How shall I articulate my current state of frustration... AARRRGGGGHHHHH!

So me and yue have been trying to organise a trip up to Koh Samui and Koh Phanggan for the full moon party in April. But lemme just say that getting to this world-reknowned island and travel location is a pain.

First of all, there are no damn direct flights there from KL except for Berjaya Air which flies only twice a week to Koh Samui and departs at 4:30 pm. Hence you effectively lose half a day and have to pay for an extra night's accommodation. Not to mention the damn return flight tickets are RM900+. Crazy!!!!

The only other airline which flies into Koh Samui is Bangkok Airways cause they own the airport and landing rights to Koh Samui. And guess what if we wanted to fly by Bangkok Airways, we would have to fly to Bangkok which is all the way up North, wait 7 hours for the transit flight to Koh Samui which is back down South from Bangkok. Silly right? In the end we end up at Koh Samui at night as well. Refer to above for problems associated with this....*mutter*. Here's the even stupider part, the cheapest flight direct to Koh Samui are from freaking Hong Kong!?!!?!?! RM200 (without airpost tax and fuel surcharge) for return tickets!?!?!? I suppose we could all chill out in Hong Kong and go for the party but come on..seriously...you think we all have so much leave from work is it?

So we decided to look at alternate routes to Koh Samui. That brought another headache. One idea was to take the overnight train from KL to the closest town to the ferry terminal servicing Koh Samui. Yes....overnight. All those high-maintenance girls aren't gonna like this. Actually to be honest I don't really wanna spend a night in a train. What a waste of time. But its significantly cheaper. Then at the town take a 3 hr bus ride or so to the ferry terminal and another 1 1/2 hour ferry ride to Koh Samui. So all in all almost 18 hours worth of travelling. That's if we manage by some miracle to get all the transits at the closest possible time to each arrival/departure. And knowing stupid third world transportation infrastructure, we're bound to be hit by delays or what not (ie cow crossing tracks, grandmother crossing tracks, train crossing grandmother and cows!). So we're pretty screwed.

All I can say is damn you shitty third world country transportation systems!!! You are fucking around with my travel and party logistics!!!

There are not many years left whereby I would be so willing and eager to go for a full out party on the beach with around 7 - 10 thousand backpacers and what not. This is depressing. I've been wanting a proper beach holiday since like god knows 2 years now. This sucks...

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." ~ Peter Ustinov

Marvin Gaye ~ Aint No Mountain High Enough

Karma's a bitch but it can be pretty interesting at times...

Never really did get my finger around this whole do on to others what you would others on to you thingie. Whole notion of a greater force out there ensuring polar opposites of an equation are kept in check to maintain balance. Does karma really exist or work? Well I'm not a Buddhist so my knowledge on the concept is limited at best. Then again most who know me don't even know I'm Christian let alone catholic. So I'm prolly guessing if I was a Buddhist my depth and breadth of knowledge in terms of religious matters and theological concepts wouldn't be anything to shout about. Let's just say I practice the believe and let it be at that concept. I'm definitely burning in hell...lol

 

Let's leave the state of purgatory aside. I'm sure I'll get to know it well enough not too many decades down the road. What got me thinking was about how we use all kinds of ways to justify our actions, to explain events. It's like some fact finding mission and guilt ridding quest. In essence it's a finger-pointing exercise. In truth most of it doesn't seem to achieve much. Beyond momentary self gratification for some and more pain for most. Yet we still fall down that path more often than not when we're put under the spotlight. Sorry state of affairs I'd have to admit.

 

Sometimes I wonder why people laud their recent upcomings over others who have fallen short of the finishing line. Or why revenge is so sweet yet so utterly pointless. I'm sitting here munching prawn crackers (one of the great food blessings of CNY) and just wondering bout how things haven't really changed much from a year ago. *shrug* Doesn't really bother me much but it's nice to sit back and actually calmly ponder it and see it from all new angles. I don't feel much about it all. In fact kinda find it hard to pin an emotion of it. Feel like Data from StarTrek or something. Cold robotic shell. Devoid of human emotions.

 

Still don't get it. Karma. You really there? Ah heck I've got bigger fish to fry in the coming months then spend more time on silly lil things like this. I've got so much more mischief to get up to before I pay a visit to mr two horns and pointy tail...

 

"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred." ~ Henry Rollins

 

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