watched Will Smith's "The Pursuit of Happyness". Yeah, it's "happyness" not "happiness" in this title. This was recommended by the dvd seller. hehehe.....

Will Smith is a sales man struggling everyday to make ends meet. His wife left him and he was with his son, whom, is his real life son~ Brilliant kid~ It was a very touching movie. I am not sure but I think this is based on true story. I cried at the end of the movie. So touching. Go get this movie if you can. It's nice.

Happy New Year 2007~

Happy New Year everyone~~ How was your celebration? I myself hardly celebrate Xmas or new year. I don't quite like the crowd and traffic jam...

But every time when I drive during new year's eve, there seemed to be bad things happened to me. Year 2000, we went to YY house and chat until ... 3am, I think? and when I drove back with ST, there was a major traffic police operation and I made a turn at the wrong place (I never knew we could not turn there...). We were still wondering why did the police stopped us. And I was fined er... RM1oo, I think.

And today, no, yesterday, new year's eve. I drove back to SG house to feed Miko, went shopping and dinner with Gab after that. KR had kindly sms and informed me earlier about G2000 is on sales now. So I went and bought 2 dresses with 50% discount~ so happy about that~~~ I didn't want to buy at that time, but the sales ends on 2nd Jan... so I bought them.

It never crossed my mind to cut off all the price tags when driving back and pass Msia custom. As my car had never been checked, well, maybe once or twice... but this time, hell all cars were being stopped and checked, especially Msia cars. Lucky there were very few cars, else I would have been stucked there for 2 hours cos people have bought many stuffs from SG and they were "negotiating" and other cars can't pass through. The tax is 30%.. THAT is a lot, man. (big money for Haji eh?)

The total for my dress is S$59. I had to be fined RM39 or something. The officer mumbled a lot, that I can't pass the green lane with things on my car lah, this lah that lah. "Whatever.." I thought. I don't want to listen to him, I just want to pay and get the hell out of there. No point talking so much. In the end the officer "kindly" reduced it to RM30 without me asking for it. I thanked him.

Other cars bought a lot... 30% is a hell lot... "Tolong lah, cik..." They said to the officer.

I hate the word "tolong". I hate to say tolong to those officers. When I got that "saman" on year 2000's eve, I said tolong to those officers, cos that was my first time being stopped by traffic police and fined, I was really scared. And it felt horrible. I am an Aries, Aries's pride is ehm, should I say... very "high up"? Whatever the word, you get what I mean. Aries loathe to beg. By saying the word tolong it is like throwing myself (or my pride) onto the floor and let people stamp on me. Thus if I get saman again, I will just accept and pay. Lucky I never did and hopefully there will not be a second time.

If I happened to have bought many stuffs, and tax a lot, I'd probably just pay and leave and not asking "tolong" to the officer. But I sure hope my wallet happened to just have RM30 or RM50.. So I can tell them, I don't have that much to pay. So how? Maybe they'll just say pay whatever you have.

Anyway, I wasn't angry or upset about being taxed lah. It is the law... By the way, my mum knows clothings will be taxed and I don't. How ignorant....

From now on, I'd just make sure I cut off all the price tags for whatever things I bought from SG. And be extra careful on new year's eve. All government operations always happen on new year's eve... Lucky the dresses were 50% off, else really "bo hua" leh...

And, Happy New Year to you all again~