Woke up around 5.30 for morning prayers since it's earlier than in Singapore and watched the TV before heading down for breakfast.Darn the restaurant for not having an all Halal meal.So we could only eat the ceral, drinks and some of the bread.Today i met a new friend.He's from the southern part of Thailand and could speak Thai and Malay.Now here's the funny and regretful part. Firstly he greeted me in Arab and i greeted him back.Then he asked "Boleh cakap Melayu?", which means "Can speak Malay?" I said "Boleh" which means "Can" but accidentally, these few words came out of my mouth: "sikit-sikit".DARN. Basically it means "a little".HELLO?!I study Malay in school and although its quite bad, conversational Malay shouldn't be much of a problem rite?Haiz...so regretting.I told my family members and they laugh.Anyway I had cococrunch(they called it cocopops) with milk, croissant,danish and this thing which looks like an egg pie.It was quite okay.
Then we went to an Maesa Elephant Camp.Yup u heard me.I mean saw wad i typed.=P
Aniway in this camp we could feed the elephants with the sugar cane and bananas sold by the vendors and take a close shot with the elephants.
Its scary okay.Look the baby elephant seems to be smiling with the lion(me)
By the way, each elephant has a personal trainer.Yep.Then all of the elephant made their way to the river to soak, bathe and have fun and all of de sudden, this yellow coloured mass came floating.What on earth is that?OH GOSH!It's the elephant's faeces!By goodness its all yellow and could float.The reason is that the elephants are vegetarian and have A LOT of roughage in the faeces.Then we went up and sat at what looked like a stadium for the elphant show. My goodnes they're smart.They carried objects, lay down on the floor, placed the feet on their trainers body without hurting him,played with the owner's hat,PLAYED SOCCER(better than me) and PAINT(its nice, really for an elephant)
I told you.It's a plant with flowers.
After leaving the camp,which has their very own natural waterfall, we went to the Orchid farm where we observe how orchirds are being grown.The farm holds a wide range of orchids of different colours.In the farm there is this enclosure that has 'metal curtains'.I was wondering what it was until i read the heading over the door "Butterfly Fram" No, really fram.Why not take a look and laugh.Hahaha...
Welcome to Butterfly Fram! =>
In the enclosure theres quite a number of butterflies, many which likes to land on my sister's head(on the scarf rather).Sorry mum they don't like your scarf.Well probably cuz the colour is not very attractive.Yeah.
After that, we went back to our hotel for prayers and chilled out a little.It wasn't long until we went back to the van and proceeded on with our tour.Firstly we went to an umbrella factory where they make umbrellas using a fibre known as 'saa', from the mulbery tree.You noe, those traditional umbrella that looks like its been made of paper.Well its not really just paper from the tree, but saa paper.As most Malays like to say,'Saak ah!' Yeah something like that.It was quite interesting how they make the umbrella.By the way its mostly hand made, especially the designs.These artisans are really skillful okhay.The drawings on the umbrella are attractive.
Next we went to the jewellery store.Well they don't only show and sell how they make the jewelleries for accessories but product that has gold on it. Yup.For example these ducks you see here(below) are painted gold and then added gold to it.
Here ducky-ducky...
Then we went to the silk factory.Obviously u noe that silk comes from silk worm,but do u really noe how exactly it is being done?Well first they will feed the smelly silk worms until they become ultra fat.You normally see them moving.In order to see their movements, gently blow on them and they'll all move creepily.When they are ultra large they will go to the pupae stage by producing threads and wound themselves up.While some pupae are saved so that the young can be produced, the rest are thrown into a cauldron of piping hot boiling water where they simply die.RIP?Not really.The cocoon is then taken and the threads are taken out.Now that is raw silk.The person would then wound out all of the silk into a ball. And voila!A ball of silk.Now the ball is used to make lengths of silk cloth that can be used to make clothes, scarf and boxers.Yup u got me.Boxers.Well come to think of it its quite okay.Imagine something smooth protecting your little brother.Hmm.Your brother is so pampered.haha.
Anyway we went to the next factory,where all the wooden products can be found ranging from statues, furnitures and handicrafts.It was nothing really interesting.Just that they have an enormous gallery of wooden products.
The tour is done.Now we proceeded back to the hotel and wait for dinner.Yup same place for dinner.
After dinner is the fun part.Shopping!Well not at town but at the local night market.I heard that the night market is like in Brunei, where it is opened every night from about late afternoon to about 9 or 10 at night. By the way the time there is about 1hr 10mins later than Singapore.The night market sells mainly clothes and accessories.Not much of food.I saw many branded clothes ranging from billabong, adidas,abidas,Von Dutch, Guess,diesel and many more.Really.Its 99% original if u get what i mean.Cuz some of the Von Dutch has been changed to Vond utch, adidas to abidas and diesel to die sel.haha.You might think hard on whether the Billabong boardshorts and shirts are imitation copies or not.Think no further.If it is sold in the night market at low prices, you noe its fake.Furthermore, look closely.It says Billabong USA, instead of Billabing Australia.Hahaha.Yup
Thank God.We saw a stall that sells halal food.Time for me to munch!She sells 'rotee' which looks like prata with fillings.Btw the writing in thai looks like 'Isa'.Hahaha isa is rotee/roti.ANiwae the fillings include corn, milo, cheese or chicken.For me i still prefer the original chicken where we call is murtabak back in Singapore though the cheese is quite okay.I don't really like the corn.hehee...
Back to hotel.We took a taxi that looks like a van.We can bargain for the price and they can take more than a group of passengers.Which means strangers other than my family members can take it.But thankfully none did.I forgot to bring my camera so can't get a shot.Maybe tomorrow?
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