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5/05/2008

Bangkok - Day 2

Woke up at 8am Bangkok time and was deciding where to have our 1st breakfast in Bangkok. We did not buy any breakfast package from the hotel as for us, we booked online, so no breakfast included with such cheap price for the hotel room.

Since it's just the 2nd day in Bangkok and we're not familiar with it yet, so we ends up eating a buffet breakfast at the hotel. The food is not bad, normal western style and the price is not too expensive. It's only 177baht NETT summore...

After I've had my fill, I'm very very surprised when my boyboy eat this.........

He eat salad!!!!!!! Not much Thousand Island sauce but he eat vege!!!!!!

Well it's not that someone eating vege is very very surprised but when my boyboy eat vege.. I must definitely go buy lottery liao!!!!!! hahahahahahaha... Well all his life, he adi banned vege after the incident where he said he vomitted once when he ate vege when he was just a kid. So kinda like got a phobia on vege lar.. but if u say the vege comes together with a burger i.e. McChicken/Big Mac/KFC's coleslaw, he eat woh. Reason is bcuz those contains quite a number of mayonaise/sauces mar...

OK I'm way out of topic... so.... the 2nd day, we went to The Grand Palace by ourselves after much research from the Internet and much info from a fren... So off we went to take the BTS Skytrain from Victory Monument station (nearest to our hotel but we have to walk for about 20min to get there!!!! Imagine we sweat like a pig adi!!!) to Saphan Thaksin station.

From there, we took their errr... consider as boat lah... from Central Pier to Tha Chang.

After we aboard the boat, must camwhore mah!!! :D

During the journey, we've got about 20min in the boat for us to enjoy the views surrounding the Chao Phraya River.

Quite a number of high rise building around this area...

We both again camwhoring.. I look si beh happy hoh?? :D

This is the Shangri-La hotel boat. Looks damn special leh...

One of the temple surrounding this river...

The most expensive condo in Thailand. Costs about 1mil++ baht for a 1 room lot.

Another temple surrounding this river...

Wat Arun, The Temple of Dawn. The temple is most beautiful during dawn...

So after the 20min ride, off we head to the Grand Palace where both of us almost got lost in searching for the entrance!!! There is a lot of entrance to this Grand Palace but only 1 entrance you're allowed to go through. The others, if you did not do any survey, you'll get cheated from the tuk-tuk drivers. They'll say they're currently having dunno wat prayers, so it's close for the day. DON'T EVER BELIEVE THEM!!!

The Grand Palace are open from 8.30am till 1.30pm and from 2pm till 3.30pm. So thank god both of us did check out the info. If not, we'll get cheated for sure.

So after we bought our entrance ticket to Wat Phra Kaew and the Grand Palace, the 1st stop we went to is Wat Phra Kaew.

The entrance of the temple Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha)

Can you see where I'm standing??

To tell the truth, I'm very very very VERY impressed with the Thai's handiwork. This temple is build with thousands and thousands of golds and also errrr... glass?? It seems that to build this temple alone, it took them about 25years to complete!!! The reason?? See for yourself..........

Beautiful isn't it?? Look closer.............

SEE!!! There's millions of tiny pieces of errr... glass I think which needs damn a lot of handwork lo!!

One of the stupa in the temple....

The miniature of Angkor Wat... For me, it's not mini loh...

One of the temple building in Wat Phra Kaew

The side view.....

Do you know what is this?????

The shiny-shiny yellow is REAL GOLD!!!

Really beautiful isn't it?? Did you know what it is yet???

The last 3 pictures above is actually drawings along the temple. It's an extremely long and big drawings that it need a lot of time to draw and paint and the drawing is so fine and beautiful and gorgeous!!! But you're not allowed to touch. Not that it's still wet or anything, it's just to avoid people from dirtying it. I would want to protect it if its me. So beautiful woh!!!

I like this. It's cute and its like a symbol of, there's a lot of protector protecting this building.

A closer look, EACH and EVERY "protectors" here are actually made of simen and glass!!! No wonder they're shining!!!

My boyboy following the rest of the people there, taking a lotus flower with "sing sui" and put on da head.... cute hoh!!!

This is the exit from the Wat Phra Kaew temple. We're not allowed to take pics when we're in there... too bad... But when I'm in there, I'm very impressed. Although the Emerald Buddha is sitting very very high above all the errrr..... "stuff" and the Emerald Buddha statue is very small, but the insides of it is impressive. There's a lot of drawings, statues of Gods and etc.

This tree looks special hoh?? Like in a cartoon!!!

Behind me is the Grand Palace building. We're not allowed to go in.........

Me imitating the cute tree behind... hehehehehe....

The Grand Palace...... and it's starting to rain!!!

While relaxing at the side walk, there's a bunch of soldier marching towards the Grand Palace.

This soldiers is actually going towards a hall where the King's late sister's body are being kept. She just passaway when we just arrived in Bangkok. Not right after lah, but maybe few days earlier?? Along the street or any part of Bangkok, you can see the King's late sister pictures are everywhere! The Thais pays respects to her by putting up her pics at a place and pray for her.

Lunch time!!! In front of me is the Pineapple Fried Rice with my fave Strawberry blended and my boyboy's Coconut blended drinks.

This restaurant is actually just next to the pier... So of coz must take pic lah!!

The VERY VERY YUMMY Mango Sticky Rice!!! The mango is as sweet as a sugar!!!

My Green Curry Chicken Rice. Tastes not so good compared to the 1 I ate at Day 1

Pandan Leaf Chicken. Taste good!!!

After lunch, we head to Wat Pho where it's just only 10min walk from the Grand Palace. Inside, we could snap as much pics as we want!!! So enjoy da pics!!!

The Reclining Buddha

There's upgrades needed, so thats why the black patches...

The Reclining Buddha's feet contains small small pics....

This is the clearer view of the pics... It's actually the pics of the "4 face God"....

Along the Reclining Buddha there's a "bowl" for you to donate some money to...

Outside, there's this small garden for you to sit and relax... I'm so hot that my face turns apple!!!

Look at this door, surrounding it is full of small pieces of glass!!!

This is....... errr......... I forgot... sorry....

So that's the last pic I took before the battery runs out. I have to zoom to the max as this buddha is quite small just like The Emerald Buddha and I have to wait till all the aunties and kids to move their ass off my camera view.

You imagine hoh, you were there squatting (they ask you to squat when you're in the temple) and damn obvious pointing your camera towards the buddha to snap a pic, all the aunties and kids PURPOSELY stand RIGHT IN FRONT of you and say "Ei boy ah, come we take pic together here lar.. come come..." -______________- Then they have to like take AGES just to take 1 bloody pic!!! OK I "loon 9" them... no choice mar... inside the temple, have to be errr... "suci" ge mar....

So after that, we went back to our hotel to rest a little before we head off to.... hmmmm.... oh Pratunam Market for our dinner and walk around the area.... No pics were taken as the battery "kong" for the day........

5/04/2008

Iron Man - The Movie

Went to watch Iron Man with my sis & her boyboy yesterday (Saturday night to be exact) and I'm damn impressed with the technologies shown. Especially the AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the graphics that can be done using a computer.... though whether it's really exists or not.. I dunno...

Let me tell you briefly on how the movie goes...

The Iron Man poster...

Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard

The movie started off with introducing who and what makes Tony Stark so popular especially with his blooming business in armoury or high-tech weapons. He became so popular that he created a very up-to-date weapons like bullets, missiles, rockets and etc for the US military for them to win in wars.

Then one day, he went to Afghanistan to demonstrate his most latest creation, The Jericho missiles that with 1 missile, it could destroy one whole village. After the demonstration, he was being kidnapped by the Afghan people. From there, he was surprised that how in hell that the his weapons or creations falls under Afghan people.

When he was being kidnapped, the kidnappers required him to create a new Jericho missiles for them in a week using whatever weapons that they have (from his company Stark Industries). From there, he knows that no matter he created or did not create the Jericho missiles, he won't be able to go home alive from the kidnappers.

So he got an idea of creating a robot for him to escape his kidnappers with the help of a guy (who is able to speaks multiple languages) whom was being kidnapped long ago.

Tony Stark creating a robot for his escape...

Well he really do managed to escaped from the kidnappers alive and saw how cruel it is if his weapons or creations falls under the wrong hands. So when he got back to the US, he decided to shut down his Stark Industries from producing weapons or armoury. He decided to change his business to create something else...

Tony Stark showing his chest which contains... I dunno wats that called.. to his business partner

Of course, his ideas of changing his business direction from weaponary to "something" was being called crazy by his business partner. So he decided to go on with his ideas of changing his business direction and go on with his latest creation.... a robot which is so poweful that he could stop the Afghan from murdering the innocence...

Tony Stark testing his latest creation of a "flying object".

He locked himself from the media and from the public to complete his latest creation while his personal assistant (Gwyneth Paltrow) help him deal with his business matters and his schedules.

Tony Stark testing the power of his creation...

When he completed, he took his robot creation for a spin with the latest technologies that I cant imagine. I'm very impressed with "during the process of designing, planning and creating" the robot as all is almost computerized and you could even TOUCH that 3D image!!

First attempt is of course... failed....

But he Tony Stark never gives up. So he kept on fine-tuning his creation until he thinks its good to go!

Tony Stark fine-tuning his robotic leg...

Tony Stark re-testing the power if his creation where the power is generated from the thing attached to his heart!!!

After multiple attempts, his robot has finally re-borned!!! He knew that with this robot, he could save the innocent Afghan people from being attacked by the criminals.

The birth of Iron Man

So using his robot, he flew to Afghanistan to kill all the murderers and kidnappers who kidnapped him before while saving the citizens there. Imagine, using his robot to fly from US to Afghanistan!!! Impressive isn't it??

The gorgeous Iron Man Suit!!!

Tony Stark within the robot suit flying off to Afghanistan

Somehow, he knew of the betrayal of his business partner who wants him dead. His business partner then created another bigger robotic suit using the prototype he stole to fight against Tony Stark. As almost all human beings, the business partner is so greedy with the wealth that Tony Stark has that he wants to conquer all of his business assets.

So Tony Stark would have to save the world from this evil business partner that both wore each of their robotic suit and fight against each other.

Tony Stark fighting against the evil business partner

So in the end, of course the hero won and he saved the day......

IF you asked me to rate this movie or compare this movie with Transformers, I would say this movie is as good as Transformers!!! Both movies contains the comedy that you least expected and the fun of laughing at their silly but serious comments.

And of course both contains hot chicks that the main actor are so crazy about........

Tony Stark dancing with his personal Assistant, Pepper Pots.

This movie is really worth a watch and its fun and you could laugh throughout the movie as there's comedy here and there. Then there's the impressive-ness of watching the technologies involved throughout this movie.

I tell you, once you watched this movie, you or whoever are in IT fields (especially programmers!!!), would start thinking of whether izzit possible for us to create a system something like what Tony Stark is using when creating the Iron Man suit!!!

So don't wait, GO WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!! ITS DAMN WORTH IT!!!! :D