Revisiting Chatuchak Market

Posted on January 10, 2012 by jipp

We went to Chatuchak Market on our third day in Bangkok. We were lucky because it had only been re-opened less than a week after a few weeks of closure due to the floods in the area.Chatuchak Market had not really changed much from the last time I went there. OF course now that it is fully operational (again), people – both locals and tourists alike – come here in hordes to buy just about anything there is for grab. Continue reading →

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Reflecting Back on 2011

Posted on January 6, 2012 by jipp

So – 2011 happened to be another eventful year for me. So many things happened in my life within that period of 12 months I don’t think I can ever go details about them.So reversing back to the beginning of the year, my life suddenly took a major turn when I got transferred to KL after spending the last 5 years or so in my homeland of Sabah. Oh well, I think I’ve been open about admitting how I like city life – I mean BIG city life – so I actually took the transfer offer with open arms. I like Sabah and all the towns and the cities that it has, there’s no doubt about it but I guess that little nemo that I once was has grown up too big now that it needs a bigger aquarium. Continue reading →

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Visiting DELHI Attractions

Posted on January 3, 2012 by jipp

Let’s put my posts on Bangkok on hold and return to New Delhi for a moment. It doesn’t feel good to leave it hanging just like that when there are still so many things to tell about this wonderful city.

My last post on India had been about my trip to The Lotus Temple and it was good to finally see something of highly modern and futuristic architecture in New Delhi.It was just our first destination of the day and we had at least a few more places to visit all bundled up in the 800 rupees as agreed upon by the Tuk Tuk driver. Our next destination would be a UNESCO World Heritage Site so you know how the excitement is always there for me whenever I’m heading to a place with such a high reputation. Continue reading →

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Touring BANGKOK

Posted on December 23, 2011 by jipp

Our full-day tour of the city began on our second day in Bangkok. I’ve come to realize how shops open quite late there and it’s a no surprise that you’d see how vehicles are still scarce on the streets even when it’s already 8 am.

The booming tourism industry in Bangkok doesn’t seem to have changed the city and its people at least linguistically. As the only nation in South East Asia that has never been colonized by any Western power, the people seem to struggle conversing in any other language but their own. Ordering food might be a little bit of problem so you’ll just need to know how to use your body language. Continue reading →

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Revisiting BANGKOK

Posted on December 16, 2011 by jipp

So… I visited Bangkok a couple of weeks ago despite all the warnings against traveling to the flood-stricken region. I actually bought my ticket to Bangkok as part of my ambitious mission to do both Standard Chartered Bangkok Marathon and Angkor Wat Half-Marathon (blogged about it here) back-to-back with only one week gap in between.

Either I messed with the date or the date messed with me, the date for Standard Chartered Bangkok Marathon seemed to have been brought forward by one week and the so-called mission of doing at least two international marathons before the year-end was shattered to pieces.  Damn. Continue reading →

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