Saturday, March 21, 2009

Thailand Day 2

Wooo, time to start our trip for a new day! today very simple, morning we had our breakfast at the coffee cafe in Baiyoke Boutique Hotel. (free one ma, so go eat lor, lol…) the food were quite nice, considering it is the first proper breakfast we have taken since the 1st day. below are the pictures taken during the breakfast. we even took some other pictures in the coffee cafe too.

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okok, less talk on the breakfast. time to head out for platinum mall. too early we got there, most likely ard 930am. most of the shops werent open, but nonetheless we still walked ard to see the whole mall. i noticed that the shops are quite small and it is really every inch of the mall is taken up. i nv see any wasted space at all, nt to mention the corridor loh. then we came by this luggage shop where baby aimed tio 1 of the luggage, pinky samsonite. we bargained wif the uncle saying 3000 baht very exp, can cheaper or not. he say okok, morning price 2600 baht, lol… then we okok buy. haha… like dat oso can… morning price… we also managed to change some money at the mall, below are some pictures taken at the mall.

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after which we went back to hotel to put our luggage (ug n jj oso bought 1), then proceeded to chatuchak market via the same taxi. when we reached there ard 11am in the morning, the place was already packed wif ppl lo. no wonder this place is called the shopping heaven, haha… i guess this place is oso one of the places of interest in thailand. btw, this place is really super the big lor, we walk walk walk walk for hrs n hrs n still cannot finish. we cant even reach the exact spot on where we went in from… we bought lots of things over there in total, full 260 items of wedding gifts for us and ug they all also bought ard 50 items. we had our delicious coconut ice cream with coconut drink, mango rice and cotton candy. (these were our lunch in fact, lol) too much to see and too much to walk, all the more, too much to buy, haha… below are some pictures taken!

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after a 4hr walk at chatuchak, we went back to have a rest. until ard 7pm then we proceeded to the baiyoke sky restaurant for our dinner. it was a buffet restaurant and it is really big lor! i walk 1 round to get my drinks onli lor… we had our sumptous meal in the restaurant and the food were nt too bad. the best thing about this restaurant is dat we are able to see almost the whole of bangkok from that level. one look outside the restaurant makes u tink dat there are no other taller buildings around. really the feeling is like, “wow, nv seen something so tall n can still see the ‘whole world’!”. lol… below are the pictures taken in the restaurant…

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after all these fun in the morning n evening, we went for a short break at the road stalls. walk walk walk, we saw one stall selling towels, their towels were very class, quite nice in design. cheap cheap onli, 1 face towel, 1 hand towel and 1 bath towel cost u 200 baht, which is ard S$8 to S$9! dats cheap rite! see see below for the classic towel designs!

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Thailand Day 1

Today is the first time baby and me going out on a trip together. although we are going together with ug and jj. we woke up at 330am to get prepared for the trip. after cleaning up, packing last min items, checking here n there, we finally got on the road at 4am. we picked ug n jj up at 430am (guessed some mis-communications between us, lol…) anyway, we reached the budget terminal at ard 445am. which was actually too early. anyway, we went to have our breakfast at hans. below are the pictures that were taken during the breakfast, hehe…

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at abt 510am, the check-in counter opened. baby as usual, go chop place first for queuing, lol… then i followed lor… after queuing and checking in, we proceed to the departure hall to do some window shopping. then baby was wanting to buy one of the moisturizing cream, but would onli do so when we come back from thailand. so walk walk here, walk walk there, time to board. we took the flight at 710am n reached bangkok 2hrs later, bangkok timing 805am. dats fast, after a short nap, we reached liao. below are some pictures again from suvarnabhumi airport.

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got on a taxi from a kind lady (she offered us 500 baht to fetch us from the airport to baiyoke boutique hotel) ya, as i mentioned, we will be staying in this hotel. luckily ug was ard, he knows the price better over at thailand. (initially he rejected a 950 baht cab ride, wt.. so much…) so we took a long 1hr ride from the airport to the hotel. (or was it 1hr 30mins? opps) ok, we reached the hotel at ard 10am or was it 1030am, i 4got!!! but we couldnt check-in cos the room hasnt been checked out. so we went for a brunch at baiyoke sky coffee cafe. (brunch == breakfast + lunch) happily eat n eat, pay n pay, never even check whether gt count wrongly, lol… at the end of the day, we paid for an extra cup of coffee. below are the photos taken from this cafe. (jj still say my one common, dun need take photo...)

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anyway after the breakfast, we went down to the family mart at the same level to get some necessities, then met this super cmi attitude cashier… say already oso angry, cos of her, we wasted so much time to activate the sim card we bought over there… too bad no photos of her, else u all will know who she is and refrain from buying things frm her. (or rather when she is around)

after dat we tried to check in again, tis time to our (baby n mine) room first. then waited waited for 30mins their room still uncleared, so dun care, we juz proceeded to shop looooohhhh. shopping onli, baby aim naraya le, haha… she say there damn cheap compared to singapore’s branch. i oso stunned when i see the super big crowd over there. oh ya, we took a free shuttle van there, provided by baiyoke sky. onli free for all baiyoke ‘residents’, hehe. ok back to naraya, wah those 2 ladies (baby n jj) can really shop, haha… they took 1hr+ in the shop sia… they both bought a lot of bags over there, we also caught up on some souvenirs from this shop. below are some pictures taken in the shop, lol… (ok, 1 picture )

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then out we went to the open space outside the mall, wah there oso super lots of ppl. we walked in n out of the ‘market' place over there. quite a lot of interesting things to see n buy actually. i see these ppl are mostly those come to sell to make some quick bucks or juz to come n sell out of interest. cos those things are hand made n nt factory made. below are also some pictures taken.

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then the most awaited dinner of the day, a trip down to chinatown after we rested a while in the hotel. dinner at one of the seafood stall over there. heard that there are only 2 stalls, n both are equally a lot of ppl, so we juz took one of them. the food is very cheap, calculated one person nt even $15 n we ate like 6 dishes? no wonder my fren recommended us to go there for the seafood. after having the seafood, we headed back to hotel early for rest le, cos of nt enugh slp the day b4, haha… below are some pictures taken for the seafood.

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