Sa Wa Dee Trip (1)

Sa Wa Dee (Day 1)

After the long long wait and many many episodes... I finally could go Bangkok.. not that i like to go bangkok, but the whole administration nightmare prior the trip was horrible... all thanks to mr flowery mouth con-man... forget abt me paying extra + extra + extra for a simple bangkok trip.. lets look at the highlights of the trip... Lets start with 16 march 2009, morning, reached airport early, so we had breakfast at killiney coffee... my half boiled eggs were quite raw, but i didn't bother abt it... "Bangkok Here I Come!"

The 6 of us - Me, Mandy, Thomas, Cynthia, Ginny, Desmond boarded on TG404 that very morning...

the sky started pouring while our plane took off from Changi..

while onboard...

zzzZZzzzZZzz... and also ZzZZ-ing on board, a terrorist look-alike....

oops, caught by the victim...

while flying above 14000ft, my stomach started to protest... the damn raw eggs forced me to the toilet (lavatory)... try doing 'business' in the air, its damn... uncool...everyone knows i'm in the toilet for BIG business for sure... and due to my emptied bowel, i had to force out the raw eggs... and it took damn long... damn embarassing on my way back to my seat...

chicken with noodles VS fish with rice


flying above the clouds... the view was unbelievable...

After we landed...

We were greeted by students' performances beside the long corridors towards custom and immigrations.. We took a chartered mini-van to hotel, it was a long trip, since it was free - there were other tourists to other hotels along the way + the traffic jams... I was super impressed by how the Thais drive in small small alleys (which were equally jam) to avoid jams on the mains...

Along the way, me and mandy were attracted by the bright pink cabs on the road, huge big durians, weird looking people and a mama & papa shop...

After we checked into Baiyoke Boutique Hotel, we headed for our 1st stop, Tailor Shop!

I was spoilt with alot of choices... the services of the sales assistants were excellent and helpful... made quite a mess looking at the fabrics... eventually i settled for 4 shirts and 2 pants... It was already 6-7pm hence we headed to the mall nearby to shop and dine, there was a corner tributing a figurine of an elephant god with 4 sides..Thais worship their gods with roses, to show their love... (interesting).. As we were walking towards the mall, Thai's national anthem played and everyone at the open space freezed and stood still... we stopped too... really admire their patriotism...

We decided to try authentic Thai food at a restaurant, the food were nice... ordered quite alot of food...

After dinner, we walked around at a night market near hotel, saw some roadside stall selling 'heavily salted' girll fish and bbq chicken etc. While shopping, we saw a man bringing an elephant parading on street to get tourists pay for feeding it..

more updates in future entries when i'm free...