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No activities for last day. Although our flight is scheduled at 330pm Bangkok time, we just did our last minute shopping at Pratunam area. At first i really thought of going to Chatuchak market, but i worried we would be too rush for to and fro market – hotel – airport.

But something unlucky thing happened to me this morning when i was on my way to Platinum. With everyone packed like sardine while walking down the street, my bag being cut without my notice. I just realised when i reached Platinum and wanted to take something from my bag. Ooouuchhh!!! It’s so hurt, because it is my new Naraya bag!!! I was so sad. But i consider lucky because the thief got nothing from my bag. I just lost my bag. I tried to get a replacement bag from Platinum but none of them caught my eyes. At the end, we walked to Central World, Naraya to buy back the same design, same color bag. Haha… I just love it so much. I hardly buy bags or shoes, but once i eyeing on them, means i will definitely like it so much and buy.

We had our lunch at Central World foodcourt. But it was still early, about 1pm. As we had our full breakfast this morning, so we just share our lunch. Aimlessly walking round the foodcourt until i noticed this stewed pork leg rice again! I quickly asked hubby if he wants to have last stewed pork leg rice before we go back Malaysia. Then we shared this stewed pork leg rice. Haha. I just wonder why nobody selling this stewed pork leg rice in Malaysia, because it is just yummylicious and i believe would get support from Malaysian chinese. If i have capital……hmmmm…..i would…

Then we took taxi back to Suvarnabumi Airport at about 1.30pm to avoid any traffic. But when we reached airport, i on my handphone only i received SMS from AirAsia informed us that our flight has been delayed 430pm. OMG!!! Means we have to stay in the airport for more than 2 hours. (O_o). So after checked-in, we walked around the airport. Then we went to have a cup of coffee at Black Canyon Coffee again. haha…you see… there are so many branches of Black Canyon Coffee in Bangkok.

Arrival of our flight, AK883.

Loading out the cargo from the plane.

So, basically my Bangkok trip is more to free and easy, no rushing. So it is quite relax, free and flexible. But i still got few places wanna go such as Chatuchak market, Suan Lum night market, Wat Pho, and Wat Arun. So i will definitely come back again to Bangkok.

As usual, we had our breakfast in the hotel. I don’t understand why hubby loves to take hotel breakfast although it is not so nice and the food is repeated one. But as we are not really picky on foods, so we doesn’t mind much also. Furthermore, we can save more for shopping and eat better food.

I told hubby this morning i can walk up to Siam Paragon. So, we slowly walk and walk along the streets passby Central World, walked up the overhead bridge and we reached Siam Paragon. Siam Paragon is just like Pavillion in KL.

We saw lion dance outside the Platinum Fashion Mall. The culture here is very likely like chinese in Malaysia. They do have lion dance for opening ceremony too.

Outside of the Central World.

Finally we reached here….Siam Ocean World, largest aquarium at Southeast Asia. The entrance fee to Siam Ocean World is very expensive. Just entrance fee alone cost 850Bath. 990Bath if you take the package which includes 4D movie and ride at a glass bottom boat. So we ended up with paying 990Bath x 2 pax = 1980Bath. It’s super expensive. Imagine i can buy so much things with 1980Bath. My friend told me it is worth to visit even though it is expensive, because she told me there is souvenir given too. Trust her. We went in. But we get nothing but a voucher of a glass of pepsi and popcorn (O_o). Sigh….But nevermind, we did enjoy ourselves inside the Ocean World.

Fishes will following the boat we rode with the hope that we can feed them some food. Too bad, we did not buy the fish food to feed them, it costs 100Bath leh.

Not missing to ask the girl to snap a photo for us after riding at a glass bottom boat. We rarely take couple photo togather in this trip. Sigh… Luckily this ride is included in the package, if not i will suggest not to buy this package separately as it is really not worth. Just 5-mins ride with nothing.

What fish is this? Don’t ask me. I also don’t know.

Little nemos around…So cutie…. Don’t you think so?

What fish is this? This fish is very ugly. I think it is stone or wolf fish if i’m not wrong. He trapped in a lubang.

I like this ball ball fish tank. Not exactly fish tank. The fishes here are all being “awet”  to dry already. Some of the species here yet to be classfied.

Two of many ball tanks i taken. The fishes’ look here are all weird weird one. :-s

How’s the feeling touching the star fish dear? I dare not touch. Hehe…

Little fishes in this washing machine. They turned the washing machine into fish tank! What a creative idea!

Chevy fish tank!! haha…Hubby so excited when seeing this. His beloved car turned into fish tank!

TV tank. See hubby’s head inside? Haha…Hubby having lots of fun here.

Fridge fish tank. I really salute Thai people. They can think all sort of ideas. Fuhyoh….

There were two tourists having fun diving with the sharks around. In fact, there is no sharks approaching them, unless you have some food for them. Then, i think the sharks would approach you. The kindy’s child were having fun saying “hi” with the people inside the big shark tank.

The kids are doing some activities…drawing the sharks!! So cute and adorable of them.

Now…feeding time!! Feeding the giant turtles.

Baby turtles need to eat too. I want…i want…!

Feeding little penguins. The penguins are smart. Once they eat enough or full, they would not go and grab the food anymore, they will swim away, letting other penguins to eat.

Feeding big stingrays. The size of the stingray enough to cover them. Haha…Imagine how big it is. After looking this feeding stingray session, only i know the stingray eat cockles. (O_o)

Last one, shark feeding time. Besides shark, there is some stingray and other fishes too. But our focus point is sharks of course. Other fishes are so irritating to grab the food from sharks. You can see these two workers were being surrounded by big fishes such as stingrays and sharks!! All over them.

So after seeing this fishes had their lunch, our stomach also start to hint us. So we went to Paragon Foodcourt.

Stewed pork leg rice. It is so yummylicious i tell you. Must go and try if you go Paragon Foodcourt. Add exra egg with total cost of 650Bath only. Can you get such a good meal with such price at Pavillion KL? I’m missing this so much now. Hehe..

Hubby said wanna try chicken rice in Bangkok. Haha…i think he must regret because it is not nice at all. Dear, my stewed pork leg rice better. hehe

After our lunch, we walked walked around in Siam Paragon. You really can see the different classes of people here compared to MBK and Platinum. After that, we crossed the road to the opposite and noticed that there was some function held there. There was music band playing on the small stage at the street, people selling souvenirs, little cupcakes, ice-cream, t-shirts, hair accessories, etc, just like expo.

Only managed to ask hubby to take at least one photo here. Our battery is dying. >_<

I quite enjoyed walking around here. Seeing local people having fun indirectly makes me happy too. There are shoplots around here too. We took our time exploring here as we did not have other plan going any other place, as hubby not really interested to go shopping or market which selling all clothes again. I so wanted to go Suan Lum Night Market dear…next time k!!

Our dinner time at Platinum again if i’m not mistaken. Hehe. Finally, i ordered this, sticky rice with mango. A must try food in Bangkok too. But it is not cheap. Costs us 900Bath. But taste wise, not bad, sweet sweet de…

As we were not feeling hungry, so we ordered this seafood hotplate. As i said, as long as there is squid, hubby is very happy. Besides squid, there is prawns, oysters, and kupang as well. But taste wise, exactly like the fried oyster we tried at the first day.

After had our dinner, we did our last round shopping at Platinum, our shopping heaven lah. This time hubby bought a lot t-shirts oh, all are 3 pieces at 450Bath. Cheap leh.

Our itinerary for 2nd day was visiting Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew temple.

After taken our breakfast in the hotel, we took taxi to Grand Palace. The taxi fare costs us 65Bath. I was so excited in the first place because i can see the place is so beautiful even from outside, with lots of tourists buses, taxis, tuk-tuks flooded outside the road. We went to the wrong entrance. Before we wanted to go in, there was a man approached us, showing us his authority pass and told us that we are not allowed to go in now as there was monks praying ceremony held inside. Only can enter at around 2pm. Looks friendly, asking us if we go Marble Temple and any other temples before. Without hesitate much, we said no. So very quickly he offered us 100Bath for bringing us to Marble Temple, Golden Mount Temple and another temple (i forgot what temple name) and coming back to Grand Palace before 2pm. We really thought it was quite a good deal since we cannot enter Grand Palace at that time. So, there is one tuk-tuk quickly come forward and fetch us to Golden Mount Temple. On the way going to Golden Mount Temple, i felt something wrong. Yes!! We were being cheated. :-S But nothing we can do already. So we just followed the plan, go to those temples, at least we went to some temples lah.

Two monks were praying at Golden Mount Temple. Actually there is nothing to fancy about of this Golden Mount Temple. Very simple temple, just one thing is you need to climb up long staircase up to the hill. You can see the Bangkok city scenery from the top hill. But i was a bit exhausted when reached top the hill. :-S

Lucky Buddha temple, just beside Golden Mount Temple.

After that, the tuk-tuk driver said can he brought us to gem shop. What can we say? Can we reject? He kept telling us we are not necessary to buy, just spend sometime there to enable him to get free petrol voucher. WTF!!! Okay…okay…to fulfill his requirement, so we did. We went in and see see one round. That’s it. Then he said another gem store. I know this would not the only store. True enough, he brought us to another gem store. Okay, one round, then we come out. Then he said another last one. I nearly scolded him. So i told him, last one, no more. So he agreed. After the third one, he said he wanna brought us to silk shop. (O_o) You broke your promise!!! You said last one. He kept persuade us to go the silk shop although we kept told him that don’t waste our time anymore. I cannot stand anymore and told him, no more. That is the last one. No more. I insisted with my strong tone. He noticed that, so he had no choice to brought us to the Marble Temple. We know that he was not happy. His attitude also changed.

When reached Marble Temple, he timed us said we only have 10minutes time. WTF!!! Before that, he was so kind, saying that he would wait us outside the temple and take our own sweet time exploring the temple. Now totally changed!! He really spoilt my mood.

Marble Temple. We did not enter to the temple as there is 20Bath entrance fee charged. So we just simply took some photos of the temple.

Then the tuk-tuk driver brought us back to Grand Palace. Paid 100Bath and bye-bye. We happily went to Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew then.

Entrance fee for Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of Emerald Buddha) are 300Bath. Just increased from 250Bath recently.

Wat Phra Kaew from outside. I love the green field outside the temple. Very clean and nicely maintained.

Closer view of Wat Phra Kaew from outside.

Somewhere in the temple….

Golden pagoda. All in yellow golden color. Stood up elegantly.

Outside of the Emerald Buddha Temple (Wat Phra Kaew). The wall of the building is not painted, but with marbles, red, blue, green emeralds. Very stunning and pretty. Feel it with your bare hands, you won’t feel hot even under the sun, it’s cooling.

I must admit that the temple is very clean and well maintained by the authorities. So it is worth to pay 300Bath to pay a visit here.

I was stunned with the wall. All in golden and emeralds. One piece one piece plated to the wall. Amazing.

The house which houses the Emerald Buddha. Actually we are not allowed to snap photo inside. But this photo was taken outside, before we enter. Thanks to the powerful 18x zoom of my Panasonic Lumix FZ-28. *wink wink* I was more stunned when i enter in. Everybody is sitting infront of the Buddha statue and praying. I joined the crowd. Sitting down quietly and enjoy the peaceful feeling and atmosphere inside. It was beautiful inside. All in golden colors. The wall is beutifully painted with sceneries and stories behind it.

In one of the hall/temple. Actually we are not allowed to take photo too. But hubby secretly pressed the button of the camera hanging at his neck. haha. A small golden boat. I do not what this golden boat resembles for.

Somewhere in the temple. All the buildings here are nicely built and maintained until today.

One of the building inside. I do not know the name of this building. Sorry. But is is quite pretty for me. We are not allowed to enter here, this photo was taken before the gate. 

Oh…oh…oh….i love this building. Chakri Mahaprasad Hall, a building in a style influenced by the Italian Renaissance. Don’t you think it is so beautiful. You can see eastern temple combined with western style building here. It is unique to me.

Garden and path just right infront of the Chakri Mahaprasad Hall. Very western style right?

The guard infront of the hall, prohibiting people to go inside. Standing fiercely without any single move. But i’m pity of them, have to stand straight, no move under the hot sun.

Outside of the museum (The museum is in this big Chakri Mahaprasad Hall). Included are all the weapons used by the soldiers old days. Not really interested, so i just walked walked and enjoy the scenery outside this hall, while hubby went inside to the museum.

We spent about 2-3 hours exploring here. Actually our original plan was to visit Wat Pho (Temple of Sleeping Buddha) which is just nearby (we do not know the exact place thou), but both of us were tired after been rode in tuk-tuk this morning. So we gave up our Wat Pho plan and took taxi to Central World.

I was surprised when i see Central World, because it is such a huge shopping malls. The shopping malls are as long as one street. Togather with Central World are Zen and Isetan. We straight went to Foodcourt to take our lunch.

Foodcourt system here is slightly different with Platinum Fashion Mall. Here, you are given a card in order to buy the food at the entrance to the foodcourt. You are only required to pay after you returned the card to the cashier when you go out from the foodcourt.

I went round the foodcourt so many times, yet i could not decide what to have for my lunch. Obviously no more tomyam goong for me!

Here is my lunch. Erm…what is this…pork thai noodles in spicy soup. Yes. It is indeed spicy after i added on more chillies. hehe…

Hubby could not take too much spicy food, he finally ordered this. Japanese kabayaki fish rice. People here are so generous with the dishes. The fish here are so big in portion compared to we have in Malaysia.

Finally hubby could has his favourite street food at this Central World, pork hotdog. Look how happy he was before eating. But the taste wise, we really not used to it or maybe we chose the wrong flavour. It seems like got garlic inside. Both of us can’t even finish one.

After our lunch, we walked walked around Central World aimlessly. Why? Because the shops here are quite high class and branded one. I’m not go for branded stuff if you know me. So, Central World is not our place. Hehe… Just walked walked and see see around. But i did go to Naraya!!! My friend told me so many times that i must go Naraya. I did go Naraya website to see what is all about. The uniqueness of this shop is the fabric they use to produce their products. When i got into the shop, i saw everybody shopping like no tomorrows (O_O) I thought of joining the fun too. But i round so many times, even though the things are cheap, but i could not find something that i really like and usable for me. Finally i bought a handbag, square size, white color, at 320Bath. The only bag that i see i like at first sight. So i bought it. Hubby also round so many times in order to buy something, do not want to be empty-handed going back mah. At last, hubby brought 5 pieces of flowery door knob cover to me and saying that he wanted to buy this for our new house. I was like…what? New house? oh…ok…haha….He brought to me all 5 different design. But i changed all to one same design. hehe…Dear…i prefer one same design for one house, so would not looks so messy mah, don’t you think so? *wink wink*

After that, we walked to MBK mall, knowing that it is just nearby, so keep asking for direction. We skipped Siam Paragon, Siam Centre knowing  that both of these malls not our cup of tea too. MBK is very similar with our Sungai Wang mall in KL.

Ice cream fondae from Swensen. My leg was so tired of walking. Once i see ice cream, i nagged nagged hubby saying wanted to sit down to have ice cream. hehe

After having enough ice cream and rest, we continued to walk. Finally, i able to buy a bag at 199Bath. It is dirt cheap. I saw the similar bag at 1-U last time and so tempted to buy. The price at 1-U is RM49.90. But now i able to get it at 199Bath!! Hubby bought a buddha faced wall decoration thing at 300Bath. The salesgirl quoted 450Bath initially. So i asked for 300Bath. She refused initially and offered us 350Bath. We walked away but she pulled us back and said OK. Yes, this is the price we are willing to pay for this. Again, for our new house huh, hubby? Haha… I kept looking for fridge magnet but the price here is quite expensive and no one fridge magnet that attracts me. Finally i able to buy some small cute coin purse cum keychain for some of my friends. Sorry guys, i used up most of my cash, do not exchange much cash, so hope you guys don’t mind if you don’t get my little souvenir. :-S

Pork samurai burger from McD. Yeah…finally i have the opportunity to try this, pork samurai burger. We were still quite full, so we just bought one set and share.

Our dinner, Tomyam goong with rice at MBK foodcourt. Again, we shared this. But i still prefer the tomyam goong at Platinum. More yummylicious.

After the dinner, we took taxi back to hotel, even though we know that our hotel just two streets down. But my leg was not permit me to walk anymore dear. So we took taxi back hotel, which costs us about 500Bath.

That’s all for second day.

Third day is Siam Ocean World visiting and shopping again. Stay tuned…

My long-awaited trip to Bangkok. As the main purpose for this trip is shopping, thus very few photos taken for this trip compared to last trip to Angkor Wat. We took 8.25am flight to Bangkok. We reached LCCT at about 7am. Just right time for us to have quick breakfast at McD.

I don’t know why i still want to take photo before going up to this AirAsia plane although i have took this similar photo before.

Fill up the petrol tank before fly. This is my first time seeing plane filling up the petrol.

We reached Suvarnabumi Airport at Bangkok. It is a big airport. You have to walked quite far for custom clearance and baggage claim. But the Suvarnabumi Airport is much bigger and pretty than KLIA.

After check-out, there are some ladies will ask you if you want taxi services. I believe they are under airport staff because price quoted by them is very expensive, 1100Bath. We immediately walked away until we about to reach the gate. There was a lady approached us and claimed that she is airport staff and help us to taxi. I told her that i wanted to take public taxi and she told me she is here to help me to translate the hotel’s name to Thai language so the taxi driver knows where it is. I asked about the price and she told me the price would be around 300-400Bath. So i agreed as i know this is the reasonable price after searching info from the forums.

Queeing up to buy ticket for public taxi. We need to pay surcharge of 50Bath and pay any toll charges incurred too. But the toll charges only 25Bath. So it is okay for us.

End up, we only paid 300Bath for taxi fare from airport to Pratunam area (First House Hotel) which included surcharge and toll charge. We were quite surprised as we were prepared pay 400Bath as mentioned by the lady in the airport just now. The taxi driver is very honest as he used meter to charge us, so he would not charge us extra.

Actually i quite dissappointed with the hotel. It is because i expected the look as what the hotel website photos especially the room photos. But end up, the actual room looks so old and everything is quite aged already. But never mind lah, cheap room with good location, who cares. I’m not coming here for staying long in the hotel, so i don’t really mind actually.

After checked-in to the hotel and put our luggage, we immediately walked to Platinum Fashion Mall to shop.

The traffic in Pratunam area. My friend told me Bangkok is reckoned as worst traffic (always jam) in Asia. Is it true?

Bangkok taxis are all in pink!!! Don’t you think they are adorable in pink? (^_^) Besides pink, also got other colors like yellow and blue. But mostly in pink!!!! So they are very eye-catching. Don’t you think so?

My lunch at Platinum’s Foodcourt, 6th floor if i’m not mistaken. It is glass noodle in tomyam goong. I told myself i must have tomyam goong in Bangkok. I must reckon that the tomyam goes very good with glass noodle instead of meehoon. The taste is sweet, spicy and sour. There are two to three big prawns. I believe seafood in Bangkok is cheap? As they able to give two to three big prawns for this glass noodle tomyam goong with only 800Bath?

Pad Thai for hubby. He has no idea what to eat, so i suggested him Pad Thai, after i read some forum saying that must try Pad Thai in Bangkok. Actually it is like our local fried kuey tiaw, but Pad Thai’s taste is very sweet. However, there is two big prawns too!! hehe… But this Pad Thai is too sweet for me.

After having our lunch, feeling excited, we started our shopping spree. Actually i wanted to snap some photos of the mall, but there is a guard when i entered the mall and told us we are not allowed to take photo in the mall. I just wonder why. So we behaved ourselves as we were at other people’s country mah. hehe

Rest a while and have a cup of tea at Black Canyon Coffee. You can see this, Black Canyon Coffee everywhere in Bangkok, as if like Starbucks or Coffee Bean in Malaysia. They even have three branches in this Platinum Fashion Mall!!! (O_o) Try their Black Canyon Coffee Frappe. It is really good….!!!

Although the mall looks not promising from outside and quite packed inside as every shop is very small and no fitting room for you to try, but you are not surprised if you see lots of foreigners or tourists here. Also don’t be surprised if you see people pulling big bags of stuff as i believe most of the boutique owners get their stocks here. My favourite line here is “how much”, “wholesale price how much”. Yes, there is different price if you buy one piece, two pieces or three pieces. Three pieces consider wholesale for them already. So the more you buy, the cheaper you can get.

After few hours here, we decided to go back hotel to rest awhile.

Grilled prawn. Hubby was so tempted when seeing this grilled prawn. But he not dare to try at the end. He is quite regret by now everytime seeing this grilled prawn photo because he is saying that all the virus should be totally killed already by grilled them like this.

Another hubby’s favourite. He just loves grilled squids so so much. Again, he was not dare to try. So just snap some photo to kill his emptiness of his stomach.

Some of the street food. Grilled/fried food.

Grilled fish and chicken. The grilled chicken is just like our local ayam golek. hehe. But the grilled fish is really not good looking thou. Do you dare to try ?

This lady is selling tomyam maggi mee at one of the small lane. See the cockles, prawns, squids, pieces of hotdog at left side? I guess the tomyam maggi mee must be very nice. But i think we are able to cook the same thing at our own too. hehe…

We went back to the Platinum again at about 7pm something. By then, we noticed that most of the shops going to close at that hour. So, we just straight went to the foodcourt again to have our dinner.

My dinner, grilled salmon bento. I don’t remember the price, but i guess around 60-80Bath. So it is quite cheap for me. Comes togather with a bowl of soup too. The taste, okay okay.

Hubby seafood fried rice. He just simply loves squid. As long as there is squid for his meal, he is satisfy.

Fried oyster. We ordered this after seeing the oysters are big and fresh. Fried togather with egg. But this fried oyster don’t have taste at all. Maybe we need to add on the sugar, chillies at our own. Other than big oysters, this fried oysters don’t have taste…. So, please do not order this at any foodcourt in Bangkok, unless you know how to blend the taste at your own with the sugar and chillies provided lah.

Hubby has not enough with his seafood fried rice. Ordered this japanese tako. Taste wise, so-so loh. Hehe…

Oh yea….i forgot to mention that we need to buy a card before we can order any food at the Platinum Foodcourt. You can buy at any value you wish. Any unused credit can be refunded. So you can use the card when ordering your food. You will use the card as credit card and the seller will swipe your card and give you a receipt stating your meal value and the balance of your card.

Pratunam at night.

We went back to hotel after our dinner to rest, as we need to get up early for temple visit tomorrow.