Kee Hua Chee Live!: MEETING MARVELLOUS MERMAID IN SONGKHLA, SOUTHERN THAILAND

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PHOTOS BY CANON SX 720 HS

DATO KEE HUA CHEE AND THE MERMAID OF SONGKHLA

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT

2 HOTTIES

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH PERFORMING LIVE ON SATGE AT CENTARA HOTEL IN HATYAI, SOUTHERN THAILAND

LIVE SINGING BY DATO SRI EDMUND GH\OH
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SONGKHLA IS THE CAPITAL OF SONGKLHA PROVINCE IN SOUTHERN THAILAND WHIC BORDERS PERLIS AND KEDAH IN MALAYSIA. DESPITE ITS POPULATION OF 164,000 IT IS SMALLER THAN THE NEWER HATYAI WITH POPULATION OD 360,000

SONGKHLA USED TO BE CALLED SINGORA OR SINGAGORA IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH SINGAPORE'S HISTORIC NAME OF SINGAPURA. HOWEVER BOTH REFERS TO THE LION AS SINGA IS LION IN HINDU OR SNASKRIT. BOTH SINGORA AND SINGAPURA REFER TO LIONS AND HERE THERE IS A MOUNTAIN SILHOUETTED LIKE A LION WHILE SINGAPORE IS REFERRED TO AS LION CITY. FROM 200 BC TO 1400 AD SINGORRA WAS WAS PART OF THE ANCINET MALAY KINGDOM OF LANKASUKA BUT BY THE 18th CENTURY SINGORRA WAS UNDER THAI SUZERAINTY AND IN 1909 SONGKHLA BECAME PART OF THAILAND UNDER ANGLO-THAI TREATY WHEN THAILAND GAVE UP ITS CLAIM TO KELANTAN WHERE I WAS BORN OR ELSE I WOULD BE THAI CITIZEN AND BRITAIN RECOGNISED ALL PROVINCES NORTH OF KELANTAN AS BELONGING TO THAILAND

SAMILA BEACH IS WORLD FAMOUS FOR ITS ONE LANDMARK

YES, THE GOLDEN MERMAID WHICH IS BRONZE AND NOT EVEN GOLD PLATED OR IT WOULD BE STOLEN OVERNIGHT

DATO SRI MAJOR DR EDMUND GOH WANTED TO RIDE THIS DARLING PONY BUT HIS LONG LEGS WOULD SCRAPE THE GROUND YUMKUNG

SO HE GAVE UP THE IDEA

WHERE'S THE MERMAID? OMIGOD IT'S GONE

ON STILL HERE UNDER THE KIDS

A LIFE SIZED MERMAID WRINGING HER TRESSES

AIYA CUT OFF MERMAID

BIT BETTER

BETTER

BEST SELFIE

MERMAID AND MERMAN AS DATO KEE HUA CHEE TRANSFORMS INTO MERMAN IN THE SEA WHICH IS WHY HE NEVER SWIMS PUBLICLY TO AVOID A FURORE

THIS LOVELY MERMAID WAS CREATED BY JIT BUARBUS IN 1966 , DIRECTOR OF ART & CRAFT COLLEGE OF BANGKOK. ITS OFFICIAL NAME IS NANG GUEK THONG OF GOLDEN MERMAID WHICH SOUNDS MORE ROMANTIC THAN BRASS MERMAID

OH LOOK, 4 MERMAIDS

VERY KERWEI

VIEW FROM MY ROOM AT CENTARA HATYAI

MY LUXURY ROOM

HATYAI FAMOUS NIGHT MARKET AS ALL THAI TOWNS BOAST ONE OR SEVERAL

PLENTY OF HALAL FOOD HERE

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

VERY KERWEI LAIPING

IT'S CHEAPER TO SMOKE AT RIGHT AS YOU PAY FINE OF 2,000 BAHT WHILE AT LEFT YOU PAY 5,000 BAHT SO YOU SAVE 3,000 BAHT (RM 390!)

THESE HANDSOME MEN WERE ADMIRING MY GLTZY CLOTHES SO I TOOK THEIR PHOTOS AND SOME ASKED IF I FROM NEW YORK AND I SAID NEW YORKERS NOT AS GLAM AS ME