President Hotel Hat Yai

... were happy to go with the flow.<br>Roads all the way were good and we approached the Thai border about 2 hours after we set off. The crossing from Malaysia to Thailand is quite an experience: first we stopped at a duty free shop where our immigration forms were prepared for us (a 20p fee which the English guys resented paying) - why is it that all duty free shops sell the same overpriced ...

... t because of the rainy weather. Yes, my friend, Pan said to me, "Ploi, you wouldn't want to go at this moment, think about it, tourists pee on the ocean, people threw up when they got drunk, there'll be no available toilets unless you have to pay, people stuck in one place because of the rain...". Also, like many things in life (as my father always said)..."Full moon still can wait...there'll be next times". 3 Hours Ferry &amp; 5 ...

... ihmettelee et mitahan tas junas oikeen taas tapahtuu ku noin vaunu henkilokunta noin juoksee. Sit hokasin mita tapahtuu... Ne tarjoo ruokaa. Mahtavaa. Ku vaunu emanta anto mulle sen riisi annoksen ni hyva et en hypanny siita suutelemaan sita... Kylla teki hyvaa saada vaha ravintoa. Vaikka se vahan sitkeeta olikin. Mut ei auta valittaa... Hat yaissa oli kuuma ku helvetissa... Aloin laatimaan ...

... occasions her fingers actually entered my nostrils, eventually she called in another girl to help swab up the blood from my numerous cuts and then just when I was ready to call it all off she doused my face in what was probably aftershave but felt very much like battery acid, and pronounced the job done. When I eventually stopped crying I took a quick inventory with my hand, feeling the two vastly different sideburns, the several stubbornly persevering patches ...

... dark as no petrol, no light. We only had to wait 5 minutes before a moped passed by and stopped to go and get petrol for us. Glad we finally made it to that little hut on the beach with bathroom on the balcony, cockroaches, bats, geikos in the room and no electricity. In a way, yes I was glad. The next day the hotel called some friends to take us back to the boat , so that makes things easier. Unfortunately, we had to wait for a long time for the boat to ...

... we were going. You see the vans are a lot cheaper? But if you don't know your stuff it's still easy to get hacked by them. So we asked him for our way around and haggled with the taxi price, and finally, we settled with 30Baht to somewhere nice(hopefully). Well the uncle brought us to this place which was supposed to be a budget hotel(not a hostel, a HOTEL), and mind you it wasn't anything like a hotel. It was more of a halfway house for junkies and dying people(or so it seems ...

... We saw the "Santi Sok"(everything store...literally!) and I spotted the Thailand Mary Maskel.....heh-heh...love ya M! We then went on to Church service which was a nice outdoor service...among those I met were RJ Jeff(an American from Tennessee) Josie, Delia (Charmaine's ...

... of work for the holiday and that there are about 10 different holidays that the government celebrates in this way, for all of the different holidays that the different ethnic groups celebrate. Christmas is also surprisingly a huge holiday in S'pore, and Christmas trees adorn their main shopping street, Orchard Road, and the airport. (It's a shock to see Christmas trees in 90 degree heat by the way.) I was curious about how such racial ...

... fun. So we are in the works of heading to Ko Lanta in Thailand to do a little more diving. There supposidly is some of the best diving in the world around Thailand. Super-clear water. We went to a night market last night and ate like kings for about $3. I got laughed at for coming back so many times for more food. Good and spicy. We're off to the islands. Drew and Jessica

... with my mind on Paradise, I wasn't really looking. The most interesting event of my one night here was when Chris and I were out looking for a bar, and we came across an elephant. Yes, an elephant. We were walking along city streets, much like those in the US, and there was a guy riding his elephant down the middle of the street. We went in for a closer look, and right then ...