Asia Bangkok

This was the first time I met my son outside Singapore. I chose Asia Hotel because its next to the mass transit train station. I am now even more familiar with the Bangkok mrt better the our own Singapore mrt lol. And of course the price was reasonable. Nearly lost him at the station for a moment though. He just wandered of into the crowd playing with his toy. Good thing I was looking out for him.

Well Im finally back on home soil and I have offically come crashing back down to earth! I just thought I'd log in for one last time and let you know what I've doing the past few weeks. Well I left Singapore for an even hotter and sweatier Bangkok. Its a crazy crazy place. I arrived arround midnight and spent the first day and night within the confines of the very lovely and rather posh Asia Bangkok Hotel, making good use of the mini-bar and the pool on the 12th floor. However, being in a hot...

Our flight landed as smooth as silk (as Thai Airways promised). I paused at the door and subconsciously ducked through, like in the movies where famous or powerful people almost bow out of the plane door, before pausing at the top of the stairs leading to the tarmac. I wanted to remember this moment - stepping into a new culture. It was a steamy and humid night. As soon as I stepped from the plane and onto the stairs I was hit by a bank of humidity. It was saying that once I crossed it, I wou...

Well tomorrow we leave Bangkok, and Thailand, as we fly to the great freeze of China, which will be very nice actually! I think we'll both definitley miss Thailand, theres so much that we've both loved about the place! Coming to stay in the Asia hotel was a massive plus for us, that we hadn't really expected, but it did add a type of luxury which we certainly hadn't had in India! Staying in the midst of Siam square was really fun. with the shopping centres lining the streets, and fast food ou...

Well they say things happen in 3s, and that's just what happened on our way over. Everything started out fine - my bags were packed, I actually turned up at the airport at the time I had planned to, and I was feeling good. Then, check in... I almost died when I put my bag on the scale and it came in at over 33kg - the most they'd let me take was 25kg. I didn't fare any better with my hand luggage which weighed 17kg and the most that's supposed to be is 6kg! But no matter how much I argued "bu...

I arrived at the wedding hall 15 minutes before the schedule. I do not know anyone there so I have to introduce myself. "Sawatdee" says a lady who happened to be the bride's aunt. What a very warm welcome they have for me, everybody seems to be expecting me. Now I feel special, aside from the groom and the bride, I felt like I was the next most important person there. While seating around the table with new acquaintances, I felt so inferior having seated beside an Australian businessman who k...

I got a call from my mom that my cousin, Santi, is getting married to Chin in Bangkok. I booked for a Philippine Airline flight ot Bangkok and later met up with Santi. Santi and Chin flew in from Los Angeles. We went to Phat Pong 1 on the night of my arrival. Day 2 is the wedding day. It was my first time to experience a Buddhist wedding. We had a blast at the reception. I learned how to dance the Thai way. Then we headed south-southwest, visiting different temples. Temple after temple. Tirin...

May 24, 2003, cruising at an assigned altitude of 27,000 feet above sea level, we are encountering so much turbulence, so cloudy that everything is cloud white with some cumulunimbus ones. The flagship carrier will be cruising over Bataan province, South China Sea, part of Vietnam and over Cambodia air space. Know where am going? You got it right, dude! I am bound for Bangkok, Thailand, to see my cousin, Santi. Cloud Nine! That's cumuli after cumuli of clouds triggering the pilot to keep the ...

Santi and I, took a train to Mo Hin to go to their weekend flea market at Chatuchak in search for chili. We've searched every stall until I almost give up, but I did not because it's for my best friend. Finally, we found it, not inside but outside the flea market. We have to go home after that because all my sweat have dried up on my shirt creating that white discoloration on it. Back in the hotel, I had sauna for 100 baht then off to the wedding.

Well...what can we say about Bangkok?! It is an amzing city that quite clearly never stops..... We arrived here about 430pm on Monday. By the time we had gotten through passport control, collected our bags, fought our way through the hoardes of taxi touts waiting to pounce we managed to get a 'proper'taxi to take us to our hotel. The amount of traffic was unbelieveable. We got to our hotel about 730pm, it took about an hour to travel 7km. Driving here looks like a real artform. You can undert...