Orangeous Dailies

Merry Christmas from Jessie…

That’s a really nice bottle of PAH-FUUM. I am now one with nature. Yay! Thank you, me love!

Thank you Pang and Kian for the bottle of sherry and Picard coin pouch! Merry Christmas to you both!

Spent 22nd to 24th December in Bangkok. Flew onboard Thai Airways there, but I felt it wasn’t worth the money for only a 2 hour flight, I’ll go for budget airlines next time. And our trip happened to coincide with the elections, so, for the whole of Sunday, the shops were not allowed to sell even a single drop of alcohol.

Stayed at Asia Hotel, which was remarkably convenient, because the 2nd floor is linked to Ratchathewi Skytrain Station. We’ll definitely be staying there again on our next trip since the service is fantastic and for only 270 baht, you can get a 10 inch pizza delivered up to your room.

We spent most of our time shopping, and we bought almost every fucking piece of clothing we saw that we thought “looked nice“. We returned to Ma Boon Krong Shopping Centre a whopping three times because every time we left, we thought that we were “missing out on some really good deals“.

Chatuchak Weekend Market was an oven. The weather was so hot that Jessie got mild heat exhaustion because she didn’t drink enough water. There wasn’t much to buy there as most of the stuff were already available in Ma Boon Krong. Saw cute little rabbits being kept in really small cages and we felt that was really cruel. We left for Ma Boon Krong (again!) after walking around for less than half an hour.

Later on in the night, by some twist of fate, after watching the Tiger show, we bumped into a young Indian couple who happened to be from Singapore as well, and they told us that Patpong was nothing much to see, and dangerous for the two of us to be wandering around there. So we headed down to Suan Lum night market to shop. We did lots of aggressive bargaining. The shopkeepers were very happy to see us, but by the time we left, they were sulking and pretty much pissed off that some didn’t bother to thank us. We basically managed to get everything at half price.

We took a tuk-tuk back to the hotel at around 1 a.m, and tipped the driver an extra 100 baht on top of the 200, to go as fast as he could.

Spent the night drinking with the Indian couple at the hotel lobby, luckily they had 3/4 bottle of Jim Beam to spare. Packing up the next morning was a chore, not because of the hangover. It was the amount of clothes we had to stuff in our luggage bags that almost killed us.

We didn’t manage to finish shopping this time. There were too many places left unexplored because 3D2N’s way too short to fully appreciate Bangkok. We’ll be back there again as soon as we can.

Video : Bangkok Speeding Tuk Tuk.

Photo Album : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sukianto/sets/72157603544746864/

Related : Bangkok 2007.

Paid him extra baht to floor the pedal. Jessie and I kept slamming into one another especially when he took corners at full speed.

Heard some damn funny quote from Jessie yesterday…

It’s year end as we all know..

“You give me bonus, I give you resignation letter”

Looks like everybody’s just waiting for the bonus. Betrayal at it’s peak every Christmas.

Merry Christmas guys, I’m off with Jessie to Bangkok tomorrow. Be back on Monday night.

Hooyah!

I asked Jespal Singh if he was interested to meet up his brother cum ex-camp mate Davinder Singh, who just returned from Australia for a holiday. Not that they were blood brothers or anything, but I patiently explained to him time and time again that they had the same surname, so they were theoratically brothers.

Jespal : Can, we can meet up. So three of us?

Me : Yea. We’ll keep it that way. Just have coffee or something. I know you can make us laugh.

Jespal : But it’s very weird …

Me : Weird? Like how?

Jespal : One chinese going out with two bhais.

Me : No, I don’t find it weird. I’m ok with that.

Jespal : Do you know what you call that?

Me : Call what? No. What do you call that.

He paused for a moment. It’s called..

OREO.

END OF EXAMS! WOOOOOO!

If I had a video blog, you’d probably see me leaping off the bed screaming my lungs out. Once again..

END OF EXAMS! WOOOOOO!

Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs car wash systems. Bill’s company installed a car wash system in Frederick, Md. Now, understand that these are complete systems, including the money changer and money taking machines.

The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week.

He went as far as to accuse Bill’s employees of having a key to the boxes and ripping him off. Bill just couldn’t believe that his people would do that, so they setup a camera to catch the thief in action. Well, they did catch him on film!

That’s a bird sitting on the change slot of the machine.

The bird had to go down into the machine, and back up inside to get to the money!

That’s three quarters he has in his beak! Another amazing thing is that it was not just one bird — there were several working together. Once they identified the thieves, they found over $4000 in quarters on the roof of the car wash and more under a nearby tree.