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This blog is dedicated to Afro, who asked me whether I'm going to write a blog about my visit to Bangkok. And to Crocodil3, just because. LOL.

Finally, after tossing ideas back and forth, and after so much conversations and text messages, my friend and I decided to go to Bangkok. We decided it's going to be a short trip, from 11 - 15 December 2014. I've been to Bangkok before, but that was centuries ago. So, though it's not something totally alien to be, but I know there would major changes. I know it's going to be something familiar and yet new.

My flight on the 11th was in the late evening. I was fortunate that day was a public holiday.  In the morning, I had to go to the city to exchange my money to Thai's Baht and do some errant, because of the day before I had to travel to another city due to work and my flight was delayed.

We reached the airport quite early. So we had the time to spend relaxing at the airport and just catching up with each other.

As any other days, it was raining that day. Lo and behold, my flight was delayed. Again! So, I decided to watch the in-flight entertainment, rather than reading a book as I normally do. While watching "X Men : Days of Future Past', you guys know how I don't like watching movies, the Captain made an announcement and told us that our flight would be delayed but not to worry because we were already in the queue and our number is 12th. 12th! OHMY! I was bumped, but at the end of his announcement, he said, "And to all Malaysians, at half time, we are leading Vietnam 4-1". There were spontaneous eruption of shout and claps. We forgotten about the delay for a while. My friend and I were grinning from ears to ears. The people in the flight were buzzed with the news. We felt optimistic that Malaysia will go to the final of AFF Suzuki Cup.

After one of the longest delay in my mind, finally we took off. After about 1 and half hour later, the Captain made another announcement that we were going to land shortly. Ah! Finally! Amidst all that, I managed to watch the movie from the start to finish, without falling asleep even once. WOW!

For anyone going to Thailand and through Bangkok Airport, or popularly known as Suvarnabhumi International Airport, be prepared for long queues at its Custom and Immigration Counters. After taking our luggage, we managed to get our taxi in the shortest possible time, for a change. We didn't say anything in the taxi except informing our taxi driver the name of our hotel. We reached our hotel late in the night. Thankfully we had made our hotel reservation through on-line, so there was no hassle in registration. It was nearly 11.30 pm when we finally reached our room. We were a bit tired because Thailand has different time zone than Malaysia. Our mind and body were adjusting to the time since in Malaysia, it was already 12.30 am.

After refreshing ourselves, we said goodnight to each other, with my friend warning me not to wake her up too early. You see, I'm an early riser, well as compared to her, and always eager to explore new places as compared to my friend. We always traveled together, so she already knew my style. I promised her that I won't wake her up too early. Our first day, maybe I would say first night, in Bangkok was rather non-eventful. But I was looking forward to our full day in Bangkok tomorrow.

I'm sorry if you guys were expecting something more interesting than this one. LOL

~~~~ To be continued to Day 2 ~~~~