Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Last Minute Rece!
So today is the last day that we had in Bangkok. In the afternoon, we'd be leaving for our flight back to Singapore and so we'd only have the morning to explore.
We were on the hunt for wholesale clothing. If anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, please let me know! I'm looking fro such information.
So we spent the morning at Platinum Centre which is basically a shopping mall full of fashion retail. It's a nice place to go for fashion shopping. We also dropped by the nearby market which seems to have some wholesale activity going on but nothing much caught my eye.
Incidentally, we were not just early for the day, it seems that we had managed to pick one of the Buddhist Holy days, so there were not many shops which were open. Oh well, better luck next trip!
Spent some time lounging in Platinum Centre over a nice cup of chocolate and picked up some accessories which looked really unique. Nothing much to talk about since it's just walking and my friend shopping lol.
All too soon, it's time to head back to the hotel and prepare to depart for the airport. Most of our stuff had already been packed. Anyway I had a really big luggage so it wasn't much of an issue for me anyway. Just chuck the stuff in and I'm done.
We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spend in the airport. We walked around all the retail outlets. We had only 500 Baht left on us by this time so I guess you could say that we made use of our money pretty well! We spent a little more money at the airport eating hotdogs from a chain (but whose name eludes me at the moment! I'll try to remember an update) and basically went into every shop that caught our eye.
Finally it was time to enter the gates and that's where I had my panic moment. I had nowhere to stash the trolley I had been happily pushing around! I asked my friend to hold on while I almost ran with the trolley to find a place to return it. I realised that I might even have to make it all the way back to the place where I got the trolley and that felt stupid so I was toying with the idea of just sticking the trolley somewhere and running off when 2 ladies came up to me and asked me where they could get a trolley like mine.
I was so happy when I heard that! I told them they could have mine and they were happy too! They almost couldn't believe themselves just as I almost couldn't believe it! So we have three happy people and one running off to the boarding gates. Yay!
More waiting after we cleared boarding procedures. Nothing much to do but stone, and yak and call home to disturb my parents. The flight was a pleasant experience as well.
Landing in Singapore, my friend wanted to walk around transit for a while as she'd never seen much of it afterwhich we did what any deal loving singaporean would do. Visit DFS!. Bought a bottle of Martell, just like I always do when I return from a flight.
After exiting the arrival area, it turns out that my mum was late because she got off the bus at the wrong terminal lol. It used to be that the first terminal that the bus stops at would be Terminal One, but with the addition of Terminal Three, it became the second stop. So..... we had a cup of tea at Delifrance while waiting for my parents, after which we got into cabs and went Home Sweet Home......
Till the next trip!
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So today is the last day that we had in Bangkok. In the afternoon, we'd be leaving for our flight back to Singapore and so we'd only have the morning to explore.
We were on the hunt for wholesale clothing. If anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, please let me know! I'm looking fro such information.
So we spent the morning at Platinum Centre which is basically a shopping mall full of fashion retail. It's a nice place to go for fashion shopping. We also dropped by the nearby market which seems to have some wholesale activity going on but nothing much caught my eye.
Incidentally, we were not just early for the day, it seems that we had managed to pick one of the Buddhist Holy days, so there were not many shops which were open. Oh well, better luck next trip!
Spent some time lounging in Platinum Centre over a nice cup of chocolate and picked up some accessories which looked really unique. Nothing much to talk about since it's just walking and my friend shopping lol.
All too soon, it's time to head back to the hotel and prepare to depart for the airport. Most of our stuff had already been packed. Anyway I had a really big luggage so it wasn't much of an issue for me anyway. Just chuck the stuff in and I'm done.
We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spend in the airport. We walked around all the retail outlets. We had only 500 Baht left on us by this time so I guess you could say that we made use of our money pretty well! We spent a little more money at the airport eating hotdogs from a chain (but whose name eludes me at the moment! I'll try to remember an update) and basically went into every shop that caught our eye.
Finally it was time to enter the gates and that's where I had my panic moment. I had nowhere to stash the trolley I had been happily pushing around! I asked my friend to hold on while I almost ran with the trolley to find a place to return it. I realised that I might even have to make it all the way back to the place where I got the trolley and that felt stupid so I was toying with the idea of just sticking the trolley somewhere and running off when 2 ladies came up to me and asked me where they could get a trolley like mine.
I was so happy when I heard that! I told them they could have mine and they were happy too! They almost couldn't believe themselves just as I almost couldn't believe it! So we have three happy people and one running off to the boarding gates. Yay!
More waiting after we cleared boarding procedures. Nothing much to do but stone, and yak and call home to disturb my parents. The flight was a pleasant experience as well.
Landing in Singapore, my friend wanted to walk around transit for a while as she'd never seen much of it afterwhich we did what any deal loving singaporean would do. Visit DFS!. Bought a bottle of Martell, just like I always do when I return from a flight.
After exiting the arrival area, it turns out that my mum was late because she got off the bus at the wrong terminal lol. It used to be that the first terminal that the bus stops at would be Terminal One, but with the addition of Terminal Three, it became the second stop. So..... we had a cup of tea at Delifrance while waiting for my parents, after which we got into cabs and went Home Sweet Home......
Till the next trip!
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Actually, that last entry on the 22nd of July was just blogged like on the 31st of August!!
It took a long time for me to get around to blogging since nowadays I'm rather onto Plurk!
http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=575528&check=1616060081&s=1
I'll be trying to keep up with blogging though. I mainly put off the blogging of the trip because of uploading of photos.
I decided to not upload the photos and just go ahead with text blogging.
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It took a long time for me to get around to blogging since nowadays I'm rather onto Plurk!
http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=575528&check=1616060081&s=1
I'll be trying to keep up with blogging though. I mainly put off the blogging of the trip because of uploading of photos.
I decided to not upload the photos and just go ahead with text blogging.
