The first Trip with the Crazies

So, I realized that it would not be fair for me to blog about my family trip to Phuket and not blog about the trip with the besties. Yeap... I went Thailand twice in a year! Thai and me had a thing going on this year.

So, how this trip happened?

Oh well, Rosh was browsing through Air Asia's website and she stumbled upon cheaper flight tickets to Krabi and thanks to the very advance technology nowadays, she whatsapp-ed Kee and me to ask us whether we are game for the trip. And within minutes, our flights were booked.

Then later, my two besties decided that HEY! Why not go Bangkok from Krabi since we are going to spend 6 days there. So, we booked another flight to Bangkok from Krabi. ( I told you I had a thing with Thailand this year). So, all done, hotel booked and we are just counting the days till the trip began!

The story will henceforth be explained by the pictures.

The three of us at the airport. I am on the phone with Thomas reporting every single thing. He was suffering from a slight separation anxiety at that moment. 

Before our parents allowed us to go on this trip, they made us promise them that we will follow a set of rules. We broke the first rule once we touched down in Bangkok! We ate by the road side. Thank God non of us suffered any diarrhea. 

So, our first destination, Ayutthya. ( I think that is the spelling). I remembered we had to wake up super early and you can definitely tell by looking at this picture! LOL!

We hired a tuk-tuk to bring us around. Actually, we are supposed to hire bicycles and cycle around but honestly, I secretly thanked the heaven we didn't because the weather was killing me! If i did not put on sunblock, I will be fried. Literally. Plus, in the end, we had to cycle back to the shop to return the bicycle!

Yeah... We visited a lot of temples, ruins and at one point, all of them looked the same to me. I love how we managed to be cultural while we were on our trip ( Thanks Rosh!)

This is Rosh sleeping on my oh-so-bony-yet-so-comfortable shoulder. We were exhausted! I think we all managed to lose some couple of pounds with all the walking and it was only day 1!

The next day, we visited a floating market in Amphawa. 

 They sell their seafood on their sampan. We literally had to walk down a narrow wooden stairs to collect our seafood. So, we appointed Rosh to get it for us. And she, being the braver one among us, also volunteered to go get it for us! The prawns were rather fresh and they were huge too. 

That night itself we went to Asiatique and the things there are not cheap and over rated. However, it is a tourists area rather than a local hang out place

This is the Bangkok train station. Initially, we wanted to take the train to Krabi but unfortunately, all of the trains were fully booked. So, we had to take a bus there. That was the only hiccup we had during our trip. We were cheated off our money! If any of you plan to go somewhere, use the train! Try to avoid tour buses! They are a rip off! It is rather unfortunate that we had to sit near the toilet and thus, we had to suffer for 12 hours smelling pee. Poor Kee nearly died half way. Half way through the journey, one french dude came down to pee and he was lamenting away how stinky it was. So, Kee, being the ever so helpful, started spraying some deodorant around and some of it entered that dude's mouth. He, not being a gentleman, started cursing and hurling verbal profanities at Kee. He started spitting about. The bus was a double deck bus. Nevertheless, we did make some nice friends though. After that incident, almost all ang mohs turn me off. We Asians always think Ang Mohs are gentleman. Well, guess what people, that is not always the case. On the other hand, I think Asian men are more docile and polite! 

 After the 12 hour ride, we finally reached Krabi!

We went around Krabi town to survey for the most affordable island hopping packages. 

We were on our way to the Islands!

We met some nice island hopping buddies! They are a nice couple! 

This is Aonang Beach during the evening. After the island hopping, Rosh wanted to go around Aonang beach but Kee wasn't feeling too well. So, I decided that since I am not feeling sick nor tired I will be the one accompanying Rosh!

The trip started with the rushing, loads of walking, sweating and legs paining but it ended in the most relaxing mode! It was perfect! Although we had our little disagreements but we worked things out and we discovered more about each other with this trip. I love how this trip impacted my life personally because I always thought that I wanted the most independent life away from my family. This trip really made me cherish my friendship with the two crazies, my family and of course, Thomas. I would be lying to say I didn't miss that guy. 

So, I went on this trip during March and now, it is October. I didn't blog about it then because everything was so fresh in my mind then and I wasn't missing Thailand that much then. Now, while I reminisce all that, there is a tinge in my heart and I would be like "awwww, I miss the trip". This is when I know I am ready to blog about the trip. 

On the way back to Malaysia!

The Fam

I never really have enough chance to hang out with my family since I moved to the city to pursue my degree and I am most likely to practice here too. It is undeniable that I do get homesick and I would weep like a baby before I go to sleep because of that. Apart from that, when I am having my monthly PMS, I would get all grumpy and emotional thinking about my family.

There was once, I had a conversation with Thomas and we were discussing about our future when we are parents. (No, we are not getting married anytime soon. We are just discussing about what we will probably do or probably will feel). One of the many questions that arose was what kind of parents are we going to be to our children next time? 

Although we can only say now, but I think I would probably be the doting mom. I would probably be the one spoiling my children. I am pretty sure I am not the conservative kind of parent. I believe in nurturing creative minds. I believe that academics alone is not enough to help you grow as a person. If my kid wants to be an actress, a painter, a singer, or whatever Asian parents think that the particular field has no future, I would probably encourage it. If they are academically talented, then of course I would encourage it but if my kid is not academically talented, I would most certainly not blame my kid and encourage him or her to pursue what he or she likes.

Of course, discipline is a must. I am firm with my principles and I would like my child to be that too. I will definitely let the father be the bad guy. I am not going to be the bad guy. I am the cool mum and the best-friend. LOL!

Now the question is, what if your kid defies you or disappoint you? 

I am not a parent yet, but as a child to my parents, I did some pretty big mistakes myself too. I don't see them disowning me nor throw me out from my home. I have to say, I have great and forgiving parents. They taught me to be compassion, respect and humility. I was once a rebellious kid (we all went through that phase!), but I guess my parents are smart enough to let go of the strings before I went berserk. They set their boundaries and limitations without me realizing they were there! 

But I think to be a parent, one need to be forgiving. The amount of hurtful things I said or did are uncountable. Yet, they forgave me and love me just the way I am. My dad is the crazy dad and my mom is the no nonsense mom. But I think both are forgiving and loving parents. They would always find space in their heart to forgive their children and for that I am thankful.

It irks me to hear stories like parents disowning their children because they haven't been obeying their parents. Parents, your children are not puppets. They have their mind of their own and they have dreams too. Yes, you bring them to the world but they didn't point a gun to your head to ask you to bring them to the world! Your duty is to love, educate and encourage them. Not to make them to be someone you never had a chance to be. 

Children, you parents are not evil, they are just concern and want the best for you. We all went through our rebellious age, but when it is time to say sorry, you say it! When it is time to reconcile you put your damn ego down and do it! Stop being a disrespectful and unappreciative *beep*.

Anyhow, I just want to dedicate this post to my parents and would like them to know how much I appreciate them and love them and how thankful I am to them for the opportunities that they showered me. 

The family in Phuket

When it was LONG LONG time ago

When the parents were in Chiang Mai

Enough is enough

Please, stop making Malaysia a laughing stock in the eyes of the world. Enough that our human rights are not protected. Enough that we are led by a bunch of fools. Enough that we have a bunch of unappreciative fools living here.

It is so tiring and annoying that when you want to escape from reality, what keeps on popping up on the screen is the issue of "Allah". Oh, don't get me wrong. I do not agree with the COA decision at all but I think there are sufficient and rather strong justifications as to why the COA decision is ludicrous. But I think many misunderstand the point as to why is there a charge in the first place. This is a judicial review case and it concerns the government infringing certain rights that the Federal Constitution allocated for the citizens.

How is that so many people blaming the Religion instead of the people whom started all these nonsense? Why blame the Jews, the Christians and even the Muslims when we have no issue about this? The only issue here is the government infringing our constitutional rights. Period.

Where is the freedom of religion? What is freedom of religion? Or most importantly, what is our freedom as a Malaysian?

We don't have any rights with our education and our future. For those whom are privileged enough to attend private schools, colleges and Universities, be thankful. We are not given the freedom to choose our courses in the local Universities. My question to you is, Why can't we choose? Don't give me crap that there is a danger that a particular field of practice would be saturated. It is never too much to have more doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers and etc. Don't give me crap that many would be unemployed because as it is now, there are many unemployed graduates too. So, I don't think this attempt is successful to curb the unsound problems.

We don't have rights to our money. For example, cars in Malaysia are so expansive. Why the high taxes? But yet, we foolish Malaysians just accepted it and pay for the ridiculous percentage of taxes. High taxes are not charged in countries that produces vehicles but yet, their citizens are willing to buy their own product. WHY? because they are of quality. I love my country but I feel that many potentials are not nurtured and encouraged here and thus caused many to migrate to other countries whom appreciate their potentials and talents.

We don't have the rights to have a fair and just election. The world is dirty but hey, Not this dirty... Even if it is, at least have some brains to cover it up. We do not have the rights to choose our leaders. We don't choose our prime minister. UMNO chose it.

I am an activist but I am not unappreciative too. I would not have been one if our system here is efficient. It would be too ambitious and even foolish to want a perfect system. But is it too much to want a sufficient system, sufficient leaders (with qualifications and not just some useless diplomas) and to be appreciated as a citizen? I always try to be impartial to our government, our judiciary and our parliament but with all the current happenings, I am losing my faith. I do not know how long more this patriotism in me will continue to ignite.

Some say study hard and migrate. My question is why should I when this is also my country? Some say don't like the system, Migrate. My question is why should I when this is also my country? Should one just accept what is given even though it is unjust? Can't we give constructive criticisms? Is it wrong to ask for a better Malaysia? One may say what is better may not be better for another. But is equality bad? We are not pro-communism nor a Marxist. We are Pro-people. We just want the system to be fair to the people regardless of races and religions. Is this too much to ask? To achieve full satisfaction, start asking the majority instead of pleasing a handful of conceited minorities whom crown themselves as power holders.