7th March 2010
Bangkok Trip Day 1
finally the day is here. our Bangkok trip that was planned very last minute. 3 small girls going to travel on their own xD. Fazillah, Ginnette and me meet 10.45am at Tiong Bahru MRT and we took train down to Changi Airport...
@ Tiong Bahru MRT.
we reached at around 11.45am and straight away took skytrain to Terminal 1 to check in our baggage and exchange the ticket voucher for our Boarding Pass xD

inside Skytrain to T1.
saying goodbye to our bags.
don't worry my bag, i will fetch u in Bangkok xD
our Boarding Passes xD
after that, we went to Terminal 3 for our brunch. and approximately, we have 1.5 hours before boarding in, so we took our own sweet time going there.
and the super lame Fazillah grabbed a trolley to push our bags. WHAT? bags? bags??!! we only left with our hand carry, and it's not very big or heavy, but she insisted in using it.

Fazillah is like pushing an empty trolley =.=''' hahaha. when we were about to board the Skytain to T3, she actually dumped the poor trolley outside the skytrain. so poor thing!
andnext, we decided to eat at Popeye....
our fried chicken feast =D
shared 3 piece chicken meal upsize together. we did not order alot because there's lunch provided in the plane xD hahaha.

inside toilet @ T3
we talked, and laughed and enjoyed our meal while waiting for the time to pass. moved on back to T1 at around 1pm, and we were ready to check in =D
i'm so excited. the last time i took a plane was TEN OVER YEARS AGO. cannot believe it, right?

Departure!!!

@ the BON VOYAGE point!


Our Cathay Pacific Plane.
and poof~ Off we go!!!!
and how nice of Fazillah and Ginnette to let me have the window seat =D. you know, i have waited for 10 years =X

Goodbye Singapore Changi Airport!!

anyway, i went super excited when the plane took off xD. the feelings was so shiok. hohoho. and lunch was served shortly after.

Chicken Rice & Fish Pasta ^^


and this horrible chain, i had difficulty solving it. Ginnette managed to remove the ring and put it back in loh. haha, and in the end, i gave up solving it!! haha.
the whole journey took about 2 hours 15 mins.

and yeah!~ and here we are at Bangkok
Suvarnabhumi Airport at 4pm (3pm Thai Time).

we had quite a hard time making our way to the checkpoint, the distance was rather long. we were like walking from one end to other end.

queueing up to get our passport stamped!!!
after that we went to retrieve our bags. and then we made our way to Area 4 to look for the guide that was supposed to send us to our Hotel.
but looked at the large crowd of people waiting all the tourists. how are we going to find our guide? we were walking to and fro opening our eyes big big, hoping to see Fazillah's name on one of the piece of paper that the crowd of people were holding.

almost gave up looking, so i took out the envelope and was prepared to find a number to call, when suddenly one lady grabbed my hand and calling out my Travel Agency name, Farmosa.
phew!~ thank god she saw the word Farmosa printed on my envelope.

lol! that's the piece of paper that lady was holding. and Fazillah's name was written so small below. no wonder we didn't see it. haha
and the lady passed her paper to Ginnette, asking her to help holding it while she sent the first batch of people to the van.
can you spot her?
she camoflaged herself into the crowd, pretending to be one of the guide, and shouting FARMOSA!!!!!!!! this scene made Fazillah and me laughed till stomach cramped!! she really does act like one tour guide. LOL!~
the lady was very nice, she recommended us a few attrations, and that she can arranged for vehicle to bring us around. but we rejected as we wanted to go free & easy on our own, until we heard the word Tiger Show, we agreed to go for it. lol.
we paid 600 baht on the spot to her, and that she will arranged a van to pick us up outside our hotel lobby at 8.20pm (thai time) to bring us there. 600 baht includes the van to send us there, the Tiger Show entrance ticket and the van to bring us to the Night Market.

anyway, we waited for like one hour before we were finally brought to the van that will send us to our hotel.
Diamond City Hotel!!!
reached the hotel at around 5pm (thai time), we went check in at the counter first, the counter staff was so funny. we asked him for our room key, and he joked with us that their hotel have no door. LOL.
anyway, he gave us a map, showing us how to get to the nearby shopping mall. and then we made our way to our room and put down our bags.


settled down our bags, took some random pictures, grabbed our mini bags and zoomm!!! we only left with 3 hours to shop, not to waste anymore time, off we go!!!
we hold the map, trying to figure out how to get to MBK Shopping mall. and we actually turned to the wrong alley twice, and ended up at some cemetery. lols.




and finally, we reached MBK!!! hahaha.
we went to Siam Discovery first, but we walked back out after walking one round. the place was not our kind of place to shop. too grand and high class shop inside.
we crossed the bridge to MBK and our shopping spree started xD.....


anyway, it's quite tough to find halal food in Bangkok. poor Fazillah had a super hard time finding food for herself. even the mcDonald's and Burger King there served Pork Burger. LOL xD
Ginnette and me bought Chicken and Ham pie at 29 baht (S$1.25), and it tasted so nice!!!! fell in love with it =D

shop for some tee-shirt and we acted like some auntie bargaining and bargaining xD. went to the Tops Market and buy cup noodle back, to prepare for supper later on =D
after that we quickly rushed back to our hotel, put down what we have bought and then went down to the lobby for our van that will drove us to watch Tiger Show.
anyway, first time i watched
it LIVE!!! haha. and i wondered how come no one checked our age? haha. what if some underage sneaked in, doesn't they care? hahaha.
after the show, the van picked us up and sent us to Suan Lum Night Market to do some night shopping.

the night market was super big. we shop from 9.30pm to 1am (thai time) and couldn't complete the whole night market.
anyway, the place sold lots and lots of things, and everything can be easily bargained!! haha. i bought mostly souvenirs for friends and colleagues and not much things for myself.
it's okay, i still have tomorrow to shop for myself xD
we left at around 1am plus, took taxi back to our hotel. we rejected all taxi that charged us more than 120 bahts (S$5.20). after asking alot of taxi, finally there's a taxi driver agreed to send us back to our hotel at 120 baht. hahaha.
back to hotel, bathe ourselves, cooked my Tom Yam noodle, and supper time at 2am plus.
=continues Day 2 on my next post=
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