Thailand Trip part 3
The night before we were talking about what time we are going to wake up for breakfast. So I told the chums that I will definitely wake up somewhere around 9+, despite sleeping so ‘early’. CSN told me to give them a call when we get up.I was awaken by Shev’s irritating alarm song, the chorus of black eye pea’s ‘Let’s get it started’. Apparently he had not heard his alarm himself, while I tried to get some more sleep. Didn’t really succeed in doing that. I got my bum off the bed and head off to the shower. Had a warm shower before hearing the damn alarm sounding off again the second time. This time it woke him up. I finished my shower, brushed my teeth and other nonsense, and saw him just getting up on the bed.
‘I’m waiting for you to get out of shower!’ that’s his reason. Anyway… not that it matters. I gave a call to David and CSN. David answered the call and said they will be coming down too. So we decided on 930am. Shev finished up with his shower and stuff and we went down promptly. Somehow, David and CSN didn’t come down in time, and we decided to give them another call after 15mins. Those bums had went back to sleep! So both Shev and I ended up with 2 sets of breakfast each. Not bad for a start…
After breakfast, we went back up to sleep. I didn’t sleep much and was flipping around. Decided to switch on the TV and see what’s on. I can’t remember what the show was on… so well… I was just in and out of sleep throughout I suppose.
It’s a Saturday so we went over to Chatuchak (CTC) for its famous weekend market. It’s another trip on the skytrain. This time I decided to take a photo of the cabin.
Pretty much like our MRT. But I’ll say the skytrain system is pretty similar to our LRT and the subway more like the MRT.
First thing to great us is the CTC garden park. There is this lake and pathways throughout. We didn’t go walking around in the park, as it wasn’t our aim. I took a picture of the clock tower there, situated in the middle of the park.
It’s probably a good lookout point, in case you get lost. Well… as if you would!
The CTC market is a place that you can search for every damn thing under the sun. A total of over 40-50 sections, each part selling varied merchandise. It’s written that there are over 15000 shops there. I reckon anyone walking there, and attempting to cover every shop, will die of exhaustion and dehydration. Man… one will just perspire and perspire when walking through those alleys. They are crowded, stuffy and definitely HOT!
An example of the alleys.
This is a picture of the main ’street’, where you can walk along and look for the shops you want to go to. This is done so by looking at signboards on top and reading the numbers and the merchandise sold there. A good example will be the one here.
Reading the map given out by locals when you enter, you can swiftly target the places you want to go…
An example of the shops there.
Of course, anyone going to CTC must eat the food there. We settled down at one of the stalls and began to decipher codes.
A big signboard full of Thai words. Reading through the names, I realized how the word noodle is written in Thai.
Fortunately, and logically, they had the English version of the menu as well. For 40bahts, you get this.
A big bowl, with around 10 meat balls, vegetables, dao geh especially and some noodles. There was this shop by the side that sells something like chendol and gave us free samples. It was excellent!
I think we roamed around the place for 4 hours. In the end we didn’t buy much stuff. We ate quite a bit, with Shev getting hungry every 2 hours. But halfway through, he had a stomachache. But don’t worry; you can never miss the toilets there. You have these huge signs all around the place, you’ll never miss them!
So while he went off to take a dump, I sat down by the pavement and relax for a while. Opposite me was a busker prying his trade. He had this special looking guitar look-a-like musical instrument. Decided to take down his picture. It was real hard to catch his picture due to the crowd there. But I managed to catch one.
Interesting looking musical instrument isn’t it?
We went off to Siam square again after our foray at CTC. Shev wanted to buy a t-shirt for his mom, and we didn’t catch much over there on Saturday. So we went over to Siam square to hunt for the elusive t-shirt. Somehow, we failed miserably. Walking proved to be the bane of all ‘man’kind. So… as usual, the hungry Shev decided it’s time for dinner. We went to this little eatery that serves Thai food, Chinese style. We ordered like we’ve never eaten for the past 5 days and wolf down whatever that came our way. It was one hell of a dinner.
Remember the first day where we made our way to the wrong Thai boxing arena? The night bazaar area was the place we were heading to after dinner. We were going over to catch the FA cup final between Arsenal and Man United. But when we got there, we were walking around and saw no pubs showing the game. We saw this sign saying ‘Tiger Dome’. We had to walk through a dark road before emerging at a huge tentage.
The sponsor Tiger beer had erected a tentage and patrons paying 60bahts can go in with a pint of beer each.
When we approached, there is this bouncer who is shouting some Thai words at us. The four of us gave quizzed looks at him. I think he wanted to see our IC or something. We just say we don’t understand in English. Luckily there is this fella who asked us if we are tourist. We said we are, and he let us in immediately. The shouting fella immediately smiled and gave us a chop on the arm each. Proceed to begin our soccer night.
It was an air-conditioned tentage, with four big screens. The prematch entertainment was ongoing, with dancers on the stage dancing to explosive music. Not bad for 60bahts huh?
It was really entertaining to watch the match there. The Thais are really passionate and were shouting and screaming. Lots of Man U supporters there. Ironically, I was wearing my Liverpool jersey that night. But I ended supporting Arsenal that night, as I like to be part of the minority. Luckily they are purely there for soccer, not for a fight night!
The whole game they have a person giving Thai commentary throughout. Not that I really appreciates it. There were halftime entertainments as well. The same bunch of ladies gyrating to music for a while before they proceed to have a little quiz and some games. The Arsenal fans went up and attempted to recognize the players they flashed on the big screen. Not that tough, but not that easy either.
I think the match was enough to kill those weak hearted Arsenal fans. It’s just like the Milan-Liverpool match. Dominated the whole match, but lose on penalties. It’s a kelong season!
We went off immediately after the game. We had a little something at the eatery nearby. Interesting place. I attempted to take some pictures but they turn out too dark. So we went back soon after and had our dai di season three. I’m proud to proclaim I conquered season three and have 10 points!
The last day we spend doing some last minute shopping. As usual, CSN and David didn’t wake up for breakfast. I was vegetarian for the day, so Shev get to eat a lot more. I just have 5 slices of toast. The two of us went to CTC again to search for shorts and the elusive t-shirt for his mom. I managed to snag like 3 bottoms. He bought a pair of jeans, a bottom and bought a cute t-shirt for his mom. We also went over to the pets section and see the cute critters.
Bunnies and I. Who’s cuter?
Bunnies and Shev. Shev’s definitely cuter!
Kittens
Doggies 1
More Doggies
Until you just want to take those pictures down... hakhak…
Now… the story of why I cant fulfill my promise. The night at patpong had sucked my $ almost dry. But somehow I had saved some $ just for the trinket all along. So till the last day, I couldn’t find any suitable. I spent my last 650bahts on a pair of adidas Bermudas. Somehow, luck was playing a trick on me. Shev and gang decided to go toilet, so I waited outside. I was looking at this display in on of the shops and show this really pretty starry necklace.
Damn…… appear now…
$ kosong liao…
When we went back, it was like 4pm. We had a few rounds of dai di before the transport took us to the airport. Time to fly back to Singapore!
And some parting shots!
Fly fly fly...
Good trip mostly I would say. Would definitely go back to Thailand again some day!
That’s about it guys!
End!
posted by luxy @ 11:47 PM
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