thai

Just came back from thailand and decide to blog abit before i sleep.

Left my house in the morning on 15 oct to flag cab and i so heng got a mercs cab.

I was very surprise to see a tv beside the meter cause i have never seen 1. But i find it kind of dangerous cause the driver might be distracted by the tv leading to an accident. So i met up with another friend then went to the budget airport.

Our teacher treat us breakfast in the airport and we were told to take whatever we want...
Took tiger airways and the whole journey from singapore to bangkok is around 2 hours. View from the window seat.

Then we proceed to the hostel that we will be staying for the next 5 days. I was expecting non air-con room and dirty toilet but i knew i was wrong when i enter the hostel lobby.


I thought i enter a hotel when i saw the reception.

Team singapore preparing to check in....

This signboard is just at the entrance of the hostel.

Our bedroom.

Toilet.

On the first night the korea team offer to play friendly game with the thailand team and in the end thailand lost all as expected.

The lady in the picture is the team leader for korea, not the player. She is professional 2 or 3 dan and she is the first female pro in korea if i am not wrong. She played against 2 other dan player and won both games. She is also a english lit teacher.

The person in blue is singapore team leader, pro 6 dan. And his opponet are both from korea amateur 6dan and in the end the female lose while the other won. This shows tat korea amateur player are really very strong.

The guy in green is the china pro coach employed by thailand and is playing against 3 singapore players. And he won all 3 in the end.

The next day we went to visit the king's palace and some ruin city and honestly is not fun at all cause is so damm hot and theplace is kind of boring... On the way i then realise that some part of thailand is experiencing flooding and is the first time i see floods.


Introducing our tour guide!!!!!!

I hate it when she stops and starts to explain stuff cause out of 10 sentence u can only understand 1 sentence. Her english is no difference from thai language. The worst part is when she starts making eye contact with you.... Normally when a tour guide introduce some stuff she will try to make eye contact with everyone but this guide is totally different. When she start explaining she will tend to focus on 1 person only and ignore the rest and is like so strange and that person can never escape her clutch till she done her talking. So everytime when she start explaining u can see team singapore all hiding at the back of the tour, haha...

The competition area...

This often happen when 2 strong opponent finish playing.....

On the second last night they host a teaching game and represtatives from other countries play teaching game with the local people...

Kang lao shi playing with 6 3dan at one time with handicapp and in the end 1 won.

Guy in white is from korea and black from japan.

Guy in white is from japan. All the players from local and other countries are from university. Speaking of japan they are kind of unlucky in thailand cause on the last day 2 players were amitted into hospital for food poisoning. And i was so shock when my teacher told me that one of the player representing japan last year met with the same problem too and his condition became worst on the plane back to japan and was admitted to hospital immediately after they land japan and that person died few days later. I was really shocked when i heard this n i keep thinking about it. The closing ceremony stage was quite grand... Weiqi is getting so popular and strong in thailand because of the strong support of 7-eleven. This whole event is sponsor by them and it must have cost a bomb.You must be wondering wat is this pic about... Because our closing ceremony was in an open space we were so lucky that there was a sudden downpour and we all have to move everything indoor.

This is the place where we can use internet for free 24 hours.

Last of all i really wan to thank my teacher lina, kang lao shi and all my friends who were with me in thailand cause they gave me a surprise birthday celebration.

We were playing cards in a room and suddenly some of my friends say that there is a meeting in my room so we all went there and kang lao shi suddenly bring out a cake and i was so surprise. We celebrated in the hostel looby and 7-eleven boss join in the celebration too. She also gave me a present.

Of course i really have to say thanks to my poly friends for celebrating early for my birthday. THX ALOT GUYS!!! i really appreciate it.