Living it up

I remember your smile,
When the sunlight cast a glow,
Like a halo effect to you,
Was it an angel I saw?

I remember the friends I made.

As I looked across the horizon,
Where the ocean's bay glittered with gold,
Cast by the warmth and glow of each person I met,
The angels of my life.
-Angels of my life.

Can you remember the road less travelled? I bring myself back to the first post about my trip, where I laid there basking in the sun on that deck chair, of the sights I took in, the people I met, the places I saw.














Remember the elephant that I featured in one of the videos in the previous post? Here is the elephant as he walked past my favourite spot.














Until now, I havn't really shown some of the more real sights of thailand yet... Here are the pictures I took when I went cycling to the village near the resort.














A road less travelled...














A small hut selling vegetables and fruits.














Fresh from the farm!














A small shop/restaurant














The school in the village.














The scenery was lush and green with hills all around.

Let me intro to you another friend I met in Phuket, she's the reason why I got into the second indan wedding! =)














Pratna and me

Really smart lass who comes from dubai, as in waiting to start school in Boston. The second indian wedding had really good performers! Here is a performer with a fire baton, you can see the difference between the previous performers and this guy, this when experience and skill comes into play!


There was this thai dance, that looked like a fusion of thai and ballet!


Met so many interesting people there, and I was like literally the only chinese person there. Talk about standing out, I think I stuck out like a sore thumb, but I had lots of fun! The entertainment was great!

Aside from the 2 indian weddings, the happy hour pool bar, another fun place to go was the blue bar!










































In my time there, I got to know quite a few fun people there. Let me tell you how it began... There was this particular young guy who was disc jockeying at the blue bar, whom I saw during the first wedding, but I never got to know him, he was also on the beach when I was with Yuna watching her friends playing with the baby elephant and tanning.

It was only a day after that, when I was sitting at my favourite spot of the beach and he was walking by and I decided to say hi. We got to know each other, and I found out he was the grandson of the owner of the cuban cigar brand Monte cristo... Before that, I've only smoked romeo and juliet, villiger and just during the trip... cohiba...(Which is way better that the first two) He recommended monte cristo which was apparently better (At first I was skeptical because I thought he might be biased...)















A picture of my almost finished, cohiba silgo 2.

So we spoke for awhile, his name was Miguel and I found he was from spain, studied in England, and he was in phuket for over 2 weeks now... (I'm so jealous that he can stay for so long!) In the end, he invited me to come to blue bar to see him DJ and have a drink.

That night, I met another DJ, TJ the DJ, a thai guy from bangkok who has been disc jockeying in the blue bar for over a year and a half. A really cool guy who loves to chill, and has been singapore to party a few times, I look forward to when he's in Singapore so I can go party with him!

Next, I met this interesting couple, whom I learnt alot from during my trip, Crispin and Tanya. The two are an interesting pair, both raised in Hong kong, Crispin in an English national who served in the british military and now is in charge of Bangkok airport security, a really fun guy who was really knowledgable about politics. Tanya, his wife was an eurasian chinese born in Hong kong and runs her own business, she's a very spirtiual person, and she's perhaps the first person I ever discussed spiritual topics in depth, we even did a book exchange, she gave me the book on the road less travelled and I gave her my favourite book the monk who sold a ferrari.

On my final night, I had quite a few whiskys and was really enjoying myself, and Crispin even bought for me a monte cristo which Miguel also recommended, and that was when I tasted the best cigar I've ever had in my life! Monte cristo was definitely a notch above cohiba, and here I was thinking cohiba was really good. Thank you Crispin for the introduction to the Monte cristo and also for paying for my whisky for that night and thank you Tanya for the book, perhaps we'lll meet soon enough, in Bangkok? =) I'd love to see your dogs sometime =D

Ah, this brings me to the last part of my post, here are a few photos of the most best sunset I saw throughout the trip. Thats it for Phuket! On to other things! Adieu to all!

-Kwan