Monday, June 26, 2006
anyway. on sunday we reached changi airport at abt 12 plus? dont know, dont care abt such stupid things. as usual father ang went to buy his liquor, mother ang went to buy her perfume.i juz looked at the branded cosmetics. S$65 for 3 lipglosses!!! SIAO.
we got carried away & alsmot missed the plane. the boarding gate was abt to close & all the passengers on the plane looked at us like we're whackos who cant even keep track of the time. oh well.
when we reached there we went to the hotel 1st. this time it was the White Orchid Hotel, instead of the Grand China Princess. i TELL you, if any of you ppl go to bangkok, DO NOT STAY AT THE WHITE ORCHID HOTEL.
clear? 1st we were given 2 deluxe rooms, & when we went in... (sorry, no pics taken, pls make do with words & your imagination) the air con was leaking & caused the paint around it to turn brown. the beds looked like some scratchy material that cockroaches hide in. the bathtub was filled with HAIR & RUST & SPECKS of who knows what. there was no tv & fridge.
later father ang went to see his room & said it was worse than me & claudia ang's room. anyway we nvr got to see parents ang's dreaded room bcos father ang upgraded us to a suite. not that it even SEEMED like a suite. if you ask me, the suite should be the deluxe room ok. NOW there are pics.
the lift is freaking slow. in the pic it looks acceptable, but in real life, trust me, it's a different story.
this is the closet. FREAKING small & not even walk-in sia. dont even have the light that goes on
when you open the doors! irritating.
this is the dressing table. as you can see it's already cluttered with our things. oh yeah btw 4 of us squeezed into the suite. wahahaha. oh yeah there's a TV!! they had this chinese music video channel called Channel V. more often then not, they showed stupid cartoony MTVs, such as....
...this...
...& this. OK it's frm the same video bcos when they showed other stupid videos i didnt know where the heck the camera went. what is UP with pandas, anyway?? almost all the stupid videos i saw had cartoony pandas. for goodness sake, pls do not ruin the image of cute & cuddly pandas by making them look so damn stupid. speaking of pandas, that Creative ad also has a panda!!!~ their panda looks the stupidest of all. moving on...
the brown blanket on the bed is the scratchy material i was talking abt. luckily it didnt look as bad, but it was still scratchy. as you can see, 1 of the lightbulbs in the bedside lamp blew, & during the whole of our stay there it didnt even get replaced. oh yeah i took these pics on day 2, so my shopping are all the my bed. haha.
this is the bedside table. this isnt so bad, but juz took it for fun. in case anyone thinks otherwise, i brought a bk to read ok. it's a Nancy Drew bk hor. yeah yeah should have brought Ernest Hemingway or Harper Lee, but i'm on a BREAK, so gimme 1.
juz to show another corner of the room. father ang was sitting there nicely, so didnt wanna disturb him. *snicker* ok ok this is next to the closet.next, THE TOILET!
at least the toilet bowl doesnt look so bad. in cae you're wondering, the plastic bag there is the dirty laundry. wahaha. i felt like some stalker when i was taking pics of the toilet. see what i go through for this blog?? hahaha.
ok ppl pay attention to the red circles. looks disgusting, like some cockroaches house or what. that is why i didnt take the chance to take a nice long soak in the bath tub. YUCKSSSSSSSS.oh yeah before i forget, the service in this hotel sux ok. the front desk, the head of housekeeping... father ang got damn pissed off bcos he expects good service esp frm a service industry like a HOTEL. you can bet we're nvr going back there EVER. however, the housekeepers & the bellboy were nice.
ok. on day 1 we went to chatuchak. i bought 2 shirts there. as i said, day 1 wasnt really a shopping day, what with the lousy hotel & all that. father ang went around searching all over for the Junk shop for maxine ang, but by the time he found it it was closed. then went to that seafood place near the hotel, ate there, went back, slept. :x
DAY 2!! the shopping day.
on day 2 me & claudia ang went to chinatown's sampeng street, & parents ang went to a factory to see more shoes. father ang asked his supplier to get his worker to accompany us. bought earrings, necklaces... everytime go in 1 shop, if i spent like 15 mins there, claudia ang would drag me out. keep saying that the worker was bored. hmpf. while walking along the streets some guys shouted, "na lang! na lang!" the worker [forgot her name] started smiling away & grinning at us. me & claudia ang asked, "what?" then she said, "na lang means pretty girl." hoho. so i learnt a new thai phrase that day.
went back to the hotel to wait for parents ang. a housekeeper came to open the door for us. BUT we spent like 2 hrs with no electricity, not even air con, bcos they only had 1 key tag. jeez! if that key tag lost then they can forget abt letting that room out already ah. stupid ppl.
then later when parents ang finally came back. we went to MBK shopping centre, the biggest shopping centre in bangkok, i think. bought MANY MANY MANY things there. in 1 shop father ang tried to bargain & then we kana chased out of the shop [except for mother ang, she wasnt there]. what the.... the woman juz said, "just go, just go."
FUCK YOU LAH.
anyway who cares. we bought many things later on, bitch, & guess what? not a single cent went to YOU.
OMG i'm digressing, AND becoming vulgar. ok breathe deeply & carry on.
father ang spent a lot of time at a board shorts shop to buy shorts for maxine ang's Mr M. claudia ang went to look at her boho pants. to sum it all up, my total harvest for the day at MBK was:
- 1 pink polo shirt
- 1 white Adidas tennis skirt
- 1 pair of black chinese embroidery slip ons.
- 1 pair of denim wedges.
- 1 white dress
- 1 beige pants with a dragon sewn on the left leg.
& my total harvest at sampeng street was
- 2 necklaces
- 1 butterfly ring
- lots of earrings
- 1 hot pink bag
total harvest at chatuchak:
- 2 black handmade shirts.
- 1 sterling silver elephant ring
- bras. :)
- 1 silver hanger things with rings to hang my necklaces.
okies. bcos it was closing shop time, father ang got 1 of the shop owners to send us to the Suan Lum Night Bazaar. not only a bazaar, but also has food & drinks. he ordered char siew, fried chicken, thai noodles, pizza, pineapple rice & mango with glutinous rice. for drinks i ordered a magarita pineapple and later a strawberry colada. claudia ang drank dont know what & 1 pink lady, & later she got pissed & started asking all sorts of qns. relating to sex. wahaha. mother ang & i were laughing at her. oh yeah mother ang took a pic of the thai style noodles.
this is an ugly pic. half eating half blinking mother ang g
o & take. gr.
after eating father ang went to look at the [fake] Franck Muller watches that maxine ang wanted. couldnt find the model she wanted, so settled for others. saw a shop selling my beloved denim skirts, but didnt buy any. :(
claudia ang bought 2 boho skirts. she's into the boho style now, but i bet a few yrs later she'll be asking mother ang to alter her super long boho skirts to short ones, like me. wahahaha. the pic of things i bought on day 2:
haha love the shoes.
finally got a cab later & went back to the hotel.
DAY 3!
also not much shopping today. followed parents ng around to order shoes. didnt get any free shoes this time. :(
later at night we went on the ship again. SOBBBB!!!!!!!!! cute waiter no long waiting there!!!!!!!!!!!! instead another waiter came, & they no longer had to wear uniforms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAHHH. dont they know men in uniform are the most... er..... sexy?
oops i SO did not say that. ok i did lah. the food was DAMN HOT SIA. i mistook a chilli for a pea bcos the thai chillis are super small & HOT, & for like a million yrs my mouth was on fire. luckily there was pineapple rice & sweet shredded crab to put out the raging fires in the beginning part of my digestive system. claudia ang said the tip of my tongue turned red. for the whole night i only ate the pineapple rice, crab, & mango with glutinous rice [again]. by then the raging fires were out & it was time for pics!
famous thai tom yam soup. didnt try any this time, mouth was still burning.
i like this bridge. isnt it nice??? this one was taken without flash on the digital cam. with flash the lights cant be seen.
anyway too lazy to upload other photos of the bridge, so if you want can go to my friendster profile & view all you want.
DAY 4 [finally i'm getting to the end of this super long post.], & day to go back home.
saw a shop selling sharks' fin.
i pity the sharks. some of them may be man-eating, but not all. in fact, most of them dont even attack humans unless the humans provoke them 1st. the worst thing of all is the fishermen dont even preserve their dignity, but juz cut off their fins when they're ALIVE, & then conveniently throw their bodies back to the sea. talk abt rubbing salt in their wounds. at my wedding you can forget abt getting to eat sharks' fin soup, i'm telling you.
blah blah walked around for a while then headed to the airport. in the airport i got 1 BIIG bar of Toblerone. regretted when reached home. should have bought Lindtt, the one claudia ang got. in the thai airport i also got 1 bk, The Other Side Of The Story by Marian Keyes, to read on the plane. in the end i watched Big Daddy on the tv in front of me.
oh yeah, for more photos go to my friendster. the bloody website FINALLY uploaded my pics.
while waiting for the cab back home i asked mother ang, "our suite is what kind of suite? junior suite or mini suite?"
mother ang thought for a while, then said, "mentos suite."
HAR HAR HAR.
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