Saturday, May 14, 2005
I suddenly had a mood to write alot more about my Bangkok trip. I know I'm not the first person to have ever visited Bagkok, but it's my first and it's definitely a memorable and eventful one. Firstly, the cab rides were damn exciting. I'm love speed, and the kinds of speed the cabs hit! Wow! they average 110km/h while still weaving thru traffic and the way they bend corners! I've got a need for speed! The most memorable cab ride has to be this cabby who challenged this crazy lady behind the wheels of a Mitsubitshi Lancer. Woah, they were racing and challenging one another's guts but cutting in front of one another with dangerously short distance in between and tailgating and less than 1meter at a crazy 90km/h!
Next, there was the "Patpong market" Which was also a read light district where the "lady boys" made business. The market was good, lots to see loads to buy. And alot of irritating promoters to Tiger shows. Wah lao, my girlfriend was with me can? And the fucker try to sell me a 100baht blowjob, by some unknown gay. But I was safe anyway. Bought a lamp at the market and we ate at the Pizza Company. Very very nice pizzas, so much better than Pizza hut and Canadian.
Anyway, when we got back to hotel. The night view of Bangkok city was just phenomenal. The room that darling and I shared had this huge king sized bed and if we didn't draw the curtains, we could go to sleep with Bangkok's view. BTW, darling is such an angel when she's alseep...
Next day was the Chaktucak market. HUGE! one word, says it all. So many stalls. and I think we barely covered half of the market in 6 hours. There was this finger food that tastes sooo good. We don't even know the name of it. And Ice mocha was like 25baht, just a little more than S$1. most of my shopping was done there. But the irritating thing was that, there weren't any fitting rooms in most of the shops, came back with 2 shirts that were too small. Dinner was at Siam Square, which is this slightly more upclass place with alot of restaurants and boutiques. Ate at Noodi, which I suspect is the same as Nooch in Singapore, just a slight name change. The tom yam noodle was gooooood, and cheap! We each spent only S$4 on the meal.
Next day was MBK, which in my own agar-ration is bigger than Changi airport Terminals, and there was 7 storeys of it! Hard core!! Shopped a bit and ate alot there. Haha, I guess the happiest people were the girls. They really shop and shop siah... Oh ya, we took their MRT to MBK from the hotel. Their travelling cost is pretty ex, I think, I'll rather take cab with that kind on money spent on a train ride. I was really tempted to buy a pair of Levi's jeans, processed 501s work out to about S$100, they sell at 150 odd in singapore! :-( Nvm lah... next time got chance again...
On the last day, we took at trip down Chao Phraya, Bangkok's river of life. The very place where the city first started off. We took a 800 baht boat ride, which the fellow initially asked for 2000! Damn him... I know the ride was still ex, but nvm lah, last day, and we had alot of baht left anyway. The river ride was good. I realised that we only stayed in New Bangkok all the while. Old Bangkok is where the commoners stayed, that's where we'll see the normal lives that people lived. The ferry took a little round trip into old Bangkok on a distributary of Chao Phraya, into the floating market and the squatters. There were kids running around the river side, not attending school, just irritating the passing tourist ferries. And one end, someone was pissing and at the other, someone was bathing! Wahahaha... And, we witnessed some men, building stlits (to build a house), something we'll never see in singapore.
All in all... great trip, lots of shopping, lots of good cheap food, lots of poor people... sigh... And for the first 3 days, we felt Bangkok was a cosmopolitian...
Posted by NuhC at 11:04 AM
