Thursday, October 06, 2005
Project Bang KOK, 3rd Day- 16 Sept, Friday
After 1 day of shopping and realising that our finances are running low, we decided to lay it cool today by proclaiming that it will be a sight-seeing day. Our destination choice is the famous Chao Phrya river. The plan was to head off around 7am to catch the floating market. Well, the other buggers couldn't wake up in time. Reached there around noon. We managed to pass by the royal palace on the way there. The architecture itself was majestic! Gold roof tiles. It was massive! But we decided against making a stop there as its too touristy for our liking.. (hehe). We were constantly reminded of the Thai's loyalty to their King. Blown up portraits of the King's family peppered the streets. Very similar to our Hari Raya Street Lights. (I mean the hardboard decoration minus the lights.)
Nothing's floating at the river except for algaes. Since we were there, we got on a boat ride for 3 baht (only cost a couple of sing cents) to way... across the river.. hah!It is more like a market place for the nearby villager. One thing I noticed is that there's a lot of stray dogs in Bangkok. I was expecting elephants. You know.. Thailand. Elephants. But all i saw were dogs. Turn left. Dogs. Turn right. Dogs. It's like Singapore. Turn left. Someones wearing a “Me” Giordano tee. Turn the other side. There's more! We walked and reached a local Performing Arts School, something like LaSalle. Took a breather at their cafe. The décor was like a resort man! There was a whole Balinese rustic theme going on.
Next stop..Siam square. Where little boutiques featuring the local designers are. That's our stop for lunch and snacks as well. Mister Donuts. My mister right. We were satisfied by A&W..oooo..the root beer float. Heavenly. Just outside A&W, there was this road show going on featuring some local bands. Weird teens (only 4 of them) in their school uniforms attempted to make their own mosh pit. Siao. Well anyway, what got us lauging was this particular guy. We assumed he was a famous celebrity because girls were going up to him to take his photos. And check this out. He was wearing a somewhat see-through white shirt with cool shades.. he does look cute BUT his nipples were big and dark! Hahaha.. pardon the disgusting sight pictured in your mind now girls but it was just damn hilarious! HEE HAW..
DO-NUTS
And the highlight of the day. On a tuk-tuk to PATPONG! This is where the ping-pong is man.. It was so surreal there. Neon signboards everywhere of interesting named bars (eg. SUPER PUSSY- this was in hot pink neon lights..oohoho didn't managed to get a pic of that. Damn!) Walking down the Patpong area is like walking down Arab street where the row of Nasi briyani stalls are. Ok. Weird comparison judging by their “nature” of products. Haahaa. One particularly interesting character was this guy who look every bit like a thug. He stopped us and “promoted” his business. This is an excerpt of his conversation;
“You come to my place. You have a good time. You can see man and woman ducking*. Man and man ducking*. Woman and woman ducking*. You will have a ducking* great time.” Haahaa..
And we bought this fish cake kind of jemput-jemput accompanied by this powerful chilli sauce. Fire power
Fish-BALLS
Then it rained. Again. 3 straight nights. (And it did rain the next night.) And we hung out at Starbucks till the rain subsides. Then off we go to watch “Cinderella man” to pre-empt our excitement for Muay Thai the next day. And yep guys, just before the movie starts, everyone stands up as the national anthem is being played accompanied by a solemn video montage of the King and family. Oh yeah. And yeah. Russell Crowe was amazing in that movie.
*some words have been changed to protect the identities of the respective ducks.
let.me.fart merapekz @
10/06/2005 02:47:00 PM
2 Comments:
At 10/06/2005 05:37:00 PM,
.::.serendipity.::. said…
wah duh..the donuts are so colourful..n the fish balls..yummy! buat org lapar je.. *counting dwn to the number of hrs b4 buka puasa*
At 10/06/2005 08:36:00 PM,
Makin Menjadi said…
waduh...sedap bangat sih...eh ain u teringat2 makanan dier atau mat2 thai eh....haha....
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