Went to Phuket with BC, Per, Mika and Tian Yee over last weekend. It was sort of like a graduation trip for me, since I dun have the money or company to go anywhere further. Anyway, this trip was fruitful, fun and farnie.
It was nightfall when we touched down at Phuket, so we went straight to the hotel. After checking in and received our room keys, we proceeded to take the lift to our rooms.
Farnie incident no. one: BC dropped his room key into the gap at the lift door…. (everyone got the WTF look on their face then, damned farnie).
(Official) Day 1
Hotel breakfast sucks. Went for a free city tour provided by the travel agent. Visited the local range, and had a go at the 0.22 rifle with scope. 10 shots at 650 Baht. Initially I thought the staff would teach us some technical handling stuff, but no, they simply took over everything, and all we had to do is just aim n pull the trigger. Din even get to cock the rifle. Sianz.
Went to the Wat Chalong Temple after that, nothing much to do there, just pray pray a bit.
Was supposed to go for elephant trekking, but most of the guys were against it, and i wasn’t too keen cos it was drizzling then, thus we moved on to the next destination.
BUNGY JUMPING !!
It wasn’t a damned beautiful place nor the shop was elaborately done up. Just a simple hut in the rurals and a crane to send us up to 50m to jump. BC couldn’t take the jump cos the body harness wasn’t available, so the rest of us just took the challenge.
To me, the most scary part of the jump wasn’t the moment I stood out on the launch pad, nor the moment I dived down, but it was the slow ascent to 50m. Had the “regret” feeling crawling in then.
But once I stood out on the launch pad and looked around and down, I din really feel any fear. The most exhilarating moment was when I just leapt off the launch pad into the head –down-first free fall. The feeling was out of this world. Damned shiok. (post the pics later when i get it)
After that, we went for a badly needed massage session. Bungy jumping wasn’t as easy as it seemed, and it was actually quite taxing on the respiratory system and muscles.
This is the first time I had a massage done by a real masseur. Had 1 hour of Thai massage followed by 1 hour of Oil massage. I always had the impression that Thai massage is very painful, but it seems like nothing much to me and Tian Yee. We actually thought that the masseur wasn’t using enough strength. BC, mika and Per actually felt that the Thai massage was painful. Maybe physically fitter people would find Thai massage easy on their muscles than most people. Tian yee and me thought the oil massage wasn’t really that good. Maybe we two should had went for a 2hr Thai massage instead.
We wanted to see the famed “Tiger Show” at night, but we took the recommendations of the tour guide and went to see the “Sexy and Erotic Top Model Show” instead. I actually found the show quite boring, just some “women” baring it all and moving around (I’m not sure if they are all real woman or not). It’s a real waste of money to me (800 Baht). It is just to make sure that we had a complete Thailand travel trip. I dun recommend those going to Thailand to go for tiger shows if they can help it.
Day 2
Went to the famous Phi Phi (pronounced as pee pee) island. It was a must go place for people visiting Phuket. Went snorkelling with the guys. Think it was a first for all the guys except me. I din have too much fun there. But its good for BC since he went down into the water with us.
Had some sun tanning on the beach on Phi Phi island after lunch. It was so damned hot and sunny, just the perfect setting for a perfect beach day. The only downside was that coconut wasn’t available from the shops by the beach.
After a short tanning period of about 1.5 hours, we went back to the boat for a ride back to Phuket.
Farnie incident 2: BC threw his towel to Per when we were on the boat, but Per missed it and the towel dropped into the seawater. (Towels were borrowed from our hotel, and has to be returned) Being a true singaporean in not wanting to pay penalty fines, I jumped into the water to ‘save’ the towel. Damned pai sei sia, the whole boat was watching me.
Night: I wanted to go diving on day 3, but it was a bit late when we went out to shop after dinner, so I thought of giving up the hope of diving, until we came across a booth offering day dive trips. Placed a 1000Baht deposit for 2 dives on day 3.
Day 3
The bus was supposed to pick me at 0730 for the dive trip, but after a few calls to the agent (cost me 120Baht to make 3 calls, WTF), it was established that the dive operator forgot to pick me and I had to go back to the booth to take my deposit back. So I ended up joining the rest of the guys for some beach action at the Patong Beach for the day.
Went surfing at the beach. We din use the American-styled surf boards where we had to stand on the board, instead, only those types that u used like a swimming aid was available. Anyway, it was pretty fun to surf at the beach, being washed quickly to the shore by the incoming waves.
After that, I went parasailing. Cost me 700 Baht for less than 5 minutes in the air. Pretty nice experience though. It was the closest I can get to skydiving for the moment. The view up there was great, but I couldn’t bring a camera up with me. just too bad.
Mika and I had rented a bike for the day. I just wanted to experience the kick of riding after so many years of layoff, as well as the kick of riding without helmet. Hahaha. Coaxed Tian yee to join in and get a feel of riding. (only mika, per and me have lic to ride)
Farnie incident 3: Tian yee was trying out the bike in the carpark outside our hotel, and almost lost control of the bike as he sped towards a shop. The lady in the shop was screaming and looked terrified when tian yee ‘flew’ towards her shop with a very loud throttle sound. (mika, per and me: super ROFL)
I really enjoyed myself on this trip with the guys. It was great fun and laughter all the way. If only we had more money and time at Phuket, then I could have went for diving, as well as white water rafting.
Well, till next time!!
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