Where: Bangkok, Thailand
When: 12th Jan 10 – 15th Jan 10
With: Baby, Bestie and Don!
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After like 1 week, I’m finally here to update about my BKK trip! It was splendid I must say! The three things I totally love from my BKK trip are shopping (duhh?), tuk tuk (Bestie spelled it as “toot toot” hahaha!) and low pathetic prices everywhere! Most of the things were so cheap we had to keep questioning ourselves with “I wonder how they survive?” and that we seriously found no point to bargain further. Haha. Okay without further ado, too many pictures to share! =D
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(Day ONE)

The view from our room at Baiyoke Sky Hotel. The hotel where we filled our complaints. Haha.

The cute bag I bought from Springfield specially for this trip!

This is one of the night streets outside this Platinum Shopping Mall. Cheapo things everywhere!

Baby looks like a local there, so black! Haha.

Huge prawns, aren’t they? I’ll tell you how big they are afterwards. =P

This is the restaurant that we dined in. Nice environment but service was average, there was this transsexual working there. When he brought over a dish to us, I threw her(him) a curious look and he sped off looking shy. I almost threw up. Haha! Anyways, seeing transsexuals there was like seeing tuk tuks – all over the place.

I looked funny but I still like this picture. Taken by Don. Haha.

How can we not try their “Tom Yum Goong”? Hmmm… Actually it tasted the same as what we normally have in Thai Express. I meant for this restaurant.

We came across this and decided to take shots. Haha. It was a ZEN shopping mall, similar to Takashimaya Shopping Centre.

The night view from my room. Looked so much nicer than the day one because you wouldn’t see the not-very-clean streets and walls.
(Day TWO)

Bangkok had this very nice morning weather. The sunshine wasn’t humid and it was windy!

Don finally appeared among my pictures. Haha.

We had our breakfast at McDonald. Baby bought these cute Dunkin Donuts and we had a bloated meal.

We proceeded to yet again, Platinum Shopping Mall, to continue our incomplete shopping process the previous day. Baby tried on different hats. From this picture, I definitely think that he looks like someone else but I still can’t recall! Haha. Anyways, after some thoughts, he bought…

Ta-dah! =D I bought loads of accessories and belts. I personally think that those were extremely lowly cost like 770 baht ($33) for 6 pairs of glamourous earrings (I think Helen would cost 3 times of that), 3 casual necklaces and a casual bracelet. And so, I couldn’t stop questioning “I wonder how they survive?” Haha.

We went to do our tailor-made stuff in the noon time before going back to the room for a shirt rest. I ordered a jacket, Baby had three shirts and a pair of pants and he helped Jem get one jacket and a pair of pants. Altogether only 7000 baht with good materials! Which is like $300 (only!). =D In Singapore, all of those tailor-made will probably cost like at least $600!

I bought a similar top to Baby’s one the previous day to match his. I washed it and it was dried within a day! =D

Superb-ly taken by Don! *Claps*

We carried on our journey to supposingly Chinatown but…

This act-friendly dumbo “cheated” us to a seafood restaurant on the way to Chinatown. He happily recommended us to dine in there after telling us that Chinatown would only open at 7pm. We thought we were early as it was only 4+pm at that time, we simply agreed to go where he suggested. He was funny and nice though. Haha. We ended up eating a meal that almost cleared all our bahts!

On the taxi not knowing we were heading somewhere costly. Haha!

Still happily taking picture. =D

The seafood items were after all fresh larrr. Haha.

There, look at how big their prawns were! In fact longer than my hand. However, we didn’t eat the prawns.

We had lobster instead! Chosen by ourselves to see how much it weighed, to determine how much it cost and to end up being shocked.

Don digging the fresh of the coconut with frustrations. Feii looking pleasant. Haha!

The main lead that cost a bomb! While eating, we were calculating how much it would cost in total, we derived to roughly 8000 over baht (S$350+/-) and we almost went berserk. We were like “why did we end up here eating these?” and we started cursing the driver. However, after Baby’s explanation (consolation), we came to know that for a big lobster, a big squid, tom yam steamboat, a normal beef dish and four young and fresh coconuts, that was the rough cost that we would face if we were to eat in Singapore. Gradually, we accepted the fact until we received the bill. I was so astounded when I saw 5909 baht! It was more than 2000 baht cheaper than what we predicted! LOL. So, we foot the bill and walked out asking each other “I wonder how they survive?”

We ended up taking train to Chinatown. The train was fortunately clean!

People must have found us stupid to be taking pictures on their train, like we think some tourists in Singapore are dumb to be taking pictures with our MRT board.

Finally, we arrived at Chinatown! A place nothing much to explore. Haha! We came across many stalls selling cheap shark fins soup and bird nest.

We entered a more-developed shop and had our bird nest there! It came with eggs! We didn’t try. Haha.
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We took a cab back to our hotel and we went massaging!

Look at Don’s face while the lady washed his legs HAHA. He claimed that it was too itchy! We spent the next 60 mins groaning in pain and laughing like mad. After all the massage was great and cheap! Only 200 baht (S$8.50) per pax!

It was indeed a little itchy but tolerable! =D

I was just so excited as it was my first time having massage service!
(Day THREE)

The swimming pool in our hotel. Super windy!

We had our breakfast at A&W! It’s been so long I last had A&W, almost two decades I guess.
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We continued to shop at Plantinum Shopping Mall again, hoping to really finish exploring the entire mall. However, failed to do so. We merely finished with half of it in the three days. =/ Things Baby and I purchased…

These occupied almost the entire bed. Haha.

I bought this for my Dad and Mummy. Until now, they didn’t dare to wear! =P

My lovely accessories, some for my sista.
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We had our first tuk tuk experience! It was fun but dangerous though. The driver simply drove through back streets, cut across highways and did illegal u-turns. Lol. Besides, we absorbed plenty of smoke. Nonetheless, the fun totally exceeded all the complaints HAHA.

The tuk tuk driver paused somewhere and took this shot for us!

We were here! MBK! We had our late lunch there.

After our early dinner and shopping around for awhile, we headed back to the hotel as we girls wanted to do up our nails!

Taken during traffic jams and when their tuk tuk was stucked behind us. =D

Baby and I found this sign on our tuk tuk. Haha!

We brought these from Singapore for Bestie’s birthday surprise!

Haha! =P My pretty pink luggage at the back!

We started doing our nails at 7 plus in the evening. As they didn’t understand English well, we had to act almost like mutes communicating with them because most of the times, we were using actions to do so. Haha.

I won’t be doing this kind of nails ever although they looked nice because these designs were done by stickers and thus, easily ripped off.

We had fruits buffet for our dinner!

Haha. We all love durians and so, we couldn’t stop asking for durians. We were bloated. =D

I looked like I’m gonna kill him with a piece of mango. Haha. It tasted sour, yucks.

Baby and I went to their room after dinner with cake and prezzie. He held the cake and hid at a corner outside the room and I was holding a fork (prepared for eating the cake haha!) when Feii opened the door. I stepped into their room and was expecting Baby to appear but he didn’t LOL. Feii almost closed the door when I screamed for Darling to come out hahaha!

May her wish(es) come true! =D

The ice cream cake tasted good, probably because it was from Swensen. Haha.

Don looked happily unprepared. Yeah, he just sprinted back from a camera with timer set, that’s why. Lol!

See… Pathetic him. Gotta do a few rounds of shuttle runs just to fit all of us into a photo properly.

Best shot of all the attempts!
(Day FOUR)
It was the last day of our BKK trip! =( Baby and I woke up considerably early for breakfast + lunch. Oh I forgot to mention. BKK’s KFC was surprisingly much nicer than Singapore’s! Especially their chix. What’s more? Cheaper also larrr. Haha.

Taken at BKK airport before we departed.
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That was our BKK tour! =D Hopefully, we can travel together again to more and further places in the near future, yeah? =))
































































































