Arrival in Bangkok
February 17, 2011
I’m now getting used to traveling to a place on my own and then just meet the friends I have there. Same thing happened for me on this trip. I was going to travel with my cousin, Lea, but since she’ll be flying in from San Francisco and I’m from Manila, we agreed to just meet at Bangkok’s airport. We’ll spend a few days there then fly back to the Philippines together for more travels (and she has to meet up with the rest of the relatives)!
My seatmate, Richard's bilin ;)
In Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport
Waiting for my luggage
My cousin’s flight was supposed to arrive an hour ahead of mine. Due to some delay at HKIA, I got to Bangkok before her by just a few minutes. She said that it’s at the passport counter of Bangkok wherein she took ages. I was walking around the place trying to look for her but I ended up spotting our hosts, Jessie & Richard, first. I knew them beforehand from a few CS Manila events. It was because of another friend that they ended up offering to host and us agreeing to surf their place. Salamat Dawnie! hehe :D
Cousin and hosts
With Richard and Ate Lea :)
Getting in a cab to go out of the aiport
It was time to go home and try to get a few (4 tops?) hours sleep as soon as I found my cousin. We’re going to take a cab home. Thai taxis are very colorful! One color scheme equates to one taxi company which accounts for all these colorful cabs. Before we got on one, our hosts took us aside for some reminders. They said that since we look like locals (it’s not that easy to distinguish between South East Asians ^_^), we should try to be silent as some drivers have this habit of taking the longer route if they know you’re new to a locale. Uhmm… got it! We got in. JJ gave our address in Thai and then everyone was silent. I was trying hard not to laugh nor talk and so were the others. The tension inside was very palpable. Several minutes into the ride, when we got to the skyway, our driver turned to JJ, he was seated beside the driver, and asked him something. Well, it looked like he was asking as we weren’t exactly in a chatty mood.
JJ: cough “huh?” cough. (Hahaha)
Driver: “blah blah blah.” (Shoot. Our cover’s blown! haha)
JJ: “ah..” cough. then proceeds to speak in Thai (whew!)
We were all cracking up by the time we got off the cab! hehehe
My weirdest but definitely funniest cab ride ever! :D
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ang cute ng pink na cab..=) may jollibee happy din ba dun hihihi
wala ata eh. kaya nagpabili sa kin ng Champ. hehehe
gusto ko din ng jollibee hihi
how were you able to bring the jollibee sa carry-on?allowed ba to bring food onboard?sa NAIA di kayo na-question??ty
hi! yung jollibee, i bought it outside of the airport (meron ding jollibee sa loob ng T3 eh). bitbit ko lang sya papasok. di naman na question or anything. wala nga lang drinks na kasama yan. ;) marami rin kasi ang nagbibitbit ng food (yung iba ilang kahon ngg krispy kreme). :)