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| Since my early childhood days, I always like to travel. I attributed this passion for travelling to my parents, especially my father. They like to go 'makan angin' with groups of people from the village on an organized tour, usually after the fruit seasons. Their destinations were Singapore, Penang, Kelantan, Golok and Kuala Lumpur. Travelling in those days were considered as a luxury opportunity. My father also used to organize such trips, popularly known as 'rombongan' for the kampung (village) folk. He usually brought along all of his children on the trip, or at least the five of us. |
| I went to Golok with my room mate Nayee during one of the semester
breaks. I was naive then. We went into Thailand illegally actually. I don't
even had a passport. We went to one of the illegal jetty in Pasir Panjang
(the border town) and hop up into a boat, without much thinking ... and
money! Nayee did all the talking because I don't quite speaks Kelantanese.
And to my surprise we were met with somebody from across the river. He
arrange for a 'taxi' to bring us to the town centre. We hop on the 'motorbike
taxi' (it was fun). Than, walla, he brought us right into a whorehouse!
Up to this point it has not occur to me that the guy is a pimp. All this
while I thought he is Nayee's friends'! I can laugh about it now but at
that time it frightened the hell out of me. Luckily we can't afford any
of the girls (cost started from RM 60 for a full session). Even when they
offered us a discount for a 'quickie' (RM 30 for one ...ehm, what shall
I called it... ejaculation?). In the end, we had to pay the pimp RM5 to
let us out of the 'house'.
Coming back from Golok on a boat. Not this boat! This one is from Kota Baru town to Nayee's house in Palekbang. |
| I spend only 4 hours in Golok town, browsing through the shops and
open market. In my opinion, there is nothing special about this town, except
for the one I had explain earlier. I only brought with me around RM 40.00.
With that I bought a piece of jeans for RM 20.00, a piece of Batik Sarong
for RM 9.00, a piece of shorts for RM 5.00, T- shirts (3 for RM 10.00)
and a piece of 'cool' leather sandals. These were actually the real reason
I went there in the first place. Definitely not for THAT thing you know! On our back to Pasir Panjang, we were stopped by the Anti Smuggling unit of the Police Force. We were lucky because they are not Immigration Officers! So, after checking our paper bags, they let us go. Phew! |
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