May 24th

This weekend is a long weekend here in Thailand which means sleeping in wooohooo! Except at 5am this morning i hear a flapping sound in my room - the same sound a moth might make if it was fluttering on the ground. It sounded like it was near the door or desk - so at least away from my bed. I dismissed the idea and thought "eh whatever...just a moth...or worse it could be a bat its all good as long as it doesn't attack me". i woke up again maybe 15 min later as the fluttering sounded like it was near the headboard...so i turned on my flash on my phone to look for it with no luck. Back to bed. Then it sounded even closer, so i leapt out of bed and flicked on the light just in time to seesomething scurrying   away. Then a very delighted thought popped into my head...maybe its a newt!!!! my neighbour had one in her room and ate all her bugs so i was quite happy. Upon further investigation i found that it was neither a newt or anything that i was familiar with. It was quick and once it climbed off the wall and on to the ground i threw a bucket over it and pushed it out of my room. When i lifted the bucket this is what i saw:

Not too sure at all what this thing is but it had a weird looking tail....a cross between a cricket of some sort and something that was going through metamorphosis or something ... =S. Needless to say i was awake and didnt want to go back to bed. 

I decided that i might go visit a temple since it was Buddha's birthday today. I got dressed in temple appropriate attire and head towards what i thought was a temple:

Im not too sure what this building was but it didnt seem like it was opened to the public so i went back home. 

I met up with some classmates to head to the mall to get our photos taken for our work visa and it was the best ID picture we all took ($15 for 24 pictures)! The also had some random props at that place like hulk gloves lol

The mall was 4 stories high, each level had a "theme" - like electronics, beauty, living, and home life. The living level had a HUGE indoor market that sold fresh fruits of all sorts (durian of coarse lol) as well as other health products like "sheut yee" (snow ear tong sui) in a bottle, coconut oil, natural soaps etc. The three other ppl i went with tried the sheut yee and thought it was so gross haha.  Ended up buy a bottle of coconut lotion for my hands since it didnt have bleach in it (hard to find lotions that are 'normal' here in Thailand). We also had some tasty cheap lunches all for less than $2 cdn! I ate Korean marinate pork with rice:

Alyssa had chicken fried rice:

For desert we had bubble tea ($1 Cdn!!!) and beard papa -THREE of em - because they're THAT good haha. 

Everyone always says BBT is better in Asia but i think their about the same as the kind you get at Global. I also spotted tako balls (octopus in some type of potato bater) - and had to get Alyssa to eat em (she is as white as white comes, but she is quite willing to try new things! She even at fish maw for lunch yesterday). The tako balls are drench in some kind of Japanese sauce with bonito flakes on top 

As we walked around the mall everyone agreed that it was so much more exciting shopping in the market because everything was SO cheap haha. We would rather sacrifice the clean AC mall for dirty markets lol. Near two areas of the main floor there were ponds with koi and other really huge fish and parrots. Very different than any malls in Canada

Ok now that i ran my errands and wrote my blog i guess its time to crack down on my assignment *sigh*

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Break time. 

I forgot to blog about my next door neighbour that moved in yesterday (temporarily).  I helped her call the bank using talkatone and she brought me fruits today.  Such an Asian thing to do haha.  It was a very nice gesture.  I now feel bad that i questioned if she was a scammer or if she really needed help. 

Thanks for droppin by =)