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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Surreal yet Real

my relatives managed to find my hotel and i rented a car to drive us 150km into the deep throes of the hainan jungle..

by 1.5 hours, we were at the edge of the jungle and i tot it was on foot from here.. but nooooooooooooooooo... apparently the taxi i rented also doubles as a four-wheel-drive SUV...up and down the jungle trail that is no wider than the taxi itself..here's a pic of it..


i thought that was pretty scary already..until the trail got as wide as one person walking kind ya... like this..


anyway, that's my aunty's house in the horizon..i was glad to be finally here after a 2hr ride..

i officially entered Hainan-dom..

Here, if u dont speak Hainanese, that's it. u dont get no tissue, u dont get no water, u dont get no nothing.. hainan all the way. if u duno how to say "sister" in the proper way, u jus point at the picture and say female in hainese and hope they can put two and two together. And whilst you're trying to piece a coherent conversation together, you hear firecrackers outside.. hey cool, they're welcoming me with firecrackers.. of cos there isnt any in SG.. so like a perfect tourist that i am, i took pics of it..


then there's an authentic hainanese dinner..chicken(yucks), prawns(yucks), veggie (yucks), soup (nice!)

4 comments:

iRis said...

Something wrong with your last picture on the chicken rice, cannot see anything leh..

Anonymous said...

Nice of you to go find ur roots kindof thingy...dun complain lah..heee! Shd have asked you to go find my granduncle there too...=D Btw, u can speak hainanese rite?

Cornball said...

no leh... i can see the pics leh... mus be ur mac la, iRis

Cornball said...

yes i can speak hainanese