Being the sucker Singaporeans, we were all excited when we saw the huge wheel go round & round wif all the lights & paid like 100 bht per person to go on a 4 or 5 rounds on the harmless thing. Dis was taken from the top of the ferris wheel, of Suan Lom market & beyond, sori huh, abit dark.
A pic of the cemetary which has memorial tablets of warriors who perished in the war from the penetration of the Japanese. Mostly Dutch soldiers. Each tablet bears engravings of the name, rank & lifespan of the soldiers & some were reli young when dey passed on, like...20yrs old. It was kinda sad.
Then we also visited the Death Railway, which was constructed by the POWs during the time. Well, its name bcoz many died from overworking & mistreatment. Can u c the railway stretching across the waters?
Dey allow tourists to walk on the railway today, u noe, mostly to take pictures & awe our heads off wif the view. Interestingly, dis railway is still in operation. When there's a train coming thru, the horn will sound aloud from afar & the people on the railway shud all retreat & get out of the way, unless anybody aspires to become peanut butter & jam sandwiches. But anyway, the train moves at a reli slow speed, so no biggie there.
Speaking of train, we had the chance to go on one & it was like train- train, not mrt-train. We were squeezing along wif locals & got to see some nice views. Well, not to mention some of us (i'm not mentioning names) broke the seat after attempting to squeeze a-too-many people in on one seat. The poor seat simply collapsed when dey stood up to alight...lol...& i tink the locals were kinda shocked. Too much pad thai?? Hurhur...But as we were scurrying off to alight, we had to leave it & be irresponsible.
R.I.P wooden plank, at least u held on till the end.
Anyway, so, dis was the reason why we traveled 2 hrs on a mini van out of Bangkok to come to dis place call Kanchanaburi. Apparently the waterfall is famously nice or something.
Well, it is nice, 'cept dat the place was trickling not onli wif water but wif human traffic as the day we went was a public holiday for the locals. There were people having picnic everywhere, some even brought along steamboat. Kids, adults alike were diving in & out the water & some sliding down the rocks etc. Dey do seem to be very happy at wad dey r doink though.
And may i add, the place we expected to be surreal & nature-like, was also highly touristy as there were roadside stalls along the main road, selling local tibits, ice creams & drinks etc.
Unfortunately, we stayed at most a good 10-15mins staring at the congestion b4 deciding it was nothing fantastic & moved off. Sigh...so much for an adventure in seek of nature.
I rather go shopping.
Anyway, we visited Chatuchak market like any other tourists do & would u just look at the crazy crowd in the pic above!?!? And the place is so humongous most of the time, we r trying not to get lost more than we do anything else.
When brother & mo had nature calls, dey went in seek of a toilet & here's wad dey found & had to do their business in. See the line of queue? Dis bus is for ladies, dey hv a bus for men's parked behind.
Notice the puddle under the bus? It definitely came from the bus but gosh, I dun reli wanna noe wad dat is though.
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Some other Random Stuff
Hey! Look wad Empress Dowager found while clearing some old crap from the drawer!
My old watch!
See? The face is so pretty! Ok la, spoilt oredi but it's my sweet o' Garfield watch which i use to wear to bed, to bathe, in rain or shine...till i hv the tan shape on my wrist. Lol. So nostalgic laaaaaaaa.
And i tried to use dis gift from Chunie. It's a USB Cup Warmer. Supposed to plug it into ur PC's USB port & switch it on & it ought to warm up ur cup/ drink to 70 deg cel.
U can heat up ur drink by placing it on the metal plate in the middle of the dog dish lookalike thing. Cute huh...but well...i waited for a good 5 to 10 minutes & apparently my coffee remains as cold. And since i hv no idea how long i hv to wait or if it works...so...i decided to finish my coffee b4 it becomes colder. U noe......wad if the rate at which my coffee cools is faster than the rate the USB Cup Warmer heats it up?!
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Anyway, i attended my company's D&D on the Saturday night which just passed. Took quite abit of photos too.
The theme for the night was Las Vegas cum Halloween. Our team went there as witches & had our face painted. There were props like broomsticks, hats, pumpkin buckets, cauldrons, wigs etc. The girls also tried their best to resemble one, if not freaky, wif all the goth & makeup going on.
But when we reached there, we realised we were not still not crazy enuff! There were other teams who reli went all out to dress up. Darn!
It was such an insane night & i nvr dreamt of saying dis but the party was pretty fun since most of the peeps were reli sporting i shud add. It helped dat the emcee also had a screw loose.
I have yet to upload the photos.
So later.
¶ J poppycocked at 3:19:00 PM