Krabi Day 2

We chose a more relaxing tour for the 2nd day. A van came to pick us up from the hotel at about 830am. It started of with a visit to the Tiger Cave. It's really tough to recognize the direction. With all the thai writings and signboards everywhere. I can only roughly guess where we were but not the actual location or address. Upon arrival, I didn't really notice the tigers though. They had a huge pagoda like, with a goddess of mercy in it.

A shot in front of the pagoda

Besides that, they also have 2 routes, a short and simple one to some caves and a big tree.

It didn't specify if this is the tree, it looks big so we assumed it is.

The other was a 1000+ steps uphill climb to the top of the hill with a temple up there. We chose the first, wanted to try the second on but too bad we were insufficient time and only manage to climb about half way up. I think scenary up there would be nice. We met some Malaysians there, pretty cool, also a friendly Australian couple.

The Malaysian guy we met who was travelling with his family

The Aussie couple whom had the same tour as we do, so we keep seeing them all along

Then next stop was a hot spring. It was a rather small natural hot spring as it could hardly fit more than 10 person i guess, the water was about 40C. We just dipped ourselves for 15 to 30 min. Later we had lunch which was provided by the tour at a little restaurant at the entrance of the hot spring park. Some delicious local thai food was what we've been looking for. An unlimited refill of dishes and rice to keep us filled up.

Part of the hot spring

After lunch, we went to our next destination, emerald pool. From its name, we could guessed that the pool has emerald colour like water in it. The emerald colour was due to some minerals in the water. We did swam in the pool for a little while but the clouds were getting near and soon came the rain. We dried ourselves up and headed back to the van. However, rain came pouring and got us wet. As we thought the tour was over, the guide told us that we still have another elephant trekking to go. But, we were a little wet and cold, and a little too tired. So we gave it up and headed back to the hotel for a nice hot bath and changing into dry clothes instead.

Emerald pool, look at the colour of the water

Later that night, we walked down the street which is about 1km away. There are lots of shops, restaurants, bars, crowds, mostly for tourist though. We just picked a random restaurant for dinner.

Some food we had that night, padthai, goreng pisang with ice cream, stir fried chicken with cashew nuts

Random

End of day 2.

Krabi Day 1

Then came 5days Krabi trip with Agnes and another couple, WC&EP. Just a free and easy trip to relax and rewind. On the day we reached it was raining and so we stayed in the hotel which we booked earlier, Aree Tara. One of the best hotels I've ever stayed. *Thumbs Up* Service was good, room was nice, clean, and beautifully decorated, breakfast was good though simple.

The room, nicely decorated

The balcony The Pool

The nice tropical design Aree Tara

Room 402

Ham, Sausages, Onion Rings, Noodles, Rice, Pan Cake French Toast, Salad, Omelet, Mix Fruit Yogurt was among the several main dishes for breakfast

Later that night we went out for dinner at some local restaurant. The lady boss was very friendly and recommended us some good food that they had. Ambient was lovely, dimly lighted, decent food, pricing was average.

Then we went to look for some local tour for the following days. We decided to take 2 full day trips.

Last Christmas (Part1)

Once again I'm back logging again. I just wanna get over this and start blogging for the brand new year. So last christmas was my first christmas in Singapore with Agnes. We had quite a number of ppl there in Singapore so it was sort of like a little Christmas gathering there. (Kiat, Teodore, CC, Eeling, Shaun, Cyrus, Jacelyn+1 ). Thx to kiat we had accomodation and teodore too. We were crashing at both their places. We were there the day b4 Christmas eve. Met up with Teodore on our arrival in Sg and our bus stopped us around Bugis area so we went for steamboat over there. I wasn't the best but was just okay to me. Filling up our empty tummy while chit chatting and experiencing the city life ppl in Sg, rather interesting. Things that you will nvr get in places like PB for there next at least 10yrs. LoL. Bugis seems like a place for steamboat. We could see a stretch of shops all serving steamboat and we just went to a random one. We finished up at almost 11pm and we know it's time to head back before it's too late. Still, we were this close. We head towards NTU, got off the MRT, and watch the last bus went by. Ended up walking back to NTU which wasn't that far though and helped out with the digestion of food. 

Our first stop in Bugis.

One of the road in Bugis with lots of food.

Crashed in Teodore's place for the first night. 

Woke up a little late, had breakfast in the canteen and went over to the School of Arts, Design and Multimedia or just ADM in short. A popular place in NTU to hang out and a must to visit, with it's unique building design. 

In the ADM building with the creative 3d illustration. It was almost perfect. 

It was drizzling in the morning though, luckily we had umbrella. So we were suppose to gather for dinner on the Christmas Eve and have a little countdown to Christmas. So from NTU, we headed to city center. We went to catch AVATAR 3D in Iluma, a new and fairly interesting shopping complex. Btw Avatar 3D was cool. I've watched the 2D version and the 3D version just made it so real. Though a little expensive but i think worth the dollar. After the movie we met up with Kiat down the road in a cafe enjoying his tea time. He sure knows how to pleasure himself. And we walked around Bugis and head to orchard to meet up with the rest for dinner.

Myself, Teodore, Kiat.

There's just so much to shop, and still it's crowded with ppl everywhere. All the restaurants were pretty crowded since it's Christmas eve. We ended up choosing a Japanese restaurant, we had to wait for like 30mins or more. We ordered a set for 6 which is inclusive of a variety of food. Shaun the special one had his own a la carte so is Cyrus who was making his way after work. Gathering was fun, food was rather okay, but a little high on the price though, catching up was great, hanging out together was just awesome. Nothing beats old time. 
Here comes the food..

The scallop

Pizza = jap food?

Sushi

Salad

Cheese baked rice

Grilled Squids

Sashimi

A little like the 'lou sang', prob japanese version

Cold noodles

Mixed Tempura

Garlic Rice

We still had a brownie and a strawberry parfait for desert. Quite a variety of food. 

Shaun's Special A la Carte

A toast to all, first taste of sakae

With the little sakae bottle

That's everybody

After our Christmas Eve dinner gathering we out to the street, Orchard Road. People mountain, people sea, the whole pathway is crowded with lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of ppl all the way. The decoration wasn't as great as I would expect, but seems that it used to be nicer and more fun. Anyway we walked along the pathway from Ion Orchard to Summerset. The exterior lighting of the Ion Orchard was great. Takashima had a christmas tree made up of ferrero rocher ( must be fake one, or else all the leaves and branches will be gone, LoL ). Squeezing our way through the human traffic, finally we cut off at sommerset. From there we went to Clarke Quay, one of the happening places at night. It used to be warehouse i think, now the whole area is filled with bars and clubs, a popular night hang out places. The whole places is also packed, as everyone is awaiting to countdown to Christmas. We found ourself a place in one of the bar, got our drinks and chilled out while waiting for the clock to strike 12am. We were provided with party packs and enjoyed ourselves chatting, drinking till Christmas. Cheers! We had Jacelyn with bf and also Teodore's friend with us. Wonderful night. We then crashed over at Kiat's place that night. 

Exterior lighting of Ion Orchard

Orchard Road filled with people

Christmas tree made from ferrero rocher?

A group photo of everyone

Hanging at the MRT

Christmas lighting @ Clarke Quay

Kiat & Shaun in party hats

Me & Agnes with the riverside view

End of part 1.. to be continued..

10 days to Christmas!

3 more working weeks to go. And it's all 4 working days. Isn't it a great way to end the year. I'm back in campus this morning. Took a non usual bus back. Shamisha holiday i think, not too bad. No complaints. Since KKKL seems to be cutting off the night trips so i'll need to find for other bus services to get me back to PB. Anyway just a relaxing weekend back in mlk. Meet law, wah7, and loke. CY was back but was unavailable. but will be meeting him up soon in sg. Spend time at home and with agnes was great. A little bit shopping, wanted to watch some movies but was rather packed. 

Us in Kenny Rogers

It's Xmas next week, and the festive mood is in the air. Everywhere there's xmas deco, xmas songs, xmas sales, etc etc. I'm looking forward to Sg Xmas this year and also time to eat 'tong yun' which indicates CNY is coming too. 

Anyway, been facing the comp for whole day trying to crack some code. Now i feel my head is going to crack apart before I even get the codes cracked. Also a sore throat is also making my world upside down. Better get some med or 'pi pa kau'. Must get myself healed to fully enjoy the holidays.  Counting down... 

Santa enjoying a summer vacation in mlk

All i see now are just 1s and 0s. Try crack this. 01101001001000000110001101110010011000010110001101101011011001010110010000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110001101101111011001000110010100100001

Got it?