In Bangkok!!

Ok guys, the reason I'm online is because I got locked out of my room and my roommate is showering. Plus my other friends were busy so I didn't want to bother them. Thank goodness where I'm staying has internet usage!!

Anyways, just to let you all know, we arrived safe and sound yesterday at roughly 11pm Melbourne time and we were all pretty woozey. I had a massive headache and Tina was green and ready to chuck. Mr. Yong wasn't much better, and the only person who still seemed relative chirpy was Sally. Go Sally.

Anyways, after we landed, we went to our respective rooms and got ready to go out for dinner because Mr. Yong was pretty famished (he didn't eat on the plane, on the off chance it all came back out in those curtesy chuck bags). So, what do foreigners do when they arrive at a foreign place and is totally disorientated and famished? Why! They head to Maccas of course~!!

So off we trekked, the four of us to Maccas (Maccas being the closest thing we could find in walking distance that we knew). When we got there, I decided to be brave and try soemthing that the Aussie menu didn't have, so I settled for a bbq ribbed pork burger or soemthing. Didn't taste too bad I have to admit. It was strangely really sweet, and different from what you get at Maccas. I mean, Thai Maccas even has a four pattie Big Mac. FOUR PATTIE!! They even had fish and chips, and chicken wings would looked suspiciously like the ones that KFC has back home..

Anyways, after that we went home and slept and prepared ourselves for today. And oh boy, was there a lot of walking today!! We're staying at some place called Bally's, which is just off the main road, so we tuk tukked our way out of the inner roads and walked to the train stations. The train stations here are so immaculate!! I mean, they had air con that worked so well in those trains, I was so impressed. I was even more impressed with those little signs on the floor to indicate where you can stand to get on the train. There's arrows on the floor that show you where to stand, and how to get on the train without the constant jostling which I found to be a brilliant idea (though if this were to be adopted in Oz I doubt it'll work coz everyone would be pushing and shoving and not obeying the lines).

Tina and I went our seperate ways from Yong and Sally coz the latter were going to a tailor to get some custom made suits and Tina and I opted to check out the big shopping malls. We went to Centralworld first, and when we got there, we had to wait ten minutes coz the guard didn't wanna let us til it was exactly 10am. When they finally let us in we did a fair bit of shopping and bought a few things, nibbled on a few different morsels and generally wondered around aimlessly.
Oh! LOL
THE funniest thing happened whilst we were there too. Because everything is so immaculately clean in there (in every shop there's an employee with a cloth wiping down clean benches and shelves) Tina walked into a window and there was this really loud BANG. It was THE funniest thing ever!! All the Thai people standing around were trying really hard not to giggle, and I couldn't help myself.I burst out laughing whilst trying to help Tina. Oh man, she left this smudge on their clean window and now she's got a bruise above her head! FUNNY.

Anyways, apart from that episode, we decided to try another shopping mall and settled for Siam Paragon because that was where the train dropped us off. We went in there and omg. everything costs the same as it would in Aussie terms, so we didnt really buy much. Sally and Yong came back by then and then we ended up splitting for lunch coz Yong and Sally wanted Japanese and Tina and I had other things on our minds. In the end, we had Japanese as well. We were sposed to go for these things called Mos burgers, but we turned around and saw a bunch of people crowding around a restaurant. We were wondering what all the fuss was about and saw that it was Japanese as well. And because it looked busy, and there was a line out the front, we decided to go with the flow and got a table. It's called Fuji, and was actually pretty nice in there. The ambience was lovely (albeit was a little busy). But still, the service was lovely and the food was so yum and cheap~! We spent roughly $AU20 in there and had a pretty decent feed. I had a sashimi bento with miso soup and some weird jelly thing that was a lunch special, and Tina had this egg dish and beef dish as well. They have this blended watermelon drink which was actually really nice and refreshing!

Anwyays, after that, we went and searched for Yong and Sally and we decided to hve some dessert (alright I lied, I wanted dessert and dragged the other three with me). We ended up at a place called Swensen (recommended by Tanya) and shared this waffle thing with ice cream, cream, fudge, nuts and sprinkles. It was a meal for one, but we were pretty stuffed from lunch and didnt finish it.

After that, we trekked around the shopping centre for a bit and started wondering around. We ended up going to another place called MBK (another recommendation by Tanya) and we practiced our bargain prowress. Which, might I add, I sucked at it and let Tina take over. We pretty much made a mental note of all the things that we would like, so that when we headed back to Bangkok in a months time we'd konw where to get it. Whilst we were shopping, we came across this store that sold mobile phone accessories and I had this uncomfortable feeling that all the ladies were in the shop staring at me (which they were) and they were talking to Thai amongst themselves which made it even more uncomfortable for me. When they noticed that I didn't look too happy about it, they told me in english that I had similar features to a famous Thai person (must be my pale complexion). After that, it was all sweet sailing.

After our trek to MBK we went back to the tailor to finalise some measurements. After that, on the way back home, we saw some street stalls and decided to check it out. It was pretty cool nad had a fair few things that they were selling. They were more open to a bit of bargaining (even though we didn't buy anyhting).

We trekked back to the city and were absolutely famished. We wanted some authentic Thai food and began searching for some place that would sell Thai. I didn't realise it would be so hard to find Thai food in Thailand, but we did eventually find one. We ate at some place called Tanymna... Royal Thai food. Was really nice and REALLY spicey. Was a decent feed that only costs us roughly $AU45 for four people, and we were pretty full after too!

We headed home after that, and decided to be adventurous and trekked it back home. It took us, what felt like an hour. Was sooooo tired!!
And now here I am, quickly filling out my blog before I can now commence banging on my hotel room and demanding to be let in.

Signing off from Bangkok,

Thao
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