So now here I am in the big bright Hong Kong International Airport (this is the 3rd, and certainly not the last, time I've been here for this trip), waiting for Dad and Nat to get in from Singapore in about an hour. Yay for free Wifi! I think they give us free Wifi here just so we can go online to vote for HKG as the best airport in the world, as the many billboards and posters around here encourage us to do. It certainly isn't bad, very convenient and well run. I just got here early because I flew from Phuket with a layover in Bangkok rather than all the way back down to Singapore as Dad and Nat are doing.
And wow it looks like Quincy Chan got into NUS for study abroad next semester! UC Berkeley makes study abroad much more competive than it is at Rice, so this is no small achievement for him. Now I just hope I find a way to be able to visit Singapore again while he's there, and we can have another grand adventure to another part of Southeast Asia. If only he applied last semester so he could be here the same time as me... but considering he just transferred to Cal last semester he probably had enough on his hands.
So I'll wrap up this post with last words on Thailand. Yesterday we went into Phuket City, where we saw a little more of the local life. It was very dirty, with cockroaches everywhere on the streets near the sewer holes, and they wern't skittish or shy when you walked near them, just enjoying themselves out in the open. Road traffic was definitely heavy, with lots of mopeds as well. When we were there the police were attempting to enforce the helmet law on those on mopeds, but considering almost every other rider didn't have a helmet, they could only stop so many people. Food was also a lot cheaper there compared to vendors at or near the resort, about 2 to 5 times cheaper. That night for dinner we went on a small motorboat out to a fish-farm, where they had set up a quaint little seafood restaurant on a floating island of just wooden planks, with these netted ponds everywhere where they kept the seafood for sale, so we could just walk around and look at what they had to offer. We got a few crabs, eels, and a big fish, which they caught and cooked for us. It was pretty good, but we ordered way too much.
And before you know it, the next day it was time to leave : ( I was getting pretty used to living at the beachside villa myself, but it's time to move on.
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Aww, I sometimes wish I can just live in Thailand for like maybe a whole summer/year just so I can take it all in.
Where are you off to next? I'm staying at Rice over the break...Ricky, btw, has come back for two weeks so I got to talk to him for a little bit. It looks like he had a lot of fun but is already getting tired of Singapore.
whaaa? Ricky is back in Houston? i thought he was traveling in Bali or somewhere... interesting. How is he going to take midterms and stuff, which are mostly this week?
And I also didn't know he was getting bored of Singapore... that's quite a shock. I can't say the same for myself, I'm entertained although I am keeping pretty busy.
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