Diary of a Whiny Kid: Colds and Khaosan

Body status: teetering between catching a fever or catching a fever.

Because colds came in a little earlier than anticipated. After being drenched to chilled water that people from Khaosan splashed on me throughout the afternoon, I can actually understand if my body decides to give in. No hard feelings.

However, tomorrow's gonna be a work day and the last thing I want is to get sick and not be able to beat my deadlines. And frankly speaking, to just be hotel-bound and not be able to join them in celebrating the last day of Songkran. That part has been said to be grand and I won't dare miss it for the world!

So let me tell all of you how our day went.

Since today was a non-working holiday for the whole of Bangkok, we opted to move our shoot day tomorrow and take this time off to roam around the city in search of a similarly 'frisky' Songkran vibe to the one happeningnear our hotel. However, just so we could clear things first before another day of leisure, we got up really early and took off to the flower market for "flower shopping" no less, with my nanay event stylist Badang Rueda. Soon as we got back we all had our breakfast and mandatory chatting, afterwards, Crae and I went back to bed as our eyes literally shuts out by themselves.

Around 2pm in the aftie (BKK time) as planned, we headed to Khaosan foolishly unprepared, for what is an altogether wilder rendition of Songkran-splashing and talcum-rubbing. When I say wild, I mean hose, sprinkler, fire trucks and 'bucket-tossing-locals-from-the-second-floor-of-their-homes' sloshing.

In the words of Ms. Marbs, it was a while ago that "we abandoned hope and surrendered to the enemy" that is the Thais who infinitely sprinkle water to everyone as if it was part of the codes applied by their King. :D While the original intention is just to have a back-packers lunch, we ended up eating our way around Khaosan with nothing, as in literally NOTHING, in our body was spared from the wrath of Songkran sloshers.

Now I do believe how Thailand is a street food capital as everywhere you look there are certainly stalls selling either grilled barbecues, sauteed vegetables with egg and noodles either stir-fried or served with a soup. Much as we wanted to snack on and try everything, we were limited to only a handful of goodies. There's grilled sausages (10 baht), chicken balls (10 baht), pad thai (30 baht), pork satay (10 baht), rice-filled longaniza with ham (20 baht), potato spiral (20 baht) and more pork satay (10 baht).

Following this half-day soaking in the water, street-partying, gluttony and good times our feet lead us to MBK, wherein we gorged on rice bowls and gyoza for dinner in the tune of 100 baht (or less) per person. First look at MBK and I already knew that it somehow resembles a mall that we have in Manila, believe it or not, it's as tiangge-filled yet classy like Greenhills' Vira Mall.

So yeah, I guess that's about how our day went. Hoping for a less stressful and more thrilling Songkran 2011 closing celebration tomorrow. :)