Sawadikrap pple... know i have been blogging for a long time, the reason is that i am overseas for the past few days, missed me badly.... no doubt right... heez... bhbism starts again... alright shall reward u guys with a long entire as i adds my trip into todays blog... enjoy yah
18 May 2005 Herbert's 21st birthday
Today is a special day... its one of my good friend, herbert's 21st birthday!!! so first and for most, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERT!!! offically and adult, hahaha congraz...Today is still a full working day, was suppose to meet herbert and gang for bday dinner at meritus mandrine hotel, tml is our trip to thailand and i haven't even done a single packing!!! Got home after work, tinking if early would do some packing, but ended up home at 630pm (meeting at 7pm) so came home drop my stuff, bath and rushed out of the house... Reached at a quarter past 7, met herbert at the lobby then went up to meet the rest whom already start dinning... its a rather posh place... buffet dinner to its finest...had so many oyesters, salmons and many many more... dessert was great too... pancakes with ice cream... power man... haha talking about it makes my mouth water... After we makan, was thinking of chilling at rouge... but ended up having a good time at Kbox cine... where we scream our lungs out... haha funny thing is that i wasn't shy about singing... unlike going to sing with my polymates... tink its because it all guys and we knew each others like ages therefore there isn't any pressure i guess.. Sang till about 1 plus before calling it a night coz everyone haven start packing and it a few hours before our fight... (we are taking the morning flight...) Reached home, did my packing before laying down to rest for a couple of hours...
19 May 2005 off to Thailand!!!
Hardly slept before being waken up by dad, took a shower to freshen up... then did last min checks before leaving the house... dad drove me to the airport... on the way gave me loads of advise, honestly, my head was so heavy from the lack of rest that i didn't really got most of it in... hee sorri dad, got to the airport, was the first one there, herbert and gang (dennes and terence) was still on the way, so sat down and waited for them, took litte shut eyes in between. when they got here... its about time to enter the gates... did all the neccessary ppaper work before entering the departure gate... was died excited, always love entering that gate... its like a whole new world of its own in there... walked around the shops for awhile as we still had time.... terence bought some cigeratte... then we proceed to the plane... took some pic along the way... heez...we flew jet start asia there... the seats wasn't as comfortable as i expected... its was rather cramp... for someone my height.. and as it was a small plane, every turn could be felt instantly.... was running a cold so was sneezing the entire time... thank god i had tissue with me... when we arrived at thailand... got sort of a culture shock as things there is so different from our airport... seeing their airport convinced me on why singapore is ranked one of the top airports in the world... after we clear the custom (which took a super long time) we got a cab to the hotel (asia hotel) Got there herbert and terence did the registration as we waited at the lobby, we did an illegal thing, we booked a room for 2 but have already decided to cramp all for of us in there... heez... budget wat to do.. got the room, drop the stuff, then make our way for shopping, first stop... Mak Bung Kong Market... super big shopping mall... found something to eat first as that was our first meal of the day and were famished... the food was alright but the dessert was superb... sticky rice with durian, mango and coconut ice cream... mouth watering...after that walked around... notice they were also showing STAR WARS so we tot we gave it a shot... haha the cinema was better then we though, the seats, the surround sound, the screens all very good lor...the funny part is that before the movie there was a min respect for the king, where everyone have to stand and pay respect to the king as the screen showed picture of the king, that is something new, thais really love their king man...heez... managed to survive through the entire movie (2 plus hours) while dennes spend most of the time sleeping, even in thoes fighting scenes...lolx...respect... after the movie, when walking around the place somemore, its was huge and immpossible to finish that evening... were looking around not planning to buy anything of the first day... juz looking at the prices to things... then we decided to get back to hotel as everyone was died tired... got some snacks from the 7-11 nearby for 'dinner' that was first day...
20, 21, 22 May 2005 Shopping shopping and more shopping...
Shall not elaborate too much on these... basically... we started shopping at all the different happening market around... its great fun seeing herbert and gang doing bargaining with the hawkers... learned abit myself also... there is loads of stuff in their market... from food to clothings, to decorations... its like local pasa malam but in way bigger scale... one of the market (Chatuchup- this is how its pronounce but not sure the spelling) even have sale for puppies... and they are really cheap... one pup coat about 50 bucks sing... so cute... Besides all this, we also when 'window shopping' on the high end shops... like burberry, LV, CK, Fendi etc, felt like a different class walking into these shops... was so tempted to get a burberry polo t which cost about SGD 100 plus... but didn't in the end... this few days in thailand was the only time after BMT that i have walked such vast distance... I believe we at least covered close to 15 - 20 km a day during our trip on foot... during the trip we also did reward ourselve with foot massage... was really good... but most money was spend on shopping, didn't even took that much of photos, compared to my other trips... Overall its a really fun trip...
23 May 2005 Last day in thailand...
Today, we did all the final shopping with all the money we had left... had to change more money as there wasn't much left to spend... was pretty determine and spending watever left... as its wasn't really worth changing the money back to SGD, its really shop till we drop... First was MBK market, then got back to the hotel to put our stff before proceed to some of the market that we have been to for final buys... by the time we got back to the hotel, its past midnight, and as herbert and terence have a final foot massage with whatever money left... me and dennes went back to start packing as we are leaving on the first flight back tml... got ourselves plenty of beer in the hotel to drink... by the time i am done packing, basically finished 4 big bottles of beer... lolx.. head was died heavy.... so as the rest of the gang packed i sleep... didn't really realised that i bought quite abit of things until the packing session... bought mainly local tibits on the final day... and also a huge backpack... lucky for that if not i am not sure of how i am going to carry all my stuff back... was going to miss the sights and sounds of thailand... but definately not the poplution... lolx..
24 May 2005 Singapore, here we come!!!
8am, got our stuff and depart to bangkok international airport... checked in our stuff and flew home on tiger air, its free seating therefore we got to the gate early for good seats... the plane was slightly delayed due to so technical problem but after that it was a smooth ride home... (better then jetstarasia i must say) once touch down in singapore airport.... the warm reception from our airport was so great am... all the familiar sights and sounds... missed it so much man.... bought a tequlia and volka rasberry from the duty free before collecting our luggages... had a commotion outside the arrival hall as we saw joanne siah and tay ping hui doing a flim shoot nearby... wanted to take a pic with them.. but didn't had the chance as the gang was hungry and wants food... so no choice... mum cooked dinner so i headed home first... took a train down to aljunied first before taking a cab home (cheaper that way) After dinner, rushed down for band prac... so dedicated right...lolx... anyway practise was fun... almost forget how to play... lost my ambrochure and all... took quite awhile to pick it up... can tell that the pressure was on for WMc as lao shi is getting more strict on the quality of the music... after prac, lao shi gave a speech clearly hinting to those that is not going for the competition to stop comoing for prac... was rather sadden coz i was one of them...or likely to be... but well i guess that was the only way to actually guage the actually strength of the band... so if i have to go i have to go...lolx. headed home straight after prac to unpack my luggage... rest shortly after my bath as i have work the next day....
This is basically my trip summarised... this it a pretty long entry already... hahah alright then shall blog more when i have the time... and shall post some of the photos once its developed.... ciaoz....