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♥ Monday, November 13, 2006♥

Time really flys during holiday.. i"m back fr Bangkok !!! Since most of my frenz has already been there, i dun tink i need to intro much.. the only place they have not been is probably the new airport.. its really huge,the layout resembles hongkong airport with glass and the sun coming in.. looks very classy but very sunny... statues of elephants, gods and posters of King are everywhere...

Day 01 - 7:15am flight fr Sg to Bangkok is around 9:30am..

There was a slight traffic jam but with the skills of our driver, we reached the hotel around 11am.. I felt as if i was in the movie initial D or too fast too furious tokyo drift.. the way the pple drive are so scary but exciting, they can change lane without signals, checking of blind spot and stop so close to the car in front...

Check out the traffic jam view fr our hotel.. we staying on level 29


Pink taxi..



After check in, we head to MBK's Sushi Tei for lunch.. i ordered my fav Unagi bento set plus the shared softshell crab, i paid only SGD 11.30 for a Japanese meal.. very cheap !! With energy replenished, it's time to chong shopping... We covered the covered the MBk, Siam paragon , discovery center.. in between, we had to go back to the hotel twice just to put our staff as it was too heavy..





Day 02 - 9am Thai time, breakfast



The beakfast is international buffet style. One of the best breakfast i ever had..they had french toast, chicken porridge, crossiants, bacon, ham, fried rice, fried noodle etc etc All look veryvery yummylicious... ate till i almost want to throw up.. then we head for Platinum Mall... We start our journey fr the basement.. by the time we reached level 3, 3/4 of the day was almost gone.. and we have not even cover half the place.. our hands were almost ready to drop out from our body... So we decided to visit this place again the next day.. Time to go back to our hotel for a break to recharge for Suan Lum night bazzar... Guess what? We shopped till we forgot abt lunch.. Its kind of hard to get a cab back to our hotel in the evening from Platinum Mall as it was the peak season.. so we crossed the road over to Amari Hotel and tk a cab fr there.. stopped by KFC for a quick dinner b4 going up to our hotel.. the tuna salad is really yummy.. smth diff from Spore's stinky coleslaw

Day 2b- 8:30pm Thai time, Suan Lum

Head to suan lum night bazzar in a cab.. according to my friends, there are some changes.. they have added a amusement park to it.. so now there is one huge ferries wheel.. I did nt bring my camera as it well known to be stuffy with lots of pick pockets.. We spent abt 4 hours plus there..evening though we went at night, it's still very hot and stuffy. The lanes are bigger than the Chartuchart weekend mkt.. imagine if we went to chartuchart during day, i tink i KO there.. I bought 2 pairs of puma shoes there.. by the time we conkass at the hotel it was already 2am...

Day 03 - 9:30am Thai time, breakfast



Head for platimun mall again to continue the rest of the building.. This time, we managed to finish the rest of the floors within half a day. This is also the time where the bulk of our purchases start.. as it was a wholesaler building, any item that we buy 3 piece and above, we get wholesaler price.. It's good to go shopping with all gers with almost similar style.. hence everything i buy also wholesaler price.. cheap cheap.. =) my friend buy until they cant carry so they invest in a cute winnie the pooh "Ah Samm Bag" those huge huge ones...they are doing some kind of bazaar in Spore, the one behind Cineleisure...


Some pics taken inside the mall.. smth like far east except that its probably 3x the size...

Our next designation was Iseten as we need to get some ladies' MUST BUY items.. spent about 30 mins there, Head back to hotel to put our stuff. Everytime we enter the hotel, we have to go through a security check.. there's one cute handsome guy who insisted on opening up one of my friend's paper bag and he saw many "cups" staring back at him and he immediately turn red. haha its so furnie.. i nv forget that... After we dump our things in the room, we went down to MBK to take away Macdonald's Samurai pork burger for dinner...After a late dinner, we chiong MBK again for tibits.. bring some back for hao's family, office my home.. and guess what? we forgot about our lunch again.. we only had a quick drink at Platimun.. they have really too many interesting shops to cover and eating lunch is probably a waste of precious time haha...well well, i wonder how guys accompanying their gf survive...






Day 04 - 9:00am Thai time, breakfast



After breakfast, head over to MBK again... visited the same stores that we went and get more t-shirts, slippers.. coz the person recognise us and we need to do less bargaining ...... tried to spend finish all our coins and small notes.. grabbed some cosmestic items from watson.. their maybellin items are really cheap.. imagine my foundation i buy in Spore its around SGD 19.90 there only SGD $8 !!!


More pics in MBK and Platinum Mall

Conclusion
The next time i go bangkok, i am going to stay at Pratuwam Princess hotel again..Even though its kind of pricey, the service, breakfast and security are really excellent. Plus it's linked to MBK with so many shops and makan place.. its really a nice place to start your day..



For shopping, i recommend Platinum Mall, any item, if you buy 3 pieces and above, u are entitled to the wholesaler price...which really makes a lot of difference.Almost 2 x cheaper.. their profits must be really high..



The thai's fav phrase are no sai (no size), same same, no hav (dun have) wheras Sporens fav phrase are buy more got discount? got new piece? i tink i need sometime to get over the way the thai pple talk.. it's just too comcial...



This is really a relaxing shopping trip.. next time i gona bring my bikini n sit in their jacuzzi..


My fav grp photo


My purchases

I am looking fwd to my next trip to Bangkok.. plannin to go again next yr with either Steph, Hao and my mom n dad.. hehe....


Aiyiko XOXO