Monday, September 12, 2011
Bang Kok Trip: How many baht~?
I'M BACK FROM MY BKK TRIP!
It was a really fruitful trip I have to say. The place, culture, food, shopping and the company I had on my trip there. I am already missing that place, running in the rain with my friends, sitting tuk tuk and having all the nonsensical conversations :)
We took an early afternoon flight to BKK on Thursday and it has been such a long time i last sat a plane! Really love the feeling when the plane takes off, it feels good to be in the sky, like I had gained control of the entire sky I was in then. We reached BKK at around 3pm and then we checked in at Baiyoke Sky Hotel. It is a really nice hotel, with 24/7 FamilyMart, restaurants and not forgetting it being Thailand's tallest building, with it standing tall at 88 storeys. We stayed on the 29th floor and got a free upgrade because the one we had reserve initially was out of inventory. We got into Superior Suite and basically it has a separate living room followed by the bedrooms and the toilet. On the first day, we intended to walk to MBK mall, but it was raining heavily (rainy season in bkk then) and it was really dramatic, having to run through the railway tracks of the street HAHAHA. Eventually we settled for tuktuk and it was really an experience sitting tuktuk while it was raining! Had dinner at a Thai steamboat restaurant and yummm the char siew and duck meat was really succulent and tender. It was quite cheap, cost around 150 baht per pax which is approximately 6 SGD. After that had auntie anne's pretzel and walked the Pratanum night market right outside our hotel while in the rain. Hehe. SkyBar at the hotel's 77th floor wasn't really that fabulous! Went to the Revolving Point at the 80th floor and seriously, Bangkok does have a nice night view. The city night lights and all... Really awesome. And the guys challenged each other to be topless in the cold and rainy weather on the revolving point! Headed back to the room and we started drinking the Jack Daniel's we bought for Jingxiang's advanced birthday! Hahaha he was really down that nightttttt. Played all sorts of drinking games and then we retired for the night at about 3am.
On the second day, Friday, we got awaken by the boys. Because the girls get to sleep in while the guys had to wake up to fetch Jiaying and Jamie from the airport so hence they felt unfair, which explains why they kept disturbing us hahaha! Had the hotel buffet breakfast and they had a really good variety! It was comparable to an international buffet. I'm totally digging the waffle they had there! Later on we took a cab down to the Platinium Mall. HEHEHE THAT'S A SHOPPING PARADISE! Its Bangkok's best wholesale mall for your infor! Which means we could get lots of blog shop clothes there hahaha. And yeah we all did bought alot of stuffs! Had lunch at the Fuji restaurant there and it was realllllllly reasonable. Then we continued shopping before heading back to the hotel to put our shopping loots down HAHAHA. Cabbed down to Khao San Night Market again and tried the food at the roadside stall! PHAT THAI WAS REALLY GOOD. YUMMM. Love it love it love ittttt. It was raining heavily that day and we all bought a 50 baht poncho HAHAHA we were damn colourful... all decked in shades of pink, yellow and blue. Eating phat thai in colourful ponchos under the rain :D (im gonna miss this!) Had foot massage while the rest had their neck/back/shoulder and it was really ticklish! Couldn't stop giggling~
Settled our dinner at a Thai restaurant, ordering their green & red curry, tom yum goong and all. As well as a tiger tower for jingxiang HAHAHA. Then we took a tuktuk to watch.... PING PONG SHOW! HAHAHA. The tuktuk ride to there was really fun! Because the 2 tuktuk drivers knew each other and they kept on racing each other! And wow, the traffic laws there are really different, they have no barricades in between a 2-way road and they can simply just u-turn to the opposite direction as and when they like. It was dangerous but it was really an adventure! Wanna do it all over again! But we felt really scammed after that! My advice to all who goes to BKK, remember to make sure the prices you pay for the tickets are reasonable. After that, we walked the nearby night market for a little while more before retiring for the night at the hotel. Had bubble bath with layting! Hahaha pampering ourselves!!! We three fell asleep while watching the telly!
On the third day, we woke up at about 6 am so as to prepare ourselves and have enough time for the buffet breakfast. Took a MPV cab to The floating market :D It was about a 1.5 to 2 hr car ride. Sit until pi gu pain arhhhhh. But, i love how the 8 of us squeeze on a MPV, feels heartwarming... :) Met up with Jon and his mum over there and they joined us on the sampan/boat ride to the floating market ^^ It was hell crowded but it was really an experience going to the floating market!! We get to view their houses on the river, their way of life and also them cooking food and selling them on the boat! Heheee and wanting bought the elephant pouches there ^^ A bangkok trip is never completed without a journey to the floating market. Then we had an impromptu decision to watch the Bangkok's most exciting show (drum rollssssss)...... COBRA SHOW! Wow, i'm totally amazed at the staff there having the courage and capability to control the pythons and cobras. Jiaying and I were still so scared for the raccoon trapped in a box, we thought it will be eaten by the cobras, but it turns out to be the other way round -.- They show us the poison snakes are able to produce and also took photos of people with the cobras being placed around my friends' neck!! Then we had another long cab ride down to the CHATUCHUK MARKET! Hehe but I don't know why the girls didn't had much things to buy! It was quite disorganized and the various stalls were scattered around. Most of the time we were busy buying food and the coconut ice cream was really D.O.P.E! We also got mexican wrap and some thai specialities ^^ Ironically, the guys bought alot of stuffs!
They took a tuktuk back to Baiyoke while the girls took a cab down to Central World. And omggggg we really had a fright of our lives! The cab driver drove into a shopping mall's carpark which was really dark and he didn't answered us when we asked where are we, instead he just smiled to himself. Only on the 3rd try then he did replied that he drove this way so as to avoid the traffic jam. HAHA JOKE WE REALLY CHUA SAI! Went to naraya and got alot of make up pouches and bags for my girlfriends hahaha i spent 1,800 baht in that shop!!! Topshop and forever21 there were basically of the same price so i didn't got anything there. Settled dinner at manhattan fish market because it was really so much cheaper. Lastly, we caught a movie at the theatre there it costs 160 baht which is about 6 sgd? Caught "Columbiana" and it was really quite nice! After which, the guys had an early night while the girls stayed up in my room ordering room service which were quite cheap. Got Jon to join us at my room and we got ourselves a pint of Heineken each. Did I mentioned beer there were really cheap? It only cost like SGD $1.50 HAHAHA, while it cost like SGD $10 a pint in the bars here?! And then we just practically crapped about stuffs hehe.
On the 4th day, Sunday, we had our last buffet breakfast again and went to Chatuchak Market again. This time round Jon and his mum joined us and we bought more things than the previous day! Things were really cheap and we just kept on bargaining haha! Got ourselves the coconut ice cream once again yumzzzz ^^ Wanting and Layting got themselves the china bag HAHAHA and we placed all our shopping loots in as we walked the entire market! Then we went back to hotel to place our stuffs and had lunch at the hotel's restaurant, PHAT THAI! Left Baiyoke hotel for Platinium Mall and we didnt had much time to shop finish the second mall beside Platinium :( Which was quite a pity :( we were practically chionging all the way in the mall. Did our last minute shopping at Central World and then had a quick rest at Starbucks. Walked back to our hotel from Central World, wanting to go for Thai massage after that but didn't did it in the end. In the end we got ourselves London Dry Gin, finished up our Whiskey and ordered in room service again :D We played drinking games and forced everyone NOT TO SLEEP HAHAHA. Eventually we succumbed to the sleeping monster and headed to sleep at ard 330 am, and woke up later than usual. We missed our check in at the airport by 1 minute. We nearly couldn't flew back to SG! And we basically ran all the way to the boarding gate HAHAHA jitao like drama seriously!
Back to SG now and I must say this trip was really awesome. One of the best so far! Can't wait for grad trip next year with the same group of people. PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN! Attachment starts tmrw. Mixed feelings about it? Kinda scared but yet looking forward to it. The corporate world. I will upload photos of bkk trip if i can and have the time.
CIAO! :D
Today @ 11:30 PM
