Trip To Krabi, Thailand (Day 1)

After 5 months of semester study, finally it came to an end.

So to release all the tensions behind the books, me and my babe flew to Krabi, Thailand.

Krabi is located 178km across Phuket.

Our flight is at 1.15pm and as usual, we almost miss the luggage check-in time.

15 minutes before the departure gate opens, a group of girls dressed as flight attendant appeared with their colorful hair and shades.

Flight Attendants

When we step on the land of Thai, we were greeted by the resort's tour guide.

Coincidently, she was my cousin's tour guide when my cousin visited Krabi last time.

Without wasting any time, we checked in to our hotel, Krabi La Playa Resort.

The resort are located appx 5~10 minutes walk from Aonang beach.

The employers are friendly and the resort is pretty environmentally clean.

The deluxe room are more spacious than the one I saw in the website.

Deluxe Room

It comes with almost everything that we need. Including liquors!

2 water; 3 liquors

The tour guide offered us a ride to the Aonang small town which includes Starbucks, McDs, Haagen-Dazs and Swensens.

Thai's McDonalds

Our lunch was beef noodle. The actual stall that we intend to go was closed so we went to the next door.

Only one word can describe the noodle, Tasty!

Beef Noodle

The stall

During our walk after the lunch, we found 2 cute rabbits wandering around outside of its cage.

Tourists that wished to visit Krabi must get the local mobile number. It only costs 50 baht and also get a 

top-up 50 baht value. Easy to activate and the call rate is cheap too!

Thai simcard pack

Be sure to try the local pancake which is also Roti Canai in Malaysia term. Have loads of flavors to choose from but Chocolate w/ banana is the best for me.

Chocolate banana pancake

In the Krabi Town, there's this night market held every Friday to Sunday. It's a "Must Go" place.

Heard of Gold/Silver man; but this canvas man?

Shirt printing

Paintings

Padtai

Ice-cream on a stick

Clips!

Quill Eggs

Transportation wise, there's no problem taking their buses or taxi which they also called Tuk-Tuk.

Bus - 50 baht for day and 60 baht for night from Krabi Town-Aonang and vice-versa. Each trip takes appx 30 minutes

Tuk-Tuk - 20 baht but only around Aonang

Bus rate

More to come in Day 2 =)

Three Legged Stand

Last week, postmen dropped this in front of my house.

It was heavy and long. Hehe

New mouse~~!!

Recently my cheapo Asus mouse is dying...

Cursor keeps jumping and scroll wheel is spoiled. So I bought a Roccat Pyra Wireless w/ a Razer Kabuto combo for my laptop.

I will provide more review by next week :)

Well, it's been a month since the last time I blogged. Here goes my quick review of the Roccat Pyra Wireless.

Design - Pretty comfortable on my palm. Doesn't look small compared to Razer Orochi.

Battery - It lasts for approximate 6-7 hours for hardcore gaming. I was able to charge once per 2 days as I used it for surfing more than gaming.

Sensor - Doesn't look impressive as the mouse cursor keeps jumping around. Sometimes it would end up at the "close" button on top right which is quite annoying.

Conclusion - I must say it is pretty good mouse but it would be even better if the mouse would be operational without the receiver when it is plug with the cable.

I would give 7/10 rating for this mouse :)

Wedding Event

On 29/3/2011, I've completed my first official photographer for a wedding event.

My hands are tired, whole body wanna collapse. Didn't know covering an event is this difficult but it is fun seeing a beautiful and lovely couple celebrating their once in a lifetime event :)

Pictures will be posted once filtered and processed.

Hot Air Balloon

Last weekend on 19/03/2011, there was this Hot Air Balloon event held at Putrajaya. 

It was a rainy day but thankfully, it stops in the evening and most of the balloons did managed to fly up.

Trip to Beaches

Here I am, back from another powderful trip with a little bit of luck on my side.

On 10/3/2011, a group of 6 embarked on a journey to Pulau Perhentian. It was nominated as one of the Top 5 beaches in the world according to an article which I read at the Kota Bharu Jetty.

The boat sailing to that island wasn't a pretty easy ride. 2 of the 6 went for the early flight hence they reached earlier than us. And they get to ride the resort's own private boat. Four of us that reached later have to settled with a speedboat. For the whole 45 minutes, we were sailing against the wave and almost every waves, we can feel the boat was up in the air and fall down *BANG!* hit the sea surface.

All these big waves are still effects from the monsoon that just ended recently. And we didn't knew that. Bad for us indeed. But nonetheless, we arrived at the island safely and had a welcome drinks from the BuBu Long Beach Resort.

Day 1 - We didn't had much of activities as we arrived pretty late and only managed to enjoy the sea waves and the sandy beach :)

Enjoying sun tanning

Kid running from the waves

Lovely couple enjoying their walk along the beach

Day 2 - We went to snorkeling and did not bring DSLR as it wasn't a good resistance to water elements. But we do managed to snap big waves during our Sunset Discovery.

Divers getting ready to dive

Water volleyball, anyone?

Lizard

Enjoying the strong wind

Waves that hit the rock

The power of the waves

The two "soh lou"

Day 3 - It was our last day. So early in the morning, we got up and went for breakfast. Then, we packed our stuffs and get ready to get back to reality which is KL

The Gang

Panorama from the top of the hill

Overall, it was an adventurous trip for us even with all those waves and also the Tsunami alert.

Yes, our island was alerted by the authority that it might be hit by the Tsunami waves but luckily it went to the other side of the world instead.

P/S : My condolences to the lost lives from the earthquake and tsunami tragedy. And btw, me and my dear celebrated our 4 years and 2 months at there :)