Emmett's 1st Holy Communion

4 years of Sunday school, and he finally had his 1st Holy Communion ceremony last week.

The sacrament of First Communion took place during the Friday Evening Mass.  Total of 52 children graduated on that day, 26 young girls and 26 young boys.

Congratulations son for another milestone in your journey.
Next step is the Holy Confirmation.

See Eugene's 1st Holy Communion 2016

Bangkok Trip 2019

We did not plan much for this trip.
Most important, we wanted to enjoy eat, shop, sleep, and repeat.

My initial plan was to shop for these items:

• sunglasses
• Leather bag
• Outdoor quick dry cloth
• Coin purse as souvenirs
• Cosmetics, especially beauty blender.
• And lots of new clothes

My must eat list, boat noodles, wanton mee, sticky rive mango.  Had it all!

After window shopping on the 1st day, I find that the international brands clothes are not that cheap, after conversions I think I can get a cheaper price in Malaysia.  Blame it on the weak Malaysia Ringgit.  When we were in Bangkok in 2006, the exchange rate was about 100baht equal to RM10, but now 100baht equal to RM14. So much different.

Despite the poor conversion rate, I managed to grab the items below.  I felt like I didn’t shop enough, regretting not buying more clothes, but then again, when I list it down, it looks like quite a long list.

sunglasses - 1
Leather beg - 1
Leather purse - 1
Coin purse and keychains for souvenirs
Skin care - beauty blender, eyebrow pencil, aloe vera gel
Shorts - 1
Top - 1
Dress - 1
Leather sandal -1
Leather belt - 2
Walking shoe - 1
Leather watch strap - 1
Leather cards holder - 1
Hair clip - 1
Cashmere shawl - 1

Most of my shopping was done in Tokyu Department Store, MBK.  I was quite disappointed to find that there’s none Japanese brand handbag in that store. Maybe it was hidden from my eyes 😂

My catch.  Mostly from Tokyu.

Thai brand bags.

Hair clips. Many of hair clips in Tokyu and iSetan are made in Japan.

Sunglasses.

iSetan, Central World.

Our major expenses:

Flights - RM870 per person
Accommodation - RM700 per night
Taxi Airport - hotel - 800baht
Taxi hotel to airport - 500baht

Breakfast at Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok

The breakfast spreads were good, but nothing much to shout about.  Ohh how I miss hotel breakfast in Japan.  There’s always something new and exciting to discover, here we goes about Japan again.

But hey, at less they served bacon! That’s a huge upgrade from we have in Malaysia.

Didn’t take much photos since mostly what we had are similar for the following days.

So, here goes..

On adult plate..

On kids plate..

Yes, they serve Thai curry, steam bun, fruits, and many more common breakfast menu.

RWMF2019 | MACKA B

Reggae genre holds a special place in my heart. The 1st music album that I ever bought was UB40. 

If I remember correctly, I was in Form 1 at that time. I find that the Reggae music is quite rare, you can hardly hear it playing on radio, that’s why I decided to buy the cassette. 

Mind you, it's not an easy decision, at that age, to choose between buying a cassette, good food, or new  clothe, tough decision you know :)

What we normally did last time was just buy a empty cassette and record the song from the radio. ohhh missing those days.

So when I found out that a Reggae band was going to perform at #RWMF2019, I make a note in my head that I must go and see their show.  For info, this is the 1st time a Reggae group performing in RWMF.

It was a great show on that day. Brings back my school time memories. Love it!

Thank you Macka B !

Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok

We had a great stay at this hotel during our trip to Bangkok earlier this month.

We wanted to stay somewhere really close to a mall, not just walking distance kind of close, but linked or connected is we were looking for.  We were aiming for either MBK or Central World.  Unfortunately, hotel in Central World was already fully booked.  For info we only bought our flight tickets and book our hotel 2 days before our travel day.

But we are glad we chose this hotel.  Located right above MBK mall, making shopping so much easy.

Room is spacious, everything looks clean, view were great. Bathroom is big, full sized bathtub, separate wash closet. A huge different from what we had in Japan, I meant the bathroom.  Other than that, Japan trip still sit on top of our list for the best holiday destination so far.

Sorry, you will hear me comparing things with Japan now and then.  Can’t help it, since we have had our 3 consecutive trips to Japan for the pass years.

Wait until I go Europe than only you will see me comparing to Europe standards. hahaha, fingers crossed.

Ok, enough talking, here’s the picca of our room on the 17th floor..

The lobby

The corridor

Spacious room

Big Window

Spacious bathroom

Great view