Bang Ko(c)k

i'm finally back from bangkok! after a very gruelling 5d4n tour of the city. spent most of the time walking and hunting for cheap stuff. but it has been one of the better places i've been to. the ppl there are friendly to say the least, not to forget they actually bother to wrap ur stuff properly when u buy them. not like from across the causeway.

lets run thru the events shall we? lemme see.. woke up early last wed to catch the morning flight to bangkok. we took valuair and since it's a budget airline, i expected the service to be crap. but they actually did quite well. the flight there was pretty empty so ppl were actually moving and changing seats during the flight. i went from a window seat near the front to an empty row near the back where i had all the space in the world to lift the seat handles and lay down to sleep. i mean how often do u get that!? the meals were cute. they served bread and cakes in a box. the only downside being we had to purchase our own soft drinks. but they had free coffee and tea so we made do wid jus dat la. haha..

so we arrived in bangkok ard 12pm and made our way to the hotel. we stayed at asia hotel which has a carabet show at the basement. so on the second nite, we went to watch the gays perform. the show was great. lighting, sound everything was very professionally done. and the transversites (yeah they had the complete package, boobs and all) were super pretty! there were both gays and transversites performing. u could see some of them haven actually gone for the sex change. im tinking the show would be something like a test for them to decide if they actually want to go for the change.

besides that, we visited the many night markets ard the city. on the first nite, we went to patpong and saw all the showgirls doing their poledances. we had people coming up to ask us to catch their tiger shows but i couldn't see any cos i was wid my family! argh! between patpong, suanlum and chatuchak, i would prefer suanlum any night. i noe many ppl would prefer chatuchak but i couldn't find anything there besides a pet shop which sells super cheap puppies. where else can u find a puppy dalmation for s$360?! dats including money for the box, documentation, doctor's gurantee and the puppy itself. we didnt get the puppy thou.. really wanted to but we had to stay till monday cos the clinics were closed during the wkends and we were leaving on sunday. suanlum had many things for me. found lots of clothes there and there's also a makan area for us to relax when our feet was killing us.

we also went on a half day city tour. our tour guide's name was tada. he brought us to many places including the boat tour of the chao phraya river. visited many temples and he told us a lot of history on the place. tada was also kind enough to book the tickets to the carabet show we went to. my dad forgot to tip him at the end thou haha..

my family spent a total of s$3,000 in bangkok. we're completely broke now.. but the trip was definately worth the money. eh i recce the city liao so if anyone wants to go bangkok next time, call me. friends only need apply.. i wanna go catch dat damned tiger show...