Trip to Thailand

Day 1 - 6 June 09
Arrived at Bangkok around 7pm, took a taxi to the hotel (apparently the taxi driver couldn't speak english. He almost took us to Chatucak market...).
Checked in to hotel (Ibis at Sathorn). The hotel was pretty new, the hotel room was small but quite nice and most importantly, clean!! But I didn't like the bed, it was too hard on my back..

After checked in to hotel, we decided to go to Suanlum market.. (night market). It turned out the market was close by the hotel so we could walk there.
At suanlum market we ate my first real Thai tom yum soup :) and Toma had chicken barberque with rice at a reasonable price... We ate in the open air food court, entertained with a bunch of Thai's singers and sexy dancers :). I think Toma was quite entertained hehehe

Day 2 - 7 June 09
Almost a whole day we spent in Chatucak weekend market.., shop shop shop...
The funny thing was, we forgot to bring our money (we stored most of them in the safe deposit box back in hotel). At first we thought we didn't need that much of money, but after looking around, and tempted by the reasonably cheap price, Toma decided to go back to hotel to get the cash hehehe..

At night we decided to check out Patpong (so-called the red light district of Bangkok). We were amazed that the clubs there were litterally "open". You could see the sexy dancers performance from the pedestrian.. We also accidentally walked in a soy (small road) where there were hotels on the side of the road and in front of them there were girls lined up to be picked up!! But we didn't spend that much time there. Maybe Toma would like to go back there with his friends =p

Day 3 - 8 June 09
Today's agenda: visit the Grand Palace..
At first we wanted to take a taxi straight to the palace, however the taxi driver said that there was traffic jam, so He won't take us there. He said we better take a riverboat tour with a price of 150 baht per person. We didn't want to take the tour, but he insisted and kindda insulted us. He said that we think to much for just that small amount of money. huh he should haven't done that!!!
Well anyway, we stopped at the nearest BTS station, and asked for information how to get to grand palace using public transportation. It turned out that we could take a riverboat from BTS Saphan Taksin.. for only about 13 baht!!! Lucky we didn't follow the taxi driver's suggestion.
We looked around the grandpalace for a while.. It was a nice palace, and the wat was so "sparkly". But it was very very hot there...
From grandpalace we decided to go to Siam shopping center and its surrounding malls :)

Day 4 - 9 June 09
We went to Siam square, MBK, and had a thai massage :) and then we headed to airport to go to Phuket...

At Phuket airport we took a minibus van (about 150 baht per person) for transfer to hotel. Checked in to Yorkshire Hotel. The hotel had a good location, only 5 minutes walk to the Patong beach and had a quite good night life but not too loud.

Day 5 - 10 June 09
Trip to Phi-phi Island, Maya bay, etc...
At first we sat on the front of the boat, i didn't like it since it was too bumpy.. makes me sick.
Afterwards we sat on the back and I felt better.
Maya bay had a very nice beach.. it was used for Leonardo Di Caprio's movie setting, The beach.
We went snorkeling, swimming and relaxing on the beach.
I had sunburt afterwards, but it was worth it!!

Day 6 - 11 June 09
Relaxed day..
Went to Simon Cabaret in the evening.
The ladyboys were very pretty... and they had a nice body, slim legs.. whoa!!

Day 7 - 12 June 09
Early in the morning we headed to the airport to go to Bangkok.
At Bangkok we took a taxi to go to our hotel, Best Western. The hotel is quite new, but small. It was a boutique hotel I think. The hotelroom was nicer than we had in Ibis, but the hotel location was not really good. It was quite far from the BTS station. But we were not complaining.. after all it was our holiday!!!
We then spent the rest of the day just mall hopping :)

Day 8 - 13 June 09
Went back to Chatucak weekend market again hehehe..
Finished up our shopping for oleh2..
After that we headed back to airport to go home..
Bye Thailand!!!

Cita - cita

Pada inget gak waktu kecil dulu kita suka tuker2an "buku kenangan" sama temen2..?
Kita tulis di buku kenangan temen kita biodata, nama, alamat, cita2, kata kenangan, dll..
Terus kita hias2 dan kadang kita tempelin foto?
If you get it then you're totally in "my generation" :) and I guess you're a girl ... (not sure if boys were doing this or not).

G selalu bingung mau tulis apa di kolom cita-cita..
Karena rasanya dari kecil gak punya cita-cita..
Walaupun kata pepatah.. "Gantungkan cita-citamu setinggi bintang di langit",
I just want to be rational...

Some kids already know from early on what they want to be when they grow up.
Well I guess I'm not that type.
I'm the "go with the flow" type..
Or you could say.. I just have no idea what my passion is.. or what I'm good at...

Beberapa pekerjaan yang pernah g list down di "buku kenangan" temen:
1. Doctor - hey I think every kids want to be a doctor, right??
2. Lawyer - this was around the LA Law era.. and some other movie about lawyer that I don't remember the title.. It's the one with a mute lawyer, using sign language..

Back then I knew exactly the right second after I wrote down those jobs that I didn't really mean it..
Those were not what I wanted to be when I grew up...
And it's true! Later as I grew up, I found out that I hated biology and I didn't like to debate (mind you, I'm a phlegmatic person).. so that was the end of it..

So when I have to choose my major in college.. I just choose what I think I'm capable of..
That certainly does not include biology and law (since I don't like memorizing stuff) and physics (since I was sucks).
I chose accounting..
Well.., numbers make sense to me..
Accounting makes sense to me..
It's easier than physics or mathematics..
It does not require memorizing stuff that much..
And everybody says that every companies need an accountant..

So here I am ended up being an ex-auditor - slash - financial consultant.
But still, I haven't found my passion yet..
I don't know if I want to stay in this career path..
Well, I do know that this is not what I want to do for the rest of my life..
I'd like to do something else..
Something that I'm looking forward to when I wake up in the morning..
Something that I can smile about in my dreams..

*sigh*

Where the streets have bad names

Check this out!

http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2009/01/where_the_stree.html

I'll be barack

Terminator meets Barack Obama... hehehehe :)

Found this T-shirt at www.crazydogtshirts.com

Akiane: child prodigy

Another gifted child: Akiane...

Please see her website: http://www.akiane.com/ and you'll be dazzled!

At age 8 she drew this:

Imagine what she can accomplish at 27 years old (i.e. my age =p)

Uh.. I feel so insignificant compared to these children!!

The youngest teacher in the world

It's amazing......

Namanya : Adora Svitak
Umur : 7 tahun
Profesi :Guru Sekolah Dasar
Tarif Mengajar : US$ 300 /pelajaran/50 menit.
Tarif sebagai Pembicara :US$ 10.000 sekali presentasi
Mulai bisa Membaca di usia: 3 Tahun.
Karya : Menulis BUku "Flying Fingers" (berisi koleksi cerita-cerita pendek karya Adora yang juga berisi tips dan panduan bagi mereka yang ingin menjadi penulis)
Hobby : Suka membaca 2-3 buku/hari !!!!
Lebih suka nonton berita daripada nonton Film Kartun.
skills :Bisa mengetik antara 80-112 kata per menit,
Punya situs Pribadi : www.adorasvitak.com

Wartawan : "Dora, apa ada yang kmu khawatirkan??"
Adora : "Perekonomian dunia, Juga pemanasan global, kolera di Zimbabwe, penurunan kualitas pendidikan dan kelaparan dunia, Namun umumnya, saya berusaha tidak khawatir karena waktu yang dihabiskan untuk khawatir itu bisa digunakan dengan lebih konstruktif".

sumber : www.adorasvitak.com

Buat blog..

Apa ya guna blog buat B?
B gak bisa nulis hal2 private di blog karena takut kebaca orang...
Tp on the other hand apa gunanya blog kalau ga ada orang yang baca.. hehe...
Some people introduce their blog in facebook, friendster, or by visiting other people's blog..
Tp kok rasanya malu ya kalo nanti blog-nya dibaca orang2 yang kita gak terlalu dekat..
hahaha..
me and my stupid "privacy" things..

Dulu blog ini ada lah yang baca..
Rasanya some people left their comments..
Tp dulu masih pake enetation jadi bukan pake comment feature dr blogspot..
accountnya udah deactivated.. =p
Upload pictures jg pake photobucket..
sekarang blogging is so easyyy...

Well setelah vakum ngeblog for about 4 years..
rasanya blog ini udah ga pernah dikunjungin siapa2 ya.. hehe :)

I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to maintain diaries..

I used to do it back when I was a teenager..

But everytime I read my diaries.. I felt so ashamed on what I've written and ended up torn the diaries into pieces and threw it away in trash can.

I was ashamed with my foolishness, my insecurities, my stupid thought..



But now I reach into the point where I would like to share to someone..

But I don't know if I can or I should..

Damn stupid hormones..

Maybe I should once again keeping diaries...