Saturday, April 02, 2005
Tuesday, 29th March 2005
Woke up and continued packing my stuff. I decided to bring my mambo bag and the brown sling one since im too lazy to pack into luggage bag coz its troublesome. so yeap. just transferred some songs into my ipod and yeah, uploaded pics into comp. and by the time i completed that it was already abt 10. supposed to meet qb at 1115. so i bathed and yeah. changed. sky turned grey. overcast. started to pour so i had no choice but to take bus to the interchange coz i had to settle my SMU application. needed to photostat some stuff. and yeap, was raining real heavily. then i took 27 to the airport. yeap. alighted at t2. went ntuc. and discovered that i can get everything in thailand. so just bought the jelly beans and took skytrain to t1 to meet QB. he was with je. and checked in. took some photos. and went to the transit area. walked around for awhile. took more pics. used free internet. and yeah. supposed to have an entry here coz i actually blogged but the system screwed up! haha. so didnt come out. yup. boarded the plane. hmm. andrew's a smarty pants. he told me the plane wld be boeing 777-300. correct. so smart. yeap. took off. landed at bkk at abt 3plus. waited quite awhile for the forever travel rep who seemed to take forever. and yeah. she said "the car broken so must take cab otw muz wait 1 hour" i think its one of their lil scams. but yeah. she paid 200baht, out of which 50 baht should be returned to her. but who cares. she had to get off halfway coz she had to "chase some tourists for payment". madness. so yeap reached baiyoke suite hotel. checked in. slack around. alright the hotel is quite old. but generally everything was in working order albeit they need renovation badly. our room was on the 19th floor. the size of the room was twice that of an ordinary one. coz we have a living room with all the normal hotel facilities, and a connected bedroom. yeap. then we decided to venture on our own. so we just walked out of the hotel area. found out that "pratunam = shopping area" refers to pasar malam or roadside style of shopping which isnt what qb and me were looking for. and we ended up walking to the skytrain station. i think payathai. cld see the station from our hotel room but trust me, the roads make it damn far lah. coz of the turns and what nots. hmm. made a rather unwise decision by buying 10ride pass(actualy for local students only but we somehow managed to get it) for 160baht. then took a trip to siam. the interchange. wow. the skytrain is modelled after singapore's highly successful MRT system i guess. hmm. they are using our old farecard system. yeah. even the ticket machines are similar, and the gantries, the same. but the trains seem to have better engines. we made our way to siam center. one of the hip places in bkk. and then to siam discovery. we were mad coz qb was in singlets and slippers whereas i was in berms and slippers. and we were walking around, going into every shop. esp in discovery, bigger brands. just walked into Guess, DKNY, AX etc like nobody's business and yeah the retail staff were staring.. coz for one thing, i look like local. and yeah. siam center's fantastic coz they carry surf brands like ripcurl and quiksilver and yeah. super bigggg. and yeap. nice thai girls. anw. abt the local part. coz i neither look like a chinese nor malay which makes me quite thai looking so yeah. very very funny. coz they wld stare like.. "what is this local doing here" after that went to siam square a while. just the periphery and then went MBK. had dinenr there. spent 50 baht. or 2 dollars on some rice with crab meat and drink coz my choice kinda limited. yeap. food's damn cheap. walked ard MBK and then went to the supermarket. qb bought 9 bottles of alcohol beverages coz damn cheap. then took cab back to hotel. the taxi driver siao. wanted to charge us 100baht initially. SIAO. so expensive. in the end made it back to the hotel for 49baht. haha. then just slacked in hotel room and slept.
Wednesday 30th March 2005
i woke up at 6plus bangkok time. its either bcoz i was too excited or coz i was not used to the bed. plus slept with only 1 pillow lah. and then qb woke up around 8plus then had breakfast at 9. the breakfast spread was marvellous. yummy at 1st lah. qb had 10 eggs in total. scrambled, fried, omelette etc. and we went back to our hotel room to shiet(became a routine). i would usually shiet right after breakfast. then just slacked awhile. and then went set off for shopping! supposed to have some kind of city tour but then we decided to forgo it coz we figured out that we wld have to spend alot on tipping had we decided to go. so walked ard the area. actually quite lots of things that we cld buy but yea. some of the prices werent right coz they purposely jack up the price. so yeah. not very worth it, even if u bargain sometimes. and then ended up at one gems collection place. bought some stuff. went off to the skytrain. took to emporium. wonderful place. with all the big brands like prada, tod's, fendi, gucci, hermes, LV. something like ngee ann city/taka. with a department store called emporium. walked around. and yeah. they were having this quiksilver end of season. but had really goooooddd stuff. 40-50% percent off. so qb and i spent 8000over baht in total. MAD right.. tats 300plus sgd.we even came back at night coz we thought we shld buy a bit mroe and qb wanted to change some stuff. then went to some indian inn near our hotel coz we didnt had dinner. had our 2nd meal of the day at 11pm local time. we realised that. wow. we only have 2 meals per day. and 1 is considered as free(by the hotel). haha. the food wasnt good but we had to make do with it. went back hotel SLEEP. haha
31st March 2005
woke up even later. went for breakfast at 930. breakfast supposed to end at 10. but we took our time. until almost 11. hahaha.then went back hotel room shiet. and then get ready to go out. wanted to spend the whole day at isetan but watashiet. got this stupid tuktuk driver who kept on askin if we wanna ride. even when we declined and walked away, he followed us. then he was like okok 20 baht to isetan. coz before that qb was like "ok lets try tuktuk one day and end up with black faces coz of the polluition and dust" and wow. our dream came true. ended up that he was like some kind of tourist ambassador. and then he asked us to help him. dunno go some tourist thing. ahyah. one of the gems shop lah. coz they have this thing lah. if the tuktuk driver bring tourist to the gem shops, they will get some gasoline coupon. we though there was no harm in taking a look. so yeap. ended up in this lousy shop with super persuasive shop staff. they wanted to make me buy this 7000bath brooch. SIAO. they reduced the px to 3000. but SIAO. i was wasting their time and felt good abt it. coz they were too agressive. so just went out of the shop. and then told the tuktuk man to get us to isetan. but then he said one last one. in exchange for a free ride. so we thought.. ok lah. go in for 5 min and come out. turns out we spent 5 hrs there coz the ladies there super nice. chinese thai. so in the end i bought this 1400baht ring for my mum. she slashed the price by 50%. usually i think they give 40% as best price. but then i was supposed to get this 350 sing dollar. she give 66% discount. hmm. shes the lady boss and yeah very very professional. she even taught us on precious an semi precious stones etc. and at the end of everything, we cld compare higher grade and lower grade stones. i didnt had enough funds yeah. too bad. she said that she comes to spore often coz she supplies tianpo, leewah, goldheart those kind. she said the px in spore is 2.5 times more expensive. unlike the previous 2 shops, the 3rd shop is actually a factory. they do their jewellery on the 2nd floor. service was damn good lah. hmm. understandable they chinese, so yeap, business skills damn pro. and yeah. she was wearing this rolex watch MODIFIED. she put diamonds all over the face. haha. and aigner glasses. haha. so left at abt 4plus. the tuktuk man drove us to central world plaza. really damn big. 2-3times bigger than ngee ann city. but nothibng much actually. had jap food for dinner. and yeap, it was the first time we had a proper meal. i had some sushi and some potato salad. counted as a high crass place coz it was empty. :x ok lame. the place was really nice lah. then went to lots of sports shop. kept comparing prices. lucky didnt buy on the spot. and then crossed over to the Big C. hmm. supermarket and cineplex. then walked down to the shoopping centres ard the area. like gaysorn and erawan. found aigner in erawan. another paragon. all the big brands. took train to emporium coz theres this sports shop which qb and me refer to as BIRD shop. haha. coz lots of nike stuff. actualy only nike and adidas over two levels. and then decided to come back the next day. so went back to central world plaza. bought some adidas stuff on sale. haha. and then we went macs. wow. super cheap. 2 mac meals in thai = 1 mac meal in spore. yeap. then sat along the streets. looking at ppl. like ppl watching outside taka lah. then hmm walked downwards. some makeshift kinda stalls. then took cab back to baiyoke suite. rest. went to buy slippers. yeah. i spoiled qb's chances of a successful bargaining session coz i was too tired. then went back room and watched tv
1st april 2005
ok. once again we had a late breakfast. was beginning to get sick of the same food. can puke. haha. but i enjoy drinking the orange and pineapple juices. and we would take like 3-4 glasses at one go. super kiasu. haha. we took the skytrain and then stopped at siam. went around siam square. walked around. bought some stuff. small small ones. and then went back to one of the shops we went to. and yeah. took some money out AGAIN. pissed my dad coz kept asking money. guess what. transferred 650 altogether. out of which 150 is my bro's contribution. and yeah. lent qb some. and actually i only used 200. yeah. ONLY. haha. i mean the kind of shopping! had some kind of mini lunch at A & W coz we wanted to drink the float but ended up having curly fries, waffle and chicken. haha. damn funny. ended up at some warner bros shop. bought some souvenirs. actualy before that went siam center with the intention of checking out e price of the anti racism but ended up buying lots of adidas and nike stuff from this sports shop. coz i guess these shops right. they can put higher percentage discounts coz they rather get rid of the stocks. whereas those adidas stores wanna get rid of stock ASAP. some sporean shoppers told us abt this discount card and guess where we spent it on... macdonalds. one large fries and get one regular coke free. typical. the guy at the counter didnt even noe such a thing exists. and had to check with the manager. hahah. took train back to phrom phong and bought some stuff from the bird shop thing. and yeah. teh guy's nice. gave us 10percent discount. perhaps coz of qb's friendliness or bcoz their shop no VAT refund but we still insist on buying. yeah.. and then went back hotel rest. with no dinner. haha. then went out of the hotel and headed to the infamous and naughty patpong. we tried to act smart by trying to hail a taxi far from our hotel. none stopped. coz they assumed we were locals. instead all e empty cabs turned into our hotel. so we went back and took a cab. patpong. was kinda interesting. this bargain nightmarket. i think i didnt bargain enough but i dont care coz i just wanted to settle my gifts. so yeah. spent 1 hour walking round and round. and yeah it was madness coz its teh red light district lah. and coz of that there were ppl promoting services like SEX SHOW. Selling sex dvds. and yeah. on some roads u can see the girls waiting to serve customers. all dressed and dolled up as if they r gonna attend prom night or smtg. haha. and yah. even walked into this alley with lots of gay pubs. was kinda scary and yeah we didnt even realised until we walked out of it. haha. damn funny lah. then tried to hail a cab back. spent quite a long time. coz none wanted to charge by meter. so we had to settle for 80baht. ok,. went back hotel room. had some cup porridge. seriously nice. then went to sleep. dunno why
today 2nd april 2005
woke up quite late. 7plus. bathed. left for breakfast at 8. supposed to check out by 9. and then hahahah. had to rush through breakfast. realised that we didnt had enough time only after i got qb a big bowl of cereals. and had to drink 8 cups of orange juice. haha so we quickly went back hotel room at 845. (the lift super slow. 4 lifts serving 43 floors.. :x) reached hotel room then quickly shat and get all our stuff. got out and and waited for lift. and check out and waited for lift again and then the anti climax is we waited 1/2 hr for judy to no avail so we hailed a cab. wanted to charge us 300 but the security helped us. so yeah meter. haha. was appreciating whats around me. and yeah. reached airport quite early. then checked in etc. do all the tax vat refund, airport tax and all. yeah. changed some money back to sgd. boarded plane. 747 this time. hmm was kinda fast. the flight was kinda fun coz both of us were acting retardedly. and yeha think we pissed ppl ard us as well the cabin crew. haha. qb had some business class food coz we didnt had a choice for the food part. i had MOSLEM MEAL. oklah. not very nice. the going to thai food was nicer. but yeah who cares. watched cartoons. haha. then yeah. ta-da landed in singapore changi international airport. haha. anyway, e head cabin crew shld be some kind of dj coz she kept using the system to announce and announce. damn funny. haha. reached spore. found the immigration queue... we were the only sporeans. so didnt had to queue. HAHA.. then yeah. took cab back.
well the trip has taught me lots. will elaborate later on. too tired now!
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