Bangkok : LIKE, FINALLY I FINISH UPDATING ABOUT IT!

Excuse the capslock drama.
I know I could update the last day in a jiffy sebab last day tak buat apa sangat but I just had to do other things.

Like tonnes tonnes of work  to do oh the cliche excuse again.
Like organizing a birthday party for a dear colleague
Learning to bake a cake or two.
And madly in love -- (with myself even more haha.)

In other words, its because I actually have a life other than being in front of a laptop 24/7.
Kemain kerek ko long.

Dah dah.

Anyways, last day.
Pagi tu semangat bangun sebelum Subuh, packed our stuffs, head down for breakfast and booked a taxi to Pratunam.

Ada apa dengan Pratunam?

ADA PLATINUM MALL!

Platinum Mall kegilaan para wanita yang tak kisah jenama pada harga borong. Sumpah. All those online shops CONFIRM ambik barang kat sini. Ada 6 floors of it, memang kena seharian di situ. Dan of course, kenalah berduit. For my case, sebab nak menghabiskan sisa baht, masuk Platinum Mall umpama mencari sakit jantung haha.

Kiteorang datang awal -- half an hour earlier. Mall pun tak bukak lagi but there were many locals waiting outside. I guess derang nak amik earliest supplies. We walked inside, kedai yang baru 2-3 kerat bukak pun dah bleh wat kiteorang sesak napas apetah lagi menunggu the whole mall to open.

Since I was on the fiirst flight home, I couldn't waste any time. Nanim went crazy with me despite she's on the later flight. Yang lain hilang entah ke mana, haha. Dengan beberapa baht yang ada, we were determined to get everything cheap kalau boleh.



By 11, I said goodbye to the girls and went back to the hotel with Intan. We opted for the tuk-tuk sebab konfem cepat sampai. Turns out the driver knew we were in a hurry so he asked for a higher charge. Marah lah sebab dah half way naik kot! But what to do, asalkan tidak termiss flight.

Sampai hotel, dengan muka marah nak bayar tuk-tuk driver tu, tapi alih-alih dia bagi diskaun. Langsung terus Kap Kun Khap 18 kali gitu. Dasarr!

Since the traffic was smooth sepanjang perjalanan ke airport, we were there quite early ah. Yup, orang lain tarik beg trolly, I was happy enough with my 60liter backpack!

Bidding goodbye to Lek -- who was scheduled for trip to Dubai after sending us tuh -_-"

Our flight got delayed an hour (bukan AA la kalau tak delay hihi) and we got bored taking 1001 pictures of ourselves at the airport. Don't worry, I won't spam this entry with the pictures, heh.

Half of the first flight group. 

Thanks korang for being an awesome travel companion!

There, habis.
If you asked the ladies who had been to Bandung and Bangkok and which would they come back for, most of them chose Bangkok.

Hee, I can't say anything yet as I have never been to Bandung yet tralala.

So that pretty sums up of how the ladies enjoyed shopping in Bangkok.
As for the guys, they don't mind as long as they don't have to follow the ladies during the shopping spree -_-"

Foodwise might be troublesome but if you knew where to look for halal food, then you'd be just fine.
Transportation is not a big issue -- you just need to be firm while haggling.
And the people there, alhamdulillah friendly, despite they don't speak much of English. Yang penting semuanya cakap menda sama "Come come madammmm, cheap cheap sale" haha comel tahu tak?

No outfit posts or the things I bought coz I am like that, very the pemalas. Sorry again to those who asked (and gave up on me hihi)

I'm off to Perak tonight so do expect this blog to be abandoned for another couple of weeks.
Till then, take care and happy long holidays!

Bangkok : Free & Easy Day Three

We left Bangkok Palace Hotel around 8.30 am by renting a van, all excited for Chatuchak. We were informed that Chatuchak only opens at 9 am so when we arrived to the place, there were only a few shops opened -- but enough to make us go ga-ga AH TYPICAL LADIES.

One thing to bear in mind is that despite Chatuchak is opened daily, but most shops are opened ONLY during weekends. So we were lucky to have our Free & Easy on a Saturday as more than 5000 stalls were opened -- JUST FOR US! (okay perasan) And please please wear light! It's freaking humid there, even when the walkways were covered. Despite we were armed with a map of Chatuchak, it ended being an immediate fan for us as we just walked in and out through each soi (lorong). Chatuchak is divided to sections where you can get all the vintage items in one, house decos in next, clothes and clothes on the other side, painting galleries on one side -- rambang mata! On the prices, well typical vendors taking advantages on tourists, so you just have to haggle & bargain till they give you almost half of the first price they mentioned.

It was around noon and we realised we haven't covered half of Chatuchak, sedih weh! Lagi sedih is when you have to remember that you still need money to survive till the journey home haha. So we decided to call it a wrap and head out of Chatuchak.

And you think we are done shopping la eh?
NAHHHH GIRLS WILL ALWAYS BE GIRLS!

Kat luar lagi murah meriaaaaaaaaaaaah! Macam sedih sangat dah habis duit kat dalam Chatucak tu haha. Imagine puffy sleeves blouses RM13 je? Malaysia kemain jual RM30 the cheapest bagai tauuu. And don't get me started on those chunky rings -- gila! Tamau state price but it was super damn cheap. Memang confirm tanak dah beli kat flea market bagai tu, tanak!

Then we were divided into two group. -- others yang masih berduit, semua ke Platinum Mall, and the rest went back to the hotel. Untuk memujuk hati, we girls decided to ride the Tuk Tuk! BUT. IT. WAS. DEMSCARY. Tuhan saja yang tahu how we squeezed ourselves as the tuk tuk went in between two lorries or how we used our imagination hand breaks as a fast car approached us! The tuk tuk driver even got the cheek to honk back a lorry for overtaking us haha.

Senyum kelakar seram namanya ni.

So we went back to our rooms, paraded the stuffs we bought, and the next thing you know, you are out of bahts to even eat out!

Lucky we were prepared for that, so heh, mari melayan instant foods!

Kemain berlambak!

After we ate, we rested -- and waited anxiously for the other group to come back with their hauls. Sue & Sharaf only came back around 8 and immediately invited for dinner outside. It was truly a hard choice to make as we were saving the last few hundred Malaysian Ringgit or enjoying our last night in Bangkok.

Tewas dengan sekelip mata haha!

We went to Sukhumvit as suggested by Sharaf where they have a lot of Arab Soi there -- you know in terms of finding halal food is quite tricky if you don't know the area so it's kinda safer to be in an Arabic surrounding. Kinda.

This was the best tomyam tasted during my stay there -- not quite what I expected but it was nice.
Sue shared her shopping experiences earlier as she went to Platinum Mall,Pratunam. The fashionmall has the biggest wholesale in their 6 storey building and prices ah,harga wholesale!

The girls planned to go the next morning but I can't as I'm on the first flight home.
Sedih kan?
And that night it rained as if it was crying for me.

Eceh, drama.

But it did rain right after we finished our dinner.

I wasn't bothered with the heavy rain. Should I or shouldn't I go to Platinum the next day?

Bangkok : Back & Broke (Day Two)

Day Two saw us having breakfast at 7 am as we have to make a move to the Damneon Saduak Floating Market. The original and only floating market left in Bangkok is an hour and a half journey, which explains the early schedule. Plus, the most suitable time to be at the market is from 8-10 am -- standard pasar time!

There were two entrances to Damneon Saduak Floating Market which were by road or by the canal. But we didn't know that as we were brought to the boat station upon arriving there.

Minus the er,smelly water, we had fun seeing the houses along the canal. Saw kids waving back at us, a temple, houses turned into mini markets, houses with boats lining in their 'porch' and canal junctions. It took us around 15 minutes to reach the Floating Market.

At the first sight of the Floating Market, I expected it to be very happening. Turns out since we came from the other entrance, we were yet to see the boats and all. What welcomed us was a couple with a big snake, where Mila was extremely excited to have the scaly animal around her -_-"

Sue & Sharaf did the same too. I was more concerned of my lilitan selendang than the lilitan ular HAHA NOT FUNNY. We walked and past some souvenir stalls till we reach the heart of the market.

One thing you MUST try is their sticky rice with mango -- sometimes with added coconut milk. It's around 20-10 baht, depending on the mango used or you are so cheapskate you wanna bargain everything kind of people -_-"

Some called it the Pulut Pauh. I'm no fan of puluts but it was nice having a taste of it -- speshly the mangoes were sweet enough to compliment the sticky rice.

We then made our way to Mak Yah Muslim Restaurant to have our lunch. Surprisingly we have yet to taste the best Tom Yam despite the recipe came from Thailand, but we ate heartily licin pinggan mangkuk bagai.

After lunch we then went for a tour visit to Vimarnmek Mansion -- the world's largest teak mansion it claimed to be. Since we were not allowed to take pictures (it was a private tour) so I'm sharing this image taken from Google -- just so how you know how it looks like.

It has 81 rooms and has become Thailand's first handcraft museum too as it stores the Queen's handicrafts masterpieces such as Thai Silks, the Golden first aid kit and neillowares just to name a few.

Credit to Google

This was outside the area. Dasar narsis!

Next was a visit to the Gem Gallery, the biggest jewel store (er not sure in the world, but yeah, it's huge) -- but if you are not a gem/jewelery person like yours truly, you might find this visit quite unnecessary okay ayat sangat tak bersyukur dapat holiday free -_-"

Cheh tak minat konon,tapi membeli juga -_-"

The next stop was to MBK Mall!
This is where everyone kenot tahan already! Be it the guys and the ladies, semua gembira jumpa shopping mall! Takbleh tahan dah! Murah je beli, beli je murah!

I managed to tahan juga, sebab dah termakan kata-kata tour guide that Chatuchak has more varieties & cheaper stuffs. Terbabas sikit sikit je, ampun.

KFC Sundaes!

Happy exhausted mall-goers!

If not for the curfew time given by our tour guide while at MBK, we would have forgotten to have our dinner. So for the last night of dinner being prepared for us, we head over to Al-Hilal Muslim Restaurant.

And that was pretty much of our Day Two. We went back to the hotel, crashed Nanim's room, goofed around while planning for the Free & Easy Day Three.

Those who asked me to post on what I bought, er, weh I beli barang biasa biasa jeeeee *muka cuak* NO NEED LA OUTFIT POST GAMBAR PURCHASE APE BAGAI EH EH?