It was a pretty tiring dae todae. Woke up early morning at 7am..trying to get ready to set off. I'm so slpy..coz mi medicine that caused drowsiness haven fully gone off yet. It was a long struggle..pulling miself to the toilet to take a shower..After shower and stuffs..finally gt ready at 9am. Thot we wld be able to leave at 9am, taking the 858 to changi airport.Guess wad?My mum's still not ready yet! She's always like tt..wake mi up early..den she can do her things slowly..until time passes! At 9:20, we left home..instead of taking 858, which is direct bus to changi airpot terminal 1, we took a cab, plate numbered 1826, to the airport. We reached at around 10am..den we went to look for the place to check in. (both of us are "new" to the airport..nvr flew b4..) But still..i managed to find the location of the check in area for our flight, 3K517. After check in, both of us were hungry and we decided to have some breakfast. We went to the nearest food house..den ate some kaya roti and eggs..den afterwhich we took quite alot of photos..hehe..

After breakfast, we went into the immigration counter..hmm..finally step foot into the tax free zone!Hee!Sounds like a countrybum eh?No lar..i nvr been in b4..oni heard frm others sae its realli cheap there..btw, we shopped around..windows shopping..until its time to get in. Mum is first time too..and she's damn worried..and always rushing mi like the bee..argg!


Well..after which..there we go..finally got into the plane!!! Yippee..Still feeling realli nervy..nvr got onto flight b4..mi heart was thumping realli fast!! Oh no..wad if it crashes?Terrible feelings! Hmm..mi ear was feeling painful when the plane finally set off..i cldnt realli breathe well..its seems suffocating..esp when the plane is at high grounds..

The most maloo part was when i went to the toilet on the plane..hmm..i didnt manage to find the lock lor..den i thot the plane toilet had no lock..so i juz hold on to the door..and begin unzipping mi pants..and getting ready to sit on the toilet bowl. Suddenly..a guy opened the door!Oh mi!! I was like "argg!!"..den the guy was like sorry..realli embarassing!Lucky i haven't took off mi underwear..-.-"..such a bad experience..hmm..but everything was quite alrite though..the feeling of staying high in the sky seems i'm floating on the clouds..and realli drawed near the distance of mi and mi gods..i feel realli close to them.. finally..after the long wait..the plane is flying at a low height..and as i sit near the window, I could see the pretty view of thailand..
everything seems so nice..the river they have...the buildings..all seems so "fresh" to mi!

The plane landed at thailand at 2:20. My mum and I, completely in a foreign land, here we are, Bangkok. Its realli amazing. Both of us had nvr taken plane before, and we juz did. We never been to thailand, and at that moment, we were stepping on it. Out of the plane, we were trying to find our way out. Having no experiences with baggage and stuffs, location to collect, immigration counter..we took a very long time to figure out! Finally! We had our lugguage..and now its time for us to find our agent. We went up and down..it saes Gate 3 door 10 level 2. But we couldnt find it..we tried to ask the people..but most of the thais..even the security doesnt know hw to speak english. So we looked for the information counter also..but again, it seems they realli need more english lessons to speak better and expressing in english. Gosh! We decided to try our luck at level 2, where we came out..finally we saw our names! Yippee! Hooray! The tour guide told us that we will be staying at bangkok palace hotel instead of Asia hotel..in which we were rather shocked. Its basically because we booked the Asia hotel and when we called up to change to other hotels, they said fully booked. But now the agent told us that ours were bangkok palace hotel right from the beginning! How bad of the agency to cheat us! Alrite..nvm..we juz agreed..

We sat in a van..that brought us to the hotel..out of the van..hmm..landed at the hotel. From the entrance, I could see a very huge guanyin statue..and other buddha statues as well. Den when the person assigned our room key, it was level 4, 4004. What an unlucky number to have! When I stepped in to the room, I used mi left leg..which was rather alright..not much of feels. Coz most elders will sae if u use the left leg, u are better able to feel those kind of thins..but it was okay..nth realli bad. Hmm..in between 2 single beds, there is also a lamp with a buddha statue..which secures mi alot. So after tt, we walked out of the hotel..and headed to Mah boon Krong for shopping.

Mah boon krong, is currently one of the best spots in bangkok. It has 3 sections: Main shopping area, tokyu department store, Pathuwan princess hotel. My mum and I were realli famished..so we headed for the thai lunch. But it was realli bad..coz they dun understand english..dun even noe wadz on the menu..I had to use mi body gestures and ask them whether its chicken or moomoo for cow! And the sad thing is..coz they dun understand english, they ask their fellow waiters, then the fellow waiters dun understand..ask the senior waiter..senior waiter still dun get it..ask the manager!! Can u imagine hw many times i asked and demonstrate juz to get clear of 1 dish!?But aniways it was cheap also..imagine eating at a restaurant of around 7bucks for 2 person?Until u are damn full?

After which, we headed to the tokyu departmental store to buy alot of wacoal bra..and i bought alot of mi fave G-strings! Realli cheap!! The promoters saw us buy so much..they also happi..i suppose we muz have fed them wif gd commission..i spent around 113SG dollars..but i bought 11 items..so average 1 item is 11SG dollars! Hehe..then after which..we shopped around mah boon krong area..so tiring..!! When we came out of the mall at night, it was kinda drizzling..and the tuktuks suppose to be cheap..wanted to take advantage! So in the end..we had no choice..took 1 taxi which is 100baht...haix..den we went back to the hotel..and haf a nice hot shower..

Day 2 was pretty packed too. Mum and I woke up early morning..well..last night didnt realli experience any wierd stuffs...u noe wad i mean..hehe* We went for early breakfast buffet...yumyum..so many nice foods..i managed to eat sum of the foods but we were in a rush though..coz we had to leave by 07:30 to meet our tour guide for the 1/2 day city tour. The guide came late in the end..=( mi unsatisfied stomach. Well..we sat in a van again..den the guide brought us around...to fetch other ppl.My mum was grumbing that the hotel we stayed at were so far away frm the city..coz as we sat in the van, we saw so many other hotels..that seemed better. Anyway, the guide brought us to the jetty..den we took a boat ride around. From wad i knew..the flood was juz over..but sailing on boat was pretty okay..juz that the waters seemed a bit "heavy". She showed us around..we saw the locals selling bread and handicrafts on small sampan..and the local university..and etc. We stopped at the Wat arun. I suppose this made the most unforgettable experience.
The tour guide gave us free time to walk around..well..my mum and I wanted to enter the temple but we didnt enter coz there's entrance fee but we were not sure if they were trying to cheat our money. There were ppl hu entered but didnt pay any entrance fee..so we decided not to go in. So we walked around instead..den mi mum and I spotted a very cute cardboard that has a hole for ur head, which is suitable for images. Without hestitating, I went up to the board and asked mi mum to take a picture for me. After which, as we were about to leave, a guy came to stop us. He demanded 80baht frm us, which is around SG3 dollars. My mum and I didnt understand wad the guy was trying to do..he sounded fierce..we thot it was some kind of extortion. We wanted to leave, but the guy got more and more furious, and at that juncture, mi mum and I were totally freaked out, and didnt noe wad to do. After a while, my mum finally understood. Just like most slimming centres that listed their conditions of the smallest font size at the lowest part of the advertisement, the price was printed at the lowest part of the cardboard stand. But wad he did was even more tricky. He was around 3 metres away frm the cardboard stand..which makes ppl misunderstood that it is juz for tourists to take images free. But when we took pictures, he will hurry up and rush there and demand money from u. If u dun follow, he will become fierce and insist to delete ur photo. My mum and I were too terrified then, we juz handed him the money. Ppl frm mi tourgrp were also victim of which..like us, they juz handed him the money. Sad isnt it? What a way to do business!

After the scary incident, my mum and I were meticulous in taking photos. Not soon later, we met up with the tourguide and soon we continued the boat ride. We came to a point whereby the boat juz stopped the engine. Den the tourguide asked us if we wld like to buy bread..we were curious den. Soon, we realised the main purpose is to feed the fish in the sea. The water dun look like those with alot of fishes, as it juz simply look like a main road that is flooded. Well, the fishes when bread were thrown, all came near the top waters..they were rather big..shd have at least 3 kg. There's one fish that is unique among them, which is white colour. As its rare, the thais believe that if the fishes eat the bread that u feed, u will have good luck through the year.

After looking that those fishes, the boat continued sailing on chao praya river...I saw how the thais live by the sea..its really amazing coz you will never be able to catch those scenes in Singapore. We went past some police..in fact is alot of police as it was Thai police day, so many police were on the streets patrolling, or in fact celebrating. Bangkok didnt look as chaotic as it seems after change in governence. Finally..we went ashore..and the tourguide brought us to the gems "boutique". There's lots of gems there..and the salespersons were really friendly to us. But my mum and I didnt buy anything coz we dun realli noe hw to tell if its a good gems although they showed us a video beforehand on their recognition..and certification and standards assurance. So, my mum and I asked if they would bring us to the four faced buddha..we thot they will bring the whole tour grp over..but didnt. Oh well, but they did arrange for a coach to send us over.

It took a long long time for them to finally send us over..the trip was terrible..Bangkok streets are foreva so jam and crowded..tuktuks, motocycles, taxis, buses, trains everywhere..there seems to have no order in traffic. When we reached there, we were rather shocked to see some of our tour mates were already there..well..the coach let us sit on the van and fetch us around..but in fact the four faced buddha was quite near to where we were initially. -.-". Hmm..so my mum started praying the buddha..but we didnt noe the correct sequence of praying..and we also didnt noe where to put the candles. But I guess it doesnt matter, coz sincerity is the most important. After praying..I stood around and saw some ladies dancing in traditional costume. I recalled my colleagues telling me that they danced becoz someone paid them to perform for god, probably coz their wishes were fulfilled. I also recalled that there was a actress who told the god that if the god gif her a son she would dance naked in front of god. In the end, the actress did not make the promise and alot of bad misfortunate things happened to her. She went back to dance naked in front of the god, but of course the temple was covered. That's why they always say nvr make empty promises to god or tell god that u will do wad for him..coz if empty promises are made, there will be severe consequences.

After praying, I brought my mum around at siam area..we went to central plaza, siam discovery centre..well..wad i can sae is..those are boutique shops. I'm juz a little small girl, cannot afford to spend so much on branded goods. Hehe..But I spotted my fave Auntie Anne's pretzels there...yummilicious! So i ate while we stroll along the big big malls...den to siam area..where i bought my shoe and my white tee..hehe...the shopping craze has juz been erupted..wanted to buy stuffs for my frens..but duno if the price is alrite..coz some places like to con tourists..well..after tt we went to siam paragon. I simply love siam paragon..i luv it i luv it i luv it!! Although there's alot of boutiques again..but there's alot of foods!! When i sae alot, it really mean alot..its like a whole level selling food!!!Everything looks yummy..I duno wad to get..i juz got the phad thai and also the spring rolls..its nice! I wanted to go to the underwater world at ground level..but tickets were simply expensive..20 bucks for 1 adult..=(..so didnt get in..juz took a pic outside.. We passed by emporium, wanted to buy tom yum pastes and loads of stuffs there..but we realised we wanted to go shopping so its not feasible to bring glass bottles around.

After which, we decided to go back to Mah boon krong..since we didnt finish shopping there...hehe..its really nice to shop there..bags are damn cheap there..I guess bags are probably the best thing to get there..its super duper cheap! Can u imagine we get conned whenever we go to shop at bugis village! The bags..ladies bags..big or small..some luggage too..juz 199baht, which is around SG8. My gosh! I was crazy there..and i bought all 3 at 1 go.Mah boon krong is pretty crowded too..coz of the cheap clothes and shoes there. I bought a fake birkenstocks sandles there..SG8 too..hehe..also bought my handphone cover..mum bought a shoe there..a yellow one..i've nth to sae..coz yellow is her fave colour. That was pretty much for the day..we went into a japanese shop to have some ramen..and I muz sae..its good and wholesome and delicious. I ordered a bowl of ramen and my mum ordered the set..which is consists of ramen, 1 large coke and a plate of gyoza..its super woth it..SG6.50!The food is simply delicious and worth it..the quality is better than our ramen shops in SG...and the service is good too...

My mum and I were clever this time..we left earlier and waited at taxi stand..and we managed to fetch a cab back..we went back to the hotel..and we saw some cakes on sale at the restaurant..its a wrong move to have approached the shop..the cakes were not realli bad lar..juz as hard as stone...hmm throw ppl probably can get concussion bahx. Hehe..my mum took a shower..den after that is me...enjoying my hot bath in the bath tub...wondering hw stressful lives wld be later on...well..soon..I turn in to sleep too.

The next morning, my mum and I woke up. Its another dae of battle. Time to get ready our weapons and gear. Large shopping bag, flat shoes, cooling outfit.We headed for the buffet breadfast..my porridge again...my fave...we were greeted by the restaurant manager..he's a really nice person..he came over to greet us..and even asked us about our nationality and stuffs. Well, this time, I have loads of time for my breakfast buffet..all kinds of eggs at the eggs station, hotdogs sausages, congee, dough fritters, fried rice, noodles, small cakes, all kinds of bread..a lot of variety.After our breakfast, we headed to chatuchak to shop. Its another shopping paradise.Although its really crowded, but its worth the sweat. That place is equals to 10 times our normal big pasar malam...mi gosh..can u imagine..they sell all types of things..clothes, shoes, bags, pets, fishes, furniture, pottery..and many many more. This place is called the weekend market..in which they open at 9 and closes at 6..alot of tourists and ppl wld shop here for business too..I bought many shorts and shirts here..i got crazy...my shopping bag or rather my shopping luggage got heavier and heavier....my mum got really tired and hot..so we decided to leave the place..I brought her to the chinatown...when she was grumbling all the way saying hw tired she was..well...we still managed to locate the shop that sells lots of dried goods and tidbits..i spent around SG24 there...after which we went to the chinese restaurant recommended by mi colleague, to eat the sharks fins..its not really nice..but i like the noodles and seafood fried rice though..full and satisfied..we thot its already very late coz of the dark sky..we walked out of the restaurant..mi mum asked me the time..I was shocked when i saw the time. Its 6pm only.Its only 6pm and the sky is like 8pm...oh well, thailand is slower by an hour. So we decided to go mah boon krong again...we only explored 4 levels ydae..still have 4 levels left untouched...hehe..shop again..and we passed by a manicure shop..hehe...my mum and i had pedicure..nice toes...and we left the shop..and shop again.I wanted to get some supper to go back to hotel to eat..hehe..i spotted mac..i decided to grab the mac chicken that costs only SG80cents..haha!!! And, i went to get my gyoza again...yummy yummy...mi mum went to the bakery shop to eat her bread and drank coffee.Soon, we took a cab and headed back to the hotel.

The next day..i woke up late..was really tired ydae..my mum too..we packed the stuffs till quite late last nite. After the breakfast buffet, we went to pratunam market to shop. Its nearest to our hotel..walking distance..at first, it was quite boring..coz we thot there's not much shops..but soon..we walked further..and spotted so many shops..i bought alot of clothes and jeans and skirt which costs..SG10 together..hehe...all muz be cursing now...=p I wanted to get that norty sotong's laptop pouch at the prantip plaza, also known as IT plaza. We wanted to get in the taxi, but the taxi driver thot we were crazy..he pointed the other side of the road..and i went like.."Ohh..." hehe..its juz opposite from where we were..juz a bridge away..hehe..that sotong didnt tell mi the exact size to get..in the end got the wrong size for him...-.- oh well, but i saw mi A & W there!! I drank my rootbeer icecream..hehe..so nice...Its soon late at nite..and we decided to get back to the hotel for the buffet...

Buffet at the hotel restaurant again..quite nice...pleasant dining experience....we saw the manager again...he's really nice and polite..=) My mum and I recalled hw stupid she was to have thot the SG$1.20 coconut was cheap...hehe...she thot it was cheap so she kept eating whenever she saw the coconut stall..which i ltr told her the price..lolx.. After the dinner, we headed back to the restaurant and packed our bags...I lied in the bathtub...was really sad...haiz...gg to leave this wonderful place le..wonder when i wld get the chance to cum again...=( After the shower, mum suggested we go to some streets nearby..but we bought nth..juz saw many large dogs..=X

The next day i woke up..it was quite late too..but we still managed to catch the breakfast buffet..hmm..I didnt want to wake up..i juz wan to lie on the comfy bed and enjoy the nice air-con and lie in the bathtub..hw i wish i own this place. My mum and I cleared the place..and packed our luggage..and soon we checked out of the hotel. We waited for two hours at the lobby area...while i managed to take some photos after a short nap...

After some pictures taking..our coach came to fetch us to changi airport..and mum and i checked in and ate tom yum soup, green curry, prawn dumplings and har kau..yummy yummy..airport food are so nice..hehe..time was running out..we had to do tax refund but its near time for boarding..i was really paranoid then..running here and there for the tax refund..the SG13..-.-''...hehe..we took some pic at the airport again.. Oh well..my mum is realli happy to be returning to singapore...but I'm not!!!I juz dun wan to go back!!! I still wan shopping...!!! Haiz..I hope my thailand trip is near...coz i wan to shop shop shop and eat eat eat!!! Heehee..

The plane was rather shaky den..coz it was pouring heavily...and there was thunder and lighting..I felt so scared..i probably watched too many shows with airplanes crashed..=X...hehe..but i still managed to get my little jetstar bear..yippee..nice nice..my first time on plane of course muz get a little souveiner..When we reached Singapore..we saw my sister...and together we took cab back to woodlands...so tiring..soon..we turn in for the night..and the whole luggage full of my things juz left there un touched... ...

Well, what can I sae? I simply love thailand... ...
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I never believed that he would do such a thing. I really cannot believe it. My colleague, Joseph, was caught for stealing. On that day of incident, both of us were on duty, and we were still wiping the counter happily, taking every stocks from the counter and cleaning with joy. I never noticed any difference in him. He seemed like normal.We chatted like normal. I usually knock off at 6pm, but on that day I knocked off late coz I was trying mi best to hit my sales target. Until around 7, I was tired, and decided to go home. When I left, he was still laughing cheekily with our colleagues, peeping at girls.It was juz one split second, on seeing that I left, he went to steal.When he pass by the security counter, when the security stopped him, as he was guilt stricken, he quickly ran. Naturally, the security gave chase. But, in the end, he got away.

On the next day, I got this news from mi supervisor, tracy. I was so shocked when I heard it. In our eyes, he is such a good promoter that is enthu abt promoting.In front of us, he always appear to be responsible. His performance at work is also good. At first, we thought he juz stole the things out of greed. We wanted to help him. We kept trying to locate him. We even msg him telling him that we want to help him, and that as long he returns wad he stole, we will not pursue the matter. We wanted to let it drop coz we knew that he will be going into army soon. Out of kindness and sympathy, we wanted to drop the matter.

It was to no avail. We couldn't contact him. He didnt pick up his phone. He also didnt return the things that he stole. We msged him to say that if he does not return the things, we will call the police. Finally, he told his friend to return. When my supervisor saw what he returned, she got realli mad. That's because those things are definitely not the only ones he stole. It coz among the three things that he stole, one of which was out of stocks for a very long period of time. The last stock we had also went missing, in which was the time mi supervisor assured that joseph is the culprit. When the security saw it, he was angry too. When he caught him that day, he held a big bag full of things..hw can it be juz three?Its impossible! We told him once again, if he still does not return, we will report to the HR, and juz report to the police. No news came back.

I had a talk with my supervisor, tracy. She said that she already expected such a day would come. Its becoz she had long suspected him..but juz didnt had any evidences against him. She said that once, the other colleagues saw him rushing up and down, taking a big plastic bag to take alot of free gifts up to the counter and used a cardboard to cover it. When his frens came, he passed it to them. During that time, they asked him y he was so rush. But he said nothing. At another time, they held a promotion at the heeren, there were two selling stocks missing, and they suspected him. But Tracy told the manager that it cannot be him..and tried to protect him in front of others. Tracy treated him to the cafe to eat, and wanted him to be frank with her. But he said that others malign him. There were too many stocks missing ever since he came to work. He always requested the afternoon shift for him, especially with less full-timers around, so that he will be easier to commit the crime.

I really haf no idea why he wans to steal. Its not as if the company didnt gif him any fragrances. The company did. When he hit the sales target, or when he helped out in promotion, the manager will gif him. My supervisor told him and reminded many times that if he wanted anithing, she can get it for him, hinting him that he does not have to resort to stealing. Since then, i'm realli puzzled why he still did so. Did he bring it to sell?He lacks money?I'm reealli not sure. From my understanding, he went to bed with all the gals that he went out wif. He said that if he does not go to bed with them, he will find that its wasting his efforts. He had probably taken the fragrances to gif the gals hu went to bed wif him. He goes to disco every nite..drank loads of beer..returns home at 5 to 6am in the morning. He's only 18.

Juz as we thot the story would end here, but it didnt. The next day, lancome reported they had things lost. 20 packets of free gift, each packet of 8 piece miniature samples. Its ridiculous. They rewind the video tape, and found joesph to be the culprit. We were realli angry. Its already ridiculous that he stole our company goods. Now he stole other company's goods. How are we going to face them in future? We will always be remembered as the staff hu's colleague stole things. Naturally, "birds of a feather flock together", will be their belief. We are realli very disappointed wif him. Now, I duno wad happen to him. Perhaps his serving his sentence. But all of us know that even if he's in army, he will suffer coz we sent his officer a letter abt his dishonest act. Although there were happy times together, but I feel cheated. He pretended to be nice, but he became a different person. It seems like he has split personality. But I suppose, even if he has, he has a realli bad one. Truth is reality, no matter hw much we dun believe in it, one day, we still haf to learn to accept it.

Away from this issue, that day I was alone at work and the general product manager came to out store. I was giving out the scented ribbons to the customers initially when he came to talk to me. He said,"Do u noe that when the principal visited the store, he was angry when he saw u all juz passing the ribbon to the customers like tt?" I replied,"huh?Y?" He then said, "You should tie the ribbon on the customers' wrist, and tell the customers that u wanted to introduce them a fragrance." I was thinking in mi mind,"dah!Dude, u think I dun noe?Still need u this 3mths old general product manager to tell mi?" But I was realli kind to him. As an ex member of the drama club, I acted like a fool, like one that is first day at work and sae, "OHHH..I see!" Haha..its so damn idiotic lar. After which he was watching mi..and realli watching mi. So i acted lor. Did wad he said to a customer..the customer wanted to pick up the ribbon and smell. But when she heard mi wanting to tie on her wrist, she ran away!!! That's so funny! There's another one..worst still..she accepted mi offer..but her wrist was kinda big(coz she's kinda fat)..I had a hard time tying it up..in the end, she told mi to tie on her watch instead!The colleague told mi that he's probably trying to bully mi since i'm a part-timer. He's such a freak! He kept telling his wife to act as customers and test the service of the staff..he even does things like purposely talking to u..holding u up..and then suddenly sae there's a customer hurrying u to go and serve. But later complains to other heads that they didnt serve the customer. Stupid idiot putting on airs. Hate him!

Hmm..aniways..after saving..scrimping on meals..surviving on overnite foods and sanwiches..I finally managed to save up! I'm finally able to fulfill mi dream tmr. It will be mi first time flying..and first time stepping out of SG. I'm so so excited! Tmr this time I will be in thailand, bangkok. I'm so happi..alrite..i will stop for now..and will keep this blog updated when I'm there. Not sure if I wld be able to slp tonite..but what i can say is..i will definitely be having a good dream...
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