The Name's Nanji - Meena Nanji

Went on a James Bond Island excursion yesterday! It was pretty fun. Started off getting on this chintzy little bus with red pom pommed curtains and a cheesy James Bond Movie playing in the background (The Man with the Golden Gun). I had forgotten the allure of old Bond flicks...the way every woman he meets falls into bed with him, and the way he so effortlessly escapes unscathed from bullets, arrows, solar panaled super power bombs and the like looking absolutely sauve and fabulous! *sigh* He's my hero....


The first thing we did was stop at these caves with a Buddist temple inside. There were monkeys everywhere outside and we had some really good picture ops! Then we got in these cute colorful long tail boats and went around the Phang Nga islands and then finally to James Bond Island. Parts of the movie were filmed on Phang Nga, which they then commercialized for the tourist's sake! But it was still quite stunning.

Then we got back into the longtail boats and we were taken to this little Muslim fishing village created 197 years ago built in the middle of the sea on the water. The village is self sustaining and built entirely on an interwoven set of piers, complete with a beautiful domed green and yellow masjid. Really an amazing site to see!

We spent the rest of our evening looking around the colorful markets and shooting the sht with locals while they were trying to sell us stuff. So we are walking in the market and a lot of times the sellers say things like "i love you, your sexy, how much". So yesterday there was one that gave up before he even started and it was KEY. Picture this: Me, Jenn and Ioana walking by. Guy sitting on the ground by his store saying in a passive tone to Ioana as she walks by: "I love you" (She keeps walking) "I know you dont love me, but I love you. I know you dont. I know everything." At that we had to turn around and just burst out laughing, it really made our night! We're not really in the mood to go out here, it just seems too dirty and like we'll have to fend off all of the yucky men--its too much trouble and we cant be bothered! But the music here is hype, i heard Ace of Base last night. The thai boxing place is right outside our hotel so we hear it non stop..."MUAY THAI MUAY THAI BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW TONIGHT TONIGHT THE BEST FIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT MUAY THAI". The phrase is now embedded in our every pore and i think we are going a little crazy. We can hear it in our rooms so like true Waterlooers we retired at around 1 and started doing math problems in our wonderfully airconditioned room. No i'm serious. With a timer and everything. I know you guys think i'm joking. After math problems we made a list of the things to do when we get home. Timmys topped the list!!