So after a long day chilling at Sirocco, CY & I got ourselves a cab at the State Tower.
At first the taxi driver seemed to be a really nice guy. Plus, he speaks fluent English too! After awhile, He started talking to us about tailors & suits, asking if we would like to visit some local tailors n stuff like that. Politely we rejected him, He kept going on and on, asking us to do him a favour by following him to some tailor shop just so he could get some commission.
At one point He started to get a lil aggressive after his attempts of trying. And this time we told him off firmly that we're not interested to go anywhere with him. I think he got a lil pissed off at us, he suddenly stopped his cab at one side of the road and told us we've reached our destination
And so we paid 100 baht and got off the cab.
and tadaaa. we're at Patpong!
The place has more flashy neons and interesting sign boards than the whole of downtown KL.
Thai girl, Thai boy, lady boy, go-go bars, you name it, they have it. There is also a lot of street stores selling “I love Bangkok” T-shirts and imitation Bell & Ross watches. As we were walking along the shops, we were ushered by many pimps asking if we wanted beer, shows, etc. We kept rejecting them. My only advice is don't ever listen to touts at patpong if you want an annoying-free time.
We left Patpong in less than 30 mins and went to some sportswear centre!
And i got myself an awesome pair of Converse for 1200 baht! (rm 120)
waitin for our late nite train, my kuli boi almost pengsan!
stuff i got from rama road, Patpong and random 7E:-
Converse shoes, awesome 4" heels, Pocky [25 baht] and some other junkies. In Thailand, a box of Pocky is only cost about rm2.50. But here in Malaysia, they retail for about RM10 per box! and they don’t carry some of the funkier ones like the white chocolate coated sticks coated with another layer of dark chocolate on top (yummy!)
woke up at 10am the next day, its our last day in BKK.
Our flight is at 9pm at night but we have to check out from out from our hotel room at 12pm.
nom nom nom. fried seaweed is shiznit!
Here we go againnn. We checked out from the Hotel at 12pm, left our Luggage at the Hotel Lobby.
Both me and cy still have about 10,000 baht (rm 1000) to spend and so we decided to go back to Platinum Fashion City Mall to finish all our Thai Moolah!In less than 2 hours, we have about only 4000 baht left ! LOL. Decided to grab some lunch before we leave Platinum!
awesome beef noodle at Platinum Food Court! [40 baht]
Took a tuk tuk back to Siam and met up with my Thai colleague at Siam Paragon, Pon.
Pass him some work stuff and fetched some coffee at Starbucks!
i love my boi.
he gelled so well with my family, all my friends and even my colleagues! We left Paragon at about 4pm.
Went to Rama road to continue with some shoppin and kena one more dose of Auntie Anne's CCB! LOL
And took a BTS back to Ari Station for-u-know-what.
... one last dose of tomyumkung at my fav! - seed restaurant! yummm.
Got back to out hotel at 6pm, trying to put all our last minute shopping into our luggage bags.
kenot zip. how now brown cow?
my hero.
Put all my junkies in a huge paper bag! Mad love!!
Bangkok is amazing & magical, but there are few things u must beware.
1. Taxi drivers will charge you way over the odds if they think you don't know the going rate.
Always ask them to turn on the meter if they want to agree a price upfront it will be above the going rate!
2. When visiting the main tourist attractions you will see many smartly dressed men in suits even lingering around the sights to try and persuade you that the attraction is closed today or not open until later, many will even point to a closed gate, chances are you are just not at the front enterance.
3. They might also try tell you that your clothing is unacceptable for entrance to the palace etc whereas at most major tourist attractions including the grand palace you can hire appropriate clothing free by leaving a refundable deposit.
4. Don't be deceived by their lies, they will say there is another attraction close buy that they will take you to.
I've never been mislead by them but have heard plenty of stories where people have been fleeced for tour guide fees or taken to the make shift tour guides shops or families shops along the way and encouraged to buy stuff. So be assertive and don't be misguided by anything they may tell you. Check everything out for yourself.
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