Anyway, the first day, first destination of our R & R was the Hellfire Pass.
Han Hui, Me, Meng Kha, Ridhwan, Leslie & Faduhli @ the entrance of the Hellfire Pass :D
This 415km long stretch of railway cum trench was built in World War II within a year! The technology then was really sucky, but yet the Japanese could do it so quickly. You know why? Because they pushed the POWs so hard until at least 100,000 of them died.
After hearing all these stories, I feel lesser resentment toward how hard SAF has trained us...It is to prevent this type of heinous war crime from happening in times of conflict and war.
Our next stop was the Death Railway...the whole 415km stretch consists of these 2 war memorial sites.
Me & Meng Kha @ the Death Railway
This was the end of Day I R&R. At all these places were quite a lot of shops. Like pasar malam in Singapore. That's when we bought stuff and walked around the war memorial sites.
Day II R & R.
Our first stop was the Floating Market :D Leslie & I shopped a lot there. There's a lot of cute & cool souvenirs there. And there's a lot of FOOD there! We were busy snacking and shopping at the same time.
Their satay was awesome I tell you. 50cents and your get 15 sticks of satay. It comes with a styrofoam box of peanut satay sauce and cucumbers and onions :D Shiok man! haha. We also tried their coconut goreng pisang, spicy pork salad, a special peanut ice-cream, etc...
They even had boats selling mee-pok man! We were so tempted to eat...but due to the lack of time, we didn't. The next time I go there, I'm definitely eating their boat-cooked mee-pok :D Haha.
Next we stopped by a Cobra Farm where we had lunch. :D
Me, Xue Ming, Han Hui, Meng Kha & Leslie :D
The cobra show there was fantastic. They released snakes and played around with it before catching it and putting it back in the bag....One of the performers caught a snake with his mouth, with his two hands already holding 2 other snakes!
Breathtaking! We also got to touch the snakes. They're rubbery and bony. Haha.
At their souvenir shop is where I bought my favourite and most expensive souvenir - a snake-skin belt!!
I asked the salesgirl "How much?"
She replied "800 baht :D" with a big, fat smile.
I was like "WHOA! Peng! Peng!!" with a big, fat frown. Haha! Peng means expensive in Thai btw...haha. So off we went bargaining. She refused to budge..haha.
Finally, Han Hui also decided to buy one too. So we asked for 2 belts for 750baht each. She still refused to give the discount. That's when the store owner stepped in and said "OK, 750baht :D"
I was like "Yay!" although it wasn't much of a discount, I really liked it. Haha. So I told the boss out loud "Your salesgirl not happy ar?" The boss then laughed out loud "HAHAHA, I happy can already!" HAHA! LOLS! Here's a picture of my S$33 belt :D
My S$33 belt! :D Cool eh? :D Haha.
After the cobra show we went to their "shopping centre". And after that proceeded to the airport.
The shopping centre is like the "Giant" shopping centre here in Singapore...The malaysia outlet "Giant" shopping centre you know? Selling groceries and more down-to-earth-stuffs...
All in all, our R & R wasn't that fantastic because we took like a 3 hour bus ride to get to a location only to have 1-1.5hours of free & easy time there before setting off for the next destination.
The good thing is, they indented buses for us and the buses were really comfortable and they screened pretty up to date movies like Avatar, Gamer, Vampire's Assistant, Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief etc...So from one destination to another means we will catch one movie...or sleep. Haha!
Yup, that was our R & R. No staying in hotels like in Taiwan... :( Haha. Ok...Stop complaining Jonavan...ahaha
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