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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

this one happened when I was in Bangkok just last weekend. i love moving around in tut-tuts cos they're dangerous and fun! the highway codes there all end up as:"You turn anytime, anywhere you want. No speed limit - their min=max". ANYWAY, that's not the point la, those normal taxis are more comfortable and cheaper (only when there's no jam) but not much fun, except for the one time which i will tell u later.

We took taxi back, the first time after all those tut-tuts. I told him, "Bangkok Palace Hotel please, thank u!".

Halfway in the middle of traffic (red light) he got out of the taxi and walked 2 cars before us and started chatting and laughing with the driver in the front. *shocking!* now we know, here's another highway code of theirs: No need to look for single yellow line or white lines to allow for alighting (unlike Singapore's code), u can stop ANYtime and ANYwhere, YOU happy can already:) but he has a very accurate sense of timing! amazing, eventually he came back and just as he closed the door, it changed to green light. these pple super-PRO, POWER! (heh, think can save on handphone bills)

THEN he drove for a really long time and finally brought us to this super-ulu hotel which didn't have the words "bangkok" or "palace".only "hotel" duh. hm...the moment he slowed down i gave him a "huh? Bangkok Palace?", then he huh-ed me back and snorted. *erm, not so smart hor.* then as he turned into another road to bring us to the correct place, he got his taxi boot bumped into, by a lorry! yes, we stopped again, for the third time. (recall, 1st:traffic junction to chit-chat; 2nd:to alight us at the WRONG hotel) both drivers got out (i wanted to bang my head already la) good thing it wasn't a serious bump and they ended it quickly - i think it's the lorry's fault but he was quite fierce so settled quickly. haha, loser.

thank God it all ended well, we gave him more than he deserved because it seemed like one "boring" taxi ride turned out to be 10X more exciting than all the tut-tut rides we had! what an adventure.

The End.

here's some pictures of my fav tut-tuts.

kinda dark...cos its taken in the night! ta-da.

this is the best discovery we found - a TutTut garage! how cool is that huh?! haha. (jasmine's in white and the one in green is one of her aunt)

the lawyer aunt, jasmine and me - think its Jas' first time on the tut-tut :)

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