KRABI DAY 2 {MAY 2015}

Since we had an early night before, we woke up early to go downstairs for breakfast.

Such a nice view!! The food was mediocre, not fantastic but the view made up for it.

Decided to go for a swim after breakfast, while waiting for Bunbun & Baifern (my 2 Thai friends) to arrive in Krabi.

Used the GoPro for some of the shots while swimming but got lazy after awhile la hahahhaa

Then our friends arrived so we showered & went out to meet them! Decided to go island hopping. I forgot the names of the islands we went to already tho, I only remember Poda Island hahaha. Anw they were the experts cuz they're Thai + always go to Krabi so we just followed them around.

The pics are so nice right! I rly did minimal filtering/editing. I miss the view there sigh

I wore a long sleeved shirt & didn't rly swim cuz I was having cramps (lol) but I still got sunburnt so badly ok. I got burnt through my sleeves even hahaha so the rest were even darker cuz they went to swim and play in the water. RED LIKE LOBSTER! Hahaha so painful ok actually not rly funny.

Went back after the whole day of being in the sun, and washed up & changed, went to Lae Lay Grill for dinner. So niceeee the view!! The food was so-so, like seafood & bbq stuff. But the view, again, made up for it.

Headed to Wine Bistro for some chill chill drinks after. Everywhere we go we walk or tompang Bunn's bike! We could rent bikes to use for those few days, but we didn't dare. So Baifern & I squeezed on the bike w Bunn hahahahha. 3 people on one bike!!! Only in Thailand.

Ate like pigs, drank like pigs, then went back to the hotel nearby to buy more food hahahahhaha

The next day, bye bye....back to SG :(

Not my usual kind of holiday but was a nice change, beach holidays are quite relaxing (minus the sunburn part). Wna go to Phuket next!!

KRABI DAY 1 {MAY 2015}

So we decided to fly to Krabi from BKK to explore somewhere different in Thailand for once.. hehe. Air tickets were rly cheap tho. $200 for all in!! Means SG to BKK, BKK to Krabi & Krabi to SG. Good deal right mwahahaha.

We took Air Asia to Krabi & the journey was about an hour. We stayed at Red Ginger Chic Resort cuz that's where our Thai friends stayed previously & they said it was not bad!

We booked the "suite", and we had to climb the stairs to the bedroom every night hehe. I think the room was quite nice! About $120 a night only. Super worth it

To be honest, on the first day we didn't really do anything since we reached almost at evening time. I remember us wandering ard not knowing where to go cuz unlike BKK, where we are familiar with almost everywhere, we had no clue abt anything in Krabi at all.

So we tabao-ed dinner from some random roadside 'zi char' stall & went back to the hotel to eat & watch our pirated DVDs that we bought from BKK lololol. The food was super nice as usual even tho it was just a random stall.

Food in Bangkok Part II

Continuing my previous post~

Always a must-have when we go to JJ. (Jatujak Market) I only buy the coconut ice cream from this stall cuz it's supposedly the original one & tastes the best! Look for the one with the flag.

COCONUT SHAKE OMG.

I didn't even know this little stall/booth existed at Siam Square even tho I've walked past it many many times. I only saw it on my friend's IG post cuz he happened to be in BKK at the same time, & he recommended me to go & try! 

There are 2 options, with or without milk. I chose the one with milk & it was SO GOOOOOD. I was so sad when I finished it. It comes in 2 sizes & i think it was 40 or 50 baht. YUMMMMMMMM so refreshing esp in the hot weather 

Couldn't miss this.. our usual at After You. Fererro Rocher thick toast! So sinful but so good. Love that they buttered the inside of the toast so it's not too dry. Salty & oily plus the chocolate drizzle & ice cream omg... FATS HAHAHA

Thai food anywhere in Thailand is always nice. I haven't rly tried a stall in Thailand that doesn't serve nice food. We had these at the Don Mueang Airport before our flight to Krabi.

Next post : KRABI! 

Food in Bangkok

All the food we ate in the recent BKK trip~

My birthday dinner at Chocolate Ville. Everytime we go to Western restaurants in BKK I will still never fail to order Thai food hahaha. The squid was overcooked & too rubbery but the Thai chilli sauce was v nice, not too spicy! Oyster omelette was so-so but the tom yum goong was aroi mak mak. Tom yum never disappoints in BKK.

Ice cream toast! I love this so much, I rly feel it's nicer than After You. 

Met up with Huiling & Kaslyn at On Lok Yun for breakfast AGAIN. Haha I love the food there, so simple and traditional but tastes soooo good. Add the Thai maggie sauce to your eggs please.

Then to Hands & Heart for some coffee/dessert! Main purpose was to take pics of the super pretty cafe. ALL WHITE MA FAV HAHAHA

Charcoal croissant which made our teeth all black hahaha

Its at Sukhumvit Soi 38!

{Food Tasting} FYR Cycene Ond Drinc

This is my first time blogging about a food tasting even tho I've been for quite a few hehe. Went for the media tasting at FYR (pronounced as FIRE) about 2 weeks ago & we were treated to so much food, we couldn't finish anything at all! & there were 7 of us, 6 girls & 1 guy lol.

FYR Cycene Ond Drinc
19 Boon Tat Street

Baked Freshly Shucked Oysters, $15

Can't comment cuz I don't eat oysters so I didn't try this. 

We also had 2 other starters which I forgot to take pics of, the Baked Half Bone Marrow, $15, which I tasted a teeny bit of. I was rather apprehensive about tasting this haha but the seasoning on top was nice, it was just personal preference that I didn't eat much of this dish. Like erm its very weird wth is bone marrow....... We also had the Baked Aubergine & Chickpea Ragout, $10, which I really liked! It's basically baked eggplant. I don't like chickpea but overall it was really nice, slightly creamy & cheesy.

Five-spice Half Chicken, Striploin & Asian-spiced Tiger Prawn, $55

My favourite was the chicken! I only eat the chicken breast & I was surprised to find that the meat was tender & flavourful as breast meat is usually overcooked & dry. The prawns were also nicely seasoned. Not a beef-lover & found it abit under, which is probably fine for most people in general (cuz I eat my steak well done hahaha) 

Grain-fed US Holstein Cow Ribeye 365 Days, $32

I really disliked this one, the beef was very raw (to me, as I mentioned above) & it was very very fatty!! A complete no-no for me. I ate like one tiny bite & passed the rest to my friend thereafter. Eeeeks. 

Whole Maine Lobster, $35

Lobster baked with their creamy sauce & cheese on top, I love creamy & cheesy stuff so I thought this was good, but the general feedback from the rest was that the lobster meat was too tough. Idk cuz I seldom eat lobster so I thought that it was normal hahahahaha. 

Spiced Deboned Red Snapper, $25

This was really the best main out of all, the fish was super soft, & best part, DEBONED. So you don't need to worry about getting bones stuck in your throat while eating. It was seasoned very very nicely & the fish meat didn't have that weird "fishy taste" at all! I'm usually quite apprehensive about eating fish cuz I hate that fishy smell/taste but this was sooooo gooood.. I think almost everyone felt the same way cuz their forks just kept going back to this dish hahah.

Seafood Linguine, $18

I didn't really like this dish, it was very normal & nothing special to shout about, on top of the fact that I am not a fan of tomato-based pasta. I wouldn't really recommend ordering this. 

Baked Pistachio Melt & Pandan Ice Cream, $10

I didn't think I would like this dessert as I'm not a fan of nuts, but the cake wasn't nutty-tasting at all! In fact, the mild pistachio taste blended very well with the pandan ice cream, which tasted very authentic. & like all lava cakes it was a good blend of hot & cold. The cake wasn't cloyingly sweet which didn't result in me having a sore throat after. (I always feel like my throat gets very painful after I eat too much sweet things, do you?? haha) I preferred this over the other dessert that we had. 

Ok the end of my supposed "review" hahaha still quite bad at this as I usually describe my food w 2 words "nice!" or "SUCKS" HAHAHAHA. 

I'M BACK

OH hey hello, I'm back to this blog. I know I haven't updated in a long long time, but I've thought of 2 upcoming posts that I can do - one is an ultimate BKK guide, cuz people are still asking about BKK even tho I've blogged about it so many times before, & the other is a HK travel guide cuz I'll be going during end-August!! Yipeeeee.

Anw one issue I want to fix now is my pics on the blog. Why can't all my pics be viewed in my older entries anymore?? Seriously don't know what's going on. Anyone know a good hosting side where I can upload my pics or sth? Usually I upload my pics on FB then copy the url & post it here hahahha. But doesn't really explain why my pics can't be viewed here anymore cuz I didn't delete the FB album eh.. so weird. :X

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So anw.. I'm not trying to sound like a brat here. But I just have to get this off my chest. It doesn't really matter if no one understands what I'm talking about or referring to but I just need somewhere to rant & what better space to do that in than my blog right?

I go to work & sometimes I don't want to go in to the office becuz if my "boss" is not there, that means I have nothing to do, or no one to ask if idk how to do my work. Which basically means I end up doing nothing & just using my phone & wasting time. Which in turn means my boss is paying me for nothing. Yes, why do I even bother if I don't do anything & just shake leg & earn money doing that? Because my boss is my mom (for now). If it was just another employer, I wouldn't even give a damn right? If I was lazy or ill-disciplined, I would just sit there after I finish my work & not ask for more work to do.

Yet I am being accused of going in as & when I want & not taking it seriously. I admit that I AM lazy when I don't feel like going to work when you are in the office to give me work & directions, but many times I just don't want to be there if you are not there. I shouldn't have thought so much & just behave like a normal employee then. Like how I see your other employees using their phones & slacking off whenever you're not there. So much for sparing a thought.

You say I am ungrateful about how much you're paying me. No, I am not ungrateful. You misunderstood my words because we cannot talk to each other without losing our tempers. You think you are always right. You yourself wrote $13.11 and insisted its $20. Then you misunderstood saying I said you pay so little. Wow......

My room is extremely hot & you all just refuse to fix my aircon now that it's down. I understand that my aircon is beyond hope & servicing will only rectify the problem for a few months before it breaks down again, & that changing the whole unit means changing everything, including everyone's aircon in their rooms. But seriously, if you're not in my shoes you won't understand. Everyone's room is ok, so-so without aircon & just the fan. But the air in my room is SO HOT. I use the fan but it's blowing hot air & as a result I have not been sleeping well at night. Getting headaches in the morning cuz I wake up like 5-6 times a night. I even woke up at 3am & 5am to shower cuz my whole body was sticky from perspiration. I was even running a fever the other day. Can you even believe it. The weather in Spore is just crazy these few days.

Instead of telling me what can be done to fix this, you just ignore me & pretend nothing is happening. Of course, all of you have aircon in your rooms & you won't understand what I'm going through. I can't open my windows cuz if it suddenly rains, my laptop & makeup & everything will get wet & spoil. Wtf is this? I have to keep asking & make myself seem so pathetic & yet, I get no response. I had to go to my sister's room to sleep on the floor on a very thin mattress, at the edge of her bed & guess what, I smelt pee cuz my dog loves to pee at the corner of her bed.

You imagine how I felt? Worse than a dog. Sleeping at the area my dog PEES. Can you believe it. It has come to a point where I CRY every time I wake up from my sleep becuz it's so hot & I can't even believe the situation I'm in. Yes, you can say I can go somewhere else to sleep. I wanted to switch rooms with you since you don't use the aircon but you blatantly refused. What does this even mean? You just want me to suffer in my own room? I can't go to my bro's room cuz he wakes up very early, at 545am every morning. So where can I go? Can I go to my bf's house to stay? No, because you don't allow me to stay over at other peoples' homes.

Bringing in the job issue when I have already found a full-time job.. that I can overlook. Because I ALREADY found a job. So this nagging will stop. Yes I made mistakes in the past. But now I was already actively searching & now, I AM GOING TO WORK.

But here comes the worst of all.. bringing in my EX BF, saying he thinks this and that. Didn't I already tell you to stop talking about him, worst still, comparing with him? Why do you like him so much? What he says makes a big impact is it? Is he the president? If you like him so much, then ask him to be your godson. I am really sick & tired of this. Everytime we have a big quarrel, you bring him in. When will you ever learn to stop talking about him? I had enough. This is what drove me over the edge. You can criticize me, refuse to fix my aircon, do anything you want. FOR WHAT you must bring him in. Who the fuck is he now? Don't you think that you are damn ridiculous? & for this, putting aside everything else that we disagree on, I seriously think you are IN THE ULTIMATE WRONG. Not like you will ever apologize anw.

I already tried so hard the past 6 months, since our last big quarrel, to change. I started looking for a full-time office job like you wanted me to, I started to come home early on weekdays, & stay in on weekends, together w K. K knows you don't like his tattoos, he is trying hard to get close to you all, get to know all of you better, asking me to come back early, even when I'm home we make the effort to go to the living room & mingle w you all. All these are his ideas, not mine. As you already know, I'm the kind of person that is super defiant & can't be fucked. But for the sake of him, and for the sake of making things better between everyone, I TRIED. I tried to be open, to talk to you, tell you things happening in my life, chit-chatting, accepting you on Instagram, etc. I forgave you for stalking me, for stalking him online & on Instagram, I looked at the positive part of it & maybe it's cuz I'm not open w you tht's why you had to resort to doing that. & from then on me & him, we both tried so hard to be closer & open with you all.

Look what trying leads to. Nothing. In your eyes, there are only the bad things that I do. Yes, I am demanding as a person, I can be a really lousy & sucky person sometimes, but I also can proudly say I have tried to change so much. But you only know how to point out the wrongdoings that I have committed. Even when I say something, yes it sounded bad, my words could have been misunderstood. If you really think well of me, you will not misunderstand or jump to conclusions, you will stop thinking you are right & take a step back & think hard about the situation. But did you? You didn't.

Look back, when was the last time you actually praised me for something that I have done? I can't even remember.

Don't keep pin-pointing all the bad things I have done. Even if you insist on doing so, I can safely say I can admit & apologize that I may have done wrong. BUT CAN YOU? CAN YOU ADMIT THAT YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT? NO. YOU CAN'T.

No matter how much I try to improve things, everything is still the same. & so, I am very tired.

It's ok, no matter what I do, nothing will change, & I have now come to accept that.

I'm sick of acting & faking it.

This is an unredeemable situation in my eyes.

Now, when I'm here, I will just be a robot. No feelings, no opinions. I'm going to just sweat to sleep & think of the positive aspect, hey, I can lose calories when I sleep. I'm not going to ask, beg or quarrel over the aircon anymore. The job thing is done, I'll be starting work in June somewhere else. I'm done. With the aircon, & with this entire situation. I'm not going to ask you for anything anymore, & in return, do not expect anything from me. 

I'm done.

BANGKOK MARCH 2015

Oh hi here I am again, & I completely forgot about the existence of my blog, plus I was too lazy to update so I'm not gonna continue the rest of the Dec BKK posts LOL. But I'm here today to kinda blog bout my recent BKK trip. Veryyyy eventful..... 

The main purpose of this entry to blog about the HOTEL I stayed in this time - Baiyoke Boutique Hotel. Okay so the story goes like this:

@exclusiv_clothing is owned by K & I, & we are selling apparel from street labels like Hood by Air, Chrome Hearts, Mastermind, Neighborhood, Stampd & the list goes on... for the SG market we do online sales through our Instagram mostly & our website, & we recently decided to venture into the Thai market by partnering 2 of my friends, also owners of Young & Hungry Clothing, a Thai street wear brand. 

So now you can find us at Unfound Projects (the name of the shop), at Siam Square Soi 1, Scala Theatre, open from 12:30 to 9PM (BKK time) 

So anyway this was a work trip & quite impromptu cuz the shop's official opening was on 1st March & we wanted to go down to bring our stocks & make sure everything was perfect for the opening. I decided to save us some money (company funds!!) & choose a cheaper hotel, my budget was about SGD $50/night. I say cheaper cuz I ALWAYS stay at Urbana, which is about SGD $100/night. K mentioned staying at Baiyoke Boutique before, & at first I was quite apprehensive about the entire Baiyoke chain of hotels cuz yknow, stories of ghosts & all. But he said it was fine when he was there, plus I googled pics of Baiyoke Boutique & this was what I found :

Honestly, it looks fine right? Quite nice, even. Reminds me of Budacco Hotel, which is always impossible to book cuz it's always at max occupancy. Anyway, bright lighting, pink walls, clean & fresh looking (albeit the building looking abit old on the outside) & K insisted it looked just like the pics when he stayed there 2-3 years back. So we got a deal for SGD $200 for the 4 nights we were gonna be there & I didn't even think any more about the hotel we chose & off we went to BKK~

Ok side tracking abit, we took Scoot & it brought us to Don Mueang Airport, which I haven't been to before cuz I always fly to Suvarnabhumi. Nothing much to complain or shout about cuz it's really a budget & no-frills airport except the taxi queue was shocking. It was soooooo....long..... I think those who've been to DMK would know what I'm referring to. At Suvarnabhumi I've never EVER had to queue fo a taxi before lol. 

Anw when we reached the hotel, the driver didn't know where it was & stopped us at Baiyoke Suites (which looked really damn gross from the outside) but it was ok cuz Baiyoke Boutique was very near so we just walked fo like 2 mins. The lobby was fine.. then we went up to the room & opened the door.

Sad to say I didn't take any pics cuz I was like .......... speechless already............

Here's a pic I took off google :

So our room looked something like this, except 10 times worse. The wallpaper was yellowing & dirty & cracking, the walls were dirty, & the bedsheets & pillow cases were yellowing & stained & ya..... pls imagine. Already like 1000x worlds apart from the pics I googled right. But honestly, still acceptable cuz who stays in the room to chill in BKK right? We only needed the room to sleep at night.

THEN I WENT TO THE TOILET. & I NEARLY DIED A HUNDRED TIMES OVER.

The toilet was .................... looked like some murder scene k. I have ONE pic, but it's very badly taken. But idc cuz ya. 

What is this................ I'm really not the princessy kind who can only stay in 5 star hotels but this was really damn unacceptable to me. The toilet is like the MOST IMPORTANT thing to me I swear. In fact, we just came back from Genting a week back & we stayed at First World Hotel & I had NOTHING to complain about in comparison to this (even tho everyone says First World is gross & haunted & etc) 

So anw nvm, took a chill pill & relaxed & went out to Sukhumvit Soi 38 fo a super late dins. 

Didn't know which wanton noodles stall it was cuz there were a few so I zoomed in & started comparing the stall owners' faces LOL & we found the 2 uncles cooking! Haha I had the soup version & K had the dry one. I always choose soup > dry anyday. The white flakes at the left corner is crab meat, like real crab meat! Altho this is supposedly very hype I found it normal, just like how I find the stupid Petchaburi Soi 19 wanton noodles normal, but plus point for the crab meat hehe. Had to add chilli flakes & sugar into the soup before it started to get tastier. 

& this is the famous khao niew ma muang (mango sticky rice) but it just tasted like any other mango sticky rice in BKK to me (which are all aroy lol). Mangoes are always so sweet in BKK I love it. So I concluded that either my taste buds have a problem or seriously, people are creating hype over nothing in particular. Lol. 

After eating ALOT we went back fo a massage cuz I was still feeling abit sick & feverish, & some young guy was massaging my feet... it was very awkward haha.

Then came the sleeping part. It was already 1+ or 2AM by then & I took some med & tried to sleep but the walls were so thin, we could hear everything going on outside. People running along the corridor, talking to each other, a bunch of teenagers came back & started calling each others' rooms playing with their telephones, WE COULD HEAR IT ALL. Some of my friends asked if real people were making noises or was it................(fill in the blanks) erm idk but K went out to stare at the teenagers & get them to stfu & he saw a few of them so ya. These noises went on for the entire night. & the worst thing is K fell asleep & started talking loudly & even broke out into maniacal laughter, & in the one year we've been together he has NEVER EVER talked or laughed in his sleep before. I WAS SO FREAKED OUT I SWEAR TO GOD...........

Couldn't sleep the entire night & next morning we switched hotels lolol. Back to Urbana but Sathorn this time. Couldn't get a refund fo the remaining nights at Baiyoke Boutique but seriously I didn't care anymore I was so tired & freaked out & grossed out I just wanted to LEAVE, IMMEDIATELY. 

I HATE THIS HOTEL SO MUCH......

I won't blog into detail about the rest of our trip, too lazy to go into detail abt BKK again + we didn't even go shopping or anything, no Platinum Mall or Chatuchak or whatsoever. We just woke up everyday, go to Siam Square to eat, visit the shop, bring stock, pack stock, arrange the shop, hang out there, visit some food places, that's it. So just leavin w some pics~