Saturday, August 9, 2014
System down
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
Babble
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Krabi-Day 2
Day 2 in Krabi
We have booked a joined tour to Phi Phi Island by speedboat. Had our breakfast in resort and started out at 8.30am. The tour was quite a big group with around 35 persons. We gathered at another beach (which I forgot its name) and started out at 9plus.
4 of us got sun burn at different parts of body after first day so we were kinda phobia to get it again. This leads to the constant reapplication of sun blocks which other tourists found us weird (can sense from their look).
I did not check on the time during the tour. We took maybe around 30 minutes to reach Bamboo Island where we were allocated 30 minutes to snorkel there. Bamboo island is a snorkeling hot spot but I didn't manage to see many things compared with my other 2 friends as I was keeping myself near to the shore with another friend. Bamboo Island definitely offers more things to view underwater when compared to the snorkeling session of our first day.
After Bamboo Island, we went to Marina Bay where the sea water was
crystal clear and the beach was crowded by tourist. Photo session here
and some soak-in-sea moments and we were off to Phi Phi Island to have
our buffet lunch and then shopping for souvenirs. Honestly the island is
very commercialized due to the mass tourists visiting here. Beach was
okay but the view was not as beautiful as I have expected. Maybe it was
due to the side where the speedboat stopped. If it were to compared with
Marina Bay, I would say that Marina Bay is more breathtaking with its
really sandy beach. Perhaps it was because we didn't really got to the
"real beach" which was crowded by many people as mentioned by reviews in
Trip Advisor. (Yes I relied it a lot on planning trips and do recommend
to others as it is very useful with people sharing their first-hand
experiences)
Viking Cave |
Marina Bay |
Phi Phi is famous as a snorkeling and diving spot. Although the beach is not as nice as other islands, the snorkeling session here did offer more. We had 2 open-sea snorkeling and I did not stay long for the first one due to the insecurity gained from my life jacket. The buckle underneath which secured the life jacket from floating upwards of me suddenly opened up itself and it did cause me panic as I don't know how to swim (Yes I don't know how to swim but I go for snorkeling!). I manage to buckle it back but somehow I felt insecure after that.
Sea view from Phi Phi Island |
Open sea snorkeling |
2nd open sea snorkeling, and also our last chance to snorkel was allocated for us for 40 minutes and this time I stayed for the longest compared with my other friends. Tried my best to view as much as possible together with the constant fear with me. Views underwater were beautiful.
It was a long day for us but this was not the end of our day 2 (definitely not for me)
Went back resort to get ourselves ready for dinner which was included in our resort- stay. Dinner was tasty and tom yam was the highlight. I could not bear with the spiciness but my friends love it. We headed to Ao Nang again after dinner and walked through the street to get souvenirs. Pre-booking for massage on day 3 was made and we were glad that there were still slots available. It started to drizzle after that but me and another friend were quite reluctant to go back. We went to a bar with live band instead and the music was good. What spoiled our mood was the smoking there which caused my friend to storm out from the bar as she was unable to bear with the heavy smoke. How I wish they don't smoke and just enjoy the music and alcohols.
Surprisingly I wasn't that tired as I have expected on day 2. Another 2 friends reached their limits and we ordered Tuk-tuk to go back resort after that.
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Krabi-Day 1
A traveling post here. =)
Just finished my 4D3N trip at Krabi and I am back to Sandakan. Looking much more tanned now.
Holiday mood did not start until Saturday morning as I was still working on Friday and got my flight to KL on that night. 4 of us had travelled from different states to meet at KL and all of us were exhausted. Thanks to Ying Sin, we were able to crash a night at her place rather than at LCCT. Reached her place at 12 plus a.m. and need to depart to airport again at 5am.
Started to feel excited while flying from KL to Krabi. We have book shuttle service to pick us up from airport to resort. It was the first time where I saw the driver holding a piece of paper with my friend's name written on it and standing there at the arrival hall, just like the scenes which I normally seen in drama.=). The service was good, driver spoke minimum English but still we were still able to communicate with him. Here's the company which we have booked for the shuttle service. http://www.krabishuttle.com/
They replied you promptly and you can choose to pay the deposit either online or cash. We booked the return route with this company again and the driver was late (reached 6.30am instead of 6.00am). The great thing is he still manage to reach the airport at 7am as we wished.
First day in Krabi, we opted the 4-islands tour by long boat. It was a private tour which means we can have our own time exploring the islands. First island was the Tup Island where we were quite amazed by the sandbar which linked the island to another island nearby. We manage to walked across the route and it looked like we were walking on the sea from far. We considered to be lucky to be able to have a walk there as walking was prohibited later due to high tide. Here's a picture showing us.
Sandbar at Tup Island |
Spent around 1 hour there and we headed to other island. Chicken Island got its name from its shape. We were allocated some time to snorkel nearby Chicken Island. Honestly I was slightly disappointed by the cloudiness of the sea as I couldn't see anything beneath the sea. There were small colourful fishes swimming around us and I somehow felt they were nicer to been seen above the sea rather than viewing underneath.
3rd island was Poda Island, the sand there was nicer than Tup Island and view was scenic. Seawater was quite clear and there were stalls selling food and a simple open bar there. However we did not snorkel here. Tourists here did not snorkel too and I guess it's not the hot spot. They were just chilling and relaxing like us.
Chicken Island |
Fishes swimming around me |
Poda Island |
Our last stop was not an island actually. It was Phranang Cave. It was much more crowded compared to the previous 3 islands and we saw many long boats selling food there. Tourists were all around. We walked to the cave where there was a small altar with piles of penis-like sticks there. The Goddess is worship by locals there whenever they are out to sea to pray for their safety. As for the penis-like wooden sticks, I don't know the reason behind.
Long boats selling all kinds of food (even tom yam/fried rice) |
Our 4-island tour ended at 4plus in the afternoon and we then headed back to resort. Our first proper meal was at a restaurant called Bussaba Thai Restaurant, it is recommeded by Trip Advisor and rated Number 2 (The number 1 was a Steak and Grill restaurant located just beside Bussaba). The driver tool some time to find it but it was totally worthy to be able to dine-in there. Totally love the atmosphere there and also the food! The portion was slightly smaller for us (wonder how the western tourist can have enough of such portion =P) and the prices were slightly above average but we really enjoy having dinner there.
The nice ambiance |
Fried chicken with basil leaves, like the taste |
Tom Yam! |
I will write another post for my following days of travel later. cheers. =)
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Toleration
Have been complaining wee too much recently, till a stage that I got too annoyed and posted a status on fb. Those who knew what happened knew I was indirectly (or directly?) blaming a person. =X
Felt bad to complaint too much, found myself very annoying and grumpy. There were certain days when I tweet-ed many emotional words (mostly with anger). I was pissed off by the attitude.=(. Grateful enough to have a housemate to bear with my grumbles recently. Glad that I am much better now even though the task is not fully settled yet.
Since I have choose to post that status , I should take the consequences of it. Colleagues knew about me got so mad about the person and somehow the person knew it. (Maybe I was really behaving really obvious for last week =X). The atmosphere between me and the person somehow got awkward last week, as I got too tense up and speechless. Well, the storm within myself has ended and now I feel like I am the bad one.=(. Still, the unsettled work needs to be done by Myself and changing my attitude did help me in facing this.
In less than 1 month's time I will be ending my prp. Towards the end and yet I have caused this issue. Thinking whether I am the one who was really bad to put a blame on the person but bearing all these with sudden push and expectations as though as I am the sole person doing all these was depressing. Struggling emotionally. What said was said, I couldn't care more. (Really?=/)
Babbling here just to express.
Off to bed.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Clinical?
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
熬夜
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