back from PATTAYA (not bangkok)

ok i got back yesterday but i was too tired to blog. ok this is going to be long.

so i went to pattaya. and it's called PAH-ta-ya not pa-TAH-ya. i always pronounce it the second way. so got some thai ppl a bit peeved. first day (wed) didn't do much. reached in time for the opening ceremony and got to meet thai royalty. that's right the thai princess actually spoke to me. even if it was only like 20 seconds. hmm but it was quite an experience seeing how they treat their royalty. it's like once this guy snaps his fingers, everyone has to spring out of the way and bow and curtsey to the princess. yikes i wasn't sure whether i was supposed to bow or what. oh and i think the princess didn't like me much cos i was too tall. plus with my heels. which i actually managed to walk around in. then dinner that night was really really posh. the food was good too.

thurs: went to some nong nooch garden which is this huge tourist place. a bit boring but i got to ride an elephant! haha it was mighty uncomfortable but fun. evening had really really good thai food. yummy. then attempted shopping but unsuccessful cos i don't think we went to the right place. have you heard of walking street? well that's where i went. it's what they call 'town' and a tourist attraction. unfortunately the only thing you can really buy there is sex and lapdances. it's quite er interesting. most of the people there are middle aged angmoh men with like 2 young thai girls wrapped around them. right. as i was telling zhenwei, it made me really curious what the guys did over there. yikes. the only thing that really disturbed me there was seeing angmoh men with really young thai girls. i mean like kids. maybe 13 or 14. scary right?

fri: i just stayed in the hotel cos me dad had meetings and he didn't want me wandering around the hotel which was quite deserted. anyway watched lots of tv- fear factor in thai, snowboarding championships, music videos, survivor (yay i didn't miss an episode) , malcolm in the middle (which still rocks). and read my book. man and boy. bird's recommendation. i don't think i like it. it's not my kind of book. oh well. oh of course i went swimming at the really lovely beach and got my feet a bit tanned but it's quite hard to get it to the same colour as the rest of my legs. oh well.

a banquet that night and this really weird thai guy started hitting on me. ugh i was so freaked out.
i better go. yijing has to talk. blog more later on.