Bangkok and The Holidays
Bangkok was good, and despite it being my second trip there in like 6 months, I still enjoyed it alot, reason of course being that I went with my gf this time. With that said, I was glad that I could finally spend alot of time with my girlfriend, as I have this horrible tendency to neglect her whenever the school term starts. Worse is that if all goes well, I will be flying off to Hong Kong in a few months time, and I was looking at this bangkok trip as a good 'time together' for us.
Of course being just me and my gf at a foreign land, it meant more alertness and independence, as it was our first overseas trip together, as both of us had only previously gone on trips with either the school choir or a larger group of friends. And the importance of alertness was highlighted as early as our taxi ride from the airport to the hotel on the first night. Despite taking a meter cab, the meter read like 189 baht, but the driver had the audacity to say 400 baht, and even managed to say it in a very calm and polite tone. Thank goodness the bell boy came to save us of 200 bahts. From then on, we were always very careful with our taxi rides.
The hotel this time, as compared to the previous artsy fartsy one, was much 'classier'. The previous one in with the bangkok gang was good, but this one was different in a sense that it was more like a normal 3-4 start hotel you would find in Singapore. The lobby looked good, the breakfast was not bad, and to my surprise, the room was surprisingly big for the price we paid. The both of us first thought that it was perhaps too big, but we ended up using the big space and sofa we had to put our stuff and clothes. However, one big big disadvantage was the location. It wasn't at all close to any famous shopping centres or train stations (closest was chatuchak which was 15 mins drive away), and that meant that we had to spend on cab to and fro everyday. Eventhough cab was much cheaper day, it still added up in the end. Worse was, after tiring shopping sprees, we always didn't have the luxury of going back to the hotel to rest first, and always ended up resting at some fast food restaurant. As I booked it rather last minute-ly and rash-ly, it was a good lesson learnt for future trips.
The rest of the trip was pretty much shopping at places which I went with the bangkok gang, although I did try a few new places. Again, we shopped till our feets were all aching, but I'm sure my gf enjoyed the shopping. As expected, Platinum was her favourite, but we discovered that Suan Lam also had lots of stuff, something which the bangkok gang kinda missed out on. Chatuchak affirmed my opinion that it was more of a 3-hour-go-in-the-morning thingy, but I found more reasons to walk MBK this time. Apparently MBK seemed boring the first time I went, but it was somehow rather enjoyable in a shopping sense if you really take the time to walk the mall. As our trip was much longer, we went sight seeing, and the grand palace was an eye-opener.
I am glad that I am now much more familiar with the streets of bangkok, especially their train system. I always think that it will be nice to know how to go around a foreign land, as the world is just that big, and Singapore alone that small. Next stop, Hong Kong. It may be a while before I go back there. After this trip, I am quite sure I have covered most of the shopping areas around the country, and am perhaps looking forward to another country.
This roughly wraps up my trip, and I am now looking at the rest of the holidays. Internship wont start until near the end of the month, so its kinda like a slack period for me now. I do have some worries in my head though, with SEP at the top of it. Still haven't received the confirmation, although an e-mail yesterday from CUHK came. It was about course registration, and I always knew that module mapping would be a big headache, but the e-mail just got me a little more worried. I just realised that I had quite limited modules to choose from, and to make matters worse, I just realised that quite a lot of their modules are actually thought in either purely Cantonese, or a mixture of Cantonese and English. That is just so uncool, as I have almost zero knowledge of the language. This isn't confirmed yet, so I am enquiring about it. One of the reasons why I chose Hong Kong was because it was one of the asian countries which has English as one of its languages, but now I'm starting to worry. Sigh.
Well, I shall just wait, as I look forward to my internship and of course, FOP. It's that time of the year again, and it seemed like just not too long ago it all happened. Many people say it's during FOP that you see everything, especially for the management committee. But I am not the biggest advocator of this statement. All I can say is that it will definitely be the time of new formed friendships and memories. Have a good holiday everyone!
Of course being just me and my gf at a foreign land, it meant more alertness and independence, as it was our first overseas trip together, as both of us had only previously gone on trips with either the school choir or a larger group of friends. And the importance of alertness was highlighted as early as our taxi ride from the airport to the hotel on the first night. Despite taking a meter cab, the meter read like 189 baht, but the driver had the audacity to say 400 baht, and even managed to say it in a very calm and polite tone. Thank goodness the bell boy came to save us of 200 bahts. From then on, we were always very careful with our taxi rides.
The hotel this time, as compared to the previous artsy fartsy one, was much 'classier'. The previous one in with the bangkok gang was good, but this one was different in a sense that it was more like a normal 3-4 start hotel you would find in Singapore. The lobby looked good, the breakfast was not bad, and to my surprise, the room was surprisingly big for the price we paid. The both of us first thought that it was perhaps too big, but we ended up using the big space and sofa we had to put our stuff and clothes. However, one big big disadvantage was the location. It wasn't at all close to any famous shopping centres or train stations (closest was chatuchak which was 15 mins drive away), and that meant that we had to spend on cab to and fro everyday. Eventhough cab was much cheaper day, it still added up in the end. Worse was, after tiring shopping sprees, we always didn't have the luxury of going back to the hotel to rest first, and always ended up resting at some fast food restaurant. As I booked it rather last minute-ly and rash-ly, it was a good lesson learnt for future trips.
The rest of the trip was pretty much shopping at places which I went with the bangkok gang, although I did try a few new places. Again, we shopped till our feets were all aching, but I'm sure my gf enjoyed the shopping. As expected, Platinum was her favourite, but we discovered that Suan Lam also had lots of stuff, something which the bangkok gang kinda missed out on. Chatuchak affirmed my opinion that it was more of a 3-hour-go-in-the-morning thingy, but I found more reasons to walk MBK this time. Apparently MBK seemed boring the first time I went, but it was somehow rather enjoyable in a shopping sense if you really take the time to walk the mall. As our trip was much longer, we went sight seeing, and the grand palace was an eye-opener.
I am glad that I am now much more familiar with the streets of bangkok, especially their train system. I always think that it will be nice to know how to go around a foreign land, as the world is just that big, and Singapore alone that small. Next stop, Hong Kong. It may be a while before I go back there. After this trip, I am quite sure I have covered most of the shopping areas around the country, and am perhaps looking forward to another country.
This roughly wraps up my trip, and I am now looking at the rest of the holidays. Internship wont start until near the end of the month, so its kinda like a slack period for me now. I do have some worries in my head though, with SEP at the top of it. Still haven't received the confirmation, although an e-mail yesterday from CUHK came. It was about course registration, and I always knew that module mapping would be a big headache, but the e-mail just got me a little more worried. I just realised that I had quite limited modules to choose from, and to make matters worse, I just realised that quite a lot of their modules are actually thought in either purely Cantonese, or a mixture of Cantonese and English. That is just so uncool, as I have almost zero knowledge of the language. This isn't confirmed yet, so I am enquiring about it. One of the reasons why I chose Hong Kong was because it was one of the asian countries which has English as one of its languages, but now I'm starting to worry. Sigh.
Well, I shall just wait, as I look forward to my internship and of course, FOP. It's that time of the year again, and it seemed like just not too long ago it all happened. Many people say it's during FOP that you see everything, especially for the management committee. But I am not the biggest advocator of this statement. All I can say is that it will definitely be the time of new formed friendships and memories. Have a good holiday everyone!
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