Mysteries

These are some new mysteries to solve, if you are a pro at it :) :

1. Is there a way to travel at the speed of light?
2. Is there such thing as God?
3. Can you really make

Santa Claus

Santa Claus:

 It may seem weird to talk about Santa Claus in an article about Thailand, but it’s he who gave me the extra thing to make my holiday better. It was a surprising day on Christmas Eve, because, after I ate dinner at the hotel and went back to the hotel room, I found a neat rectangular package on the table. Inside was something that I could not believe have arrived in Thailand. A PSP! Though I think it is extremely likely it was a hoax made by my parents, there was one question it created that I couldn’t solve. How did a PSP arrive in Thailand? Just one day before our trip to Thailand, there was no PSP in our home. How could it arrive there? Who cares, but, still I can’t stop wondering if Santa Claus is real…… 

Day 7 in Samui Resort

 Day 7

Today we did a phenomenal amount of activities. We first took a car to a very small pier, then we took a speedboat to a remote island. The island was hostile enough, but the sea below it housed an enormous amount of coral (perfect for snorkeling) Then, we took the speedboat to another island to do some sightseeing. What was there to see? There was a magnificent lagoon, beaming a bright turquoise. After that, there was another short trip to another island, where our guide cooked lunch. After eating lunch, we went kayaking off the island, unfortunately, the swell was heavy so moving even 1 meter in the water was tough. The last part of our day was the most exciting. We rode ATV's! Then we headed back home.                                          

My view about the boat trip:

 If you get seasick easily, this isn’t the ideal place for you. It’s an extremely bumpy ride, sometimes it even feels like you’re in mid-air. There is a box of free refreshments on the boat, with 4 types of soft drinks and bottles of water. If you want to experience the feeling of fast heart pumping, then you’ll like this. You can also feel the spray in your face. The driver doesn’t mind fast speeds, so the up’s and down’s you experience while taking a normal boat is the same, only the motions are like in fast-forward. Have a great time taking the Sea Safari speedboat! 

The fast and furious speedboat

My view about kayaking:

It’s a wonderful experience! Imagine you’re surfing. Well, the sea is so high that you’ll feel like you’re surfing! The waves tower over you, then lifts you up like a lift taking a person up. Then you’ll drop down again, to experience the same thing again! It’s like a rollercoaster ride, except it’s natural! There are high black cliffs of sandstone towering over you, and after that, you’ll spot a lush green island, where the fast paddlers can go right up to the island, and the slow paddlers can see from a distance. It’s an experience you’ll never forget!

My view about the ATV’s:

Although I have mentioned that I have ridden in an ATV earlier in my trip, the course at the Sea Safari headquarters is much larger. It’s ridden with bumps and dips, and if you’re willing, you can gun up the motor and experience some short air! There is still one disadvantage though, you are only allowed to go round the track a few times. But, people can lend you their time. So have a great time at Sea Safari’s ATV course!

                                                                                         The next stage of ATV riding

Day 6 in Samui Resort

Day 6

Today I did one of my favorite activities, sharp shooting! We drove for a very long time to reach the sharp shooting arena. It was totally amazing! You can select between paintball fights, BB guns and archery. I did the BB guns. You get to choose between shotguns, snipers, pistols and machineguns. Of course, I didn’t want to believe it myself, but I used the sniper and shot the target in the 8 and 9 area! After that amazing activity, I was too tired to bother to do anything. 

 My view about BB gun sharp shooting

If you’re looking for action and skill, you can look no further than Samui Shooting Arena! Even if you are a beginner, they have guides to teach you about how to use the gun. Or, you can head to paintball fights for some team action! BB sharp shooting is especially fun because you can select from a range of guns, big and small! There are even 2 types of targets! One of the targets is a normal paper archery target, which is used for seeing how accurate your shots are. The other type of target is a life sized man target. Most people aim for the head, to score the highest points! Come and test your skills, to see if you are a slob, or a pro! 

 Samui Sharp Shooting Range 

Day 5

Day 5

Today was awesome! I woke up and ate breakfast (which was instant noodles, as always). Then we set off to the first activity of the day, driving ATV’s! An ATV is sort of like a cross between a jeep and a go-cart. Driving through the bumpy dirt tracks was like riding a distressed horse! Then we headed for the classic of Thailand, riding an elephant! It was amazing to be on top of 1 ton of meat and muscle. After that, we drove to a scenic place called ‘Grandma and Grandpa’ which was two rocks that were shaped like a penis and a virgina (how disgusting for a tourist feature). Then we headed back to our hotel.

My view of the ATV:

This buckling crazy ATV takes you at your preferred speed through a huge jungle track! Enjoy the lush undergrowth as you speed along the adventurous dirt track! Go through 4 types of track which are labeled A,B,C and D. A is the hardest, I couldn’t enter it because it was to dangerous for me. Track B is also extremely dangerous, so I couldn’t enter either. Track C I was able to enter. It has 5 ramps in total. There is a bridge that goes up, and then a dizzying drop down. Track D is the easiest, but even that has large ramps strewn along the beginning of the track. It is only for people who have nerves of solid wood or harder. 

Adventurous ATV driving

My view of the elephant ride:

 Imagine riding on 1 ton of pure hard muscle. That pretty much describes what it’s like to ride on an elephant. The even more unbelievable part is that you are suspended about 3 meters above the ground. You ride to 2 waterfalls, the second one is the tallest. People like to swim in the cool, fresh water and enjoy the spray showering them. It’s a place fit for kings! 

Me and my dad on the elephant

My view of the Grandma and Grandpa rock:

 

Okay, so it’s a bit disgusting. But you can also admire the huge waves crashing onto the shore of the island. There is a hole near the Grandpa rock, and it’s like a mini geyser, spewing out a huge fountain of spray from it’s little hole. The Grandma rock is really hard to find, but, who cares! I don’t want you to see this disgusting feature!

The Grandpa rock 

Day 4 in Koh Samui

Day 4  

It’s an outrageous experience! One of the best sightseeing trips in Samui is the Sea Tram experience! Alec (a friend of my dad) drove us to the largest pier on Samui, then we took a first class fast ferry to an island named Koh Tao. That island has an amazing beach. The tour guide told us that we may bask in the sun, or we could swim or snorkel to see some amazing coral and underwater life! Then we headed for a more populated island to indulge in a delicious lunch, with either French or Thai food. Then we went offshore to choose between scuba-diving or snorkeling. I chose snorkeling, and I saw the best underwater life in the whole of Thailand’s islands. It was the best sightseeing experience of my trip.  

The island of Koh Tao

My view of Koh Tao:

An amazing island with a view to complete it. Where can you bask in the sun in pure yellow sand, or, where can you swim in turquoise waters? This is the place if you’re looking for the description above. Enjoy waves slapping gently across you’re face, and snorkel to see a huge range of aquatic life. There are fishes of different shapes and sizes, and none of them sting or bite. Expect the best from this one-of-a-kind island.

My view of snorkeling offshore:

Be like a fish in this submerged world! See the fishes swimming about the coral reef, flashing all their brilliant colors at you. If you just drop one chunk of bread or fruit into the water, schools of fish will come swimming towards it, making a football-sized ball of silver. Be careful of sharp rocks though. They can cut you’re flesh like a knife slicing through butter. Other than that, enjoy the diverse marine life.

Snorkeling+1 naughty Dad

My view of the boat trip:

A really fun trip isn’t complete without comfort, so enjoy the Sea Tran ferry’s hospitality! You can choose between the indoors or outdoors. The indoors is a very good choice, since the seats are padded well and the place is air-conditioned. But, if you think the indoors is too cold, or you want a better view, you should choose the outdoors. You can’t beat the outdoors, with it’s outstanding view of the islands and sea. The ship has 2 floors, the upper one with the better view. There is also a small shop on the lower floor, where you can buy drinks or chips. So enjoy a comforting trip with Sea Tran’s ferry!

Dy 3 in Koh Samui

Day 3

Today we went to a travel agent to book the snorkeling experience. After that, we went to a French restaurant, which was pathetic because the prices of the food were too high, and they didn’t even have any French food for some reason. It was a disaster for a day.

 My view of the French restaurant:

Pathetic in every way possible except for an interesting dog fight that took place on the restaurant’s beach. The dogs were very violent and ganged up on each other, to bite and tackle each other to the ground. I recommend you to never enter this restaurant. 

Day 2 in Koh Samui

Day 2 

Today was the first day that I went to one of Samui’s beaches. The beach really sucked, because there are loads of jellyfish in there, and I was stung so badly that I didn’t venture near that beach again. After the beach we went to a restaurant called Ninja, and ate a merry lunch there. After that, we went to a supermarket, where we wasted a whole day in using the internet.   

My view about the beach:

Beautiful but painful.

My view of the Ninja:

Although it may seem shabby at first, this restaurant has pretty good food (probably I was hungry at the time). You can order from a range of fish to pork, and make you’re senses complete. So have a great time at the Ninja.

My view of the supermarket:

Although I only sat there while my dad wasted time on the internet, the place is remarkably small for a shopping center. There are only about 12 shops in total at this shopping mall, in which there is an internet restaurant. That’s all I have to say about the shopping mall. Have a great time at Big C! 

Day 1 in Koh Samui

Day 1

Today was the start of my holiday! I woke up from my comfortable bed to a clear, sunny day. I had a plain breakfast of bread, seaweed and milk (ohhh, I wanted to have dumplings!) Then it was time to read novels. The novel I was reading was reading is very interesting. It is a war story and a modern classic (which means that it is world famous and very interesting) This story is set in World War 2, when the war is nearly at it’s end. An army of men is about to land on the island of Anopopei to scour the lives of any Japanese soldiers away. The soldiers get onto the landing craft and storm onto the island. The island seems peaceful at first, so the men start digging holes in the sand on the beach to protect themselves from any attack. Suddenly the sky explodes with whistling shells. An unlucky man in one of the holes needs to go and pee, so he ventures from the safety of his own hole to pee in the sea. Unexpectedly, a lone shell comes whistling through the smoky sky. The man turns slowly round…… and screams. 

The body of the man is soon recovered after the huge bombardment of shells is over. Soldiers start advancing through the island, careful to avoid the trees (since it is very humid in a jungle, if you didn’t know). Surprisingly, they meet weak resistance, only a few minor skirmishes here and there. Life is peaceful except for a major storm which wet everything in the camp for 1 or 2 weeks. That soon will change……  

The army soon reaches their first battle on a medium-deep river on the island. A crazy free for all charge of Japanese soldiers frantically try to reach the Americans on the other side of the medium-deep river. The river is still shallow enough to cross, but the river still slows the Japanese considerably, and the American machine guns mow the Japanese down like a lawnmower cuts grass. Soon, the river is littered with bodies. One Japanese man survives, and is captured by the Americans. They treat him like a friend, until they got to a tree, let him close his eyes and lie there. When the Japanese man barely opens his eye with a joyful grin on his face, a rifle bullet cracks through the air and hits the Japanese in the head, turning him into a statue, with a frozen grin. 

That is what I have read so far. We took the comfortable airport bus to airport. It was amazing to cross the majestic suspension bridge called the Ching Ma bridge. We arrived at the airport. The airport is an abnormally large airport, which is more like a shopping mall and an airport combined. It has a spacious interior, which is silver. From there we took a plane to a Thai island called Koh Samui. On the way, there was a stupid whining Thai boy sitting in front of me, and I suspected that there was an American couple sitting behind me. In Koh Samui we met Alec and Milos and went to a restaurant on a beautiful beach, and ate a majestic range of seafood, staying there until midnight (which is pretty late)

Here is my view of our home:

It has a majestic view, where land, sea and air combine to make a classic landscape. The only problem which affects the view is the high pollution index of Hong Kong. Our house is very large for Hong Kong standards, which is 1900 square feet. The furniture is very modern. The main colors of our house are black, brown and white. The house sits in midair, about 25 storeys up.   

Here is my view about the trip to the airport:

The most amazing feature about the trip to the airport is crossing the two suspension bridges that link New Territories to Lantau island. The sea looks as if you could lift it up, like a huge translucent block. The mountains rise and fall like the waves on the sea, like green infested waves. The sky is most of the time a crisp blue, very clear and cheery. It is a wonderful sight indeed.

 

 

Here is my view of the airport:

 

 

People have recently opened a new terminal in an already large airport. There are hundreds of small bustling shops, making you twist your head like a screwdriver to see the twinkling lights in the shops. There is a 4D cinema, which basically means that you can actually feel what’s going on in the movie you’re watching. Terminal 1 of the airport is so large that they have to put flat escalators and even a subway train to get to you gate. The entrance to the gate has lots of seats, so you won’t have to worry about comfort in waiting. Have a great time in the airport!

Here is my view about the Thai restaurant:

An amazing feat to behold! This is a marvelous and unique restaurant because it is built directly behind a beach! The seafood is delicious and ranges from mussels to Tong Yin soup. When I was there, the sky was as black as ink. But if it was in the morning, the view would be unparallel to anything you’ve seen before. So have a merry time in this Thai restaurant!

After a 3 hour flight we finally arrived at Koh Samui Airport. Amazingly, there is no arriving hall at the airport. Everybody stands outdoors to do the passport check, and the airplanes scream behind us while they take off. We are only 10 meters from the runway! During the flight I had a couple of cokes. Therefore, you can imagine what I did at the airport.

 This is the toilet of Samui Airport 

General Outlook of Samui

My Holiday

The hotel that I live in right now is called the “Samui Peninsula” (I think) 

This is the view of our resort from my balcony.

It is besides a wonderfully large and turquoise colored bay. There is a small inlet on the right of the bay which has huge white-tipped waves crashing onto the shore at any minute. The waves seem to have a sort of rhythm, growing and falling, growing and falling. Even the water which makes up the waves seem to have a life of it’s own, shining like a beautiful blue gem, seeming to beckon you closer with every look you give it. Further away in the distance, the water seems to get darker as it suddenly deepens. It looks extremely hostile, giving you the feeling that there is a monster lurking deep in the waters depth, waiting to pounce on you. The hotel sits on a cliff overlooking the bay. The cliff is not really a cliff, it is merely a small drop of about 45 degrees. Behind the hotel is the lush green land, full of Mother Nature’s beauty. There is more to see inside……

This is the bay in front of the resort..

 The rooms of the hotel are extremely large, such as the one I am sitting in right now. It has a very modernly designed interior, designed to give you an unparallel view of the bay. It is built for comfort and luxury. 

This my Mum in our hotel room

My room has a open balcony, overlooking the bay. Every morning, I would sit in the balcony and east my breakfast. My Mum would give instant noodle and milk for breakfast. I normally sit in the balcony and read a novel first. Then my Mum will call for breakfast.  

                                  

This is Mum and me in the balcony, having our breakfast.

From the balcony, we can see the reception of the hotel. Over the reception, we can see the bay. If it is a sunny day, the bay has different colors, from light blue to dark blue. It is raining day (like our last day), the sea looks grey. We can also see my extortive trees in the garden below the balcony. There are flowers with all kinds colors, such as white and red. The palms are also very different from those in Hong Kong.  

This is my Mum sitting in the balcony.

This is the view again from our balcony. There are some beautiful white flowers on the tree. Can you see?

There is much more than the rooms waiting for you. The swimming pool is open in the first of light and the afternoon. It looks at first glance to the casual observer to me connecting to the bay. But, that is only a design feature to it. There is a bar on beside the pool, and a café right on top of it. People like to sunbathe on the relaxing bed-chairs, or just simple frolic in the pool.  

This is the pool Note that the pool looks like it is connecting to the sea, but this is really just an illusion result from the design effect.

From the swimming pool, we can borrow towels and go gown to the beach. There is a small hut just besides the beach, where we can sit down on the beach chairs. Mum likes to sit there and order a cup of coffee (or maybe coconut) and enjoy the view. My Dad goes with me to the beach.

                                               This is the hut where my Mum had her coffee.

I bright a large float that I bought at the Big Wave Bay in Hong Kong. I had another big yellow float from Italy and I played it at Italy. It was very nice. However, it got broken after I bright it back to Hong Kong, so I got another replacement. This time I brought my float to Thailand. It is perfect for Koh Samui. I want to play it like last time in Italy. However, soon, I found a serious problem……

Mum is about to order coffee. 

This is me and my Dad besides the small hut. The background is the small island across the bay.

     

                                                      This is the beach below our hotel.

After I jumped into the water, I found out that the water was perfect crystal clear and the temperature was perfect. Me and my Dad swam to a small island that was not far from the beach. There were also a young couple who were completely naked that were playing in the sea.

 Unfortunately, I soon felt a number of small uncomfortable stings coming from the water. To this day, I still haven’t found out why I got stung. Beware reader, prepare a first-aid kit for those stings. Anyway, I don’t like it! So I ran out of the water. Then I shouted to my Dad, and we made a hasty walk back to the hotel.

There is also a choice of messages on the beach below the bay. The messages come so often on the island. There are even messages on the boats that traverse between Samui and other islands! There’s more still……

 

Even if I did not experience a massage, it’s good fun to see people lying there like dead fish being beaten. Look at the picture below, and you’ll get my meaning. It seems that the massagers put some dirty brown oil that looks very corrosive onto the body of the victims. Then they knead the body like bread dough, and beat them like savage tribal members. After the victim gets beaten, they have to pay for their torture. It’s fun (if you’re stupid enough) 

This is one of the massage huts on the beach.

This is how the massage girls work.

 

Not only are the outdoors good, but there is an amazing room service too! It is like having a restaurant in every room! After choosing from the huge range from Chinese to American food, all you have to do is wait for a little while and…… wala! You have a dish made with love and care served at your doorstep! (Picture not available)

 

The hotel has one disadvantage. Everything here is pretty expensive. I think everybody is a cheapskate and they are too greedy for money.