Anyone been to here? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/article2690954.ece
(Bangkok Museum of Forensic Medicine)

Regarding the arrests in thailand, very sorry to hear that

I've been travelling to thailand everymonth since May 2008. And each travel I'd stay there for 3 to 4 weeks in one stretch (max 30 days visa only) and so far never came to such incidents.

The place now is very hot and dry. I would be in Ayudthaya most of the time. Haven't rained since December. Rained once, with small hailstones. Temperature soars to almost 40degC. April, Songkran, can reach to 50degC. Will be there for another month.

Airaisa now has numbered seats, and prior to the free seating, I usually seat alone in the row, but now I find myself seating with other strangers (and no pretty people to chat with *sigh*)

Weekends sometimes we visit bangkok, so my fiance will drive to jatujak BTS station, park there (and their parking is funny, cars are allowed to side park but with HAND BRAKES released, so you can push it front/back if you want to move out of the lot) and takes the BTS to Siam Square/MBK and walk to Siam paragorn. Last sat 7th march they have this awareness program of their indigenous tribes (which all of them came from china long ago!) and the outside square was promoting their local tribal foods, while indoors were their vege produce.

Anyway, who else is going to Thailand for Songkran? I'll be there to get fully soaked, wearing my white T, getting all wet and horny, showing my body and what not. ANyone want to see me get wet? Really wet?

This post has been edited by happy4ever: Mar 12 2009, 03:56 AM

Also not forgetting this (which most tourists missed out) is the JJ Mall (jatujak Mall) which is located further on after the stretch of food stalls (where there's this nice pork noodles and a beef noodle stall). The mall has cheaper stuffs (like clothes, belts, wallets, etc) than the stalls outside in JJ. Its cooler too.

For currency exchange rates, i normally refer to http://www.wawasanmoneychanger.com.my/exchangeRates.asp

Refer here for some guide to thai language

http://www.thai-language.com/default.aspx

Jatujak is still ok, just go in the morning.

And don't forget to walk further in into Jatujak Mall, its aircond, and the prices can even be cheaper than outside (like wallets, belts, bags, and bras)

Not really.

locally made products and food are cheaper than locally made products in malaysia.
But their imported ones are expensive. Food can be cheap too, provided you know where to find.

Anyhow, will be in Ayuthaya for the whole month of Sept.

Will be in thailand, mostly in Ayuthaya and Bangkok from 23rd Dec to 10th Jan liao

who wan meet Mistress Happy?

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Added on December 18, 2009, 11:56 amCan take BTS to the nearest place to chinatown, then you walk la.

Forgot which station already.

This post has been edited by happy4ever: Dec 18 2009, 11:56 AM

Whoa, didnt know got free bus service to chinatown. Gotto check it out

Last year on dec24 nite, I was in FuturePark Country Palace, got show and dance of all those thai tribes and cultures. very nice!

I seriously have no idea lolz

I was in Ayuthaya BigC, took a bus, 1hour 30min journey ++, ended up in a bus depot somewhere near jatujak, but also dunno exactly where, took a cab to jatujak, then take BTS/Monorail.

Kambing bek... was hell. Took van, cos we dunno which bus to take, from bangkok, to Future Park Rangsit (phahonyotin road). Good thing was, there were two damn hot lenglui sitting next to me, and so sexy too

Then from Future Park we took cab to BigC Ayuthaya.

the train got stop at the erm BigC ayuthaya or not? the place where its after the high tech industrial park? If i'm not wrong, i dont recall seeing a railway track there..

or maybe u can tell me which part of ayuthaya it stops?

Take cab from bangkok to ayuthaya = $$$. 1hour cab ride.

Communication is a real headache there

and sometimes the taxi guy maynot know the way, thats even worse..lol.

What i normally do is to go to a hotel or tourist pondok and ask.

It helps if u got the travel book with english-thai-english translator.

and if possible, get the names of places u wan to go, spelled out in THAI. Not all cab drivers know english or in alphabets ABC.

But sometimes, if you're lucky, some of them can even speak mandrin..lol..which i found out once. Thought this girl was native thai, mana tahu she reply back in mandrin.. hehehehe..which my fren knows how to speak la. (coz i mandrin oso tarak paham..worse )

We got one from MPH. A small little booklet with basic phrases in english to Thai (romanized) and in thai spelling.
So in case u dont know how to pronounce, you can just point and ask (like asking for the taxi, the toilet, etc)
It helps too if u snap pics of items u may need to ask and show on yr phone

anyhow, if you got time, can learn up from this site before going to thai (which i am totally blur in learning new languages)
http://www.thai-language.com/default.aspx

Try this too: http://www.thai2english.com/#Overview

Kuih chap, so thats what it was called!



Yes..only at nite in chinatown. The stall is right in the middle of the entrance of the lane, which has many other food stalls along it.
Very nice, and lot of thai ppl queuing up to eat too!

Further behind got uncle do the seafood dishes. They have crabs!


And steamed fish (most thais prefer deep fried, so its rare to find steam fish other than in chinatown)


And also, do wear long pants. That place is crawling with MOSQUITOES!!!! They had to use the coil and put under out table, and even then, got stung so many times liao.

haha..will try them out.

I'm staying in ayuthaya most of the time throught these 3 weeks...so there got nice seafood places. Big fresh prawns, and even the siham is damn HUGE! HAHA..roasted siham! and fish and big prawns. Cheaper than in Malaysia.

This post has been edited by happy4ever: Dec 25 2009, 11:22 AM

unfortunately no

my partner is the one with the company car, so i'm stuck in the house do my work liao. Venturing out is quite a hassle, coz every place is so far away...need to call taxi... which costs $$$$

Was at the Central World/Zen (near Holiday Inn) last night. The side walk eateries next to the end of Central world is one kikass place...fully packed with people, and vendors are selling salted BBQ fish (live wriggling fish on BBQ). Damn fresh, plus claypot hotpot and stuffs. 130Baht for the fish liao... worth every baht spent.

Then outside of Central World, the whole stretch from the giant christmas tree to the alter, are beer drinking...from Tiger, to heinekken to Chang, to Singha...all competing each other for patrons, with live concerts etc. Damn syok... hahahaha...

And there's a new year bash there...dunno if can book hotel there to enjoice.

YEP!!!

even if Dec25 was a normal working day, people still enjoy the festive mood for Christmas on boxing day. (Hooray for commercialism!)

Taken from Central World



Then we walked further for some local food (always eat and travel like the locals ) You can see the Central World altar at the back


Lots of people


Special salt BBQed fish (still wriggling!)




Our fish (130Baht each). Ordered two of this!


And the beautiful thai people




This post has been edited by happy4ever: Dec 27 2009, 10:06 PM

Certain malls/hypermarts like BigC or Tesco Lotus have TOT wifi.

http://www.totwifi.com/en/

I tried logging in, unsecured, but their website pops up asking me to sign in. Can be prepaid also. But i didnt use their service, coz most of the time my frens house got wifi from CAT telekom, 2.3++Mb average download rate somemore liao.

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Added on December 31, 2009, 4:32 amhalal ke?

This post has been edited by happy4ever: Dec 31 2009, 04:32 AM

money exchanger la... kakaka...

Now Ayuttaya & bangkok very hot liao. So much different from last year, whereby at this time of day cool winds would be blowing. Now is around 34C!!!! like in April ...

global warming liao!!!