bangkok trip 2008

I've gotten soooooo lazy lately. I just don't feel like coming to my laptop and type it down. So now, finally, i'm back. Just this September, i went on a family vacation to Bangkok. It was fun, overall.

Once, in the evening, we were out shopping. As we stepped out of a shop, we were surprised to find EVERYONE standing still in the streets. Somewhere nearby, public speakers were broadcasting their national anthem. Thais are so patriotic!

There was another time, we took the free hotel tuktuk(motorbike taxi) to the town centre. There was this western guy who came along. my sister asked where he was from, and he replied in perfect mandarin, “我来自美国。” (I'm from America). o_O

Even i did something silly. My family all had a good laugh over it. Once, we went to the night market. I went another way and agreed to meet them somewhere else later. My sister sms-ed me saying they'll be at this little dessert cafe, but i didnt see any of them at the ground level. So i went upstairs. That's when i heard some lady rattling off in Thai. i couldn't understand, so i went on ahead and saw that the upstairs was actually, A STORE ROOM. So, when i came back down, everybody in the cafe was looking at me. >.< How was i supposed to know? I don't understand Thai!

Then there was this interesting place where we had dinner, called the MK steamboat restaurant. The food was OK, but the crew was fun!

The Royal Palace was an interesting place, too. Wind-Chime is attached to the roofs of the pagoda. (Not the spiky top, but i have no idea what that particular structure is called) So whenever the wind blew, the chimes sound, which makes the atmosphere so calm. I have to aplogize for this video footage. I used my new mobile handphone to capture it, and i did't know how to rotate it afterwards.=P

Here's a compiled little video i made from the Underwater World in Bangkok.

We were lucky that we missed the protests. We almost got stuck in the highway on my departing day. The police showed up in time to inform us to use the other way. If not, we would have been stuck halfway where protestors blocked the road to the airport.