Bangkok Last

Hi dears!

If you travel often, maybe you should keep a blog. I like entries where friends go to various places and keep me interested about the places they went to. Maybe you can become a famous blogger, who knows right!


Here is the last entry on Bangkok!

On our final day there, we walked around Pratunum area to try to find a blazer for Jun Wen's dad. It was also when I realized I took very few photos relative to those other vacation trips I went to, so I went snapping photos away, lagging behind him while he, filled with anxiety, shopped for the blazer.




Him entering one of the shops at the Pratunum wholesale market. The Thais are very hardworking people. They opened their shops at around 9 in the morning while us Singaporeans opened our retail shops mostly at 11am.






Shops selling those bags suitable for packing in the many clothings you bought at the wholesale market. Most suited for blogshop owners.





Soon after, we were in Shibuya 19 Mall. It is a more classy mall that sells clothings at a relatively high price with better quality, but still considered cheap as compared to those in Singapore.

Simba found the blazer at the mall. He bought it at only 550 Baht, which is about SGD20! Omg. (Scroll down for a pic of the blazer! I really think it is worth the money, since it looks like it costs $50!)






It's always odd how we save on food and spend our savings on shopping!
I think we only went to one fine dining restaurant situated at the top floor of the Discovery Centre and spent only about $20 altogether. The rest of the time, we ate at food courts. In our defense, in malls like the Platinum Mall, we could only find food courts!

One very significant difference between their food courts and our food courts is that they took quite sometime to prepare the food. Lol. If our food courts operate at their speed, they would probably close down in like a month.

On the contrary, their fine dining restaurants serve food faster than ours. Lol! Love the service there better too! :D







Our breakfast at the food court.






Meatball noodles.






We both had coffee since it was our last day there and the tiredness from all those shopping has accumulated! Jun Wen had been hinting me to go for massages throughout the trip, but I couldn't since my knees still hurt and I was so afraid that the masseuse might break my knees further. Lol. He was disappointed that we didn't get to be massaged eventually since one of the must-do things in Thailand is to get a traditional Thai massage!

The coffee tasted too thick! You might just get sore throat by drinking one full cup of the coffee there.






Cinamonorolls were spotted in the food court. Though they look really lazy and disorganized altogether, I needed to take a pictures with these life sized characters!











Beside the cinamonorolls were all these magazines decorated deers! We still had sometime before the coach came to pick us up from our hotel, so we went posing with them. He likes to hide behind leaves.











Each storey of the Shibuya 19 Mall is named after a place in Japan.









And it was time for us to head back to the hotel and wait for our coach.
Had to take more photos so captured some fashion clothings from a few stores on our way back.






Street food. One typical street cart.






Our hotel rears baby sharks. Very unique to find sharks in aquariums!





The Photohunt machine in our hotel. Lol. That's him pretending to play.








Cute poster on top of the pool table. :D





Asked one of the hotel staff for a photo too. He has fantastic customer service skills, I must say!
Is he an Indian or an Ang Moh? Can't really tell isn't it! He spoke like a Thai anyway.










And again, it was his saddest day on the last day of every trip we went to. Lol!



In the small van (our so-called "coach"). We shared the van with 3 other Singaporean ladies who were comparing the exaggerating number of things they bought. Each of them brought SGD$1,500 there solely to shop! Omg!






He wore the blazer he bought for his dad, since our bags were fully packed! Too much shopping kills space. Lol.
Love the blazer!










And again, he did not complete his souvenir buying for his friends so we continued hunting for them at the airport.







I was really hungry since we didn't have lunch but are going to have it in the plane. Couldn't resist the temptation in the end and went to buy mango rice at one of the souvenir shops. Love it. We didn't have enough money and had to use credit cards. Thanks Citibank for being a worldwide bank!






Love my dress from Bonanza Mall, costing 400 baht! A little expensive for something from Thailand but think it was still worth it. Never find something like it in Singapore.












In our comfy flight back home!







Still loving the TV screen and ear pieces of Thai Airways. LOL!