I HUGGED A TIGER

conclusion: i hardly feel at home anywhere

OK IM BACK FROM MY ADVENTURE IN PHUKET so sad i wished it was longer tho 

Day 1:

troubled ensued even before we left sg like annoying silkair had some engine issues which they announced while we were alr seated in the plane and then after like an hour they told us to disembark from the plane?!?!??!? grrrrr but ok they gave us some snacks so that wasn't that bad and i was sitting in front of a crying KID not a baby but a KID WHO IS LIKE 2/3 YEARS OLD like you have a mouth you can talk just SAY voice out what's bothering you instead of crying and wailing like a little baby (WHICH YOU ARE NOT) but thank God the flight was like only an hour plus 

reached Patong Beach Hotel and had some other issues with the rooms (can you understand my annoyance now?) and then went to get sim cards and all WOW the place is very happening with the night life there were many caucasians and it was a little bit like Taiwan??? (or maybe its just me and my tendency to compare everyth with taiwan since i feel happiest there) 

Day 2:

just a thought// while i was having breakfast there were tourists of all nationalities lounging around and i suddenly thought that its pretty cool how from halfway around the world ppl actually made plans to come down to the same place during the same time frame and actually meeting in the same lobby or restaurant like wow our paths crossed but alas they did not intersect and i asked ky if he thought if this constituted as fate or coincidence and he put into words what i was trying to say. its probably just a coincidence but if smth major/impactful/lifechanging happens he'll account it to fate hmmmm 

anyway the driver brought us to this really shady/suspicious place for elephant trekking like it was literally beside the road omg and the elephants, poor babies :( i felt so sad for them like I'm not even sure if the business was even legal?!?!?! but it was quite an experience sitting atop the elephant my mum was so afraid tho LOL i was quite traumatised by the entire experience mainly cuz IT WAS SO DUBIOUS i really wanna save the elephants if i could sigh

went to Tiger Kingdom after that and I couldn't go see the adult tigers cuz I'm not over 160 LOL WHAT so we had to see the smallest tigers which were 3-4 months ahhhhh babies!!! i kept thinking they were dogs idk why haha they made me so happy :)))

went to some supermart after, which sold all the well-known phuket products and i can become a professional food sampler like wow its my favourite thing to do in NTUC or whatever super marts there were so many free cashew nuts hahahaha 

had thai buffet din at our hotel and the atmosphere was just like how it is in the movies when a couple goes on dates by a beach or pool and the lighting plus music wow 

went around shopping there is literally nth to buy in phuket ok nth at all i think my fave were the 2sgd singlets LOL 

Day 3:

THERE ARE SO MANY CATS AROUND THE HOTEL :))) so happy but they keep running away whenever i try to approach them 

went to this mall and it didn't feel like phuket it felt like sg and when a foreign lands feels the same as the place where you live, thats when globalisation has reached its peak 

went to this theme park in the evening AND WOW IT GIVES USS A RUN FOR ITS MONEY OK ITS SUPER COOL LIKE THERE ARENT ANY ROLLER COASTERS OR WHATEVER BUT THE ENTIRE ITINERARY IS SO FRESH like there are mostly shops there but the insides are furnished so elaborately i felt like i was in Fred and George's shop there LOL and Tim commented it feels like those kinda creepy toy shops you can never leave. we had a buffet dinner in this grand/regal banquet hall for 4k ppl it is crazy in there, literally the hunger games inside and i felt like i was visiting the king's palace and then we watched this show (i think it was called Fantasea? lol idk) and the theatre was like the one in RWS and the elephants are so smart GENIUSES I TELL YOU i was in awe mann they were doing stunts like i can't even walk properly and THE ELEPHANTS WERE LIKE STANDING ON TWO FEET AND ALL WALKING AROUND IN CIRCLES!??!?!? one of them did its business onstage so hilarious like its pee was like a waterfall (sounds like a coldplay song???? hahhaa jk) and the performers cleared it up asap. 

throughout the 3 nights there were like explosions and i thought it was a bomb going off like my heart froze when i heard it and then i heard shots and i thought i was going to die then i went to the curtains and there wasn't any fire or smoke or ppl shouting and running or screaming or whatever i even contemplated going to my parents' room to wake them up but turns out it was just fireworks lol kristie get your head outta your ass 

phuket is such a chill place there are so many bars and all you just wear singlets/shorts/sandals/shades every single day, eat, drink and be merry and everyth you're wearing can be found in different variations on the streets i wonder whats it like to live in a tourist area hmm