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Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:57 pm
Bangkok Trip.
I'm almost a week overdue on my Bangkok Trip update.
First thing first. Guess what my favourite mode of transportation is. It's flying. I LOVE airplanes. I just can't let the thought of how huge the commercial plane sink in. It's the most amazing transportation ever invented. I love the view of a plane speeding on the runway and take off into the air. It never fails to catch my breath and leave me awestruck. It's one of the best feeling I'll ever have.
We took the budget airline.
 The sunset on our way to Bangkok.
   The 6 of us.
Once reached, we took a limousine to our *ahem* budget hotel. It's alright I guess. Nothing special. Well, at least OUR rooms didn't have anything special. We arrived at our hotel about 8 or 9pm. Go changed and head out to dinner. We took the tuk-tuk. So much fun. I like the wind in my hair. So anyway, our driver was a little.. scary, maybe? He sped. Usually people start up slowly and gradually pick up speed. But he, he zooms off! We could feel the single front wheel lift off the ground. He did that like 3 times. And when there were potholes, he didn't slow down. A thought that's been on my mind when I was in that tuk-tuk was "Will this 3-wheeled vehicle turn onto it's side by the way he's driving?".
 
He brought us to a restaurant where the waiter taught us how to say fork and spoon in Thai. I don't know which is which but when the two words are said together, it sounds like "cheongsam". Right. So anyway, the food was alright. Expensive though.
    
After that, they wanted to go to RCA, where all the clubs and pubs are. Took the same tuk-tuk with the same driver. The drivers were like "OK!! I take you!! Anything you say!!" in this super cheerful-give-me-the-creeps way. We got on, after a while, they turned into this majorly dark and deserted alley and stopped right in front of the steps of an entrance to God-knows-what. There were a few sneaky-looking men sitting at the steps. A couple of them got up and walked towards us and invited us in. According to the drivers, that was "Disco!! Goooood!!". The six of us just sat in the tuk-tuk, momentarily stunned. Then Nisa (or was it Ruizman) spoke up in this serious no-nonsense way "No. We want to go to RCA. This is not RCA." It took a while to get the drivers to bring us away from that place. But the scariest thing was a guy from that "disco" got into our tuk-tuk, start up the engine and stepped on the accelerator. I was like "Oh no." I thought he was going to kidnap us and bring us to no-one-knows-where. You can't imagine the relief when he just made a tiny U-turn, turned off the engine and got out giving the tuk-tuk to it's original driver back.
Well, we didn't go clubbing that night. We chilled out in Hollywood instead.
        
So that's the first night. The next two days plus the next night were spent in lots of shopping and walking. We tried the BTS. We bargained with a lot of people. We met a number of nice people. We looked for Halal food shop. We found them near our hotel, a good thing. Food were good and reasonably priced. We played hilarious stupid games in our rooms. Oh on one of our shopping sprees, we met a few of our fellow NP HS Year 3 nurses!!! Such huge coincidence.
   I wear XS. She wears _______. (Fill in the blank)
   
The last night they went clubbing at RCA while I spent my night in my hotel room. I didn't want to go. Full stop.
On the last day we shopped some more to finish up out Baht money. To tell you the truth, there really isn't much to buy over there. Sure there are cheap clothes to buy but they're like the same and can be obtained anywhere. So there wasn't much things that's special. There were souvenirs that's evidently from Thailand but knick-knacks? They'll just collect dust.
We didn't do much sightseeing because it seems to take a lot of time and money. Bummer. So basically what we do is shopping. I'd have prefer to stay longer and go sightseeing. Make the trip more educational or something. Like when I went to Cambodia. It was more fulfilling.
We were shopping at the airport before our departure back to Singapore. I think we didn't realize we were late or something. So while walking to the borading gate, an airport staff was like in a hurry saying "Are you taking Flight TR 109 to Singapore?" Ais and I nodded. And she said "Hurry. The gates will close in 2 minutes." Ape lagi. Lari ah. Tini, Nisa and Ruizman were behind us. Ruizman couldn't take how Tini ran. It was too funny. She had her jacket and plastic bag of mashmallows and her moderately-sized travelling bag on one hand. Another ziploc bag with her toiletries and passport on another hand. *Give me a 5-minutes break to laugh* HAHAHAHAH. Picturing her is so funny. I just laughed out loud. Ok let me continue. Why she had the toiletries in her hands were because during the bag scanning thing, they had to confiscate her liquids! Her hair curl gel and her sun block lotion was taken away. So she didn't have time to keep everything in her bag when the staff said the gates will close soon. So I don't know which bag and jacket she has on which hand but one hand was grasping her jeans to prevent it from falling down while she ran! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Stop it, Nadiah!! Hahhahahah.
Anyway, wanna know how utterly budget-ed our hotel is? Our hotel is like hidden in an alley. There was no grand lobby welcoming us. I think you can count the number of staff in 2 hands. There's only one lift. And it's tiny. Our room can only be dimly lit by 2 table lamps and 1 spotlight, all in orange. The floor to ceiling wall window has the view of the airconditioner machine thing.
One time, while Ais was having a shower, she was bathed in darkness and cold water poured over her because there was a blackout in our room. Tini and I had to go next door to Nisa's and Ruizman's room to borrow their shower. Otherwise, we'll be groping about in the dark trying to find our toiletries.
Another time while we were going down in the lift, we met 4 other Singaporeans there for vacation too. So it was like "Where are you from?" and then "Singapore" and then "Us too!". And there were cheering like "Yay, Singapore!" Suddenly the lift came to a halt. The doors didn't open. The digital display had an "E" instead of the level of the building. The assistant bell didn't work. So the newly met guy forced the door open. He opened a crack and yelled for help. So they just forced the doors open and someone came and helped open the doors. I got a shock at what I saw when the doors opened. We were below ground level. There were NO basements. The lift it seems has gone through the ground or something so it's like a third of the lift is below the ground level. And you have no idea how naive we were. The newly met Singaporeans climbed out first. Then the hotel staff told the rest of us to stay in the lift first. Like they're going to do something. So we were like okay okay. For a few moments, nothing happened. It was quite silent. I can't remember who finally said "Why are we staying in here? Could have just climbed out just now." At the same time the newly met Singaporeans opened the doors and said "Nevermind. Let them come out first." So we all had to climb out with the help from the people outside. It was quite high! Unbelievable. We had to take the stairs la. Luckily our rooms are only on the fourth level.
Oh well. But it was still fun going on holidays with friends only. It'll always be remembered.
 
Guess which one is whose. 
It was sweet that Wilson messaged me when I was in Thailand.
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