just back from phuket! went with joe's family and enoch too, was great fun if you ask me!
here's a (very brief) summary of what happened:
Day ONE.
took a flight (silkair) to phuket, where we were met at the airport by the hotel staff. was ferried by a minivan to the hotel. we were to stay at le meridien phuket during our trip. very comfortable and quite luxurious. too bad i didn't take any photos of the hotel room. stayed with sheryl (joe's sister) during the trip. joe stayed with enoch (sheryl's other half). didn't do much, settled in time just for a late dinner which wasn't very yummy at the hotel cafe.
Day TWO.
i seem to be suffering from amnesia but i can't really remember what happened. i think we woke up late (joe came to wake me and that was nice.) and just walked around the hotel a bit, booked a tour, had lunch in the hotel at the pizza place. borrowed a mahjong set which we never got down to playing. hit a few balls at the mini golf course, played some pingpong and foosball. at night, we went to simon cabaret. it's... interesting. you'll have to be there for yourself to get what i mean, and the images from there... well, they stick. here's a picture of one of the sets:
sheryl wasn't feeling too well so we headed back to the hotel for a doctor and had jap food for dinner. conjunctivitis.
Day THREE.
day tour day. went to the following places: rubber plantation, buddha monkey temple (not sure of the name), took a long boat to james bond island and finally the cashew nut factory. basically it's where they filmed 2 movies of james bond films. you can be sure they'll never go back to the same island, cos it's so terribly commercialised now. like more than 20 stalls on a tiny stretch of beach.
there was a long boat trip and a long car ride, so i couldn't help but be camera trigger-happy. (:
me and joe posing for a photo on the way to the first stop: rubber plantation.
sheryl and enoch.
at the rubber plantation
joseph looking gay in my shades
the buddha monkey temple where a huge spider behind the toilet door freaked sheryl out.
one of the many monkeys eating a banana from a tourist.
one of the long boats similar to the one we sat on the way to the james bond island.
us in the long boat. do some neck exercise, turn your head. (:
joe trying to keep the wind out of his eyes. his dad said to do this.
joe on the boat.
me, with a sparkle in my eye. hahahaha.
enoch acting gay too. this gay thing is infectious.
an artsy picture
uncle and auntie sharing a towel. awwww how sweet. (:
enoch concussed after a tiring day's worth of touring.
the four of us swam around a bit in the resort when we got back and had strawberry icecream and tecktee's cookies. Had dinner at this really nice and quite posh restaurant: baan rim pa. it's a piano bar restaurant and our table was in a porch overlooking the sea. yummy kangkong, that was my favourite dish that night. too bad we forgot to bring a camera that night.
Day FOUR.
Walked around town a bit, but didn't manage to do much shopping since uncle and auntie weren't shoppers. went back to the hotel and putted a few balls at the driving range, swam a bit again. had dinner at the tanttawan seafood restaurant, though dinner at savoey would have been nice. the food at dinner was way too spicy for me. had baskin' robbins icecream for dessert. walked around a bit more and the four of us got the SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT shirt. sheryl's idea. hahaha. no photos that day.
Day FIVE.
packed up in the hotel, got ready to get back. nothing very special, we went around snapping a few photos before we left. okay, like... three photos. hahaha.. then we took a hotel minivan to the hotel for the flight back in the afternoon.
same same same same... but different.
uncle and auntie's four children.
me and joe on the plane