a Fantastic outing

Finally able to get the composure to journal down another not so interesting entry. Haha jus jking. Well was talking about the bangkok trip, and now I am back from it. Well the trip was quite fulfilling, bought stuff at great prices(at least for me).

Day 1
Left SG on friday (11/08/06) for Bangkok, thanks to my dear friend Ganwei who gave me a ride to Changi Airport if not it would be a long trip from my place to the airport. Collected our tickets from the Jetstar counter, well everyone were going out on a holiday together so we were all really thrilled at the thought of it. In our hearts everyone was wondering how the Jetstar plane would look like in the interior cause we received many not so good comments about it. But we wanted to have a feel for ourselves. Well, luckily Mel had experince in choosing the seats and we were all not disappointed with our seats on our way to bangkok. We got seats that were spacious, it was at the centre of the plane at the emergency exit points. But I was pretty angry with myself because I had acrophobia, which meant I had to give up my window seat for Ian who slept almost slept through half of the trip. That Sucks.

When we reached Bangkok Intl airport, its all about waiting...waiting and waiting. Everything in Bangkok has to wait, theres nothing we do that dosen't relate to waiting, we were all so fustrated the customs was stuffy and people were like waiting to get their passports checked and chopped before exiting. We waitied for like an hr before we got our passport chopped after which Steven's and Mel's lauggages went amiss. We walked from T1 to T2 and then from T2 to T1 just to look for their baggages which were left lying around the conveyer belts, well I guess there wasn't much customer service involved in this crappy airport.

Went to wait for a cab, which took us another 30mins to get one afterwhich a 45min trip to our Hotel Indra Regent, the traffic there was horrendous everywhere is cars and bikes congestions are everywhere. When we eventually reached the hotel, it took us another 20mins to get our room, to top off our misery we were given rooms on the 6 floor which were the smoking rooms. FISH! But well to content ourself, we threw our baggaes and left for our shopping. Walked to this shopping mall called the platanium mall, which sells mainly teenage gers stuff. pretty disappointed, the mall was big but nothing much for guys like us. So went to have some food at their food court, nice varieties of local delights, it was a first for me to see a food court all non halal every store sold pork. We ordered quite a bit, if i could remember an oyster omelette, beef ball soup, grilled pork, pork salad and omelette rice. Afterwhich, we walked all the way to Discovery Centre.

The walk was about 30mins, steven and I were like sweating profoundsly. When we eventually reach the mall we were so glad. Finally air con, the place was relatively small, its the norm shops that we see em in Singapore, except for a few furniture stores we sells some pretty cool designer accessories. Walk on to Siam centre which was like beside it, saw some pretty awesome things there to, like a concept makeover studio which was like 2 stories, but what was unigue was that the whole stores exterior was in glass panel. Well the peeps inside look pretty cool as well, with some guys spotted in dreadlocks and the not to mention ladies pretty as well. The equipment they used were also all very up to date, like broncolors lights and also mamiya RZ67 with a digital pack, and not mention a MAC G5. Walked a little more and saw a ED HARDY boutique and comparing to the one at hereen I think ours suck. Finally we came to Siam Paragon, I tell u this place is awaesome, its 6 stories high and everything inside is designer label, from Gucci to Levis boutique and Siam Paragon's dept mall, its just as crazy everything that is young and trendy are all house under this place. From their local labels to international brnads all could be found there, the place is fantastic. Food stores and restraunts were plentiful. Everything there was just great. Afterwhich had dunkin donuts there and went to pray at a shrine with steven which was near this building that is like all SG label, that houses BLACKJACK a real big one and club21 boutique which i regretted not brining my club21 members card along if not i would have bought something there as well. Hahaha.
Afterwhich we walked back to our hotel, bought ourself some pork burger at Mac Donalds and savour them in the hotel.

Day2

Day 2, we got up real early to have breakfast and then immediately after that walk around the hotel before embarking our mission to Chatuchuk Weekend market. Hell that place was hot, everything and anything could be bought from that market and at cheap cheap prices, things like trendy t-shirt to home ornaments everything could be found there. Bought lots of stuff there steve tees toys, key chains, gifts as well as shorts and shoes. We walked from morning till the late afternoon before we finally decided to call it a day. Rest awhile at the hotel and then finally left for MBK centre. well that place is just as big, it houses everything from computer parts to textile and apparel. Went to have japanese food and then later bird nest and sharks fin soup. Walked around till 5 plus in the evening before leaving for Suan Lam Night Baazar, sat this on the ferry, caught a glimpse of the skyline in Bangkok. Walk abit more and bumped in to the least most expected person JEK our ex NAFA Lecturer he was with a friend there. Haha Steven chat awhile with him and we left, Ian bought some mango and ate them in the hotel.

Day3

Everything was more relax, the dudes went to have our so wanted Thai Massage and Mel the only girlie went shopping on her own at Platanium centre. Haha the massage was fantastic, both Ian and I got a ger to massage for us whereas Steven got a guy haha. The massage was fantastic, all my bones were like snapping when she massaged me but overall the feeling was great and whats best is that it cost only SGD6 for a person haha the session lasted for 1hr well worth it. Went back to the hotel to meet Mel but on our way we walked around the market beside our hotel, woah there were pure gems inside the hideous lanes. Bought jeans for like 20 baht was like a steal, the dudes each bought the same jeans. Afterwhich we went back to the hotel for a rest and finally took a cab to Siam paragon, where we had a feast at their famous chain of steam boat outlet the, we ate like a king and their service there was excellent they used palm tops to order the food which I think was great, excpet for my wait fo a bowl of rice haha, probably it was the communication error. After all this we walked along their mrt track and reach central world it was a freaking big mallbut so unfinished. Ermm well write again tonite got to prepare myself going out to meet friend...