A better tmr

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Yes it's what you all have been waiting for! *drumroll* ok there's no need to be so dramatic you saw the title. YES it's KOH SAMUI!!! I wish i could stay there forever :( Sad right. No it was NOT a question.

Day 1 (wednesday)

Woke up at like 03:40 am. Depressing - it was only a short nap. Reached the airport around 04:30 am. Check in. Oh let me add - because of my unmatched brilliant genius-ness(?), I found out that a direct flight to Koh Samui from Singapore is more expensive than if you take Tiger Airways to Bangkok and then Bangkok Airways to Koh Samui :) Round flight. Anyway this is checking into Tiger Airways. We had breakfast (YES BREAKFAST!!!!!!! I ATE CABONARA CHIPOLATA!!!!) <-- Chipolatas are big fat sausages. OK OK! I thought you didn't know. Well, I knew before I went there -- *whistles false-cheerfully*. Enough of this crappy small talk. Let's reach the BIG talk.

Yes we're up on flight and should I comment on the excellent view? Champagne?

My sister likes watching the Yang Sisters. She likes that sort of lame stuff.

Yes we were one of the earliest so we got the wing seats :)

You can kind of see the sun there...

And yes these were all taken by me. I got overly caught up. There are some more pictures but for some reason I can't upload 'em.

Here we are at the Bangkok Airport (BKK -- Burger King Kong. Wallau so stupid. I can't believe I said that)!

And check in again...

We had bittersweet feelings (no not about Singapore, idiot! :)) The booking thing obviously said we were going to take a Boeing 717 for the flight to Koh Samui

(courtesy of the internet)

but instead we got this

P.S. It wasn't so big - my father didn't take a camera photo of it. There were like only 18 rows, two seats on each side and it was rather squeezy and basic. The cockpit was directly in front, one toilet squeezed into the side at the back, and there didn't seem to be a kitchen or anything - the thingy told us there would be a meal. Yes there were propellers! Quite cool larh. So its quite bittersweet :) In the end there was food! My sister got the kids' meal because I chose it for her. (There was vegetarian meal, some lactose meal thing, chicken meal, standard meal...) I wanted chicken meal but my parents were like: no, you don't take the chicken meal you take the standard meal. Here's my sister's meal

And my sister mealing.

And us mealing.

We had cold potato, cold bread, cold butter, cold pickles for the cold pork, cold ham, cold orange juice and cold lettuce. But if you're as hungry as I was you don't really mind :) It was quite nice.

And here's Koh Samui's airport!

Well it's more of the scenery outside Koh Samui's airport. Anyway, the airport is non-air-conditioned!!! *gaSP* So cool right? I was like, "Where's the airport?" We had to take a tram from where we landed to the airport.

Then it was quite depressing because the hotel we booked and arranged for airport transfer came only when we called them. Like we were looking around the whole meeting place and then all the hotel representatives were standing around calling for people except ours. Then we waited until everybody had already left. Still nobody came for us. Then we called and THEN the hotel said oh, 10 minutes. :((( My first booking of a hotel was quite a flop. Honestly, we reached there and was quite dismayed. Because the reception was like this old shophouse with no air con, and then the entrance to the houses/hotel rooms was like just this small sign, not like those usual hotels that you can see everything right on the doorstep. We were quite next to this resort called Amari Palm Resort that was like WOW! and then we were like so small, like this yes its so small that you can't see it. Well. At least the inside, when you walk in, was quite okay. I'm too lazy to upload the pictures from the internet so you can go search it yourself. www.ag.co.th/th/hotel/samui/corto/ Here's a link that shows quite a good inside of our house. No it's not the one on top - it's the pandora and esmeralda rooms underneath. The thing is our house looked more or less like that except that the connecting doorway did not lead to another bungalow but a little isolated room that was my room. YES it is MY room! And my mother and sister just went and trampled all over it :'((((( Oh and we had exactly the same painting on the wall. It looks exactly the same (to the internet ones) except for the connecting bungalow. Here are some pictures

Our parents had gone to settle transport around the island as well as tours to Koh Tao and Koh Nangyuan. When they came back we were sleeping like pigs. It seems they were locked out until I finally woke up after their five minutes worth of knocking on the glass and pressing the doorbell. Yes and that pig over there could continue sleeping! So troublesome. At least I wasn't the one who was caught on film.

Yes it was about night time already.
We went to walk on Chaweng beach, which is the best beach on the island. O.O I am so disappointed in Singapore. Chaweng beach sand was REALLY like walking on bedsheets! REALLY!!!!! I know you only hear it in stories. But it really is. Oh and that night, or this night, was low tide and there was no wind and totally no wave at all in the sea so that it was rather like a dead town. The debris was lying on the beach and the wave made you think you were standing at the poolside, as well as the clarity of the water! The water was like SO CLEAR you can see the corals and stones out there. It was night so we didn't really see the blueness of the ocean or anything. But this serves more or less to show you how gentle the waves are. I suppose that's how the sand there is so fine. It felt quite impossible.
And anyway halfway down the beach my dear little sister started whining that she's hungry, she's tired and so on. So we settled at a place where somebody on the net had recommended. Chomtalay restaurant. It basically was a buffet. I loved the salmon sashimi and the roasted lamb leg a lot!!!!! *squeal* I want to eat again!!!!! :( I must mind my bodyweight! DANG. Anyway there were a lot of mosquitoes. I had like four mosquito bites on one knee! I had a total of about 7 mosquito bites. So it was quite a relief when the wet towels that came had a faint smell of citronella which scares away mosquitoes. So we were like wiping and wiping everywhere. Well, my sister and I that is. Don't think sick please. Only our arms and legs. And then we walked back to our hotel and slept after bathing.
Oh p.s. if you look at the internet pictures of the resort you can see a window above the bed. That's the window to the bathroom. And there is no lock.

That's it for the first day.