4 days 3 nites of Eating, Shopping & Slacking at BKK

Do pardon my long post. I took almost half a day to finish writing.. =)

25th - 28th Feb 09
I'm back from my BKK trip! The place was pretty SAFE than what I had imagined. Nothing extravagant happened at all! The people as usual, were nice and polite, they spoke with gentle Thai accent. No wonder Thailand is known as "the Land of Smiles".

During the trip, BF & I took small naps so we don't tire ourselves so much. We decided on a relaxing trip with no hassles. There were enough time for doing the things we wanted.

The day before going to BKK, we had watched The curious case of Benjamin Button. Alot of emotional scenes drawn to my heart. Between life and death, every aspect of life changes in time. Somehow I just loved movies that tickled my heart and brain to think deeply of what the movie is relating to us. The storyline dragged for 3 hours and after the movie, I stood up feeling abit giddy and headache... :( The moment I got home, I stomped right to my bed.

On Wednesday, met up with BF at AMK to run his errands. After which went back to his place. Luckily I had already kept my luggage in his house on Sunday. Around 4 plus, it was still raining heavily. We went to flag for a cab and BF's dad had helped us to carry our luggages down. My BF volunteered to flag the cab taking one of the umbrellas with him and asked us to wait downstairs. The cab came soon after. BF was smiling at me, standing at the cab waiting for us while BF's dad and I had to share one umbrella together plus carried our luggages and walked down the stairs.. BF was trying to be helpful but... funny and cute leh him.. :D

We reached BKK airport close to 9pm. Took a taxi for 400 baht + a toll charge of 75 baht for using their expressway. Very expensive I felt. The hotel was situated behind the carpark of Baiyoke Sky hotel. There wasn't any view at all because our hotel is only 9 storey high! We faced the carpark. haha. The room was okay but definitely not the toilet. The toilet smelled like someone had pooed inside and never flushed! Hee.. still acceptable for a budget hotel lah.. I closed one eye since it was cheap. Hopefully, they will do something to the toilets. I liked their lobby. small and boutique style. I liked the location where cheap things were found there. The last time we went, we also stayed nearby so BF and I were very familar with the area. There were many young Japanese and koreans staying in the hotel. Saw one or two hunks :D~

The 2nd day at BKK, we went to platinum Fashion mall and pratunam market for wholesale prices. Bought quite a few tops, accessories and snacks from there. But BF didn't fancy the clothes there. haha. Their styles were different. CMI. We walked back to our hotel, put our stuffs and then took the hotel free shuttle service to Siam discovery. We went to Central World, it was my first time there. We splurged on an expensive lunch at Fuji Japanese Restaurant. (still consider cheap compare to Singapore) I bought Naraya bags too. The boutique was crowded and I had to search high and low for those particular designs I liked until I blur blur also dun exactly know what I wanted. hee. In the end I bought 3 bags. One for myself, one for Jen, one for my coll as I promised to get for them ;) For dinner we just settled for a very simple meal.

The 3rd day at BKK, we went to MBK. Ever since my past incident at MBK, I have never really liked shopping there. It's mainly opened for tourists' spending. The prices are steep. I could have get those from Platinum and Pratunum. We then went to an open concept massage parlour. BF went for a neck, shoulder and foot massage while I chose medicure. I don't really like massage so much, scare of pain and itchy. Worried I will burst out screaming or laughing and everyone will stare at me, especially in an open area. But I felt the medicure price is pricey. The lady didn't do anything much except washing and scrubbing my hands, followed by painting all my nails with designs. At least I thought she will cut my cuticles and massage my hands. Hehe. Maybe I asked too much. BF said I have nice nails so she didn't bother. Well, I (proudly) do agreed with him on this fact. *giggles*

We decided to splurge another expensive meal at Baiyoke Sky hotel at 75th floor for dinner. BF told me since there isn't any chance of going high up to Singapore's tallest building for dinner, we can still afford a meal at BKK's tallest building for dinner. hehe. Anyway I don't really find the need to spend so much to go to Swissotel for dinner for just 1 nite. With that kind of prices, I rather he brings me to 2 nice places for dinner, right?

On the last day at BKK, we woke up super early at 7am! We took a 30 mins walk to the nearest BTS train to Chatuchak market. Kaoz. From the map, we thought it was probably a 15 mins walk but we were very wrong! But it was a good walking exercise after all the good food we had for the past 2 days! When we reached there, it was beaming hot. OMG. We walked for around 8 rows of shops before we called it a day. That was like 3 hrs only? Normally, people can spend more than half a day there, but not us! Chatuchak market has 10,000 stores selling alot of stuffs but we were so tired to continue walking, braving the heat. I think we only conquered 1/10 of the stores. We stopped for coke and some quick bites at a nearby cafe. Then headed back to hotel for a nice bath. Luckily the hotel staff were nice enough to extend our check-out till 2pm. I dun want to go back to Singapore with my sticky hair and stinky outfit.. I dun want BF to tell me I smelled~muahahaha... When we touched down to Singapore, it was 30 mins past midnight. Rain and Des were waiting for us patiently at the arrival hall.

I bought two but BF broke one of them

SO CUTE... I wish I had bought more!

Our loot from BKK!!!

One sad thing about my trip, I didn't change enough currency so I had to plan carefully what to spend on :( Lesson learnt. The next time I go, I MUST remind myself to change more $. BF and I planned to go again 2 yrs later and it MUST BE in January because the weather is more cooling. We intend to get some deco items for our new house as we spotted some nice lights and kitchenware at Chatuchak market. Interesting. keke.