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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Bkk Day 1 - Chatuchak, Platinum, Swensen, Pork Burger

Ly came to my house. Next my bf brought us to Bangkit for super and Yan bought her M card at Fajar as the machine broke down at Bangkit outlet.

Happenings:
Yan replaced her sim card with her new M card. I
was surprise that she told me that she could not receive incoming call when she
was calling her old number.


I guess she must be lacked of sleep at that point of time. Yan copied all the information and we slept on the sofa.

It was god damn early when zy called us. I told her to reach around 4.30, yet she reached earlier than i expected. Yan forced me to wake up, i forced Chris to wake up. Packed everything and off we go to Changi Airport.

Yan and I were surprised when we saw Zy whole family sending her off at the airport. Before we could check in, we went to check in our luggage first.


Happenings:
Both Yan and I only had a less than 3 kg luggage,
except for Zy. We were so shocked to see 7.2kg which is a "WOW" to me.



We bid a farewell to everyone and off we go. We went to DFS to look around, checking our perfume prices. It's rather obvious that we have got the intention to buy perfume when we are back.










We were quite early, therefore we have got to wait around another 30 min before we could board the plane.


We board the plane finally. We were all so excited to go Bangkok.

Yup, we reached Bangkok finally. It was very hot and sunny. The ride in plane wasn't that bad either. All i can say is, the pilot has got good flying skill. We experience not much jerking on our way to Bangkok. Zy and I slept on the table instead. Bought no drinks and food on plane, coz they were simply made of gold.
It's time to collect our luggage. We hurriedly followed the crowd to the big lcd screen to find out which station our luggage were in.

Alot of staff in yellow uniform attempt to walk toward us, but we ignored them. Do ignore them when you see them as they will introduce limousine cab to you which doesn't worth the price at all.
We hurried to the public taxi stand instead. 2 taxi uncles smiled at us with a sneaky filthy look which irritate us. They were all tikos who kept looking at our legs(which i don't know why either). We were praying hard that we don't get into the cab of the 2 taxi uncle. In the end, we still did.

After reaching the hotel, we couldn't check in as our room were not ready yet. I paid the deposit with my card and off we go to chatuchak, leaving our luggage at the conceirge.
Finally we reached Chatuchak Market. The weather was really very hot.

We were trying hard to shop but we couldn't. It was too big for us to shop especially when we couldn't even find our way to the correct section. We gave up in the end, and we chose to quench our thirst.

We ordered 2 mango sticky rice and 1 ice blended lychee. It was a great deal which cost us less than $5. The mangoes were freshly cut.

By the way, the glutinous rice were in heart shapes (just in case you couldn't see). Isn't it sweet?
Next, we took a tuk tuk back to our hotel so as to check in before continuing our shoppings.
Happenings:
The tuk tuk driver simply
irritate us. He intend to cheat money out of us. He drove around in the same
area always. Supposingly, we could reach our hotel in 10 min time, but we ended
up taking the tuktuk more than 30 min without getting off. I was perspiring like
mad and my sweat nearly wet my pant.



I guess you have got no idea how fast he drove.

Happenings:
He was driving so much faster
than the car. I believe it's at least 120km/hr. We were all very
shocked.

Zy was still babbling nonsense saying that he got no guts to cheat us.
Happenings:
He attempt to cheat us 500 baht. Luckily the bell
boy came out and stop him in time. We only gave him 200 baht (ard there) in the
end as he couldn't find his way.

We got the key and luggage from the conceirge and went up to our room.
Happenings:
We were given a free upgrade. I
booked the normal room with a double bed and an extra bed, but they gave us a
much more better room. We were given the executive room instead. You get to see
nice interior design with plasma tv and a super big make up table(see pics for
more).







We were all happy with our room. We don't have to squeeze at all. It's all so spacious with the price we are paying. We paid around $20 + per day only and it include buffet breakfast. It was a great deal.
Next we went platinum. Zy was whining about going there as her cousin( i think), intro that place to her. It was one of the biggest mall. There were more than 1000 shops in it.

Yan and I bought nothing much. Instead Zy bought the most. She bought alot of tees. As for Yan and I, we just walked through due to time constraint and not much shopping mood. Basically, we snooze for hours and hours.After shopping, we wanna eat Chocolate fondue. Therefore we went Swensen to have it. In singapore, it cost $30 plus excluding GST. In Bangkok, it's not even SGD10. Zy object to having fondue, but she still end up stealing our fondue.






Next, we went back to shop.
Finally, it was night time. We haven really had our dinner. Off we go to Indra Regent to have our Macdonald.

We chose to walk from platinum back to our hotel. We were rather unlucky. It actually rain. You could see the lightning very clearly in the sky. But still, we decided to rush back on our legs. The floor was wet and dirty unlike Singapore. You can see leftover food, tissue, strings and digusting stuff in pools of water when raining in Bangkok. The feel of stepping over it reall makes me wanna "puke".
Happenings:
At the entrance of Indra Regent, we even saw an elephant in the middle of the road which seems weird to me
especially on a rainy day.

I guess you must be thinking that we were damn stupid to eat Macdonald when it's everywhere in Singapore. You are wrong!!! Macdonald in Bkk was really special.
We tried the Pork Burger. In singapore we only get to eat fish and chicken burger, pork was definitely a first time for us.
We packed our Pork Burger back to our hotel as there isn't much seats left. Zy picked a Burberry imitation wallet at the very last min. I was glad that our fries didn't turn soggy and my tummy was growling non-stop at that point of time.
This is the Pork Burger. I guess the look isn't that tempting enough, but Yan and I really love the taste. The meat was really very tender. Only Zy taste wasabi in it, which Yan and I don't experience it at all.
Yan and I were enjoying the Pork Burger happily. Next we did our eyemask and had a good sleep as we were going Dreamworld the next day.

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