Bangkok Tales - Part One

The plane was delayed for almost like 15 minutes, flying around almost aimlessly because of the traffic congestion in Don Muang. Here, we were the trivial trio sitting down at our seats wondering if we will ever touch down. It was not an enjoyable trip to begin with , what with two horrible kids making noises incessantly! Swore at that moment, we could have butchered these two horribilius enfant to make them into char shiu sha. What seems to be hours finally came to an end, the whole ordeal ended when the captain announced over the PA, "cabin crew get ready for touchdown".

Upon arriving at Don Muang, an air of expectation suddenly filled up the whole cabin. Me of course was like another stop, 'cos it was so often I have hopped onto Don Muang, it was becoming my 2nd home. Anyway, my other 2 charges were excited, like little girls getting their first barbie dolls...These two were gallivanting about here and there, eager to pass through immigration and get a feel of the acrid smell of Bangkok.

Coming out and waiting for the taxi to fetch us to the hotel, I felt a nostalgic attack. I remembered the all too familiar surroundings, the smell of petrol from the cabs, the ding from the traffic, the voices from the passengers....all too familiar...it was after the city of Angels...or Krung Thep as it was called. The journey to the hotel was not smooth...it was jam packed, well if one day Bkk is not traffic choked, I guess it will truly snow in the equator region.

Trinity Silom, sounds so Matrix was not what we had anticipated, well, not for me, as my familiar surroundings have always been around Sala Dang or Soi Convent...but this time, it was truly a different locality altogether. But, nevertheless, I took it with a breath of optimism that things will turn out well...'cos I was already discounting alot of things before we eventually arrived there. The rooms were large enough and spacious...the view, well, lets not get there. The bed was decent except the extra bed...poor W, he had to endure the sinking feeling from that bed. But, true to being equal, we took turns to switch beds so as not to burden the other party to sleep in one area all the time.

Clueless as to where we should go, I decided to take them out to stroll and take them out for their first ride on the sky train. We walked through the alley and it cut out to Silom...walking more, we came upon the station and decided to make our 1st stop at Siam Paragon.
Siam Paragon - was huge...Fantastically huge. It was triple the size of our own KLCC...what with branded names all lining along the boulevard, it reminded me something like Singapore's paragon. However, the things that were being sold there, they even sell cars. Ferrari...now who would actually go to the 3rd floor and book on of them...hmmm, maybe me, one day! There was this unique little place which sold the most amazing things one can find...from watering cans (my frens were having a field day imaging me with it) to smaller things like a guardian angel to guard against computer virus...man, this is indeed Bangkok!!

Night fell, and we tasted our first dinner, a complete Thai dinner mind you...the 101% authenticity is there..of course, we gorged ourselves silly, what with the cheap seafood you have over there! But, one thing that I learnt from this journey...fried rice played a very prominent role during dinners...except in Mango Tree.

The first night, I wanted to take them to a place to this familiar place that served local food yet was not too expensive, but I forgot which station we should get down...hence we ended up in Central and instead, we had dinner in GreyHound Cafe. The decor and place was chic and thank goodness the other two princesses loved the food, if not, this travel guide would have had his head immediately severed that night. Phew! it was a close call.

After dinner, we ended back to Sala Dang aka Soi Convent area, which our journey began...

(continues on Part Two)