Shu En

This is the 3rd and last post on my trip to Thailand. The reason why I broke it down into several posts instead cramping everything in a single post is so that it won't be that lengthy.

17- 18/11/2015

The breakfast buffet at Baiyoke Sky Hotel was a letdown. There was just too less variety too choose from. There was only one dressing for salad and even that was tasteless. :( But at least the view was nice.

We continued our shopping spree after our breakfast. The rows of clothing stalls had me and my mom basking in happiness. My dad weren't as happy though because there weren't many shops which sold men's apparel. My cousin wanted to buy Naraya bags for her colleagues so we went to the shopping mall to shop for the bags. The shopping mall was quite far by walking distance and we were all sweating bullets when we reached there -- only to find that the shopping mall was still closed. We didn't have any choice but to just hang outside the door entrance until they opened the doors.

Right when we were allowed to go into the mall, daddy dropped a question that left us all in a state of panick: Where is my wallet? 

My legs turned jelly in that instant. Daddy searched through his pockets again and confirmed that he left it at the Hotel -- which was a good thing because I initially thought it was the pickpocket's doings or something. But daddy was still concerned because there will room service and he was worried that, sorry to say this, the hotel staffr might steal it. We thought of calling my brother who was in the hotel because he wanted to surf the net but there was no roaming for us. Plus there was no wifi. Daddy then thought of going to the nearby McD to see whether he could connect to the wifi and contact my brother.

Mummy and I stayed at the shopping mall because daddy told us to. My uncle and auntie went to Naraya to buy bags for their daughter's (my cousin's) colleagues. Although mummy didn't show that she was worried, she didn't have the mood for shopping with the situation like that so we just waited at the bench near the entrance hoping that daddy could come back as soon as possible.

Taylor Swift's fragrance was just right in front of my eyes from where we were sitting on the bench and I felt pretty sad because I didn't even have the guts to just try out the fragrance which was what I've always wanted to do. Partly because we were sitting so near to the promoter selling the fragrance and it'll be kinda awkward if I just went to test out the fragrance and get back to my seat again. I think it was just me and me weirdness lol.

After waiting for around an hour and a half, my uncle and auntie suggested that we go back to the hotel thinking that my dad would most probably do that if he couldn't contact my brother. I was worried sick. I tend to think too much all the time and at that time I kept thinking what would happen if daddy wasn't at the hotel and got lost and other bad stuffs. We went up straight to our hotel rooms but both my brother and daddy weren't there so we went down to the lobby again where there was wifi and again, they weren't there. I was panicking like mad inside but I didn't show because I didn't want my mom to worry about me.

Without any other choice left, we decided to just wait at the entrance of the hotel. We were supposed to gather at 12.30pm at the hotel entrance to depart to another place. After waiting for around 15 minutes, the tour guide, who knew what happened, came from inside the hotel and told that he couldn't find my brother and daddy anywhere in the hotel. Once again, I was disappointed.

But just seconds after, both my brother and daddy came out following the tour guide and the tour guide just laughed off. It's embarrassing to say it but I broke down in tears right after I saw them, which left everyone shocked lol. Ughh what was I doing. TT They were actually in the lobby all this while just that they were sitting in the corner and we didn't notice them. I couldn't stop myself from crying for quite a while which I think made my daddy felt guilty and promised that he'll buy whatever I want during the trip. Woots, hahha xD

I had no appetite for the Chinese cuisine for lunch. One, because my eyes were so swollen I could barely lift my eyelids up. Two, the lunch was not nice. After lunch, we headed to erm.. I don't know whether it's called a temple because it wasn't enclosed, but it should be called a temple. The temple was the exact one that was nearly destroyed after the bomb landed a few steps away from the God's statue. The bombardment of the temple made headlines for killing quite a number of tourists.

We then went to a nearby shopping mall, if I'm not mistaken it was the central mall. My mummy bought a few Naraya bags and some other stuffs. We were brought to this small shop that sells honey only after shopping. I regret deeply for drinking 3 cups of the honey they provided. You'll know why later.

After having our dinner, we went to another tourist attraction which sells stuffs, mostly souvenirs and a range of other stuffs. There, again, my mummy went to Naraya wanting to buy their bags again. I felt like vomitting ever since I got down from the van and I rushed to the toilet. I went back and forth the toilet and vomitted no less than 5 times. Whenever I thought of the honey I drank that afternoon, I vomitted even more. I don't really know what happened to me, but it was the something that I think I would be okay again if I just let it all out, and so I did.

While resting at one of the benches I saw this street performer that was super cool and even went up to take a photo with him, despite me feeling like shit that time lol.

16/11/2015

Early in the morning after we had our breakfast buffet at the same hotel, we went to the hospital to fetch the aunty in our tour group. She was admitted to the hospital last night, most probably due to gastritis. She was sent to the ICU room straightaway right after admittance the night before and eventhough she felt completely okay after a while, the nurses wouldn't "let her off" and told that she had to stay overnight. It wasn't that her case was so severe that she had to be admitted to the ICU, but rather because she was non-Thailandese and whenever tourists get admitted to hospitals, that person will be, without a doubt, sent to the ICU, provided if the hospital has enough rooms. It took almost one and a half hours for her to check out of the hospital. Luckily we all bought insurance before going to Thailand, it just prove how important it is to buy insurance before hand, anything could happen.

We departed to this temple which I forgot the name again. According to our tour guide, there was this hunter who lost his prey while chasing after it in the woods. He noticed something weird about a humongous tree and went for a closer look, only to notice that it was actually a temple "swallowed up" by the tree. The tour guide also told us that the fenced area just a few steps beside the temple used to be the military base camp.







We had our lunch nearby the floating market and it was the first time being served food without spicy elements and without their signature dish -- Tomyam. My parents along with the uncles and aunties requested our food to be chilli-free after the aunty got admitted to the hospital and even though it wasn't the spicy food that caused her to suffer gastritis but they are afraid of consuming spicy stuffs lol.

We went to another train station after lunch. It was a shame that the train station was under construction so there weren't any trains to see. From what our tour guide said, I think the concept of the train station market place thingy is somehow like the floating market, except instead of boats, you are on a train and you can buy stuffs from the vendors on the road side once the train comes to a halt. I'm not very sure though.


We also went to some boring places like the shop that sells bags and wallets made from alligator skin, stingray skin, etc. It was included in our tour and for the sake of it, we just went in and simply glance around and dash out from the shop. We didn't even bother buying. The same goes to the Diamond shop. It's really nice and all, but how authentic is it, you wouldn't know. There are some jewels that they claimed are mined from Malaysia. And I don't know whether it's me and my lack of knowledge in Geography or Sejarah but since went Malaysia had jewelry mines and produce jewels?

We headed to the Baiyoke Sky Hotel for the all-you-can-eat dinner buffet. There was a time limit for one and a half hours only lol. The variety of food aren't as much as there was in Taiwan. Plus, the workers that were responsible for cooking soup mee told us off in an extremely rude manner when we wanted to add just one piece of fried wantan. Thankfully, the view from where we had our dinner buffet which was on the 77th floor was nice. If the view was equally shitty I believe many of the tourists would've bashed the hotel management.

A short list of stuffs that I ate:
Fried popiah, french fries, nuggets, fried rice, curry, sushi, more fried rice, mee, fried wantan (my daddy got it for me after being scolded by that brainless staff), seafood and 4 full scoops of 4 different flavoured ice cream. I think running for 50 km wouldn't even be enough to burn the calories I consumed that night.



We went up to the observatory on  the 84th floor. The observatory platform was spinning 360 degrees for us to have a full view of Bangkok at night time.

 


You'd probably be able to find better photos on Google but oh well.

We went to the night market near Baiyoke Sky Hotel to finally start shopping for clothes. I think Bangkok is crowned as the shopping heaven for women. The night market looked very similar to the ones at Malaysia, just that most of the stalls were selling clothings instead of food so I didn't take any photo.

That was roughly about it for day 3.

xoxo

15/11/2015

This post will have the most photos our of my 5 days at Thailand.

The breakfast buffet was not bad but compared to those hotels at Taiwan, it lacks variety. But there was salad so it's okay. I just love having salad vege with thousand island sauce for breakfast. <3


We first went to Hua Hin Safari Park for elephant riding. Since only 2 people can ride on an elephant at a time, me and mummy sat together whereas daddy had to sit alone because my brother didn't want to ride.


Luckily there was an umbrella for us because I really think I can faint under the blazing hot sun. My mummy was terrified because it was shaky and you will really feel like you'll fall off the elephant any moment especially when going down the slopes, but it was quite a nice experience.

We then went to a wine yard after that.