Tuesday, July 27, 2004
i seriously enjoyed myself in bkk. it was the first trip i had away from my parents, just with friends, not counting bintan.
don't think i'll be able to remember EVERYthing... but here's the more sequence of stuff... eat, shop, club, club, drink, crazy taxi ride, sleep, eat, shop, shop, shop, shop, eat, drink, club, drink, crazy taxi ride, lady boys, more lady boys, club, club... (and the cycle continues)...
Day 1...
the flight
flew off on a rather full flight. guess everyone was going to bkk for the weekend. verdict on valuair? well... the air stewdess are, not pretty, not professional and they speak hokkien. gosh, this is seriously the SIA rejects. imagine view from the top kind of aircraft. nuff said.
met this nice lady on the plane and we talked throughout the flight. mag and i had fun on the plane, it wasn't that bad a flight. the landing was beautiful.
walking out of the airport, i smelt the air. yes, this was bkk. mag and i took a cab to the hotel. it was pretty freaky i guess, 2 guys who NEVER travelled without mummy taking a cab all alone in a foreign country. the cabbie wanted to cheat us, and we were just worried that he wasn't going to bring us to our hotel.
well, finally got to the hotel. *phew*. ramesh was there already, and we all made plans to go mbk the mintue we put down our bags and rested.
mag was pretty excited i guess, being in bkk the shopping paridise for the first time. she was just all over the place, shopping and looking at every single stuff... i was on my quality control. decided to save money and effort for JJ, food and entertainment.
food loft
met laura and vince for dinner. they took us to food loft in central. i have to say that it was REALLY nice. the atmosphere was good man. it's like marche, but it's on the highest floor, and all surrounded was windows. very chic. the place was dark, so we all ate by candle light.
the food wasn't just thai, every stall had different food. jap, italian, french, chinese... but this being my first meal in bkk, it was going to be thai. i had tom yum goog. nice....
me and the tom yum
mag and i
laura and i
patpong
after dinner vince brought us to patpong. laura had to go back and study for her paper the next day.
patpong's this place with all the pretty lady boys. it's like geylang, just that it's ALL guys. all the pretty ones that is.
so vince brings us to this bar, we sit down, and there's like 15 girls dancing on the bar in front of us. i'm not sure whether my mouth was open cos i was just staring, but i think i was staring. and the thing is, it's dangerous to stare, cos the would come up to u.
they're very direct. very forward. and i guess rather screwed up as well right. it really makes me wonder how can anyone want to be of the different sex? that's rather screwed up right.
this one in white comes up to us, and start talking to us. she said that she's been to s'pore and she visited changi, deskar and geylang. oh... how adapt. and then she flashes her breast at us. nice. she kept asking us to touch. and of course i didn't. but ramesh did. and he said, "gd job, value for money". hahahah...
another one in green comes up to vince and start stroking his leg. she plays with herself with the other hand. best. so vince points at me and tell her that his wife is here. the girl then starts screaming at me and telling me to get lost cos she's trying to do work here. right.
i think mag and i were pretty tramatised. it's going to take a while to wipe off the image of 20 girls/guys showing us their nipples and asking us to touch them.
patpong night life
the bed
went back to the hotel after that. was supposed to bathe and then head out to "the bed". "the bed" is this really nice club. it's ALL white. it's this elevated cylinder shaped club. inside, it looks like embassy, with 2 stories, where i stood on the second floor overlooking the dance floor. nice. the couches stretch around the club, and u can just lie down. very nice. really.
view from the top
the bar
the drinks are REALLY strong too. i had a lychee martini. and guess wat? it was the strongest shit drink i've EVER tasted in my life. really man. it burnt going down my throat. urgh. but it was REALLY fun man. really enjoyed myself.
the music was so good. very much like velvet's drum and base. the crowd was mainly ang moh, and it wasn't sleazy. vast difference from the patpong. the 4 of us really enjoyed ourselves man. really really gd.
partying
it's a pity that the clubs in bkk closes at 2am. wat?! that's crazy man. so off we go in a cab back to the hotel.
day 1 in bkk ended at 2am bkk time.
Day 2
woke up early and had breakfast. seems like they haven't changed their breakfast menu for the past 2 years. i can remember eating the same crap. urgh.
Jatujak aka JJ
woke ramesh up and we headed to JJ. gosh. JJ was hot man. it was huge! there was no way that we were going to keep finding each other, unless we were all on leaches. it was hot, it was crazy!
guess mag was just awed by the size of JJ. shopping here takes the toll on me man. as much experience i have in s'pore, JJ is the test man. it's THE shopping place to go.
i gave up. i think mag still wanted to shop more and more, but we were hungry. i stood there and called ramesh. "rammmmmeeessshh. hungry. find me."
we finally found some decent food. not some food side hawker shit. nah. i can risk being down with food posioning for the next 2 days. the place was decent, though it was pretty hard to get a seat. guess the practice at suntec food court was good cos we cld get a seat within the next 5 mins cos there were 4 pairs of eyes staring at people at the table! haha
ramesh eating
bern and his singha
the tom yum's hot
we're done!
i started having some funny rashes thing. and being sticky and sweaty wasn't helping. urgh. it was disjusting. i just wanted to go home.
another thing abt JJ is that there is alot of beggars around. it's really scary cos u see all these kids begging for money. some are crawling on the floor, and really looking filthy and dirty. or there are some that just sit by the side of the road. makes me think how fortunate i am. and how much is 10baht to me? it's 40cents. but i'm so unwilling to part with my money. sigh.
finally got back to the hotel and bathed. it felt soooo gd man.
laura bought us dinner at this thai resaturant near suan lum night bazza. the food was really good and nan finally made a guest appearence!!! woah. it was nice seeing her again man!!! excited!
nan and i
partying
after dinner, the club hopping started. first we went down to this strech of pubs. now the thing abt bkk is that there is no such thing as a boat quay, or a MS, where all the pubs are. the clubs/pubs in bkk are so far apart that it's a bitch to drive to each club. so when i say stretch, there were something like 4 pubs. yes, it's considered a stretch in bkk.
our first stop
nan wiggles!
nan and laura had a function at one of the pubs and had to go there and show face. so off we go, all 6 of us singaporeans, crashing their sassin party. haha. we left soon after, to our next stop, mystic.
mystic
now, mystic looked really promising. it was this avangard building and it looked REALLY cool. i'm starting to think that all clubs in bkk are like zouk. like a plot of land, rather than in a building, (ie chinablack, dbl o).
the exterior
walking in, the first thing i see is this:
how cool is that? first thought, "analyse this". the club interior was really cool. nice... the club is 3 stories and each floor has a different theme. bern opened 2 bottles of vodka. so all of us basically got in free. haha. wat's new right.
first floor
2nd floor
private area where we sat
ok, as cool as looking as it was, it was rather empty for a sat night! according to laura, there was a thai soccer match that night, and when there is, the whole thailand just sits at home and not leave their seats. fine. figures.
so we partied by ourselves. haha.. the 2nd floor where we were on was playing R&B, very much like phuture, and the 1st floor was playing house, very zouk-ish.
things picked up, but by then it was almost 2am ready, so off we go. went to have supper with nan. she brought us to one of those road side places. not bad lar. it was alright food. ramesh paid for dinner but nan was screaming cos she wanted to pay and it was like, "it's my place, this is my place!" it was really loud. VERY nan-ish. hahaha
day 2 in bkk ended at 3.4oam bkk time
Day 3
we were all late. i woke up at 10.30 bkk time and i tell u, i jotted out of bed. called nan to tell her change time to 11.30. then we scooted out of the hotel rm, and went down for some breakfast. as usual, ramesh had his fried rice, and i had my phad thai.
JJ
nan drove to JJ again. we parked pretty far away, so walked. she showed us a side of JJ that i've never been before. this was where all the quality stuff were. it was those factory outlets that sell stuff for around 300baht. that's like 12 bucks a shirt right. nice.
mag really went crazy here. but this time i bought abit more stuff, but still, very quality controlled! hee.
it started to rain and we waited for bern to come. he looks really really cute. like benard. haha... name also around the same man! so we took a cab to nan's car. we all literally jumped and ran into her car from the cab.
we drove down to some other place to have lunch when ramesh realised that he lost his hp. and some sing cash. shit. such a spoiler to the holiday. i think he felt quite bummed out by it, but oh well, good also lar, no one from db can call.
we had lunch at S&P. apparently it was this chain of restaurants in thailand. food was alright only lar, nothing special.
nan had to leave cos her bf was being such an ass. so we decided to go back ourselves. we cldn't find the train station at all man. damn it. where were we? we were lost. and this felt shit man. i was really was pretty scared cos i didn't know where the shit i was. but lucky ramesh was with us. *phew* so in we go and grab a cab, and all the way to the hotel.
decided on dinner at suan lum night bazzar. we walked around, and i was trying to finish some of my baht. didn't really know wat to buy and all, but oh well, just walked around. had dinner at this open air food court kind and there was a stage with live bands playing. it was pretty gd man.
khao sun
clubbing? we decided to head down to khao sun cos i wanted to see it. that was where the beach was filmed. i really loved that show right. but the place was a disappointment man. crappy. urgh. not even one bar that i looked like i wanted to go in and drink.
khao san loi
so we get back into another cab, told the driver to go q bar. the guy looks at us and we're like, shiiitttttttt. this f*cker doesn't know where he's going. urgh. so he drives, and drives and drives, and brings us to some weird diso joint called hollywood. best.
our last night
so we end up at patpong again. this time, we sit at some live band place, where the band was pretty gd, but the drinks were really expensive.
the crowd
3-some?
i don't smile like that!!!
we had a crazy taxi ride back. the dude was like 14 and he was just laughing all the way. it seemed like he was more high than us man. and it felt like the car was going REALLY fast. i looked at the speedometer and guess wat, it was at zero. oh how nice. we were in a defunct cab. nice.
but he was cute lar. really funny.
day 3 in bkk ended at 2.45am bkk time.
Day 4
last day in bkk. was abit scared that mag wasn't going to get her 4 bags back and mine as well. but all's well cos nan's bf came to pass us our stuff. apparently someone smashed her window in an attempt to steal something but oh well.
so nan was caught up in thailand at the police station, insurance company and blah blah blah. we didn't even get to see her at all! sob! sad man.
laura brought us around the whole day, checked out and left the bags in her car. we went to MBK to shop, shop and shop. this was my last attempt to spend all my baht. i guess the less baht u have, the more cautious u are abt wat u are spending right. urgh. but oh, laura paid for the charles and keith shoes in baht, so i had like 1000baht more! whoopi. it's like pocket money! haha...
i got 2 sunglasses, and a really really good imitation of quik boardshorts. it's SO good, i can't tell the difference man. it's really really good! and i was going to give it to alex. ha. kept it for myself! haha...
anyway, that was it. my last few hours in bkk, spent shopping with laura, ramesh and mag. laura drove us to the airport, dropped ramesh off and then parked her car to see us off. she made sure that we got into the gates before she walked away man. haha... she said that if i don't get home it's her fault. hahaha...
flight was delayed a whole hour cos of bad weather. the flight back was half full. slept most of the way. amazed that i slept through the super terbulance. it's amazing that i didn't throw up. but oh well, it's only a 2 hr flight.
i might consider taking valuair again. hum...
landing was super rocky. one of the worst that i've ever sat through. but oh well. i was just happy to be home. VERY happy to be home.
got checked at customs. damn it. do i look like i'll try to smuggle ciggis in?! damn bitch. i just wana go home.
gave my bags to ren and just plopped down. man, i was glad to be back!
day 4 in bkk ended at 11.45pm singapore time.
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