BANGKOK TRIP - Day 1

Journey to the airport and flight to Bangkok were uneventful. No terrorists. No snakes on the plane. Haha…

The journey was so bored, I fell asleep.

Reached Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Met our trip guide, J, who is a representative from the Kasetsart University (KU). He is the person who will be taking care of us during our stay in Bangkok. A very polite man, and as I got to know him better, turned out to also be someone who loves to partaayyy… (He was the one who introduced us to the crème de la crème of Bangkok’s nightlife) J

After a short briefing, we were brought to our hostel. 

The Bansabai Hostel.

Nama je hostel, but inside……

My room...

The very comfortable beds

There are over 80 TV channels provided to us. Crazy right?

All the above for only 300 baht (about RM30) per person per night. It's really cheap!

After putting our stuffs, we were whisked off to KU. On our way, we saw these colourful taxis:

And these are views of their highways:

Traffic jam. Just like KL :(

We were told that there’s a simple dinner awaiting us, and during the dinner, we’ll be introduced to the Faculty of Agro-Industry’s Dean, lecturers and a few of their students.

The university is so cool, they have an entire building just for parking cars.

While waiting for dinner to be served, we mingled around with the students and learnt some simple Thai words and phrases. Most of my friends were asking for translation for a few of these phrases:

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    “How much is this?”

-       “Too expensive. Can it be cheaper?”

-       “Can I get a discount?”

All were busy planning ahead for shopping trips, which to my surprise, were actually part of the itinerary. We were being paid by our university to go shopping in Bangkok. How cool was that?! Haha…

In my mind, however, were a few phrases which are totally different from the ones stated above. Instead of the above, I was thinking of these:

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     “Hi. My name is…”

-       “What’s your name?”

-       “Can I have your Facebook address? MSN too?”

Okay, most of you will now think that I’m desperate or something, but with girls, 

and guys like these:

Eh, silap. This guy is from UPM :p

I don’t believe you are not even a wee bit interested. :p

Haha. No la. Actually, my motive was to know more people and make more friends. Serious……………….  :p

After a wonderful dinner, we were brought back to our hostels so that we can have a good rest and be ready for more leng luis activities the following day. J

Notice anything weird about this picture? All the guys are on the left hand-side of the picture. I guess you know the reason why. Hahaha... :p

To be continued....

TRIP TO BANGKOK - The Days Before

As I was adjusting back to my daily life after my mini escapade to Sabah (which I’ll blog about once I received the pictures from my friends), I got a phone call from my faculty.

“Tai Boon, awak telah dipilih untuk menyertai Program Mobility Pelajar ke Thailand.”

At first, I was skeptical. Is this for real? Hold on, maybe this is one of the Hitz.fm Gotcha call. But in the end, it turned out to be the real deal after all. :)

Great! An all-expenses paid trip to Thailand! 

Soon, phone calls from seniors and friends came pouring in, some asking for travel trips (as if I’m a seasoned traveler. Haha) But mostly, the calls were from seniors who self-elected themselves to be the leaders of this trip and started delegating jobs.

A trip, which I initially presumed to be a fun and simple trip, turned out to be an educational/ cultural exchange kinda trip. Me and my wishful thinking. There is no free lunch in this world, of course there would be something for us to do in exchange for our paid trip! Haiz….

So, after plenty of e-mails and phone calls from my seniors, I was made to understand that we are supposed to carry out the role of ambassadors.

“Wakil UPM dan juga wakil Malaysia”, as the kakak from my faculty’s administration office informed us. Hahaha… What a title.

Then, came the part I dreaded the most. Found out that I was in charge of a cultural presentation. I have to give a 10-minute presentation on Malaysian cuisine. Not that I hate giving presentations or being lazy (okay, maybe a little), but 10 minutes on Malaysian cuisine?!

Where do I start? Chinese, Indian, Malay  and Baba & Nyonya cuisine? Appetizers, main courses, desserts and drinks? 
Mana cukup masa weiii……..

Furthermore, if we Malaysians know all about the tom yams and mango kerabus, what makes you think that the Thais are ignorant about our nasi lemaks and teh tariks? Just Google or Wiki and they will have tons of information lah…..   

So, I decided to tell my leader.

Me: (stating all the reasons above, hoping to be given another task, or maybe another topic to present on)

Friend of mine: True true. I agree with Tai Boon. Why don’t we do a cultural dance performance instead? I can be in charge of it.

Leader: Great idea. Okay, we’ll do a cultural dance performance.

Me: (in my mind) YES!!! Then I wouldn’t have to be in charge of anything anymore. Hahaha…

Leader: And Tai Boon, you will still be presenting on Malaysian cuisine. So, we will have a presentation AND a performance. Very good, very good.

Me: Crap……………………………………..

So there I was, on my 22^nd birthday, alone at my rented house in Serdang, preparing my presentation. What a way to celebrate my birthday :( 

** But then I received a call from Cat, and got to know that DC is celebrating Wong, Ee Kai and my birthday. Only I was not there. But at least I got a song and an MMS of my cake.

Thanks guys!!! :) :) :)

There's Spiderman on the cake! :)

To be continued…

logan logan logan

BOO!
sorry to scare you with that creature on your left.

Hope this picture will make it all better -

TAAAAAA DAHHH!

ps:// I still love you bro :) it's okay if you're retarded.
I'll accept you for who you are.
*evil laughter
Eekai, Wong and I went to Sunway and Eekai had his lunch in good ol' Sakae Sushi while Im actually a supporter of Sushi King. Lol*

look who's into Tap Tap?

ps:// his food was left untouched for about 10 minutes.

*cantonese
"Tai meh tai? Mei kin go leng zhai ah?"
"Tai lei meh? Tai game lahhhh"

Lol*

I was stalking the boys from the other table.
Damn they eat alot.

Eekai and Wong : SEE! They didnt take red plate wan! Confirm CHEAPOs! Hahahahah!

Hahaha. Our "plate incident".
Wong stole the next table's plates and we found out it was Su Lyn (Im not sure if it's the correct spelling)
EPIC.

Then, met up with Yap, his brother and Alex for Percy Jackson.
Im telling you, that movie is crap.
Storyline sucks and there are some illogical events that made me and Eekai laughed cos of its stupidity.
Overall, a good movie to just waste your money on since it's CNY. Haha.
Graphic's kinda good though ;) Love it.

And Logan Lerman is to die for....

signing off now. Not many pictures today :(

I MISS SAM CHONG!

Our second jamming session of the song entitled "It Ends Tonight"

Tak berani listen to the song yet.. i just upload

:P:P

This is the final one.. right before we went back that day...:P:P

You all dengar d only comment lah.. tak berani buka speak and listen at home..:P:P

Man .. upload so long wan..