Saturday, April 09, 2005

A hedonistic weekend: Day 2

The day started off with me taking a dump. No, make it a huge dump. A few huge dumps, actually. I think my stomach could not get used to the water, and the chilli. G, Million Theory Man, Tripleperiod and me had the hotel’s breakfast, which pretty much consisted of eggs, sausages and coffee.

With Tripleperiod’s dischevelled ‘after fuck messy hair’ look, G and I suspected that Million Theory Man and Tripleperiod had, how should I put it, an active night. Especially since they were moved from a room with two single beds to a room with a double bed, due to aircon failure. Before anyone doubts their sexuality, both of them are NOT homosexual. They love members of the opposite sex more than anything else. Probably spent the whole night wrestling for more estate space on the bed.




The day’s itenary was to visit the temples. After all, this was the main purpose of the trip. G and Million Theory man, to give thanks to the gods for their blossoming careers, and Tripleperiod, to thank the gods for his successful LASIK eye operation. First stop was the 4 faced Buddha at the corner of Grand Hyatt Hotel







The Thai Buddhists do have an interesting variation of praying. You can pay a certain amount of money to the Temple, and they will have dancers and musicians performing while you pray to the 4 faced Buddha. Note the three dancers and musicians in the background whilst the three devotees are praying.














If there is one thing to describe Bangkok, it’s FREAKIN’ BLOODY HOT! The weather is hot, the food is hot (spicy), and the cheo bus are also hot. We sauntered down to World Trade Centre, and the following sign caught my eye.




Why would anyone want to name their store Gaysorn, eludes me. Perhaps they misspelled the ‘p’ with an ‘s’. So there we have it, in the middle of thunder Thighland, you can find GaysPorn and BangCock

The sweltering heat was perfect for Swensens.






After the sinful lunch, we visited another temple. It was pretty interesting to see the architecture of the building, and the way the Thais worship. The religion, Buddhism, is essential the same, but with a different accent.

And we walked out to Khao San Road, a backpacker’s haven. This is where most poor budget ang moh’s congregrate. And to take buses out to coastal areas for dive trips. Should take note of this place in case I wanna go diving later.




We then moved on to our last stop, the City Pillar Shrine. It’s a popular shrine, with a lot of people praying.




With so much praying, I guess all 3 of them are not only giving thanks, but atoning for their planned sins adventures for that night. Me, I am beyond hope already. No amount of praying will ever save my poor soul from all the vices (drinking especially) and sins that I have committed.

We then headed down to Ratchada to do some bird watching.

The group split up from there, and me, G, and another acquantaince that we met up with went to Sukhumvit Road to check out the salsa scene in Bangkok. Sad to say, it’s almost non existent. Or maybe Saturday night at Club Rueda just isn’t the right night for salsa. Went for dinner, which we over ordered and over ate. With Tripleperiod leading the way, we met up at Cowboy Caleb’s Bar Soi, a raunchy joint with agogo bars.

To be continued…