Saturday, April 15, 2006

My Phuket Trip!

Went to phuket with my grp of friends on the second last week on March. It was a good relaxing trip for all of us. Its nice to get away from work once in a while. It was quite a waste that ju was unable to join us then we have the whole grp of us there.

The first day:
We had to check in at 5am(singapore time) . I was all zoned out having to work the previous day. We managed to have some mc donald's breakfast before we board the plane. It was a less than 2 hours plane ride. By the time we reached phuket, it was nearly 11 (Phuket's time).

We took the airport transfer to our hotel, Burasari! We were each welcome with a glass of some plum juice tasting thing. Feel so high class! keke!

Here are views of our lovely hotel:

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The entrance of our hotel. (Hehe.. 1 of the last few photos we took on the last day)

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The view of the pool from my room that i shared with yx and aurey.

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Cosy group shot on our big big bed!! I love our bed! its so huge!

After all the excitement of photottaking and exploring of our room died down, we decided its time to head to the beach!

Before beach, we were all famished! We were looking out for cheap good authentic food! But we din manage to find any. All the food there is like for the rich angmo tourists! Ended up at a european thai restaurent. The food was worse than thai express! The only yummy thing there was the thai ice tea which we could not find it anywhere else for the next few days.

BEach Beach Beach! We headed for Patong beach, the nearest to our hotel.The weather was quite disappoitning. It drizzled all day long. There were barely any sun. We each rented a chair (50 baht each) with an umbrella by the beach.

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A group pic on our beach chairs before we got wet.

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Jet-Ski-ing! We rented 2 jet-skis and took turns on it! Haha! Jet-ski was really fun but i got lost while jet ski-ing! I did not had my specs on! I did not dare to go too far after a while and kept going ard in circles to look for my other frn! The whole stretch of beach looks the same with the purple umbrellas all ard! I was glad i made it back to my frns safely!

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Our banana boat ride! My first time! It was fun! But it sure difficult to climb back up after falling down. I think the boat man thot we were rather comical trying to climb up. We din try to climb up after that anymore. We gave up. We let the boatman pull us up! He is strong!

After that, we were looking for packages for dive trips and day trips packages to occupy us for the next 2 days. The weather was terrible! Super heavy rain! We were all cold, wet and hungry and were not in the best of the mood. We were glad that the nite ended well with our trips settled and had a great thai meal at the "Patong Seafood" restaurent.

My sweet fwens got me a small bdae cake from the starbucks to celebrate my bdae! So touched!
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A nice surprise for me at 12am (phuket's timing). The brownie was really really yummy! But i was really really sleepy too! keke!

The second Day:

Woke up early to set out for our dives. The divers were me,aurey and yx. The rest were going on a day trip to phi phi island. Will only get to see the rest at the end of the day.

We begin the day with a good breakfast!

It was a 2 dives day trip and we even had a refresher course because it was ages since we last dived. The dive boats were nice and clean, the dive masters/ instructors were really nice and the quality of the equipments were quite good. The boat has free flow of drinks and they served yummy thai food for lunch! It was a quite a waste that i did not have enuff appetite to eat loads. I was more worried about vomitting in the sea!

Our first dive master was quite farnie. He was quite hairy all over and he joked with us that he did not need a wet suit for his hair were his wet suit. We thot he was jus joking with us but he really went down without a wet suit! haha! it was quite farnie! We shld have taken a pic of him in his "wet suit".

Our second dive master was a thai. He offered to take pics of us underwater for a fee. We din mind cause we never had pics in our wet suit before! He was another farnie guy. Really trigger-happy. His enthusiasm was so cute! haha!

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Nothing like a good hearty breakfast to start the day!

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All eagered to dive! And the rest of the divers at the background.

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Happy faces after our first dive!

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MY artistic shot! Good leh!

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Haha! Yes! Thats me!! keke!

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Hahaha! I love this farnie pic! The sea is so big but we are all crowded together!

The following are a few pics taken by the gals at phi phi island! Looks lovely right?

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On their boat... SHld b after snokerling from the looks of it.

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I love the clearness of the water in this pic!

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Beach at phi phi island.

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