Trains in Bangkok

I didn't write about the trains in Bangkok in the previous post. We wanted to try their train system when we reach Bangkok as we always took cabs to the hotel and back to airport when we go Bangkok, so I told my wife that why now try the train and see is it better and cheaper. Taking cabs cost us about 500 baht per trip every time. The airport railway is at the basement of the airport and there is two types of railway line; one is express line and the other is city line. The express line have two different stop, one stopping at Makkasan station and one stops at Phaya Thai station. Phaya Thai station is link to BTS Rail where you can take to Siam centre where MBK and Siam square. The express line cost 90 baht per person. The city line has eight stops, The time for waiting the express line plus travelling is about 45mins with only one stop while the city line took about the same amount of time to travel with 7 stops. So we took the city line as it was cheaper. I think I would take the train if I go Bangkok again, it is cheaper and will not be inside the Bangkok famous traffic jam.

Leaving Bangkok

We will be leaving Bangkok later in the afternoon, it has been a relaxing and pre-birthday trip for my wife. This is the most relaxing trip in Bangkok ever, we could take nap within the day, we could stop back at hotel and relax. Our hotel which we stayed is near Pratunum area is call Budacco hotel, it is a very nice hotel with colourful room. The only bad point of this hotel is there is only 8 floors and now we know that staying low level is a bad things as at night it will be very noisy, so we could not sleep and had to change to a higher floor. The location is very good and the room is clean and nice too, I loved it.
The purpose of this trip for me is to buy things for my work. I had a list that I wanted to buy, the list are: shirt, pants, bag for work, belt, leather shoe and those low waist short boxers. I managed to get all except pants and bag for work. I saw the forum that there are good tailors in Bangkok that made shirts and pants so I decided to come and try. I ordered and tailor made one shirt on last Friday and would get it on yesterday Monday. I did not tailor made pants as it was expensive and I could get it the same price in G2000 in Singapore. But the shop could not get my tailor made shirt in time despite using 3 days to do it. Luckily I will be leaving today instead of yesterday, if not they have to sent it back to Singapore for me. It was quite a bad experience for me, going 3 times a day to push them for my shirt. The boxers was really lucky to get it too, because the boxers that I want is not easy to get as I prefer small and short boxers than those normal baggy boxers which is easily available. I managed to find it at Platinum Mall and there are called police zebra boxers. It is a home brand made it Thailand and have a website for it (http://www.policebodysize.com/).
After waking up today, I was reviewing our trip and was thinking how to maximise our next trip to Bangkok. I was thinking is 6 days 5 nights too long? I was in the above website and found out that Pattaya has outlet mall which sell the boxers, so I went to check on Pattaya and it could be added to our next Bangkok trip when we coming over again. There is Hard Rock over there too. It will be in our itinerary in our next Bangkok trip.

Bangkok 4

Bangkok 4 means its my 4th time in Bangkok. It's my 7th time in the land of smile, 4 in Bangkok for shopping, 2 in Khorat for work and 1 in Koh Samui for anniversary. I'm still in Bangkok, while my wife is having her nap, so I decide to write my blog. This is the 4th day in Bangkok, we have visited almost all the place that we have wanted to go. The 2nd day we were here, we went to the Mae Klong Railway Market and Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. As the floating market and the railway market is two of the Thailand famous attraction other than shopping, I decided that we should visit them so we won't feel bored with the same routine in Bangkok. The tour guide named Tiger took us to the tour was very good, took us to the two markets, and give us a driving tour outside the palace and let us know the history of the kings of Thailand. This is our first time we had tour in Bangkok, as mostly we will walk ourselves as we only come here for massage and shopping. The rest of the days have been shopping, massage and eating, so I shall write more when we are back home.

Exams Over

Finally my 4th semester exams is over, time to concentrate on other things. Although I am halfway through my study, I am glad that its over so that I will have time to spend on my wife. We are planning to go Bangkok on this Thurs as her birthday trip as her birthday is around the corner. The last time we went over was last year June with her family, so she did not have much time of her own to shop. I am planning to go for the railway market and the floating market tour, so that our Bangkok trip would be different this year for the birthday girl.

Last weekend we went to Batam for a short weekend trip for massage and shopping. The massage was very cheap but the lady who massage my wife did not take off her ring before performing her job and I think she was not professional enough. The lady did not gave her and disposable underwear to change too as most massage would have. We went there with MF as he wanted to go there to buy sanitary pad for his wife as it was cheaper there. The last time I went overseas with MF was in year 2005 and that was with his then girl friend and I haven't met mine yet.

The third interview did not get me the job, so I got to start again. I have not been receiving calls for interview lately, so got to put more effort in sending resume again. I saw my friend who posted in Facebook that he will be taking the ECO course at SP in June, thought of joining him but it was a 6 days course in the day which I can't afford to gamble if there is a job opportunity comes, I will be stuck in between. And I will be taking 3 modules in the night class so it will be some tough choice to make, so I decided to try to take the course in the next intake in Sept. I am hoping that taking this course would make me more marketable in getting the job I want in the future.

Feeling the Heat

Feeling the heat? I'm not talking about climate change, thou I need to study about climate change for next week exams. Feeling the heat because I'm the only married guy in my batch who haven't got a baby yet. Four of us, Nic, Leon, Rog and me all got married about 3 to 4 years ago, Rog's wife just posted her ultrasound photos in FB, so now only left me. But I'm the only one now who is studying for my degree. We did plan that we wanted to have baby, we were hoping it will come next year as I will be finishing my degree by then. But seeing so many friends and relatives having babies this year, it kind of feeling the heat is burning our arses as everyone expected us to have babies. I think now I should be concentrating on my exams next weeks first.

The third interview was not bad, the questions asked were mainly scenario based questions. I manage to answered all but have to wait for their call again to know the results. Went to meet MF for lunch in TB plaza for the porridge buffet. Not really that good but for 8 plus dollars for a buffet its quite worth it. Went to Peninsula Plaza to pay off the Batam trip to the agency, for 80 plus per person for one night its still not bad. Yes! After the exams will be holiday.

Hope my clearance forms come quickly, got a feeling I might be delayed.