On the 3rd day of the Nuffie cruise, the ship stopped at Phuket in Thailand. It’s amazing. You’re doing so much on the ship sometimes you forget that you’re actually going somewhere. Then one morning you wake up and instead of seeing ocean as far as the eye can see, you see Phuket.
Standing on the balcony I saw some jet skis circling our ship. We all got together and took a boat from the ship to the island. As our boat left the ship, for the first time in two days we saw close up how our ship really looked like from the front.
When we got to shore we got on 2 vans that took us all for lunch. Believe it or not, each van could fit some 15 of us. I tried taking a picture of all of us packed into the van like sardines but failed.
All you can see of me is my forehead and my hair.
Some 15-20 minutes later we reached our destination. We were going to have lunch in this beautiful resort there.
I think it was called Andara Resort or something and it costs some…. well a lot of money to stay there. We were just there for lunch at a Thai restaurant there that had some really good reviews.
We ended up taking two big tables to fit everyone in.
Here are some pictures with some of the Nuffies there.
After our lunch though we all decided to split and go free and easy. Some of us wanted to go for a massage, some wanted to play water sports and some wanted to go to a shooting range. I decided to follow the small group to a shooting range. The van took us there for free because they get a commission from the shooting range for bringing tourists there.
We all got a mixture of guns. Everything from a 9mm handgun, to a shotgun and an M4A1 Carbine. My favourite was the Carbine. It has hardly any recoil and it’s deadly accurate!
I think we got cheated by the shooting range though. We all bought like 10 bullets of each gun to share but we ended up shooting much less than we bought. We didn’t fight it though… by the end of some 20 minutes, we decided that we had shot enough guns that afternoon.
Took a video of David here shooting a shotgun. We all laughed in the office when we watched it because of how he jumped back and shouted “Woaahh”.
The shotgun does that to you. Gives you a kickback that you would remember.
After time at the shooting range we went to the beach to meet up with some of the Nuffies.
I went with David to the water and just sat in the water while the waves hit me. I somehow forgot that I was still wearing my glasses so when the wave hit me once I dropped my glasses into the sea. I shouted out to David and told him what happened.
He was like “Ohh man.. you’ll never find it”.
I was hopeful though. So I just put my hands into the water and groped around for it. Believe it or not… I actually managed to find it.
After lazing around in the water, we decided to go jet skiing. I don’t have any pictures of that because… well we’re not allowed to bring our cameras there but jet skiing is one of the most fun things ever. It’s soo liberating. It’s like you’re moving so fast on a wide blue open ocean with nothing in your way. Makes you feel…. so free… right there and then… not one bit of stress of the world comes to your mind.
We had so much fun that we went again right before the sunset. The second time, David and I decided to share a jet ski. It was getting dark when suddenly our jet ski’s engine died and failed to start. We were just sitting there floating in the ocean as the sun slowly set.
I asked David
“Dude… do you think we’re floating away from shore or towards shore. Because if we’re floating away… we’re fucked”.
David panicked for a while then used his feet to try paddle our jet ski towards the shore but we gave up after some 30 seconds when we realized we were going nowhere. Lucky for us we were jet skiing with a few other Nuffies and they came to help us out. They couldn’t do anything but sooner or later one of the marshals from the shore saw us and came over. They refueled the jet ski and helped us get it started again.
We went back to the ship after the sunset. This time we were having a pool party there.
We’re like the party animals on the ship. Whenever and wherever there was a party we would all be there.
This time they had a live band there. When Wondergirl’s “Nobody Nobody” came up, the girl Nuffies all decided to go up and do the dance.
Here’s a video I took of them doing that.
After the pool party we adjourned to the club on board the ship and bad things happened. I drank way too much Guinness and some other stuff that I ended up getting myself pretty drunk that night. It was badd… badd… but that night gave us a lot of stories to tell the next morning.
What a fun day.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space