Saturday, January 06, 2007.
Yoz people~ I’m back from Bangkok already. For those who don’t know, I was in Bangkok from 30-12-2006 to 3-01-2007. Thanks for everyone’s concern regarding our safety in Bangkok. I’ve received quite a number of SMSs and phonecalls from friends and family and I really appreciated it because it isn’t cheap to send SMSs and call over. In fact, I received that much SMSs and phonecalls that my phone was low batt at the end of Day 3 (usually my phone can tahan more than 5 days de). And I feel so bad that I continued to let my phone be ‘dead’ till I return to Singapore. Why? It’s because when I reached Singapore Changi Airport, I received lotsa caller alert SMSs. Paiseh to make everyone so worried =X
--Ting’s BirthdaY--
Right before we set off to Bangkok, we celebrated the last birthday of the year of LaDiEsWitZ – Ting’s birthday. We went to this Japanese Restaurant @ this ulu place (well, to me =X) @ King’s Arcade. Upon reaching the restaurant, I’m surprised. The whole restaurant was filled with men in black polo tees!! Apparently those were the Air Force people and they were having some dinner gathering there. That only left us with a few scattered tables to accommodate us. And hence we had to separate ourselves into different tables. I was sitting with Seng, Gan and Pj back then.
Some of the food we had. So much?!? Well, we were having the buffet dinner, which is kinda bohua for me cos I don’t take sashimi.
People @ our table. Pj as the photographer. In fact, 85% of the pics taken on that day were taken by her. Saw something scary? =X
The birthday girl with Huiqi’s and Sisi’s (& maybe some more ppl?) pressie~ The blue necklace.
Our pressie to Ting- Fossil Watch
After dinner, we went to somewhere to drink tehs and milo dinosaurs. Then Gan was saying Seng and Qi looked compatible. Thus I took a pic of them and said “This will appeared in my blog wor~” Then they snatched my cam and see and requested for more snaps. Lol~ so here it go ~ (haha..i post all =X)
--Bangkok--
I try to make it a short one. The rest will be photos and some descriptions bah.
Destination: Bangkok
Travelling period: 30/12/06 – 03/01/07
Travel companions: Cin, Qi, Ting & YS
Hotel Stayed: Eastin Hotel, Bangkok
Airline: Tiger Airways
Places visited @ Bangkok:
Day 1: Platinum Fashion Mall
Day 2 : Chatuchak Market (JJ Market)
Day 3 : World Trade Center/ Siam Paragon/ MBK/ Suan-Lum Night Market
Day 4 : Chinatown and the Memorial Bridge Night Market
Day 5: Platinum Fashion Mall
Day 1
First meal @ Bangkok!!! This is my mee
and their bee hoon
Yummy~ this is by a roadside stall near our hotel.
After that it’s all shopping around Pratunam area and Platinum. We shopped till most of the shops were closing down and then decided to take our dinner at its food court. One thing I dislike about Thai dining culture is that some of the eateries practise the coupons/pre-paid cards system. This mean you have to go and use real money and buy some of these coupons or cards in order to buy food from these food stalls, which is kinda troublesome.
Day 2
We met at around 6am to have breakfast in the hotel before setting out to Chatuchak Weekend Market. It’s awesome. You can find anything over there. We spent 9-10 hours over there and I think we didn’t even cover ½ of the place.
Guess what is this??
Front View
*Dang Dang*
Side View.Cute hor?
This was the crowd in the toilet. I think Qi and me queued for more than 20min for it loh. Not I wanna complain but there’s this si auntie very bad. Super baddie. Qi and me were queuing for let’s say 10min for a particular cubical and this si auntie cut our queue. Ok.. cut queue nevermind but you know what happened after that? After she came out, she blah-ed some thai and point to the toilet and then walk away. I think she was trying to tell us the TOILET CANNOT BE USED!!!!! Wth… Then Qi and me had to queue elsewhere. Super doink sia~
After that we went back to hotel to prepare for the gala dinner. Theme was “Back to the 70’s”. It was then we learnt of the bombing news, which greatly affected my appetite >< . Thus we retired to our rooms quite early and rest.
Day 3
Went to a couple of high end shopping malls and they are hugh. This was the day I spent the MOST amongst all... about 5k baht bah.
Trying to imitate him =X
After that we went to MBK but we didn't spend much time there. Next was Suan-Lum Night Bazzar.
Suan-Lum is quite nice to shop too. However you really need to bargain alot as they jack up the prices too high. Did foot massage over there too and it's quite cheap also. 199 baht (SGD8++) for an hour and it's really an enjoyment. I like the idea of watching performances while eating and drinking too. There are people singing and dancing on the stage and it's quite entertaining. The songs they sang are nice too.The biggest issue about Suan-Lum is that there's too much mosquitoes =X .
Day 4
No photo taken. I think the main reason is that I super don't like Chinatown. Super super crowded and that day I wasn't feeling very well. Had a bad tummyache. Ate some seafood over there and it's not really that fantastic from I've heard. After that, we went back to the hotel and later of the night Ting, YS and me went for Traditional Thai Massage. It was quite okay lah...not as shiosk as I thought it would be. Despite that, I think I actually fell asleep in the midst of massaging. Hahaha..think YS also.
Day 5
More shopping at Platinum before we left.
Our baggages =X There's alot for 5 people! One big disadvantage of budget airline is that you can only check in 1 baggage and it must not exceed 15kg. Furthermore, you can only hand carry 1 personal bag, 1 more piece of baggage and 1 lap-top bag. Super not good >< . Next time travel by the normal airline so u can check in more baggages and save the hassle of carrying so many things around in the airport. Better right?
That’s about all. K lah… blog till wanna faint le. Stop here!
--Ting’s BirthdaY--
Right before we set off to Bangkok, we celebrated the last birthday of the year of LaDiEsWitZ – Ting’s birthday. We went to this Japanese Restaurant @ this ulu place (well, to me =X) @ King’s Arcade. Upon reaching the restaurant, I’m surprised. The whole restaurant was filled with men in black polo tees!! Apparently those were the Air Force people and they were having some dinner gathering there. That only left us with a few scattered tables to accommodate us. And hence we had to separate ourselves into different tables. I was sitting with Seng, Gan and Pj back then.
Some of the food we had. So much?!? Well, we were having the buffet dinner, which is kinda bohua for me cos I don’t take sashimi.
People @ our table. Pj as the photographer. In fact, 85% of the pics taken on that day were taken by her. Saw something scary? =X
The birthday girl with Huiqi’s and Sisi’s (& maybe some more ppl?) pressie~ The blue necklace.
Our pressie to Ting- Fossil Watch
After dinner, we went to somewhere to drink tehs and milo dinosaurs. Then Gan was saying Seng and Qi looked compatible. Thus I took a pic of them and said “This will appeared in my blog wor~” Then they snatched my cam and see and requested for more snaps. Lol~ so here it go ~ (haha..i post all =X)
--Bangkok--
I try to make it a short one. The rest will be photos and some descriptions bah.
Destination: Bangkok
Travelling period: 30/12/06 – 03/01/07
Travel companions: Cin, Qi, Ting & YS
Hotel Stayed: Eastin Hotel, Bangkok
Airline: Tiger Airways
Places visited @ Bangkok:
Day 1: Platinum Fashion Mall
Day 2 : Chatuchak Market (JJ Market)
Day 3 : World Trade Center/ Siam Paragon/ MBK/ Suan-Lum Night Market
Day 4 : Chinatown and the Memorial Bridge Night Market
Day 5: Platinum Fashion Mall
Day 1
First meal @ Bangkok!!! This is my mee
and their bee hoon
Yummy~ this is by a roadside stall near our hotel.
After that it’s all shopping around Pratunam area and Platinum. We shopped till most of the shops were closing down and then decided to take our dinner at its food court. One thing I dislike about Thai dining culture is that some of the eateries practise the coupons/pre-paid cards system. This mean you have to go and use real money and buy some of these coupons or cards in order to buy food from these food stalls, which is kinda troublesome.
Day 2
We met at around 6am to have breakfast in the hotel before setting out to Chatuchak Weekend Market. It’s awesome. You can find anything over there. We spent 9-10 hours over there and I think we didn’t even cover ½ of the place.
Guess what is this??
Front View
*Dang Dang*
Side View.Cute hor?
This was the crowd in the toilet. I think Qi and me queued for more than 20min for it loh. Not I wanna complain but there’s this si auntie very bad. Super baddie. Qi and me were queuing for let’s say 10min for a particular cubical and this si auntie cut our queue. Ok.. cut queue nevermind but you know what happened after that? After she came out, she blah-ed some thai and point to the toilet and then walk away. I think she was trying to tell us the TOILET CANNOT BE USED!!!!! Wth… Then Qi and me had to queue elsewhere. Super doink sia~
After that we went back to hotel to prepare for the gala dinner. Theme was “Back to the 70’s”. It was then we learnt of the bombing news, which greatly affected my appetite >< . Thus we retired to our rooms quite early and rest.
Day 3
Went to a couple of high end shopping malls and they are hugh. This was the day I spent the MOST amongst all... about 5k baht bah.
Trying to imitate him =X
After that we went to MBK but we didn't spend much time there. Next was Suan-Lum Night Bazzar.
Suan-Lum is quite nice to shop too. However you really need to bargain alot as they jack up the prices too high. Did foot massage over there too and it's quite cheap also. 199 baht (SGD8++) for an hour and it's really an enjoyment. I like the idea of watching performances while eating and drinking too. There are people singing and dancing on the stage and it's quite entertaining. The songs they sang are nice too.The biggest issue about Suan-Lum is that there's too much mosquitoes =X .
Day 4
No photo taken. I think the main reason is that I super don't like Chinatown. Super super crowded and that day I wasn't feeling very well. Had a bad tummyache. Ate some seafood over there and it's not really that fantastic from I've heard. After that, we went back to the hotel and later of the night Ting, YS and me went for Traditional Thai Massage. It was quite okay lah...not as shiosk as I thought it would be. Despite that, I think I actually fell asleep in the midst of massaging. Hahaha..think YS also.
Day 5
More shopping at Platinum before we left.
Our baggages =X There's alot for 5 people! One big disadvantage of budget airline is that you can only check in 1 baggage and it must not exceed 15kg. Furthermore, you can only hand carry 1 personal bag, 1 more piece of baggage and 1 lap-top bag. Super not good >< . Next time travel by the normal airline so u can check in more baggages and save the hassle of carrying so many things around in the airport. Better right?
That’s about all. K lah… blog till wanna faint le. Stop here!
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