Bangkok And Special Talents (Day 2)

We started our day with half day tour courtesy of Apple Holidays Travel Agency. 

By some miracle we were still bright eyed even though we only slept 5 hours and were mercilessly tired. 

 
Old school life vests

 

 

 
I wish I could have clear skin like this all the time.

 We started bird watching for a while

 

During one of the ordination ceremony of one Monk, he threw these pretty things and HuiQin picked them up and distributed them to us - hopefully, it'd bring us some luck.

Stalls renting costumes. 

 

 Then it was Jatuchak market for lunch

 There's nothing better than having a beer at every meal.

Seems like I lose all interest in taking photos whenever there's a bazaar involved.

After hours of slogging it out in the heat, we were treated to the Red Parade celebrations. Presumingly thought that roads were closed and parties started on the streets to keep political activists happy.

 I was amazed by our ability to finish all that food. We got a whole chicken and then mistakenly gotten plates of chicken rice for each of us thinking it was just the specially made rice. Super delicious.

Client services executives getting their nails done by the roadside. 

Bangkok And Special Talents (Day 1)

After months of complaining about not leaving the country, my colleagues and I started searching for coupons to buy and ended up with a 4 day package to Bangkok, Thailand. Naturally, I was quite excited and worried (extremely natural) about travelling in a large group for the first time ever. Then again, we'd passed almost 6 months with each other through thick and thin so that fear settled over for a while.

Because, I'm also not paid as well as I hope I would; we had to scrimp so much to prepare for this trip. The last month was to pay for the coupon and early this month was to save money for the trip. I'd never gone so long not buying anything online - I almost died.

Thankfully, I've also got a very sweet boyfriend who has forked out a few hundred dollars from his pocket for me to spend. 

 What I packed for the trip. The most important item to me for the trip? The travel pack tissues.

 I had no idea that Changi Airport terminal 1's departure area had a cactus until today. 

 Unfortunately, our flight had only10% local Chinese on board. The rest... Not even Thai.

Flying to Thailand from Singapore, on-board a Hong Kong airline filled with non Hong Kongers, Singaporeans nor Thais.

By the time we landed, half of the day was already gone. We flew with Cathay and it was probably my first full-service flight in almost a decade as well. We stayed in a boutique hotel called P2. It isn't in the most convenient location and it looks rather guest-house-y rather than an actual boutique hotel. Nonetheless, our resident guide who received us at the counter was more than lovely. She gave us the usual reminders, regarding safety and touristy behaviour and also highlighted the more authentic places we should try. In fact, she's the most redeeming factor of the hotel.

Personally, my sense of direction got a little disoriented; so I left the mapping out to these two.

Such glorious event space!

I got extremely distracted by the hordes of people and bazaar stalls after this picture was taken.