dinner at Bangkok 6 May 2010

well, I didn't eat any Thai food for my first dinner in Bangkok. Hehehe.. In fact, we ate Chinese food. It took 2.5 hours for me and Pang to go back from Grand Palace to her place because we took bus (ferninda was so innocent, she wanted to try to take bus in bangkok). Therefore, that day was complete coz I took boat,motorbike taxi,cab,and bus in 1day.HAHAHA..

I stayed in a hotel where Bo, a Korean girl (Waranya's friend), was staying. She came from Chiang May (she did her research in Chiang May). The hotel was quite small, but the room was SUPER COMFORTABLE. Bo said, the hotel owner let me stay for free on the first nite, and 500 baht for 2nd nite coz Bo was complaining about how they didn't give clear direction to Bo on her first day. Then, I, innocently said,"ohh..then i just stay in this room for one nite,then move to your room tomorrow nite, then we share the cost of ur room". It turned out on the next day that the hotel owner let me stay for free for 1nite SOOOO.. I want to stay for the 2nd nite..hahahaha.. but nvr mind..at the end, 500 baht is equal to $25.. I ONLY PAID $25 for 2nitesss!! woww :P

now let me tell you about my real adventure in Bangkok on 7 may :)

In the morning, I went with Waranya to the nearest BTS stop (MRT STop, but the skytrain one, not the underground). I had a long discussion with her about the political situation in Bangkok, and so on and so forth. It was very interesting. From the skytrain, I　could see the protest below me.

My first stop was Jim Thompson's house. He was the founder of Thai Silk. There were LOTS Of arts collection in his house. I saw paintings from Ayuthaya period (i forgot which century is Ayuthaya period :( hmmm),Buddha statue, Chinese porcelein, wahh..interesting!! The most interesting part is the wall between the rooms is raised around 30 cm..hmm..wait..how to describe it?? wait yah.. Imagine between living room and dining room, you have a 'hole' (rectangular shape) to go to another room (it's not like there's no border between rooms). This rectangular shape hole similar with window (imagine there is a window between your rooms) is formed in a way that you have to step over the 30cm "wall" because in Thai beliefs, the evil spirit is creeping on the floor so they prevent the evil spirit from entering the room.