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All abt my life and recent happenings. ORDed on 22nd September 2005 so it's like i'm starting my life anew. Dunno how long i can keep this blog going but really hope it can go on for as long as possible. Got a very poor memory so hope i can record down those memorable moments so tat i will still be able to savour them months later...

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ehhh i'm just a typical Cancer person i guess... hiding in my crab shell most of the time... a home-loving kind of person... and my fav. quote - sHeN JinG bInG!!!

Monday, January 12, 2015

Bangkok day 6 - Farewell...

Managed to wake up in time on my final day despite sleeping at 3am the previous nite. Washed up and packed the remaining stuff. Felt a bit 依依不舍 as i looked at my hotel room for the final time.


Went down to the lobby to check out. Chatted with 1 of the guys at the front desk as i waited for the cab which i asked the front desk to help me book on the previous nite. The cab arrived after a while and i realised tat when i counted the bahts needed for my final day, i had not counted in the tips for the bellboy who helped me with my luggage... Peeked in my wallet and figured tat i could still tip him a little and have enuf for the cab fare and breakfast.

Took some random photos along the way to airport as i took in the sights of bkk for the final time.



Reached the airport earlier than i had planned to so i took my time to check in my luggages before proceeding for the security scans and passport control.


The security scans and passport control took ard 45 min which i forgot to take into consideration cos i tot it would be quite fast like in sg. So i was a bit kan cheong liao. Dunno got time to eat breakfast anot... But nvm lah. Worse come to worse i'd just have to endure a while until they serve the meals on board the plane.


After everything was finally completed, i went to the directory and searched for mac as i wanted to try their burger with pork which was not available in sg. Turns out tat theres only 1 which is only accessible by domestic passengers... Decided to have bk instead cos there is one near my boarding gate.

Walked for abt 10 min then i reached bk... and the queue was quite long... and i realised i could only afford the whopper and double fish value meals with my remaining bahts... Actually i could also pay using sgd but decided against it and chose the whopper. So this is it, my final meal in bkk... Tastes the same as in sg but the fries were definitely better. I always felt tat bk has the worse fries among the fast foods in sg. Not sure whether tat had changed though. Been a while since i last ate bk in sg.


Heard the announcement tat my flight can start boarding liao so i just finished whatever i could and proceeded to the boarding gate. Wah so fast final call already? But ok lah. Still got 30 min till departure and i'm just a few steps from the gate.


And just like tat i boarded the plane back to sg which signalled the end of my bkk trip. Good tat I tried some thai food which i had not tried b4 and also bought most of the stuff which i had planned to buy. Before the trip, i had felt tat 6 days 5 nights was perhaps too long for bkk. Now i still feel tat it is, and i dun tink tat i will plan another bkk-only trip for 6 days 5 nights cos this time round it was mostly becos of the reno. But it was still ok lah, for my kind of pace and with lots of spare time to nua and tu. Haha and perhaps i spent too much time on the trip updating this liao. A bit waste money to spend so much time in bkk to update blog. Then again, my memory's so poor, i dun tink i'll be able to write with so much details if i had only started after i reached sg. All in all it was really an enjoyable trip and i really din wanna come back! But all good things come to an end and hopefully i can have another enjoyable overseas trip sometime soon!


Sunday, January 11, 2015

Bangkok day 5

Ok here i am now in my 2nd uncle's house. Unpacked the stuff from my bkk trip and settled down already. So finally got time to update abt my final 2 days in bkk.

On friday, i woke up earlier than usual cos it was the last day for shopping. Wont have time on saturday cos my flight would be at 12.45pm. Decided to have breakfast either in platinum mall or just anywhere along the way. Saw the pasar malam (ok lah it actually looks more like a food fair) tat i saw on wednesday but it wasn't opened yet so cant eat there for breakfast.


Chose one of the street food stalls outside CentralWorld and ordered their chicken noodles. It has a piece of radish, a drumstick, chicken feet and a cube which i believe is chicken blood ba. Cos its chicken noodles mah. Cannot be chicken noodles inside got pigs blood rite? But i also nv eat chicken blood b4... Anyways, the soup tastes a bit like the soup for kway chap but just tat its sweeter. The meat for the drumstick was tender. Overall it tasted really quite nice. Bought some watermelon as i continued my way to platinum mall.


Haha actually fell asleep halfway thru updating this. Continuing now from the previous nite. Just finished brunch at boon lay place food centre and wanted to take a photo of the wanton mee tat i ate but eventually i din lah. Haha maybe too 习惯 already. Been taking photos of everything i ate for the past 6 days. But it was really quite nice and heng heng i was the last customer before they closed for the day. Maybe opening later at nite ba. Din noe of anything really nice here except for the power nasi lemak.

Still having this tourist-y kind of feeling as i explored this new neighbourhood tat i'll be staying in for the next 1 week or so. Cant really say tat its new to me cos my house is so near and also i spent quite a bit of my sec sch life here playing playstation and soccer at 1 of my sec sch's fren's house. After brunch, i walked ard boon lay shopping centre as i din really have much to do today. Maybe just go back to my regular hair salon in gek poh for haircut and drop by my house to see how's the reno going.

Ok sidetracked a bit liao. Shall continue to update on my bkk trip. So after breakfast at the roadside stall, i continued on to platinum mall to do my last min shopping.


Basically i knew wat exactly i wanted to buy liao. Just have to find the shop tat sells them with the right quality and at the right prices. Picked up the leather loafers tat i saw in zone 3 but din buy on wednesday. Din buy them at mbk cos i preferred those being sold here. And also the shop which i bought the brogues din have wholesale prices.



Went on to look for a backpack, partly cos i felt tat i would not have enuf luggage space for the stuff i bought. Ehhh dun even noe whether i'll be using it in sg anot... Went back to the shop from which i bought my wallet as i remembered seeing one which i quite like. Took a 2nd look at it and kiv-ed tat as i went down to lvl 3 which was the main lvl selling bags according to the directory. Lvl 4 and 5 were for leather goods. Saw another which i liked which was double the price of the one at lvl 4. Decided to get this one as the quality seemed better. Another reason was tat the salesperson at lvl 4 got attitude problem today. Kept on mumbling something in thai after she told me the prices of the bags. So now i have something to keep all my loot for tat day liao. Haha din have to carry ard so many bags of stuff in my hand. Went on to lvl 4 in zones 1 and 2 to shop for the rest of my stuff.


Here in zones 1 and 2, it was really quite fast-paced as compared to zone 3. So it was like although i still have quite a bit of time to shop for my remaining 3 or 4 items (it wasnt even noon yet), i was like being influenced into being kan cheong. Walked a bit faster and was looking ard frantically for the items tat i wanna buy. Managed to get the skinny/slim-fit pants tat i wanted at this shop which actually allowed exchanges for size, which i tink is quite a rarity here in platinum mall, and generally in bkk actually (excluding those big shopping malls of cos). This i feel is one of the few disadvantages of shopping here as all the shops here do not have fitting rooms. Went to the toilet to try out the pants. Happy with the size and on with the shopping.

Randomly picked up a t-shirt cos tats like necessity for every bkk trip. If u havent bought a t-shirt, u havent been to bkk! Decided to skip on the casual shirt tat i initially planned to buy cos i din see any tat i liked. So only 1 item left now, which was the casual blazer (ehhh dun really noe wat to call it cos it has a sweater-like collar and cuffs but blazer-like button and pockets) tat i saw on wednesday. 

Found it at 1 of the shops on lvl 4 but their smallest size was m. Remembered tat i saw it at lvl 2 on wednesday so i decided to go to tat shop to see if they have size s for me to try if it fits better. I had noted down the lane tat the shop was in so i found it pretty quickly. However, the smallest size is also m and same price also (realised after i bought it tat they are actually branches of the same shop as it was indicated on the plastic bag). Decided to buy it here at lvl 2 as the lady (ehhh or was it a man) tat served me at lvl 4 got attitude problem again. Haha if u got attitude problem then u cant get my business. If ur attitude is fantastic, u might even influenced me into buying something on impulse. Ehhh something like wat happened to the slippers on wednesday. Wore them to massage on thursday and friday and its like increasingly likely tat i wont ever wear them again...


Anyways i was done with my shopping for clothes and shoes. Although i wasnt really hungry yet, i went to the food court to eat something and contemplate on wat to do for the rest of the day. Ordered seafood pad thai and or lua (or hot tod as indicated on the menu. haha sounds like hot bod but dun tink u'll have a hot bod if u eat too much of this). Pad thai was normal but really liked the or lua although it was super oily. The tau gey makes it less 腻 to eat though. So my conclusion for food after these 6 days is - order anything with egg and u'll nv go wrong. Ehhh or maybe not ba. Remembered seeing a skewer of 3 eggs with the shells still on in 1 of the street food stalls. Dun really wanna tink abt wat it really is...


After finishing lunch, i nua-ed in the food court as i tot abt wat to buy for my colleagues. Browsed thru the countless sg blogs abt bkk trips and also those travel web sites and finally i decided on buying pocky as i read tat they have some flavours here which are not available in sg. So off i went to big c supermarket which was also along the way back to chit lom bts. Bought more of the chocobanana flavour as it seemed to be more special.


Finally done with all my shopping already. Decided to go back hotel to put all my stuff and start packing. At least i would still have time to tink of something if i was unable to pack everything in. Bought this drink called oliang on my way back. I had assumed tat it was some sort of liang teh and bought it as i was feeling a little heatiness which i probably got from my lunch. Turns out tat it was actually kopi-o peng... Y like tat?? I want teh o u give me liang teh. Now i really want liang teh liao u give me kopi-o peng... Actually it was more like kopi-o peng, kaaaaa dai cos i tried to finish it but gave up after finishing half as it was reeeaaaally sweet. Saw the stall owner add 3 large spoonfuls of sugar... 


Started packing and just abt managed to squeeze all my stuff into the luggage i brought, the backpack i bought and my small hand-carry sling bag, leaving some space for those stuff tat i would be packing on the next morning. So i nua-ed for a little while more before i went to collect my suit and shirt at crown.

Haizzz dunno y even after all the alterations after 2 fittings, somehow the blazer still doesnt look rite to me... hmmm maybe i need to buff up more ba. I collected the suit and shirt as there wont be enuf time for anymore alterations already. Then i brought them back to my hotel room before going to terminal 21 for dinner.



Decided to eat at terminal 21 as i still had the food court card with me and also wanted to try the mango sticky rice there as it looked good everytime i see it but always no stomach space for it. Maybe also cos i prefer salty food instead so wasnt really interested in trying it. First i ordered the main course for my dinner which was hainanese and deep fried chicken rice. The deep fried chicken was really disappointing as it wasnt really crispy. The hainanese white chicken was slightly better as the meat was tender. The chilli was good as well.


Then finally i tried the mango sticky rice, and it was really, really good! And this is coming from me, a person who dun really like sweet stuff/desserts. The rice is a little salty and neutralises a bit of the mango's sweetness so u wont eat the mango until got the 腻 feeling. The sesame and the other crispy yellow stuff just increases the 口感。Really a nice way to end off my final dinner in bkk.


So only 1 thing left to do now - my final massage session of cos. Went to another massage parlour in the soi tat my hotel was in and tried the 1 hour thai full body massage. Really loosened all my stiff muscles but dunno y my shoulders were hurting the morning after the massage. Still hurting a bit now... Also took a photo of the atas club near my hotel. Looks really happening at nite. Contemplated on whether to go in to 大开眼界 but decided against it due to lack of funds and actually not really interested also. Not really a clubbing person. Also read tat its a bit racist. Only interested in ang moh customers. So i better not try. Scarly get turned away at the door by the bouncer then paiseh liao. So this ends off day 5 of my trip and will be updating later on the final day, which was basically the trip to the airport.





Saturday, January 10, 2015

Bangkok day 4

Just finished checking in online and feeling quite refreshed from the shower and earlier massage so decided to update wat i have been doing these past 2 days.

Went to mbk as planned on thursday. Took the bts to national stadium and decided to take a pic of the home of the recently-crowned suzuki cup champions. Not as nice as our brand new and extravagant sports hub, but i believe the atmosphere on match day must be electric. When i attended the match between thailand and sg at the sports hub, the amount of noise generated by the small pocket of thai fans was like almost the same as the sg fans liao. Imagine a whole stadium full of thai fans...


First thing i did when i reached mbk was to find a place to eat my brunch. Almost noon when i reached there as i was nuaing in hotel room for quite a while. Saw this notice tat says show passport got free welcome drink and actually wanted to go get it after shopping. Totally forgot abt it as i was dealing with some problem with my credit card. Shall elaborate later.


Looked thru the directory and decided on the restaurant with the most thai-looking name - yum saap. Ordered this "Mama" noodle which is actually just dry tom yam maggi mee with some fish cake, sausage, crab stick and vegetables. I chose the not so spicy version but was still almost tearing after finishing it. Haha i really dun take spicy food very well but still like to eat them once in a while. Also ordered this pork skin which tasted like a cross between pork lard and keropok. Nice and crispy but was quite 腻 when i had almost finished all of them.


After brunch, i then set abt my search for the brown leather brogues which i couldnt find in platinum mall. Saw a few of them and still surprised at the lack of choices. Hmmm maybe it's like out of vogue already? Decided to go for a tea break as i pondered over the few choices tat i shortlisted. Again referred to the directory and this time i chose one of those names under "bakery and beverage" tat i havent seen or heard b4.

Went to this cafe called mont and based on wat i read from its walls, its like the thai version of yakun or toastbox. Ordered a toast with condensed milk and a cup of thai black tea. The toast was good, but by itself, it was a bit too sweet. Haha but shld have expected tat as it was condensed milk. Tats y i ordered the black tea so tat effectively it was like drinking teh with toast when i eat them together. Turns out the thai black tea actually tasted more like those 二十四味 liang teh when i expected it to be teh o, even after adding sugar... Luckily the toast was really sweet so the 2 eaten together was actually still quite nice. Hopefully it has some cooling effect as well to neutralise the heatiness built up from my brunch.


Managed to decide on which shoes to buy during my tea break and went ahead to buy it after trying it on. Then i realised tat i might not have enuf baht as i still have to keep some for the balance for my suit and also the 2nd visit to platinum mall on friday. Tried to withdraw some at one of the atms but no money come out after i confirmed everything. Tried another time but still cannot. It also doesnt says what is the problem. Then i realised tat i din activate the magnetic strip for my card... Tried to activate it using the mbanking app but no authentication code sms received after trying a few times. Then i realised tat i'm using my thai sim card... Decided to go back hotel to settle this issue 1st before deciding on where to go for the rest of the day.

On my way back, i decided to take a pic of this atas-looking club near my hotel. Saw a ferrari driving in the night before when i was looking for supper.


Reached my hotel room and changed to my sg sim card. Tried the mbanking app again, received the sms and tried to activate my card. Then it prompts me for another code... which i can get by pressing a button on my dbs token... which is all the way back in sg... so i decided to just try to activate it by calling the call centre. Was told tat i needed a phone banking pin to activate it thru phone call... but the call centre staff told me tat i can also sms to activate it. So i finally managed to activate it thanks to my frenly posb colleague.

After finally settling this issue, i was tinking of whether to go platinum mall or some other place for more shopping. But then decided to just nua in hotel for the rest of the day cos only 1-2 more hours then need to go 2nd fitting for my suit liao. So i just watched tv and even took a short nap.

Woke up from my nap just in time for the 2nd fitting at crown. After the fitting, i decided to have dinner at this restaurant near my hotel which i walked past everyday. Somehow it just didn't appeal to me to consider eating there although it doesnt look expensive and sometimes its even quite crowded which means the food couldnt be tat bad. But tat day i was in nuaing mode so i just wanted to anyhow find a place to eat.

Ordered this green curry chicken set which includes green curry chicken, an omelette, some veges and some fruits. Waited quite a while for my food to be served although there were not many customers tat evening. Tink more than 20 min. When the food finally came, i saw tat the portion was quite big and the plate makes it look like some home-cooked food. The green curry and veges were quite ok. I really like the omelette although it was quite oily. Some parts of it were crispy and it makes me wanna keep eating the rice.


After dinner, i decided to just rest in hotel for a while as i was really full, go for massage, then go back and sleep liao. Cos the next day, i'll be in for some intense last min shopping.

Wah already 3am liao. Tink i'll stop here for the time being ba. If not, tmr oversleep and miss my flight then jialat liao. 

Thursday, January 08, 2015

Bangkok day 3

Just finished bathing after an entire day of 买东西,吃东西, 买东西,吃东西。Ehhhh but also din buy a lot of stuff lah. Din eat as much as i did yesterday also.

Started my day by going back to took lae dee for breakfast. Ordered the american breakfast set again but today i chose sausage and sunny-side up (or fried egg according to the menu).


After breakfast i decided to proceed to crown tailor even though it was still ard 45 min till the time for the fitting. I had hoped tat the suit would be delivered earlier than expected to the shop. However, when i reached crown ard 1/2 hour early, i was told tat i would still have to wait ard 1 more hour. So i decided to go back in the evening cos i din really wanna spend 1 hour waiting in the shop when i can be shopping instead. Got onto the bts to chit lom and took a little walk to platinum mall. Bought some pineapples to munch along the way.


Reached platinum mall and wanted to buy a pair of brown leather brogues here but surprisingly i dun see them being sold here at any shop. Saw some leather loafers which i had planned to buy but decided to see if i can get them at mbk together with the brogues so tat i can try to bargain for a bigger discount. Managed to get some of the other stuff which i had planned to buy and decided to break for late lunch at the food court upstairs.

Bought this rice with pork limb which i had tried before at the terminal 21 food court during my last solo trip and i would say tat the one at terminal 21 seems to taste better.


After my late lunch, i continued shopping and managed to buy some more stuff before i proceeded to crown tailor for my 1st fitting. Along the way back to chit lom bts station, i saw this thai style pasar malam and was tempted to settle my dinner here. However, i wasnt feeling hungry yet after the late lunch so i decided to give it a miss. Maybe i'll eat there tmr or on friday when i go back to platinum mall.


Had my fitting at crown and decided to also tailor another shirt. Felt tat the blazer was too long but the crown staff (the same one tat served me on monday) insisted quite firmly tat i shldnt make it any shorter or it would look like a lady's jacket... Trusted him on this and kept the length unchanged. Only shortened the sleeve length and made the pants slimmer at the bottom. Will be back for another fitting tmr when the shirt will already be ready.

Decided to go back hotel to drop off my stuff before proceeding to terminal 21 for dinner. Ordered this fried noodle with pork and i would say tat this was the most delicious food tat i had eaten for this trip up till now. Better than even the shark's fins and bird's nest i tink.



After polishing up every strand of noodle, i went to try on the jersey tat i considered buying on monday. Realised tat the jersey is not really tat fitting so i decided not to buy it already. Nothing much else to do here so i proceeded back to hotel. Saw a massage parlour in the soi tat my hotel was in and decided to go for my 1st massage session for this trip as my legs were aching quite a bit. Chose the foot massage which actually also included a bit of head, shoulder, back and arms massage. It was quite good and managed to loosen my stiff shoulders and eased my aching limbs.

After the massage, i decided to have a bit of supper as the dinner just now didn't really fill my stomach. Walked ard and decided to order some pad thai at a roadside stall. Quite disappointed as it din taste as good as it smells.


Ok then this ends off day 3 and tmr i will be going to mbk for some more shopping.


Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Bangkok day 2 - night

Ehhh feeling quite stupid now as i had assumed tat i could still catch the river ride to chinatown. But when i enquired with the hotel reception just now, they told me tat the last boat had already left at 6.30pm. Was contemplating on whether to go there on friday instead as i havent really plan wat to do on tat day. But decided to cab there today cos if not i also dunno where else to go.

So off i went to chinatown in the cab. There was a bit of traffic jam and the journey took ard 1/2 hour. Reached there at ard 8pm and the roads were still quite busy with cars and pple. Decided tat i'll just have dinner, buy some stuff from 林真香 and i'll head back to rest already.

Decided to have my dinner at this stall which seemed quite popular. As i waited for my food to be served, i was searching online for recommended stuff to eat here in chinatown and realised tat the stall i'm sitting at is called Lek & Rut. Ordered a coconut juice, baked prawns and deep fried fish in sweet chilli sauce. Of cos i also ordered one of the must-eats here in chinatown - shark's fins. Struggled but managed to finish almost everything (just a bit of the fish left).





Decided to walk around a bit to at least digest a bit of my very heavy dinner and also to buy some tidbits from 林真香, before i have my 2nd round of must-eats in chinatown - bird's nest.


Bought 2 packets of tidbits from 林真香 to give to 2nd uncle or if they dun want then i tink i'll just eat them myself. Then finally i'm off in search of the location for my final mission of this short chinatown trip. Decided on this 东方燕窝大王 as the price for all the stalls seems to be the same. This stall had a big and bright 招牌, looked clean and had air con. Ordered the cheapest bird's nest at 100 baht and it came with honey, an egg, some gingko nuts and a cup of tea. Was told by the staff to put everything (except for the tea of cos) into the bird's nest (dunno whether i heard wrongly anot...). Tasted a bit of the bird's nest and felt tat it was already very sweet so i din put the honey in. Also gave the egg a miss as i felt tat it might taste weird. This was definitely value for money if this was indeed real bird's nest cos it's like only ard S$4. In singapore i tink only can get those bird's nest drink ba.


While enjoying the bird's nest, i saw tat they also have this bottled bird's nest. I enquired on it and decided to buy a pack of six for 2nd uncle to sort of thank them for 收留-ing me during the reno. After finishing the bird's nest, it was like mission accomplished already so i hailed a taxi and headed back to the hotel.

So just like tat i'm at the end of day 2 for this trip already. Only 3 战利品 for today but i tink there will be more to come in the next 2 days which i have planned for shopping in platinum mall.