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• Chiang Mai Week 6+7

  Dear Booga,

  Hi! Wait, make that a hiya. Wait, nevermind… -_-

  Basically, the only thing I did in these 2 weeks was eat, sleep, punch, repeat…

  I know, such an ‘amazing’ 2 weeks

  Muay Thai training is like a reaction game. My favourite part is when the coaches defend (not attack) because when they do attack I have absolutely no idea what to do. 🙂 I also like the hanging sandbags that you punch because (if you’re a kid) you get to hang on the hanging sandbags like a koala. 

  But other than Muay Thai, I also went to an art class with my sister and my mum. The class is supposed to be for adults, but I joined in and I drew a sunrise. The photo of it is at the bottom of the article. (Oh man, I just realised I haven’t posted photos in a long time)

  There are usually events at Chiang Mai inn, located just outside Old Town. A few days ago, there was a person who came to talk about her farm. She abandoned city life 3 years ago to buy a piece of land and life in nature. We are planning to go to her farm next week. I’m so excited! By the way, the person’s name is Yidan and her farm is in Chiang Dao. I can’t wait to be there!

  I hope you enjoyed reading. 

  Ya bye.

  

  October 11, 2025

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• Hong Kong Week 5

  Dear Everyone,

  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

  -_-

  Sorry, that was just my mum. I won’t tell you why she was shouting right now, but I will later. 

  *anyways*

  So basically, there is a rule that foreigners that visit Thailand must have a visa to stay for more than 60 days in a row, and we don’t have a visa so we went to Hong Kong and stayed with my mum’s friend. We left on a Friday, went to Guangzhou on a Saturday, and came back from Guangzhou (to Hong Kong) on a Sunday, and left Hong Kong on a Tuesday. 

  On Friday, we went on a plane to Bangkok and switched planes to go to Hong Kong. The flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok was 1 hour, and the flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong was 3 1/2 hours. When we arrived it was 7 pm but my mum was still hungry so we had dinner. The next day we went to Guangzhou on a bus with my mum’s friend. It took 3 hours but luckily we could stop once in between when we had to go through security.

  After the bus ride, we checked in at our hotel – the Chimelong Panda Hotel – and put all of our stuff in our rooms. And then, we went to a…

  THEME PARK! 

  The Chimelong theme park had a lot of rides but half of them were too scary so I only did 6. If you go there, I recommend you to do the small sky drop, the pink rollercoaster, and the jumping machine. The jumping machine is really fun even though it isn’t fast, so go there if you want I guess.

  And then, we went to a…

  WATER PARK (at 7:30pm)

  Yayayayaya. I’m sorry, I skipped some things, like what we had for dinner and everything, but… let’s just get on with the water park!

  We ran to the Chimelong water park and even though it was late, there were a lot of people. We only went on 2 rides, and in 1 big pool, but it was still really fun. One of the rides was a high speed waterslide, and the other one was a calm waterslide where you go in circles until you realise that there is a big drop ahead and then you drop and it’s not a calm waterslide at all. It was so fun but we had to go , so we decided to come back the next day.

  *the next day*

  Yes, we did go to the water park, but only after we went to the Chimelong Safari.

  The safari had animals. Woah so cool animals are so rare.

  *beep*

  So the safari had animals like bears, pandas and meerkats, but my favourite was the bears because we came just in time to see they wrestle. They were so tall (2.2m?) and so strong I though one was going to get hurt. Turns out, they were playing 🙃. 

  We went back to Hong Kong and played Minecraft. We went to my dad’s old university and got pretty bored. Nothing else. Hehehehehe.

  Sorry about last week, I forgot to write 🙂

  Umm bye.

  October 4, 2025

  chiang-mai, chimelong, china, hong-kong, thailand, travel

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• Chiang Mai Week 4

  Dear Everyone,

  Sorry for the late post. We went to Chiang Rai this weekend! We went to the blue temple, the white temple, and the black museum. It was so fun! I will tell you all about it.

  On the way to Chiang Rai, I was listening to K-pop Demon Hunters and Bongo Cat music. To whoever doesn’t know what Bongo Cat is, it’s a good Youtube Channel.

  The blue temple is a very small, blue temple that is all blue (and a bit of yellow). There are animal statues surrounding the temple and some were still being painted so we couldn’t see the final result yet. Some parts of the temple are also in construction, but the inside is perfectly fine.

  The white temple was very big and was covered in mirrors, and it didn’t help that the sun was very bright. By the way, I forgot to bring my sunglasses so I wasn’t really looking forward to seeing the white temple. To go into the temple you need to walk across a bridge surrounded by zombie hand and the meaning of this is that you have to do something hard to deserve something good. The white temple is also really small and all the pathways are taking up a lot of space.

  There were really grand toilets that were covered in gold paint but the reason why the designers made it this colour was to remind everyone that no matter who you are (even if you are amazing) you still have to do basic bodily functions.

  The black museum was filled with alligator skins and moose horn chairs, but there was a cat so I was patting it the whole time. I didn’t really do anything in there except admire the cat’s fur. 🙂

  So back in Chiang Mai with a capital M, I’m also doing Muay Thai now! Muay Thai is like boxing, if you were wondering. It’s really fun and really tiring so I get good exercise. Wheeeeehoooo!

  I got to go punch some hanging beanbags now, bye!

  September 23, 2025

  chiang-mai, chiang-rai, thailand, travel

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• Chiang Mai Week 3

  Dear Booga,

  Hiyaaaa ya ya ya.

  That’s the sound of my dad doing Muay Thai. No, I didn’t do it, but I did hang on the hanging sandbag for a long time. 

  Sluuuuuurp slurp slurp slurp.

  That’s the sound of my mum drinking an ‘awesome’ (apparently) avocado smoothie. You can tell I don’t like avocados. 

  Nomnomnomnomnom.

  That’s me eating TWO ice creams, but I don’t think I make the ‘nom’ sound when I eat ice cream.

  Hmph. That’s not fair. They don’t have the flavours I like.

  That’s my sister complaining. Well, duh.

  Have you ever heard of shabu? It’s like a buffet, but most foods are raw and you get a hotpot to cook it in. But shabus are known for their shrimps. This is how you get one. So you grab a pair of tongs and a basket, then you use your tongs to try grab an alive shrimp from the tank, and put it in your basket. Then freeze it in ice of boil it in water and then bring it to your table so you can cook it. If you don’t want to do that, you can always get the already-dead ones from the ice. By the way, the shabu we went to is called Big Big Shabu, but there are tons of Big Big Shabus in Chiang Mai. 

  The day after that we just went to the market. Yup, just the market. Oh wait, and a park, but it was a park, not a playground. There was exercise equipment but it was 100˚c so we went back home. 

  There’s no more sadly (or maybe that’s good because you are learning to write an article and your mum has forced you to read the whole thing to learn from me), but anyways, byeeee. 

  

  September 14, 2025

  chaing-mai, chiang mai, thailand, travel

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• Chiang Mai Week 2

  Dear Everyone, 

  Dear Everyone, 

  Have you ever seen a carpet the size of your hand before? Made by an 11 year old? In the style of a Cavoodle with cream fur and brown ears? 

  This is what you are thinking: no, duh. 

  Let me tell you something. It’s actually a furry coaster.

  But guess what? That is exactly what I did yesterday in Aladdin Studio! It’s a really good place and I highly recommend it if you want to try tufting. They also sell crochet tools and yarn so if you are thinking of getting them, then this is the place for you. They teach you to make coasters, and little handmade rugs. If you are too young to try tufting, you can decorate scented candles. I know I’ve said this, but I recommend this place. (There is a photo of my coaster at the bottom).

  Before lunch, we also went to check out the sports center because we felt like it was the right time to do some ping-pong. Unfortunately, the ping-pong area only opened at 3, so we could only wait. Since we don’t like to waste time, we went to a restaurant we wanted to go. It was the firefly factory, by the way. The food was really good and I also recommend. This blog could also be called “Recommended things to do in Chiang Mai. Mind you, there’s only 2”. 

  The next day, we went to the science museum. Wait, let me rephrase. The next day, we went to the Narit building in the Princess Sirindhorn Astropark. So, we learnt a lot about rockets and planes and we also had fun doing some of the activities there.

  That’s all for this week, I’ll see you in the next blog.

  Bye!

  

  September 6, 2025

  chiang-mai, thailand, travel

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• Chiang Mai Week 1

  Dear Everyone,

  A few days ago, there was a truck driving BACKWARDS in our small alleyway; a person slipping in a puddle when walking and holding a drink, probably holding Thai tea, THAI TEA; a few people getting tired of tropical fruits like bananas and mangoes (I KNOW); and stray cats and dogs everywhere! 

  Welcome to Chiang Mai, Thailand.

  We live on a tiny alleyway but it’s a very important road because at least 2 cars pass our apartment every day. There’s been a lot of trucks passing us too, because once they were making such a racket I had to see what was going on. It was nothing much except for a humungous truck with a person on the top where there shouldn’t really be people and he was leading the truck backwards! Nothing very crazy so far… 

  If you don’t understand the last sentence of the previous paragraph, search up on the internet what sarcasm means. 

  Whoops! Oof, now my pants are very muddy. I should’ve seen that puddle! it did look a bit deep…

  Has this ever happened to you before? Not to me. But when I was in a taxi, I was looking outside and guess what I saw? A person slipping in a puddle that did look a bit deep. And that’s not all, he landed on one hand and  it looks like he was holding a drink in the other hand! I know it’s kinda weird to be so crazy about drinks but since I am in Thailand I had to try the Thai tea. IT. WAS. THE. BEST. So, you get it. 

  Speaking of drinks, since I’m in Thailand, I’m never going to have a mango smoothie for a really long time. Since I’m in Thailand, I’m never going to have coconut ice cream for a really long time either. Since I’m in Thailand, I forgot what it’s like to be cold. Because, well, it’s Thailand! 

  But there are some other nice things that Chiang Mai has, that we went to. 

  First off, the cat cafe was really nice because there were tonnes of cats. The drink was so good. We came there just for the soda (Look at the fifth paragraph). There were around 30 cats, and four of them were named after Blackpink. If you don’t know what Blackpink is, it’s a K-pop group with four people. 

  There are stray dogs and cats everywhere. They are so skinny and I wish I could help them but they might have disease or they might have an owner. There are so many stray animals! I wonder if they fight a lot?

  We saw a lot of squirrels fighting on the power line.

  Count how many paragraphs you have read. That’s only week one! So even though I have nothing else to say, there will be plenty more things in my brain I must write down in the next few weeks. We will stay here for four more weeks and then go to Hong Kong for a bit. We will come back to Chiang Mai in November for the lantern festival so if you like reading about Chiang Mai, then you’ll see more blogs in a few months!

  See ya

  

  

  September 6, 2025

  chiang-mai, thailand, travel

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