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Bangkok was as usual, Good. Food and lots of local designer shops.. *joy joy joy*

Met up with Gavin's Thai friends on our last night in Bangkok. We had seafood dinner at Ratchada, opposite the (in)famous Carribean (aka high class club). His friend Sak and friends were a happening bunch.. How happening? After dinner, we were being invited to Slim, a disco in RCA. It's designed by one of them. The club has 3 areas, Live Band, R&B and Trance. We were ushered to Slim's VIP area with 3 waiters servicing us exclusively. And they drank non-stop on a work day night! When we left, they were still drinking.

This is a glimpse of Slim's R&B room. It was packed on a Monday night.

On Tue morning, we departed Bangkok for Phuket. We stayed at Benyada Lodge in Surin, a small boutique hotel with good reviews.

As usual, we rented bikes to get around in Phuket. The number of beaches they have in Phuket is crazy. There're beaches where it is so secluded that you have to take a water taxi, I must visit Freedom Beach in time to come! And there is Paradise Beach, the route in was horrible. Up and down the steep slope, our bike at full throttle can only climb at 20km/h. :(

This trip, we've seen most of Phuket beaches.. Nice ones, dirty ones, secluded ones and 3 beaches at one go!

This is Karon View Point. From here, we can see (in running order from the top to bottom) Patong, Karon and Kata.

It's so breathtaking here. The beaches.. I WANT TO RETIRE HERE!

This is the 1st beach we chilled. It's a beach we discovered while riding. We saw "Go to Beach" signage along the way, we just turned in and have a look.

Yanui Beach. This environment reminds me of Khai Island. They have snorkelling and kayaking. We went kayaking. It was actually nice to kayak until Joel threaten to flip the kayak. :(


See this part of Yanui. Beach is split by the rocks, just like Khai Island.

The 2nd beach we chilled was Surin. We've been Surin last year, this year how can we not chill here?

I was chilling when i took this picture with my handphone. Dunno why, just felt that it will be a nice picture. And it turned out nice. :)

Joel and his frowns.. He always do that because of the sun.. Do you know how sunny it was?!

While we were chilling there, we had a little experience. An experience i will never forget.

Danny, remember we were in Patong where we played with the waves? Patong has big waves huh? Surin has bigger!! @_@

Me and Joel were in the waters with a float swimming for the waves. Where the waves were, we were there. After some time, the waves stopped, so we waited and waited and waited. When i was about to give up wanting to go back. A big wave came. Me and Joel embraced for the gush. The next thing i know, we went under water! I can feel Joel on top of me! We were washed up the beach and as the waves subside, we were being pulled back to the waters. When we were recovering from the 1st hit, another came in and swept us underneath the water again! Trying to compose ouselves, the 3rd wave came and hit us! This time, i can feel the current pulling my pants off! With all my might, i held on to my pants. :p Then came the 4th hit. Having to drink quite a bit of water and being thrown here and there. We immediately stood up and walked to higher grounds.

We were filled with sand all over! My hair was sandy, my bikinis were filled with a ton of sand and my thigh & back were bruised (the throwing around against the sand has caused abrasion to my thigh and back).

Price for float: 100baht
Price for sunglass: SGD60
Price for experiencing a little "tsunami": PRICELESS!

I really cannot imagine those who went through hell during the tsunami. It must have been 10 times worst than what we've experienced. Our heart goes out to all those who survived and those who did not.

Anyway, back to happy things.. 天灯! It's a traditional in Taiwan and we saw lots of the lanterns at Patong. Vendors going around, "150baht. 150baht, sir? 150baht."

The lanterns lit up the dark sky.

In Taiwan, lanterns were lit up and set off to float away bringing your well wishes to Heaven. In Patong? Novelty.. Smart. What happens after that? The lantern will burn out the fuel and it will disappear from the sky. As of where it dropped to? Sea of course, unless your ship is in its pathway. :)

And there were also fireworks! I guess there were fireworks every night because we've seen 2 out of 3 nights in Patong streets.

Fireworks at Patong. Nice.. It could be a CNY celebration.

6 nights in Thailand ended quickly.. How i wished i can stay longer in Thailand..