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Still haven't consolidated pics so am blogging with some other random pics in this post :)

If you look a little more closely, you might be able to tell that these flowers were actually carved out from soap. Went exploring shops along Ao Nang Beach the first night after dinner and the Thai lady hawking her soap carvings on the street (bigger dyed flowers) skilfully carved out three white flowers in less than 10 min for each of us (for free!). It was really sweet of her. Took this pic in our resort room against a cushion.

One of many many monkeys we encountered on our kayaking trip at Ao Thalane (more on that in a separate post). Monkeys love Thai pineapples....
So does Shi Min! (though I've never been a fan of pineapples) Our guide brought along several pineapples and he had superb pineapple-slicing skills! The one i'm holding up (as well as those on the tray) was almost perfectly shaped like a gear...! I've never tasted such sweet pineapples till this Krabi trip. Not only were they fresh, they tasted even better than your typical preserved and sweetened canned pineapples.
On our third day, after lunch on Ko Phi Phi Don, we had some time to wander around the island. Say maybe one hour. but the three of us were stuck in front of some shopfront for at least 15 min.... cos there were THREE unbelievably cute kitties lazing around. So the three of us were like scooting down and trying to take pics of them for like the longest time. Ppl must have thought that we were mad.
I ended up with quite many kitty pics. But looking at this one, I suddenly realized maybe the puss-in-boots in Shrek isn't that unrealistic after all.... :)

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Had tremendous sunlight overdose the past 3 days or so and was unsparingly bitten by omnipresent mosquitoes. But... Krabi was fun! i guess cos we had unexpectedly good weather, not-so-many fellow tourists and good company. Though beaches were a little overhyped, I still enjoyed driving/kayaking/speedboating through the many many limestone cliffs/islands all over Krabi. Such amazing works of nature :) I was rather upset at having forgotten to bring along my specs for the trip, but it somehow made me more used to my daily disposables, so i suppose it was a blessing in disguise. This trip will also bring back yummy memories of sweet thai pineapples, close encounters with daring monkeys and... my virgin attempt to snorkel :P

Haven't taken many pictures with myself in them in a while. still trying to exchange trip photos with friends, so in the meantime will blog with "non-ppl" pics. First, beach photos... Though I visited several beaches, you realize after a while that your pictures all start to look the same.....

The famous Maya Bay at Ko Phi Phi Ley, where The Beach was filmed. It was one of the nicer beaches, cos the sand was really quite fine and pristine here. You could even sit in the shade beneath the limestone cliffs on shore.
Beach at bamboo island. Only after taking this pic did I realize that I might have inadvertently intruded on a Caucasian couple... they weren't kissing, but up to your imagination what they were doing.
Another picture at Bamboo Island. The waters were really clear here...
Ao Nang beach, about 5 min walk away from the resort where we stayed at.

And so I was 'rebellious' and did all the things I was 'forbidden' to do... but cos weather was great (too sunny, actually) and activities seemed safe enough :) Ah... it's back to work tmr morning though, so had better turn in like now.