A travel to Phuket Island

Last month I went to Phuket Island, Thailand with my wife to spend my holiday. It was a wonderful trip.

We booked a single room in the Lamai Guesthouse for our accommodation through the internet. Although the hotel is not very close to the main beach, it’s very cheap and the attendants are very kind. It costed me only 600 Baht (25 dollars) per day, and I could get free internet access there. If you want, you could rent a motorbike which is very familiar in Phuket and I think the price is about 150 Baht per day.

There are about 7 or 8 beaches around the Phuket Island and they are not very far away with each other – you can get one from another in 20 minutes by motorbike. The most famous one is Patong Beach, but our favourite is Karon Beach because it’s too crowded and flourishing in Patong. We enjoyed the peaceful and clean beach in Karon.

Many tourists go to Phi-Phi Island for diving and snorkeling. It is an amazing island which has gorgeous scenery. The price is about 1,000 Baht (35 dollars) for one person/one day from Phuket to Phi-Phi, which includes free drinks and a buffet lunch. We spent a night on the island.

Oh, of course we ate seafood endlessly! Tong-Yam-Kong is also recommended, and don’t miss the tart-sweet fruit-milkshake!

Board Game – War of the Ring

James bought the The War of the Ring board game from England for me. It costs me 420 Yuan.

The War of the Ring strategic board game allows players to experience the dramatic event and epic conflict that occureed before the end of the Third Age of Middle Earth. It allows players to not only control the military might of Men, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, and the forces of Sauron, but also Tolkien’s legendary characters, making the fateful decisions of the Fellowship of the Ring or guiding the dreadful servants of Sauron as they hunt for the Ring-bearer. The War of the Ring is usually playable in under three hours but can last longer if played with more than two players.

This enormous game includes a gameboard depicting a large color map of Middle Earth; 200+ plastic figures representing the Armies and Characters of the Lord of the Rings, including the Nazgul, each member of the Fellowship of the Ring, Shadow Army units, Free People Army and Leader units and Minions of the Shadow; 135 die-cut cardboard counters; 100+ cards for Events and Characters; and over 20 dice.

So you can see the complexity of this huge stuff, huh? Every time we play this monster it will spend us more than 3 hours. We always are all exhausted when we finish one battle.

Another weird thing is the dark side has never winned for at least one time. Is it a little unbalanced? Maybe need more practice.

Guns N’ Roses: Chinese Democracy

Finally, our Axl Rose agrees to put on sale this CD album which has been produced for about TEN years. ‘Chinese Democracy‘ will be released in 00:00 on November 23th. G N’ R’s MySpace blog is changed into a red-carpet and luxury special page to presale the album, and we can listen to the FULL album cause it’s streaming now.

And here’s the address of their Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses

Well I heard a lot on their MySpace, and I have to admit that Axl did a great job on this album. Some songs are really awesome just like those in ‘Use Your Illusions‘ although Axl’s voice has lost a step. It’s a solid effort from Axl Rose, but I think this is a little far away from his originally industrial music dream (the reason why he fell out from Slash).

Slash, Duff and Matt have recently released their 2nd album ‘Libertad‘ and it’s a really hard rock masterpiece. Someone said it would be nice to have Slash and Duff on a few tracks in ‘Chinese Democracy’, but I think it might take hades to freeze over for that to happen. Let’s wait and see what happens on Axl’s this album.

Some Chinese people shouted out that this album should be burned out for the song ‘Chinese Democracy’, because it denigrates China. What a spoffish saying. it looks as if you can’t blame anything in China, or else you’re insulting Chinese people. As a Chinese I’m really ashamed of those BLIND patriotic fools.