Pat-Tay-Yaaa

This is not one of those trips that we go out to hunt for food.  This was a hectic and tiring trip I had so far thou I enjoyed it.  Yes I tagged along with hubby's company's trip to Pattaya.

I 've been to gatherings but not a getaway with them ... I've conclude that this trip has waaaay to much screaming ... yup ... screaming ... like literally.

So the flight from Singapore to Bangkok was about 2hrs and a bus ride from Bangkok to Pattaya was another 2hrs.  I was getting restless and annoyed and hungry and tired and aching and everything you can think of ... 

We reached the hotel! Yey like finally. The next 3 nites at Amari Ocean Pattaya.  Very nice and not so decent hotel.  Where are all the locks for the toilets and the bathroom??!!! I felt so insecure.

 Nice bed ... but why its the toilet and bathroom the opposite ... maunye huru-hara tenggah mandi nak terberak... irrit eh layout.

We did not manage to rest as we need to freshen up and solat and meet at the lobby for dinner.  The dinner was not at the hotel.  It took 45mins to 1hr bus ride to dinner. Hungry Man is an Angry Man was an understatement.

So after 1hr or so we reached Suttangrak. Actually before they placed everything I took the picture liao ... heeh it was a wide spread,

We received 5am wake-up call.  Yes 5am. After we had breakfast, feeling-feeling walk by the pool gitu lah... and we left for Parasailing. The weather changed instantly.  Lucky everyone had their turn and it rained heavily.  The sea was choppy and the boat ride was making me oozy.  But I can't close my eyes as the screaming was like a siren hahahah. Sorry but I find it entertaining lah.

Once we reached Sukkee Beach, it stopped raining.  Amazing.  So they did jetski and banana boat.  He's boss asked me to take part.  I gave him the ok look.  The next moment I parked myself one corner very cozy. He came and shocked me.  "I ask you to play jetski, you sit down here and yawn." Caught red handed woh ... af cos lah yawn woke up freaking 5am leh I'm still cranky ok. I smiled and cover my face.  I am good ad avoiding conversation hahahah.

I love the beach it looks so gween and yummy ... ok I'm hungry.

After all the water sport ... dry ... wet .. dry ... wet ... it's time for lunch.  We had lunch at A-One Hotel. Food not bad.  But the herbal duck soup is a no no ok.  Go Thailand, tom yum is a must!

After lunch ... we had 2 hours before the D&D (Drink and get Drunk).  We got change took cab to Central Festival Mall.  less than 5mins ride.  10 baht per person.

The taxi (pick up) can fit about 10 to 12 pax.  Since there's only 7 of us it was quite spacious.

Walk around take pictures ... after a while I got bored cos it's a mall after all ... so we decided to park ourselves at Starbucks and wait for the rest to finish shopping.

Same old coffee.

Sight-seeing, people-watching ... I realised that Pattaya is Russian-Friendly. Pweety-pweety russian girls =p. 

Old russian men = Chess

On the way back to the hotel.  We paid 100 baht for the driver to take us straight back.

Moving fruit stall!. Its the only time my fruit intake is on the higher side. 

After all the fruits I'm too full to eat dinner at the D&D.  It was a fun night feels like a chinese wedding with never ending "Yam-Seng" ... Some of them drunk their ass off and forgotten about the next day team building.  It's quite entertaining to see the hungover faces.

The bus ride took like forever to reach the zoo.  So oklah I decided to take part. I dowan to be bored waiting.  The hike up was so frustrating!. I hate morning walks. I hate climb stairs.  Now I need to climb uneven steps.  Major urrgh!

I try not to complain. The word was TRY ...

After 20 mins of walking ... we reached the place.  Briefed on safety procedures and put on the equipment. Seriously, I was a little bit nervous. After the first station, I got the hang of it. I enjoyed it and annoyed with the 2 professionals that's trying to scare us shit-less.  Not funny lor. 

Flight of the Gibbon: https://www.treetopasia.com/thailand-holiday/bangkok

Since I joined the first group, we end the course at almost 2pm and had lunch right after that.  Nope we did not wait for the rest. Hee Hee ... 

After that we went to the Big Bee Farm and did the touristy stuff. 

I don't like to look at bees, they give me the creeps eeeeik. 

But this chocolate honey ice cream was yum! Thank you bees for producing the honey for my consumption =p.

by the time we reached hotel at 6pm.  Wash up and get ready for dinner.  Journey to dinner taking freaking long.  When we reached, we still need to walk to the other end from the entrance -____-''

I can't remember the place that we had for dinner.  It's facing the beach and there's mini fire works after dinner. The food was ok. After dinner we went Tiffany Show.

It was entertaining honestly.  But I was too tired half way thru the show I feel asleep. The props were all over the top.  The dresses are all gorgeous.

I want to cry! How can they the men looked like that and I look like this.  

They had the photo taking session at the podium very nice and fairy tale like.  Ok I need bed.

Last day looking at the beach scenery. Ok dah I'm ready to back to Singapore heeh.

Lunch was at Jasin Bangsaen.  Finally I had my Iced Thai Milk Tea here.

Coconut Ice Cream ... on a raining day...

So lets all bid farewell to Pattaya and Hello Monday!  

Land of a Thousand Smiles

Why Phuket?! Dunno ... just random. We bought a Groupon Deal that's worth it.  We stayed at Mandarava Resort. Awesome view.  The deal includes Panoramic Deluxe Room and Breakfast.  The place is simply beautiful.  The staffs were friendly, sweet, helpful and just plain nice. Everything was just so nice no I'm not exaggerating. Cos we went on hubby's birthday weekend and they prepared something special for him.  I elaborate more later.

Anyway I did some research (actually I don't know what to research on) and here are some of the places we can consider going.

OTOP Market -  checked

Central Festival Phuket - checked

Naka Market - checked

Jungceylon - checked

Phuthai Souvenirs Market - Did not manage to find

We reached Phuket at about 9am. We paid airport transfer to fetch and send us back to the airport at a small cost of 960฿.  

Eh Ms pulak.  It's ok. effort tu. The driver gave us 2 cold towels with jasmine scented for our faces and chilled mineral water.  The journey from airport to the resort was 1hr to 1.5hrs. He showed us the beaches on the way to the resort. We were early and the room was not ready.  Hubby rented a bike (300฿ per day) its cheap, fast and free and easy for us. 

When I saw the bike .... I pity the bike. Hahahah ... 2 heavy weight champion on it.  Seriously the seat was not enough for my butt.  I was joking with the husband, rasa-rasa kalao ringan tu tenggok lah kat belakang ye in case I tergolek ke ... but really, I can fall any time as it was a small bike,

I can't stop giggling we kept laughing (mostly me).  We ride around to find food nowhere in particular.  

This shop is located near Masjid Nurul Huda.  I think the name is Murah Dao Halal or maybe I'm wrong.  We ordered 2 Thai Iced Milk Tea, Tom Yum Soup (a must of cos), plain rice with basil chicken (mine) and I think the husband has Green Curry Fried rice anyway its fried rice. It was YUM! for 440฿. 

They had rice with dishes.  We did not get to try those dishes. In Phuket, the halal places has halal word on it or Malaysian logo or ladies wearing tudung that one sure halal (no alcohol of cos)

Iced Coffee it's a stall beside the Muslim Food restaurant.

 And across the street was ... AYAM GORENG! ... We had this everyday when we were in Bangkok.

Simple pleasure. It's almost zohor so we decided to go to the Mosque and come back later for our chicken.

This is Nurul Huda Mosque (there's a lorong to go to this mosque). It was so nice to be here.  It's so hot outside and inside was cooling and calm no air-con ok.  The place was clean, the telekong was clean no make up stains. Muslimah's prayer hall is upstairs.  Yes UPstairs.  I climbed the stairs.  The place was huge.  Azan was by a little boy very cute.

This is Nurul Islamiyah Mosque that is by the road side.

Fried chicken with chilli sauce and sticky rice. Annnd I bought som yum.

of cos we ta bao-ed it back to the hotel.  After the heavy lunch we still can squeeze in these. Here everything they serve accompanied by raw long beans and cucumber.

Complimentary lemongrass drink (my fav) and cold, wet face towel,

Complimentary fruit bowl (chocolate-chocolate takde ke?)

Home for the next few days.

Parked bike opp Jungceylon Mall.

on a hot day for 25฿ only.

Ini prata lah sey ... and I think they are Patani people. Pancake Flying at Junceylon

I can't resist lah Dunkin Donut. 

We ta bao-ed dinner from Sasural Indian Resaurant. As it rained heavily on the way back. The most expensive meal so far in Phuket (675฿).

Hubby ordered Thai Fried Rice which tasted like his mom's cooking.  My Vegetarian Pad Thai tasted like mee goreng and we ordered margarita pizza and it came with Mcdonald's tomato sauce.  -_-''

Tomorrow will be a better day, I promise. 

Happy Birthday to My One and Only! ...  

I'm not good at drawing and I don't like birthday cards.  So my wishes are in the crane.

Singpost screwed-up I almost did not get this watch on time.  I received it on Friday, the evening before my trip.

A few days before the trip, I decided to contact the resort for suggestion on nice cafes nearby serving cakes and balloon and what not.  They offer me prepare the cake.  What happen next was just priceless.

They sang him a birthday song. haahhaha ... see that look any redder he might turned into a lobster.  Since it's his birthday I let him play his toy while I napped cos it was raining heavily that morning.

Spot Singapore?

Hunting for brunch

Brunch was yummey @ Saveena.  This was recommended by my SIL and bro. It's cheap and sedap ok!

After brunch we went market ... Banzaan Market.

The market was so clean!!! ... Geylang what happen?!!

 Veggies are so fresh and bright

The seafood!!!! Fresh and huge!

and at the corner you see kids playing.

Local desserts.

Patong Beach

On the way back to the resort, drop by Saveena to ta bao banana nutella and Som Tum.

Tengok tu sedap sampai terangkat mata.

Nice lah but me banana no like ... I just want to try cos my brother likes it. (Aku makan on behalf of kao ok)

yey! they made our bed nice nice. 

We are on a quest to find Central Festival Phuket and the Weekend Night market there known as Naka Market. That is far away from the resort. About 45mins to an hr ride. No ... we took more than 1.5hr ride ok.  My butt pain tao.

and we saw ice-cream.  Birthday boy wants ice-cream.

Expensive leh ... but oklah once in a while ok.... 

Are you smiling under the mask? hee hee ... I think he find us funny lah

That is a Happy Face.

We ride stop take photo .... Ride stop take photo ...

Here are some photos from the Karon Viewpoint.  Previously it was called Kata Viewpoint.  Not sure why the change of name.  Calling it Karon is odd as this view is far away from Karon beach and way past Kata Beach.

Note that the Thai name is Kho Sam Haad which means 'Hill of the Three Beaches'. err ... I did not know that cos I just googled. We stopped to admire the panorama and snapped photos like crazy cos we can't get enough of it.

[taken from google] Kata Noi Beach view from Kata Viewpoint

Kata Noi Beach You really can see three magnificent bays from up there. The closest and smallest one is Kata Noi Beach, then a bit further is the beautiful bay of Kata with its island 'Koh Poo' which means Crab Island, and in the far, the very long Karon Beach.

 

After a long ride, we found Central Festival.. Weeeee!!!! erm ... it's just another mall ... erm ... yahh.

I don't understand why man is sooooo shy to ask for directions.  We decided to plonk ourselve at the Black Canyon.  Ordered ice coffee and I asked the waiter how to go to the night market from here.  The waiter (stenggah masak tergedik2 smiling2) trying his best to show us the route by drawing.  This part I switched off ... I don't how to look at map, I don't know how to read map and I'm suck at direction.

My pro husband manage to find the place whooohooo!!!! Sooooo clever.  The place is huge.  It's not as big as chatucak ... but still very big lor.

So talented perghh... these are soap!!! I faint.

These are the photos I am not allow to take baby turtles, sugar gliders, hedgehogs, bunnies ... OMG!!!! I like them all.  There's puppies and kittens ... the kitten like kena milk-coma liddat.

Jackpot! Halal food. Hee hee...

 so cute the pineapple!!! ... ok we did and buy alot of things here but I'm too tired to take photos at that moment 

The next morning we went back to Saveena to have our big breakfast

I am so gonna miss the food ...

We wen Jungceylon again ... it's hot outside and we just want to enjoy the aircon.

Lunch at Shawarma

Like a Boss

I was in the taxi when I snapped this.  I have been waiting for this baby elephant the whole day.  Time balik tu lah dia keluar.