[[*W i n t e r T e a r s*]]

5.7.08

[[Thailand trip]]

yipee! I am in Thailand, Bangkok now! The long awaited trip has finally arrived and I am already in the midst of it now.

Today is day 2 of the trip. But I shall start with the day 1.

Day 1: Flight to Thailand
The "oh my gosh" weird time at 0430 to reach the airport was so tiring and taxing on all 8 of us. Anyway, we still made it with nothing exceptionally weird happening to thailand. Just that I realised budget is really budget. Like what they say out there, it is a flying bus. The leg space is like "sbs bus" quoted from (I forgot who). I could totally feel every movement of the plane. It tilting to the side, moving left, right, turning, etc..

Cab to Hostel
All that talk about the taxi meter before the trip was all gone. The stupid rude taxi driver refuses to switch on the meter when the airport taxi stand obviously shows METER. And when we asked him to switch it on, he totally ignored us. Just simply refuse to. >< Irritating!
Despite that, we didn't paid that much either. The fare was still reasonable.

Shopping
To the fun part now. Laypeng, Britney and I totally went speed shopping. My eyes almost popped out at the end of it from seeing all the things. My legs were wobbly and near to giving way especially when I already suffered from a whole body ache due to that dance lesson the day before. The sleepless night didn't help either. But we still bought a pretty good amount of stuff. (: Kind of guilty for spending that much. My first ever shopping spree.

The Mixed-Up
Tired, blur and irritated. The 3 of us actually went to the wrong lobby to meet the rest. To think that I insisted so strongly that we were correct. Now I feel so embarrassed for that. >< Anyway after near to an hour of waiting around, or rather 'dying around', we managed to get them and met up. With that amount of baggage, aching bodies (esp legs), the cabs totally intend to murder us with that ridiculous cab fare back to the hostel.

The Blessing in Disguise
The walk to the final dining place was a long and energy draining one. We tried to jay walk (well actually everyone here does it) to the opposite side for food. 'cause we werent exactly liking the food we had earlier for lunch on that initial side of the road we were on. Finally making it there into the opposite shopping centre (Pratunam), we dragged our feet up to the highest floor where the food court is to see most of the stalls closed and the food court closing in about 15 min time. WONDERFUL! I just totally stoned off, got a chair and collapsed on it. Ah! that much missed rest for the legs! (: It was heavenly.
Well despite all those wasted walks and energy, we walked down the street and found a street side store with seats. Totally drained, we just settled for that although there were/was people/person especially against street food. But well well, the chicken rice turned out wonderful! It was just delicious. (: Everything! From the rice to the chicken (actually okay la. but it had loads of fats on it ><) to the soup to the satays (: yum yum! Later on, we even got to know that the chicken rice there is known for its splendid taste. What a good choice we made.

Back to the hostel
The cabs were still extremely expensive when we were done ): But in the end 4 sat a cab and the other 4 (including me) took a tutu. It was so fun! Like ridding on a roller collaster but just on actual road with cars on it. (But the air is horribly polluted) And despite the squeezy situation we were in, all 4 of us had a fun time on the short trip back.

The Night Life
Well actually our hostel is located at Patpong, the red light district in Bangkok. And just fyi, we DID NOT choose it 'cause of that. We chose it 'cause of the hostel's good reviews and rooms And I MUST SAY the rooms are really good, so is the hostel (:
Anyway after bathing, we all decided to walk around the area. Not the red light area. But somehow we walked right into it. HAHA! There were of course load of weird guys around, but also promoters asking us to go in? LOL. like excuse me? do we look the slightest bit interested? Out of the area we went and back in the right direction for some supper.
As we walked, we just reached the Patpong market, which was our initial plan for the night. Well, the things that were sold them are pretty common, not exactly appealing to me much. So I bought nothing from there. But there were more to that. The whole market was just next to this continuous stretch to no end of weird bars with girls in binkini dancing on table tops. Totally disgusting. We were continously being asked to go in and see some dunno what shows. Pingpong shows? Whatever the name is, I am just so not keen. Why the hell did we even continue walking right into the street? I really don't know...

Day 1 was more or less like that. Tiring and exhausting but good harvest for the shopping I supposed. (:

Anyway I will continue on Day 2 another day. Not as interesting as Day 1 I supposed. Just the sun burn part hurts now.

[[Story Written On By pZ]]*|2:44:00 a.m.|

[[*The Writer*]]

name: peizhen
bdae:05 may 1989
age: 19+
horoscope: taurus
nicks: pz
skool: peiying pri, st nicks, vj, nus
location: singapore
worth: $2,133,082

resolution: none currently

[[*My Adores*]]

food:any food!
drinks: iced cold ones! esp chocolate!
pastimes: listening to music, playing music, slacking, stoning
people: all who consider me as a friend! (:

[[*My Detests*]]

people: none so far! hopefully forever too!
food: anything tasteless or taste horrible!

[[*Music's Playing*]]

artist: tank
song: give me your love

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[[*The Conversations*]]

[[*My Friends*]]

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