▲TWENTYFIVE▲

17-23 December: Bangkok

This will probably be the last time I'll be blogging about my trips to Bangkok in full detail. Tbh I don't do anything much I just live each day there just like how I do in S'pore. Haha & people are constantly asking me the same old questions on ask.fm & Instagram & thru email... please read my previous blog posts about BKK & if you don't find the answer there then contact me k? I also had this really rude girl demanding for info on BKK last week.. nvm shall not go into that. I'm happy to help but please.. why are you doing this to meeeee hahaha

So we reached back from Taipei at around 12MN... went back home to unpack & repack then stayed over at Sherman's for the night. Went back to the airport again at 1PM for lunch & check-in... off to BKK! Tbh I was so damn sick of plane rides by then... but no complaining coz I'm off to my fav country woohooooo

Day 1: Flew Scoot to BKK. Every time we land at Suvarnabhumi Airport my face be like:

Anyhoo, cabbed to Urbana Langsuan & since it was kor kor Pai's birthday, Sunny left me some banoffee cake which was actually very good! from the celebration in the afternoon (but the birthday boy was nowhere in sight, already sleeping at home lolol) 

Settled for dinner at aLL six to twelve as usual. The things we ordered were also, as usual. But decided to order dory fish instead this time (top left hand) too bad they stuffed it with meat which I didn't really like, picked all of it out. 

They also upgraded Sherman & I from a 1-bedroom apartment to a 2-bedroom one (WHATEVER FOR??) & Ryan came over to chill for abit before heading to Khao San to meet Bill for drinks. His English improved so much!!!

Lookie at my handsome boyyyy *_*

Day 2: Woke up pretty early so headed downstairs to 7-11 to buy my favourite yakult! Sherman had pig trotter rice by the roadside. 

After that changed & waited for Sunny to come pick us up & we went to Roast at Thonglor 13 for brunch! I really love the food at Roast, we never fail to visit every time we're in BKK. 

The strawberry waffles..... really..... !!!!!!!! 

With my booo :* 

After we were filled to the brim, Sunny brought us to Purr Cat Cafe Club, coz I said I wanted to play with some cats. Ok I actually would much prefer a dog cafe but apparently it was too far away or something. I forgot the address tho, it's like Sukhumvit Soi 55 or ... ummm...

Look at this cutie pie! He was hugging his toy while he slept lolol & hugged it tighter when I tried to pull it away.

New cap from Sneaka Villa again lol

Went to Siam Square & visited the usual, Sneaka Villa & V.A.C to get some shirts, then went to Siam Paragon to chill & met Ragavan & his girlfriend up! Showed them Siam Square Night Market then we went back to Langsuan for a massage at Chao 9. Washed up then went to Jae Koy at Ratchathewi for dinner. Idk the address of this place but if you can't speak or read Thai then you prolly won't be able to order anything at all hahaha. I also discovered my hidden talent: apparently I have nice Thai handwriting... hahaha Thai words are so freaking hard to write tho. 

Went back to the hotel & Ryan stayed over (no wonder they upgraded our room hahaha) the guys were drinking beer & doing punishments like sit ups, crunches, push ups & basically torturing themselves lolol wtf. 

Day 3: Woke up early again for lunch with Sunny before she started work. Went to Honmono Sushi which was what we've been talking about since 3 months ago. 

The food was good, prices were like S'pores. Look at the volcano salmon aburi sushi!!!!!!!! One piece was like $6 SGD but look how huge the salmon was.

Went to National Museum area to help Alan change his Thai baht then to Amari Watergate hotel where Sherman usually makes his shirts/pants/suits at Paul's Fashion. After that we crossed over & I insisted on shopping at Platinum.... we covered 2 levels in less than an hour & I only bought ONE TOP. What in the world.... 

Walked over to Central World to find Pai's birthday present & spent quite abit of time there. Was actually the first time I've really shopped at Central World haha got Topshop flats for SGD $20 only bwahaha. Every shop had sales.... D: 

Bought Twilight Sparkle coz I was so dissatisfied with Platinum that day hahaha.

Went back to the hotel & went for massage next door again hahaha. Was too lazy to go out for dinner so we ordered in from Home Kitchen

Day 4: Went to Phetchaburi Soi 19 for wanton mee that all Singaporeans seem to love. I don't even know what's the hype over this place. The wanton mee isn't even that nice???? It's so normal & oily. Plus there was a queue till the road that day. But oh well Sherman wanted to have it so yeaaaa... the place was filled with Singaporeans lol. 

Purposely only had one small bowl of wanton mee soup so I could have my fav crepe! Added almost everything & anything into it. Lol we added ham, sausage, crab stick, pork floss, mayo, cheese, cashew nuts... hahaha

Went back to the hotel to check out then accompanied the rest for lunch before going to Lebua to check in! We booked the Tower Club Cityview Suite for the next 3 nights, at about SGD $300 per night with lounge access, which meant free flow of alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks from 6AM to 6PM + light buffet. 

The check in process was really pleasant, we didn't have to wait or stand at the reception, we were assigned a front desk staff who completed all the paperwork while KNEELING down in front of us as we were sitting on the sofa (!!!!) & she brought us personally to our suite & showed us everything inside... say whatttttt

Ordered a mai tai & it was SO STRONG my head felt so heavy after. Just. one. drink. Hahahha it was quite stupid tho coz for the next 4 days we never went to the lounge again... 

The view from our balcony. I suddenly can't remember which level we stayed at.... 56 I think! The view was so amazinggggg.

Ryan then came over & we chilled most of the time at our balcony (we should have just booked a balcony & not the room since we spent most of our time there hahaha) & went out for dinner. Lebua is at Silom area I think, nearest BTS was Saphan Taksin. 

Been wanting to try these pink noodles for the longest time ever. Guess what... this is called yentafo noodles. Which I realised is what we call yong tau foo. The pink stuff is the YTF sauce!!!! Bahahahahha got cheated & excited for nothing. Still yummy tho! The guys had tom yum noodles. 

Bill came over after he ended work & we just chilled in our huge room.. we didn't even go out at all that day except for dinner haha. The boys bought beer back which I didn't really drink coz I hate beer. & guess what, a chill night became a puking night lol Bill got quite drunk HAHAHA. He's so cute I love him so much. He wanted to puke so he grabbed a plastic bag & rushed to the balcony & faced outwards, coz he said "I wanna vomit with the view na" hahahaha! 

The boys' stupid game & punishment hahahhaa

Day 5: I set the alarm early so we could go down to Mozu to have breakfast but in the end I couldn't wake up so Sherman went down alone. Oops hehe anw he came back raving about how good the breakfast spread was.... :( 

Headed to Chatuchak! It's like every single trip to BKK I plan it over the weekends & we never ever miss JJ haha. Met Pai & his sister, Puen & we just had to had my fav herbal chicken noodle soup first! 

Right after lunch, we had coconut ice cream. 

Was so reluctant to buy their stupid coconut ice cream. I can tell this story now... a few months back we actually planned to franchise the coconut ice cream to Singapore. But when we spoke to the owner or whoever the girl was that was in charge, we found out that they were actually contacted by another Singaporean 2 years ago. No deal was actually made as the other party was contacting the coconut owners on & off. So I have NO IDEA WHY but she told us that she had to reserve the franchise for him (despite the fact that we were told he loves to MIA) & that she would give him one last chance to reply her regarding his interest. (Ok I actually dk if it was a him or her but whatever) & to our horror, after going MIA for so long, he actually replied & said he wanted it. WTF why do I have such bad luck?? Ok nvm, so she said she'll give him a deadline to pay for the franchise, & if he didn't pay, she would give it to us instead coz we were at that point cash ready & willing to fly over to BKK anytime to learn the recipe. He didn't pay by the given deadline, but by then the girl was replying sporadically & not making any sense so we decided to fuck it. I mean I was so pissed at the way they handled the whole thing. I heard the Singaporean opened a stall or shop or whatever at Sentosa... so you guys can go down & check it out. (Why the heck am I promoting for him hahahaha) oh well. What a case of bad luck & bad timing... nvm moving on! 

Anyhooo, we spent v little time at JJ haha. Just went to the pets section & spent quite a bit of time there coz Puen wanted to buy beds for her cats. Or dogs. I forgot which. Hahaha & we ended up buying a camo print bed for Pinky which turned out to be too small for her. Pffftttttt. 

Then we just went to visit the huge dogs at the other side of JJ hahaha I always always have to visit the huge Mastiff & Alaskan lol then left & went to Union Mall to shop shop. Actually it was a mega fail coz everytime we go to Union Mall after JJ Sherman's legs would be damn tired & he would go to the massage place to get a foot massage. Lolol so we just walked around for bit, bought just one top & sat at Ice Monster. Went over to Central Ladprao for dinz at ... forgot what's the name of the place! Jap BBQ. 

Ok so this doesn't look aroy at all but it's what I ate most of the meal. Pumpkin, mushrooms, eggplant & salmon!! Coz I don't really like beef or pork hahahaha

Altho it was my first time meeting Puen she was really very nice & it wasn't awkward at all! :* 

Day 6: Dragged myself out of bed & down for breakfast. Omg... it was really wow. The ambience & the food & everything!!! Oh I forgot to mention that when we were there, the weather was actually very COLD????? At night it was 18-20 degrees, you freaking kidding me. & when we went to JJ, the sun was shining but when the wind blew, it was cold. First time ever I didn't perspire at all at JJ hahaha. 

At first I was like just damn grouchy when Sherman was trying to get me excited about breakfast... then I saw CRONUTS. & immediately I woke up I was like ok I wanna eat this & this & this & thats hahahahhaha.

Went back up to change & while I was doing my makeup, I heard a commotion going on downstairs at the roads. Like people blowing whistles & shouting something. & can you imagine, we were at the 56th floor & I could hear so I looked down & I saw 2 streets of people protesting.

To set the record straight, idk what the media has been reporting but the type of protest that I saw there was the peaceful kind?? Like people were just walking on the roads or driving slowly in their vans waving the Thai flag & blowing whistles with some "leaders" saying some stuff with microphones or loudspeakers. There was NO violence at all. 

While walking to Saphan Taksin I was like soooooo amazed at the protesters on the streets & feeling annoyed at the same time coz so many roads were closed we had to take the BTS hahahahah & I remember texting ALL my Thai friends saying "WTF WTF I see the protest omg!! SO COOL!!" & everyone was just like... errrrr.... hahahahhaha. I think I said OMFG OMFG LOOK OMG LOOK like 100000 times that day.

I thought it was only the Silom area that had protests so when we alighted at Siam, I was so SHOCKED TO SEE THIS..... !!!!! The entire road from Central World to Pratunam was all closed, so was the entire Siam area. WTF. Brave us crossed right in the middle of all the protesters coz the road was closed so we just happily jaywalked in the middle of all of them hahaha. Sherman kept wanting to buy a whistle lolol. That was really like a once in a lifetime kinda experience for me coz this would NEVER EVER happen in Singapore. Ever.

Went to get my nails done at MBK. As previously mentioned before, my fav shop closed down so I decided to try another shop. The shop isn't at MBK itself, I always locate Watsons at Level 2, then turn left & exit MBK & after the travellator, turn right. It's the first shop on the left! Was so pleased with my decision, I did classic mani + gelish + nail art for a total of SGD$40. SAY WHAT???

My manicurist was so good, she drew everything freehand really quickly & the gelish was also of a good brand, up till now it hasn't chipped or anything. I was so impressed coz she first painted the base coat, twice. Then she used red gel polish to paint all the tips of my fingernails. Then she painted my nails red, twice, did the nail art then did top coat twice. WTF.... I love her to bits hahahha. The only weird thing was that after she was done with the nail art she suddenly stood up & grabbed her whistle & removed her jacket (she was wearing some I love Thailand shirt under) & told her friend to take over & paint the top coat for me coz she was gonna go downstairs to join in the protest. Lololol 

While waiting for Ryan we went to have Som Tum Nua even tho we were heading for dinner after teehee. DIE DIE must have Som Tum Nua!!!! My fried chicken....

The most annoying thing the entire day was that becoz of the protests it was nearly impossible to cab anywhere, we walked so fucking much the whole day. & the queues at the BTS station were absolutely cray. Queue to change coins then queue to buy tickets. The queues were like... you can't even imagine really. 

& after we had to meet Pai & his friends at Chocolate Ville which if I'm not wrong is at Kaset Nawamin. Which basically translates to very fucking far away. Apparently there were protests at Ladprao too, I think the entire BKK la. In the end we waited so long at Mo Chit, Sherman offered a driver 500 THB to get us to Choc Ville which is of coz ex in BKK standards but typical of S'pore cab fares... so we didn't really feel the heart pain or whatever lol. 

 

The food at Choc Ville is so ordinary... please don't travel all the way there if you expect some damn delicious food but the ambience really makes up for everything. They even had fake snow coz it was the Xmas period. !!!! & they have my fav Rose Hoegaarden there which I absolutely love. Do they have it in S'pore??? 

Day 7: Woke up, missed breakfast again & Sherman went down alone, checked out of Lebua, went to Langsuan to meet Pai for lunch at Home Kitchen

The food is not bad, not the best Thai food I've had but the best thing is that they do delivery so yknow... next time I'm just gonna be a couch potato in the hotel & order food in hahaha.

Went for massage at Chao 9 again then when they ended work we headed to the airport. SOBZZZZZZ 

♥♥♥ My best friends in BKK ♥♥♥

Didn't party this trip coz I think I'm getting old, partying isn't appealing at all anymore & didn't get to meet Khun Mea. 

Bye BKK, see you next month....