Bangkok trip : We need a break from work!

 Day 1

The ground staff is there is ask us to try out the self check in machines. So we tried and printed our air tickets and check in luggage label. Its quite easy to use and we receive a free gift ( recycle bag from SQ ) for trying out the machines! Haha! 

Gonna bring a 6.6KG luggage there and bring back at least 20kg worth of things from Bangkok! Haha!

While waiting for boarding, we saw how rude one of the ground staff was to a foreigner! Super duper rude even though that foreigner is so polite with her limited English! I think this shouldn't be the quality of service I will see from Singapore Airline whom always being awarded as best airline service. I think foreigner choose SIA is because they really think SIA provide good service but looking at how the ground staff talks to her, if I'm her I'm sure I will regret choosing SIA. Didn't get to get that staff name but from his accents, he is a non local. 

As per requested by hazel to try out the SQ special order meal and when the food is here, we straight away regretted. Haha! Not to my liking so I shall stick to the normal meal in my future SQ flight.

High tea above the sky...

Selfie early morning with a bear face! 

Landed and first thing to grab is the local phone card! 299baht for the whole of our 4 days trip which can actually last for 7 days.

Took a airport railway to station and we walk to our hotel, hotel vista express which is located right above pratunam wholesales market. 

Bringing 4 big luggage to bring the Bangkok back! 

Oh Ya! That's my new luggage that Asiana Airline pay me back! Same design but better then nothing right? So this is the first trip for my new luggage!

It's kat's first time taking the airport railway even though she goes to Bangkok quite often! 

Reached Hotel Vista Express! It's only 10 + in the morning and they told us that check in time is 2pm so we decided to leave our luggage at the hotel and head down to have our lunch.

Here we are at the famous wantan mee store and surprisingly there is no queue but seats was almost full inside. The queue started again when we start to order our food! Lucky us!

We order 4 small wantan mee, 60baht (SGD$2.40) each and the one pig trotter, 250baht (SGD$10)  to share. 

After our meal, there is still plenty of time till check in so we decided to shop a bit at the pratunam wholesale market first and so that we can put back our loots back to hotel after we check in. 

Went to the shopping mall with the spiral design. The last time I came here is still so new that not many shop open and now there is so many shops to choose from. 

While waiting for hazel to finish shopping in ONE shop!

Back to the hotel at 1.45 and the staff told us the check in time is still 2pm and we can't check in yet although it's only 15 mins early. The reception ask us to wait for another 30min and since she insisted that 2pm is the check in time so we told her that we will only give them 15 mins to prepare . I am not a nasty customer but since they are so not flexible, I shall not treat them good.

We requested two room that is next to each other and we ended up with two room that is a few rooms apart. We also wanted to borrow the international adapter but the staff say they don't have any to lend us. Lucky I did bring one with me so my friends from the other room have to bring their mobile phone over to charge everyday. 

Ok, things that might spoil the holiday mood aside... We are heading off for some tea session! Oh wait! Crepe first! 

We went to petite Audrey at Siam central level 4 and apparently their crape cake is very famous.

Wanted to order the Thai milk tea crepe cake but sold out already so we ended up choosing the milo one. It's yummy and not too sweet!

This is what happen when the food looks good and how we make our friends envy about us! Haha! Instagram-ed the very next moment! 

We also order the 'say cheese' which is fried mushed potato dipped in cheese. This Is also so good! 

The 'Audrey on my mind' is nice too! A good drink to fight with the weather! 

After high tea we went to Siam paragon to walk and digest a bit before we head off to the next destination.

Here we are at the weekend train station market, Taladrotfai market. This market is HUGH with A LOT of shops, stalls and restaurant! Lots of good buy from here too! I manage to grab two denim shorts for 40 baht (SGD$1.60) each! The market only opens from Friday to sun and therefore it will be super crowded too!

Many food stalls there that we couldn't resist ourselves too! 

Pass by this leather shop and saw them selling leather watch strap at a very cheap price! 100 baht (SGD$4) for a watch strap! Since my watch strap is already spoiled, I ended up buying one and ask the person to change it for me.

Spot the cat game!

Camera shop for camera lover!

Look at the crowd!

Many vintage stalls here selling second hand things too.

There is Live band performing at one of the restaurant too!

Had our dinner at al frad restaurant. The place is nice with live band too but the food wasn't that fantastic except their Thai mango spicy salad! Yummy mango salad!

We continue to shop after our dinner and spend quite a few hours to finish walking the whole market! Manage to get this cute floor mat for 100 baht (SGD$4) each!

Ice cream! But too full to eat already and long queue too!

No room for ice cream but I have some room for a cup of Thai ice milk tea!

Last but not least, our aim for this trip is to end everyday with a massage! So here we are! 

Day 2 :

Woke up and left the hotel at around 10am and straight we head off to big c! Ok, but before that, the smell of this hot dog roll attract us and we have to grab one before leaving!

It's walk able distance but it's too hot to walk so we took a tuk tuk there instead. 40baht (SGD$1.60) for 4 person to reach there is worth it!

It's Kat's first time riding tuk tuk although she comes BKK quite often.

So we went crazy at Big C, wanting to buy everything back! Haha! Hazel and I share one shopping cart only but....

.... Kat and JP each pushing one cart of their own! Omg!

We bought too much that we need to pack in a carton box. The provide free carton box for us to pack but we need to buy our own scotch tape at 24baht (SGD$0.95) each. I left my scotch tape beside Hazel while she is packind and it got stolen while I was away to do the tax refund! Omg! The people just take without asking! Anyway we are entitle for tax refund for purchase above 2000baht and the refund is around 5%. The customer service at big c is quite bad. They could not speak English and when people ask them things they do not understand and of couse couldn't answer them. When I'm waiting for my tax refund form, they actually swoop mine with another customers receipt! So they ask both of us to refill the tax refund form again... I have learn my lesson and I will not ask for the tax refund next time.

This is the tax refund form which look like some consignment form! The most lehjek tax refund form I've seen!

After our loot we took a cab back. Look how much we bought! Actually wanting to go a bit further for lunch but they are closing soon for their break so we thought of eating somewhere near. 

When we are in the room we saw this letter that they put in our room saying that there is free buffet party today to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the hotel and so we went for the free lunch! Haha! Well, the food is all in Philippine style and we realize that the boss of the hotel is also from Philippine. Food is not really to our liking but since it's free... We can't complain much....

After our free lunch, we head off to the platinum fashion mall! This is the place where we spend 5 hours here and almost went broke! 

Kat and I spend more then an hour in this shop! Doing personalize gift for our friends and family!

Interval coffee break time!

After the crazy shopping, back to hotel to put our loots and again out for dinner! 

Went to Chinatown to eat seafood! We had our dinner at nam sing. They serve quite good food and shark fin soup. This is my third time eating at this outlet. 

After dinner we went opposite to get some snacks from the famous Lin Zhen Xiang. They sell nice pork floss and others. 

After a short shopping, time for dessert! How can we come Chinatown without eating bird nest right? I have not try this place before but Katharine said that she try before and it's not bad so we decided to try here. My choice of bird nest, the red blood bird nest at 300baht (SGD$12) but if you want a bigger bowl you can order the bigger one at 500baht (SGD$20).

Kat have her bird nest with egg. This is the first time I see people eating bird nest in this way!

After a good dinner we went to the palladium world shopping where there is night market outside the mall. There is MANY stalls there for us to shop! We ended up only shops few stalls cause we spend too much time in each stall... And by the time we realise many stalls are starting to close, we then know it's already 12am and its started drizzling! I guess we have to come back tomorrow for more shopping... 

We took tuk tuk back to hotel at 50baht (SGD$2) and thinking that we shall bath and go downstairs to do some massage but by the time we finish bathing it's already 1am and they are already close! So sad that today we didn't do any massage! 

Day 3 : 

Hazel and JP went to shop at patunam at 5am! Ok that's too crazy for me and Kat so we stayed in the hotel to enjoy our beauty sleep! Haha! 

Crepe breakfast for just me and Kat! All by ourselves as the other two is not done with their shopping and not sure where they are now. 

So kat and I went back to platinum mall to shop on a few specify shop again. 

She wanted get more of her denim shorts from this shop. Friendly sales person ( not the one in this picture ) and reasonable price for denim shorts! 

After one shop, we went to black canyon at basement to get our caffeine fixed while waiting for the other two who they say they are on their way to meet us. 

They went back to hotel to put back their loots from the early morning but hazel still manage to bring a full bag of eyeliner to meet us! Can you imagine even just crossing the bridge she manage to grab a FULL bag of eyeliner?!

Ok! full strength now so the shopping continue! We went back to the personalize shop to do more gift for our friends! Our orders are so many that they ask us to go back during late afternoon to collect it! Big buyer ya? Haha!

Since we got a lot of time before we can collect our things, we went a bit further to have our lunch. Kat did a research on this Japanese restaurant and the review was very good so we decided to have a try. 

The kutsu (pork culet) is nice!

Meet Jackie, the cutest sushi! 

Jason!

And this is dragon!

So nice of the restaurant to provide chewing gums for us after our meal.

Address : 5 Sukhumvit 31, Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand 

Operating hours : 11am to 2.30pm, 5.30pm to 10pm

Wanted to take cab to central world but a lot of driver told us to take the subway instead cause of the jam at that timing. So we took the train instead. 

So long never see this machine already! We used to use the same machines in Singapore too!

Pass by the Four Face Buddha and saw the crowd is not as many as always because of the bombing that happen 2 months ago but glad that it's over for now.

Walk over to central world and before we could start shopping, we need some dessert to fight the hot weather!

Look at our cute ice cream! Even by looking at it makes us happy. Anyway beside it's look, the gelato is actually quite nice too.

Back to Platinum mall to collect our personalize stuff but before that... coffee time!

Went back to our hotel to put our things and received a surprise on my bed by my "roommate"!

Took tuk tuk to siam paragon for our dinner.

So... this is the famous Bangkok jam!

It was raining and to walk over to siam paragon from siam central, we need to walk through this portable tunnel! First time seeing this kind of tunnel!

Dinner at Sansab @ siam paragon, 4th floor.

We are here for this Tom Yum UFO!

The egg is cooked and cheese melted so it's time to tuck in! The tom yam is really spicy! Shiokness!!

Thai ice tea to end the shiokness dinner!

Went to basement for the supermarket and dessert time!

Supermarket-ing time!

Went back to palladium to do more shopping because yesterday when we came, it's already quite late and the stalls are already closing.
I bought one clock at 100 Baht (SGD$4) from this lady and totally love it! ( it's a picture of camera )

Some of the stall are still preparing to open because it was raining before we reach. Anyway this stall have nice and unique pouches to buy as gift for friends. Very nice and friendly boss too! We actually buy some yesterday but hazel wanted to try her luck for a pouch that the boss already told her no stock, but ended up still no stock today. Haha!
Check out his FB : https://www.facebook.com/bagsgp/?fref=ts

Waiting for my personalize key chain from this friendly lady! After that little girl on her right left she offer me the seat and ask me to sit there while waiting for her to finish.

Snacks time while waiting for our things to be done from different stalls.

Back to our hotel area and do our last massage for this trip!

My loot for this trip ( including the carton box on the floor )! Lucky we are taking Singapore Airline so we are not afraid of luggage being overweight!

The ladies wanted to buy more of a tee shirt that they bought on the first day so we went to search for that shop. Had a hard time finding back the shop! Haha! We went round and round for that particular shop but lucky manage to find it.

After we found the shop, grab the tees and now my turn to grab my Thai ice milk tea! Yum Yum! No coffee, milk tea also can!

Went to A&W for our breakfast. Hm.... when is the last time I had this?

Back to platinum mall to do some exchange, more shopping and of course to have my black canyon ice americano!

More personalize for us to hang at our locker at work!

My part time job! Haha! Jingpei wanted to write a chinese word on her owl and obviously the person don't how so I ended up writing for her!

Our owl!

Ok... serious matter now... we are broke!

Now, we only have money to have lunch at the food court in platinum mall! Haha!

Saw this magnet selling in one of the shop and I totally can relate it! I am totally (self declare) born to travel! Haha!

Just before we go back hotel to take our luggage, let's have some McDonald pork burger! You know we can't have pork burger in Singapore so we must eat at least once before going back.

Kat and I da bao (take away) some of this yummy satay that we eat everyday when we passes by. We put it in the ziplock bag that we bought from the supermarket yesterday so that we can bring back to Singapore.

Ready to head to the airport with our luggage! We come with only 4 luggage and look what had happen in 4 days...

Welfie every single chance we can find!

We didn't had any mango sticky rice at all so we bought one to share ( cause we got no more money to buy 4 ) at the airport.

While waiting the gate to open... First world problem! Everyone using phone!

Dinner time! How many meals have we eaten today? So scary...

End of the fun trips with my colleagues! Oh ya by the way it's Jingpei's first time taking Singapore airline! Haha! She told me not to say because she will sounds so mountain turtle!