Icing on the cake

I'm in Pattaya, Thailand right now and the photo shows my hotel's swimming pool and its swim-up restaurant bar. After I saw this place's photo on Booking.com, I couldn't stop thinking about this place and now I'm finally here. The hotel rooms are located in their garden-like setting, and the swimming pool and its ideal swim-up restaurant bar is situated right in the middle. Yesterday, I had lunch with Singha beer at the poolside table and enjoyed tanning. Before I got back to my room, I ordered a glass of tropical cocktail with some fresh tropical fruits. It was icing on the cake, totally. I'm gonna do it again.

Khao Tom with 8 Prawns

I'm in Pattaya, Thailand right now. Yesterday, I spent a nice evening  stroll, had yummy dinner at a local Isan place, had an hour foot massage, and had a good rest at night. Then now, it's already sunny and bright morning. I just had breakfast at my hotel's restaurant. I ordered Thai traditional boiled rice named Khao Tom (Thai: ข้าวต้ม) with Thai prawns (Thai: กุ้ง) and a glass of fresh orange juice. I took this photo before I left the table. It seems my Khao Tom had 8 Prawns in it. I love Thai prawns so I'm very happy to know that.

It's better viewing, not shutter bugging

I took this photo at the place so-called Pattaya View Point. The location is on the hill and its view point is famous for offering panoramic views of the city of Pattaya. One day I was waiting for night to get there to take some night view photos, but when I got there and started to take photos, I just realised that it was too late to take nicer photos of a panoramic view of Pattaya. It was absolutely too dark. Well, the photo was terrible, but the view was stunning, so it was better late than never, but I'll try to go there slightly after the sun set next time.

Snowmen are coming down the stairs

I took this photo in front of Central Festival Pattaya Beach in December 2010. Central Festival Pattaya Beach is a huge shopping mall in the heart of Pattaya. There are two entrances faces to Pattaya 2nd Road and the opposite side faces to Pattaya Beach Road. Pattaya beach is just across from Central Festival Pattaya Beach. I took this photo at the beach side. Central Festival Pattaya Beach is connected to the Hilton Pattaya and Hilton Pattaya's rooftop restaurant bar has been receiving rave reviews from the people who has already visited as well as the people who want to visit the rooftop bar one day and I'm the latter.

The high temperature reaches 30 degrees or so...

I saw this guy at the T-junktion of the Beach Road and the Central Road in Pattaya, Thailand during the last last holiday season. Father Christmas was standing there. Pattaya beach was right behind him. Everybody around him was wearing casual summer cloths like a tank-top, like a T-shirt, or only wearing a swimming costume. Father Christmas was the only guy who was wearing thick winter clothes, so he was standing out like a mile. People were taking selfies in front of him and vendors were trying to sell selfie sticks to them. It was so much fun being there.

Go with the flow and just lay back

I took this photo in Pattaya, Thailand when I was taking a stroll around the beach road somewhere in between Soi 5 and Soi 6. My upcoming trip to Pattaya is 6 days away. I wanna make the most of my trip, but I don't make solid itinerary or something like that. When it comes to Pattaya, I believe that solid plans are too much. Just go with the flow is the best way to enjoy the city itself 100 percent. But, I have some places really wanna go back and want to visit for the first time, so I just penciled in those places on my flexible itinerary, just in case.

Cook on your table and have fun

I took this photo at TEXAS Suki in in Chinatown (a.k.a. Yaowaraj, Thai: เยาวราช) in Bangkok, Thailand. It's a Thai Suki restaurant. There are so many Thai Suki restaurants in Bangkok, and my favourite place is right on Soi TEXAS in Chinatown, Bangkok. Thai word Soi means street in English term. Since Texas Suki is very popular, the street was named after Texas Suki so I was told. Thai Suki is kind of like a hot pot meal and is simply called Suki (Thai: สุกี้). You choose ingredient first, and cook them in a hot pot on your table. That's simple, and it's so much fun.

That's the place where I wanna go some time

I took this photo on the world-famous walking street in Pattaya, Thailand. Hundreds of bars, restaurants, GoGo clubs, massage parlours and everything are lines up on the both sides of this walking street and its side streets just like the photo shows. I took this photo near Ice Bar. The place always catches my attention and sounds so cool as you can imagine from its name. Seeing this place reminds me of a James Bond film Die Another Day. My up-coming trip to Pattaya is 12 days away and counting. I still don't have any specific plans for my arrival night. So this place, Ice Bar on Pattaya Walking Street is a possibility.

Take me to Chinatown from the airport

The photo shows a station sign of the Airport Rail Link in Bangkok, Thailand. I took this photo at Suvarnabhumi station which is the airport station of the same name. Airport Rail Link operates in between Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Phaya Thai Station via Makkasan Station. Makkasan Station and MRT (a.k.a. Bangkok Metro) Phetchaburi Station is connected to each other via Skywalk. Phaya Thai Station links and BTS (a.k.a. Bangkok Sky Train) station of the same name is juxtaposed to each other. After taking this photo, I caught a City Line (the blue line) to Makkasan Station and transferred to MRT. I got out of the Bangkok Metro at Hualamphong (the terminal station) to get to Chinatown in Bangkok.

ข้าวมันไก่ @ Hualamphong Station

The photo shows Khao Man Gai (a.k.a. Hainanese Chicken Rice, Thai: ข้าวมันไก่) which I had for breakfast at a Food Court in the waiting area of Hualamphong Station (a.k.a. Bangkok Railway Station, Thai: หัวลำโพง) in Bangkok, Thailand. Khao Man Gai is a very popular meal in Thailand, so you can have it anywhere in Thailand, but you can experience something very special at the Food Court in Hualamphong Station. If you look at your plate carefully, you can see a train image on it. It's like a proof that you had your meal at the Food Court in Bangkok Railway Station. I think that's so cool.

Think about the things I can do and I can't do

I took this photo in my hotel room in Pattaya, Thailand. The hotel was right on Soi 8 Pattaya Beach Road and there was a night club with a bar on the ground floor of the hotel, so their guests always go through the club to get to their rooms right above hectic Soi 8. I spent 30 days in the room exactly like the photo shows, not to mention it was so lovely. The next doors of the hotel was a go-go and a spa, by the way. It was a very very convenient location to do every single things that I wanted to do in Pattaya during my last last vacation. My next trip to Pattaya is 19 days away and counting. Now I'm thinking about things I can do and I can't do.

Hey sea turtle, where are you headed?

The photo shows a sea turtle that I saw in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. I've seen them several times during my 8-day vacation in Hikkaduwa. Hikkaduwa is a town on the South Western coast of Sri Lanka. Not to mention it is one of the most popular beach towns in Sri Lanka. If you head any further to South from Hikkaduwa, you'll hit Gale and Unawatuna in a row. My favorite destination in Sri Lanka is Unawatuna, but I like Hikkaduwa too. There are many reasons that I says so, but if I have to choose one, viewing the sun set over the Indian Oean. Unawatuna beach is right on the Southern coast, so you can't view the sun set over the Indian Ocean.

TG683 HND - BKK; Sep 2015

The photo shows an in-flight meal of Thai Airways International flight TG683 Haneda, Tokyo to Bangkok, Thailand (HND - BKK). It was about a seven-hour flight. In-flight meal was served as lunch and refreshment. The first meal was savory Thai Green Curry (Thai: แกงเขียวหวาน) and chicken salad with some rice and bread, plus dessert. Everything was so yummy as usual. Thai Airways was cerebrating its 55th anniversary, it was described on a paper napkin. Refreshment was served about an hour before landing. It was a cup of ice cream and I chose green tea flavor, like Matcha flavor. Two passengers next to me didn't tell any, and they were served vanilla flavor.

Big C on Pattaya 2nd road

I took this photo in front of Big C Supercenter in Pattaya, Thailand almost 2 years ago. It was around the middle of December, so a tall holiday tree were displayed like the photo shows. Big C is like a huge super market, and there are a few more Big Cs in Pattaya, Thailand. You can find a lot of them all over Thailand. When I'm in Pattaya, Thailand, my usual Big C is in North Pattaya on the 2nd Road. I can say it's located right in between a couple of famous transvestite cabaret shows in Pattaya; Tiffany and Alcazar. If I describe the location like that, many people in Pattaya surely understand which Big C I'm talking about.

Get on 389 bus to Pattaya from Suvarnabhumi

I took this photo in Pattaya, Thailand a couple of years ago around the middle of December. My flight flew into Suvarnabhumi Airport around three thirty. After passing through immigration and everything at the airport, I went down to the floor level 1 and walked toward the gate 8 to get a 389 bus ticket to Pattaya. I was told the next bus would be fully seated, so I got a seat on the next next bus, but after a while, staff came along and told me that someone gave up the seat of the next bus and I could have the seat instead. So luckily I could arrive at Pattaya an hour earlier. I took this photo through the bus window some time before I got out of the bus.

Cheers for that!

I took this photo at a pub on Khaosan Road in Bangkok, Thailand. That day in the morning I had some papaya for breakfast at my hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima and checked out the hotel around a quarter to ten, then I took a tuk-tuk to Nakhon Ratchasima Railway Station to catch a train to the capital Bangkok. After getting on the train, I bought a food packet for lunch on the train and had it on the way to Bangkok. The train arrived at Hua Lamphong (a.k.a Bangkok Railway Station) around a half past three. I caught a tuk-tuk to my hotel on Soi Rambuttri. I checked in at the hotel, unpacked, changed into something more comfortable, then I got ready to make a beeline for Khaosan Road. First things first, I looked for a cozy beer place and I made it. Cheers for that! A bottle of Chang is ready.