Wen-derland.blogspot.com: 2010

My Bangkok trip wasn't wholly on vacation because I followed my bf while he went there for work. Hence not much place I had been visiting. The day we arrived at Bangkok Airport, there were crowds queueing to pass through the custom. Now I know why everyone loves Thailand especially the ang mohs.

The last time I was in Bangkok is already many years ago, when I was 12 that year. I never understand the tiger show that those adults meant and didn't knew much about Thai culture. Now I truly get the concept of why man (dirty old man) love Thailand!

The weather was bad, rained all day long. Don't really like rainy day while traveling, spoils everything and gota stepped on wet and slippery floor! By the way, Bangkok's traffic is terrible somemore rain slowed down every vehicles.

We took cab to reach our hotel, here I learnt that passenger has to pay the tol fee along the ride. Bangkok airport is not really far away from our hotel but the traffic already took us around 1 hour. Still it is cheap to take cab, only cost us RM 38 included tol. We stayed at DREAM hotel which located in Sukhumvit, it is convenient but way too complicated place.

The hotel was not bad but the location is abit out of expectation. I love the decorations and those friendly staffs, they always have their smile plastered on their face.

Such a nice accomodation I must recommend to you, somehow the hotel rate is not cheap. They charged RM400 per night but worth it. Yes, is my pleasure to stay there without paying a penny.

Just love everything there, look at the furniture. Not very special and yet they are simple but the whole feeling of this hotel is just fantastic.

The restaurant which we had our everyday breakfast here, the food are nice but they served the same dishes for the 5 days we stayed there. So we got sick of the food by the end of the day.

It's nice to dine in this romantic lighting place. They have pub at night time and they even have tango night on Sunday.

Weird shaped chair, looks like steamboat right? So special...

Romantic flowers

The building structure is odd as their swimming pool and gym area are at opposite building which is across the road. It's strange to put on swimming suit and walk on the road right?

The swimming pool is at 11th floor. The pool seem nice, too bad we didn't manage to swim because we were fully exhausted when we get back to our room.

Room 610 ~ our room. There aren't many rooms here, i think around 12 rooms per floor. Oh, can't wait to experience my long time expecting room.

Okay lar, not bad. They have blue lights everywhere that make you feel like staying in dream.

I enjoyed breakfast like this, salad and bread.

From Dream hotel, walked all the way to Asok station and then take train to Chit Lom station. Central World shopping mall, convention centre and others shopping malls are just located there. The Central World shopping mall has been fired by protesters however they are re-building it.

On Sunday, I witnessed every Bangkok residens in red shirt where they were having protest parade. It looked really horrific, the streets were all crowded by people in red and they even light on candle and dedicated roses along the roadside.

It's quite convenient to use MRT or BTS (sky subway) in Bangkok as their subway routes are linked to everywhere.

I wondered why my country's public transports are so lack of efficient, I ever took hour just to reach my college in Subang by taking KTM. Others subway service are better than us way too far.

The first thing I did in Bangkok was eating TOMYAM! My fav! I ate it for most of the meals. I just can't stop craving for it! Tomyam in Bangkok is really different from ours, they cooked it in original way unlike in m'sia most of them use tomyam paste to make it.

Most of the food courts use prepaid card or coupon system so we have to buy the prepaid card from the counter in order to buy our meals.

This shopping mall, 'ERAWAN' is like Pavilion, they sell all branded clothes and stuffs. So poor people like me prefer street market more.

This is the new build Central World mall. I have no idea what I was doing.

At night, we took MRT underground train to Lumpini for dinner. So we changed our coupon and start hunting for food. We tried their local famous dishes like papya and mango salad, tomyam kung and phat tai (something like tomyam char kueh teow).

Thailand is very famous with one of their public transport - tuk tuk. So we took a chance to experience it. That was absolutely a nightmare! Last time when I been in Bangkok or Hap Zai, it wasn't that scary though. Five of us rode on a tuk tuk and that mad driver drove it even faster than car on highway!

I think he tried to scared us because we demanded to have 200bahts for one tuk tuk. Luckily the ride was safe.

The next day, we went to Chatuchak Market. This is the must-go- market in Bangkok. They sell everything there, clothing & asseccories, furniture & home deco, food & beverages, handicrafts and many many more. Whatever you can name it they have it there.

I love this market so much! Their clothes there are so nice and affordable. All their stuffs are selling so cheap and you can still bargain with them.

Cute puppy can spotted everywhere.

The coconut ice-cream is so so yummy! Only 25bahts and they gave us free coconut drinks. Their coconut taste are too much different, fresher!

So so yummy and yet so cute!

I wanted this slipper so much on the first day I reach Bangkok but at the end of the day I didn't manage to get one! I almost going to get one but then the colour that I want was out of stock. I really should get other colour. I missed alot of opportunities to hunt there, I should get everything there lor!

Was too busy shopping there with my messy hair. I bought a tube dress here and I wish I bought more than one! Only 230baths (RM23)!

We discovered there was a long queue and we just followed the queue, I thought they were selling normal choco ice-cream but no, it is banana ice-cream. They soaked the freezed banana with choco. It's special physically but the taste is normal only.

Cabs in Bangkok are so colourful! They got pink, orange, blue, green. A lot of tuk tuk too!

On the last night, we came to this very unique restaurant called Cabbages & Condoms.

What's it so special with? Yup, all the deco there are made of condoms! Tiger Woods in condoms, Opps! should be Tiger Woods made of condoms.

Part of the concept of the restaurant is actually to promote better understanding and acceptance of family planning and to generate income to support various department activities of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA).