Goodness, I need a massage badly, my back and legs are still aching from 5days walk!! Everywhere we go, we walk. Save a lot on transportation fees and got ourselves free from the ever polluted and jammed up roads. It's crazy there! Look! Ain't it scary? Gonna bring a mask the next time I go there.
Again, this was a very last minute trip. We booked the air tickets and hotel only 2days before our departure! Flew by Jetstar and stayed at some budget 2 star hotel in the heart of Bangkok! Everywhere was within our reach!
Had Gelare before the Flight, was a Tuesday so it's half the price!
Boarding pass? So paperish lah.
My first time on a budget airline! Tell you, the seats are even more cramp than those on our SBS buses!
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L weather! See the cloud, machiam cotton candy! Feel like getting out of the plane and lay my body on it.
Day 1,
Our humble room in First House Hotel. Only a total of USD100.87 for 4 nights of stay.
Mai siao siao, this toilet still got bathtub, but small lah, can't even fit 1 of us nicely in the tub. A lil dirty also.
By the time we settled our stuffs, unpacked and rested for a while, we head out hunting for food! This place, after 10pm is like a dead town. We had to walk a distance out to only to find a small little push cart stall selling chicken noodles/rice. There was also another push cart stall selling meatballs & squids on satay sticks dipped in their specialty spicy sauce.
So on the first night, at 75baht[about SGD3] we had 2 bowls of noodles and 2 sticks of meatballs and 1 stick of squid. Ice water were complimentary.
As we walked our way back to the hotel, we were still scouting around for food. Came across this 24hours Burger King located about 10mins away from "home", for the 5days, they have items that are not available back in SG. Milkshakes!!!! Prices are really cheap too! We bought back a set meal consisting of 2 piece chicken, 1 chocolate milkshake and a packet of onion rings at less than SGD6.
End of Day 1
*****
On Day 2, woke up really early for breakfast at the hotel's cafe and set off to the Platinum Fashion Mall that was just opposite our main road.
One of the popular morning snacks. Don't know what it's call, but it has a very nice taste of corn, coconut and something which I still can't identify.
The lazy and sleepy mongrel we see when we set off for our programs each day.
Took a picture with this cute mongrel puppy and his owner who seem to be waiting for someone on the overhead bridge.
Look what I found in the mall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yummy yum yum yum~ Also bought some back for my siblings to try on my last day.
All these for 88Baht! Drooling already?
Other than the usual shopping, we noticed some cute stuffs over there too. Think this bag suits me? Hehehe.
Cute portable mini fan.
AshTray. Gotta press the red button to emit air/water.
Looks funny in this shades. Almost bought it for him lah, kept saying want a shades where it's unique and doesnt look common.
After all the shopping, went back to the hotel to drop our bags and also to take a short rest before setting out to MBK for another round of shopping and dinner. Just as we walked towards the 2 Buddha statue in front of Central Mall, came a dark skinned guy approximately about 50yrs of age or more.
"Aye, good day! Come to pray to the Buddha? Are you both Buddhists?"
Chris said yes, while I stood there saying nothing.
"Oh, so have you visited the Lucky Buddha already?"
We shook our heads
"He is very good, people go there wish for things and come true. You must go there, thetemple only opens once a year and it coses at 7pm today. I help you get a tuk-tuk to bring you there? Only 20Baht, go there and come back, ust 2 streets away."
A bit curious lah, and since the transport so cheap, we decided to go. Was a very humble temple lah, bit run down and old, was thinking how come got no crowd at all.
On the Tuk-tuk. This tuktuk so difficult to get into. Quite a good mode of transport when the roads are ammed up, cos tuktuk drivers can cut the queue very well. One bad thing, you'll breathe in all the polluted air, and dust, sand and whatsnot will get to you eyes.
The statue of Lucky Buddha and other smaller buddhas
There at the side of the praying hall, is another man who speaks really good english,
"Hi, where you from? Looks like from Malaysia or Singapore?"
"We're from Singapore."
"Oh, very nice country there, and very expensive. Changi Airport very big, very nice."
We smiled and nodded in agreement.
"Both of you married yet? You must love her alot. I love my wife a lot too, and that is why I buy her gifts every year."
Then he went on to talk about red ruby and sapphire stones, about how his wife love these jewellery and how expensive they are in Singapore and without the tax and plus the discount, we're actually getting at least a 50% discount. And then!!
"Have you visited the export centre? Every year only open 1 day for tourist to buy without tax, and it comes with great discount! You love her, you go get a gift for her there."
He went on to yak and yak, like psychoing die die must go there, so out of curiousity, we decided to take a look.
A run down jewllery shop is what we came to. But the stones inside is really nice lah, I was so bought over by the beauty of the 0.93carat red ruby ring accompanied by 5 little diamonds at each side. And the price? 46000Baht! That is SGD2000, and after discount is SGD1600. The lady offered us a whole set of Tiffany cutting stones consisting a Pendant, a pari of earrings and the ring at SGD$3800, and a blue sapphire ring for Chris at SGD1600. He wanted to get for each of us.
Then.......... A uncle who was a Singaporean came into the shop to collect his set. He chatted with us in Hokkien saying that this was the 3rd tim he came to buy the stones. And always, he buy a set, give the ring to his wife and sold the rest to POH HENG and recoupe his $$$, that way, he gets his wife a ring for free.
This tact works on people who are greedy and never think much lah. Sensing something wasn't right, I gave a call to Dad, better to waste that few dollars than few thousand. Daddy said the stones are not valuable, another sms to Wilson, who goes to Thailand often, said not to buy either.
We left the shop without anything lah. Heng man. Wasted my precious 2hours of shopping at MBK. ARGHZ
Rush over to MBK to get some local titbits for our families and then a quick Shabu dinner. Kinda cheap, but food were so-so only.
See what I found at Central World? One of MAH FAVOURITE ice cream kiosk!!
They do not have my Brownie Temptation, but the next closest to that is BROWNIE CHOCOLATE! only 25Baht [SGD1.10]!!! In SG a small cup goes at SGD3.90 I think.
Another interesting Delicacy! INSECTS!!!! Hehehe, I was daring enough to snap a real close up picture of these while the stall was left with no one, but not daring enough to try any of it. Chris dare not too. :P
Okay, end of Day 2.
*****
Guess where we went on Day 3? We visited one of the theme parks in Thailand!! It's not big, but it was fun! Call us kids, we really enjoyed ourselves living like one again.
Welcome to DREAMWORLD!!!
Under I Love You
And over there, we've been to many wonders of the world!
Effiel Tower! Romantic Paris
Statue of Liberty! And statue of chapalang!
Leaning Tower! Corny eh! hahaha
And out of sudden, we became STRONG people there.
I guess I was stronger. Lalala~
I love puppies! I love Dalmatians!!
Back into StoneAge. We look funny without our necks! AHahAHahaHAAHaha!!
Oh look, did we just entered the Giant's House? Everything's so HUGEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
See how mini Chris is?
Now I know how Tweety Bird felt being kept in the cage.
Outside the Haunted House which I chickened out after taking 3 steps inside. Have to walk in the whole experience one lah, so scary can! After being freaked out at Igores, the haunted restaurant in Singapore, a few years back, I can't walk through scary experience again. If not, I'll just get stuck midway, legs jellified, shoulders shaking and hands over mouth, screaming!
BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!! I'm not timid okay. :P If the whole scary experience is to be gone through on a automated mobile cart/tram, I would have gone for it as usual. :P I repeat, I am not timid! BLEAH!
Bite me,
And he'll bite you back!
Hurhurhur, is this me after a hundred years? :(
2 of the few thrilling rides in DreamWorld. Hurricane & the Sky Coaster!
We're the first 2. Fun! But I got a lil dizzy afterwards.
A very cute "Mae-mae" in Uncle Tom's Farm.
The Uncle tom's Farm Show. Smart wittle monkey who can do Mathematics!
3 poodles who have their share of talents.
Jumping through the fire hula!
And also some other stunts performed by the goats. Walking on a branch, jumping over humans and etc. Too many pictures to post about 1 show lah.
You know, this place have a very interesting toilet sign. Take a look.
Close up! Chris said that he looks like he's constipated + masturbating. Lol!
Now, to the games carnival! :D Busted 350baht on the games.
and luckily on the last game that we decided to leave, Chris got a prize for me!
Enough of the games already, and finally got to see a real life elephant after 3days in Thailand.
Up close and personal.
Your highness need a rest.
Tian Mi Mi? Tiring loh, no matter how fast u paddle, the thing only moves a little.
After spending 1/2 day at Dreamworld, we came back to Petchburi Road. Dropped Skabby the soft dog "home" and went out in search of food to fill our grumbling stomaches. Over the past few days, we kept walking poast these stalls which sells stuffed cat fish and some other seafood. Being curious again, we settled ourselved down in one of the stalls.
Our food. Got communication problem one leh. I saw the menu, Crab Papaya, and asked in broken english, the boy tell me is papaya mashed with crab. Then I thought, okay, something new, we'll try. Guess what it came? MASHED UP RAW BABY CRABS WITH BEANSPROUTS IN SWEET N SPICY SAUCE! Eeeeekkkksssssssssss!!!!! RAW CRAB!
And the Cat fish I saw on the menu, showed 50baht, but when bill came, the boss who spoke okay english points to another items without english description and charge us 120baht. Zzzz, whatcan we do right?
Not filled during dinner, so at MBK again, we went for food. Oreo Cheesecake and Mango + Sticky rice and some beautifying mixed fruit blend.
That's the end of Day 3.
*****
Come Day 4, whoa so fast, with our bahts depleting at an alarming rate, we went over to SuperRich to get our Sing Dollars changed, BUT they got a stupid policy lah, must produce passport! Which tourist bring their passports around instead of putting them at the hotel's safe box?
Left the place a lil irritated and went for breakfast at Big C. It's like a ultra big hypermarket building. Think Giant in Singapore.
Had dried noodles again, with duck and pork this time, and some other chinese Dim Sum. Noodles were great, but compared to the chicken noodles on the first night, this comes in second. The Dim Sum was so-so only.
Walked around Central World, the previous WTC, and I was really happy on what I found!
MACARONS!!!! It comes cheap too! 12 pieces at 180baht! That works out to be 65cents Singapore dollars for each macaron! Where to find so cheap in Singapore ley? I got a lil addicted to it, and Chris was like "buy and eat all you want here, Singapore one very expensive lah."
Happy me!
After the little shopping, we head off to Chinatown for some cheap and good seafood! Past few meals not as shiok as this.
Steam crab in milk - Think crab bee hoon at AMK Ave 3. Kekeke
Shark's fins
BBQ Jumbo prawns - this one really sinful lah.
And oh, not forgetting this cheap and refreshing yummilicious ice cream! only 10baht for 10 scoops. :D
After makan, nothing to do, went ahead with our Suam Lum Night Bazzar Shopping spree. It looks a like Chatuchak, but on a smaller and less crowded scale.
This place, really chop people don't see blood one leh! I saw a fake CK panty on a street stall near "home" and they asked for 100baht, over at SuanLum, they asked for 180baht! Siao. I bargained back asking for 80baht, the she-male refused, we walked away, and after 2 seconds, we heard "ok!ok! 80baht!" Hahaha, the fun of bargaining and the power of walking away.
Not much night life in the heart of Bangkok, count the pubs and bars and discos out, I don't like visiting this places when I'm abroad, cos you don't know the place and culture well. Better stay out of trouble.
And so, to end Day4, we headed back to the hotel not too late to catch up some well deserved rest for the legs! We've been walking LOADS!
Day 5, the last day, had the simple breakfast in the hotel's cafe, back into the room to pack our stuffs before checking out. Brought all out bags into the storage room before heading straight out to Chatuchak!
So excited can! Everytime I read on the forums, owners bring back a lot of cheap goodies for their doggies and I only get to stay at home, on the laptop to see what they bought. But when I was there, not much were really nice and those not nice stuffs were the cheap stuffs. End up, only got a doggy denim overall and a ceramic bowl for Sundae, and the rest were buying of Polos, T shirts and boxers. Haha.
I also had lotsa fun picking up little puppies and animals. Patting them and just looking at them play with one another. The way they sleep is really cute too!
Sleepyhead French bull? or Boxer?
The funny & playful Golden retriever.
Cutie little bunny.
Poor little squirrel being tied down from its neck to the grills of the cage.
ShihTzus & Pomeranians.
So ultra cute right, but very poor thing hoh. Those being showcased outdoors are always panting, and there's no water in sight for them lah. And the smaller breeds of dogs like Chihuahua, pinchers & daschunds are being sold as young as 1month old. Sigh, what people do for money.
Very frustrating to walk in Chatuchak, cos the place very crowded, cramped up and dirty, not to mention smelly too, and especially so when the weather is hot and humid!
A lil hungry, settled down for some friend rice and noodles. Not very platable, but that is what's available when 2 people are too tired and frustrated to choose anymore.
Went back to MBK to grab some more Raphl Lauren fakey polos and shirt for Mom too, then back to Platinum Fashion Mall to tapao Mister Donut before collecting our stuffs at the hotel to head down to the Airport.
I tell you.......Food at the Thailand Airport ish soh expensive can! As you can see earlier, a set of burger kind meal is about 115baht or so. BUT! At the airport is 235baht! DOuBLE LEH! Siao!
End up we dined at some pizza place, at least was more wu hua than burgers and fries. :P
Nua-ed a bit cos we got to the airport a lil early. :P
Our food and drink. Not bad.
And end of Day 5, Hello to Singapore!
*****
My busy days not over loh! After being so beat out during the trip, I come home, only to remember that the maid is away! Back to her hometown for 3 weeks! ARGHZ!!! Left all the baggage in the living, showered, had supper and went to take the night's rest.
The next day was horrible lah! All the unpacking and washing and cleaning and mopping and laundry & ironing and packing again. I machiam MAID CAN!!!!!!!
Hurhurhur.. let me show you our loot! kekeke..
Happy Sundae and her presents. :D
This whole trip cost Chris about $1700 in total, I helped out a little bit lah. :P This month's pay vanished ust like that, gotta spend sparingly for the month now.
very much in love
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