The second day was no different from the first except that there were more interesting characters and places we met and went to. I'm usually an early bird in foreign places and I was awake at 6am. I thought the time was 5am when i woke up but I received a shcok when I saw the time. I didn't want to disturb the two survivors and proceeded to have a slow bath in the bathtub(make use of the opportunity while you can). We proceeded to have our breakfast. I saw first light only at 7.30am(no joke)
The hotel breakfast buffet was the best highlight of our trip as it was worth our money and it was certainly beyond expectations for a 3 star hotel. There was a pastry section with 10 different pastries and a section for fried food(fried rice,mee goreng,french toast,bacon..) and there is actually a cereal section with six 6 different cereals. We shamelessly helped ourselves to the buffet but we were decent enough not to overfill our plates as some of our Singaporean buddies did.
We then proceeded to look at the shops as I couldn't believe the fact that the shops open after 10 and I bought a toothbrush(I forgot to bring this essential item of all things) at 7-11 before heading back to our hotel room to rest. I couldn't get the hell out of our hotel room as I felt that we should hit the shopping centres instead of lazing around. We hit Siam Square which was like another Paragon which had boutiques and the prices were sky-high. We were not expecting MBK prices for expensive labels and we proceeded to MBK and I did some shopping and I began to bargain shamelessly as I felt that the prices were not justifed as they were jacked up. The Thais were decked in yellow shirts as they were celebrating their King's birthday and it was kind of nice to witness that.
I pissed off quite a few sales people particularly the crystal lady whom I thought will sell me the crystal figurine at 100 baht but told me it's for 130 baht and I walked out of the shop as I felt that we agreed for 100 baht and I refused to stare in her direction as she was staring hard at me. There was also the sunglasses lady who refused to sell the sunglass lesser by 10 baht and I didn't buy and I realised that it was pointless to bargain for 50 Singaporean cents when I should be bargaining for a few Singapore dollars. The shops in MBK were basically selling the same shirts and shorts and there was no much of a difference.
I got a tattoo(a temporary one) and the tattoist looked scary and entertained us with his guitar while we were waiting for my tattoo to dry which took 30 mins. The best part was after taking a photo with him, I forgot to pay him for the tatoo. My short term memory is absolutely bad and we had lunch at a Long John style restaurant(can't remember the name of the restaraunt) which was bad before we went to hit the other shopping centres.
The hotel breakfast buffet was the best highlight of our trip as it was worth our money and it was certainly beyond expectations for a 3 star hotel. There was a pastry section with 10 different pastries and a section for fried food(fried rice,mee goreng,french toast,bacon..) and there is actually a cereal section with six 6 different cereals. We shamelessly helped ourselves to the buffet but we were decent enough not to overfill our plates as some of our Singaporean buddies did.
We then proceeded to look at the shops as I couldn't believe the fact that the shops open after 10 and I bought a toothbrush(I forgot to bring this essential item of all things) at 7-11 before heading back to our hotel room to rest. I couldn't get the hell out of our hotel room as I felt that we should hit the shopping centres instead of lazing around. We hit Siam Square which was like another Paragon which had boutiques and the prices were sky-high. We were not expecting MBK prices for expensive labels and we proceeded to MBK and I did some shopping and I began to bargain shamelessly as I felt that the prices were not justifed as they were jacked up. The Thais were decked in yellow shirts as they were celebrating their King's birthday and it was kind of nice to witness that.
I pissed off quite a few sales people particularly the crystal lady whom I thought will sell me the crystal figurine at 100 baht but told me it's for 130 baht and I walked out of the shop as I felt that we agreed for 100 baht and I refused to stare in her direction as she was staring hard at me. There was also the sunglasses lady who refused to sell the sunglass lesser by 10 baht and I didn't buy and I realised that it was pointless to bargain for 50 Singaporean cents when I should be bargaining for a few Singapore dollars. The shops in MBK were basically selling the same shirts and shorts and there was no much of a difference.
I got a tattoo(a temporary one) and the tattoist looked scary and entertained us with his guitar while we were waiting for my tattoo to dry which took 30 mins. The best part was after taking a photo with him, I forgot to pay him for the tatoo. My short term memory is absolutely bad and we had lunch at a Long John style restaurant(can't remember the name of the restaraunt) which was bad before we went to hit the other shopping centres.
We did serious window-shopping and ended up buying nothing at these stores and I bought 'Freakonomics' from one of the bookstore as I finished my Ben Elton's past mortem thanks to Lester's recommendation though I didn't get past the first few pages. We later searched high and low for a barber for 30 mins as my hair was getting longer and Megan also needed a haircut. We finally found a massage centre-cum barber(what the hell) and I had a hard time explaning to the hairdresser before her supervisor kind of understood my English and it was a decent haircut. We then went back to laze around in our hotel and the two survivors had to convince Sara to eat at a roadside stall as he was cautious of the food. I regretted buying chicken rice as I didn't like it but there was no complains as the prices were damn cheap. However, we witnessed two children playing with a cardboard box when our Singaporean kids will be playing with their Gameboys and playstations and I wondered if they could ever break from their cycle of poverty and the answer saddenned me.
We then hit the famous Suan Lam night market which was huge and I was again back to what I was doing-bargaining till I got a good deal for my money. I pissed off a lady who agreed to sell a pair of boxers from 250(rip-off) to 100 and managed to get 2 for 160 and she wasn't happy with the deal as she wasn't getting a huge profit from me and I managed to get a good waist pouch for a reasonable price and the survivors were clearly unhappy with me for spending too much time at shops bargaining when I felt that if we don't bargain, we will get a bad deal. When we were about to go,I saw lots of people crowding around a big screen and I realised that it was the world cup opening match. We took a cab which didn't go by its meter and we watched the world cup at our hotel room. It was a pretty interesting match and the best moment was when thomas frings scored an outstanding goal from outside the box and the final score was 4-2 in favour of Germany.
We retired early and looked forward to our trip to Chatuchak the next day.
3rd Day-To Be Continued....
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