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A well deserved holiday indeed was actually materialised last week when myself, lil Amirul, Mom, sis and Aunt flew to Bangkok for a weekend shopping retreat. Was our first time (3rd for my sis) to the land of the Elephants and suprisingly, it wasn’t that much of a difference with KL. In the sense that the people looked like us. Tho the language thing was a riot. My hubby and I managed to teach Amirul to say Sawadikap complete with the hand gesture! But then he only managed to say Kap but a pro with the hand thingy

Got the Airasia filght on Friday night and touched down in time for dinner. Amirul was a handful on the plane! Couldn’t stay put. Luckily he obliged to a ‘milking’ session during landing. We stayed in First Hotel (a muslim hotel) which is close to the markets and shopping malls.

Saturday - right after breakfast, headed straight to Chatuchak Market. I think you can get almost anything and everything there. Be warned to bring lotsa water and comfortable shoes as the place is huge and sorta looks like a maze. We spent about half a day shopping with shopping bags full in our hands. Bags! Shoes! Handicrafts! Jewellery! Knick knacks! You name it. We bought em! After lunch, went to MBK (sorta like Sungei Wang) and again bought more things. Mom bought a couple of blouses that she was so proud of and I must say, that they looked good on her. Amirul loves to play hide and seek in between the racks of clothes so he was totally unmanageable for awhile. Thank goodness for mom, aunt and sis who never fail to entertain the young chap. Leaves mommy extra time to herself . After being fully satisfied with ALL of our purchases, we went back to the hotel to refresh and have dinner. Later, off we went to Silom Market (if I’m not mistaken) for more retail therapy. This place is somewhat more lively as this is a watchamacallit… a ‘Pat Pong’ (as the taxi driver puts it). A red light district area! Well, the music was good - from 50 Cent to Snop Dogg, the visual was also good - managed to get a glimpse of some scantily dressed girls pole dancing. Unfortunately, didn’t see any strip shows tho. Suprisingly, the promoters of the clubs even promoted us for some SEXY SHOWS… tempted but no thanks! Hahhah. Even my son was AWED by all the commotion. At one point, his mouth ternganga for a second as he looked into the club. I quickly closed his eyes and diverted his attention to some fake Marc Jacobs bags. Heheh.. It worked! After covering the whole market, took a taxi back to the hotel. Off to bed we went.

Sunday - After a heavy breakfast, we went for a city tour with our reliable tour guide named Caya. Visited the Jim Thompson Museum (love the bags!), the Grand Palace, the reclining Buddha, the Gem shop (Royal Laphidiri - can’t remember the name), a leather shop (this place is cool - the leathers we were made of Stingray skin, elephant skin, croc skin etc) and a duty free shopping centre. Totally cheap but had to refrain myself from doing more damage to my wallet. Put Amirul in a stroller and thank god he liked it! But after half an hour, he got bored and wanted to push the stroller all by himself. Oh my! Mind you, none of us had lunch all day but we had a couple of bread (we sorta seludup from the hotel :)) in the van and what with all the shopping, food was the last thing on our minds. Hahahha. Later in the evening, went to Mak Yah restaurant and had our so called lunch. Amirul slept through ‘lunch’ cos I think he used up all his energy running all over the place. Good thing that we were to have dinner later that night so he could fill himself up then. Went to the Siam Ocean World @ Siam Paragon after dinner. It was rather empty so we spent our own sweet time going through each and every tank there is while admiring the beatiful creatures of the underworld. It was similar to our Aquaria but I guess the creatures were more interesting than what we have back home. Amirul loves fish so he couldn’t have enough of em. He particularly loves to look at the sharks and the stingrays. If he’s scared, he would say ‘Akut akut’. How adorable! According to plan, we were suppose to go to another night market but considering that Amirul looked tired, we skipped it.

Monday - Our last day in Bangkok. Flight was at 5pm (it was eventually delayed). Went on foot to some of the shops near our hotel. Bought more blouses. Didn’t buy any Thai silk tho. Our last stop was Siam Paragon (again) for some exercise therapy. Didn’t buy anything there. Only had ice cream (the best tasting-looking fudge ice cream!) and did some people-watching. Rushed back to the hotel to finish packing (went to BKK with 1 bag but came back with 2 :0 ). That was a given. Bag beranak would be essential for any shopping retreat ay?! Got to the airport; which was big and new. Had lunch at Burger King and did some last minute shopping. Finally got my hubby the Jim Thompson shirt that he wanted. Had some 1000 Baht left but didn’t have time to spend it as it was close to 5. For all we know, the flight was delayed bout half an hour… was to be expected from Air**#….. Waited and waited. Boarded the plane. Couldn’t wait to get home…See my darling hubby… Amirul had his milk and slept throughout the journey. Jet lag ka? Was a good thing as I could have some shut eye… Reached KL bout 8.45pm. Didn’t have any problems at the Custom. It was a breeze. Saw hubby and we went straight home. Ahh…’sgood to be back

All in all, had fun in BKK. Wish that next time, hubby would tag along. But I don’t think I would go there again any time soon. Maybe Dubai again

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