Day 1 In Bangkok(17-01-08)

Today is a special day for four of us, Kelvin, Weiping, Yuhui and myself. We had lots of first time. Firstly, it was our first trip together, secondly, it was our first time going without tour. Lastly, it was our first trip without parents tagging along. All by ourselves. First time felt, I am really grown up.

Initially things were not that smooth as planned. I booked the air tickets online thru Air Asia website. Everything was done instantly. Then was the hotel booking which was not that smooth. Due to some miscommunications, we could not be able to book two rooms. Things change and changed. But luckily in the end, I managed to book two rooms. All set to go and was very looking forward for this.

We met each other at 7:30am to take cab together to go Changi Airport. We reached airport T1 at 8:30am where we decided to go T3 to have our breakfast at Ya Kun(Kelvin's Fav). Haha...

After breakfast, we came by a weighing machine for luggage. A check for us to check if we are bringing excess things to overseas. Haha... My luggage was the heaviest and Kelvin was the lightest if I did not remembered wrongly.

Then we proceeded to Counter 11 where we check-in for the boarding pass and we went for a short photo taking before we went into the departure hall.

Inside the departure hall, we took some photos and with my snaps shots. Haha.. I was very very excited that I almost jumping around. I sms my darling colleagues before my departure...

Well, we went to D46 where we were seated and wait for the plane to come and stop for us to board. We boarded the plane at around 10:30am. The plane was very small and squeezy... But cant ask for much as we boarded the budget airline.. haha...

The plane took off at 11am sharp. I took quite a number of snaps in the plane. The clouds looks like cotton wools.... I felt like touching them. It took us about 2 hours to reach Bangkok New Airport.

We queue for checkout at the Custom but to our dismayed, the queue was slowly cleared and took us almost an hour to proceed and collect our luggage. Their system compared to us was miles apart.

After we collect our luggage, we sped off to Level 3 for taking the cab to Asia Hotel. We insisted to go by meter before we hopped into the Pink cab(not planned de).

When we reached there, we were told to check in at Level 17 where we felt we were badly treated. The receptionist was very unfriendly and fierce. She was reluctant to tell us clearly that the extra 3000++bahts was meant for the deposit which will be returned to us upon check-out. Then we got our room card and went to the room assigned for us. I stayed in room 841 while Weiping stayed at room 847.

When we reached our room door, we knocked before we entered. Not superstitious but rather believed then regret later.

After we deposit our luggage, we left to take the skytrain for the first time. When we reached the train station, there is a ticket office(just like ours) and also a machine that sells the standard tickets. As we all do not have coins, hence we decided to buy the ezlink card type of skytrain card. The officer at the counter was also not very polite. When asked her one more question, she used her microphone and speak loud loud.

Once we bought each one card, we begin our journey to Siam Station where we came to Siam Paragon. The feel was like Orchard Paragon, a place for class and wealthy person. The atmosphere was great. When we went to the basement 1, there are a lot of varieties of food for us to choose. Than one of the menu caught our sight. It was the menu of the secret receipe. They sell Singapore Laksa... Very funny hor....

Hence we decided to sit down and ordered for our food. I ordered Macaroni Cheese with Prawns. It was nice. Yuhui tried the Tom Yam Seafood. The tom yam soup was power ar.... Very spicy.. Think Lili go there sure love the Tom Yam de...

After our late lunch, we decided to walk towards Phatunam Market where there were shops selling many varieties of things. From blouse/shirt to shoes. Instead we came to Phatunam Centre. We have to cross thru Central World where we saw more shops for those riches in Thailand. Then we came across the four faced Buddha outside the mall, we decided to pray for safe tour. Then a guy who speaks Chinese told us that there is a temple called Lucky Temple, good for us to pray for luck. The only problem was, we need to take the Tuk-tuk in order to reach there.

We do not trust him and decided not to listen to him and proceed to find the Phatunam Centre which was diagonally opposite Central World. When we reached there after jayrunning across the terrible road(as there is no traffic light or Pedestrian crossing, we saw a lot of people setting up stores outside the Phatunam Centre. But it was quite late and we were very exhausted.

After buying some stuffs, we set back to hotel for rest and decided to come back tomorrow after dinner as they set up stores at around 8pm.
That close Day 1 and we were back to hotel room to bathe and sleep to get some energy for tomorrow’s shopping spree...