Super Sunday Weekend the big 4 clash!

If you are not a football fan, i think its about time for you to stop reading. For those who are not you would know that the games were Manchester United vs Liverpool and Chelsea vs Arsenal.

What im trying to get at with this post is NOT about the results nor the antics which happened on the pitch. I went shopping at the new wing of Sunway Pyramid and so many people wore the jersey of their supported teams. To my surprise there are quite a number of female fans, not that i disapprove of this, of course.

Now to the interesting part, which i noticed not only in 1 or 2 couples but many. I will take 1 couple as example, the bf was wearing Liverpool jersey and the gf was wearing Manchester United jersey. I had a smile on my face from ear to ear to see a fellow female supporter *2 thumbs up*. I was wondering (this was before the game was played), if they are really HUGE supporters of their chosen team, and the game turned out NOT to be a draw, what would happen?

Thoughts went through my mind :
If Liverpool had won, the gf might say, "No sex for you for 1 month" LOLz.
If Manchester United won, the bf might say, "Im gonna score against you tonight" another ROFL.

Well, i might never know the outcome of that and i really felt an urge to give my friend a holler as she is a Manchester United supporter and her fiance supports Liverpool, i would like to know what would happen between them?

What do you guys think, drop me your thoughts :p

My car self upgraded! o_0!!!

Yesterday while driving home, my car sounded more and more like those sports car or some might put it as lala driving a those souped up (sound only) Wiras etc, or like a 5 tonne lorry struggling to climb a hill.

I really don't fucking know how those SOBs can stand those fucking noise of vroom vroom vroom!!! Fuck, i was in the car for only 45 minutes, i had a headache when i reached home and my ears were like the time when i came out of discos, lost hearing for quite some time before able to hear properly again.

While in the car i jokingly asked my wife whether she silently souped up our car with some turbocharger or some sports car engine mounted into our car. Well i would kill her if she did that coz the same amount of money could be used to do something MUCH better.

In the end, what made the noise was the exhaust pipe. What is missing is the small pipe coming out of the muffler. I have never seen or heard of such a kind of problem to car o_0.

Sigh what it all translates to in the end is that i have to fork out money to fix it coz i don't wanna maintain my current status as a lala. How much would this cost me? T_T

Krabi Trip Day 2

Another busy day as the gang have put on a tight schedule to do the island hopping trip. According to them and the travel agency, our 1 day trip if for other visitors would be broken up into 2 days. Anyhows, me and my wife woke up early to have breakfast and perhaps take some pictures. Breakfast was not fancy, the usual stuff you can find in almost any hotels nowadays, fried meehoon, sausages, eggs and bread. I don't remember seeing any coffee though.

As we stayed out the previous night until more than 1am, many looked like zombies and would prefer NOT to have their pictures taken so i took some sceneries and the hotel pictures. After changing, we gathered at the lobby where some of the guys are still having their breakfast and since we did not know that bread would be provided when we go snorkelling we decided to bring some of our own bread from the hotel's breakfast. We packed 2 bags full.

The van came to pick us up and brought us to town to board the boat as the tides there are higher at that time. The island hopping was nothing fancy, similar to what we can get when go to places like Redang, Perhentian or the like. The only difference would be the crowd on the beaches, i would say that more than 90% are westerners. Only saw 1 topless lady sunbathing and at that a middle aged woman. So again nothing fancy :p

At one of the islands, we get to visit a tsunami evacuation site. It was about a 5-10 minutes walk into the jungle and was about a few meters higher than the sea level, along the way, you can see the signs showing how high the previous tsunami water level was. The site is actually a rocky cliff where there are many jagged edges, i was thinking if the waters were to pound the people who were fleeing against the wall of the cliff then they would have cuts all over.

We had lunch and the food served was MUCH better than any of the restaurants that we visited other than the pizza of course :p. Perhaps its because we were all hungry, there was a green curry dish which i really do think pwns the rest of the dishes i had over the course of this trip.

Chicken island can easily be recognized by a shape of 2 islands where the smaller island looks like a small head popping out of the sea from its "body" (the other bigger island). We landed at its head and proceeded to walk over to its body. The walk takes about 20-30 minutes as we would be walking in knee high water levels at the middle portion of the walk over to the "body" island. The highlight of it was the fact that you can cross islands easily as there is nothing on this island.

The fishes during snorkelling were hungry as always when it comes to bread. I got 2 bite marks to show for =_=. The boatmen threw some leftover fruits including a piece of pineapple to attract the fishes to the surface. So photographers take note, pack some pineapples from the hotel along with bread to attract the fishes if you wanna take pictures.

The boatmen brought us to an island which some sort of a lagoon which they claim that Pirate of the Caribbean was filmed there. The water was very murky as there is almost no circulation of water in or out of the lagoon. We passed at the chance to take a dip there.

Like i mentioned to my friends earlier to skip the island hopping trip if possible because we finished all the planned islands with 2 extra hours to kill, so the boatmen brought us to an extra island where the waters was deeper and lifejacket becomes a must as there are strong undercurrents.

We landed in front of hotel's beach as its high tide there now at about 5-6pm. Everyone was exhausted. Final night dinner and we ordered all seafood with the usual dishes like pineapple fired rice and tomyams.

One of the girls know that there is a Tesco nearby and would like to go there and get something items like Lay's chips which i agree is something like half price that of Malaysia's. Remember i mentioned "nearby"? Tesco Lotus (perhaps something like Tesco Extra) was actually 25km from town and closes at 10pm. When we finished dinner it was already about 8.30pm. No time to lose but communication to get a tuk-tuk there was TOUGH! The driver gave us a superb price or so we thought, about 20-30 minutes later we arrived at Tesco. Upon reaching the price changed and our jaws dropped!!! He doubled the initial price and we both could not understand each other and had a big argument. Its so damned hard to find an English speaking Thai there. After frantic search for help, we got a nice Thai girl to help do some translation and found out that he was actually charging for a round trip.

So we did our shopping and i had a stomachache after paying for the goods. I went to the toilet and found that its operational hours is the same as the shopping complex??? 10pm closed. OMG, luckily i was having a bad stomachache else i would have had to take dump at the roadside.
I was so freaking tired that i skipped the clubbing session which the rest of the gang went until something like 2am.

Day 3 is just to pack up and head back home. Reached KL Sentral at about 5pm, GREAT just in time for traffic jam.

Krabi Trip Day 1

If you wanna view pictures, this is not the post, scroll down.

Like my previous trip with my wife's arrangement, there are some problem with flight arrangements. The previous time to Bali, i arrived half day late and returned 1 day later. This time, the initial flight arrangement was that we would almost not meet up with her gang, WOOTERs!!! So to make amends the flight now cost double of what it was supposed to =_= even then, we had to arrived 1 day late as the fare for the same day as her friends was a bomb.

Upon arrival about 1pm, we put on swimming wears and were quickly swept into a hired van to go to Crystal Pond. On the way there since everyone have not have lunch yet, we decided to ask the driver to take us for lunch. Communication was horrendous, because his skin color was like those of a Malay man, many a time we used Malay to speak with him LOLz. Some of the people have demands like i want tomyam seafood, tomyam with big prawns etc etc etc. Because the driver had to keep his eye on the road which was going through some construction and the waving gestures of the passengers on what they wanted, brought me back to the memories of Bali drivers where they can somehow avoid accidents in situations which i would be sweating or at least slowed down already.

He brought us to a restaurant, built on top of a small man-made lake where they rear fishes, i managed to catch glimpses of some huge catfish, some which looks like flowerhorns, etc. Ordering was another problem, the menu was surprise surprise in Thai and very lousy translations. The waiter could not understand a word we were saying and vice versa for us. We asked for the captain or at least someone who can speak a little English to come over. Taking orders took about 30 minutes =_=". The time was already about 2pm and about 45 minutes would pass before we could smell food.

A walk of about 15 minutes was required to reach Crystal Pond. Crystal Pond as the name suggested would mean something clear and pristine. Indeed it was, i have NEVER seen a pond this clear and yet able to accommodate swimmers while maintaining its crystal clear waters. We spent about an hour there lazing around, the water was not cold so it was not really a welcomed rest. We were the loudest bunch there i suppose, breaking the silence of jungle surroundings.

The next destination was Hot Springs. Again some walking was required to reach the destination and along the way you will be beside a warm river of cobalt color. After a 10 minute walk, waterfall sounds was heard and i was ecstatic because i thought i could get some cooling off on a hot day. After looking for a place to set our things down, we crept into the running currents flowing down a waterfall full of small dams so that people can rest in. I was the second one in the water, the water temperature caught me by surprise, it was hotter than the hottest setting which you can get from a water heater. Literally took my breath away similar to what cold water would have effect on you. Took me about 5 minutes or so to adjust myself before being more comfortable immersing my whole body into the hot water. Muscle aches from the 2 walks were relaxed, at least something to gain from the hotness i suppose.

The journey to the hotel took ages, my estimates about 2 hours coz my butt hurt BAD. After shower and some rest, we hailed a tuk-tuk to bring us to town. There were many choices but we settled for a nice fusion place. The pizza was NICE, thinner than the thin crust from Domino's and Pizza Hut BUT so are the toppings :p. After dinner, we walked a bit to do some shopping, the prices of items are roughly the same as Malaysia and many were overpriced. A singlet would cost RM15 or more T_T. After 1 hour of walking around, the gang who had spent the previous night in Krabi ahead of us negotiated with a massage parlour for the cheapest price. RM28 for an hour of either full body or foot massage. The parlour was too small to accommodate all of us at the same time so the guys had to go to another one and pay RM30 for similar massages. After the guys massage, we walkied the girls to find out that they have actually went for a 2 hour session =_=".

So the guys went for a walk around, not really knowing how to kill time, we wanted to search for a pub to sit down. There were some interesting ones, with girls doing pole dances and some only in their underwears BUT many are what we call BEH-KWA-EH! in hokkien, which literally means FUGLY. So for our own safety's sake we decided to grab a bite at McDonald's. I had a meal called "Samurai Pork Burger", its something similar with the Prosperity Burger but the sauce was sweet. They even have chocolate pies for choices other than our usual apple pie. RM13 for a large set, i think.

I think i would split it down to days as im kinda long winded :p