Bangkok 2006

This is a city is worth visiting.
Package tours are not recommended as most of the temples, night bazaars, markets, and shopping malls are easily accessible by train and boat. This way, you get to go places as and when you like and leave as and when you like. AND not contributing to the already crazy Bangkok jam.

here are the pictures taken (in random order)


This piece of art caught my attention as I entered Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok's new airport) named by His Majesty King. It means Golden Land.

This superb piece of art entitled SCENE FROM THE CHURNING OF THE MILK OCEAN. This scene depicts the Amarita creation myth where gods and demons churn the cosmic ocean to create the elixir of immortality to bring everlasting life.

The scene is too long to capture the entire piece with my camera. No landscape mode. @!#&%.

My last stop at Bangkok-CHATUCHAK WEEKEND MARKET.
I'm impressed man ! This is no doubt the Mother of all markets, possibly one of the biggest and most famous markets in the world. Covering 35 acres of land with 15,000 stalls. Like Penang VS the entire China, literally. Imagine you need a map the venture the entire place, but somehow i still find myself going round in circle.

You can find everything here. Household goods, craft, pets, plants, foods, everything. They have the entire section for pets.

MENAM RIVERSIDE HOTEL. yeap...its by the "riverside". All their rooms comes with cool view of Chao Phraya River. This is the pool swimming photo taken at night.

The coffeehouse overlooking the river.

Boat shuttle service from hotel to Saphan Taksin Station (Bangkok Sky Train). Only 7 minutes.

Hotel's shuttle boat. The boat picks up and drop off hotel guests every half hour.

THE GRAND PALACE. Built in 1782. For 150 years, it has been the home for Thai King. Also accessible by boat.

Mini Ang Kor Watt inside the Grand Palace.


Having my breakfast inside the hotel. Great view, huh.

After paying 100 baht and posing while waiting for my turn to get into the gondolas. It's definately worth my 100 baht.

LA ROUE DE PARIS (Paris' wheel). Direct from Paris and also previously featured in the UK and the Netherlands. Its will remain for 6 months. Its 335 tons and 60m tall, the biggest in Asia.

Inside the outdoor a large outdoor beer garden cum food court cum concert venue at Suan Lum Night Bazaar. Endless rows of international and local foods, dessert and drinks here. Im spoilt for choice. Picture above are Thai assortment of sausages. They alsi have some weird food like dead but raw baby crab mashed together with other stuff, sort of like rojak. ewee....

Ah yo ah moi ah.......
Shop selling light ornament at Suan Lum Night Bazaar.

SUAM LUM NIGHT BAZAAR. This place is almost similar the Batu Ferringhi. Very touristy atmosphere. Ah mor kau everywhere. But i personally prefer here than PatPong, also similar concept but very 'chap' (complicated).

SIAM PARAGON. Very upmarket mall in Bangkok. Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Burberry, Hermes, etc. At the basement you can find the biggest aquarium in Asia - Siam Ocean World.

Colourful mini pancakes inside Siam Paragon food hall.

You can call me 'hutan' but i can't resist the urge to snap a picture of my Mc Rice. It's rice burger with pork.

Celebrity Scoop @ Mandarin Oriental

Yes. That's the theme for this year's annual dinner. We have "Madonna", "Cleopatra", "Phua Chu Kang", "Supergirl", "the Flintstone", "Phantom of the Opera", "Captain James Sparrow", "Queen Latiffa", "Elvis Presley" and more and more and more celebrities. Dinner include group performances by various departments and of course entertainment of 2 local celebrities (real celebrities, not fake wan). I had loads of fun not dressing up as a "celebrity", but go CLEBRITY HUNT. These are just a handful of 'celebrities' that I managed to hunt down. kekeke

The Flintstone.
Can you guess, who she is? Queen Latiffa, i though she looked more like madonna. kekeke

Non-celebrity table. Non of us dressed up according to the theme. They came here to EAT.

Hmmm...I think she's Cinderella's 2nd sister.

She must be Cinderella.

This is not batman. Its an Indian guy dressing up as Phantom of the Opera.

Teambuilding at A-Famosa

Our team's 'Jalur Gemilang'. We scored full points for this flag. My hand print is the 4th (from bottom right).

Our team, before the tug-of-war. Busy discussing who is stronger.
"Hmmm....anyone got butter (to rub the other side of the rope)?"

On your mark, get set....

Go! Go! Go! Size doen't matter here.

Actually it does....our team lost. "Can anyone pass me some yoko yoko!"

Building a raft with bamboos, tyres and rafia string.

They only gave us 1 paddle to get to the other side of the river. Naturally, we won cos our teammates are feather weight.

This is where I stayed, my very own private villa with 4 rooms, a car park and a private back yard and SWIMMING POOL.

The living room. All lookin' tired after the whole afternoon under the hot sun.

Posing in front of my private swimming pool. This place is GREAT for friends and family gathering cum pool BBQ party.

Dinner cum team night performance was held at cowboy town. No need for me to say who is the odd one in this photo. He is our creative director for our team performance.

We also had PAINTBALL. I have heard of it but never seen it or played one till now. It was powerful and loads of FUN. Not to mentioned very adrenalin rush for me, cos my no. 1 objective is not to grab the flag and win but to avoid being HIT. It is a game of strategy, like going to a war. Blood drips and your skin peels when you're hit directly at close range. Most of them finnished the game with "love bites". But i managed to finnish unscatered, of course we lost.

Penang 10/8 - 14/8.
This is my main course at DELUXious with the gals: Salmon.

The gals.
All geared up for a fishing trip at Pulau Tikus. I was hoping to catch a stingray. But ended up with a catfish and dozens of baby gulamas. grrr....blame the monsoon season at this tie of the year.

Huh?

Old boss go, New boss come.
My new boss thought the fax machine is the photocopy machine.
I shall not say more...

GGS !

The Great Singapore Sale is ON. So were we !


The scene at Orchard Road. I tried to look but I can't find a girl in singapore without make-up on.

Paris and Nicole wannabe.

I always like fountains.

Chill out at Sin's (quatty's aunt) swimming pool . Nothing beats having a dip at our very own private pool.

choot choot train ........i hope they'll accept my in the next season of American Idol.

At Mustafa's. I realised electrical goods are cheap in Singapore. Im suprise! I should have bought my MP3 player here. I would have saved almost 100 malaysian bucks ! Oh, I discovered loads of cool World Cup shirt, football jersey here. The nike shirt sole here are also cheap. No, they are not fakes. All ORI. No fake goods in Singapore. I'm stunned. Au de Toillete and Au de Parfum are dirt cheap too. Yes, all ORI.

Pretending to buy Bak Kua.
Versace window display
Look ma, seat belts ! Seated behind a cab with seat belts. It only happen here. Or else, you'll be fine SGD120! We travelled by cab mostly. Im impressed that all the cabs are spot clean. Unlike malaysian taxis, here koyak there koyak. window handle also pecah. taxi driver cursing and taxi smelled ajinomoto.

This is Muse, the cat. very adorable and fluffy. There's also Toffy the dog. But no picture of her. She's such a precious.

Panic Room

I almost locked myself inside my office backroom...or so i thought initially.

It all happened when i was about to leave the office at 8.57pm. I had to leave by 9pm as my night shift colleague will lock the door and activate the alarm at 9pm. I panicked.

When i was about to run downstairs i remembered that the backroom door needs to be shut otherwise the alarm wont work. i panicked again.

i went inside. it was pitched dark. suddenly a sense of eerieness overwhelmes me.
Ah, what the @#$%@.
I tried to reach for the door while holding on to door #1 open.
ARGH @#$%@!...my hands are not long enough, tried to use my legs...its useless. they're not long enough either. Now i'm looking like a ballerina. Got an idea. i pulled the door #1 wide open to the max and run like a hedgehog to close the other door.
@#$%^&! *THUD* door #1 shut closed. i wasn't quick enough. Everthing went pitch dark. Pulled the lever of door #1. @#$%@. im trap. people from outside need a press a code to enter. Now im inside and there ain't no code for me to enter. @#$%&@! I panicked again.

Thank god there's a phone inside. Intercomed my colleague downstairs for help.
Only then i realised that I just need to press a button from the inside to open the door ! Silly me.

Kinda reminds me of Fear Factor, and i also realised something...when one is panicked or is overcome by fear, the mind can't think rationally and the solution is just right in front of you.

The key word at such situation is 'be calm'.

MBM Gathering (29/4/2006)

Saturday's gathering with the gang was a success as most of us turned up. We had steamboat at the well-known shop located at Kimberly Street. The unique part was the shop still uses the traditional charcoal steamboat.
Its pretty amazing to me how we still managed to keep in touch and still be so close after these years. Many things can change but 1 thing never change, is that all of us used to work at the same company and share the same thought on our bosses. *wink*

Picture was taken by kim's husband. These are the crazy bunch.
Seated from left: Beng Tatt and his girlfriend Angie, Kueh, Veena @ P**i, me and
Angela (the organiser).
Standing from left: Sausage Sim, Kim and son, Jason.

Restoran Loon Sing

Went to this award winning restaurant at Bandar Baru Nilai, Seremban last weekend. The food is great. We had 'fat thiu cheong' (Buddha Over The Wall). Each of us had a bowl of this yummy soup with abalone, scallop, sea cucumber and BIG mushroom. The dessert was 'voila' Glutinous Rice Yam (another award winning dish). Didn't enjoy the shark's fin though. Felt guilty after that. I still prefer the fake one served at wedding dinner.
After lunch, we headed to Port Dickson where we spent a night there.

Seafood in Emperor Boat. Its really yum yum.

My room view at Guoman Port Dickson.

BBQ Dinner by the Pool at Melia, KL

Dinner this evening was to celebrate the achievement of Retail Loans. We hit 453mil, thus breached the target set of 400mil. I had 2 bowls of mushroon sup and i must say that their mushroom soup is one the best i've had. Also had a juicy bbq prawn the size of my palm. yum yum !
Oh. We had a new colleague today, name Jeff. He is the only 'rose' (guy) amongst the 'thorns' (gal).

My daily train rides will never be the same again with my latest gadget!
I got me promotion, me pay rise and me performance bonus 2 weeks ago. At least i got what i deserve. To me, it's just a consolation and the grass is always greener on the other side.

R.I.P.

Dogs:
1. Mukasam
2. Poppy a.k.a. Tokai
3. Bobby
4. Scotty
5. Yen Yen
6. Snoopy
7. Lucky
8. Blackie
9. Mugsy

Cats:
1. Cindy
2. Tussy

Bird:
1. Chip Chip


In loving memories of all my pet dogs and 2 cats and a baby bird who had once lived hapily.
You will always be in my memory.

Resumed work today. Mom had undergone a 5 hours laproscopic* surgery at GMC on Tuesday. Surgery went well and mom recovered fast and got discharge on Thursday. Mom told me that she would not recommend this type of surgery to anyone as the post surgery pain was unbearable. But then again, I wouldn't have understood if I have gone through what she'd gone through and go through it all over again with the conventional method by going under the surgeon's knife. Only then, I could compare. But I am indeed thankful that mom had a speedy recovery. Amen.
*A reparative surgery done by making incisions at the abdomen or usually the navel.

Desperately seeking.....

I was desperately seeking someway or something to that could help to relief my stressful working life. Currently suffering from restlessness and difficulty in sleeping.
Until i found out from one of my colleague that she was suffering from the same problem. what a relief that im not the only one! I just bought this 'I-dont-know-what-herbs' from this pharmacy during lunch hour. It's in a form of capsules with dark brown pallets of "valerian" herbs inside. It's says "Traditionally used for the relief of restlessness and difficulty in sleeping".
Sounds promising.
I hope i cant sleep soundly tonight.

I am so suprise ! I am so touched ! He bought not 1 but 2 presents. I feeel so Luuurved...


This was last year's present.