Sunday, June 29, 2008

Phuket-ed



As some of you might know, my family finally went to other country for the very first time as a family holiday. Which reminds me that our previous trip was to Penang 4 years ago.

Me and sis actually snapped over 400+ pics in total. Don't blame us, technically we're tourist there k. Instead of posting the nice ones (bout 20+), so-so ones (50+), horrible ones (100+) here or any other hosting sites, I've decided to compile everythin and make it into a slideshow.

After a whooping 16 hours effort spent, finally I've done the slideshow! *pat myself on the head*
Of course its throughout 2 weeks.

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We stayed in Patong Beach area, prime area if you asked me. Basically there's nothin much except the night life and the beach.
The ultimate hot spot would be the Bangla Road (I laughed when I saw a motel named Bangla Bungalow). It's bout 2 streets down from the resort we're stayin.
Loads of bar gals and foreigners/guai lo.

Particularly for this street:
If its a darn pretty gal, she's a dude.
If its a gal, most likely she works for those bar.
If its a a bar gal, it would be an ugly one.
If she's alone, she's out to promote the bar or herself.
If she's together with a guy, its definitely an old dude no younger than 50.
If you're a guy walking alone in the street, you'll get grabbed and harassed by the gals.

I'm serious, the ugliest gals are found working in those bars and clubs. The prettier ones are found working as waitress, receptionist, restaurant etc etc. Kinda reverse back here.

Everyone been asking bout those 'lady-boys'. They have perfect features and tall as hell. There's one night, there's this group of cabaret 'dudes' dressed in erm...fancy and revealing clothes. I thought it would be an interesting pic until i heard they asking people around "Sir, you wanna take picture?"

Yes, I would need to pay them if I wanna show u all the closeup pics of them.

Then there's the Rock City. Kinda like Hard Rock Cafe, but the bands are somewhat good. There's this band with a tomboyish lead singer who sings Evanescence's song in perfect pitch as well as the Guns N' Roses' cover/tribute band who is late and dressed horribly.

Apparently, half of the people there thought we're Japanese. Lol.
There's this day when we're taking the one day trip to Phi Phi island and they came to pick us up from the hotel with a van. There's already a few australians in the van. As soon as we hopped into the van, they said loudly "Arigato! Good morning!"

It was fun to have Australians saying a jap thank you to a bunch of Chinese people :D

Basically most of the places are shown in the slideshow except the massage. It was great :) except the part where they bent my body like hell.

So in a nutshell, it's an over-commercialised tourist location. Things are rather pricey (kinda same as KL prices), nice beach with fine sand, Phi Phi Island still losing to Malaysia's beaches and islands, and nice food (if you can identify the nice dishes).

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Enjoy!




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