our summer trip - the extended version (or not!)
Our 2 days stopover @ BKK and also to meet up with our gorgeous Kathy-not a day over 28 lah. happy u! *hehe
After all the high in Tokyo, i got to say, BKK was a downer for me. I'm sure there were some 'up' moments for elim hehe. shhh!!! The city in general was dirty -which Mag defended as it's characters. The taxi drivers well...some are really kind and a couple of them are real CONMAN. Serious. Let me summarize them for you: THEY ARE CONMAN!
wat happened? 
1. On rainy days, taxi fares quadrupled and some don't even want to take us. (well same as KL lah)
2. They will say, "help me, help you". So remember cheap rides comes with a price. No free lunch. Once u hopped onto their cabs, they will bring you to the world's biggest gem factory (so they claimed) so they will get a stamp for free gallons of petrol. This is a conspiracy between the taxi drivers and factories. They will sweet talk and make conversation to get you there and once got what they wanted, silence.
3. They will drop you in a restaurant they conspired with, and leave you there; despite arguing it's not the place you wanted. You got no choice but get out of the taxi.
4. They tried to 'recommend' you places and God forbids, if you declined and insisted on going to your destination, their faces turned black and sounded pissed off.
So to the Thai Tourism Board, for all the work you guys try to promote your country, shame on your taxi drivers in giving a bad impressions to the tourists.
Shopping in BKK is not cheap. WHO SAY IT IS? ooo... aunties and uncles. Really. where? ok, maybe the market and the big MBK centre, but the stuffs they sell are hmm...just say catered for aunties and uncles lah.
Big departmental stores stuffs aint cheap and designer stuffs aint cheap either (some are even more expensive than tokyo).
Ok ok! they have a huge shopping centre. Massive actually. Worth a look and visit i must say. Interiors for all the stores/cafes are amazing. Even a simple ice cream parlour is so so well designed.
mine mine.
Food was supposed to be good: think tom yum, think spicy, think ice tea. Where did we go and fill our stomach?
First nite as arranged by le'qua we had steamboat or in sherry's case: hotpot. Dunno why the taiwanese called them
hotpot.
We went to a chain restaurant (left) and the food wasn't that great nor that bad. So-so. As usual, we being greedy opted for 2 soup favours haha! why not? and got to say, their tom yum broth wasn't oily nor over powering spicy. Nice. But their portion of food not big enough to fill us vultures.
Give it a try when you guys heading there.
Some of you guys heard of Bed Bar. think
Carrie & Co in SATC. yup! where you can dine, drink, if lucky (*winked) sleep on the bed and dance too. We went to the BKK one the following night called Bed Supper Bar.
and yes...i slept on the bed. so does our disco queen-the one on the left as the one of the right busy...
there are 2 parts or zones: bed or bar. the latter was packed like sardines so we resorted to find a bed for us to jump/lie and 'look around'. (*hehe!) It wasn't easy to find one at first, as it was rather packed in here too; but after back and forth, up & down the club, we found one, and danced around it.
The crowd, not that interesting but at least it was my first experience in BED. It allowed me to nap off the 10% alcohol in my drinks on the big white bed. (*hahaha)
Chasing the
Blue Elephant 
literally, all of us (in 2 separate taxis) are looking for the blue restaurant ala amazing race style. W&M's taxi dropped them in some restaurant (point 3) and insisted it's the right one. Then the next 2 taxis do not know where the elephant is.
As for our taxi, where do i start? we wrote the address in thai,
dunno where? cab driver called his friends,
still dunno where? almost one hour later, from no rain to rain, still dunno where? asked around the area, got redirected, still lost. Finally, finally finally...we got there. goodness!
I do wonder, if the blue elephant establishment is famous, and recommended by critics, why come no bloody taxi drivers know where?
idiot!is the food any good? it was good, i got to say and we all have a great time. O because we were really hungry by then. No seriously, the food was nice. The ambiance was great too. Very colonial style and full of ang-mohs. How come no locals?
Anyway, we had a great time and post dinner, we went on a scary journey. No joke.
The taxi took us ALL of us in one cab (yes!) to a clubbing area. That journey took us like forever. Up the highway, down the highway and through the toll way, passed some industrial areas and it was dark. Then finally we arrived in a clubbing area. Literally, rows of clubs & bars. Only to find out, on our way back to the hotel, it's just like 5 mins drive from our hotel. HUH? wat the f**K?
It was a saturday night, free entrance and all, and i got to say. The clubs are banging and packed with sardines. Seriously.
Nin nia have never seen such packed clubs before. EVER, where u literally danced shoulder to shoulder. HOW to dance, may i ask? excuse me, excuse him, excuse her, in and out, madness. No crowd control one meh. I'm tired even to write about this, and by this time, all of us was tired and wanting to head back, but not our dear '
always tired' kathy who seemed to be full of energy then.
finally the end of the holiday...
we all have to say our goodbyes to Kathy as our flight was scheduled differently, so we ended up (wasting her time & money-as said by her) to go sight seeing.
when will we see you again?
at the airport, queuing up, all of us are really really tired. 'N me in my
superfine ic! berlin sunnies (*haha!) Ok, i got to say this is one of my impulse purchases in Tokyo and i am loving it. Superfine, superlight and superme.
our luggages and u can just imagine, with 5 of us travelling through 2 cities for 10 days, sure overweight one lah. If i say No, u believe?
ps. we are now not planning for our summer 2008. hmm...
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this picture was taken in a coffee shop that we got from the froodor guide book saying it's one of the must visit place while in kyoto and inorder to get into the shop we had to wait. We were asked to sit in the garden which just in 2 steps infront. We saw real big japanese koi and jin took one with her shoes and she insists to mention that this is in Kyoto not tokyo.
