Bangkok Trip

I touched down at Bangkok on 23 Dec 2005, Friday, at 11am... it was a cool frida morning in Bangkok... Fantastic to walk around, but terrible air pollution, hazy look all over the town area...

we went to collect our baggage at Row 12 and my girlfriend shouted, Fidah, that's your bag!.. with that my friend collected that bag and we queued up for the cab..

With the lunch time jam, we reached our hotel, Ambassdor Hotel at 12.45pm... it was a hotel that on the outside looks seemingly grand, but i think the rooms needs some renovations.. the room we are allocated, the toilet door was already dragging the floor... scary, whenever we open or close the door, it makes this awful dragging sound.. Ouch...

Anyway, back to my first day in Bangkok, we, fidah, haz and myself, cheecked into our room and started unpacking our bags... Little that we know that the unex[ected was about to happen:
The following is the exact conversation that took place:
Fidah: Oh MY GOD!!!
Haz and Myself: What??!
(not really paying much attention to fidah and still unpacking our bags)
Fidah: This is NOT my BAG!!!
Haz and Myself: WHAT!!!!??!!
(now paying full attention to Fidah)
Haz: How is it possible to be not your bag??
Myself: i don't think that looks like your bag...
Fidah: This is not MY BAG! i was just wondering how come my side pouch is of a different colour...
Myself: Okie okie, now let's not panick..
Haz: let's go to the concerige and ask them what to do...
With that, all 3 of us went downstairs to the concerige and asked, they gave us the airport no. and we made out trips down to the airport (not flying back home by the way) We took a cab that initially told us he's charging by meter and asked for 500baht to the airport.. we were all shocked and told the person that our trip to the hotel only cost $200 and less... so in the end, we gave him according to the meter...
The tag on the bag stated TeoLY, which meant that its probably a guy's bag cos when my friend unpacked, she saw a huge camera bag in it... and it was a rather messyily packed bag...

When we reached the airport, we were so LOST.. and i really mean lost.. no one seems to know where to channel us to... after walking around with the huge bag for abt 20mins, we decided that we were hungry and went to pack our lunch at BK.. I carried tha bag, haz carried the food and fidah was looking around for who, or where can we go to...

After many many rounds of asking and going to and fro, up and down the whole airport, from one terminal to the other, we were finally channeled to the correct department. There, they allowed fidah into the arrival hall, luggage section and luckily the guy called the airport also after discovering that its not his bag.. they called him and he made it to the airport in 30mins.. he looked as lost as us when we first rached the airport.. he told my friend that he was staying at Westin Hotel... it was until the last day of our trip that we realised that he actually stays very near us, within walking distance... man, we shld have made the call thru to the airport...

By the time we reached back to the hotel, it was already 4.30pm (bangkok time) nam, time flew past! we decided to take a walk round our area as the street market seems to be coming to live... we walked to Robinsons, (nearby) and went in to shop a bit in airconsitioned environment... my gfs went a bit HIGH on the lingerie there cos it was so damn cheap! they cost abt half the price there.. so.. knowing us girls, they jumped at the opportunities.. haz bought 3, fidah bought 2 and me, 1... heehee...

Chatuchauk Market was an eye opener for the girls, they bought tones of acessories there... they also bought bags and other stuff but not as much as what they did at MBK...

Shopping at MBK was total madness... With 3 girls shopping, you will be sure that we will end up with a lot of shopping, esp when 2 of them has neer been there before... when they heard that the bags were going at 199baht and some of the shoes were 199 too, they basically went WILD... Fidah bough 8bags in one go with several of them for hre sisters and friends... She bought the least no. of shoes, abt 3-4pairs... Haz bought abt 8bags... As for me, i bought 6bags (2 for my mum) and 2 pairs of shoes, one of them includes a 4inch white pair, hmm why in the world did i buy that for?? man, its an implusive buy)

my fav. purchase are 2 tote bags, 1 wallet and a coin holder from betty boop shop(original). Its the nicest looking but yet the more ezpensive ones amongst my bags...

If anyone went into our room (of cos the room service did), you will probably wanna faint and ask, is this the room of 3girls? cos the room looks like a hurricane has gone by and took a round in the room.. it was messy like mad... my corner and haz's corner can consider to be the neater corner of the room... but as usual, i pack my things everynight... =P

so in the end, fidah went back to SG with 12 bags, 4pairs of shoes and a dozen of accessories, hax went back with 8bags and 8pair of shoes and a dozen of acessories, as for me 8bags, 5pair of shoes (including one pair of addidas sport shoes to replace my old torn pair) and a dozen of acessories ALSO!!

You can imagine the weight of our baggage.... fidah's was 16.6kg, haz 10kg (i think) and mine was almost 20kg... scary isn't it... heeheee....

oh well, more shopping in Bangkok next year!!