back in surabaya!
8 day of shopping didn't feel taxing when i was doing it, but when i got home n had my post-flight nap.. i felt most lazy to get up coz my whole body ached and was painful and was tired! i turned 20 and realized i was old. sigh.
anyway ppl.. finally after 4 years.. i know that singapore is a cheap place to shop for branded stuff. at least compared to surabaya. bought a pair of charles&keith nice nice nice ethnic slippers for 1/3 of its price here. my mom was so happy to find this out that she bought 2 pair of sandals, 2 wallets, 1 party bag.... and the list goes on.
what a long time for the realization to hit me. rugi besar...
anw. bangkok was ok. it's about as dirty and shanty as indo... prolly a bit worse than jakarta and a bit better than surabaya. havent been to medan so dunno compared to it... eh but ppl told me medan is the singapore of indonesia. is it true, is it true? went to some nice temples that made me experience the same feeling of amazement when i visited borobudur temple many years ago: how could people of hundreds of years ago built this kind of majestic buildings without the help of technology? must have been a king with thousands of slaves' sweat and blood. sher n elvina should go here to pray one day.
i, on the other hand, has never been a fond observer of temples.. i was more intrigued by other aspects of bangkok, such as the seafood. me n mom n uncle were looking for a good dinner, and the hotel bellboy who didn't really know how to speak english couldn't give us good directions, so three of us just stepped out of the hotel. it was 7.30pm, and we were "greeted" by the vast, vast amount of kakilima sellers, and they all offered seafood. soon the temptation got the better of us, n we found ourselves sat together with a lot of angmohs choosing crabs, lobsters, and squids. yummy yummy! gastromaniacs have to look out for this when they go bangkok! (it's located at the chinatown area).
another amazing thing was the gems jewellery, co.ltd. wahhh.. jewels here and there. diamonds, sapphires, rubys, jades, aquamarines, onyxes... blah blah. all gems can be found there. u can even order ur self-designed jewellery for the pengrajin to make. cool. cool. n of course while my mom landed her eyes on the more adult-kind (read: expensive) jewellery, i managed to get a nice pearly necklace and black-stoned necklace, all very cheap!! sheweay will be happy to shop here, too :)
went to KL for 1 day as well... it was on LH's birthday (so EH told me.. haha), and they all went reverse-bungeeing near KL Tower. so fun for what. EH sorry couldnt join y'all.. mom n uncle don't speak english, so had to look out for them.. had my share of fun shopping at times square, though. we were lucky: there were so many SALE signs everywhere in times square! bought so many things that we had to buy an extra, extra, extra large trolley bag from debenhams just to have a place to put all those things. and we travelled back to singapore by bus! imagine how troublesome it was..
aiya. didn't go for pat's treat (9th) and sher's "reunion" (5th). didn't meet up wif fung, er, asih, jaq, xiaobian, el, sherwinnie, mel.. and so many more.. did meet jazz for a while to do my uni app, tho.. problems of being away from "home away from home" aye? but i'll be back :D haha
anw. in bangkok, i heard a story about God. other people's God. or is it the same God? nonetheless, the story is captivating. God is good, God is great :) whichever it is.
