Bangkok: #Market and Thai Massage

I woke up this morning with sore back and legs. why? Thai massage! I had my very first Thai massage last night. It was the best massage ever so far. Nothing can compare, not even Bali oil massage. I’m agree with everyone else who says Thai massage is the best… indeed it is!. Across the street from where we r staying, there is a local market, ah it’s Bangkok, market everywhere. we had our afternoon walk but found this market. Another shopping day, Shea bought a pair of shoes cheap cheap…. he turns to be shopaholic and has shopped a lot so far, in fact he bought more stuffs than I do, back in Jakarta he didn’t like to see me shopping but here he asks me “do you like it baby, buy it’ wow.. that’s my manJ. Hundred stalls… foods look delicious, i felt like I wanted to try it all.  So good so cheap, done with shopping then massage. In the same area there is a massage place for 250baht /2 hours it was so good, I enjoyed every minute of it, I felt like nothing to worry but enjoy my massage. She was a skinny girl but had power, she massaged every inch of my nerve, legs, back, hands with medium power (3 levels: soft, medium and strong but I chose medium). Best part was the stretching-oh I love it, they also gave us free drink and snack. there are so many massage parlors in Bangkok, any kind of massage… normal or dream massage. Haha yes we had normal one for sure, Dream massage is “massage ++” or body to body massage…

Last 2 nights, our friend Steve took us out to see the night life in Bangkok; he gave us some options but we requested normal bar (as you know there are so many up-normal places to see..opss), “Titaniun” is the bar somewhere in the downtown (I don’t remember where).  I’m an observer and of course I observedJ So we walked in, first thing I saw was a line of pretty Thai girls (their job is to company the guests), a bunch of tourist (all of them of course are white and middle aged), a good rock band,. Steve took us to the 2^nd floor for ice cube, it’s a small freezing room ( -15 degrees ) for shot. The boys had vodka shot… it was freezing, I felt like In the freezer… Shea told me “this is what it feels like in Boston in Dec” yes I had experienced winter before and I hated it. we went back to second floor , I had gin and tonic, the band was excellent. A group of young Thai girls (I believe they are students) played a series of rock song. They were good, real good no wonder y the bar hired them. it was almost 1am, I couldn’t say much longer. We left Steve n ed, there were some taxis waited outside the bar, when we walked out they started to offer their taxi ride n of course they all were talking to me (who think I am Thai girl). Shea was wasted and slept in the taxi, first the taxi dropped us somewhere but we refused to step out then I showed my phone the address of our place then he got it. I paid him double meter, I didn’t care as long as we safe and got home. Most of the taxis here in Bangkok are good, unlike Jakarta. the driver started the meter from beginning when he knew he dropped us to the wrong address. He was nice guy and he deserved double tip.

ps: i have given up countiing/ writing the bill down...  coz we have spent so much lately especially in Bangkok, we r no longer backpacker but tourists on Vacation:)