heineken star final: krabi, may ’09: part two

Heineken Star Final 2009, Krabi - 53 Suanie on cushion Back at the hotel, Horng and I saw KY and Mell at the business centre using their computers. Turns out we get to use the Internet for free, up to 45 mins each session. Maybe the Heineken people arranged for it, I don’t know because I’ve heard and read that Internet usage at the Sheraton is blood-chokingly expensive.

After a hot shower and a quick blog post, Horng and I walked around the hotel grounds for a bit. KY mentioned something about an elephant somewhere. After observing the distance from where we were standing and the place where the elephant was supposed to be, I turned to Horng and said, “You know, I’d be REALLY upset if we walk all that way to find no elephant there!” Heh, so we turned back. Horng went off to sleep by the pool, I returned to my room and chilled out with KY and Mell for a bit. None of us made it to the 6 p.m. group photo shoot because we overslept.

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Dinner and packets of mosquito repellent

At dinner, there were some speeches hosted by VJ Utt and a chick whom I think is on TV. Not sure. They screened Barcelona and Manchester United’s Road to Rome, including replays of quarter and semi-finals. It was damn funny as we were at a table with Barcelona fans from Cameroon. The way they reacted to each hit and miss was as if the matches were live, hilarious!

After dinner, KY and Mell went back to their room because Mell wanted to apply some mosquito repellent before going to the beach, where the match was to be screened. Horng and I looked at each other, “Huh got mosquito repellent?”

“You know, maybe it’s the two pink packets that are in the Heineken bag. Got Thai words one.”
“Huh wtf I thought that was shampoo or something!”
“Yah me too! Why would they package it to look like shampoo?”
“Yah I was wondering why the heck they give us shampoo for the island trip.”
“Yah I thought they are really damn nice to give us shampoo for the island trip. Maybe they wanted us to shower there or something.”
“So weird. Mosquito repellents should come in a tube or something.”
“Yah. No wonder we are good friends. Cannot spot the mosquito repellent.”

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Heineken bar and set-up for the match

At the beach, they were setting up and flying off wishing lanterns. No idea where the lanterns would eventually end up, maybe burn down a chicken coop or something. So far no news of burning ships caused by lanterns so I assume that the flames burnt off or something.

Got ourselves pretty good seats, surrounded by Barcelona fans (except the couple of people sitting behind us who were rooting for Manchester United, pffft!). Saved seats for KY and Mell who never turned up till the start of the match, wtf! What we thought was a ‘getting the mosquito repellent’ trip ended up being a ‘watching X-Men’ and ‘napping’ trip. Noobs.

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Awesome Thai bands

It was good entertainment before the match. A couple of DJs, two rap singers who are apparently the #1 rap group in Thailand and the weirdest and funniest Thai band ever. We didn’t understand a word they said, except when they sang a couple lines in English but their liveliness was infectious. Lots of people dancing near the stage, Horng being one of them. I just sat at my cushion, head dizzy, not feeling too well but determined to make it at least 10 mins into the game.

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Horng and I when Horng took a break from dancing

It was a damn good experience lor. Like Horng said, you can come to Krabi any time but you cannot create this kind of atmosphere. Cheering fans of both teams, people dancing, Barcelona fans seeing Horng’s jersey and giving him the thumbs-up though they don’t speak the same language… it was just magnificent!

I survived till 15 mins into the game, then sadly decided that I couldn’t take it any more. Went back to my room, took a nice bath (finally learnt how to make lots of foam!) with ESPN in the background. Watched till the 85th minute, abandoned all hopes that Manchester United might score a goal, then went to sleep.

Actually I don’t really care much about football. I just prefer anything over Manchester United these days 😛 No valid reason so I can’t tell you why.

Took a few short videos, you can check them out here:

  • Video 1: At dinner during replay of MU’s road to Rome. MU fans cheering while Barcelona fans pretended to be deaf.
  • Video 2: At the beach set-up, a couple of hours before the match.
  • Video 3: Rockin’ Thai band, lead singer with awesome head gear.
  • Video 4: DJ spinning ‘The Final Countdown’ before the match.

Woke up early the next day, packed, had breakfast and left for Malaysia. Overall it was a good trip, quite an experience. Thanks to Heineken and co, lucky that we won.

Before I end this post, I must share with you an illustration on a pack of fried seaweed that I bought at 7-11. It’s quite in-your-face, telling you that slim girls eat seaweed, fat girls eat potato chips.

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Heh.

*Complete Flickr set for Krabi May 2009 with 60 photos here.

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  1. Mellissa says

    Just so happened X-Men was on TV when we switched it on out of habit ok! :X It’s a good movie!!!

  2. HAHAHAH the packet illustration’s so awesome!

    btw Mell wanted to watch X-Men :X

  3. we have seaweed in the house. and potato crisps…

  4. ShaolinTiger says

    Seaweed wins at life…

  5. hahaha …. fat girls eat potato chips? aiya, so biased one.

  6. WTF suan u got good memory.

    @Mel & @KY watching Xmen at Krabi different 1 izzit? Storm wear thai costume 1 ka? !@#$%&^(&^@#%$

    definitely a great experience

  7. VidaDomo says

    Hi from Barcelona!
    I read u since long although until now I didn’t find a reason to comment. But today it is different:

    Thumbs up for Horng’s T-shirt!!!! Barça Barça Baaaaaaaarça!!!

    Ok, enuf… I couldn’t stand… sorry 😛

    BTW, what does a mosquito in shampoo package?

  8. mell: yeah but you could have switched it off and come out from your hiding place! pfft 😛

    ky: it was. i didn’t notice it when i bought it, only when i opened to eat it. means i get to be slim now? ^_-

    AT: you have everything in the house, nicely labelled with a pro labelling machine

    ST: just something about it that is yummy and delicious. i prefer it over crisps

    j2kfm: yah but the illustration is too funny!

    myhorng: of course 😉 selective memory what. i was just stumped that we didn’t recognise the mosquito repellent packs

    vidadomo: hello! if you see horng’s blog post here:
    http://myhorng.blogspot.com/2009/06/uefa-champion-league-final-krabi.html
    you can see him in photos with fellow barcelona fans. regarding the whole mosquito repellent thing, the pink packs they gave looked like shampoo packs. you know, those small travel ones that you buy… besides it’s PINK. i’ve never seen mosquito repellents in pink anything. they are normally yellow and green to reflect the herbal part. that was why we mistook it for shampoo at first glance, and didn’t look properly at the little mosquito buzzing around on the pack.

  9. i had a different message conveyed from the ad. if you were to snack on seaweed, you won’t grow fat but snacking on potato chips will 🙂

  10. VidaDomo says

    Thanx Suanie, I checked horng’s blog, the thai bands were quite crazy 😀
    Regarding the chips, maybe the message is: if you eat potato chips, your hair will grow blue 😛

  11. Interesting packaging! And I thought the two pink packets are those 3-in-1 drink or something like that!

  12. love this sort of tatami at beach. but bit dirty sometimes feelin like as if 4 years never been washed and just had a hairy kingkong from taliban slept on it . argh.. stop thinkin,..

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