Day 1 at Bangkok..inclusive 1 tragic moment..

Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok new airport) Thailand

Checking in.

Loves loves loves the variety shoes displayed there..




This is the last happy moment of the day before we realised that hubby's sling bag was gone..i shall reveal all later.....what really happened on day 1.....

Day 1

Reached Singapore Airport by taxi which cost us around $23-25... at about 8 plus in the morning. We took our simple breakfast first at Kopitiam before check in.. Told the AirAisa counter staff who is a malay lady about our first time flying and asked her to advise us what to do roughly even though we already knew all the stuff she told us...but i would say the malay lady was polite and gentle to us which i appreciated very much...I've heard from my friend that the staffs are very unfriendly but that didn't happened to us....hhmmm....weird

She even told us that the plane we're going to take is smaller than the regular one...which i don't mind at all and she seated us 3 by 1 even though i would prefer 2 by 2 seating. She told us to book our seat next time because their seats are easily occupied even in non-peak period so it's best to play safe if we don't want our kids to seat by themselves,....oh no..no...we don't want that to happen, do we?

We entered Gate44 at 10.15am and waited for our plane which supposed to go off at 10.55am. I lost my Bodyshop lipgloss along the way but Aniq found $2 note...(still making a loss since my lipgloss cost way much more than that...lol).

We reached there at 12.30pm bangkok time (singapore time is 1.30pm) just an hour difference.

Took a shuttle bus to the Airport. Aniq and Aliah were thirsty and kept pestering me so we quickly go to the nearest store and bought 2 can of water and 2 small packs of Oreo and we were robbed daylight when we paid 315bth for it..(Around $11-12)..i guess we were too powered by hunger and thirst till we can't use our brain to do simple mental sum...

Anyway...we went to level 1 to take taxi-meter to our hotel and cost 430bht(inclusive of 50bht surcharge)..the journey is about half an hour long. Good news is that we were upgraded to family room type which consist one king size bed and a single bed. The bathroom was so spacious and not to mention that the hotel has this family mart which open 24hrs on the lobby so it's very convenient...in case we are thirsty or hungry in the middle of the night.

Went to Maedah's restaurant for lunch which serves malaysian/Arabic/Thai food and after eating there few times..i would say their food were all not bad at all.. we ordered 3 plates of rice, sweet and sour fish, garlic bread and potato omelette and it cost 535bht altogether...

After our delightful lunch, we went to Pantip Plaza just to look around but since we don't intend to buy anything from there, we move on quickly to Platinum Fashion mall(my fav mall of all). It is the largest wholesale clothing mall....usually you have to buy more than 3 apparrels to enjoy the wholesale price or else they would sell you at retail price...that's how it works over there.. After that, we went to Pratunam complex and most of the shops were closed already by 8pm so there's nothing much to see...since we were all famished and had not taken our dinner, we walked our way to Central world which is nearby..

And that is where all the drama happened....I remembered that we took like forever to track down a halal restaurant called Eat's my world so the kids were getting grumpy...i brought them to ice-cream parlour and sat there for a break and ordered 2 cups of yogurt ice-cream for the kiddos. After goofing around with our camera, we made a last search and finally we spotted the place. There were 2 restaurant looked combined together but actually seperated by a divider...and we sat at the wrong place till a thai lady in tudung spotted us and told us nicely that this place is not halal...and ushered us to the right place...Dh and i were laughing for making a fool out of ourselves...that is when Dh unknowingly put his sling bag at the sofa beside Aniq together with our purchases..and to think that the sling bag was stolen under our nose without us realising it is simply heartbreaking...well for me...i don't even know that Dh took off his sling bag that time. So when it's time to pay for our meal...i guess you all know the gabra look on our faces when we realised Dh's sling bag was gone..i mean GONE!!.

Immediatetly, my legs were trembled and i was speechless, my tears were running down my cheeks non stop action...it's like i couldn't believe what had just happened. The sling bag had our 4 passport and our money(13,000 bht which is about $500 sing dollars) Already told Dh to seperate the money in 2-3 different places but i guess my words fell on deaf ears. Luckily i still have my own miserable amount of Thai bht money in my pocket and with that i paid for the meal...

The girls in the restaurant were very sympathetic of us and with their help, the security officers were informed of the situation and we made a report at the Information Counter....I cried all the way back while holding Aliah's hand. We informed a hotel staff and he called Singapore Embassy for us and Dh talked to this officer call Mr Chee and we have to meet him the next day at 4pm for issuing travel documents and it would cost 360bht for each person.

After bathing and putting the kids to sleep, Dh and i cried quietly on the bed...i told myself not to blame Dh because i believe he wouldn't want this to happen on purpose and he was distracted by the kids and he didn't realise what he's doing till it's too late....i prayed to allah for his mercy and take pity on my kids...and even cried on my sejadah...i also called my mum and told her what happened and again i cried...my mum sounded worried when she heard my voice.

I went through a number of stages when i realized the passports were missing..panic, fear, anger and finally acceptance. Everything happens for a reason....But i would still say this ...biar seribu kali hilang barang...jangan sampai hilang anak...cause they are the real treasure of my life. And somehow i feel comforted when i think about it.... so this is how the Day 1 in Bangkok turned out for me...scary huh...