krabi is the dirtiest place on earth

Had no idea Krabi wasn't an island until we touched down.

Me - "Where's the sea?" *peers out of airplane while we are circling the airport*
Mouse - "What sea?"
Me- "We're in Krabi. Aren't we supposed to be surrounded by sea on all sides?"
Mouse - "Krabi isn't an island."
Me - "WHAT?!??!"

Unfortunately my A for PMR geography didn't encompass learning about Thailand.
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Our villa was nice, but it is so far in the boondocks. Good I guess if all you wanna do is bonk all day. We ended up hiring a driver to drive us around to a spa, Ao Nang etc.

Naturally being blessedly unfortunate souls we are, the one restaurant we went to hunt for had closed down. The one we ended up with was pretty good - Ban Lay Thai Kitchen. Name sounds pretty bland but this was compensated by the great food.
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Our spa experience wasn't without an interesting moment. When the lady at the hotel reception told us we were getting a 30% discount as their actual spa facilities was under renovation, we should have hit the road. But we ended up in a makeshift spa - hotel room converted with two single massage beds, and one bathroom with a bath tub near the toilet seat.

We also booked different spa packages - I was laughing at Mouse because the one she chose had a "worm yogurt" treatment ("haha! worm yogurt! haha!") but the tables were turned when I realized my herbal bath had to be taken in the aforementioned bathtub near the toilet seat.

Me - *when being ushered into the bathroom for bathtime* "What's that?!" *points at bathtub*

Therapist - "You.. bath... this bath.."

Me - "But its shit colored water! in a bath next to the toilet bowl!"

Mouse - "Ha ha ha ha"

Me - *turns and asks therapist and points to Mouse* "How about her?! I .. bath .. this one .. how about.. she ??"

Therapist - "She... warm yogurt.."

Me - "Uwarghhhh!!!!!"

I should have known. Anything labelled herbal has gotta be unpleasantly colored.


See my pain. Sat in that for a good 20 minutes. Tried to keep myself distracted from eyeing the grout by collecting lime slices with my toes and sticking them on my fingers.

Ok Krabi wasn't unpleasant, only because the company made the trip worthwhile. I could have gone anywhere with Mouse and we'd have fun.
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Came home and got diagnosed with food poisoning. Wtf.

So I spent my 26th birthday being ill, working 13 hours, sleeping 8 hours and the remainder 3 hours reading a mag and sitting at home. Your twenties is so overrated, I tell you.

I was 17 once I remember dying to become 25 or 26. Now I'm here and I realize you don't make it in your twenties. Some of us don't even make it in 50 years, depending on what your definition of "made it" is.
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Berjaya Retail listing. 22x PE, versus consumer average of mid teens. worldwide. 75% of business is 7-11 (only Msia exposure), 25% Singer. same store sales growth not disclosed - but most likely below 7% (based on average sales per store growth, which technically ain't the same thing as same store sales growth)

Singer??!

I actually thought they sell only sewing machines.