Sawadee Thailand 2

The next two days is an all out attack on the malls. No one will be able to resist clothes that flies off the shelf at wholesale price if you buy more than 3 pieces of course. Okay, bad idea to shop with the weekend shopping crowd. BAD IDEA! Why? Because you are there for a few days and the locals can go there everyday! So there is a tendency to missed out on things if you aim to leave every stone uncovered.

What is enjoying local delicacies without eating at the roadside stores? While there is no hygiene grading (like I care) and chances of getting an upset stomach is high, there is no harm giving it a try. The food served is not fantastic but overall its the experience of eating by the road where human and motor traffic zoom by. Sounds a little noobie here but the last time round, where priority is to feed small kids with french fries and burgers and adults whose face turned sour at the idea of roadside store. Now that's partly the reason why i stopped travelling with family and relatives. =D

While in an attempt to avoid the horrible gridlock of Bangkok, I made a good effort to check out early and get a ride as quickly to the airport. Its too good an effort that i reached the airport 40mins from the moment i stepped out of my hotel room leaving about 1 hr 30mins before the check-in counters are even open! Gosh! Thank goodness for the small range of cafe to choose from, I settle into one of them, ordered a nice cup of coffee and brownie (lovin' it).

The first sign that I am heading back to Singapore comes when there is a long steady queue at the check-in counters. Yes! "Kiasuisum" rocks internationally! Mind you that there is no signage displaying TR105 to Singapore beforehand. Soon the counters open and the check-in process began. Here comes the irony of a budget carrier operating out of an international airport. The boarding pass have been painstakingly paste with passenger's name cut into strips from the flight manifest and besides the standard Tiger baggage tag, a fallback tag have been issued. Would'nt it be better if we were to stick to the industry's norm to print a decent boarding pass and issue a standard baggage tag with the barcodes? Oh well... low cost eh? Security check was a pain in the ass with my bag going through the scanner a few times because they fail to get clear picture of an overstuffed bag. opps! And the security agent stared at amazement of something which is called a mouthpiece. For what i know, it won't kill anyone unless forces of nature makes it a lethal projectile. =S

Hmmm... walking home?

Maybe not..

Its "pleasant" to reach the boarding gate to find it without a plane. Okay, bear in mind its budget carrier where profits comes when they are flying not on the ground. A special comment on the pilot of this flight who is very informative and chatty sharing lots of stuffs about himself and the flight. We were delayed a little due to some paperwork so he began crapping stuffs over the intercomm especially when comes to the no smoking rule. "This is a non-smoking flight which is a rule not enforce by me but rather a law by the international civil aviation". lol!

Once the plane is airborne, majority just dozed off. Perhaps is due to the lack of inflight entertainment or just the all out shopping experience they had. I have my inflight entertainment, the kid sitting next to me. =( With his constant fidgeting its a distraction to my reading and sleeping. "growls.." And didn't the nice lady over the speaker announce not to litter on the aircraft, why are you shredding the info card on H1N1 and throwing into the front pocket? Well, I am just glad to disappear from his sight once the plane touch down and home sweet home.

Auf Wiedersehen!