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.