Kampua Talk

My previous post was only the discription of my Day One in Thailand last year. Just in case you have forgotten or not read about it yet, go read it first before you proceed or risk catching no ball.

Seven early eight early in the morning on the second day…

Pardon my French, my 1119 teacher will kick my arse if she sees me using that as an opening.

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At the crack of dawn, we were already wide awake, chatting with each other happily while packing up and getting ready to check-out. As instructed by our tour guide to get ready by 8am local time, we were done and ready in no time. 30 minutes passed and there were no signs of our tour guide. 15 minutes after that, she appeared and helped us with all the checking out process.

That day, we went to Songkhla! Our first stop was:

Tang Kuan Hill

The weather was so sunny that I felt roasted when my skin was exposed to the sun ray. We had to take the cable car (like those at Kek Lok Si Temple in Penang) to get to the top of the hill. There were abundant display of statues at the hill top. We saw Thais and tourist like us alike, praying to the gods. Not interested in the statues (excuse me, I was more interested with the scenery) I camwhored like no tomorrow.

Can see the whole Songkhla from up here

Stairway to heaven?

After wandering about and explored the hill top all by ourselves, we decided to go back downhill. Since the our guide was not there yet, we had a great time touching and flipping everything in the souvenir shop there:

They sell anything but things were not so cheap though.

No, I don’t need mugs, penholder, key chains, pencils, letter opener, etc to fill up my already-cramped room back in UUM, thank you very much.

Next, we were heading to see the famous Golden Mermaid (or was it bronze?) but we stopped by this place for a rest:

Anyone can read Thai?

The metal canon was burning in the afternoon sun and my arse was practically grilling on the metal!

They have this place nearby where there were firecracker debris all over it:

This place is probably for offering purpose, I am not so sure. Someone enlighten me on this please. In my opinion, if they build more of this rubbish dump-looking place around town in Sibu, I am pretty sure that Sacred Heart Secondary School boys would not tie the whole 20 metres of firecrackers from 4th floor of the school building and light them up during recess time. They could burn firecrackers at these assigned place at their pleasure.

I don’t know who they honour with that statue but Thais worship anything. Look closely at the bottom right of the picture above, you can actually see joss sticks burning in an assigned pot.

Anyway, next the legendary Golden Mermaid:

I forgot the story behind the legend already, sorry!

Then for the rest of the days we visited temples after temples:

The Na Zha Wat, just to name a few.

After that we went up a mountain (something like Kek Lok Si Temple in Penang) and were left to explore on our own.

One of the sculpture: The Dragon Tortoise

Most of my friends actually asked for wealth and prosperity when we came to this station.

I have no idea what they call this but I was there to cam-whore. LOL!

A second after the above picture was taken, we heard a loud BOOM!!! from afar. Everybody turned to the direction of the sound

Somewhere far to the left from the place I took this picture, thick smoke were seen ascending into the sky. Then I remembered something I read in the news a few days before. BOMBING was the word that came into my mind then. And it was confirmed true when I read about it in the news when I returned to Malaysia. It was scary to actually witness and hear a live bombing that we often watch/see in the news. I felt thankful to be a Malaysian living in Malaysia then.

Yes, they used GOLD in everything they built!

In the mouth of the Golden Dragon, final camwhore before leaving the place, for good.

We were brought to have some BIRDNEST before going back to Malaysia. This was the first time I tasted birdnest. It was tasteless but with the red dates and some rock sugar, it tasted just like any other Chinese dessert.

Who is missing?

This trip to Thailand was indeed a memorable one because:

• I lost my handphone at the market.
• that was the FIRST TIME I ate insects (I had eaten the legendary Sagu worms in Sarawak when I was 10)
• I danced non-stop for 3 hours during the clubbing session.
• I had allergic reaction throughout the whole trip.
• I had my FIRST Best Thai Seafood Tom Yam, so good that I look down on the pale immitations found in Malaysia.

I will definitely come back one day, with more CASH! This place is seriously a shopping heaven! On the other side of the coin, Thailand is HEAVEN for law breakers judging from the way traffic flowed and the way people drove. Lawyers definitely have no future here.

I am definitely coming back!