Waiting for our relative to fetch us.

I like their buses.So colourful.

My dad and I in a car. On the way to somewhere....

Bangkok's weather is very hot.

Bye2 to Air Asia and Don Mueng International Airport.

The clothes sold there were so cheap!! I saw pants and dresses all with 500THB (RM5) price tags

on them.. We were in a rush so we just window-shopping there.

The car....Only in Thailand. :)

Many Buddha statues there too...

7eleven at the petrol station.Aw, I really like their 7eleven. Haha..I don't know want to use what adjectives to describe it. It's very special. Another special thing is their petrol is very expensive.I forgot about the price per litre. sorry.lol

Shopping paradise???

The transport of the day...Can you imagine my dad, brother and I slept there for 12 hours? Hehe. My mum sat inside the car for 12 hours so her legs got cramp. Pity her. We were sleeping soundly behind the car. Unfortunately.....something happened. It's very hot at the city but it's getting cold when we reached the rural area. It was freezing cold. I only wore T-shirt, jeans and with a not-so useful sweater. It's too cold. One sweater is not enough. We wanted to take our blanket from our luggage but the driver already put it on the car.Okay.so we just forget about it...Then hours by hours we really couldn't stand it any more.It's so tiring to travel from Bangkok to Udon Thani. I left Malaysia on Monday and when I arrived at my grandmother's house it's already Tuesday. Still I feel grateful for the invention of aeroplane.I can't imagine I need to take a car, bus or a train to Udon Thani.no more butt-hurt moment. All my nails were in purplish colour already because of the weather.My mum was so worry about me.Immediately, she dragged me to stand beside a fire pit. I was so blur because I just got out from the car with my messy hair and badly smelled mouth. Then, mostly all of the villagers were at my grandma's house to welcome us already, eyeing on us creepily.. just kidding. They're very kind and friendly :D So, if you visit to Thailand don't just take bus la.Try this. It's a very nice experience. I tried it for many times already...but for long journey...it's a big No. We had learnt our lesson already haha. Then, we just unpacked our things. After we brushed our teeth and took our breakfast. We went to Thailand's JPJ in a hurry. Haiz...We just reached there not even one hour yet then we needed to go somewhere else.. So tired. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention. We reached there at 5 a.m but the sky is very bright already.

In case, you're wondering why we went to their JPJ office....This is because someone wants to take her driving license there. Definitely not me...hikhik. Then we spent hours of waiting that someone to take the driving test or whatever process that you can name it. Haha...that someone is my mom. We waited her from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.  I played my handphone until I realised that my handphone was no battery already. I was like hehe nevermind later I could charge it when I reached my grandma's house. However...their plug was different. *crying* Next time should a bring a universal plug adapter!! Something that I was not used to it there....haha. The people there sleep and wake up very early. 8p.m the sky was very dark already...n u know at kampung...no people want to switch on the lights after they went to sleep...*scary* but my grandma switched on the light for us. :) After eight, I don't dare to go anywhere already la...even the toilet...haha. So I slept early too because I was afraid that I needed to the toilet. My grandma wakes up at 5 a.m everyday.Wow...haha. but we slept until 9 a.m. I think 9.am. for them it's considered afternoon already because most of the people left the house to work already.

11/12/12 - We went to Seremban Terminal 2 to watch this movie. Actually I didn't really understand the story because the subtitle on the screen was white in colour and so blur...
I only realised that this story was not merely about a man and a tiger after I viewed the explaination of this story from Fb. I retrieved the pictures from: http://www.croakun.com/ Then, I read the novel. The movie is a bit different from the novel because they skip some parts already. Anyway, this movie directed by Ang Lee was really great. Even though we didn't watch the 3D, the animation part was plain amazing. It was indeed a heart-pounding moment when the tiger pounced out from the tarpaulin. Luckily we didn't watch the 3D one. Haha.

Title: Life of Pi
Author:Yann Martel
Genre: Teen Fiction

Pi was born in Indian. He was a devoted Hindus, Christian and Muslim. His father owned a zoo.

Then due to some reasons *about India's economy something like that*his father decided to sell the animals and ship them to Canada. His family was going to migrate to Canada and start their new life at the new continent.

They encountered a shipwreck and Pi was rescued. He was the only person at the life boat.

Out of a sudden, a zebra jumped from the ship and landed on the lifeboat. Unfortunately, it had injured himself because one of its legs was broken already. Soon, an Orang-Utan came floating on an island of bananas and Pi rescued it.

Then, a hyena came out from the tarpaulin. It ate the zebra and killed the orang-utan.

After that, a tiger also came out from the tarpaulin and killed the hyena.

Now Pi ought to live with the Bengal tiger in the lifeboat.

When they almost starved to death, they reached a deserted island.

However, Pi discovered that the island was carnivorous Thus, Pi and Richard Parker (the tiger) left the island and continued their journey.

Finally, they arrived at the Mexico shore. Pi was rescued by the natives. On the other hand, Richard Parker just vanished in the jungle. No turning back and without a glance. *this scene was very sad*

After that, there were two investigators from Japan wanted to find out about the cause of the shipwreck.

Pi told them his story and what he had encountered after the shipwreck. However, they didn't believe him and they insisted him to tell the true story, another story without the animals. Hence, he told them another version of the story.

The chef killed the sailor and ate the sailor.

Pi's mother was very angry about the chef's act so she slapped him. The chef also killed Pi's mother.

Pi..also killed the chef and ate him.

The deserted island that Pi reached was actually his mother's corpse.

Then, the numerous meerkats on the island were actually the worms of his mother's corpse.

Tiger = Pi ate the hyena which meant Pi ate the worms in order to survive...

Pi described the island was very lively in the morning but at night the pond's water was very acidic.What Pi observed when he was at the island was actually indicating human's gastric juice.

Until he ate his mother's teeth, he just taken aback and left the island immediately.

In the end Pi was rescued and the animal in him was slowly faded away.

Then Pi asked the investigator which is the better story.

Both of them prefer the first story.

So these were the explainations from the internet. I found some of these explainations confused me.Since this film is based on the book. The book has more details because his girlfriend was not mention in the book and the lotus flower thing either...or I missed out???

There are many favourite lines from the novel that I would like to share here.

1. "It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names."  

So, it was about Pi's friends. His full name was actually Piscine Molitor Patel. However, his friends always mistaken his name and teased him. Some called him Pissing Patel because Piscine sounds like Pissing. Some thought that he was a sikh when they heard his name. They thought his name was P.Singh and they wondered why he wasn't wearing a turban. So, like my lecturer had mentioned before....Name does matter.Hmm. It caused him a lot of troubles every time he wanted to introduce himself in the classroom. Kinda pity him. He had such a good name actually because he was named after a swimming pool.  

2."The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated."

This showed that he felt really bad because of his friends teasing about his name. How awful it is when people try to make fun of your name. The name that was given by your parents..Imagine that. The people in the story just don't know the story behind his name so it's so bad for them to judge him like that. Pi didn't want people to laugh at him anymore so he introduced his new name when he changed to another school. Hence, Pi was named after the incident.

3. "It may not kill you but it will certainly injured you."

Pi's father told him not to underestimate the weak one (animal like insects..) even though we human beings think that we are the master on the earth.

4. "The most dangerous animal is man."

Agree the most. Sometimes human is cruel than animals. Animal won't attack us if we didn't disturb them.

5. "Animals like hyenas...orang-utans...Don't think they are harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is."

I think the author foreshadow something here. Like how Pi defended himself on the roughest sea. Even though he was smaller size and a vegetarian compared to the big, fat chef he was able to defend himself and kill the chef.

6."I realised something else; The hyena was the reason those sailors had thrown me into the lifeboat. They weren't trying to save my life. That was the last of their concerns. They were using me as fodder. They were hopping that the hyena would attack me and that somehow I would get rid of it and make the boat safe for them, no matter if it cost me my life. Now I knew what they were pointing at so furiously just before the zebra appeared."

Now, I understand why they waited for him and they didn't want to save his parents when Pi insisted them to do so. No wonder they pointed the boat because they thought the hyena was going to attack Pi. They wanted to watch him die at the lifeboat. Lol...this is what we call "hai ren hai zi ji." Then, the rope that hang the lifeboat was torn and Pi was flushed out from the ship. So they are not able to on board because of their selfishness. He was the only survivor.

7. "Hyena-it was an adult male that looked to be about 140 pounds."
So this described the chef.Hmm.

8. "yip yip yip the hyena ran in circles going yip yip yip."
Trying to eat the zebra. So depressed or something like that. Hmm, indicate the chef's hot-tempered behaviour...?

9. "Orange juice (the orang-utan) encounter the hyena."
Pi's mother and the chef.

10. "The only reason I didn't stand up and beat it off the lifeboat with a stick was lack of strength and stick, not lack of heart."
No wonder...

11.  "I kept myself busy. That was one key to my survival."
227 days in the ocean was very dreadful..luckily he kept himself occupied with doing all the stuffs like feeding Richard Parker, prayers, catching fishes...if not he will bored to death. lol.

12. "caught the turtle, jammed the knife to the turtle's head and drank its blood."
Err...maybe we will feel disgusted by his action but Pi said that he couldn't consume sea water. Furthermore, the unpredictable weather made it difficult for him to collect rain water. So this was one of the solutions to get the water source and quench his thirst.

13. "The landscape was covered in meerkats.....The island was carnivous."

14. "Richard Parker at the edge of the jungle, stop but just disappear without looking back at Pi and bid farewell."
Pi was very sad because after all the hardships they had gone through. Richard Parker still didn't treat him as a friend. Maybe his father was right..animal and human cannot be friends...hmmm. He wept because Richard Parker didn't look back or did anything. It just went like that. Pi just wanted to conclude their relationship.
This part in the movie was really sad...I really wish the tiger would turn its back or maybe just roar something like that but it didn't. It stopped there for quite a long time lo...this beast lol. Then after I watched the movie, I found that the tiger was actually Pi's inner heart.... (-..-)

15. "I wish I had said ,"Richard Parker, it's over." "

16. Mr Okamoto: Very interesting
Mr. Chiba: What a story. He thinks we're fools.

17. The cook told Pi and his mother he needed to cut the Chinese sailor's wounded leg in order to save his life. Actually the chef was very selfish, he cheated them. He just wanted to use it as bait because their lifeboat was running out of food already...

18. Pi only jotted down the dates when the shipwreck occured and after he was rescued. July 2nd 1977 and  February 14th 1978. In between he did write diary but he just didn't want to write the date. He said time makes us weak? something like that...can't remember what he said. Maybe it feels like dying if we know the day.

19. "Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"
Both of the officers claimed that the story with animals is the better story.
Pi replied,"Thank you. And so it goes with God."

 Maybe the writer wants to convey the message that with god nothing is impossible. Just like the first story many people will just think it is impossible for an Orang Utan came floating on the bananas,the carnivorous trees, and Pi could survive for so many days with a tiger on the lifeboat. It's miracle. :) Lol dunno..just guessing. I believe the first story. ^.^ So complicated but it's really nice.

17/12/2012-Many days ago, my friends and I went to A'Famosa waterworld. We went there by car and ah chung was the driver of the day. She had to fetch us for many times because there were nine of us but we only had a car. At first, chung telephoned me and asked me whether I could go there by myself. I told her that I dare not drive to A' Famosa alone.*guilty* So, she ought to fetch us for three rounds. The first round's passengers were chung's sister and her sister's friends. Then Peijia, Sandy and me joined the second round. After that Dolphin and Katherine joined us. While waiting for the other person to join us, I talked with Sandy and Peijia which both of them are from iprm. I kinda regret because I didn't capture many photos on that day. This was because I was too shy to ask them, "Hey, want to take pictures with me ma?" So worried that later they would say "Why ah chung's friend so buay paiseh de ask people to take picture wor." Haha. Then, the three of us just ended up sitting there and chatting without taking any pictures.

The entrance fee is RM40. Lunch is provided.

Friendly Peijia and cute Sandy. The only one picture I had on that day.  Oh, my finger  was inside the picture so it proved that we did take picture together okay. Hehe. We went to the main pool first. While we were swimming... My friend asked, "Do you think Rihanna is in the water?" I exclaimed, "Har! Rihanna comes to A'Famosa?" She said, "No no no, it's the fish that eat people. Neh, the movie ah, what's the name?" Me and another friend, "Oh, it's Piranha." Me, "Pi-ra-nha shi ma?" The other girl, "Pi-ran-ha leh." Then we burst into laughter because we couldn't enunciate the word properly. *hehe, sorry ah if you read this because I think this is cute and I want it to be jotted down as our fond memory. So, I need to write it down. giggles...* Then, we went to play this. *I don't know what's the name this thing but I name it pizza boat* This one was not so thrilling like the one I play with my classmate at Teluk Batik. Hehe. Soon, we played this. I still prefer the Lost World Tambun's . I remembered evelyne and I played this thing   for so many times in Lost World and we did try all the tubes. Here, only two tubes were available, the black tube and the blue tube were closed. So, we couldn't experience the thrilling moment here. We didn't try this because it looked so extreme for us.This thing is called HIGH　SPEED　SLIDES.This one cannot use tube not like the one at Tambun so it's really risky and dangerous for us to play. I can't imagine that we need to slide down without any tubes but just our body.So afraid that we will break our arms. Next station was the best and it was the must-try BODY SLIDES. There were three tubes.So, I played the middle first. The middle tube was white in colour and we could play it with our friends so it wasn't so scary at all. The left one was a black tube and the right one was a blue tube. We had to play these two tubes ALONE. The black tube was a bit transparent so I didn't feel anxious playing it alone. However, the inside of blue tube was completely dark!!!!At first I was thinking,"Oh my god, I need to play this alone? It's so dark and no tube leh!" If I had a tube with me, at least I could grip hold on something ma....Then I lied down and slid. It was really dark inside but I didn't close my eyes even though I was really engulfed by the darkness and the feeling of being alone. I kept on panting and tried to look at my feet but I saw nothing.It was all black.It was so icy cold inside the tube and I really couldn't feel my legs at that moment.At last I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and I was really relieved.When I landed,I elbowed my friend and the first thing I told my friends was "Wah, finally I can see the light! Hahaha." This slide was plain amazing. *showing successful-kid face* Move on to Arabian village. It's for kids but we still went to play. *chuckles* *skip some grandmother stories*...then we called it a day. Thank ah chung for introducing her friends to me. They're so nice, friendly and hilarious. I spent most of the time there with peijia,katherine and sandy because chung accompanied  Dolphin. All of them made my day. Ah! How I wish my classmates can come to my home town so that we can also enjoy the fun and splashy time together. *wink* It's just only fifteen minutes' drive from my house. ----The Hatyai trip was cancelled because the hotels there were fully booked.*clench fist* Hahaha. Never mind, we can go there next time. :)