Sunday, July 05, 2009

Back from the Land of Fish Sauce and Quaill Eggs

haha. guess where i randomly popped over too for the past 4 days! but im sure fish sauce pretty much gave it away because seriously the people there love their fish sauce. even certain parts of the sea smelt like fish sauce and when i proclaimed how disgusting it smelt my host/translator/clown/burnt friend proclaimed what! it smells normal what!! smells nice!! i like the smell of fish sauce. wtf.

okay la. i went to Hat Yai on a random whim. said situation went like this. receive sms at 10pm at night on tuesday. said sms read i'm going to hatyai again tomorrow 10pm. u want to come? wed afternoon i decide okay imma gonna go and sms mum for passport where she very swiftly dodges the entire question with things like no cannot H1N1 and how i will die in the bus. after about 15-20 messages or so she tells me my passport is at home. "=_=

at 8.30 PM pack bags and leave realising i have forgotten my prized bolster, sun screen and contact lens solution. reach bus stop at 9.30 because of pit stops to buy solution thus depleting a quarter of my money. bad move. thought i was going to miss the bus but said previous friend lied to me about having to be there at 9. bus left at 22:22 (yes it was fated)

arrived at uber cheap hotel (approximate4ly 50 bucks for 2 twin size beds, hot water, air conditioning, and lots of channels on the tube) i expected muych dodginess but was pleasently surprised at how clean it was. toilet was clean!! i am very anal about my toilets.

so Hat Yai is one of those cities where on first arrival i was sorely dissapointed (havent been there in years), the weather was way too hot and the city way too messy but over time you just fall in love with the place and the random quirks that point out to you as a reminder you're not exactly in KL anymore.

Yet at the same time it's so much like KL i forget im even away from KL. On day 1 i was pretty much upset to find out that we had to stay an extra day, on the last day i was bummed and didn't exactly want to go home.

well, anyway i need to rush out now so more on Thailand later =) toodles.

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-BabyGinz-