Okay so before I start this holiday/trip journal, let me explain to you that I did this insane week-long trip with my three bestfriends: Tantya, Nadya and Icha. I've known all of them since mid school except Icha, with whom I became inseparable with in high school. Despite our differences, we were all exactly alike: we like good laughter, mocking weird people, we like to travel, we were moody, we spoke whatever comes into our mind and we never get offended by it.
Which made them perfect for this budget trip.
Our flight to KL was at 6.30 am on Sunday, which was why I and Icha arrived at Soekarno-Hatta Airport at such an ungodly hour of five-thirty. And even by then, we were too late.
We were the last ones to check in, the Air Asia officer was screaming in our ears to hurry our butts up, the check-in lady was panicking as well, we haven't handled our fiscal/tax matters and that's not even the worst of it: my two other beloved friends hadn't arrived yet.
So witht he clock ticking, the gate closing and the man screaming, the four of us finally got together and ran --and I mean RAN-- here and there, left and right in the spacious airport, whizzing past people and officers with our passports and boarding passes in hand, dragging out suitcases and wishing like hell that the plane hadn't left without us.
It almost did, though. Add that with me being held back by the immigration officer as I forgot to fill in the card.
It took us a while to get strapped in our plane seatbelts, we looked sideways at eah other and at our tousled hair and frantic face and we laughed our butts off. Finally we were off for our very first holiday together !!! Until today, I cannot even begin to tell you how it felt when we touched down in Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Int'l Airport.
(No need to tell you how we waited in KL's LCCT terminal for five hours -ish, reading and eating and drinking whatever was around su as we were so bored. I even suggested to Tantya to play Amazing Race.)
We landed at around 6 p.m. Bangkok time and as agreed, we got picked up by Residence Rajtaevee Hotel's mini-van taxi. First imrpesison : Hello Thailand, Goodbye English. Forever.
We cruised down the highways pointing out buildings and brands we were familiar of and finally arrived in the hotel 45 minutes later, all knackered but roaring to explore. We checked in our family suite (two-bedroom with ktichen and living room: each Rp. 675,000 for three freakin nights) and decided to check out the superhuge Siam Paragon Mal, just a minute away from us.
Of cours,e being tourists and all, we decided to use the hotel's golf cart service that took us straight to the mall's entry :D It was already eight or nine-ish so we just wolfed down dinner at the basement foodcourt which was a lot like Senayan City's but much much bigger. And the desserts, don't even ask. I had drools all over them! I'll post pictures later!
After roaming the humongous mall (it includes Siam Discovery World and an IMAX cinema that's supposed to be the biggest cinema in town) we arrived back at the hotel at 10.45 p.m.. We'd also stacke dup on 7/11 located just in the corner of our hotel so we happily munched on chips and milk while soaking our tired feet in the bath tub, reminiscing today's insane hectic-ness.
We could't believe that we got there already, to freakin' Bangkok, couldn't believe that this plan that we've developed since 2009 has finally, finally, Thank God, come true.
That night we were exhausted but we still managed to laugh about silly nothingness-and fell asleep with a smile on our face.
