Chiang Mai Part 2

Nice cottage. For a moment, it doesn't even look like chiangmai. Feels more like some upcountry house in some temperate European country.

View of Chiangmai city on the way to Doi Suthep.

Huge water fountain at the top of the flower garden

H'mong Village

Ooooooo.. Marijuana leaves....

poppy flowers.. Was told that white and red ones are the more potent..

our 30 minutes "tourguide" She's the one sitting on the left. She just came up to us and offer to bring us around the village for a small fee which is to be decided by ourselves.

Front entrance of Doi Suthep. They said, if u did not go to Doi Suthep, u are considered never been to chiang mai.

seriously, i wished that guy did not pose for this picture. I am supposed to take a candid shot of him..

View of Chiangmai city from Doi Suthep

Lazing doggie on the temple ground

The main pagoda of Doi Suthep. It is believed the top contained the relic of Buddha, which is part of his skull bones.

view from a traditional thai resturant overlooking the river

have u seen the Apple Macbook Air?

Just announced and launched 1 or 2 days go.. The industrial design of this laptop is amazing. Super sexy, super slim... But like slim and pretty models on the runway, they dun have much mammaries to talk about. So just like models, this laptop is equip with the bare essentials. No optical drive (external drive optional with extra cost), 1 USB port (external multi usb port can be added), and no Ethernet port (external Ethernet port optional with extra cost). Add to it a puny 80 GB 4500rpm hard disk(for the cheaper series), u got a fucking sexy piece of crap that is good enough for ppl who called themselves "lifestyle fashionista with a higher taste for nice things" (in my term, they are called poseurs), who loves to show off of they tech in cafes. Seriously, i think this laptop is good enough for internet surfing onli.. But i shall thank Apple for comin out with such a nice design, so that other companies will use this as a benchmark and create nice, if not better designs for their laptops.

Adventures in Mrt : Gold Digger

Was on my way home the other day. Saw this seat that was empty, but my instinct tells me not to dump my tired ass on it. Reason being the train is pretty full with ppl standing around, so there;s prolly a reason why that seat was never taken. Then it dawned on me.............

Culprit was this national serviceman wearing the infantry number 3 uniform. For those who dunno what the number 3 uniform is, well it's the smarter uniform(short sleeved shirt, pants and black leather shoes) compared to the camouflage one that most ppl are wearing. He is one disgusting fellow!!! What was his crime? His a Digger of black coal. Throughout the time frame of at least 10 mrt stops, he was digging continuously on his nose. Out came the boogers, those very kneadable type, which he wasted no time in making them into balls. Then he will smear them onto his tissue, and continue the quest for the ultimate kneadable booger. Whao lao eh........................... After all the black coal had been dug and mined, he proceeded to dig for more precious materials in his ears.. @#$#^%%^&*... To top it off, he will check the grade of his precious materials using the smell method... I seriously hoped u are not eating your dinner when u are reading this.

To make matters worse, sitting 2 seats away from our gold digger are 2 early twenties Caucasian tourists. They did noticed the spectacle and was showing disgusted faces among themselves. I mean, our gold digger is really setting a very bad example of our Armed Forces(not that the image of out Armed Forces is very good to start with), by exhibiting such behaviours in public. I wondered what must be going on in their minds that time...

If you have no idea, and i would like to clarify, is that why some of us have to tough the shit out during national service while some have the great life of wearing nice uniforms is that most if not all of the latter either have mental or physical issues, which will be inadvisable to be doin strenous activities, not to say, to hold a rifle. Of course there's another group of ppl who actually keng/tuang/bluff/conned their way to get office jobs. I sure wished the lack of height was a physical disability leh, then i could be having office jobs, wearing smart uniform and joining the goin-home crowds on the mrt, just like gold digger. Oh, back to gold digger, i think his a little slow on the brain, from my observation of him, that explains his grotesque behaviour and nonchalance of the public to his actions.

Seriously, i think these ppl should be locked up in camp and not allowed to go home. haha.. I mean, they got an easy job, why should they be allowed to go home everyday at 5.30 while the rest of the guys slog and rough it out and only gets to sleep on their own beds once a week(saturday) only? Well life is unfair mah... Being slow and stupid has it's uses sometimes.

The Salads Club

Let me draw your attention to this website.. it;s a collaboration between my mates and some other ppl. The character concepts comes from vegetables and fruits, hence the name, The Salads Club. On the drawing board are supposed to have some merchandise soon. Check out the website, very cool animations there and i see a good future in this...

http://www.thesaladsclub.com/

Adventures in MRT

f i always have a lot to blog about my trips in the mrt.. Let's talk about this morning's trip to work.

As usual, got a seat... Was enjoying reading the papers, until my Discman(yes i am still very old skool) battery died on me.. Why do i love listening to music so much on my mrt trips? Partly because i like music, but largely also because, the music dampened out the hassle and bustle of the going-ons in the trains. PPl talking loudly to one another, shouting on the phone, handphone ringtones, the stupid announcements on the trains, etc etc. So normally when my battery died on me, i will still keep my earphones plugged into my ears, at least it still helps a little to keep the sound out.

Award for disgusting behaviour - This office lady beside, prolly having cold and flu, and she kept sucking in air through her nose, in an effort to stop the mucus from flowing out. Irritating leh... it;s not like soft kind, it;s so hard and loud, it sounded like the snort of a pig, and if i close my eyes, i would have believe it;s a guy sitting beside me.. She could do those really loud sound and the frequency is like once every 5 seconds.. So unbecoming of an immaculately dressed person. Heh... For God's sake, just take out a piece of tissue and blow all the crap and mucus away. Showing a little bit of ugliness once is better than having prolonged ones that last and last....

Award for worst dressed person - Directly standing facing me was this lady.. She looks like she is wearing the metal chain mill undergarment of a english knight. She wore a dress that covers from the top till her knee. This thing is in metallic silver and the fabric was made to resemble closely woven metal threads.. The dress ends at the knees with a frump.. To accessorise her "knightly" look, she carries a........................... yes!!! a metallic silver handbag. talk about matching outfits... this is not all.. Dress was layered with a knitted pink/purple cardigan... Her dressing really "clash of the titans" leh... Oh, what coloured phone she using? Yes a purple one.. whahahah.....

Award for most cheesy ringtone - As usual, the indian/bangala ringtones always gets the vote!

Award for best ringtone - The other lady sitting beside(not the snorting pig) me. Hers was of a kitten meowing. Very cute sound, bordering on sounding sad, that makes the user wanting to answer the call to end the poor meows of the kitten.

Award for loudest talker - Of course belongs to the usual uncle answering his mobile phone. I wondered why ppl have to shout at the phone, while they can control their voice when talking face to face with a person? Maybe it's because of the perceived distance of the other party that he is talking to on the phone, thinking that the louder he shouts, the clearer the other party will be able to hear him.

Oh and the other day, i was on the train home. It was the older version of the mrt where the seats are generally smaller and narrower than the new ones.. I hate those trains cos u will be damn unlucky when someone big sits beside u. That will really make u feel like a puny sardine in a can of tuna.... Then a thought came to my mind. To ensure the human race to be able to live for more millenniums to come, the only way is to get smaller. There;s a reason why there;s so little in the population whales and elephants compared to ants and insects. That;s because the earth cannot support too much big animals... that applies to homo sapiens, who just mutilply like viruses. Small animals consumes so much lesser, so there;s space for them to be found in great numbers. Oh i found a shop in the flea market in bangkok that sells their t-shirts in different prices in according to the sizes.. They should have more like that. I mean, why should i pay the same price for a t-shirt if i buy a Small size, compared to someone who buys a XXXL one? I use lesser cloth, of course i should pay lesser for the material cost!!!!

Oh dammit!!! my laptop concussed on me yesterday.. Now she is in hospital. I suspect hard-disk crash!!! and i really hoped the data inside is retrievable because i did not back-up all my photos!!!! boo hooo..........

Chiangmai 2007

Long overdue pictures form my recent chiangmai trip! Well Chiangmai is a pretty laid-back place, so dun expect anything really as happenin as Bangkok, or maybe we just dunno where to go. Anyway, the weather is nice, air is soooooo damn fresh that the moment i reach Sukumvit in bangkok, i was actually choking... Ppl in chiangmai do things in a slower pace, so it needs a little getting used to it when being Singaporeans, we expert services to be fast and brisk. Well u just have to sit back and enjoy, take your time, be nice in a place like chiangmai.

Long-tailed moth

Swimming pool of Proud Pfah Resort

See the little swing attached to the huge tree?

One of the rooms in Proud Pfah Resort

Mist over the valley at dawn... Air is cold and fresh..

One of the waterfalls along the way up Doi Inthanon

see the rainbow! Was told by our guide that this is the favourite waterfall of the Queen

My favourite dog in Proud Pfah Resort. His seen wearing this "Adidog" t-shirt all the time..

Pig lazing in the sun at a White Karen village

rooster looking very sharp in White Karen village.

Another waterfall along the way

Looks like a christmas tree with cobwebs as decorations.

Highest peak of Thailand. Doi Inthanon

Pagoda, still under construction.

Lantern decorations at Tapas gate in Chiangmai City. Every sunday at nite this place will become the sunday market.. It;s huge!!!

One of the most satisfying meal i had in my trip.. Nice place, nice settings, nice food...

A sculpture at the Chiangmai university.

Mountains always surrounding u, no matter where u are in chiangmai.

lanterns lighted up at the tapas gate at nite, like a thai version of the christmas tree..

what ifs............

What if mosquitoes can actually transmit Aids from biting one infected person to another?

That would be disastrous i would say. I think it will also seriously affect our fashion sense and how fashion will look like. I think ppl will rush to wrap/cover themselves all over, leaving no skin exposed. See who still dares to go out wearing tiny butt cheek baring shorts and skimpy tops anymore. Ppl like us who live in the tropical regions, if not die from mosquito transmitted Aids, will die of heat stoke.

What if u wake up one day and found that there's no more fossil fuels for u?

Cars will not move for sure. Countries like Singapore, who uses fuels to run generators for electricity will come to a stand-still. Great!, no need to work, then after a while, no money, and then ended up on the streets scrunching for food/rubbish. Sooner or later, it will happen, just have no idea how each and every country tackle this issue by investing on fuel source alternatives. On my recent trip to Shanghai, there was a shortage of diesel fuel, and i could see long queues at the petrol station. It;s a little scary, cos the queues are not short ones. Imagine that happens to petrol, how many ppl will be stuck for the whole day doin nothing, just to get petrol. That;s why i say, take the MRT.. Stop wasting petrol by driving to girls' house to pick them up for work, send them home, chauffeur them to dinners. They can make their way around small little Singapore themselves..:P Oh!!! and the bloody new taxi fare increase is crazy! i swear i will start taking the midnight buses again if i ever stayed out late.

What if the maximum life span of a typical homo sapien is 40 years?

Our dear gabermen kept telling us that our average life expectancy is getting longer and longer due to the fact that life is better now and medical care is adequet. But they also failed to mentioned that more and more ppl dies from cancer every year, not to say other malicious new diseases that appears (sars, avian flu). Sad truth is that there are still no cures for diseases like Aids and Cancer! if i can live till 40, that means i got like 9 more years to go!!! scary thought rite? What am i goin to do to live out my remaining 9 years so that i know i had a fulfilling life without regrets? I seriously cant answer this. What about u? To most of us, 40 years seemed too short to have a good life. But the average lifespan of a mouse/hamster is just over 2 years, isn't it worse? But well u can argue that their main aim in life is to eat and procreate. Well u cant fault them, if your average lifespan is 2 years like them, u will also just eat and procreate. There;s so little time for you to create the next generation, so there;s practically no time for other self-indulgences. Maybe that's a good thing also, cos ppl will have no time for hate and war......... Oh and did u notice the size of a male hamster's testicle in proportion to it's body? If humans live solely to procreate, we need balls that size.. refer to pic below. I am just glad i am not bred for procreate purposes..... haha.. I wouldn;t want to be seen lugging them around!

20 years lost, 2o years found!

recently, i just found out the beauty of facebook. My primary school friends, whom i have lost contact since like 1988, found me on facebook. Incidentally, they set up a alumni group in facebook and one of the managed to find me thru a common friend. let;s see, there were 43 of us in that class last time, now, 11 of us managed to be found on facebook. so that left 32 more old friends to be found! And incidentally, one of them still keep the class contact list, which is lying dormant for like 20 years. Haha.. I know the contacts might be outdated all these years, but at least it;s a starting point to find them back. Amazing how ppl looked so different now compared to those days. Well, some actually did not changed much.

met up one of them for coffee session yesterday, stay near to me mah... So much to talk about and catch up! Great to really meet someone that u have not seen for like 20 years! really hoped to meet up more of them soon.