My Pink Shoelace

MJ used to say and she still does say it out loud that I am strict in person. Well, I don’t talk to strangers (mom’s golden rule), I avoid eye contact which is an opening for conversation with strangers, my eyebrows always seem to meet at the middle and most often than not I hide behind my earphones to avoid people from talking to me directly. Yeah yeah yeah … that’s me. Pretty uptight huh?

Now the last time I was there with Doi, we didn’t meet anyone not that there weren’t any worth meeting but because Doi and I are pretty much tight lipped. But this year with MJ with me it was amazing, being friendly sure brings quite a lot of fun. Talk and talk about everything under the sun.

Thanks to MJ I befriended Wuteim (an Israeli), Sala (an Egyptian who now lives in Denmark) and the pretty Marietta (from England but she’s Polish). Guess coz we’re girls we were pretty much close to Marietta what with dinner and drinks as well as breakfast together either at her place or at ours. It was pretty cool.

Here are some of the photos taken.

** upon arrival **

** MJ and I **

** Starbucks in Khao San Road **

** Moi, MJ and Marietta **

** A very good dessert at May Kadees **

The rest of the photos are here – Bangkok : May 2009 | Dinner/Meeting New Friends.

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The first thing we did was in the morning after our arrival was sign up for the River Cruise (I believe this is a must do for every first timers in Bangkok) which takes you around the Chao Phraya River which is the biggest river in Thailand (I think, I’ll confirm that with wiki) while serving dinner on board and getting entertained by Thai dancers performing some of their classic dances. It was nice and the food has not changed since I last went there.

** inside the van on our way to the River Cruise Hotel **

** the Chao Phraya River **

** inside the River Cruise Hotel **

** the boat **

** Moi and a not so yummy carbonara **

** my partner in crime : MJ **

** the view **

** taking a pose before hopping in **

There are several more shots found in the album Bangkok : May 2009 | River Cruise. Do take a look.

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We find ourselves amongst other tourist on the 2nd day of our arrival, we were all headed to the ancient city of Ayutthaya, the former capital of Thailand.  The old city was packed with ruins of temples, castles and budhha’s. Our tour guide gave us a brief history of what each site used to be and how it came to its downfall. Pretty interesting if you ask me. Here are some photos taken from that day though don’t be surprised if most of the photos are of the temples and the budhha’s not much on us.

** first stop **

** statue of a golden lady **

** one of the many buddhas **

** entrance to the prayer room **

** pose before climbing all the way up **

** pose from the top **

** cooling down from all the walking **

More of the photos can be found here: Bangkok : May 2009 | Ayutthaya Day Tour.

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The day after we arrived, we decided to take on the River Cruise on the Chao Phraya River and have dinner while being entertained by Thai dancers. Since the cruise begins at around 7PM we had the whole day all to ourselves. Had breakfast at my favorite restaurant a few blocks away from where we stayed and went to see the malls around town. Roamed around MBK and Siam Paragon.

** Siam Paragon **

** portrait of the king and queen**

**on board the tuk-tuk **

** inside MBK **

More photos here: Bangkok: May 2009 | Around Town

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Am such a slowpoke when it comes to uploading photos from my travels that Dang and Julie kept on bugging me to post the photos from our Baguio escapade. Waaaaaaaaaaa its just that I don’t seem to have any time!!!! Now MJ was very religious in uploading our photos from Bangkok in Facebook and she has arranged them in separate albums. So in this entry, I’ll post the photos she placed on the album called “To and Fro”.

** waiting at gate # 4 **

** waiting for our flight**

** on board the plane **

** inside the plane **

** Suvarnabhumi airport **

**waiting for our flight back home**

**me and my iPod**

Do visit the album here: Bangkok : May 2009 | To and Fro

It was fun that we both didn’t want the vacation to end and most certainly we didn’t wanna come back, to work and to the worries we left behind at home. *sigh* Oh well … working on the next travel escapade

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Originally the plan was for us to visit Bangkok and Cambodia but due to the limited number of days that we had, we decided to explore Bangkok and set Cambodia aside for the next adventure. It’s my second time visiting Bangkok, the first being last year with Doi of doispeaks.com. We stayed in the same hotel Doi and I stayed last year (familiarity reasons) and explored the many temples the city has to offer as well as the shopping district. We also had dinner on the river boat in Chaopraya River (did I spell that right?), took a smaller boat from the Bang Paan canal to Pratunam, took the Chaopraya River Express boat in going to Chinatown. We spent one day in the ancient city of Ayutthaya and upon seeing the structure I wondered if going to Aztec would give me the same feeling.  Here are some of the photos we’ve had. Some are in MJ’s cam, I’ll have to give her my flash drive so I can have a copy.

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Just got home from Bangkok and I dread going back to work and facing reality. *sigh* No presents for anyone this time … somehow some if not most people tend to like me for what I can give and not for who I really am. Bangkok was a swell especially with MJ who was just super friendly, we made friends with 3 tourists like us, Salah from Denmark (he’s Egyptian); Wuteim from Israel (he’s been travelling in the last 7 mos.) and the lovely Marietta from London (she’s Polish). It was a cool bunch they were all so talkative, between food and drinks talk was from whatever topic that sprung to mind. Photos later My Pink Summer Contest is still up and running, click on the banner below to join.

For the second time am going to Bangkok and this time its with MJ, it’s her first out of the country escapade and she’s very excited. Hahaha reminds me of my first time. We’re off to Bangkok first and would go to Cambodia to see the Angkor Wat. So I won’t be able to post new entries from May 17 to 22. Will keep you guys posted.

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Filed for VL, got it approved and bought my tickets. This was last June … in a span of a month there has been numerous changes.  And when I say numerous I literally mean numerous, I went with a friend and an office mate and she has been changing her mind every so often due to various reasons.

But at least she made up her mind somewhere around the third week of July to just go through with the trip.

So here are some snapshots of my latest “laag” in the Shopping Capital of Asia – Bangkok, Thailand.

~ this is right inside the Central World, what could he be thinking? lol ~

~ Sawadee Ka (did I spell that right?) with Ronald McDonald, Thai style ~

~ emo ~

~ with Sony’s Bravia ~

~ the multi-flavored gelati (did I spell that right?) is very very tempting~

~ this boutique breathes “expensssssiiiiiiiveeeeee~

~that’s Doi, standing in front of Siam Paragon’s entrance~

~ outside Siam Paragon, can you see the water?lol~

~ that bench stretches to the far end entrance, it a good place to see and be seen … toinks!!!~

~ In the streets of Bangkok ~

~McDonald’s Mocha Frappe~

~Dumbo? Is that you? lol~

~Spices or Sweets? We never get to ask … but I bet they’re spices~

~ Got my hair braided in Khao San~

~ See the lines? toinks!!~

~ Didn’t I tell you I adddoooorrrrrreeee PINK? ~