It's snowing!

Saturday, September 25; 9/25/2010 06:50:00 PM

yeps
hme on a saturday
wad's new
and since everyone (almost) has posted their pix of the bkk trip, i can blog
yayz!

all the pix here are credit of bern, hz n mb... =D

combed thru 6 albums (geri u forgot mb's album) and almost 900 photos till my eyes are crossed for these post...n it's nearly 2am nw....zzzzz haha

Day 1- 8 Sept 2010

at the airport bright and preparing to board the plane...yay! bkk here we come!!

reaching bkk..the view from the plane..gorgeous! seeing geography lessons come to life with the meanders and what not..

in the train...on the way to the hotel!! we love reflective surfaces! haha

tadaa!! our room! we got upgraded to a SUITE! (coz they din haf any more normal rooms for us) accomodation really cheap cheap leh...n it was uber comfy...agree? the beds were humongous! can easily fit 4 pple if u join both beds together...

our suite also comes with a LIVING ROOM! nice!

after settling in, we got started on the purpose of our trip... SHOPPING!!!

first stop!

of coz we had to have lunch first before we have the energy to shop right?

kway chap from the food court there..

highly raved by my aunties who had eaten (or always eat) there on their previous trips to bkk

the menu on the stall was confusing...but i guess saying "i wan kway chap" will do the trick..

here was also where the BIG SURPRISE was first brought up..keke

mb was like the default model for ek to test the size of the clothes she bought for CL

LOL

maybe the "shoo shoo" thingy started here?

hahaha

somewhere along the way, we split up into small(er) groups to shop...

at the end of the day we had to regroup and share each other's buy right?

haha

presentation time!

sunset view from our room

beautiful!

Day 2 - 9 September 2010

preparing for the start of day 2!

sightseeing!!

the floating market tour!

the coconut sugar farm was part of the floating market tour...

the making of the coconut sugar..

the coconut sugar really did tasted qt good
pity i don't have much use for it....so didn't buy..

the uncle selling spices was so happy coz we bought 23 +1 free packets of spices from him...

maybe he did earn a handsome profit from us?

maybe the locals get to buy the spice from him for 10bht while we thought tt 100 bht was a pretty good deal..LOL

i gave all of mine to my aunties...

hoping the cooked rendition of those spices will end up in my stomach one of these days..

keke

the usual tourist souvenirs (which we didn't buy)

it was cheap though..but pretty useless and will only collect dust..

at least the pictures on these plates were taken with our knowledge...

the one at the temple was freaky..we didn't even know our pictures were being taken n printed on badges..

wonder what they do with all these souvenirs that we refuse to buy from them...

after the floating market, we asked the driver to bring us to a place with authentic thai food...

n he was right!

the food and price was GREAT!

but we don't know where is that place...in the middle of nowhere..

definitely not in bkk itself..

i'm hungry looking at this pix

itinerary number 2 - the golden buddha temple

in the same temple was the yaowarat museum (about the history of bkk's chinatown) and the golden buddha musuem...

not so interested in the history of chinatown..coz basically the story of the chinese in the south east asian countries are similar...life was hard in china so they sailed across the sea in hopes of a better life...yada yada..

the difference is that the chinese in thailand eventually also took up thai names as part of their thai identity...

the golden buddha musuem was more interesting...got a interactive display of how they discovered the buddha to be made of pure gold..kept us engaged for a while..heh

we spent qt a while at the golden buddha temple, so we decided to skip the rest of the tour (which consisted of more temples) to continue with our shopping!

at chinatown!!

we spent a looong while inside the accessory shop...

the array of (cheap) accessories sold inside kept us very very occupied..

in the meantime, poor mb was waiting outside for us...

LOL!!

after tt we went on to look for stationery!!

ermz we didn't realise the shops close really early in bkk...

so by the time we reached the street, the shops were all closing/closed..

but at least we managed to whack 1 shop selling stickers...many many many of them..

we bought like 24pcs in total?

after sticker shopping, the sky was turning (had turned?) dark...

those of us in the loop about the BIG SURPRISE started getting worried about the time...

"OH NO!"

haha

we made our way quickly (we tried) to nam sing for our must-have fix of sharks fin and bird's nest..

(we ordered) the low grade bird's nest - S$10

and the shark's fin s$15

yummy!

after that we quickly cabbed back to the hotel to prepare for our night activities....

me, ek n lamu went to watch the ladyboy show! just for the experience...coz it certainly wasn't cheap..but cheaper than when my auntie went to watch...haha

apparently if u book at different hotels, u get a different rate..

the "assets" of some of these "ladies" can put us real girls to shame...

at the same time, something was brewing elsewhere...

the MB fund!

for the BIG SURPRISE

bern n hz were busy preparing.....

in the midst of it, they found an ulu cafe with free wifi...

(free) wifi is damn hard to get in bkk u know..

but we never got a chance to go there to use their wifi..

haha

tadaa!

the BIG SURPRISE

for the lovebirds

Day 3 - 10 September 2010

Siam Square/MBK

random pictures along the sidewalks of siam square

our loot from 1 morning alone...

yes we love sabaya...

most importantly we love the price at sabaya

cheap cheap!

hahaha

lunch at A&W...

i love their curly fries!!

after shopping at mbk!

notice i didn't carry any naraya bag AT ALL?

coz me so smart!

LEFT my card in the hotel safe...

not enough money to buy...

n shopping at mbk was the only time i could use the card...

*sigh*

dinner at somboon seafood

we walked there from mbk

and along the way found our FBT!

although a lot of the sizes/colour/design that we wanted were not available

but nevermind...still cheap..can buy!

hahahaha

their famous curry crab!

the gravy was YUMMY!

but the crab was so-so...

service also so-so...

ok la..it was cheap

i wouldn't mind going back there for it...hehe

Day 4 - 11 September 2010

after a pretty scary incident with the tuk-tuk driver, we finally decided to take the train to chatuchak weekend market..

n the train is using the old school mrt card before ez-link came along...

time to go home!

all our combined luggages..

twice of what we went with...

hahaha

last minute (re)packing at the airport...

since our flight was delayed...we got time right? haha

we told that we had to check-in before we could be given the access to the wifi in the airport..

so we checked-in

but the username didn't work

we couldn't access the wireless network..

we were absolutelt depressed...

4 hours of flight delay, so much time, no money, no wifi...

how to pass the time??

haha

the notice from previous day's flight led us to the wrong boarding area...

i think eventually some managed to connect to the airport wifi...i had already given up by them..haha

these fb comments will tell u hw bored we were...

same sentiments myself!

thank you thainetwork!

haha

view from the 83rd story of the hotel

byebye bkk..

we'll be back soon!

finally back in SG! T1 is cui now coz it's undergoing upgrading..hope it'll look like T3 after it's done! hahahah

total damage for the trip: around $800+ (including airfare, accomodation n shopping)

happy!

ok..now i'm really sleepy..it's 3.15am...

goodnight world!

Monday, September 20; 9/20/2010 12:36:00 AM

I tried to dl the blogger app for android phones..
Terrible
Refused to let me log in..
Had to ununstall it..
Now i'm back to using igoogle to blog..
It's a very primitive tool..coz it doesn't allow me to upload pix..only can type words..
N so..
Came back from bkk n it's back to reality..
Nice if we can do this every yr..haha
Bkk seems so long ago alr..

18/9, ah gong's bdae..had lunch at beng thin..yummy! Den after tt..act we planner to go for the kite festival..but it was so friggin sweltering hot tt we adjourned to my auntie's hse to escape the heat..

At nite went over to another auntie's hse..maciam 拜年like tt..the cousins has got a NEW toy! the waveboard! It's like the skateboard but more challenging? I've been on a skateboard...so...i wouldn't know..it was lotsa fun learning how to balance n roll on it..until...the wheels broke...=\ oops! I think we were working the board a bit too hard trying to master the board..u noe..old pple like me n my cuz need a longer time to learn sth new compared to those young kids..my progress? I sort of can roll on the board in a straight line..i can make turns...yet..so...anyone gt the waveboard for me to play with? Hehe