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cecil on March 10th, 2010

Do you fancy eating lobster? A lot of people do and all of those many seafood restaurants in Patong are selling lobster. There are 2 types of lobster displayed for patron’s selection: dead or alive! Dead lobsters are off course much cheaper. Another factor deciding the selling price is the restaurant. Some are selling dead lobster for 180THB per 100 gram while some are offering 120THB per 100 gram.

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This is a photo taken on the lobster display counter in front of Savoey (our Safari Beach Resorts‘ famous seafood restaurant). Look at the price tag. Dead lobsters are selling for 200THB per 100 gram! So 1 medium sized lobster should cost you around 2000THB or USD60! We didn’t try any there as we prefer eating prawns more than lobster. Do you fancy eating lobster? – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel blog

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What Patong Beach is first famous for? The beach off course! I’ve posted quite a number of Phuket travel stories so far but I still haven’t posted much things about the beach itself. This is it: The Patong Beach, the beach itself. We reached Phuket and Patong in the morning, had our first look at Patong Beach and had our first lunch at Jungceylon shopping mall. After lunch, we walked around the town to get some feel of the environment and local culture, and we headed back to our Safari Beach Resort for a brief nap…. zzzzzzzz.

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In the late afternoon, we went out again. This time we were walking down to the beach, just across the Beach Road in front of our hotel (this is the best part of Safari Beach Hotel which situated in front of the beach and next door to Bangla Street). Have you ever experienced this: You thought of going somewhere or buying something on travel but you did not do it in the first place and you started to say to yourself, “Nevermind, I still can do that LATER”? And what would happen next? You would never have the 2nd chance to do it! It happened to me on my Gold Coast travel where we thought of going back to see the sunset at Surfers Paradise on our last day but we failed eventually as bad traffic delayed our way back from Hinterland and it was already night hours when we reached home…

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So, whatever you think you want to do or see or buy on travel, DO IT IMMEDIATELY or you’re going to miss it! Same with our fun hours at the beach of Patong. If we delayed to go to the beach on our first day in Patong evening, we were going to miss the best evening sunlight in Patong as there were too cloudy to see sunset on the rest of our days in Phuket!

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I love the late afternoon sunlight at Patong beach. The beach was so attractive under it…

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While many tourists were sunbathing under the sun, there were many other activities going on the beach.

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Beach parachute ride is a famous activities at Patong Beach.

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We were doing something else…. crab catching!

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Jetskiing is another favourite sport on the beach.

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Love sunlight, lovely wife… :)

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Beach soccer is among the local favourite sport on the beach. There are a lot of Thai soccer talents out there…

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An illusion of moving sand after wave tides, one of my favourite shot.

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Beach chairs could be rented for sunbathing and there are also best for people watching!

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Singha Beer on the beach! Lovely!

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The best part on the beach of Patong: visitors were served with complimentary Starbucks coffee! Wonderful! I couldn’t find any of this in Malaysian beach. Can you?

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An unique feeling of tasting coffee on beach! :)

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Though evening sun is bright, scattered clouds blocked parts of the sunset unfortunately…

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The best dusk scene I could captured on the day in Patong Beach. The sun set at 7pm and we left the beach for our first dinner in Patong! What we did at night after dinner? Exploration on the Bangla Street, the most happening street in Patong and Phuket!

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Don’t miss my upcoming stories on Phuket travel. I will try to wrap up the whole story of my travel to Phuket before this May. Why? In May I will write and concentrate more on my exciting short 14-day tour to Western Europe! :)

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cecil on March 1st, 2010

15 days of Chinese lunar new year celebration is finally over. The Chinese Valentine’s Day or YuanXiao (元宵) was the last celebration on the 15th Day or yesterday. Everything is back to normal today. Shopping malls stopped playing back New Year songs. All new year decorations around town have been dismantled. I’m reluctantly back to work now! :) As my life will go on, a last piece of photo taken during the new year celebration is posted here as a conclusion to my celebration.

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As usual, I took the shot with Nikon D60 and Nikkor 35mm lens. Firing a direct fill flash helped balancing those shadow areas nicely and 1/200s fast sync shutter speed proved to be useful to freeze their action. To avoid my wife from murmuring me, I’ve added some soft skin effect to hide some of the blemishes! Haha! :)

I love this portrait. It was captured in Genting Highland during CNY this year. A strong feel of Chinese New Year with Cherry blossom as background. Smiles from both Jean and Chloe’s face look wonderful to me. Hope you like it too. That’s it for the Year of Tiger! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog RA9WE4S9YPVR

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cecil on February 24th, 2010

Sounds like a devotee? Yes. Temple after temple on the 5th Day of Chinese New Year (年初五). We went to TianHou Temple, the biggest temple in KL after brunch (Malaysian slang: Breakfast and Lunch together!), and visited the Taiwan’s FuoGuangShan (佛光山) initiated DongZen Temple after dinner. It was actually planned by me. If you have [...]

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Happy Lunar New Year of Tiger again! Sorry if you think these are too much but I just couldn’t resist myself from posting more photos of this new year celebration. If  you happened to be here in Malaysia as a visitor, you must have seen all these decorations in Kuala Lumpur during this festive season. [...]

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cecil on February 15th, 2010

Here are some photos I snapped on Chinese New Year biscuits, oranges and drinks. These are what we eat and drink during this festive seasons in Malaysia. Biscuits are home made, mandarin oranges are from China and drink is lemonade beer.
Just a short update as I’m still celebrating Chinese New Year of Tiger.

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cecil on February 11th, 2010

Still remember how we arrived at Phuket Island and reached our Safari Beach Resort at Patong Beach in early morning? (Read them first if you are not) At 11am, still a bit early for lunch but we were starving. So we looked for restaurant for our first lunch in Phuket. Our cab driver suggested we [...]

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cecil on February 10th, 2010

Often enough we are relying on our camera’s intelligent to meter the scene for appropriate exposure. While the technology advancement has made our digital cameras so clever that they get it right on the spot most of the time, there are sometimes, under some tricky lighting condition, our camera metering can be fooled by the [...]

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China Town, or Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur is the traditional hub for Chinese New Year countdown every year. Many Malaysian Chinese are coming here to buy dried foods, flowers and decorative for the festive season. I came here every year mainly to buy Bakkwa (Rougan,肉干) or dried meat as new year gifts to relatives.
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Chinese New Year 2010 is around the corner. Another 6 days on 14th February (double celebration together with Valentine’s Day), all Chinese around the world would be celebrating lunar calendar’s new year. Chinese ethnic in Malaysia is busy preparing their houses, clothes, foods and decoration at this final moment. Shopping malls are decorated for this [...]

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