Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Boat Ride Balls Crack

Yesterday… was late already… supposed to be at a pier in Pattaya at 10am but at the stroke of 10 we were still crawling on the expressway. We watched the temperature needle cautiously every moment. Dunno what kinda luck is this but all cars we drove seems to be dying. This Civic is overheating and we cant rev the engine to high else car explode. Darn..

By the time we reach the pier, it was already 11.30am and all the people have already left for Koh Larn. Bo bian, lan lan… took a speed boat with me partner at B$1500 to the island where we are supposed to survey some equipments. The weather was as usual, brains baking.

Koh Larn

Koh Larn

Koh Larn

Speed boat very slow.. because wave very high. If travel too fast and encounter high wave, will become submarine and we will add to the toll of missing tsunami victims. Finally we reached the island after the balls breaking boat slamming into heavy waves ride. Great… now low tide.. all the jetties too high and we were not spiderman. Moved from jetty to jetty… cannot find landing space, no steps, no ladders and shore too rocky to beach the boat. Boatman finally located a big barge by one jetty.. said we can step up the barge and then climb onto jetty. Climb???? After our balls had gone through a draining 20 minutes of slamming ordeal? Still want me to stretch my legs and risk dislocating my balls? Ok lor… no choice.

So we parked next to floating barge… and then smelt very bad odor. Win already.. it is a rubbish container barge, to dispose of the waste from the island. Wah piangs… as we were climbing up the sinister foul smelling stairway to island, there came along a vehicle dumping more rubbish into the barge. Every black bag that landed secreted, oozed and sprayed some I-do-not-want-to-know fluid. This is like playing something on PS2.. we have to step around the side edge of the barge, avoid falling into sea, and avoid being sprayed by unclassified juice. We made our way to land eventually.

Had a fiery chili hot meal for lunch, surveyed the site with the customers that were already waiting there. Had a discussion for two hours under the sun. And thereafter returned to Pattaya. Very fun… but very tired too.

Koh Larn

Koh Larn

Koh Larn

Koh Larn

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