We have a zoo

Last week I went back to Thailand to spend some time with my relatives – a trip long overdue since I haven’t been there for a very long time. It just so happens that the 4^th of May was going to be our family day. This is however the first time attending such a day so you can imagine how excited I was, I was told that cousins and relatives from far away would gather on this special day only to find out that what reality offered differed a great deal.

Since it was a special weekend for Malaysians as well it was difficult to find tickets back we ended up on a route to Hat Yai – which is way out of our way since my grandmother's house is in Narathiwat approximately 3 hours from there. When we arrived it was around 9 am and it turned out that my uncle had a meeting in Hat Yai that day. So, before we headed back we had breakfast with him and then we were off to my grandmother's. I have to say that when I was younger I didn’t have a problem sleeping sitting up as you do in a van or a bus, but nowadays I don’t only find it  uncomfortable but also made my body stiff. The journey home felt like it was never ending, 3 hours may not seem much on paper but I felt like it was going on a whole day.

The exterior of my grandmother’s house has not changed since my grandfather was alive, but everything else has. Meaning to say that when you look at my grandmother’s house, the first thing you’d see is the stair leading towards the main entrance, and it sure hasn’t changed at all.

Another thing you’d notice is that there is a huge black net acting as a door or a gate, when you lift that net to get in you’d see what was hiding behind it. Namely, all the animals that live there. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, to the left of my grandmothers house there is another big house, that house was supposed to be my uncle’s, but he passed away even before it was finished so it’s empty, except for the animals that is. Yes the animals, you find all sorts of animals that can be caged. First we have the rabbits, a pair, then next to the rabbit there are small dears (I think it’s called Kancil in Malay) and then we have all the birds, I’m not sure what species directly but small mirror-loving birds, then we have more birds in another cage. And would you believe it we have ducklings and other ducks in another big cage! A huge surprise though was the two noisy geese. They know the owner which is my aunt and doesn’t really scream at her, she is the one feeding them so they behave really well around her.

Next update will include pics taken with my mobile phone so the quality varies. :)