Hello Yello!!

Heya friends and relatives..this is my first attempt in blogspot.com. I felt that there are just too many eyes in friendster that i cant afford to let them know about my blog...

So its good to have another blog here..

I just came back from Bangkok...on the 24th of April but i still felt that my heart is still in Bangkok...i missed that place quite abit...everything seems good except the weather..the super hot and oven-like weather...almost 37deg! Everyday its raning sweats...halelujah!

Bangkok is a fantastic place to be, be you an Asian or Westerner. It has the needed traditional cultures and values, with a hint of modernity touch. Temples are everywhere, street side stalls, gives me a feeling of Malaysia, particularly Penang. But one thing Penang dont have, BTS Sky Train! It looks very nice, spacious and modern, much better than our PUTRA...though its abit pricey ( Few-stations-distance trip costs about 35baht, almost RM3.50)

And not forgetting the stuff are very cheap there. You can get a top or skirt for as little as RM5, Rm10 if you want nicer ones. I got myself a watch for RM7.50..I can see alot wholesalers flew there just to get their cheap clothings. Once uve been there, you will never wanna get things from Msia anymore. For the same stuff you can get it in Bangkok at 30% discount or more.

Ok, forget about my addiction to shopping. Lets talk about the food there..sadly i was on fever during the whole trip, on and off. Can hardly take any hot food there, so just ate mild spicy stuff there. Do you know that Thai ppl cuisine is really "tasteful"? At almost every food stall you can see ready bowls of chilli powder,pepper and MSG? Yes, MSG Ajinomoto! Unbelievable! I ve seen one Thai woman put in 3teaspoons of MSG into her bowl of soup, stirred and tried it, still not salty enough so she put in another half a teaspoon! Oh my god! I bet i dint take that much of msg in a month..hmm..

Besides that, thai food are typically flavorful, they add alot of fish sauce to almost anything; mango salad, fried rice tomyam...i became adventourous one day and tried one of their mango salad whereby they add in this baby crab thats soaked fish sauce i tink...i stopped the stall lady from adding in any chilli and msg but still its way too salty for me...ate abit and threw away the rest...sigh..

But to those who's going to Bangkok soon, pls try this Miang Kam, some appetizer that u eat with a Sirih leave wrapped with lime bits,dried shrimps,roasted coconut pieces,peanuts,onions,ginger and their special sauce. I tried it once in Chakri Palace KLC ( darn expensive) and fell in luv with it instantly...You might think that the leave will taste bitter but its not at all! For 30Baht i can get a full separately packed ingredients where u can wrap it urself in the hotel..I heard the tourguide and the hotel employees telling me its hard to find this delicacies nowadays in Bangkok...i manage to find one opposite central world complex;)

I cant believe myself nearly gotten conned by the jewellery scam ppl in Bangkok. Its hard to believe they are so connected that they have almost all walks of ppl involved in their syndicate. Ive read stories of them having Americans, Belgian, French and even Japanese accomplices to get the tourists entrapped. I myself was fooled by the Isetan security guard telling us that there was a beautiful temple thats only open once a year, claiming that we are so lucky to meet him that day. He stopped a tuktuk for us and warned the driver to charge us no more than 20baht for round trip to the temple and back to Isetan, even ask the driver to bring us to the "export centre". We didnt suspect much; he didnt tell us whats the export centre is all about, we saw him flagging down the tuktuk that came from the street,dont seems like accomplice, nothing suspicious. So off we go into the tuktuk.

When we reached the temple, i began to grow suspicious as the temple doesnt seem to be open once a year kinda environment. Its quiet, and empty, doesnt tally what the guard told us..but nevertheless we stil take photos around.

We went up into a prayers room where theres a huge buddha statues on the altar, with a well-dressed Thai man seen praying in the room. He began to get friendly with us, telling us where he's from, saying that he's thai Chinese, he just met another msian that day, even showed us the Msian's business card( name : Donny Ursee, Dell Computers)

After setting off the introduction, he began to get into the real thing; JEWELLERY. He asked if we heard of the export centre, claiming that its only open once a year, that day will be tax free..all sorts of rubbish..All of a sudden the topic struck me right in the head, HEY i read of that scam before !! Not sure if the man saw my reaction that changed drastically, i kept tellin my BF that he;s lying in chinese, while he kept entertaining that thai man.

We left the temple shortly and we told the tuktuk driver we wanna get bck to isetan asap. The driver seems mad wit us but continue driving. As we notice he's using a diff route, we grew scared and asked him where hes heading. He stopped infront of a tinted glass jewelerry shop saying that if we buy something from there he can get gasoline vouchers. We refused to go and left by cab after paying him the 20baht. Luckily he didnt harm us. Sigh, its worth noting that Thai ppl are friendly, but only if spoken to. If an overly friendly thai come to spark a conversation, its better to take precaution.Learn this lesson myself the hard way;)

Last but not least, the new Bangkok Airport is very beautiful. They are super huge with big duty free shopping area, looks almost like KLCC to me with lots of branded shops, selling from cosmetics and handbags to liquers and electronic gadgets.Worth a visit!

Before i cut off this super long blog, lemme teach u guys one sentence of thai besides sawadeeka...if u wanna tell ppl u dun understand what they mean, say " Mai kao chai" (almost sound like mai kao chai that is in chinese meaning dun tackle other guys:P)

So, go thailand, and pls MAI KAO CHAI;) their transvertite can be so pretty u will think they are real woman:) no offence ;)