I rant. Therefore I am.

An exotic land of creative people... Seriously the Thais' are such creative individuals. Art, craft, dance, theater.. amazing. These people are able to re-use rubbish, scraps of paper, old tin cans and turn them into art-gallery-worthy-piece-of-art! P.S I am tired, need some sleep, need a massage and -proper meals! (pic above is of a public toilet, an elephant made of Pepsi cans, soap carved into a flower!)


Our itinery
(I arrived at KL on the 5th of Oct at 8:45pm, met up with Pu Ei, Pu Nie, May!, Justin, Indran, Lenny - supposed to meet Adrian and Jules but they couldnt make it) Had dinner, a couple of rounds of drinks, headed back to May Lengs place at midnight, packed, showered and slept at about 2:20am!)

6th October
9:00am - Rolled out of bed, got dressed munched on some left over food.
10:00am- Left for the airport.
12:45pm-Fly to Phuket.
1:00pm(phuket time)- Arrive at Phuket Airport.
3:00pm- Arrive at Resort (p.s immigration check took us 1 hour plus!) 4:30pm-Left for Phuket town, looked for a hotel to check into for saturday night.
7:00pm-Left for Patong beach to watch the Simon Cabaret show (gorgeous transvestites that put women to shame..)

8:45pm-11:00pm - May Leng went for a massage at Patong beach I went wandering around and found myself a cozy bar and restaurant and started chatting with the bartendress (hmmm..)

We finally arrived at the hotel at about midnight and ate some Thai food we bought (breakfast, lunch & dinnera!)... zZz

note: The rooms are gorgeous with sliding doors so when you are taking a soak in the bath tub you can chat with the person in the room or watch TV! (pic of me in the bath tub *sigh* I could get used to this)

7th October

6:30am - dragged ourselves out of bed. head to the lobby of the resort.

7:00am-Our Pick-up came (West Coast Divers). We head of to one of the best dive spots in Phuket called Racha Yai Island.

me and the dive masters.. Ian (brit dude-hubba2x), Scandinavian dude and an Italiano dude...

I was dropped off into an area populated by JELLY FISH, I have jellyfish stings all over my body !

Some friends we made on our excursion to Racha Yai island Tim, Debra (frm UK) and John (frm OZ).

May Leng's dive master from Japan : Takeshi

(got some great underwater shots but I havent developed them yet!)

4:00pm- Returned from our trip to Racha Yai and was dropped at Patong beach. Shopped. Had some terrific Cocktails *yummy* (mine in the coconut was called Sabai2x)

6:00pm- Head to Fantasea (at Kamala beach), we had no idea what to expect .. it was fantastic! Its basically a cultural Disneyland... If any of you intend to visit Phuket, Fantasea is a MUST-SEE! (for RM170- we paid to enter the park, a 1hr15min show, buffet dinner(unbelieveable spread!, shuttle back to the hotel)

11:00pm-head back to hotel... yawn zZ (*note we still had on our bikinis from diving so u can imagine how tired and how much we wanted a shower!!!)

8th October

7:00am- woke up to have a dip in the resorts pool .. cool concept the pool goes all around the resort so ..yes we woke up to swim and YES we forgot to eat again!

8:00am-Tried the resorts' spa, I had a great massage a combination of Thai and Swedish methods ..aaahhh

11:00am-checked out of Arahmas Resort and head to Phuket town, we chose an ok hotel which cost us 800 Baht.

11:45am-checked into new hotel and headed to Wah Chalong Temple (we wanted to check out the fortune telling sessions-but no one spoke English!) Temple was quite a sight though.

2::00pm- we went elephant trekking: includes, water fall, jungle trekking, gibbon project, buffalo cart, canoeing, dinner. Some pics from our little adventure:

(me trying to steer the elephant, May Leng at the back seat, buffalo carting; which I probably could have done in our own kampungs, me with a very worried May Leng - you should have heard her squeal thinking we were going to fall off the elephant, waterfall & hunchback of notre dame aka me with a backpack )

7:00pm- we ended our adventure and went back to Patong beach, our attempt to club turned into pubbing (we had our heavy back pack and some stuff we bought so we thought -we were better of finding a nice place to chill and have some drinks!)

11:00pm-went back to the hotel to sleep..

9th October

8:00am woke up to the sounds of firecrackers and the noise outside our hotel window on the streets... it was the Thai Vegetarian festival (aka poking of swords, knives and poles through their mouths!) We panicked as we needed to be at the airport by 11am and by 10am we still couldnt get hold of transport all the streets in town were blocked for the parade... we finally made it to the airport by 1130 and Ms. Lai May Leng later checked that our flight was only at 130pm.. PHEW...

Great trip can't wait for the next one.. and can't believe I am back in my office at my table typing the latest entry of my blog...*sigh* any jobs available where by I can spend my time travelling?