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(and not forgetting them pretty boys.)

Now I remember why I don’t blog, it is SUCH a chore. Hahaha I love the idea of having some sorta archive for reminiscence’s sake, but I wish it could spontaneously materialize on its own. OHWELL okay shall stop whining like a bipolar pansy and get cracking. 

Right, so I left off where we were leaving for Phuket.

Day 4 (cont’d)
Flight was rather turbulent, forgivably so for the size of a budget plane. The ground weather was rather gloomy and ominous (this basically was the weather for our entire stay there - apparently we arrived at the start of the monsoon season, boohoo). Cab ride took almost an hour from le airport to Patong Beach; our cab really was more of like a chartered SUV actually, it was huuuge and pretty comfy with numerous air-con vents plastered across the roof sorta thing.

Tragically cloudy skies

Us eggcited kids ^^

Checked into the hotel quickly - we got the Loft Family Wing, basically a swankier way of saying two rooms conjoined with a partitioning, of which one room is slightly smaller than the other (for the “kids” if you would).

Le parents’ room for le sexy time hahaha

Ditched the luggage and began hunting for tickets to the Simon Cabaret show and also for tour packages to the Phi Phi Islands the next day. Tina and I had a field day, the bargaining Singaporean spirit took over and we were darting across the street back and forth like balls in a pinball machine for le best deals :] Headed for Simon Cabaret shortly after!

VIP tix don’t mess

Eggcitedly waiting for them pretty boys to appear ^^

Okay this is golden. Shortly before the show, a group of China men appeared and sat next to us. The one next to Sherry started asking her whether she spoke Mandarin and was clearly LEERING at her and all of us. With GREAT DISGUST we whipped out all the tour package brochures (credits to me and Tina for our awesome research materials) to hide our faces HAHAHAHA this was epic. If you squint you can see one of them VIDEOING us at the far end of the row. We eventually shifted like three rows in front. Disgust still lingers at the thought.

Cost us 40 baht each to take a photo with him/her (still can’t decide on the basis for the gender labeling situation). They really aren’t that pretty up close and they’ve like so much makeup on that I wouldn’t wanna be around when it all comes off man, noo joke. 

Found this elusive little fella just sitting outside out hotel on returning from the show! We were looking for the great banana pancake throughout Bangkok but to no avail and here he was; as though he was waiting for us hehehe ^^ May I say, MOUTHGASM again. 

Day 5
Woke up freaking early cause our transport to take us on our Phi Phi Island tour was set at 7.45am but the driver was some eager beaver, came so stinking early that we missed breakfast (minus that one toast/croissant that we literally grabbed from the buffet area like mad adolescences, trust me it was an ugly scene especially at that hour).

Waited for a gazillion years for the safety briefing and things, befriended the dog there (he was gorgeous and clearly in love with me hahaha)

Speed boat! Us adventurous kids perched right at the front of the boat - possible seasickness you say, I say that’s bollocks ^^ It was mad fun, kept kneeling on my seat and sticking my head over the rail instead of being properly seated. The view was just too amazing and I love the salty wind viciously attacking my face and hair. 

First stop: Maya Bay! There’s nothing much there, but I really liked the remnants of the sea caves that stretched out as a low-lying shelter for us to walk by :)

Viking Cove. Absolutely in love with the color of the water.

First snorkeling drop-off point! 

Courtesy of Tina’s underwater camera: all the mega hungry fishies zooming in on our bread. We were initially a little hungry and actually ate a few slices of bread before actually feeding the fishies hahaha.

After lunch at Phi Phi Ley, we headed off to Khai Island that promised corals on snorkeling and infinite deck chairs with the stereotypical accompanying beach umbrellas. Well, the latter was for sure at 150baht per chair, whilst the snorkeling was a let down. The waters were too choppy and hence murky so we couldn’t see any fishies sadly. 

My favouritest part of Khai Island. This floating platform thing was super fun I love running up and down it trying to keep my balance; very I-Survived-A-Japanese-Gameshow thrill to it hahaha I clearly am a person of cheap thrills.

After all that, it was back to mainland Phuket for a good shower to rinse out all the salt/sand from our very Survivor-looking hair (we really looked like the Wild Ones, haha I’m sorry I really needed to make that Flo Rida reference). Then it was off to the much-hyped No. 6 Restaurant!

Ohgawd I’m getting so hungry just looking at the pictures. Drooooools.

Day 6
Woke up even earlier to guarantee our wonderful hotel breakfast buffet that we were unjustly denied the previous day. The spread was pretty decent, a lot better than the hotel in Bangkok in my opinion. Before whitewater rafting, we stopped by the Monkey Caves. It took like almost 2 hours to get there, goodness.

Ohboy this sure was one hell of an experience. All I can say is: bullies, being dragged into water, splashing, cursing, a flying frog, daisies and lots of screaming. I definitely HAVE to whitewater raft again, but on a longer route (this was only 5km) and definitely at a higher level! This wasn’t as thrilling as I would’ve liked it to have been sadly. 

Our awesome guides :’)

After that we were trekked to a waterfall IN THE RAIN, IN OUR BIKINI TOPS AND SLIPPERS. It is hilarious thinking back now but it really was like DAFUG situation then hahaha. Lunch after then we headed for some Flying Fox! It was really lame really, no kick at all, the line was practically almost level, phooey. Only good thing was that was the same holding area for the elephants for the elephant trail :)

People must think we’re skanks for being dressed like that in the FOREST but please understand that we came directly from whitewater rafting! No judging thanks hahaha.

Checked out Patong Beach after dropping off at our hotel with Lili then headed out to the more central area for last minute souvenir shopping and dinner at No. 6 again :) 

And for our last night in Phuket we decided we HAD to check out the clubs there along the infamous Bangla Road (there are just so many puns running through my mind right now but I shan’t in the spirit of uhm racial harmony). Headed Factory Bar first to get some drinks, damn it was REALLY cheap. Played foosball and pool while waiting for the good music to start at the apparently best club in Phuket - Seduction (HAHA what a name), and also because Sherry totally KO-ed like ridiculously badly. It was an unprecedented merlion situation haha she’s officially the worst drinker I know.

After abit we then headed over to Seduction (omg the name’s really very a last warning situation). The music was a mix of House and R&B, not bad overall; cute how they played really old songs and the DJ was insanely enthusiastic. Major turnoff was the fact that people were allowed to smoke INSIDE. Yes, inside. I wonder if anyone has ever set him/herself on fire before.. entirely plausible situation if you think about it. 

Sobered up properly by stuffing down some pizza at some place across the street and headed back to the hotel to pack for our relatively early flight the next day!

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Bangkok/Phuket was really awesome; great start to the summer of ‘12 :) Okay it’s 4am and I’m officially nocturnal. Annnd fiftyjubilee’s back to the usual random/abstract tumblr-ing; that’s all folks, till the next time.