Hat Yai

If you have not been to Hat Yai, it is a quiet city located in Southern Thailand.

On my recent trip to Koh Lipe, we had to stopover at Hat Yai for a night as the timings for our flight to Hat Yai and the timings for the ferry to Koh Lipe couldn't coincide. Basically, in order to get to Koh Lipe, you would have to take a flight to Hat Yai or a few other neighbouring cities that offer transport to catch the ferry to the island. However, there are only that many flights flying in to Hat Yai per day or even Phuket / Krabi per day and also a limited number of ferry timings taking you from Pak Bara to Koh Lipe. By the time our flight touched down in Hat Yai, we would already have missed the last ferry out so we had no choice but to stay in Hat Yai for a night.

Might as well take the time to explore Hat Yai for a day right?

I'll be honest with you. There isn't much to do in Hat Yai. It's quite a quiet city and my friend, Natalie, likened it to Hanoi. Personally, I've never been to Hanoi so I do not have a gauge but I can vouch for the city being really quiet.

We ended up grabbing some Thai food along the street as we were starving and craving for something spicy. You cannot go to Thailand and not indulge in as much spiciness as possible.

Eating and navigating with the map a little

There are markets in Hat Yai. The largest one being Kim Yong Market and it's located in the city centre. There is a whole street adjacent to the market that has loads of food vendors offering you street food. Best experience. I would suggest coming here to get your thai food fix.

Since there wasn't much to do, we decided to head to the Trick Eye Museum!

Took a tuk tuk there where I shared the wonders of Airdrop with Nat who was as clueless as me a few months ago about the function available on our iPhones. #noob

 

 

The entrance fee per person for the Trick Eye museum is 400THB.

However, since the museum was closing at 7pm and we only got there at 6pm, they decided to let us in for 200THB per person! We were all ready to fork out that 800THB for both of us already and they literally just refunded us the money. Best deal ever! There was also no one in the museum so we literally had the whole place to ourselves.

Had a simple dinner along the road near our hotel. By the way, hotels in Hat Yai are really cheap as well. Our room was about S$35 per night. Definitely will not bust your budget if you had to stay one night in the city.

Have you been to Hat Yai?

Comment below if you have any other recommendations about this city, I would love to hear it.

Being sick

The truth is, I hate admitting that I'm sick sometimes. I always feel like I can pull through it and not succumb to seeing a doctor but I can't. I am someone that gets migraines very easily. By very easily, I would think at least four times a month (I average it out based on per month). There will be this aching pain in my forehead that I can't shake off. Eating something sweet helps, but not all the time.

I was stuck in bed for almost 36 hours previously. The moment I woke up, my whole body was aching everywhere and each time I try to sit up, my ears start to buzz and I feel like throwing up. I feel feverish so I turn on the aircon but I wasn't really having a fever to begin with. People call this 'Vertigo' which is the first I've ever came across with a term like such.

I'm generally not someone that will go around announcing that I'm sick because my rigid mind thinks that some ppl do that just to seek attention and sympathy. So when I do tell ppl that I'm uncomfortable, it's usually at a mark of 90 on the 0 to 100 scale of severity in terms of discomfort. Just talking about this makes me sick in the stomach too. I'm at a mark of 50 right now and my mind tells me that I'm "okayyy" and this is why I'm a skeptic when ppl tell me they are sick sometimes.

Please get well soon and clear backlog so that you can start afresh.

Singjazz 2015

I cannot thank these people enough. Thank you for making my past few days much more bearable in every sense possible and for backing me up with nothing less of endless support. A few notable ones who know that it must have been a lot to take in for me to possibly even have a mini breakdown session. But I'm proud of myself for pushing through and doing what I have to do even though I know very well that, if I have dropped everything and just left, nobody could do anything about it as well.

There are people out there who are just too oblivious to know that for things to be seemingly fine and dandy on the surface, there's someone behind the scenes working on it for it to even seem okay. I am too tired and too caught up with phone calls to even bother about minute things like these but I guess it would be nice for people to understand. I'm not the sort of person who needs justification to the things I have done just so everyone knows. In fact, I have no time to even do that. I just need people who are do-ers, people who don't complain about everything you need to do and people who are composed.

No more "ask Amelia" for anything and everything.

Whilst carrying bags and toyogo boxes and printers up the stairs to the office, all I could think of was, I don't have to come back here anymore! whoop whoop