Monday, October 01, 2007

Back from Bangkok!

Bangkok, the city don't know what the city is becoming. In short, it's getting more lively as the years progresses, while other city turn stagnant and sterile. Numerous construction projects aim to turn this bustling cosmopolitan into one huge developed city, on par with the standards set by myopic developers and policy-setters of the western world. This here is a city ready to take on its opponent and critics at their own game, without sacrificing it's own identity. Because when you get to the ground level from the lofty towers of Bangkok, you'll find the real Bangkok.

The really cheap foods I could get here are amazing in their variety.
This is a typical promotional poster in Bangkok. Look at the models. All Thai. All pretty. Heck even prettier than other models in similar ads in other countries! This is what I call quality entertainment! LOL!
An engineer working on the aircraft I'm about to take to Bangkok. Nothing against Bangkok, but I don't see this (ground crew working) anywhere in Bangkok's spanking new airport. Disappointing really when you consider that they throw your luggage around in order to move them around.
A bustling metropolitan city it truly is. A typical traffic jam by day...and night from the looks of it. However with the ever present construction of new MRT lines, this congestion could potentially be cut by as much as 30%! Soon, optimistically speaking, the roads of Bangkok would be filled with taxis and tuk-tuks rather than private cars.
Ahhh, the road side stall that caters to me...nice, good looking and cheap food. The owner was surprised because we came too early for normal Thai dinner time. He meant Thai don't usually go for dinner at the time we went: 530pm.
I'm on the tuk-tuk service plying the small access road from our hotel, The Royal Asia Lodge, to the main street. It is situated near the controversial adult only entertainment center of Nana.
The typical Thai breakfast, which surprisingly looked like all other breakfast in Malaysia or Singapore. Soup noodle. Of course I did not manage to snap photos of natives eating their ubiquitous version of "laksa(?)" or their penchant for weird looking food. I'll try to post them up when my stomach is ready for me to snap them in action...

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

still haven't been to bangkok, very disappointing... must find time (and money) to go there one of these days...

11:46 PM  

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