Bangkok Day 3 & 4

Day 3

Continuing my #patahkaki trip at Bangkok, day 3 was mainly on shopping (not that I've done anything else besides shopping) but this shopping activity covered my whole day. We went to the none other than the Platinum Mall. I did not get the chance to snap any photos during this shopping spree activity as I was clearly busy doing my shopping, pictures are all courtesy of Google.

Platinum Mall has 2 sections - old and new wings. My advise is to just go to the old wing as it offers a lot more variety stuff and way cheaper compared to the new wing. 

Platinum Mall is a place where you can get cheap clothes, accessories, shoes, bags - all the women stuff on a wholesale price but in order for you to get it, one must purchase minimum of 2 barang in 1 shop else it will be on a normal price which is not so cheap. I believe, this is the place where those blogshop owners get their barang-barang as the clothes that I found there looks pretty much.... familiar.

Apa tak menggila kau tengok barang-barang kat sini hence why I spent my whole day here.

We went straight to the Central World for our company official dinner. Sunguhlah cantik timingnya, after penat bershopping kita isi tenaga dengan makanan.

Group photo of my department gang

 Among those scrumptious food that being served for the night:-

Ikan siakap kot!

Tomyam which was not to my liking & delicious Crab

Mixed Vege, Squid & otak-otak thai style

That was how I ended my day 3 - with delicious seafood courtesy of the company. Alhamdulillah

Day 4

Did not do much as it was the day to bid farewell to Bangkok. I was so tired and for the fact that I was looking forward to being home with my loved ones, I decided not to follow the gang for the final tour at the nearby mall. After having my breakfast, I went straight to my room and rest! Penat kot. After all, our flight was at 1400hour (Bangkok time) hence we need to get all pack and ready to go by 1100hour.

Traffic was fine on that day. I had a great chat with one of the GM on our way to the airport. Dorang ni dah macam mak-mak kita je. Takda discrimination among different races and that is why I love this company so much.

That's the end of my company trip. It was a wonderful trip, definitely a tiring one. 

Bangkok has changed a lot and one of the most obvious changes was the fact that they have more Halal restaurant around the city centre hence there's a high possibility of me coming back to Bangkok *teeheeee*.

Phewwww, Bangkok done. Now for the Sydney post pulak. Have a nice weekend everyone!

Bangkok Day 2

Before we headed to Bangkok, me and few of my colleagues have done a bit of homework or a proper "brand plan" for this trip. The plan were inclusive of places that we wanted to visit which ended up not visiting and malls that we wanted to go which ended up spending more time at each mall. And since this is my first time in Bangkok, my duty is just to follow and not involving that much in the planning process.

One of the places that we planned to go (which we did) was the Chatuchak. According to all, it's a must place to go if you are in Bangkok. I can't imagine how the place looks like hence I did not set any expectation for it. I have all the list of things that I wanted to buy which one of it is my mother's table cloth. Chatuchak is a place where you can get everything under the sun and I couldn't agree more.

So the beginning of our day 2 - the visit to Chatuchak.

It took us about 20 mins from our hotel to Chatuchak via BTS. Oh, their transportation is way advance than ours. Their train system is very efficient. It's a 3 stories layer of railway. Super canggih! It is not advisable to commute through taxi as traffic is normally bad in Bangkok and it's way expensive than commuting with other transportations. Taxi driver akan charge sesuka hati ikut kehendak hati. Bus apa ntah lagi. Sangat menakutkan. MRT or BTS is the best solution to go to each places.

We reached Chatuchak at 10.30am and spent about 4 hours there. I was impressed on how huge the place was. It's something similar to Padang Besaq but this place is lagi besaq daripada Padang Besaq. 20x bigger. 

And I secured most of the things that I wanted within that 4 hours time including my mother's table cloth. The weather was so hot that I could taste my own sweat, no kidding! No pictures were taken during my visit to this place as I was walking all alone. We decided to split in order to get our stuff else we won't be able to get our stuff if we were to walk in group. The place is huge man! 

Chatuchak is a place where you can get to bargain for cheaper price. Clothing is not advisable to buy here as most of it are in bad quality tapi kalau nak beli t-shirt memang belambak. Ohh kat sinilah jumpa banyak imitation product. 

After 4 hours, my legs felt numb for walking too much hence we decided to head to our hotel instead. Super penat weyh.

After about an hour of rest, we continue of shopping hopping and our next venue was the MBK. MBK was for food. My cousin told me that there's a halal restaurant in MBK. Little that we know that there's a lot of halal restaurant in that shopping mall. MBK is like Digital Mall. Most floors are selling gadget stuff. So, saya tak berapa nak minat.

The minorities of the company

Had our lunch-cum-dinner at Yana Restaurant for some halal Thai food. Sedap lah jugak. So-so je! Janji dapat makan.

After re-filling ourselves with food, we continue our shopping hopping to Hard Rock Cafe. The boys wanted to get themselves some souvenirs. Dari MBK berjalan kaki ke Hard Rock Cafe. Another round of patah kaki.

KL Hard Rock lagi besar

 Towards the end of the day, I can't really felt my legs anymore. Headed straight to the hotel room calling it off for the day. Penat gila

Bangkok Day 1

As I informed earlier, I went to Bangkok for a 4 Days 3 Nights fully sponsored trip by the company. Pendek kata, company trip yang di bayar sepenuhnya - airticket, accommodation, dapat duit belanja lagi. We went last Saturday (yes, during Merdeka day) and arrived KUL on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013. I was on the first group so my departure was at 1425 Malaysia time and arrived BKK at 1535 Thailand time.

Was I feeling excited?! Yes, of course as this is my first trip with the company. The last trip they had was 2 years ago which I did not participate as I was already 8 months pregnant. Lagi pon pergi Taiwan, lokasi tidak menarik.

So anyway, back to Bangkok. The main objective of this trip is Shopping, Shopping and Shopping. Our initial plan was to include some exciting sight seeing places but booyah, shopping is more fun! fun! fun! hence we decided not to go sight seeing. Lagipon after a day full of walking into the shopping places, kaki jadi patah tak jadi nak jalan-jalan makan angin. Well, my plan was to go shopping pon not that I intended to go sight seeing. Bangkok - sight seeing? A big no-no for me.

So yea, upon arrival, we were greeted by the tour agent to drive us to our hotel. Our accommodation was at The Grande Centre Point Hotel, Terminal 21. It is located right at the centre of Bangkok city. The traveling time from their International Airport to the hotel took us nearly 2 hours as the traffic was terribly bad. Kalau kita cakap traffic jam di KL sangat teruk, bersyukurlah kawan-kawan, Bangkok lagi teruk!

So then, we arrived our hotel close to 5pm (Bangkok time). We settled down, get our room keys, get a quick fresh-up before proceeding with our touring. Oh, nasib baik hotel kasi complimentary of free wifi, dapat skype dengan Iman hari-hari.

The view from my room

After that long tiring journey from the airport to our hotel, we decided to just go to the nearest shopping mall to grab our lunch-cum-dinner. Little that I know that Bangkok now has a lot of halal food. They, in fact invented the Arab street for the convenience of Muslim tourists as they received more Arab tourists by the year. And they also make sure that there's at least 1 halal restaurant in each mall. So, senang lah sikit nak cari makan.

Our first mall was The Terminal 21. This mall is not for shopping unless you are up for original branded stuff. Oh yea, Thailand is known for their imitation product, jadi bersepah-sepah orang pakai barangan branded. Original ke tak original, Wallahualam.

What's so special about this mall is that on each floor, there's a different kind of theme that they do for the interior. 

This was at Level 3

And on each restroom, they will set it as per the theme floor. For this Istanbul City, the restroom interior was magnificent.

The centre of the restroom

And others are like these below:-

This is a fisherman theme

I can't remember what does it called but this was at the 5th floor

Bakery Restroom

Some of other interesting interior that they have

On a bicycle with San Francisco's bridge behind us.

Oscar plug right at the centre of the mall

Interesting right?!

But well, we did not go to each restrooms or walk on all floors sebab kaki dah patah and kepenatan pon. But we spent quite some time juga at this mall just to look on their interior. An A+ for the decoration. I just can't imagine how it will look like during Christmas. Sure meriah.

So yea, there you go. Half day spent at the mall taking pictures of their restrooms. Will continue with day 2 soon.