Dear jumjum…
Ahhh I can’t believe I delayed this post for
so long!! Sorry BunnyWoman for disappointing you again and again... ><
So anyway, Cam and I went to Thailand for a
week and stayed at my dad’s apartment. Our daily routine was basically to wake
up, prepare breakfast, have breakfast, watch Law & Order and CSI back to
back, bathe, walk to the BTS station, invade a mall, tire ourselves out shopping,
have dinner with my dad, do some laundry, sleep. Hehehe. It was nice to go with
Cam because we’re both such kiasu shoppers, we walk really fast and rush everywhere
to make sure that we don’t miss out on any shopping. After going to Thailand
for five times already, I must say Siam Paragon is still my favourite mall- not
too cheapo but not too luxurious either, with a wide array of shops to explore.
Asoke BTS
Cam and I spent two hours in this shop!! They sell the cutest, randomest thngs!!
Second ice cream of the day at Swenson's.
My dad did make sure that we didn’t spend all our time there just shopping- he brought us for a walk in Chinatown, to watch World War Z (where we got to experience first-hand everyone standing for the anthem in respect of the Thai King before the movie), to Pattaya and Ayutthaya floating market. Pattaya was great fun! We went parasailing (my knees were seriously shaking), underwater walking where you wear this astronaut-like oxygen helmet on your head and jet-skiing. I drove first on the jet-ski then we swapped places and Cam took over. Let me tell you, if you think Cam’s driving is reckless, her jet-skiing is even worse! She’s so brave and went all out on that jet-ski that I nearly flew off..aaand she kept saying that she wanted to try and make the jet-ski flip and I nearly flipped out!
Chinatown.
While waiting for our movie to start...
Pattaya
Oh yea! We saw two loony men during our trip. =S While waiting for the car outside Platinum mall, this untidy man squatted down a few feet in front of us and left something on the floor. He smiled at us and walked away, and only then did we realize that he left 100 baht (RM10) on the sidewalk! Immediately after that, a tuk-tuk driver stopped his vehicle by the side of the road, jumped down, picked up the $ while giving us a look as if daring us to challenge him, hopped back on and drove his tuk-tuk away. Cam and I were wondering if he was following this loony man (and his trail of cash!) around because it was pretty impossible that he saw the money lying there if he was just driving past. It was funny because that sidewalk was railed so the driver had to reach his whole arm through the bars to get the cash. The second loony guy we saw was a motorbike taxi driver who probably dreams of becoming a traffic policeman. He was waving vehicles like one at a big intersection and didn’t even budge when the lights were green for his lane! It was good entertainment, though, for that long wait at the traffic light..
Shibuya Honey Toast, recommended by Ms Suki! #besttoastever!
While eating at McD's one day (Cam wanted to try the pork burger), we saw this forlorn-looking woman sitting outside, so my dad started telling this story that long ago, this woman was young and pretty, and she fell in love with a pharang (what thais call the angmo) but her family objected. They arranged to meet under the Banyan tree on a Staurday where they would run away together and live happily ever after. But that Saturday came and went and that woman never saw her lover. And so, every Saturday night since, she would faithfully wait there for him, with his favourite homemade soup in a tumbler, and over the years the place developed into a McD's to her right and a mall to her left. Little did she know, (walking down the road we saw this angmo) her lover has always been there every Saturday too, just watching her from a distance because he does not think it wise to tear her away from her family...( I seriously hope nobody who knows these two people ever see this post! HAHAHA)
We had an early flight out of Bangkok and Cam and I are not morning people and were really grumpy and bad-a** on the plane. I won’t go into details but I ended up saying sarcastically to two China girls, “You wanna kill me is it?!” and Cam ended up hitting the headrest in front of her in annoyance. TEEHEE. Starting to plan our next trip already!
And finally-my newest baby!! Finally got this after lusting over it for so long. Thanks dad!!!!!
*atm*
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