Greetings to Thailand, Sawadee ka♥

i'm safely back home from bangkok since last Tuesday. Time flies. In the blink of an eye, 4 days 3 nights' stay in Bangkok has come to an end. Despite the fact, i'm still very much in holiday mood and i'm missing bangkok sooooo much now. My friend was right. She said we would leave the place with reluctance. i miss everything there, the Amari Atrium Hotel, the daily breakfast buffet, the food(signature dishes), the bunch of friends who were with me during the trip and most IMPORTANTLY, the endless shopping spree in that paradise during our stay.

To add on to it, this entire bangkok trip was not only an exciting and fun trip, but also a thrilling and nerve-wrecking experience that we've encountered. Coming to think of it now, it is rather dramatic having to encounter few unexpected incidents occuring one after another. Who would have expect us to miss our flight?! Oh my goodness!!!

Sounds scary huh? Anyway, i shall fill you guys in about the fun part of Bangkok first before we move on to the nerve-wrecking experience part that was encountered.

Our flight was early in the morning back on the 13th August and which also means that we'll have to wake up even before dawn to get ready to set off to the airport. Thankfully, adeline's dad offered to drive us to the airport if not we'd have to on-call a cabby at this wee hour. The flight was slightly delayed and we landed in Bangkok roughly 9 plus near 10 in the morning. Definitely, the first thing to do is to check in hotel and leave your heavy baggages behind before you start off your first day of exploration in a new country. Upon our arrival in Amari Atrium Hotel, we received a warm welcome from the bell boy who opened our cabby door and carried our luggages for us. Soon after, we were served with a welcome drink at the dining area. First impression of the hotel's lobby and dining restaurant area was pretty good. Nice and cosy ambience, warm lightings and good services by the staffs there. Check out my video "Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part One)" below to find out more about our accomodation in Bkk:)

Bangkok Holiday Trip (Part One)


Room 1907, thanks for the nice stay:)

The moment we stepped foot into streets of Bangkok, we became SHOPAHOLICS!!! i really have to say this: "Bangkok is no doubt a shopping paradise!" Even for myself, i can't resist the temptations not to shop there. I've to admit that i was a shopaholic during my stay in Bangkok. Their clothings there are rather fashionable and most importantly they are not charged at an exorbitant price. What's more to add on to it are the bargainings with the stallholders and the wholesale prices almost EVERYWHERE!

Few shopping malls and street markets we've visited: (1) The Platinum Fashion Mall, (2) MBK, (3) Chatuchak weekend market, (4) Suan Lum Night Bazaar.

(1) The Platinum Fashion Mall: This shopping mall looks kinda' like Singapore's Far East Plaza where there are different small shops lining side by side to each other in different levels. This is where WHOLESALE prices can be seen almost everywhere in the mall. For eg. A shirt alone costs 250Thai Bahts (ard 10.60 sing dollars) and if you'll to get three pieces at one go, they'll charge you at a wholesale prices of 150Thai Bahts each (ard 6.40 sing dollars). That's what they meant by WHOLESALE. The more you buy, the cheaper they cost!

How cheappppp can that be, having to bring home a top or bottom at ONLY 6 plus sing dollars!!!

(Since most shops there have this WHOLESALE policy, it's not that easy to bargain prices with them given the fact that it is already sooo cheap for one. However, you can still give it a try 'for we managed to bargain in some stores.)

(2) MBK: One of the higher range malls in Bangkok. MBK Center has long stood as a top shopping landmark of the metropolitan. You can find fashionable trendy clothes, cool accessories, nice jewelleries, hi-tech devices like mobile phones and computers there etc. With more than 150 dining establishments, you can easily find an eatery and comfortably sit in to dine in with your families/friends after a tiring day of shoppings. This place is also where we bought our snacks and food back for our families.

(3) Chatuchak Weekend Market: As the name goes, this market only operates during weekend(sat and sun) from 9am till 6pm. According to my friend, the first customer of the day gets to bargain a good price 'for the stall owners in Thai have this belief that the item must be sold out upon their first customer. They believe this brings them luck, showing that it's a good start of the day!

(4) Suan Lum Night Bazaar: A pity we didn't visit Suan Lum Night Bazaar on the first day:(:( It is less crowded compared to Chatuchak market and other malls we've been to. The good thing here in this night bazaar is it's easier to bargain with the stall owners. One thing also to take note here is the high prices offered by the stall owners. Therefore, it is important to BARGAIN a good price with them. You wouldn't want to purchase something back home from Bangkok where you can fetch a similar price like one in Singapore! It's not worth buying if the goods there are charged at an exorbitant price. REMEMBER it's BANGKOK, so everything MUST BEEE CHEAPPPPP!!! tsktsk.

Now, check out "Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Two)" to find out more about the malls and markets we visited during our stay.

Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Two)

Thailand is well known for their "TOM YAM SOUP" and "PAD THAI" so it's a MUST for you to try during your stay there. The first day when my friend ordered the tom yam soup noodle at Platinum's foodcourt, we were all in love with the soup♥ In comparison with the tom yam soup tried at a street eatery near Suan Lum Night Bazaar, we preferred the one at Platinum to it. Thai's tom yam is different from Singapore's one. The spices the Thais use for their soup enhances the taste, making it even more spicy and sour. Nice♥

Apart from indulging in Thailand's signature dishes, deborah and me also visited one of their popular coffee houses like "Black Canyon Coffee" for tea session despite overseas. The price of ice-blended frappes and cake delights sold there are slightly cheaper than Singapore's ones. Not forgetting Red Mango's Yogurt, which is one of the best yummy yogurts that i've savoured so far. Deborah recommended this Red Mango's yogurt to me and i was told that the yogurt there is also cheaper. As you can see, the standard of living in Bangkok is lower, therefore most of the things there are cheaper than the ones in our country. Be it clothings, food, menicure, massage and EVEN TRANSPORTATIONS! (It is superrrr cheappp to take cab in Bangkok. Most of the times, we were travelling to and fro places by cab!)

Check out "Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Three)" for more recommendations of food in Bangkok!

Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Three)

i'm missing the daily breakfast buffet in Amari Atrium Hotel too! This and that...AHHHH!!!! In short, i'm missing bangkok♥

That's for now. Next up, i'll be ranting on my jetstar flight:( Stay Tune.

Netizens, apologies for the delayed posting of entries. I've been neglecting my blog for quite some while with no frequent updates 'cause i was kept busy with the compilation of photos in my video editings. Instead of writing an entry, i've decided to blog them up here with videos instead.
Sit back and relax.


KPOP THRILL over at CCK's newly opened kbox outlet.
Awesome sound system, spacious room, variety of munchies (mixed nuts, potato chips)

Dated back on 5th August '10



International Seafood and Teppanyaki Buffet Style
Indulge in vienna buffet and savour not just only the fresh seafood, cold dish, teppanyaki dishes (fish, chicken, beef) as well as mouth-drooling desserts!!!♥♥♥
A western-chinese buffet style.

Dated back on 6th August '10

That's for now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUM

Coco Exotic Indulgence

Best wishes from the family. Happy Birthday, dearest mum♥

That's for now.

Are you game enough for some console thrills?

Are you game enough for some console thrills?

There's an awesome entertainment area out there along prinsep street which is a must go. Previously known as The Hangout, Playnation is founded at creating a cosy nice ambience place for youngsters to chill and have hell loads of fun with boardgamings and console games. Be it console or boardgames, it's definitely going to be a memorable and exciting stay for you there.

The more the merrier, as the saying goes. Despite having not meet up for ages, this bunch of people continues to be as crazy as before, or even more now. The fun is always there with their presence. Self entertainment, laughing at our own nonsensical selves, full of lame jokes and craps; that's what we always do. It's a norm. So long as its CDS peeps gathering together, you will never fail to witness that. i miss my seniors and we've been longing for a senior cum junior outing some time ago. Finally, it was successfully carried out on the 29th july. Though it wasn't a complete one with everyone in, however, we all had our fair share of fun that day. GREAT QUALITY TIME spent together.

Time to brief you our lined up activities for the day.
First Stop was NONE OTHER than Playnation.

You can have a go at wii or xbox over at playnation if you've yet to play one before. As we only went for console games, there were no boardgames involved. Wii was first played. With guitar hero (first game) lasting as long as two hours. SIMPLY AWESOME TO THE MAX!!! Guitar Hero is a musical game, more like a rock band game though where you can unleash your inner rock star. It consists of 2 guitarists, 1 percussionist and 1 vocalist. All in all four players are playing as though like rock band stars each time. i ♥ being a guitarist as well as a percussionist! All went well till weikiat started hogging onto the mike and singing off tune. He's trying to be funny out there but had definitely fulfilled his entertainment purposes. That's him. (*laughs*)

A joker in my clique who never fail to tickle me.

Presenting to you, this trio rock band.

(Jie ying, Eileen, Me, Fang xuan, Wei kiat, Yi Qiang)
And now presenting to you, the six of us! :D

Time flies. Our happy hour(2pm-6pm) @ playnation was over in the blink of an eye. Evening falls and its time to satisfy our hunger pangs. We came to a consensus to choose cafe cartel for dinner over the rest of the restaurants in Plaza Singapura. "Tender Chicken and Butter Tiger Prawns" was what i ordered there. Taken aback by the portion of this main course meal where it comes not only with the hotplate itself, but an additional salad side dish, not to mention my add-on soup and drinks. You can imagine how fulfilling this meal is for me that day.

Over dinner, we chatted, laughed over trivial stuffs, cam-whored etc.

With my lovely seniors♥

Our dinner and chit chatty session went beyond 9pm and this is the time when all cakes, ice-creams, beverages are going at half price over at cafe cartel. Their 50% irresistible promotion after 9pm. We went for it despite after the full meal. Eileen, jieying and me shared a maple waffle syrup served with cookies and cream ice-cream and the rest went for brownie, ice-cream sundae and cheese cake respectively. Sweet delights for the night! (Sadly, the waffle and brownie aren't under the promotion delights. we overlooked it.)

It was a lovely night spent with them. Also not forgetting the thrilling and exciting part in the afternoon with our console games as great companions. One thing to note here is wii can be real tiring. Most of us were zonked out after playing that 'cause it requires lots of vigorous hand movements. My muscles are aching even till now.

Anw, eileen brought along her EOS 550D Canon DSLR over the other day and that was the first time i actually played around with a DSLR. She took good photos of us with it. i'm coming to love dslr even more. The buttons may seem to be a lil' complicated at first but slowly, you can easily get the hang of it. Something interesting i've found out from her is you can get to choose either auto focus or manual focus. With manual focus, you can play around with the zoom in zoom out lens and capture nice focused images with blurred edges. How awesome, isn't it? DSLR does wonders.

Baby Canon, i'm bringing you home one day.

That's for now.

The addictive drug runs in me

Yes! You're right! You didn't see wrongly! It's once again another kbox session for me. We have an additional companion with us for the day, weihao! He claimed that he loves phototaking for he was once in photography club. With that, we could easily capture nice photos of our full clique gathering. Thank you, photographer weihao!:) And this time round, not just one camera, 6 different cameras (be it phone cameras or digital cameras) are going around. That explains the number of photos we're tagged individually on facebook, tsktsk! Cam-whoring Day!

It was set at AMK Hub's MOF for lunch to satisfy our hunger pangs before ksession. This particular outlet of MOF is rather big and cosy to chill with your friends. They even have sofa seats there. I guess if we're staying a bit longer, we would have moved over to those sofa seats. It was only a short lunch for we're planning to queue for koi after that. Every minute is precious if we're sticking to plan:)

i love this shot here.♥ This adds on to our collection of full clique's photos.

A more spacious room, additional of mike makes the entire four hours of k-singing a more enjoyable one. KPOP Thrill. i dislike those rooms which are squeezy, making it difficult for one to cross over to choose songs on the screen.

Speaking of koi, as promised to try out another flavour, i ordered oolong milk tea yesterday. We were planning to "smuggle" our koi into kbox secretly. The plan was a total flop. we managed to bring it in successfully at first but unfortunately in the next few minutes, the kbox waitress caught her eyes on our koi when she came into our room and confiscated them:(:( Mood Dampening! There goes my freshly made oolong milk tea. As a result, it did not taste that fantastic after end of ksession. The ice melted.
(Amk's KBox is soooo strict!)

i'm glad i actually bumped into these 5 girls in my uni life. School days are livened up with their presence. Fate plays an important part here having getting to know them. i will treasure the friendship ties we have and hope our friendship will continue to grow down the years. Well, its only the end of year one; there's still three more years to go! There are many more places out there for us to explore and seek fun together. P-L-A-Y is always in our dictionaries. And weihao is a funny chap! Somehow, he's somewhat like another guy friend of mine. haha!
Loads of fun with the peeps!

That's for now.

We're now grown ups

i believe most of your must have made some good friends ever since your primary school days and till date, you're still keeping in contact with one another. That goes to show how lasting your friendship is. It has been more than 10 over years since we last left primary school. Frankly speaking, i have a vague memory of my life in there during those days... Back then, when i was still young, i don't mingle around with that many friends except for the usual bunch of people. Today, i'm thankful that i am still in close contact with two good friends from my primary school. Our friendship bond for more than 10 over years... Sometimes it's hard to come by having to maintain such a long term friendship and i treasure that.

In the blink of an eye, we're now all grown ups. However, we hardly change a bit though. For look wise, i guess everyone has matured through the years. Having not change a bit was referred to our characters and how we often crap and joke during our "dialogue" session when we meet up each time. As usual, we feel comfortable sharing with one another about our life, our ups and downs... This is the reason why i often enjoy sitting down, chatting with friends over a cup of coffee 'cause this is the best time to catch up with one another especially after you've not seen them for so long. In fact for me and my two primary school mates, we are not the ones who often meet up, sometimes even as long as a year. But, we are not strangers to one another though. we're still good friends, good buddies.

Finally, the three musketeers' meet-up was a success back on the 22nd july. we have planned to catch an evening movie, inception over at Bishan's GV. It was still quite some time away from movie and we decided to get some koi first to satisfy our desires.

For myself, i had a new try. ICE-CREAM Milk Tea flavour. In comparison with the previous one (original milk tea) which i had, sadly there's lesser pearls for the ice-cream flavour one. i love the pearls from koi. It's fresh and chewy! Perhaps during my next try, i will go for oolong milk tea or some chocolate flavour ones.

There's still more years down the road...

INCEPTION INCEPTION INCEPTION

A dream within a dream...

Here's the trailer:

The mind manipulating, brain-bending Inception is the defining movie of the season, if not the entire year. It's one of those ultra rare movies that actually lives up to the hype and even surpasses the most fanatical expectations.

That's for now.

There's always a backup plan

When plan A failed, there's always a plan B to act as backup. Choosing a place for outing is important just in case if premediated plan failed, there's always some other things to keep you occupied for the day. K-session was a total flop that day. The duration to sing was too short as we did not book a room in advance. Despite having the 8 nett promotion, still, it was not worthwhile to sing just only for two hours. With the initial thought of catching a movie together after ksession plan failed, it was once again another flop. The second failed attempt for the day.

Eventually, the day was spent playing pool and arcade after lunch at secret recipe.

That day was the very first time we played pool together.

There are different strategies in playing pool. Ultimately, the one who gets the black ball in after every other ball is hit in wins the game. Somehow after this game, we came to realize there are good players inside our clique. It's not just a game of pool alone, but to learn from and share tips with one another.

After knowing one another for quite some time, almost near to a year, it dawned upon me that we have never once been to arcade as a whole before. The common hot favourite games are none other than daytona, time crisis, bishi bashi, taxi driver game etc. we tried them all. i had a whale of time with the girls over at marina square's arcade. For once, i felt as though i've returned back to my teenage years. This was one of my favourite pastimes then.


The next time round, we're not gonna' miss k-session again. Probably, on the next monday?:)

That's for now.