day 9...beaching in pattaya

the pattaya day's technically my last day. we've committed to waking up really early because we have to travel for more than two hours to get to pattaya city. beaching was  my safer and cheaper alternative to bungee jumping . the initial plan was to go bungee jumping in pattaya but then my back acted on my and started aching and swelling. i was still bent on jumping despite that but i got scared when chu told me the jump's painful. he let me watch the full video of his jump last december and seeing how straining it is for the back i just can't get myself settled with the idea that i could die or get paralyzed. i've been adviced by the doctor about not engaging in activities that would stress my back. i guess i'm choosing  the good patient track over the risk taking ( kuno ), try all fun things little ms curious that i am.

anyway we arrived in pattaya city almost midday. we asked to be dropped off the beach road. before we hit the beach we decided to have lunch. we surveyed the area for a seafood resto. we found one bit it's closed. how odd. after passing through a series of scandinavian, russian, mexican and heaven knows what other foreign bars, we found this food place called pink lady. i don't know why it's called that. i saw nothing pink in there. anyway i decided to be a little more exotic in my food choice so i ordered the spicy shark in herbs and veggies. it was nice. i liked it a lot. this resto sure know how to prepare shark dish. chu ordered this lobster dish. we didn't enjoy the lobsters as much as the shark but it was still a good lunch in my opinion.

we hit the beach after. it's just across the street. the beach was crowded with all nationalities of the world. it's like the united nation assembling in pattaya beach. the beach wasn't as wow as the beaches in the philippines but i enjoyed it nonetheless. being there seemed like being in miami or something with the tall buildings and busy streets right behind the beach. not far from the beach area you'd see boats taking tourists parasailing. the japs and chinese are making them rich in this industry. those parachutes looked like jellyfish floating on air.

for 30 baht each we got us nice loungers. it was cool watching people from there. we were perusing for beautiful and handsome people. we weren't successful. we looked for a public bath at around 4 or 5 pm. we had to get ready before dusk. my flight back to manila is at 1 a.m. and i wanted to have my last thai dinner, finish packing and all that without much rush. we arrived in bangkok at around 7:30 p.m. we dilly-dallied at dinner but was cool. we we're still right on schedule.

i still wasn't psyched about going home.