i'm back!

yep i'm back from smelly bangkok, my first trip with bran, besides the one back to ipoh.

thursday
met bran, aunty winnie and his cousins for dinner after calculus paper and we left for bangkok punctually at 10.05pm. there was a glitch during our check-in at the hotel, the hotel did not receive our reservation. but the staff were very kind, they gave us a room and everything was solved by the next morning.

friday
we had intended to visit the grand palace but it would be closed till tuesday because of the grand celebration. we stepped out of the hotel and were shocked to see everyone dressed in yellow, except us. visited the emerald buddha, hot and stuffy, ignored it. walked to the very smelly river and took a river cruise (because i insisted). the planks seemed like they were going to be detached from one another everytime the boat was hit by the choppy waters. okie and we were off to MBK! among other things, bran bought a pair of jeans from a tranny. we walked down to siam paragon and ate had my favourite dunkin' donuts and shopped some more. bran is addicted to head massages after my mom brought him to a salon to cut his hair that wash, massage and cut for RM3, so he HAD to get a head message and hair cut there.

then we proceeded to chinatown to have sharks' fins recommended by travel guru, bran's aunty winnie. we got stuck in the jam for an hour on the way to suan lum night bazaar and bran is such a bum. he slept in the cab for an hour while i tried very hard to stay awake for fear of getting robbed, sold off, or fleeced of cab fares since we are unlikely to wake up soon after we've fallen asleep. wowee, i love suan lum night bazaar.

very big ferris wheel at suan lum

bran

we took the mrt back and you'll be shocked how they squeeze into the train. haha and a little boy's legs got stuck between the plastic panel and the seats. how did his legs get in there! even his mom was laughing at him. bran and another passenger were trying not to laugh while helping the little boy. hahaha

saturday
off to chatuchak in the morning, good thing it's very near the hotel. we returned to the hotel at 3pm because our hands were too full and we were tired already. i watched hbo in the hotel while bran slept again, and we visited MBK for the second time. bran bought another pair of jeans from the same tranny and she was very happy he remembered him/her. but he/she was not too happy to see me with bran. walked down to dunkin' donuts and shopped in the area again. returned to the hotel and had some drinks at the lounge before returning to our room to watch HBO again. heh i think we caught 3 movies that night.

sunday
whee~ to chatuchak again. frankly speaking, it's not as good as everyone claimed it is. it's only good if you manage to find the right shops amongst the 15 000 shops, and it was annoying when after walking so much, you realize you're at the same stall again, because everywhere looks the same. pui..returned to the hotel at 2pm because our hands were full again and we left for suan lum night bazaar again! yay! but bran was very eager to visit patpong so we left the bazaar at 7pm and took the sky train to patpong. the night market was disappointing. bran saw what he wanted to see and we left for nana night market which was even more disappointing. so we hailed a cab back to the hotel and the cab drove in the opposite direction of the road to avoid the jam! we laid out all our buys on the bed

my buys took up 3/4 of the bed

i got some 15 tops, 7 bottoms, 7 tops for my mom, 2 bottoms for my mom, some for my brother and dad, accessories, home accessories and blew $800 on this trip. thanks to mastercard, or bran and i would have to start begging on the sunday. caught more movies on HBO that night.

monday
went to central and pratunam as recommended by the hotel stuff. pui..so disappointing so we went back to siam area again. returned to MBK for the third time, got the stuff we wanted and left for the airport at 3.45pm. the plane was delayed due to the bad weather. it was originally scheduled to depart at 6.15pm, when we checked in, we were told that it would be delayed till 7.45pm. what a bummer. so we had dinner in the transit area and we checked the screen again only to see that it was rescheduled to depart at 6.45pm, but it was already 6.15 and it didn't say 'boarding' on the screen. so we checked with the customer service officer and she told us to go to the gate at 7pm even after we pointed to her "1845" on her screen. crazy. we had nothing to do anyway so we made our way to the gate, only to see there were people boarding already and it says "FINAL CALL" on the screen at the gate. what?! the mother behind us complained to the airport staff and i bet they do not see the big deal in the matter. almost everyone boarded the plane by 6.40pm except for one. we finally departed at 7pm. bran said my ticket was a 'buy one get one free' because the seat beside me was not occupied and i extended my legs across the other seat.


the trip was great, great hotel, good breakfast, but i hate to wake bran up because you need half an hour for that and he eats a hell lot. everytime he eats, i eat too. how to not get fat like that....

aren't we lucky.. CNA says that the protests have stopped because of their respect for the king, and the protests are likely to continue when the celebration stops, which is today.

now bran is asking me to go over to his place to unpack his luggage. how lazy can he get!