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Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Phuket Day #1
Decided to sacrifice my drama watching time to blog instead, lol! Efficient please.
So i shall begin with my trip to phuket! been waiting for this trip since May and its finally here, and also over in the blink of an eye. Its my first time overseas with Agnes! We have somewhat a few similarities in certain ways except she is the simple kind of person who doesn't even take selfies or makeup on a daily basis. LOL, i am sooo much more vain. Okay, fast forward, our flight was around noon time 1pm. Yes, its a rather bad timing, and our flight back is also bad, we reach SG at around 12:30pm. so technically we have only 3 days and 4 nights there. But we wanted to have time to rest when we are back and if im not wrong there were not much good timings for Air Asia. our tickets are very cheap at approx $130 each! really pretty xmas deco at the airport!    my first time flying Air Asia.... abit tight for me as usual. LOL!  we had to get off the plane and hop onto a bus to reach the airport!  when arrived, they were giving out free sim card for all phones! its rather good, you just need to go to 7-11 and top up!  love my passport cover!  Reach phuket airport at 12+ their local time and we were trying to look for cabs from other places instead of getting those who kept pestering us in the airport. Thank to Liping for giving so many tips, indeed, one of the guy following us when we walked 2-3times back and forth. Eventually after comparing the few prices, we decided to go back instead the arrival area and book one with the cheapest price and comes with mini bus airport transfer. We had to ask the officers there to let us in because once you are out you cant go in anymore, lol. this was a rather small booth out of the others. but they seem ok. The price was reduced from 2800 baht (or 2200?!) to 1600baht if im not wrong. So this was our Itinerary. it is our top must go list, which is to Phi phi island + snorkelling!  Here's our ticket! A Mini bus is good and comfy enough except that you have to wait for enough people to board the bus, and that they might not send you to your hotel first.  im just waiting.... LOL. 
and she's just waiting... you can see there's nothing but carpark and contruction site around the airport, so we gave up our initial thought of walking out of the airport to flag a cab. lol.
 Arrived at our hotel, The Gallery shortly after. Its a rather simple hotel situated at patong beach area. Price is very cheap at $200 for 2 of us for a total of 5days 4 nights!   The bed is very biggggg, love it. 
during the 2nd or 3rd morning, there was puddle of water around the toilet bowl wtf. i've no idea where the water drip from.
  
simple layout. only concern was the tap and toilet water was rather yellowish at first, but fortunately at night it became clear.
The hotel's pool was rather small.. nvr had a chance to go in for a swim though. lol.
first selfie of the day. all selfies are initiated by me, if not she totally wont take any pictures of herself! LOL.
  Headed out to grab our dinner cum my lunch because i didnt had any! Buzzling street of Patong.  Did my research and saw this No.6 Restaurant was rather famous, and since it was already 5plus, there's nothing much we can do for the first day. so we just walked around the streets. Also, because it's not exactly dinner time, there were no queue! the next few days i walked pass the restaurant its frigging crowded!    When in Thailand, drink thai milk tea!  
chicken basil.. portion abit pathetic and doesnt comes with egg.
 yum woon seng. my all time fave, but they cook the glass noodles for abit too long already i guess.  Tom yum soup! Decent and good enough.  Omelette with prawns. our total bill is around 530baht. $20+ for 2, slightly ex since its only 2 of us.  random boy wearing feline meow tee! LOL.   Went to jungceylon mall and i thought i would have alot of things to shop but i was wrong! LOL. the mall's name sounds really korean-ish, but there's almost nothing inside! i was so happy just to see watsons, and supermarket. T_T And the mall has a foul smell! and i didnt head to patong beach at all because Agnes keep saying its very commercialized at that beach she's not interested to visit at all.. Oh well! basically the whole place is commercialized! she wanted to stay in Kata Beach previously but i didnt want because there's almost nothing to do there! we did went there for 1 of the days and true enough.. we cleared the place in half a day! buying cereals for our breakfast because we didnt book the hotel breakfast. lol.   we stalk up our mineral water everyday because we were afraid of the tap water and also we need clean drinking water. Firstly, the tap was yellowish, secondly, the glass bottled one provided by the hotel has a weird taste and texture in it, thirdly, the 'save your breast' bottle was from 7-11 its 7baht and it also taste abit weird... like sea water...? not really THAT salty kind of sea water, but its just weird. so we end up spending money on Ang moh brand mineral water like Vittel. but the price is actually alright to us. 1.5l at only around 50baht which is around $2+.  after roaming around the mall and buying some necessities and snacks, it was raining and we waited in the mall quite long for the rain to stop. eventually we still walked out while drizzling, and otw we bought some supper. banana chocolate pancake, chicken kebab and grill corn! The kebab is the best imo. the banana pancake is really normal to me idk why everyone say its a must eat!     but i cant deny the fact that it looks tempting. hahahaah.   Ended the short day with an hour of foot massage at 200baht!  Had to wake up reallllly early at 6 local time which is around 7 SG time for our whole day phi phi island tour! 
Day #2 to be continued..
Till then!
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