My Week Off

Was off work for the whole last week. We went to Legoland in JB on Monday and then sent the boys to BP to stay with my mum for 2 weeks. They are still there. Legoland was ok, it's more for kids between 6 to 12. Except for 2 roller coaster rides that adults may fancy, the rest are too kiddy for adults. If you ask me, I would say, go once. It's nice to visit at least once but I wouldn't go again personally. Not sure if you get the same answer from the kids though. Plus the wait for each ride was excruciating! We had to pick the ones we really like cause there wasn't enough time for all.

Legoland, good for kids only.

 Back from Bangkok after a 4 day trip. Had a pretty good time with my daughter while my husband went to work there. She is a brave 4 year old! We went on planes, vans, limo, taxi, motorbike taxis, motorised (James Bond) long boat, boat on oars and even went on elephant! All that and she didn't even wince a bit! I was surprised, I actually thought she will be afraid, especially on the elephant but she was like, "Yes, I want to ride the elephant!" Even after me reconfirming with her a few times! There went 900 baht for our elephant ride...

My 2nd son talked to his sister on the phone from my mother's house in BP and the 1st thing he asked her was, "Was it fun?". His sister of course said, "Yes!" and the poor boy was so jealous... But I have promised to take the 2 boys on a trip on a plane somewhere next year, so wait your turn :).

People in Thailand look very much like Malaysians, most of them speak to us in Thai, thinking we are locals. This was the same when I went to Chiang Mai. Bangkok looks a lot like KL too, but I think it's about twice bigger. The jam is worse than KL and another scary sight was the electrical and phone wirings running like some tangled mess along the road on posts. We don't see that in KL, thank God. I heard there are about 10 million living in the city, no wonder the jam is so bad. Otherwise, the city is nice for shopping and food, relatively cheap. Still, I prefer Malaysian food.

Authentic Tomyam Koong POWER!

The best place we visited has to be the Floating Market in Damnoen Saduak, which is about 1.5 hours from Bangkok. Things there are very expensive but the experience to ride on the boats which bumps and slides into each other was pretty cool. It's like traffic jam in the canal where boats slide along each others' side and the boatmen and women maneuvering expertly through. We were reminded to keep our hands and fingers inside the boat, if you don't want to lose them...

We also went to the Grand Palace but I think that isn't that nice. I wouldn't recommend that. When I came to Bangkok some 15 years ago, we didn't come here but to another temple, I think it was the sleeping Buddha temple and that was more beautiful. The Grand Palace is less interesting compared to that.

My girl and me at the Grand Palace.

The hotel area where we stayed was largely a Japanese expat area, so there were lots of Japanese restaurants apart from massage parlours. There were no tourist pasar malam, so I didn't get to shop alot. We did go to Tesco Lotus and BigC (equivalent to Carrefour here) and bought some clothes. I brought some 20,000 baht but couldn't finish it :(, I wished I had more time and more places to shop.

This Friday, we are off again to Johor to bring the boys home. We need to be home on Friday evening because my eldest has Confession and Confirmation (correction: it's Communion not Confirmation) on Saturday and Sunday.

Alexander Tan Shi Rong!

And I am officially a godma! My new godson, Alexander Tan was baptised last Saturday. Isn't he a cutie!