It was Famous Four (consist of me, selwyn, leyen and adrian) first overseas trip. All of us were pretty excited and looking forward to this day where we spent our precious day together “arguing” with each other in a different setting…haha…we arrived timely at Changi T1. Leyen driven by mum, me and sel driven by adrian ee (oh yah…i went taiwan with this guy…he is sel’s good friend, my bedok tuition kid’s aunt’s boyfriend brother…haha….how complicated can it be? and yah…he was from Dunman high so I presume he’ll know a loads of my primary school mates there )

We called to ask Mr Tay if he’s on his way. He told Sel that he’s on the expressway.

Sel said, “He should be on the cab to airport ba…he said on expressway.”
Leyen said, “no, i think he’s on bus”
Sel,”bus got come airport?”
Leyen,”of coz got…that giam gan na (our nickname for mr tay for being stingy ) sure take public transport…you want to bet?”
Sel,”i think you’ll win…forget it!”

and so when Mr Tay arrived, he told us that he was really on the bus…see how well we know him…hahaha…

ok…so being very early and done all the check-in procedures…we starting shopping around the terminal. I’m like on a mission to buy stuff from Beauty & Cosmetics and I made the gang hopped from terminal to terminal just to find Shu Uemura…haha….paiseh ar….So for your info out there…if you want to buy Shu Uemura stuff, it’s only available in T2!! not T1 not T3. ok…everyone use my “beautiful people” card to grab stuff except for….the giam gan na Mr Tay of course…hahaha…

Just within 15 mins before flight takes off, we still make a trip to Subway to share a 6 inch sandwich….hahaha…and while making our way to the departure gate, the staff even went passenger hunting for us and asked “where were you guys!!!” we made a 100m dash to the departure gate and grouchy Mr Tay complained that the staff scolded him while checking his stuff…and so the famous four boarded the plane heading towards Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Airport JUST ON THE DOT!

酒鬼 shopping at wine cellars at DFS

Collecting our luggages

BBK terrific traffic jam "yum yum"

The driver who lost his way to Grand Diamond

Summary of stuff from Leyen:

• Taxi Saga – Taxi got lost. Don’t know where is our hotel
   
  • We tried pronouncing Grand diamonnnnnn all the way but he still dunno where
    
  • Brought us to grand dunno what princess near Chinatown area
    
  • finally taxi Went to petrol kiosk to ask for direction
    
  • Miss tan holding luggage until leg numb backside numb….
    
  • Contact phone ol hotel not in service
    
  • Mr Tay has to call Belle (his student) and let his student talk to the cab
• Hotel Saga
   
  • Room allow maxs 3 pple. 
    
  • Dumbo group of pple still go up together
    
  • Room too small to hold 4?
    
  • Booked additional room. New room bigger …..
    
  • Discrepancy between hotel walk in and internet booking?
    
  • Room dumbo blinds need to be closed one by one and chamber maid keeps opening it daily.
    
  • BKK hotel dfs booze may not be cheaper?
    
  • The contact of roadside food post airport hotel taxi saga. We managed to survive the impossible from the food. Survived!!! And going strong to continue with choya….

haha….anyway…the 1st night at bangkok wasn’t so smooth…but we survived anyhow…i’ll blog on the subsequent days again soon…

thanks to Leyen for her terrific memory and account on all the days happenings!!