Hat Rin

I stepped into Borders at Berjaya Times Square to kill some time.

The movie only started at 5pm. 1 more hour to go.

I wandered from shelves to shelves at in fiction section but I couldn't find any interesting things to read. 

So in the end, I thought I would make an early exit. As I was crossing out from the entrance, I noticed a new section of books. Fiction books but more like popular fiction books and I thought I saw a familiar cover.

Sands, a beach, peaking hills and a blue sky. It was one of my favourite book. Alex Garland's the Beach.

As I still had the time to kill, might as well. So I picked up this book and simply flipped the pages. 

I landed on a page. A chapter titled 'Hat Rin'. I tried to read a passage or two. The stale bodies sunbathing on the beach, the beer, the smell.. All of this were too familiar to me.

At the back of my mind, I recalled Hat Rin. It was a place that I had been to. A beach that is famous for its full moon parties.

When I was reading the book many years ago, I had not been to Hat Rin yet. However, when I went to Hat Rin last year, I did not realize the 'Beach' story was set there too.

I noted Koh Pha Ngan being the stopover island before Richard arrives at the 'Beach' but I completely forgot about Hat Rin.

It was all too surreal.