as Busy as a Buzzy Bee!!~

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

I seem to be preoccupied with many "events" after returning from the bkk trip. Last night went for BBQ with Baby at his colleague's place. I was rather tired after the bbq ended at about 11pm. Some more today still got to work.... then after work still have to attend wedding dinner at Orchid Country Club again!!!..... Then tomorrow still got to wake up early to send Papa to the airport as he is going on a worshipping trip to China with the temple members. Oh.... going to miss papa as he is going for a week, and this time without mama's companion.

I realised that everyone seem to be flying recently. Like firstly Fat Siong have to fly to Saudi Arabia for a month++. Then my friends went for their Taiwan Trip, followed by Baby and I going for our Bangkok trip, then tomorrow Papa going China. Is it like the "travelling month".... Lolx~

Papa wants to borrow my camera for his china trip. I alittle worried if he will be able to manage the gadget. You see, well.... Papa is definately not a IT savvy person, and so I tried to teach him every minimal component he needs to know, and ask him to try taking photo himself. But, he just tried one or two times (which I felt wasn't very well taken photos), than says that "its very easy lah, can lah can lah". Hahaha~ Papa is a very headstrong person. Well~ Just hope papa can bring some nice pictures back~ Heez~

Alright, now to continue my unfinished updates of my Thailand trip.

Firstly, I need to emphasise something. On our second day in Bangkok, we were like happily walking from our hotel to Pantip Plaza for our A&W dinner. We walked briskly till we reaach the main road outside our hotel, and naturally, we were approached by those Tuk Tuk drivers. I was walking in front of Baby and he was rejecting the driver, walking while trying to shake that driver off as he was following us. Then he stepped on my slipper, which I didn't notice as I was walking very fast, and my mphosis flip flop slipper snapped. Wah, not only was it painful, I had to walk with one spoilt slipper for another 5-8mins, and climb the steps of a overhead bridge before we reach Platinum mall in order for me to get a new slipper. It's like my mood totally spoilt lor, I know Baby didn't do it on purpose, but generally I will blame and nag at him for awhile before I got appeased. Heez~ Typical "princess" attitude as what Baby always says me~

Baby was sweet lah~... he offered to exchange his slipper with mine so that I didn't have to walk like a crippled. But well, I turn down his offer because I know he will have difficulty just even fitting into my slippers. Luckily there are lots of shoe shops in platinum, and they all looked pretty. I even bought 2 pairs because I couldn't make up my mind which to get.

MBK / Siam Center / Siam Discovery:
We went to these three malls in one shot. Everyone says that we should visit all the famous mall as this was our first visit to Bangkok. Well, I was totally bored during our walk walk in these three malls. The shops there are selling more towards the "high end" price range, and the some of the labels are what we commonly find in Singapore(such as Giodano, Esprit, Mango, Emporior Armani etc). I wasn't prepared to spend that kind of money during my trip, as I don't intend to use my credit card and our cash are rather limited to paying for cheaper products only.

But if you are looking to dine in more upmarket restaurants, do go to these malls as you will be spoilt with choices from japanese to western cuisine.

Big C:
Initially we didn't intend to go Big C, as its quite a distance to walk from our hotel. But on our last day in Bangkok, we walked to pratunam centre early in the morning to pray pray. Baby said it's a good thing to go pray their famous Buddha there when we reach, and before we leave bangkok. After praying I was looking at this big poster hung near where the Buddha statue was located. Its a poster featuring some traditional Thai Cuisine by a restaurant that was located right by the side of Pratunam Center. Then I was approached by a thai auntie who thought I wanted to look for that restaurant to have my lunch. She told me to come back later in the afternoon as its only opened at about 1pm. Then she introduced some other famous tourist spots we can visit to kill time before lunch. She was very friendly and helpful, and I asked her where we can get nice yummies to buy back for our family, and she introduced Big C. She directed us with our map, and told us a short cut. So end up Baby and I walked under the hot sun towards Big C.

There were lots of morning food market stalls along the way, but we didn't try any. Then we reached Big C after about 10 mins walk. There are the usual shops in the mall, and a really large super market, just like Giant in Spore. We managed to find a small stall beside the super market selling the thai yummies, so we grabbed everything we liked because I didn't want to go back home without any famous thai yummies. Big C was not bad lah, better than MBK and Siam, so if you need to look for supermarket during your stay in Bangkok, you can try Big C.

( Baby said Big C means "Big Cinema", don't know true or not. He also said Platinum mall got it's name because it's located in Pratrunam, and when the thai say "pratrunam", it sounds like "platinum" ) - Might be true but sounds rather crappy~

We managed to spend every single thai bhat we had with us before our flight back to Spore. Heez~ We were like looking around the mini mart that was located on level 3, just below departure level. We made sure we our items add up to exactly what amount we had with us. Heez.. very auntie & uncle hor~ but there was really no point leaving a few baht as they won't be of any value.

I will definately go Bangkok again!!.... Maybe in the near future!!! =p