Bangkok trip ~ 10/9 to 15/9

DAY 1 ~ 10/9/06 Sunday (BKK)

- Early morning 0715hrs, Sitilok came with his "SITICAB" (yellow suzuki swift sport) to send us to the airport! Thanks you Sitilok!
- On board at 0920hrs Jetstar 3K511
- Arrived at Bangkok Dong Muang International Airport at 1045hrs (BKK time) and met our tour guide Mr Money. He sent us to Asia Hotel (room 1066) together with other group members - Went Chatuchak and bought bags and bags of stuff
- Proceed to Chinatown for seafood dinner (cockles, fish, flower clams, kangkong, big prawns, sharks fin soup and bird nest! BURP!)

Chatuchak and things that we bought

Seafood dinner at Chinatown

Room 1066... the nice and cosy bed

DAY 2 ~ 11/9/06 Monday (BKK to PTT)
- Had a great buffet breakfast at the hotel and met Mr Money at 0800hrs
- Started our first day with Chao Phya Canal tour and visited Wat Arun
- On the way to Pattaya, we visited Siracha Tiger Zoo (we watched the tiger show, crocodile show, pig racing and there are other animals in the zoo besides tigers)
- Stopped by leather shop and honey production shop
- Lunch at "Jing Man Jiu Lou" and dinner at "Palladium" in Pattaya
- Paid to watch the "spider show", it is a combination of thai girl/guys and modelling show
- I ate DURIAN! Ehhh the durian in Thailand not very stink and its very sweet and BIG! We bought other fruits back to the hotel, the best one was MANGO with glutinous rice!
P/S: Hey, try to find me in the first picture! The answer will be at the end of the page hehe
Search for BALA!!!!! Nae Nae Nae!

Wat Arun

Our tour guide ~ Mr Money


The pigs were so hyper! Kept "Oink oink oink" while I was trying to pose for a shot, so scary!
Oh and the happy family~ piggy, tigger and doggy!

Century Pattaya Hotel

DAY 3 ~ 12/9/06 Tuesday (PTT)
- Woke up 0630hrs and had breakfast in the hotel
- Mr Money brought us out to the sea! We had so much fun! We tried the parachute and went on the Jet ski! There were many rides to choose from but fortunately we chose the Jet ski, it was fun and exciting! The rest of the rides are like "crawling"... eg. banana boat... YAWN...
- We did the "fake tattoo" after our rides and bought some snacks - bbq cuttlefish and 2 big fat clams
- We took the so called "glass boat" out to sea to see the coral... well, we looked through the glass can only see stones/rocks, torn fishing nets, rubbish, sea urchin... then one very "kiasu" woman from our group said she saw sea cucumber! (ROLLED EYES!!!!!!!).... Well, if we want to see the real nice ones, we will have to pay 1600baht
- We went back hotel to change and have lunch then proceed to the Nong Nooch Village. This place is the Elephant zoo, we saw performance by the cute elephants and watched the cultural show. We bought bananas to feed the elephants but was scared off by them when they came in groups, hehe rather funny!
- After the long day, Mr Money brought us to the gem industry and dinner at Kinnaree seafood restaurant
- Visited Mike shopping mall and bought a few things from there. We intended to shop around the area however it was raining very heavily, the town was flooded! It was rather bad and kind of scary because it reminds me of the Tsunami...
- Mr Money brought us to one of the popular restaurant that serves bird nest, sharks fin soup and claypot crab vermicilli. Yummy, that was our supper!
- We slept like "PIG" after the long and tiring day.....



Yeah, that was me hanging in the air!

My tattoo! CHIOoooooo

The big fat clams and cuttlefish...there's another tattoo on my left arm ;)


The painting by one of the elephant!
The elephants ride bicycle, kicked football, threw darts and they even drew on T-shirts! I bought one drew by one of the elephant ;)

At the Gem gallery

Our dinner at this seafood restaurant ... and the FLOOD...

DAY 4 ~ 13/9/06 Wednesday (PTT back to BKK)
- Woke up for breakfast in the hotel again and Mr Money came to pick us at 0745hrs
- We visited Dreamworld. We spent about 4 hours there but didnt take any rides as it was raining heavily for almost an hour. We had buffet lunch in Dreamworld itself, ehhhh not very nice lor hehe...we had some snacks at KFC while hiding from the rain. The tuna salad from KFC is so nice! I like it!
- On the way back to BKK, we went to the local products shop
- Back in BKK around 1745hrs and went to the famous Four Face Buddha. Great, I longing to see the new Four Face Buddha. Its exactly the same as the last one though...
- Mr Money sent us to Twin Towers Hotel where two of our group members stay. The hotel served Teochew style buffet dinner. We enjoyed the dinner very much because we dont have to share table with the "kiasu" woman. Uhmm we dont quite like her lor... hehe
- Mr Money sent us back to Asia Hotel and we checked in to room 1114. (I dont like this room number! In cantonese it means "everyday everyday everyday DIE"!Eeeeee) HOWEVER, it was a very well furnished, spacious and beautiful room... toilet papers and tissue papers are folded into patterns and napkins folded to the shape of elephant!
- We dropped our luggages and called a taxi to the Suan Lum Night Bazzar. It is somewhat like Chatuchak but a much neat and clean version. There is a big ferris wheel, so nice! We were like lost in a maze after a while... WE BARGAIN and buy, BARGAIN and buy... buy and spent and buy and spent.... and bargain and spent....



Dreamworld...The fair Bala and the tanned Nathan!

The famous Four Face Buddha

Bala, Mr Money and Nathan....and Bala and Nathan! Sawadee Kha...

Room 1114 in Asia Hotel...folded tissues and the "elephant napkins"!

Suan Lum night bazzar

DAY 5 ~ 14/9/06 Thursday (BKK)
- Woke up to have breakfast and went sun tanned at the swimming pool
- Walked over to MBK and started SPENDING AND BARGAINING AND BUYING....
- Lunch was Tom yam noodles soup, green curry with rice and otar, fried fish cutlet with mango salad and two very sweet ice tea
- We went over to Siam discovery centre as well but nothing much there. There is a two level shopping arcade (some sort like far east) nearby and we bought a few blouse from there. Nathan spent ALL her money... I left a little cash because I signed card earlier. We bought many things and one of the sales girl offered me a big solid plastic bag! I dumped in everything that I bought, the plastic bag was so useful! ;)
- Went Chinatown for seafood dinner again! Just LOVE the seafood there, so delicious and cheap! After dinner, we walked along Chinatown and have a durian (yeah again... Ok lah acceptable!) then bought some orange back to hotel
- Back to hotel, packed and slept.........




DAY 6 ~ 15/9/06 Friday (BKK)
- Woke up and had a heavy breakfast... ate more to survive through lunch and dinner hahaha because we were BROKE! We spent the 12000baht ($500), exchanged another 2350baht ($100) then signed about $150 each hahaha... who were those who told us $500 is too much!? There were some impulsive buy but generally was quite happy with what we got!
- Went sun tanned again and went back room to shower and packed. Check out at 1300hrs then sat at the lounge, Nathan signed card for internet access and two hot tea hehe... I went out to the street to buy some snacks to munch. Mr Money did not come to pick us, instead her daughter came
- Arrived at the NEW Suvarnbhumi International Airport at 1730hrs. It was the first day of operation hence we saw the crews taking pictures. We kept hearing announcement like "this is a historical moment" blah blah... yeah, first flight on the first day. We were kind of lucky as the 500baht tax was waived
- My luggage was 15.2kg
- Excited that we have 500baht so we wanted to buy something back from this new airport. However... we were greatly disappointed. The only shop that was opened was a duty free CART. Its not a shop lor, its a cart. Everything, everywhere is still under renovation... so we bought chocolate from the cart. That was our dinner, chocolate with complimentary coke, sounds rather pathetic uh?! The best part was we have the money but no where and cannot spend it! No place selling food or drinks... NOTHING available at all!!!!!!!
- ITS WAS SO DRAGGY WAITING AT THE GATE................. WAITED AND WAITED.....
- Finally board 3K514 at 2030hrs
- Back in Singapore at almost 12MN... Tired... Sleepy... SIEN! Thanks you Alvin for fetching us from airport!

OUR pendant...so sweet! Hehehehehe.....

Things that we bought for the past 6 days! Almost $1000 worth of merchandise!

Hours of WAITING..... in the empty airport....

I enjoyed this trip very much with Nathan, it was a very memorable one! ;)

HEY! Found me or not???????!!!! I was there lor! NAE NAE NAE!