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Thursday, July 02, 2009
i looovveee bangkok! i'm still like living in my bangkok days even though i've been back since monday, haha. just can't get enough of the cheap food, clothes, and accomodation. and best of all, the company as well as the lifestyle! well well, i really wouldn't mind living there for a couple of years.
took the 0630hrs flight early friday morning by myself for the very first time to look for angel dearest. it was an experience, scary but good. they picked me up from the airport and we headed to the hotel. beautiful, huge suite we shared :) slacked for quite a bit till hunger beckoned for food. iced coffee with roadside char siew noodles (where i transfered all the char siew in my bowl to angel's), and platinum afterwards. angel is a closet shopaholic, i swear! she bought some really good, juicy chickens too for us to share back at the hotel, haha. oh and i bumped into eliza outside platinum, how coincidental! visited khao san at night with angel and the two esthers. khao san is still my favourite place in bangkok (not just because they greet me 'konnichiwa' there)! bargained for cotton shirts and leather bracelets, shared pad thai and sweet mangoes. angel left with esther first cos of red, dry eyes while the other esther and i did manicure and pedicure for 300baht! bought my dried cuttlefish in yummy sauce and walked the streets of khao san before cabbing back.
chatuchak early next morning after angel woke me up at 0950hrs for the hotel's breakfast which ends at 1000hrs, haha! i love hotel breakfasts :) scramble eggs, toast with jam (i so wanted to buy a toaster when i woke up this morning), juices, koko krunch in milk, bacon, sausages, macaroni, yoghurt and the list goes on. went a little crazy again at my favourite abercrombie & fitch shop. spent the longest time choosing berms for the boys and had yummy chicken noodles for a really late lunch. bought my mango smoothie and choco banana prata! spent about 6hrs at chatuchak bargaining and hunting for good buys, haha. wanted to head down to suan lom at night to search for esther's hand-painted shoes but it was pouring. so we stayed in and ended up talking late into the night over CP wantons, lays potato chips, tao kae noi seaweed, oishi green tea, and a huge bottle of yakult.
woke up real early to pick micho dear up from the airport on sunday! she was suppose to be on the same flight as me but her mom didn't let her go due to the swine flu. but she came anyway! yes, after two reported deaths in thailand from swine the day before. haha her decision making process is really bad! anyway, she came with really bruised thighs from a knee surgery which she didn't tell her parents about. that girl drives me crazy sometimes! went to chinatown for goose and kao sai before tuk-tuking to the flower market to buy fruits! and angel, being the geography student she is, wanted to walk into the smelly, wet market selling all sorts of vegetables which we're definitely not buying. that's where micho and i protested profusely. then she suggested excitedly with a sparkle in her eyes about taking a boat ride along the mekong river, where micho and i threw her disgusted glances and told her if she reeaaaalllyy thought that'll be fun and wanted to do that we could accompany her. haha super funny! it was back to platinum for more shopping (supposedly for me to look for work clothes, but micho ended up going crazy) before angel and esther had to go pick another girl up from the airport. i bought yummy choco banana crepes! then it was chatuchak again :) i love the fried fish cakes drenched in the awesome chilli sauce! and my dearest psychotic micho bought a 1,400baht 3-D flowery dress.. flowers are her craze now and she compared that dress to buying a zara top to make it seem less horrible. went to mbk at night for a disappointing japanese buffet that we got cheated into cos there was a long queue for it. they actually gave out waiting numbers like those in hospitals.
i love being in a foreign land. i enjoy talking to people of different cultures and making new friends. i bask in the feeling of independence. and i like being somewhere where everyone smiles and you don't really need to care what others think about you.
this is what i love, this is me.
bringing me to his kingdom.
3:20 PM
