during the one week break, i went to bangkok to get away from singapore! staying in singapore was too sian, and i felt that i needed a change of scenery for a few days at least. so mich, claire and i left for bangkok on the sunday that the holidays started! haha around one year ago, me mich claire hs travelled to bangkok as well. except that this time, hs herself is travelling around europe so much!! but nonetheless, we still had a great great time! =)

this was bangkok airport. it looked so different from one year ago. the new airport has so much glass around it and looked so so spacious and brightly lit! =) mich n i brought huge luggages!




















we stayed at Novetel Siam Square =) it was soo nice! haha the beds were so comfortable! and the location was so good! walked out of the hotel and you're in Siam Square, with nice hip shopping! and conveniently located next to the hotel is the Siam BTS station! connected to the BTS station is Siam Paragon where the basement of small food stalls are so heavenly! haha or as yinghao would say, "orgasmic" ;p

this is our hotel!! look at the bar! and those tube things are actually soap, shampoo etc etc =) and look at the huge huge huge beds! they were soo comfortable!




















so after we checked in, and lazed around a bit, we went to Chatuchak! haha. it was, to put it in a nutshell, eventful. and definitely a day i'll forever remember!!!

the belgian waffles were so nice!!! we bought it from some stall at the BTS station.
and the fish-cake looking thing was something we ate at Chatuchak for like 40Baht? haha so cheap!! ;p and it was yummy too!! there were other nice photos of food, but they were on mich's camera.
















well, we were rather unlucky in bangkok! we seemed to drag the raincloud wherever we went! on our very first day there, the weather was really great in the early afternoon! not too hot, yet it wasnt raining - perfect day to go Chatuchak (a market place). maybe it was too perfect! cos at ard 3something bangkok time, it started to rain. and it was not the drizzling kind, it was a torrential downpour!! till the roads and streets were literally flooded! not only flooded with water, but apparently there were cockroaches as well!! =/
omg! and the worst worst most embarrasing thing happened! i was gonna cross this street in Chatuchak, and it was flooded ankle-deep. and the only thought in my mind was RUN across as fast as i can! BUT, ah, both my slippers came off as soon as i plunged my feet into the water! and they were just starting to float away by the time i turned around to try to pick them up!! i was soo embarrassed! i grabbed both my slippers and ran across the street bare-footed! omg! haha according to mich, the people around there were all laughing at me =/ oh man. what a memorable experience! haha

so yes, this is me. on the train, on the way back to our hotel. all drenched and soaked and tired.



















after we showered and changed and rested, we decided to go to MBK for dinner! so we walked through Siam Paragon, Discovery Centre etc etc, and saw this poster of a band called TVXQ! the girls were soo crazy over them! kept taking photos with the posters, and kissing the posters. omg haha

this was at Siam Paragon. some decor at the front entrance. its actually quite nice, green-leafy things. haha this photo just doesnt do justice =P















us on the bridge leading to MBK! haha we were all hungry. but yet we still stopped to take photos and shop!! ;p i think this was the night where we asked some tourists to take that photo for us. and in the end, they made us pose with them and took picture with us =P haha!





















we went to Fuji Restaurant at MBK for some cheap and nice jap food!!
the boat thing contains tonnes of Sashimi, which claire and mich gobbled up! haha the last pic is of a catepillar roll! it has Unagi inside, and avocado around it! soo YUMMY! the food there was so cheapp!! haha




















so yup, that ends day 1 of bangkok. shall blog the other few days another time =)