Back from Thailand (Night 1)
Yeap im back from thailand… n i miss it =( well not enough to die for it but still… it was an experience worth treasuring for a life time =D… like all other holidays hahaz
what makes it more important is that homework is waiting… so is council stuff… and of course the re-opening of school year…. nooooooooooo
for once am i sad that school is starting =(
Anyway I shall start with day 1 of bangkok… ok more like NIGHT 1 of bangkok
touch down in Suvarnabhumi Airport (easier pronounced as so wonderful airport)
Dont be mistaken by the name… it is not so wonderful.. reminds me of osaka’s kansai international airport with its dual storey layout but it fails in interior design… mostly bare concrete… worse still, at the center of the concourse, you can suddenly see this well lit up place… selling cosmetics… makes the airport look more like a stadium… so ugly -.-’
Being slow n lazy, we went to the toilets to check out how good the airport is… not too bad i suppose… but it just made us last in queue for immigration… went to collect our baggage… which was waiting for us at the carrousel… natha went 2 try the phone…. which wasnt working for some reason… so we went out… phorn then met her relatives… who then took her home… n left us with natha… our tour guide… hahaz
went for dinner at the food court… n i ate that pork noodle soup… it was nice… i have no idea what it is called in thai but it is the one where u can smell from quite a distance… very distinctive smell i would say… oh it comes with crispy pork skin… so u can dip that into the soup… =) it goes well together… like eating fried crackers with a delicious broth =) yummy
after that we decided to get a taxi… but after talking to the operators for quite some time, natha decided that they were trying to cheat us!… evil taxi people… so following nathas advice, we took bus… to the bus terminal… not bad la… dint have to walk much… or wait very long either… very soon, we were on our way to the city … hahaz i remembered the thai people laughin at natha for asking some weird question… cant rmb but it really cracked them up… the guy sitting beside natha was friendly… so natha being so amicable asked him information about the route to his house… got down the bus and the nice guy hailed a cab for us… (nice guy started smoking though…) n we were off to natha’s house… crossed a bridge…(though i dont have any vague memory of passing a bridge… but we had to pass one so ill assume i was day dreaming when we passed one….) and soon after… it was the ENTRANCE to nathas house… very weird… it is right beside a open warehouse… so you could see… tiles and beside the warehouse…. a narrow path…(enough for one car to pass through) that leads to a teal metal gate… a few honks n suddenly the gates slide open… natha has people actually looking after the gates 24/7… drove pass the garage… filled with about 3-4 cars… n there it was… natha’s house MANSION… to call it big would be an understatement hmm just think of it taking the area of half a soccer field… shud be around there… n thats just the house… not to mention the beatifully manicured gardens and the driveway that shud be converted to a go-kart track…. hahaz… went into his house… n saw his dad… his mum was away on a business trip… took a truck to his guest house… about 10min drive away… got some tidbits on the way… at a place called jet jiffy… some convenience shop at a patrol station… his guest house is pretty big too… about the size of a semi-detached house in singapore i suppose… a two storey floor to roof glass cylinder as the living roof catches attention immediately… impressive… ok no use mentioning the rest… the norm… with the exception of water pressure running lower by the second…
By the next day there was no water left… n we had to go to the nearby swimming pool to take our shower… nathas driver drove us there… hmm after that we went to chatuchak market… since it was so famous… it was packed!… went for lunch first… before we decided shopping… n the restaurant had… some unusual pictures… ask joel if you want to see them… oh yeah natha bought thai squid for us to try… from a roadside stall… hahaz was quite nice… it is dipped in some sauce… i think it is fish sauce… most likely diluted… and chilli added to it for that spicy twist… after lunch we started walking in the market… trying to find ratchaphorn (phorn for short) and her sister… we walked one full round just to find her… cuz of miscommunication… by then i was half sian le… after a full lunch in an air conditioned restaurant, i had to walk around under the afternoon sun =( finally saw phorn and her sister… at the mrt station… =) walk…walk…walk…. stopped asked for a price and buy things… thats what my friends did… all i did was walk walk walk… stone n walk some more… hahaz wasnt interested in anything actually… been there before sometime back… moreover i was perspiring by then… felt so uncomfortable… hahaz ar well walked till 5 i think… arnd there oh yes we were walking back to the station on the road… n while chatting we suddenly realised that the whole market kinda froze… lol dint realise the anthem was playing… hmm ok that means we walked till 6+… anyway it was kinda weird feeling… but cool in some sense too… seeing everything stop just for a song… wow.. wonder when that would happen in singapore… made our way to the mrt station… luckly it was underground and best of all… well air conditioned… even though it was pretty crowded… queued up for the ticketing machine… n our two thai tour guides dint know that notes could be accepted by the machine… so they fratically searched for a place to change the notes into coins… luckly phorn saw the note slot… just before natha n nabil were about to take the escalator up… =D btw their MRT looks exactly like singapore’s one… though it is much newer… even the clock is the same… hahaz
we bought the wrong tickets and had to depart the mrt at an earlier stop… so natha decided we shud take bus… lol at one point he was considering motorcycles… lol but with phorn around, he gave up that idea soon… anyway we had to cross the road… i have no idea how natha does his counting… poor joel n beng dint cross with us as a result… hahaz oh yar were jay-walking… pretty exciting… hahaz took the bus to a mall… where we had to cross the road once again… this time joel wanted to jay-walk… sadly there was a barrier at the divider… therefore we took the bridge…. walked a fair bit to the mall… where natha brought us to this shabu shabu place to it… called shabu shi…=) ran by oishi… a popular japanese food brand in thailand…had to wait for quite some time… due to its popularity… but certainly worth the wait… given 1h10mins to eat… food was served via a conveyor belt system… and it was a buffet… take as much as you want… like seoul garden… though way better… service was good as we were sitting right beside the kitchen… and ratchaphorn’s sister is damn good at asking for food… hahaz she kinda flirted with the person who was in charge of placing the sushi on the conveyor belt… therefore we had loads of sushi to eat… hahaz =) n all that for 8SGD…not bad =) wonderful meal… hahaz we were like mad people trying to get our moneys worth… and at the last 10mins phorn’s sister realised we could order a few dishes… therefore she did her ultimate whinning to the waiter to get food for us… haha it was damn funny… =D certainly enjoyed it… sadly nabil n beng had a stomache… so they rushed to the toilets after that…. while natha joel n me went 2 a cd stall n got sassy girl… n surprise surprise… we met phorns family… this time with her parents… wah her father is very scary… he extended his left hand to shake n me being so slow… extended my right hand… so he just tapped me on my right hand as a greeting… hahahz very weird… natha talked to phorn’s parents about the next days plan to go to pattaya… n we left and made our way to the night market where beng n nabil bought some stuff… n finally we took a cab back after a tiring day… =D
ahh DAY 1 over…
Highlight of the day: eating shabu shi (with ratchaphorn’s sister to entertain all of us–please no dirty thoughts!)
itinery… for me to recall all the places we have been to
day 2:pattaya
day 3: temple mbk(helicopter) clothes center siam paragon
day 4:theme park… night bazaar
day 5: cant rmb…electronics natha’s aunt restaurant pat pong
day 6: lunch n movie… n horrible flight back
