Monday, June 23, 2008

Pattaylicious

For the first couple of days of the tour , I had my trusty Dslr with me until it ran out of battery on the second day. Due to my own carelessness I've forgotten to bring along my battery charger so I got to resort to Marcus's 2mp hand phone camera to capture graphics to sugar coat the logs. Luckily I've contacted some of the fellow photographers whom join us on this trip who were kind enough to spare me their photos for my blog post and for that ,I owe a big thank you to them. With that in mind, it would pretty much explain why the posts are coming in so slowly because I've got loads of compilation and editing to do , and the 2mp camera didn't produce photographs that i deemed nice so i had to put more work on photo shop to make up for it.
Well, that being that , I'll move on to today's post~!

Thailand is well known for their wide variety of food which are both delicious and very affordable.
Their flavours were often mainly sweet or spicy or both . Although most of their dishes are available already in Singapore , you could only get the most authentic dishes from the country it self.
The tour package includes our meals and its always extremely sumptuous. We were either eating buffet all the time or our meals would be often an over kill.For example, this is a typical lunch over at pattaya..

If you think thats it, you're so darn wrong. Thats only the main dish , the rest of the steamed fishes , mussels, clams, veges , tom yum soup practically left us hands tucked while eating the imbal mountain of food. As we're situated next to the beach, our meals consisted heavily on seafood based dishes.
How ever, with that in mind, the hotel we lodged in would always often us a change in variety of food for their buffets. The buffets was something that Me and Marcus would look forward to alot in Singapore before the Thailand trip due to our insatiable appetite , however, we kinda got turned off by the idea of unlimited food by the end of the trip. I actually got tired of getting up and down the table to get myself some juice at some point that I started using my water bottle instead.
Booze over at thailand is freaking cheap at about 1.20 sgd for a bottle . I fell in love with these particular brand SINGHA which taste so much better then the rest .

As we engaged in pretty much night activities there, I also had a fair range of energy drinks to do a taste test and so far , I find that this particular brand caught my eye.Muggers out there who needs an energy boost, this will be a good one.
Another thing that gave plus points to the tour's accommodation is that the tour guides always brings and encourage us to have spa and thai massage . The price of a spa package which includes a herbal sauna and steam sauna session as well as a jacuzzi session and a thai oil massage session cost 500 bath of which, we all get to have a package free as part of the tour . To add on, the price of a simple thai massage is roughly around 190 to 250 bath per hour session thus ,its not difficult to understand why the tour guide encourages us so much to go for the massage.
After this trip, I feel like an abominable piece of lard walking around the house. Geeze, time to train up~!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Prologue:The trip to pattaya


June saw me in a more solemn light as my time to serve in NS draws nearer. The thought of the government robbing me of my life sucks . No matter how much I tried to be an optimist about Ns , I just couldn't take my head of the thought of the lack of freedom. My mum then suggested a trip to thailand before I go for Ns. Well, its been eons since I've went overseas with my family thus I thought this would be a good time.Perhaps the last time I could go with them till a very long time.

The trip was fun and I've made lots of friends and learnt a good wealth of knowledge from the trip . I'll continue blogging and posting more pictures of my trip through out the next few days so keep you eyes peeled ppl!