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Day 2, in the Land of Thai.

A very very delayed post, like I said, I've never found the time to blog. So, I'm gonna blog a whole lot today, so bear with me. Note : Captions and little stories would be featured under the photos. Except the next paragraph, its just the introduction. How very English-essay like.


Okay, so the 2nd day. What did we do during the second day? Oh right, now i remember. So, we kind of booked this canal tour thing in the airport after we arrived. Like after you arrive at the airport, there's this little booth, where they recommend tours for you, whether its to see the place, or to just SHOP all day long. Well, 2nd day, it was a Friday. So, we went on the canal tour, with our tour guide. It wasn't a full day tour, but good enough. Plus, my Godmtoher even bargained at the counter for our tour. Btw, Baht [thai money] is 10% of ours. Agak-agak. So, there were 6 of us, like i told you. So it was supposed to be 1200 Baht for all 6 of us, and somehow, she bargained till it was only 500 Baht for all of us. Malaysian money wise, from RM20 a person, to less than Rm10 each. Amazing how these people would do anything to get a sale going on.



So, the lady there told us that there was going to be another tour guide, picking us up from our hotel, at 630am. Oh, mind you, Thai time is an hour ahead of us. So if its 10am here, its 11am there. Get? So, now we talk in Thai time. We were told that our tour guide would come get us at 630am. So at 6am, we were all ready, hungry for breakfast. The 6 of us walked downstairs to see if there were anything to eat by the road, like how they sell asam laksa in the pasar malams of ss2. And to our surprise, they were seeling porridge! And mehn, was it GOOOOD! And pretty cheap too, 30 Baht per bowl, with egg! I mean, of course you could choose what kind of porridge you want, they have like CHEE CHAP [ everything in a pig i.e intestines, liver, etc.], PEI TAN [century egg], HAM TAN [salted egg] and such. So we ate and we went back to the hotel. The tour guide came, and we were on our way to our super chunted canal tour on our private van! Something like that. We arrived at the canal/river place thing, and we had to wait for our boat. Not a private boat, just some boat. And they just have dogs lying around everywhere, and this particualr fellar was soo cute. Though he looked seemingly dirty and urgh. But nontheless, cute. :)




And yay, our boat arrived. There were like easily 20 people on our boat, but we were all just minding our own business. Thank God the tour guide on the boat spoke English. Broken, but still English. And the driver was going sooooo fast! See, the water's like DUSHH, DUUSSSHH, DUUSSHHH! And it was so cold, all of us we re so dumb to not bring a sweater except Genevieve, cause she's lacking body fat, or something like that. So, the canal was pretty long, we saw alot of "historical places", and it was dead cold.



Oh, and people there are crazy about temples. They have like a million already, and they still build more! I don't get it, to be honest. Whatever. And not to say that building one temple is like RM1, its like thousands! Crazzzzyyy!


So, we were continuing our little canal tour, until the boat stopped at some snake house. Not a snake house, a snake farm. And if you know me, I HATE SNAKES! Amanda and snakes, just don't click! You know what I mean? Hahaha, so we just waited outside the farm and snapped lots of photos. Plus, we met this pair of Malay couple, and mehn were they pure RETARDS. If you must know, ask me personally. They're so DUMB.



So, it was boiling hot, skin scorching under the super HOT sun, when suddenly... A paddler passed by our boat. Everyone else came out from the snake farm already, btw. The paddler uncle was so cute, he's like old and had an umbrella! Like you would never see something like that here in M'sia. Neither would you see it in the States, rynn. :P



Then we went to see some other historical place, and took more pictures too! And mind you, people actually pray to the statue guy. He's some fella who saved Thailand or something like that, so people put jossticks at his "feet". Weird, I know.


So then, we visited a gem factory. Amazingly, we bought something. We bought a silver chain, pure silver. And my mom's friends bought like rings and stuff like that. How very expensive. You don't need to know how much, I can't even remember. And the piggies outside the gem shop were so cute, everyone was like stopping to have a closer look either to see if they were real gold or to snap a photo. In our case, we snapped a photo. Kudos, to us. Which idiot would put a pig made outta real gold on the floor outside a gem shop?! So after our gem shop tour, we went to BOBAE. Its like petaling street, only in Thailand. No pictures were taken there, we were all too busy shopping. Seriously. And the ironic thing is, BOBAE in Hokkien means don't buy. But while we were there we just BAE, BAE, BAE [buy, buy, buy].

After that, we wanted to walk to ChinaTown, which was pretty near the Bobae market, according to our tour guide. He was WRONG! We walked for like 45 minutes and we were no where near ChinaTown. So, we took a tuktuk instead. You know, those half motor half bicycle kind of thing. And just so you know, DO NOT EVER RIDE ON A FREAKING TUK TUK! Its so stupid and expensive. Save the money and ride a cab!

Then after ChinaTown which totally triggered off my sensitive nose, we went back to the hotel to shower and freshen up. After that, we went to the Pratunam market downstairs for some food and off we went to SiamParagon. Its like Pavilion, only in Thailand.





And boy, the toilets are awesome! Not only clean, but super high-tech! The tube thingis are the pipe and the sensor is on the top. Ahh, go there and you'll find out. But i LOVEEE THE TOILETS! After our toilet break, we kinda accidentally split up. But we already said that if we ever split up, we would meet back at the same place where we came in at 930pm. So, the three of us carried on being jakoon and trying on the fancy shoes there.




SiamParagon was already in a very festive mood, Christmas decorations were super KUA CHEONG-ed. There were sooo many people everywhere taking pictures, it was crazy! So we joined in the craziness and snapped photos too!






So, it was already 930pm and we went back to the place where we first came in. The other 3 aunties on the other hand, were not there. So we thought maybe there were too busy looking at things, they forgot the time. So we patiently waited, and I got hungry. I'm always hungry. So we went back into the mall and snagged a PORK BURGER from McDonalds. Something you will never ever get in M'sia. Everything here's restricted by HALAL. The burger was to die for! But after like 15 minutes, they still had not arrived. So, we decided to go in and look for them. And it was then, an unforseen incident happened.

So, the place there was like filled with water features that are as low as the ground. And we were walking really really far, and we still couldn't find them. We saw couple of people wearing the same coloured clothes, but non of them was my Godmother. So we comtinued searching when suddenly, I SAW HERE! I was sooo afraid that we would lose them again, that I just sprang! I ran super fast, my eyes were only fastened at them and not to anything else. And then, DDDUUUUSSSHHH! I ran into a pool of water. And literally, I was running in it! And by the grace of God, my little demo caught the attention of a couple of people and the 3 aunties were one of them. So technically, we found them! And btw, there was a guard guarding the pool thing, and he didn't even say anything to stop me from running right into it. What a retard, such slow reflexes.



So half of me was soaking wet and I was carrying my backpack. Thank God that I was running in the water, so my backpack was unharmed. Note : Everything was in my backpack i.e camera, phone, batteries etc. I mean seriously, God is soo good! Not only did nothing in my backpack get wet, we found the 3 aunties. And according to them, they got lost. Pffft, those aunties have ZERO sense of direction. And who says I have a bad sense of direction? So we went back to the hotel via cab, and the stupid cab had this NO FARTING sign! Like how could someone control their fart?! Hahahaha, it was sooo funny, the cab driver prolly thought we were retarded. Got back to the hotel, showered with the super hot water and KOed straight away.