Bangkok Post #2

So we were asked to paint Bangkok FUSCHIA and we had 2 all-nighters over our 4 nights there, had our share of romping around and did quite a lot of shopping so I guess that counts right?

First day was shopping at Zen and here’s Robin holding an award for best shopper! His eye for quirky things is amazing so he really deserves this award. There were 30% – 50% mark-downs on all things so it was kind of hard not to shop.

It also helped that we didn’t have much to wear so we were spurred to buy t-shirts and shirts for the subsequent nite outs.

The shopping got even more amazing at Platinum Shopping Centre which Robin has never been to. Upon getting there, Robin gave us a time limit of 1 hour. After grabbing a bite at the food-court on the top floor … we walked floor by floor and eventually ended up spending 3 and a half hours there. By the last 2 floors we kept telling ourselves … enough already … we’re not gonna buy anything more … we’re just gonna zoom past the floors. But we still ended up buying little things like belts and 3/4 jeans.

This place is amazing. There are many shops on every floor and the thing is to take your time and look at the stuff each shop has as you’ll never know when you wud stumble upon a surprise. A lot of the shops design their own stuff so that’s even better right!?

Here are pics of the all the shopping we did:

Here’s a close up of a shirt that we love … a gem we found while browsing a t-shirt shop … each of us bought one of course.

At the end of it all, I think Robin had about 15 new shirts / t-shirts and a lot more other stuff? I just love my new white shoes!

I wanted to go to Siam Paragon to get my Bole sunglasses and some nice Thai designer outfits to wear to functions and events in Malaysia but we didn’t have any time left later in the trip. We didn’t even make it to the Emerald Buddha which we intended to visit on Monday.

Here we are walking to take the BTS after shopping at Platinum Shopping Centre. Got some interesting pics along the way.

Yup … that big black bag holds ALL our shopping.

There was this great restaurant near our hotel which Robin dubbed a lesbian joint.

Turns out its gay owned and has been around for 9 years. Has a great menu including a vegetarian selection and we arranged dinner there with some SG frens we bumped in to while in BKK. It was supposed to be a dinner for 9 but due to the long and hard partying the nite before … it dwindled down to 4.

I didn’t hit a sauna at all this trip making it 2 years now since i’ve been to one in Bangkok. Didn’t take off my top at the clubs and only went onto the podium when forced to. Think trying to be low-profiled had its effects as that seemed to get a lot of guys interested to know this “quiet & well-behaved” person. Hahaha … Bryan was saying he should take notes.

Hit the clubs and you’ll definitely meet all the familiar faces from the international party circuit. We also met some friends we sometimes party with so it was great fun seeing them and hanging out into the wee hours.

Last nite at an extension, met a really nice Thai guy from Chiang Mai who’s been working in Bangkok for a while. He was really sweet and helped get Robin and me into a cab to the airport on our last day when we realised it was the eve of a public holiday and Bangkok was jammed beyond believe.

What can I say about Bangkok …. it was nice. This time, cause we were hanging out with frens who worked and lived in Bangkok … and also coz we were at an extension with a lot of locals … we got a different perspective of the city, the party life and of their culture.

They were a lot more excited this weekend as Tuesday was a major public holiday so the partying on Sunday seemed even better than usual.

We had fun … Robin and I were just saying we both missed Bangkok … not sure why cause it wasn’t that great a trip like Songkran. But still .. i guess it was coz we had a good time with some frens we never expected to hook up with and it’s been awhile since we’ve both travelled together.

So I might need to visit Bangkok again in late Sept. Wonder if I should visit Platinum Shopping Centre again?

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