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We went to the 4-face Buddha to pray for good luck. GF's in her final year of her degree and hopefully she can maintain her excellent results and graduate with a equally great degree. Before the trip she had been headhunted by a MNC for a position in Germany and she was confused whether to go for it or not. I know what's stopping her was our relationship.

You know the funny thing about the whole situation. Of course i would rather have her by my side then let her venture far away from me. I started worrying if she fall sick would there be anyone to take care of her, to keep her company. Den i reflected on my past and i thought a lot about many things.

"To love is to give it wings." I told GF that she should go for the interview and do her best to get the position. Be it 2 years, 3 years or 5 years, i would want her to try and live without regards. It's an honour to be offered a chance of a lifetime and dun want to see her miss it because of me. For me i'll just continue with my life, work hard and wait for her return. I even joked that if the appointment was to be a long term one, i wouldn't mind going there with her as her "Expat-Husband".

I even thought of things to do when i'm there. I'll cook German Baked Trotters, drink German beer, watch German tv, sing German songs, be a German desperate house-husband. Hiak hiak hiak....

Call me an idealist. I believe that as long as both of us are happy, we will enjoy doing anything together. I dun mind carrying a huge bottle of mineral water in my haversack, running around BKK with you, carrying your barang-barangs, obediently taking out the file on out itinaries from a ultra-pack haversack each and everytime u asked for it. Just as long as you're happy, i'll be happy too. But i really though you could do without that much Naraya bags... lolz.

We prayed for good luck and good health at the 4-face Buddha. Actually since i'm a novice to BKK, i had intitially thought the 4-face Buddha would be a huge establishment like say our Loyang Tua Peh Gong or the Guan Yin Temple at ( si-bey-loh aka 4-horse-road). That probably explains my reaction when GF brought me to this corner of the Hyatt Hotel and told me this was it. I was like huh, "what-the-my-amituofou, shan zai shan zai"


Really an eye-opener for a sua-ku like me. A simple offering with jokesticks , a candle and 4 bundle of flowers cost 200BHT.


Chatuchak Market

On the saturday morning, a day before our flight back, we went to Chatuchak Market (CTC) for some shopping.

Some really interesting happened to us. Coming out from the BTS station, we saw this huge group of people in white forming up along the road besides CTC. As we walked down towards CTC, we were quickly caught in the middle of the crowd. Den something happened. This group of aunties directly in front of us raised up a huge banner, chanting something in Thai we we dun understand.

Then it hit me. could we have caught outselves in the anti-Thaksin protest? Got so zun-bo. I grab GF's hands and we did a belok kiri to overtake the group, only to find a camera crew fliming us coming out from behind the huge banner. And the best thing was GF and i were in white polo Ts. I held GF's hands tight and made a beeline for the entrance to CTC.

Anyway we were being too nervy. We found out after our shopping at CTC that the crowd were a pro-Thaksin rally. Anyway back to our day at CTC. CTC was like this massive piece of real estate with nothing but a few huge metallic low-level structures, with perhaps thousands of stalls inside. We dun even know where to start.

The place is huge. And there are so many stalls selling the same thing over and over again that i thought gotten over at Suam Lum. Anyway GF made a few purchases there. Slippers, shoes, Voodoo dolls ... For myself i got a few of these really cute plastic thingy that resembles, say an egg. And you are suppose to throw the thing so hard it smashes onto the floor and spread itself out like a sunny sideup. So cute. GF got the tomato one whereas i got the egg and the smiley.

GF really took the effort to buy some simple gift for her friends. Take the voodoo dolls for example. We did find some common ones in small medium and big sizes. But these are the same design jus size difference. We search all round CTC and found these really interesting voodoo dolls costing like 35bht each. You do like the one below? The little red devil voodoo doll.

We also made our way to the pets section of the CTC market. There were lots of puppies, fishes, rabbits, parrots, squrriels out there. It's more like a huge pets section of the CTC market. Check out the cute little rabbits and squrriels.

Weather soon got hotter and the market got very stuffy. We decided to adjourned to some other place for lunch and perhaps go back MBK for some shopping. On our way out we tried the roadside stalls selling bbq chicken.



We tried the BBQ drunmsticks ( 10BHT each ) and it was well marinated, served hot and definately fresh. If not for GF, i would have been glad to exchange my 1000 thai baht note with the stall owner for the drumsticks.

We also got some fresh fruits from the fruit stall besides the drumstick lady's.

So many varieties and each and every one look so delicious!~~!~. ANd it's cheap. Do give it a try should you visit BKK. Ask for the spicy plum powder to dip your fruits in. It's great!

World Trade Centre

On our second last day, we went back to WTC to get some Dunkin Donuts back for our family. In all we got 4 boxes, each with 6 items for less than 400 Baht. Can't seem to locate the Krispy Creme in BKK so this was the next best choice.