Traveling.Hmmmm.Most of us might love traveling,especially to the places you always wanted since your a kid.In my case i would love to go Africa(hmmm someday).But sometimes I couldnt travel as much as i want to due to the budget(darn it!!).
The couch surfing dot com.Might be an answer for the people in my case.If your budget its tight and you are so curious about the local culture,being a couch surfer might be a good start.Its basiclly just like the others social networking(base on my perception),such as facebook,my space.But through this site we can ask to be a guest or a host.If you asking for the security of this site and the people inside the site,don't ask me but NBC had it aired a while a go and it seems working well.
On August 6th-August 14th 2010,just like we already planted since last year.Im traveling with 5 friends of mine.most of them girls,they are Jeje,veny(Our financial consultant),rika(our super shoppa holic),yenyen(the quite one),and last but not least Andre (the fussiest,@_@).we scheduled to depart on 11 pm but like you all probably know,dealing with bunch of girls means it took time for them to pack up some stuff.
After around half an hour,finally we arrive at Soekarno Hatta Airport.after we pass the security check,we have to que up in a pretty long line.Thank god we still have the time to catch up with our plane.
At the plane,im trying to memorize some thai language,because the thai people doesnt speak english very well."Sa bai di mai(whats up),Sawa thikap(hello),khop khun kap(thanx)"well thats all i learn during the flight.
Phuket
We arrive in phuket AKA the pearl of the south at noon.After we done with the immigration stuff,me and the rest of my friends heading out from the airport to figure out what ride we should take..Well as i already predict,there is a bunch cab drivers from different company offering their services.And some of them using chinese to speak to us "nihao mao",taxi sir,cheap cheap"(with broken english and thai accent).
Meanwhile we still wondering what taxi we should takes,a man comes with an offer.while i keep bargain and bargain for the lowest price suddenlly a dark skinned man approach us and try to convince us to take the offer.And unsuspectedly he spoke in bahasa.LOL.So considering he is a brother from our home land we took the offer.
We ride in a D-max(a SUV which very common used by the people in Phuket) our driver name pong or dong or what ever,he barelly speak English and doenst look so friendly,he is look like a spy,he keep his mouth shut even when i ask him bout something(give some love to the indonesian will you??).
On our way to our guest house,the driver took us AKA Distorted to a travel agent office.Then while we still inside the SUV the woman(not quite sure.LOL),invite us to come in.Well due to lack of experience traveling in Thailand we do what she said.Inside her office,the lady keep giving me a bunch offer which i already know its marked up from the regular off season prices.For example she gives me a tour package to Phi phi island for 1800 baht(No way lady...boy!!!).
After a bunch of offer finally she/he gave up,but we still took the pick up service by paying 400 baht for a deposit (thx for scamming us).O yeah,the name of the travel agent is Phuket evolution or revolution,my advice for first timer that come to phuket is just say no to the offer(later you will know why).
After around 30 minutes ride finally we arrive at our guest house.Well the guest house its ok.They open a beauty salon in the front part of the guest house.The name of our guest house is sea blue phuket hostel,its actually own by a couple of married,the husband name sean is Canadian,the wife name Lekha is thai..
My experience with the hostel is,its try to understand what the staff saying.For example
Me:"excuse me,i want to have a meal for dinner,which why is it?"
Staff:"its the shittttt"(what the heck)
Me:"what???"
Staf:"yeah you go the left and the shittttt"
Me:oooooo,ok(after humming and try to figure out what the staff said)
What she trying to say actually is,the street food is actually located across the street(not shit).LOL
Juncylon mall its the closest amusement to our guest house beside Bangla road(you know whats in there right^^).well considering i live in Jakarta where the only entertaiment comes in the form of mall,im not quite impress with the juncylon,but its an ok mall though.
After couple hours of walking we finally decide to have our dinner,but not in the shitt(joking).LOL.We have our dinner accross the patong beach.Its a restaurant that is own by a dutchmen AKA kompeni.He is a cool old man with flamboyan dress up.He even talk in bahasa a bit.His grand daddy comes from maluku.Tom yam khum(is it spells right??) that's the most common meal of thai people that i knew.so with out further consideration,i order the most favourite tom yam khum from the dutchmen restaurant.And the rest of my crew eat some kind like a beef that is chop into tiny pieces.
During our killing time in the restaurant me and Veny decide to check out the tatto studio near the restaurant.Its own by a dreadlock thai tatto artist(i dont remember his name).the studio its not big,its more look like a booth.the art pretty good.But me and veny are little bit concern about the hygine,even judging from the outside look,it looks pretty clean.So we postpone our fiery spirit to get our first tatto.
At 10 PM we accross the bangla road.man!!!!this is my first time that i look at a galore of whore,stripper,and lady boy.The bar full with white dudes,who having a gud time with their thai lover.The pole is everywhere and the ladyboy is in action by seducing all the bule(white dudes).The thing in my head is,what if you met a girl in this country,you make out and ready for action.and all of a sudden a dick pop up from the skirt!!!!!!!.LMFAO.Thats gotta be your most wicked sin isnt it???.LOL
In the street,i cannot count how many times i say no!! to the man or woman who offer me "ping pong show sir",tiger show",cat show","pork show???"(kidding). BRO,"whats up man,come to my club,the girl is hot,come come".LOL.Do you know that those show onlly cost you 200 baht,its probably the cheapest sin you ever done in your entire life.LOL
At late night we got home to our guest house to have a decent sleep because we have to get ready for the phi phi island trip tomorrow.We still "amaze" with the nightlife in this city,Especially bangla.LOL
To be continue
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