city wanderings...

we have about an hour to check out time...and this morning we were not planning anything much except rest and pack..and 1 hour to go..here i am..becoz the internet here is incredibly cheap.

we went about town yesterday..and nope, we DID NOT SHOP!!! hahahaa... the only thing we bought was food from the supermarket and a book from kinokuniya for the next leg of our trip later on this afternoon.

but it was still quite a good day out. we did the tourist stuffs like river ride, going round the grand palace, which we didnt enter..i kind of regret it a bit coz had been reading up about the monarchy here and i am very impressed. it was the king's birthday 2 days ago so there were a lot of writeups. then we walked to khao san and banglamphu area nearby..and got to a muslim hotel. in case you are tired by the idea of having only eggs and bread for breakfast at the other hotels here, the new world lodge hotel is muslim owned..so the breakfast there should be good. but we were there for lunch.

after lunch we went to the siam square area. wandered around there, the siam center and mbk..and escaped unscathed! yes, we didnt shop! the next destination was emporium..which has eerr..nice shops and a good supermarket..and i was very jakun coz it was here that i first see 3-D advertisments..they had flat screen tvs all around for the purpose of showing 3-D advertisements. we actually went to the emporium to go to the thai creative and design center. highly recommended. i am pretty impressed by the focus on design in this country. they had two exhibits, both equally wel-thought, and designed. do come here if you ever get tired of the siam sq area or need a break from shopping. its only a few stops away on the BTS.


as our plan was not to shop but soak in the city..we then headed to the playground! another cool place along the v nice sukhmuvit area. it's a big concept store... v cool place, kid of remind me like a mega blackjack. nothing exceptionally thai here except for the thai designed fashion ware, but it was still an enjoyable trip if only to browse and gawk and kill time at the bookstore here.

but this was pretty near our dinner place. we went to usman restaurant, its beside the imperial queens hotel. its pretty near the emporium mall as well. v good food and v nice friendly smiley service.

bangkok is a 3 C city. cheap chic cool. but at the end of the day, i think i got pretty overwhelmed by it already. and we got a bangkok by night city tour courtesy of the taxi driver whom i think was trying to ketuk us by going by a very long route..

so i guess its time for us to move on..and we are...our train leaves the bangkok hualampong station at 2:30 pm later...and its going to be a pretty long ride..

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Thailand Creative & Design Center:
http://www.tcdc.or.th/

Playground!:
http://www.playgroundstore.co.th/

Bangkok Recorder: http://www.bangkokrecorder.com/

* we wont be in bangkok over the weekend so no chatucak ;)
but in case anyone is heading here this december on a weekend..please note the below happening on sundaysonly this december

jim thomson december warehouse sale @BITEC: http://www.jimthompson.com/promotion.asp