thailand
Due to a popular request from ernie, i shall blog about thailand though i just came back from laos.
The memory is not really fresh but i guess i can still talk about some interesting parts of it.
Thailand trip was like last week third to 6 of december. Took thai airways there, the airplane advertisement is an irony. THey say " Thai airways.....Smoooooth as silk" when they finish showing you how not to drown with the lifevest, and when the plane rattles and rolls, smooth is the last thing on yr mind.
When i saw thailand airport, i was like woah shit! its sooo damn big! and its pretty nice too. Flashback to my past experiences in thailand.
I was primary 2
i went with my family and another friend family
i got tummy ache and could not go into their *snowcity* which was supposed to be damn good
i broke the hotel room glass cup and tried to hide it in the dustbin but was discovered when we were leaving for our flight
i broke a vase when i was playing catching with my friends at this store, the vase was taller then me
Sooooo when someone says thailand i get all this negative images, o ya one more , i went to pukhet the last time and guess where i saw my hotel in picture again?
It was on the straits times when they featured the place tsunami happen to drop by and i saw what was supposed to be the hotel i stayed in. The macdonals outside had a W instead of a M. Yupps that sorta like sums my whole thailand memory.
But when i saw the airport, hope ignited in my heart, like a spark in the darkest night. Suddenly the disturbing images i had of thailand slowly faded away, like a shooting star. ok this is really poetic. But yea it was really nice
however after stepping into the airport....i was like... is this completed? ok what i saw was , let me try to describe it, imagine underground carpark, the grey concrete. got that image? ok paint that all over our singapore airport and minus away the heavily carpeted floors. Thats thailand international airport for you. But it was still big on the inside. Way better then their previous one.
SO we went in blah blah took a coach to the hotel which was called patu( sth sth) princess hotel which was located in the heart of the city, like mandarin hotel in singapore. the best part was, it was connected to a shopping complex called MBK! like they hav an enterance from the hotel to the shopping complex! how cool is that! ok the shopping was kinda nothing special, the foodcourt there sorta like uses a card or coupon system, so like u wanna buy u go there and tap the card then at the end when u exit then u pay at one shot.
We visited the kings palace in thailand. Took a boat there from one of the sky train( mrt) stations. the sky train is more passenger friendly then the one in singapore. In singapore the hand hold/ rail is just one stright bar and it sorta like cuts off where the doors are at. So if u are standing near the door u got nothing to hold except the glass door which doesnt assure you that u wont fall. The skytrain however has handrails stretching all the way to the doors so u can hold it even if u lean next to the door, which is good design and good thought. singapore should learn from them. The palace was really big and they had temples in the palace, thailand is a buddist state so they had the buddist temples inside the palace. It was really grand, everything was painted in gold and alot of time must have been spent buidling it. But it was really commericalised. What do i mean, first you have to pay an enterance fee to visit it, secondly the king does not stay there, he stays at the side where the gate is so big and mighty its unclimbable. So the part we went were for like tourist. THirdly people there were selling those lotus plants they use for their offerings to tourist and last but not the least significant, there was a souvenior shop.
who knows next time they might build a macdonals there
yupps so it was really crowded and hot, so after awhile you get pissed off and just wanna get out of the huge maze of people and concrete.
We visted chinatown too, kinda like singapore chinatown just that they bbq seafood there openly and speak thai.
we also had a thai massage which was kinda crap
1hr massage
40 minutes spent on the leg
what sort of full body massage is that
might as well call it lower limb massage.
nothing really special happened after that
shopping centres hav metal detector doors that u must go through before u can enter
throw a stone and u can hit a police officer
yupp that sorta sums up thailand
at least thats my image of thailand for now.
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