holiday-ing in bangkok!!
peipei and i are in the midst of our 5-day bangkok shopping trip!i'm currently now at a internet cafe in bangkok, relaxing myself after 2 days of carrying shopping bags! mind you, i'm not weak at carrying shopping bags, but i'm amazed at the purchasing power of girls, especially peipei!
yesterday we went to mah boon kroong, or MBK for short.. its a shopping haven for people, especially tourists like us.. i saw many singaporeans along the way, and at many shops, and though the prices quoted by the shops for their goods are already quite cheap (relative to singapore), they still had to bargain, just like us.. i personally think it is already been a norm for shops to jack up their prices, only waiting for the tourists to bring it down with their power called barganing..
this morning, we woke up early and went to chinatown.. it is certainly very reflective of the old chinatown of singapore.. people living on top of their shops (shophouses), and these shops squeeze side by side in narrow and packed lanes.. while motorcycles stacked high with goods riding along the lanes.. the people traffic is continuous.. stuff is generally very much cheaper and there is really no room for barganing and even i felt 'paiseh' to bargain..
after chinatown, we went to siam paragon to have lunch in the food court.. we proceeded to SIAM OCEAN WORLD after lunch to take a look at the marine life there.. i saw many different kind of fishes that i have never seen before.. angler fish, a grouper as large as me, or maybe even larger, bull sharks and garden eels etc, just to name a few.. wow! we were also so tempted to have a dive with the sharks, but the price alone put us off.. it costed SGD$250 for a 30-min dive.. add another SGD$50 and you can do 6 dives at pulau aur.. arghh..
after that we went for a 2 hour bone breaking and skin tearing thai massage.. though it nearly killed me, but it was the best massage i ever had.. my whole body felt much more relaxed..
we were off to suan lum night bazaar after that and it was business as usual for both of us, as we were back to shopping and of course, barganing.. =p
posted by Linus Chia @ 11:23 PM
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