Bangkok #3

It was 5 something after completed the Safari tour. The coming place to visit after Safari was the MBK shopping mall which was near Siam Paragon shopping mall. It was quite ‘sayang’ that we did not manage to get in Siam Paragon due to the insufficient time. Next time to Bangkok, Siam Paragon is a must. Ate some Japanese dishes and the local green curry as my dinner at shopping mall, tasty! After that, we continued shopping and looked around the place. Bought some clothing too! Wonderful. Thought after the shopping session, I could see the Bangkok famous Four Faces Buddha, but at last I changed my mind. Heard Nathan said that there was always a huge crowds of people praying on Thursday 12 midnight, it was hard to get near to the statue. So, I decided returned to the hotel and have a good sleep.

In the 3rd day, we took 1 to 2 hours to reach the Floating Market. It costs us about 600 Bath (RM60 if I am not mistaken again) with 1 hour tour. It was fun to enjoy the wind and the scene while on boat, and also a good place to take some photos. Just want to let everyone knows that the stuff sell in Floating Market was expensive than the other places in Bangkok because the place had already been commercialize. I recommend that the Chatuchak Market was an idea place to buy things cheap although it was not an air-cond mall. I bought the Thai style long pants at Chatuchak which were cheaper than those my colleague bought at MBK shopping mall. Worth it. But not bad to have a visit.
Finished the Floating Market, the next was the Elephant Zoo. Took another 2 hours again to reach the place. Sign, the entrance fee was costs me 550 Bath (RM55). Could smell a strong queer animal’s smell after enter the place, I could not stand for it long term because it could kill my appetite and my patient. LoL! Finally, I saw the real elephant in the first time of my life. Sounds like I was really a ‘shua ba lao’! LoL! Felt so happy to see them, they were so cute. When I saw those elephants locked by the big heavy chain, suddenly I felt so sad to see that. Their movement should not be controlled and limited in such a way, they should ran freely in the wild and lived their own way. Just because want to entertain the tourists and visitors, they lost their freedom. Or might be I was thinking too much. Cleared my mind, and then went to see the elephant show. Before that, there was a magic show to entertain the visitors. Tell the true, the magic show was very boring :p.

The elephant show was good, they were so cute while they used their long nose to hang the front elephant’s tail and queued up. In the elephant dancing part, I saw the performers used something like curve blade to stab the elephant’s thigh and tried to force them to perform. OMG, this was cruel, man. I felt so shitty angry with this kind of treatment to animals. Gosh! What show I was really watching!? Heartbroken to see that. Next time I will try not to watch this kind of show. After this, watched the crocodile show. Just nothing special since I can always see crocodile in my country, hehe.

Just floating market.


Go! Go! Torres. Elephant football show, Elephant Zoo Bangkok.


The colour of Bangkok. Floating Market Bangkok.


First scene when get in the temple. Wat Pho Temple Bangkok.


How many of centuries that the temple go through? Entrance of Wat Pho.


Inside Wat Pho Temple, Bangkok.


Shine of hope. Lofty and magnificent.


The luxury art.


Start the daily life with the hawker stall.


Hurry! Hurry! Go get some income.

Priorities Beckons

I absolutely adore this lens quite a lot. Always the reliable performer and basically tack sharp much like a prime lens. I can profess as much love as I can and want but there comes a time whereby some other priorities in life will come before everything else. Which is why I decided to let it go and the lens was promptly booked. Throughout the process of letting this piece of gem go, I feel that I've made a very sound and justified decision for the benefit of all. I love this lens a lot but I love my dear even more.

Still in pristine condition.


Ultra, ultra .. ultra wide.


Boxed and ready to ship.

Vanity Card #3

replacement leave today from last week working during the public holiday. the road along tun jugah intersection with jalan song and laksamana cheng ho have been pretty busted since the construction of the flyover began few months ago. expect to avoid that road right until construction is more or less done. sent the car for a major 40km service today and they are not kidding when it state the word "major" there. oil filter, air element, petrol injector, motor oil, spark plug, gasket, long life coolant, brake fluid dot 3, window washer, automatic transmission fluid flushing, automatic transmission fluid 1 liter, automatic transmission fluid 2 4 liter (3 bottle), labor charges and govt tax all equates to RM 831.93. Most of the complaints on the car are sorted out, belting noise eliminated by tightening of the belting (especially the V belt). Tyre condition are still good according to the service adviser. So no need to change on that one. They mention the rolling sound are actually from the tire and the nct5 aren't actually a quiet tire. So that wraps up the car servicing for this year as the next one is schedule to run in february of 2012. spent a few hours today this morning to do some house cleaning. a bit disappointed my nephews came to mess things up without a damn care in the world yet again. after they went home, my mum cleaned up the place again after that. I did some sweeping while she mop the floor of the entire living room, tv room and kitchen. I clean the toilet after my nephew simply pee on the floor in the bathroom. quite revolting actually. Slept for few hours after the car service today, woke up just before dinner feeling like migraine just descended from orbit into the head. Where is CK (cap kapak) when you need it. Oh, after all that service above, the car is running like brand new again. so in a way it was worth it.

Bangkok #2

After we reached the hotel, we all quite shocked that "My Hotel Platunam" was located at the backstreet Petchburi 15 which was somewhere at Platinum. One of the bell boy of the hotel came out and greeted us said ‘Hey, welcome my friend’. Then he helped us to carry our luggage to the hotel and checked in. The hotel room was nice and clean, but one thing that I was not so satisfied was the washbasin, it was because the water could not clear out after usage. Besides, the electrical plug appliance was different. It was not like plug use in my country, plug they supplied was merely 2 holes but plug I usually use was 3 holes plug which was called ‘travel plug’ for them. So, I need to request the travel plug from the lobby for my own use. After that, everything was settled and we planned to walk around to explore the Platinum area. These were my first day in Bangkok. The next day, I woke up at 7am and took a bath. Then, we had some buffet breakfast at the hotel which was included in the accommodation package. During the breakfast session, Nathan told us that he planned to bring us to the gemstone factory names The Gems Gallery International of Bangkok Co. Ltd. and the Safari World Bangkok. Those places were not in my trip plan but it was not bad to have a visit. Finished our breakfast and rode the hotel tuk tuk car to meet our taxi drivers who were waiting for us at a bigger street somewhere near the hotel, and continued our journey by taxi.

On the way to the gemstone factory, we noticed a building names something like J.J Fashion Massage (if I am not mistaken), then Nathan turn to taxi driver and said ‘It is a massage centre.’, the driver said ‘Yes, But woman cannot’. Nathan surprised and said loudly ‘Woman cannot!!? OOohohoho! I see I see.’ Then we all laugh in the car. Get what I meant? LoL.

Reached the gemstone factory, we saw many of Thai costume wearing lady who were standing at the main door and ready to serve us. They lead us to watch the introduction video of gemstone, after that brought us to go through the work in progress. In my mind said ‘Sign, waste of time’. Then again they brought us to the showroom and tried to persuade us to buy those jewelries. ‘Very sien, boring way of doing business’, this sentence pop out in my mind again. At last I bought an amethyst crystal necklace as souvenir, waited other people of the group finished their jewelry shopping.

Finished the trip of gemstone factory, we continued headed to Safari World Bangkok. It took about 1 to 2 hours to reach the place. A sleepy journey since it was long hour in the car on the road. The entrance fees was quite expensive and it costs about 1100 Bath (RM110). Sob Sob. We watched the dolphin show, the spy agent show and many more. We also saw a lot of types of birds and animals. But now, I still can remember the slim polar bear in Safari. I pity the polar bear which was living under the hot temperature without any air-con supplied and looked like very sick. It was heartbroken to see this kind of scene. I really did not know how the workers treated the polar bear, my goodness. Hope I was wrong.

An artistic coconut lamp.


Can see coconut everywhere in the Bangkok. This lady is cooking the coconut sugar.


A relaxing green colour. River or drain? Confuse. Floating Market Bangkok.


Colorful bracelets. Which one you like?


Nice to see but not nice to touch. Fine 100 Baht if you touch it. Not yummy anymore.


Very nice but expensive stuff. Floating Market Bangkok.


Art of Bangkok. Sawadee Kaaa…


Buy if you want to eat this yellowish mango. Mmm..nice smell.


What they sell? Curious. It looks delicious.


A colourful day, lay on the colourful hammock at the white beach.

Weird Flower, Which Fruit ?

My mum brought this flower back from Santubong. She went there with my father this morning to pick some Durian Flowers. Now the question is which fruit does this flower belong to ? Prior to today I didn't even know about it, but it's nice to see something out of the ordinary sometimes. :)

A flower holding a flower. Kinda funny way to describe it. :D


Well it actually is a ......


Mangosteen lo. These are freshly picked from the farm this morning by my parents. And now you know.

Last bit here, well I lost count on the last time the 50mm was used. So here goes, still in pristine condition. Did I mention the 11-16mm was booked/sold to another person before ? Well there was an agreement in place just no dough yet. Finger cross. Needed the money to pay for some car part replacement (tires most likely).

50mm F1.8

Okie that's all for now. Have a nice weekday ahead.

Vanity Card #2

Haiyo! Ang Chuah Cho! Just had breakfast with Terence at Wee Tau Hau near Sri Datai and Wisma Hock Peng. Today is a public holiday but we're still working. That's not the Haiyo Ang Chuah Cho part but the fact that the side bumper of my car was heavily grazed by an unknown assailant. In a bit of dilemma now, to spray the bumper or just leave it like that. I haven't really assessed the damage yet. After work maybe will do that. Just hope there is no visible dent, need to use the car for our big day. Itu aje, salam 1 Malaysia.

Updated on 25 Sep 2011

Apparently the lower bumper was only heavily grazed with some lost of paint. Quite lucky the bumper clip didn't break nor was there any dent. Phew.

Bangkok #1

A cloudy day, 2 hours flight to reach Bangkok international airport – Suvarnnabhumi at around 12.40pm (1.40pm-Mys). After came out from the airplane, there were many of airbuses beside the airplane awaiting the arrival guests and to fetch them to the airport custom entrance. What a systematic service and an impress system that the airport provided to convenient the arrival guests. It was because the airport was broad and there were some distances between the airplane we were landed and the custom entrance door. Took few minutes walked from the entrance door to the custom counter, took some photos too. When we reached the custom counter, there was a lady custom police walked to me and said ‘no photo no photo’. Oopps! Felt guilty. Put my camera in my bag and ready to check in Thailand.

Passed the custom check point and got our checked in luggage, our group leader – Nathan was trying to book an airport taxi van at Limousine Service Counter for all of us (10 people) to the hotel, it costs 1,200 Bath (RM120) per trip. One of my colleague also registered a Thai cellphone sim card at the airport in order to contact her family and her loves one, it costs around 400 Bath (RM40). Took few minutes to wait the taxi driver came and fetch us. We all quite surprised that the airport taxi driver was a she. A chubby pretty lady with a horse tail hairstyle, tie with a big pink ribbon.

On the way to My Hotel Platunam which is located somewhere around Platinum, Bangkok. Can see the messy electrical wire all the way of the road in the city.

One of the small street in Platinum. Lifestyle of the Bangkok citizen.


Sell real hair!? Is it real!? Yes, it is. 100% guarantee. Surprised!!


A systematic traffic. All Toyotas on the road. Progressive than my country.


Top up the coupon card and buy a plate of Thai Spring Roll, Platinum Fashion Mall Food Court. Slurpp~ yummy.


Look like Cempedak, but not Cempedak. I also have no idea what it calls.


There is no place better than under Platform Bridge for them to earn some income.


Everyone is rushing for their daily life. Way to Platinum Fashion Mall.


How many of numbers can sell off tonight? Anyone interested?


Make a lot of noise at the near entrance but they are gorgeous, Safari World Bangkok.

Vanity Card

the blog layout got broken again today, I guess that is one of the problem when you use free services. Turns out that the blog that host the images for the layout have been taken down by the author for some unspecified reason. Funny, I really like the previous layout a lot. Went to Giant to buy the rolling window blind straight after work. Good to see it was still there and there is ample parking space around unlike during the weekend. While there, I noticed the blind is about 2 cm short at each side so we have to make a decision buy or no buy. If we didn't buy it might be sold out like the conventional blind that we would have bought for the kitchen window. But if we did buy, we might have a rolling blind that is about 4 cm short in total on both side. After much deliberation, we decided to give it a try because we won't learn if we don't make mistake and take certain risks. weird but true.

Without an Itinerary #5-2

We plan to come back here again in April or May next year. Really a nice place for relaxation.

What abomination is this ?


Overall in terms of food, we went to ate at Old Town the most number of times at 3 times.


This burger is simple and nice.

Without an Itinerary #5-1

Last day here. Safe to say that by the end of our trip, we are both quite satisfied with how relaxing it has been mixed with some adventure and fun along the way. Of course there are some boring part which is the 1Borneo portion but it was just a little blemish in a well painted trip. If you ever go KK, Sunday is a must include because that's where the Gaya Street Market comes to live. Oh it is better to visit the market earlier a bit, because by 10am it can get rather warm unless you don't mind showering in sweat. :)

Cute but behind every story there is always 2 side to it. Human view is cute, but from the animal point of view ? Why are we caged ?








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