Showing posts with label Phuket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phuket. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2011

What's in These Mysterous Sacks?

I'm very impressed by how great Blogspot's dynamic design, after applying the new design I was settling into staring at my own blog for more than 15 minutes with all excitement over the face.

Anyone who saw me doing that would have mistakenly thought I was watching porn, geeky nerd, haha!

I have decided to post short traveling story to heighten up my travel by bit as some feedbacks saying that I took too freaking long to post a blog.

In other words, it's revitalizing as I saw some stagnant in traffic growth or rather a drop on my total monthly visitors for past few months.

My travel posts are always full of details, and perfect in my way before it's being up there, I'm thinking maybe I should make more short postings while I work on longer post.

Cut long story short, I decided to drop in with little posts as and when I find interesting stuffs to share to spice up your life and mine on some boring days.

You won't wait too long, here's one.

Can you guess what's in these Mystery Sacks?

I walked down the street in Phuket town snapping some quick photos, I looked curiously for while when I stopped in front of a Chino-portuguese shop where there were sacks mysteriously being hanged outside.

There were plenty of them, I have interestingly edited the picture so it gave different moods and let your imagination go wild and out of the box.

Mysterious sacks, cinematic mood, looks pretty decent to me

In the 80's, are these rice sacks for sale? My grandpa told there's pointless to hang them all like these.

Mysterious sacks, what do you think is in it if it's in the 80's

This is my favourite, the bone chilling ghostly terrifying mood, a lot of things can go wrong if you are getting this in a movie where the characters are being beheaded, hands and legs being shoved inside the sacks with blood dropping on the floor.

Mysterious sacks, ghostly terrifying mood

I'll be revealing it when this post hits 10 likes, please help yourselves. Cheers!

Oh ya, this is a scheduled post ahead of my busy schedule tomorrow, I might have forgotten about it if so please leave a comment so it will remind me of coming back to post the answer to this blog.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Koh Phuket

The name Phuket is apparently derived from the word "Bukit" which means "Hill" in Malay, as this is what the island appears like from far (Wikipedia).

The island was hit by the infamous Tsunami back in 2004 which claimed more than 200,000 lives in the region, which, by 2005, most of the tourist spot in Phuket was undamaged and rebuilt with little signs of the disastrous incident.

It was a short trip to visit Phuket town, where I spent most of the nights enjoying the peacefulness and the beautiful Chino-Portuguese structures.

The local food was simply awesome, and spicy of course. If I were you, I'd never trust a Thai waiter/waiteress saying "Pet nid noy" which means little spicy, haha. Though, food tasted better with moderate spiciness if you can take it.

Non-spicy noodle

Appetizing "little" spicy salad
Chilis oh pedas!

Stacking bowls that caught my attention

Sadly, I didn't really have much landscaping shots this time around, or rather, spending most of my time lazying around enjoying the Sun and beers.

Blue sky + Sun tan @ Patong beach, sleeping chair would cost 65k Baht

I did rent a bike for 200k Baht a day after realizing that it's only less than 30 minutes away from Phuket town to Patong beach.

Bikes for rent @ 200k Baht/day

I'd ride down to Patong beach on a day to spend most of the day at the beach getting myself tan and walk the busy streets in the evening, and tiger bar at night definitely before I roamed back to my guest house at night.

Travel with bus at 100k Baht or taxi at 400k Baht if you don't like to be on bike under the hot Sun, a piece of advice, bus service ends by 5pm and taking cab at night is rather expensive after midnight.

I wouldn't consider those two services if I'm traveling alone, you might want to find a guest house in Patong if you want easier access to your hotel after the long day activities at Patong.

The budget guest houses at Patong beach are generally between 300k - 800k Baht, cheaper in Phuket town (where I stayed in Phuket Old Town Hotel).

Shower facility is available along the beach at 20k Bath, it's quite relieved especially after the Sun bath to keep myself fresh to stay on for the night life.

I found this little Mexican food stall at the corner at the main beach near Bangla road, the taco and burrito were pleasing, especially the taste!

Michael was such a great Hawaiian entertainer, he could just go on and talk and talk and talk, it was a good moment and decision to dine at his little corner and listen to his story of life and some fatherly advices.


Mexican food

Ingredients & mixer?

I love taco & burrito!


Posing for a picture, the cute Thai girl suddenly appeared from no where
Done some scribblings on the table @ request, written in Chinese, how are you? 你好吗?


Back to Phuket town, there were little wonders that you might find interesting to spend your time, they were restaurants, and hang out places that I spent most of my time doing nothing, literally.

There was this Chinese restaurant that worth noted, you'd need to walk in and the dining area is at the middle and the backyard, the modern decoration at the old structure gave a warm welcoming feelings to anyone who walked in without any expectation.

A girl who didn't want to show her face chilling @ Chinese restaurant at Thalang road

A good place to chill and chit chat, Yim was quite photogenic

Oriental deco

I Spent most of my time crossing the streets and hanging out at the resting places to take some photos.

I'm in love with the wiring wherever I go in South East Asia

Choc pan cake, my favourite! Had this in Laos too and we have this in Malaysia night market!


 
Thai Students on their way home
My next backpack destination on May is Thailand, Taiwan on July this year, can't wait!