Nombor Empat Puluh Lima : Gambarajah Bangkok/Ayutthaya

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                   apa bagai. maaf.

Nombor Empat Puluh Tiga : Bangkok [Finale]

*pardon my English. I am trying to improve myself here.

..from Bangkok [P3]

It's 2nd last day before we left Bangkok. There was nothing much left on our itinerary, so it was pretty much a lazy day for us in Bangkok. Hehe.

We woke up and decided to go to the post office to send postcards as souvenirs to some friends, and also for ourselves. I found it quite interesting to receive a postcard as souvenir, might consider it as a hobby, perhaps?

After asking around, the nearest post office is at Queen Sirikit International Convention Center. So, off we go! 

Khairi was trying hard to write greetings in Thai :P

"Mama & Baba, Ala dah sampai Bangkok!"

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Our next mission was going to Hard Rock Cafe Bangkok! Nahh, I am not a big fan of Hard Rock. Went there for the sake of buying things for Khairi's friend.

It was located at Siam Square and reachable by BTS Siam station (exit 2).

Lunch time and decided to go to Terminal 21 for our last lunch in Bangkok since there was nothing interesting in MBK.

Pier 21, 5th floor @ Terminal 21

For last minute shopping, let's go to Patpong night market again HAHA! Bought few last minute souvenirs and headed back to the hostel to do the packing since we were leaving the next day.

But actually, we can't wait to have our lepak session with other travelers at the terrace. Hihi.

When we reached the hostel, while I sat down to have my drink, suddenly Adila said "wehh mamat tu macam Thor lah, sebijik!" I turned around and scanning the subject. Lol. SUMPAH SEBIJIK MACAM CHRIS HEMSWORTH WOI! The figure, the voice and the accent. Ouchh! Then we headed up to pack our stuff.

Later that night, the lepak session! It was full house, yo! :D

Miki from Japan and later joined by Patricia (Germany). Both of them are solo travellers. Mad respect!

 Later, the Thor guy and his friends joined us! Oh man, what a night! Had a good chat with him and his name is Chris! What a coincidence!

Crowd!

Someone looks damn excited sitting beside a cute guy from England named Martin

Martin and the Thor guy, Chris! (psst, he's teaching archery! noms!)

Jin (Korea), Martin (England), Khairi/Patrick (Puchong/Ganu) 

"You owe me your lifetime saving man!"

 The very last day in Bangkok. Woke up with a mix feeling. Final packing and quickly went downstairs for breakfast at the terrace. Maggi kari dgn serunding daging. The best breakfast!

The terrace. Missing this place, a lot! 

We were waiting for Khairi to wake up and decided to watch a movie while lazying around. There were lots of movie selection. We picked Due Date just because of RDJ.

Due Date

The lobby from the common area

 So, it's time to say good bye to the such a homey hostel. Thank you De Talak for being such a great place to stay! Highly recommended if you're going to Bangkok! Such a nice place with great hospitality and friendly owner, thumbs up!

with the Koreans (unknown, Jin & oppa Paul)

On our way to the airport, we met Miki who was going to Yangon. Reached airport and had our lunch there. Miki's flight was at 430 while ours at 530. When Miki left, we just sat down and lepak a while before heading to the gate. It was so relaxing before the incident.

While heading to the gate, I had such a horrible stomachache! Decided to go to the toilet after the immigration but man, it was such a long que there! We split into 3 lanes and I went off first, and told Khairi and Adila to wait for me in front of the 1st toilet we found after the immigration. Quickly run with the backpack and my flight was boarding at that time. No time left but I just had to go to the toilet. 

2mins and I was already outside waiting for Khairi & Adila. There were no sign of them and I think I should probably go to the gate. It was the 1st gate from the immigration, 600m wehhh! I ran 600m with my heavy backpack to the gate and I was thinking "die la if stuck here, no money left weh!" even I knew that my parents will be here if anything happen :p

Damn jauh la the gate, i tell you! Macam orang gila berlari sambil cari gate and Suvarnabhum airport is damn big! Reached the gate but both Khairi and Adila were not there yet! I even tried go out and search for them but was stopped by a flight attendant. He said it was still early, no need to worry. I just sat down and waiting for them. And finally, they managed to board the flight. Phewww~

While waiting the flight to take off, I went to the toilet to finish the "unsettled business" and only for few seconds of peace, someone knocking the toilet door and asked me to go back to my seat. And... it was the same FA! Damn it! So malu oledi. Hishh

It was soooooo tiring and I dozzed off even before the flight took off. Zzzz

Stress pikior esok keje HAHA (she's sleeping, actually!)

When the sun sets..

Touched down at LCCT around 830pm and mentally prepared to go back to work tomorrow morning.

It was such an amazing trip and I knew that Thailand is an amazing place to be! I promised myself that I will come back again because 1 week is not enough to explore the beauty of Thailand.

Thank you Khairi and Adila for keeping me sane through out the trip.

(habis jugak, finally!)

Nombor Empat Puluh Dua : Bangkok [P3]

*pardon my English. I am trying to improve myself here.

..from Ayutthaya [P2]

We reached Bangkok city around 6 and it was raining cats and dogs! The van stopped at Victory Monument and we quickly took out the raincoats and walked to the BTS Victory Monument station. It was weekend, packed with the locals/travellers, raining and we had to walk with our backpack. It was damn tiring but we had to go through it. This time we were heading to Saphai Pae Hostel in Silom area. (THB300/RM30/night/person).  I booked the hostel before we were heading to Ayutthaya.

We reached Saphai Pae around 8pm, checked-in and was given the access card. Both Adila and I were at Level 1 which is for female only dorms. Keri was at Level 4 or 5 for mix dorm. The dorm was SUPERB! Will tell you why later :D

After freshen up, we decided to look for our dinner. It was a tiring day but we were damn hungry! Still raining and the tuktuk guy offered to bring us to halal resto/stall with THB40/RM4. We agreed and hope on the tuktuk. I still prefer the tuktuk in Ayutthaya, they are cuter. Hehe.

The driver brought us to a fancy resto and we felt uncomfortable. When we went through the menu, they served pork! We did not wish to make a big fuss of it. we just paid the tuktuk guy and ask him to leave. 

We walked and decided to have dinner at KFC *facepalm*

It was around 11pm and we just walked around and saw a pasar malam there. Without having any idea, we just strolled along pasar malam. Then we saw girls with 2-pieces undergarments. Ehem. It was Patpong area! Just go google what is Patpong all about :P

Patpong, reminds me of my 2 abangs. Hi Fareq & Don! :p

I wish i bought it, now only regret geez!

It was such a veeeeeeeeeeery long day for us and we went back to the hostel and had a very deep sleep on such a comfy bed and the duvet. The duvet is to die for! So heave yet so fluffy. Reminds me of cotton candy, I dont know why.

Every bed had their own bed-lamp, power plug and a card slot. You need to slot in your access card to use the power plug and the bed-lamp. So cool for a hostel. And the bed. And the duvet. Feels like sleeping in a royal bunkbed. LOL.

The Duvet, so fluffy I'm gonna dieeeee!

The dorm

The lobby 

It was Sunday and to Chatuchak we go! We checked out without knowing where to sleep that night, no hostel been booked yet, and trying our luck later walk-in to any hostel. Left our backpacks at the counter and off to Chatuchak.

It was damn crowded and busy place with sooooooooooo many cheap things that can make you go crazy! :p Feels like buying this and that but I was on a really tight budget, even the things there were so cheap cheap cheap I tell you!

Cute colourful lights

How to look awesome :p

1pm and we were starving. I remembered reading a blog and it said there is a halal stall inside Chatuchak. We found it and ordered chai yen (teh ais), beef fried rice, somtam and mango sticky rice as dessert. The food just so-so, good enough to feed our tummy. AND ALL OF THEM COST US THB600/RM60 FOR GOD SAKE!! I swear it was a stall, not even a restaurant! SERIOUSLY, SAMAN ISLAM IS NOT RECOMMENDED AT ALL!We had our dinner before at Terminal 21 with good ambiance, aircond and good food that just cost us half the price. Just go eat outside, it was too expensive since it was the only halal stall if I am not mistaken. Just dont go and eat there and save your money for other things, mmkay?

NOT RECOMMENDED AT ALL!

The busy Chatuchak

Chocolate coated frozen banana is highly recommended! So good! 

We explored Chatuchak without realizing it's almost their closing time. Chatuchak market only open during weekends until 6pm. Like, seriously 6pm.

Then we realized that we had not decide on where to sleep that night. So many distractions in Chatuchak until we totally forgot about our beds later. I think that we should probably go back to De Talak since we were missing the homey feeling there! Trying our luck calling the hostel (thank God I took their name card before) and voila, there were rooms for us! Yeay!

Went back to Saphai Pae, took our backpacks and headed up to De Talak. Kinda happy to think that we were on our way back to De Talak, macam balik kampung! :p

On our way to De Talak, I dont have any idea why we were talking about learning basic French. But that was our main topic on the whole journey back to De Talak. Once we checked in, Keri whatsapp-ed me "Dormate aku French!" and I was like ...............speechless. They invited us to lepak with them at the terrace, how can I say no? I was trying hard to remember few basic French phrases from my berkarat memory, it was almost 4-5 years since I left my French classes.

 And I never thought that I am going to enjoy talking to strangers! They are a bunch of awesome people! :D
We had a good laugh that night, thanks to Google Translate :P

Alex, Aurelia, Poulo & Chyntia. Next to Adila is Anna from Philippines.

Say hello to Damien hihi

This was the 1st time Alex taste a honeydew  :O

Creepy, much? 

Let's learn basic Thai!

We dozzed off around 2am with not a single plan for tomorrow (yet).


.to be continued (again).