Bangkok Escapade

Heyah, it's been a long time, there are so many reasons for my long absence and though so many things to tell, i couldnt find time to make kwento. But i have time now.

Remember my cousin-in-law who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (pancreatic cancer) passed away after a month of battle. It was so soon, though we are ready, we didn't expect it to be that fast. We are thankful to the Lord that she didn't suffer that much. May she rest in peace.

On the lighter side, my trip to Bangkok went fine. Bangkok is so similar to Manila. The traffic, too many flyover, sidewalk vendors, tuktuk (same like trycle) and the tiangge, it so Manila, except of course for the Temples, right hand drive and the pink taxi. Their airport is nice and huge.


We stayed at Baiyoke Suite, it is cheaper than other hotel, tidy and comfy. Outside the hotel you can see rows of stalls selling mostly clothes it is more of divisoria type but cleaner.

Hotel lobby

This unique wall clock caught my eyes, I've learned that it came from Japan

small dinning area

the bedroom

View outside the Hotel, stall owners are starting to put up their booth

During weekends, as early as 7:00am stall owners are ready to open the stores and closes at midnight. Tiangge is all over the city and you will end up exhausted. You can buy decent dress for only P200. I always convert baht to peso every time I'll buy and since I'm BS Math (bobo sa math) i always have my calculator with me.

We spent our first day at Chatuchak after dropping by at Gems Gallery, if you are a fan of Jewelries , it's heaven there, so many stuff to choose from. There is a shuttle that will pick you up at the hotel to bring you to the gallery and if the driver is nice enough he can bring you to your next destination. Just be nice and give a little tip for the effort.


Chatuchak, the biggest weekend market in Bangkok it's like the size of a football field, you should be wearing comfy footwear because it is a long adventure. Great finds for a cheap price. You need to be makulit so they will give you discount. It is hard because most of them doesn't speak English.





On our second day, we allot morning for the temple tour. Good thing our tour guide can speak English well she explained detail by detail. You have to take off your footwear every time you enter the temple.

Amazing reclining Buddha

Tombs of the rich families in Thailand

There are so many Temples that later on I grew tried of putting in and taking off my shoes, so I just took pictures aside. Just like what KG had experienced when she went there., a Buddha overload"


According to our tour guide, there is a belief that if a monk crossed your path, you will be single forever, when I heard that, I keep on recalling if that monk praying crossed mine, lol.


I am not adventurous when it comes to food, i ate only food known to me. I ate only these: eto lang ang alam ko kainin.

pad thai

Bagoong rice

Tomyang

Sticky rice with manggo
this mango dip in something like spicy bagoong with sugar is awesome too.
Of course I will not leave without tasting their coffee and iced tea

Our remaining days in Bangkok spent for shopping, we didn't go to floating market and elephant show because it's 2 hour drive from where we are staying and beside the tour packages are expensive.

I enjoyed, Siam Paragon, the high-end mall in Bangkok. We also went to Ocean world which the largest aquarium in Southeast Asia and is located at the mall, the whole tour will cost you 1000baht, it include souvenir photo, fish spa, pop corn and drinks, 4D show and a lot more, sulit namn sya for me. I had fun, it revived the child in me. I love the otter and the penguins show.

Ocean World

All in all, it was tiring, happy and truly, a trip to remember.. next destination.. HK. hay nakakapagod talaga kulang ang 3days...

the best thing in life is free

It's my day today, why, first i'm wearing my comfort shirt, second i won a free desert!

On our way to the office after attending the mass, C and I dropped by at dessert solutions (it's a dessert store) located at our building lobby here in eastwood, C choose chocolate mousse for P50 and I picked mocha java for P55, the problem is C and I had only P50 each, we asked the sales attendant if she can give it to me for P50 only, at first she told me to buy na lang chocolate mousse, but i'm craving for mocha java so i insist the P5 tawad, she turned to her boss. The boss (wearing his chef uniform) approach us and said yes but told us not to tell anyone, okey surely!

While waiting for the dessert i noticed the "drop your card here" fish bowl and asked the boss how often they do the raffle, he said everyday, I told him i dropped my card the other day, he asked if my name was picked up already, i said no (with matching head motion), the next thing i know, he was fishing on the bowl, did a little mixing on the cards (eyes closed) and viola!! OMG! (exagg:)) he picked my card, i can easily recognize my card among the rest because it's red. i told him that's me, he said really? how will i know if it's you (at that time a don't have any IDs), he asked if i have my cellphone with me, good thing i have and he called my cell, "ring, ring, oh it's really you! yah, That's me!

So i had this mocha java for free! Half of it was shared with my sweet tooth officemate, a.k.a, sugar. Sorry the picture is vague, i used my not so vavavoom cellcam, i always forgot to bring my digicam.

im craving...

i had an early dinner with C at tsoko.nut batirol, im craving for something hot to drink because of the christmas weather, it's cold outside.

tsoko batirol satify my cravingC had Iced Banana Batirol

and we shared spaghetti chunky meat and Chicken Fantasia

the food satifies our hungry stomach, the spag is good but there is nothing special, for me the spicy tuna liguini of coffee bean is still the best. I'm also craving for suman with ripe mango and choco syrup on top but im full, ill order that next time.

sorry my cellphone cam is not that vavavoom, i dont usually bring my digicam because i'm prone to "laslas bag" gang, it's better to be careful than sorry, malapit na ang christman and they are so out there so be careful.

anyway, what have you got for dinner?

crowning glory of good food

I'm loving coffee bean and tea leaf's spicy tuna linguine to bits, their classic ceasar salad and chipotle roast chciken sandwhich(that goes perfectly well with any kind of bread)are goodilicious too specially when seasoned with a hot chit chat with your girlfriends about girly stuff , boys, etc. Surely we'll hang out there often.