2nd Day in Thailand

Our second day in Bangkok, Monday 26th September 2011, it was a well spent day . We had joined a half day tour to the unique temples and the grand palace in Bangkok. We had learn brief Thailand history, and it had brought back some of history knowledge we had learned during our secondary school days..... The morning was a peaceful and quiet trip, especially to the temple, with the morning breeze brushing across our face, that was so relaxing. Most importantly, no crowds.....just the few of us. Oh ya, both of us was joined by two caucasian couple, and our tour guide gave us not only history lesson, but also knowledge about Thailand 's monks and how it is important for the young generation of Thais to become a monk for a short period of time and it was a honor to their family......!!!!!! And plus some the teachings of Buddhism. We managed to learn that there were no mafia, gangsters around the streets of Thailand, as they had changed their job scope......

" u will find them working in the parliament !"
"The people only respect and love their king but not the government"

We managed to see the Royal monastery of the Emerald Buddha, but this was the only one that photography was prohibited ... It can only be stored in one of my memory brain cell at the back of my head, luckily I was able to capture most of them in images.

 But to me, despite quiet and peaceful, most importantly, I was very lucky too, " To Step On Shit!" It happened at one of the temple, I was going to the toilet before we set off for the next destination. When I finally got to the toilet, it had shown a sign "Female toilet under renovation! Please use the Men's toilet" I just went in, doesn't care if there were Men using the urinal..........my only thoughts, will any man look????? Aya, think too much...... I managed to complete my micturation, when suddenly I saw stains on the floor ..........

A crow suddenly flow past my head.......... " oh no, is it shit? Oh yes, it was........ I immediately took out my alcohol pack to wipe my shoe.......


when we finally got to the palace grounds, it was full of tourists......... And the weather was quite warm, every one was noted to be perspiring .... My friend then said " it is better than rainy day," Her words strikes me and I am totally agreeable with it.....


Not only, the grounds was full of people, it was like as if I had entered a GOLD Smith shop.....the roof top,side of the building, it was gold plated......and very very 'bright' 金光闪闪

Thereafter, at the ending of our tour, we were brought to a place where they sold Thai silk, Thai gems stones...... Both of us apologize silently to the sale personnel who followed us like glue...... Coz we did not buy a silent item....

We managed to ask the tour guide to send us to the Siam paragon and MBK instead of returning to the hotel...... We had spent some time from 11am to 3pm there .... We had forgotten the Venue to wait for the shuttle bus provided by the hotel, thus in the end we took the BTS (Thailand Sky train and the airport rail link back to our hotel,,,,,,,,

We needed to rest as we were very tired with all the walking......we must rest as at 5.45, we are going for a international buffet candle light dinner cruise at the Chao Phraya River ............

At 5.45 pm, we were joined by a family of six from Indonesia via the hotel transport made our way through the evening congested traffic of Thailand .......I just found out that despite the traffic, they are still able to sped through small roads and traffic jam .....and the best part is that they love to honk each other.......

We waited for almost 1hour for the cruise ship....... The cruise turned up quite dramatic with her staff... The waiters and waitress lined up and stood saluting us while the cruise was preparing to dork and to allow us board the ship... There was even red carpet rolled out to welcome the guests.

When we were about to board the ship, suddenly heard a lady (Caucasian black) talking.....then shouted..... When I turned back, I saw her fallen on the steps , she was like lying diagonally towards the bottom of the steps. (which means her two feet was on the fourth step, while her head was at the bottom of the steps), luckily she was not hurt and was still talking excitably while boarding the ship.

We had chosen to sit out on the ship deck, in order to view the scenery and feel the evening wind.... Can u imagine that while the ship is moving, you are walking around the buffet trying to take our portion, but the ship was steady.... So steady that you don't at least feel seasick....


However, there was not much variety for the international buffet, the funny part is that while queuing for the buffet, I saw a group of people, and they seems to be Chinese VIP guests, I heard translation and they were dressed in black suit. There were cameras filming and best thing, we were queuing around them ....... That was very very weird......

Imagine u are the VIP and there was a long queue behind u, watching u at all times while queuing for food. The best is, all of them were so stiff.... I was queuing for about 10 minutes and they did not even move an inch..

As the queue was too long, we were invited to the end of the ship for similar choice of buffet.... Thus, I got to walk all the way from the front deck to the back and return....( actually not far)......
The food was not the best, but the night scenery was still acceptable ... Just basically enjoying the calmness and the wind.........