Back from phuket

This is my 1st trip with my labmates, Aram, Nazanin and Sam. We went phuket by taking an 8am flight(tigerairways). It was really early and i was sleepy during the trip. At the arrival of phuket airport, we negotiated the prices of 3 days of package tour and so our trip was settled. Happily, we make our way to Som Guesthouse with a cab. There, we walk around the minimarts and the streets near our hostel before proceeding to the Iranian restaurant. I had chicken kebah which is really filling (around 250baht); same as sam since we cant take beef. Aram and Nazanin had beef kebah. After satifying our stomach, we proceed to the patong beach to have a bit of swimming. However, it was disappointing because the weather is cloudy. we had coconut juice after the swim. Being the lazy one like me and nazanin, we just lie on the beach chairs and enjoy the seabreeze. Aram and Sam went for jogging at the sandy beach. After that, we proceed back to our hostel to do washing up and ask the owner of the hostel for some recommendation. Since the owner was a korean, we have aram to help us talk to the owner for some good food around our area and so we had seafood; fish, prawns, pineapple fried rice, morning glory and fruit shake. Afterwhich, we walked along the bangla street to see the night life of phuket and had thai massage (medium). It was a full body massage but i dont like the over-stretching part because my bones are not flexible!

Day 2:
Breakfast from minimart at 7am; i like the jumbo=cheesy suasage. we went to phi phi island for snorkelling. Can U imagine a 4 hours trip back and forth in a cruise???? The weather was really bad and some people just puked onto the floor because of the turbulence. Poor workers, they have to keep wiping the floor... Nazanin puked continuously on our way back in cruise to phuket. We had some "authentic" thai dishes like tom yam, green curry, padi and mixed vegie. Sam had the chocolate banana pancake. the seller was really skilful with his knife. Imagine slicing thin pieces of bananas at fast speed. After that Sam and me had foot massage while aram had a strong thai massage and nazanin had her hair braided (her hair would nv be messy again).


Day 3:
Breakfast from minimart. Adventure; fish spa (i am not daring enough because it was too itchy due to big fishes), elephant trekking, water rafting, flying fox, elephant and monkey show and ATV. I was afraid of the elephants because i feel the seat is nt stable and was holding to the seat very tightly. It feels strange to step on the poor elephant. Nazanin was very funny. She was too afraid and keep saying no no no. so, she had to sit with sam while I was seated with Aram. There was once when i felt something was touching me at the back. I think it was the elephant nose from the elephant behind us. Mind you, I did not wear a yellow shirt. I was wearing a black shirt. I definitely dont look like a banana! The water rafting was really fun! 5km is not enough!Some are just insane as they paddle quickly and keep splashing water towards others. Flying fox was fun too as we climb up the slope and wait for our turn to "fly" down. Nazanin said she wanted to go 1st and sam said he doesnt want to feed the mosquitoes anymore so he want to be the second. But i didnt want to go third because aram was feeling cold (due to u know wat) plus it was drizzling so i volunteered to be the last. When it was nazanin's turn, she wanted to go back and dunwant to "fly" down. She keep saying nono. After much persuasion; like flying down is the express route rather than climbing down! During sam's turn, drizzle becomes rainning and unfortunately during my turn, it was raining with wind!!! It was really cold as there is no shelter and i felt lonely because there is no one else except the 2 station masters (i am the last person). Initially i screamed and u know wat they said out of the 4 of us, i scream the loudest. haha. Then there is the monkey and elephant shows. the monkeys are really fierce and they dont like to be touched. they would bite (i am serious). Finally we had ATV for 30mins. It was raining, very disappointing. I had fun though there are 3 indians who keep speeding and being very competitive although instructors tell us to stay in one lane. i was worried that i am not skilful because the rest have driven cars before. I did not know how to break completely when i was a the slope and u know what, i nearly died. My vehicle was accelerating down the slope and i could feel that the rest of the drivers were staring at me and wondering why i was overtaking them at high speed. LUCKILY, i did not bump into anyone or anything and i was safe! it was a miracle! i dont know how i manage to control the vehicle at the right time and position and make my way to the front....we were muddy, wet and sticky because of the wet weather. Although it was fun, the weather dampens our mood. Poor aram who had...., and she hurt her knee during water rafting. we were really worried abt her as she felt pain in her knees :( We had dinner at jocyelon ( a shopping mall) to try the steamboat. It was a nice restaurant with great services! The juice and food were great too! after dinner, sam has 2 scoops of icecream (rum and raisin & strawberry) and i had 1 scoop of green tea icecream from eto at the mall. i learnt sth, koreans like green tea products too :)
This is also the day when nazanin found her new love; rambutan.

Day 4;
Breakfast from minimart. kayaking at james bond island; The scenery is nice and we had fun visiting the caves and seeing bats and monkeys. we stopped at 3 islands before proceeding to the last stop where there is a nice beach, very fine sand and crystal clear water!!!! very few were wet from kayaking but i guess i have affinity with the water and the water just keep getting into the boat i am in; even the last station from long tailed boat to the last island. I couldnt go for swimming due to some reason. It was really an agony! we had seafood again for dinner and also we went to the shopping mall hoping to catch a movie but the price was the same as singapore so we decided not to.

Day 5;
last sad day. we had american breakfast (bacon, toasts, orange juice, coffee, omelette) near our hostel and had our lunch at the shopping mall. Shopping for souvenirs after eating appetizers (sticky rice with mango in coconut milk, fruit juice). We went bowling (2 games; gutter ball is my specialty. I am happy to learn about my bad habits when sam and aram corrected me) before having our late lunch at fuji jap restaurant while nazanin has pizza from italian restaurant. while waiting for our flight, we had our last icecreams at phuket. Aram and me get green tea blizzards. Sam had banana split blizzards while nazanin had banana split icecream. It is interesting that they flip our icecream inverted so that if there is liquid dripping, it would be free. wow.