Land of thousand smiles

After 5 months of waiting after I first booked my ticket, the time has finally come!! Land of thousand smiles, how I miss you ever since a year ago.. 

Only manage to catch 2 hours of slp before waking up to go to the airport.. Was @ liyuan's place the previous night until 4am playing poker.. Shack!!

Though with just 2 hours of slp, we were happy to wake up early the next morning!! We reached the airport before 9am, wanted to have our brekkie there & shop inside the check-in area.. 

The usual on the taxi-to-the-airport shots & the huge indoor plants display inside T1.. 

After our sumptuous BK brekkie @ T2, ( i always dun rem there is a BK in T1), we took the sky train back to check-in.. By then, I can feel the Zzz monster attacking me.. :p




Shop around the DFS area & came across this shop selling watch.. I wanted to get a watch for my birthday, so we went there to take a look & I saw this really gorgeous watch.. I am a super troublesome woman, who is damn fickle-minded & duno what I want.. But when i saw this watch, I know I wanted it..  

Isn't it gorgeous?? 


We board the plane @ 11am.. Were the last few who board the plane even though the flight is @ 1130am.. Another usual on the plane photo shot..........

Was trying out my camera vivid function & was quite happy with what I had taken after the take-off.....

Nice color.. 


2 hours later, after taking a short POWER nap.. We reached the land of shopping!! I told myself prior to the trip that, unlike the other trips I had when I kept taking pictures, this will be one which I will just enjoy the moment..


The immigration was flooded with ppl from all over the world.. It was quite chaotic cause we did not know where to queue & such.. I guess at that point of time there were at least 2k tourists queuing @ the check-out area... Took almost 1 hours plus to get clearance & this is considered fast cause we manage to find a short queue @ the corner.... 


We took the City Rail to our hotel this time round to avoid the renowned BKK traffic..

Was quite happy with the new railway system... The coin-like thing on the top right is the token for the railway where you can get at the self-ticketing machine for 1x usage... As you can see on the bottom left, we are trying to locate our hotel @ the very last minute.. hehe.. 


Seems like last minute navigation is not our forte, cause we alight at the wrong station.. ( Or should I say I assume the hotel is near the last station of the City Rail line..Cause I heard from Micho its near the train station.. ) Well, it's near the train station but its @ the last 2nd stop instead!!


We lug our lugguage through the busy streets of Pratunam, trying to find the exact location of the hotel by asking the locals, trying to make em understand us etc.. It was really an adventure... haha.. I quite enjoyed it......... Did I mention, I was being mistaken as a local when I was trying to ask for the directions?!?


Finally, after walking one BIG round, we manage to find our hotel!! Felt really elated cause the lugguage is starting to weigh on me.... We stayed @ Tango Vibrant.. Quite a small but really nice hotel.. I totally love the location, just 10 mins walk away from the famous (among the gals) & infamous (among the guys) Platinum shopping Mall.. Along the way, there are alot of Thai massage parlour where you can relax after 1 full day of shopping.. 


We went to Platinum Mall after bathing & resting for half an hour.. I need to get some clothes for the night cause I only brought 2 set of clothes for the trip.. 1 for slping & the other for Chatukchap shopping spree!! hehe.. 


Me & benny decide to meet in the main lobby of the mall an hour later.. Guess its easier & more comfortable for each other this way.. But I din realise there are 2 main lobby!! Luckily, he came to look for me after 10 min past the agreed time @ the other lobby.. :P


We went back to the hotel & prepared for the night out.. Went to the famous chicken rice store across the street of Platinum Mall.. It was featured on the Channel 8 show.. 



First time I see chicken rice with pig's blood.. How I miss it.. 

We ordered half chicken & realised that it is too much for 2 pax.. In the end, both of us din finished our rice.. ( Personally, I still prefer the texture of the chicken & the fragrance of the Chicken rice in S'pore.. :P) 


After dinner, we took a cab to Pleonchit BTS station where Benny went last year to custom-made his shirt.. Well, we got the place name mixed up.. Its more of near to NaNa BTS station.. We took a slow walk over to the actual place.. By the time we reached, most of the shops are preparing to close.. In the end, we went back to the one he made @ last year.. ( which turns out to be a wrong decision..) 


We took a cab to Ekamai.. Both Seb & Mau told me it is a superb clubbing street with lotsa fantastic clubs around.. But when we were driving along the street, it was no where near what they described... I din see any interesting clubs @ all.. Wanted to go to RCA but was told by the cab driver that it closed @ 1am.. (WHICH IS A LIE!!) 


He recommended us to go to this club called BOSSY which closed at 6am & according to him, quite hip among the university students (ANOTHER LIE!!) So we went there & was totally turned off by it... It is nothing like any clubs along RCA.. Words cannot described how CUI the place is..... I finished my bottle of beer in the fastest time ever & left the place within 10-15 mins... Thinking back now, it was like another adventure of the trip.. 


We decide to go back to the hotel & turn in early for the night to make up for the previous night & in preparation for the Chatukchap mission the next day.. :)