You have no idea how happy I am about it being friday. Only 5 hours of work today. I’m definitely making myself a fatty lunch today just to celebrate. Did someone say carbonara? I think I’ll swing my the gym after work though, as I’m planning to have fun times this weekend. I’ll be at the King’s Cup Charity Elephant Polo Tournament on Saturday. I’m SO excited. Tom’s been hanging out there with his booth which is Casa Azul merged with Day Of The Dead beers. Meaning mexican drinks and food, and daytime drinking in the sun. And I’m really up for that… I love spiced up slushies. The fact that they are playing elephant polo is also pretty awesome. Elephants and monkeys are my favourite animals. The cup is held by Anantara at the river so if you’re up for some nice weekend chilling by the Chao Phraya river you better come here. I also heard that the elephants are from Surin. So they’re pretty much my brothers and sisters. 😀
Since Tom opened a mexican restaurant this year, we thought it would be a great idea to dress up in Dia del los muertos costumes aka. day of the dead. It’s celebrated the 1st and 2nd and is a Mexican celebration similar to our Halloween.
Love this background. The restaurant is full of paintings like this!!!
Tom got his costume while we were visiting the states, and seeing this was a one size you can imagine how large the costume was on him. Safe to say we took it to the tailor to make it at least 5 sizes down. I have NEVER seen one size that big. Oh Americans…. I was planning to get my stuff from eBay but I was late as always and ended up having to find something in Bangkok, I didn’t want to gamble on it arriving in 14 days.
I did order some bridal flowers from them though, and they were perfect, so glad I didn’t buy them from the states. These looked so real and costed only a couple of dollars. I also ordered some fake tattoos that arrived within a week so that was perfect. I’ve never found black temporary tattoos with shadow in Bangkok before, so that was a catch. I think they were under 1 dollar shipping included. I love ebay. But hate them for making it so hard to retrieve my old account, that I still haven’t gotten back!!
Managed to smudge out my make-up within 10 minutes… hehe
The corset, skirt and stockings are all from bottom floor at platinum. They have so many nice things there, and the lady that owns the shop is so helpful. This is definitely my new go to place for costumes.
Halloween in Bangkok was pretty fun and we started off at Casa Azul in Ari where they had a professional make-up artist, followed by some dancing at Live RCA and some after partying at …. Mixx. (It’s right next door to home).
Can’t believe the week is almost over. Time has been passing like crazy lately and I’m not sure if I’m happy or sad about it. I guess I’m happy that we are moving faster towards the weekends and holidays and away from work and stress, but then again sad that time passes too fast and towards other chapters in life. I feel like it’s only been a year since I was 20 and moved to Thailand, but that’s not the case. It’s already been 3!!
Sister love at fuentes del algar <3
Benidorm view
I feel like I’ve had more drinks than I’ve had forever lately and it doesn’t help that I’m not going to the gym. On saturday we started off at the Royal oak with beers, ciders and food, watching Liverpool draw against Tottenham. Then we continued to Robin Hood to watch Chelsea BEAT Aston Villa. Yes, you heard me. Chelsea’s back, hehe. We also ended up having ciders and jäger bombs?! there. The night didn’t end there, but continued at Tuba with a couple of their giant cocktails. If you ever go, their Amaretto sour is the bomb. Only bad side with going to Tuba is that people are allowed to smoke inside.
Following day we had an indian wedding to attend which meant more drinking. Good thing we didn’t go too crazy. We also went to the speakeasy at Muse hotel after. It’s pretty chill.
So I get back to work planning to save my alcohol intake for Halloween, but on Tuesday my boss decided we quit early to go to a sports bar in soi 4 called strikers. I love how it’s totally acceptable to go out during weekdays in Bangkok. I think we all went through two whole bottles of jägermeister for shots and vodka bottle for drinks. I love that Swedes drinks vodka. I mean why does people have to drink Whiskey?! It’s so gross.
That brings me to yesterday when we went to see the Silly fools at Parking Toys. They were really good live by the way. But the Whiskey-Coke-Soda wasn’t. It’s 3 poisons I don’t like. Hehehe, oh complaining Anita.
Anyways, I’m off for work now! Hoping my colleague that’s been sick the whole week is back today, been way to much to do this week.
Yesterday we went to celebrate a friends birthday at Viva 21 in Thonglor , it’s safe to say that lots of food and drinks were consumed so today was a chill day. I’ve actually never been at any of the Viva restaurants/bars, but only heard good things and I got a positive impression after last night. The decor is nice and trendy and the food was pretty good too. I would love to go check out the Viva 8 at JJ Market and Viva Aviv by the river, as people are raving about these.
The plan was for us to go to the travel fair at Queen Sirikit today followed by some food and shopping at farmers market by the river, but we ended up skipping the farmers market and went to the one outside Emquartier instead, as Tom wanted to show me some goodies he had found in Zara first.
This lemonade was super nice and fresh, I need to learn how to make my own lemonade, so I don’t have to drink syrup…
There was a little weekend market outside Emquartier so I did my shopping there, finding some delicious smoked duck from Vivin, and some natural granola from Skinni Bears, I can’t wait to try these as I’m swearing to salads as one of my daily meals hence the duck. I’m also using greek yoghurt or non-fat yoghurt as a snack, so I think some granola will do the trick. I love how they also had an option without butter.
I also tried the ramen burger that people have been going crazy over, and I have to say, I was not impressed. I don’t know where the problem was because I liked the noodle, beef, cheese AND bacon, it was just the combination of it all that put me off. I definitely would recommend people to try it though, you might find a place in your heart for it as so many others have.
With all the toppings possible, noodles, bacon, cheese and beef…
We later made it to the travels fair which is one of our favourite fairs of all times, today was the last time so you guys will just have to wait a few months for the next one. There’s lots of inspiration and tips for travels there, there are also lots of great deals, you just have to look carefully as some of them are pretty much the same as you can find on Agoda.
Hahaha happy little babies. Winning rules.
As we both love water parks and theme parks, it was no shock that we ended up getting a ticket to Cartoon Network waterpark. I even ended up winning us a yearly pass to the waterpark, so I’m pretty sure we’ll be back a couple of times. I was actually hoping for the pizza set but what the heck. We also got something that seems to be an awesome beer festival in Kanchanaburi called Craft’n Roll. Needless to say there will be free flow of craft beers, and the idea is that you get handed one beer glass that you take around to the different stations to get a refill. I can also see lots of American junk food on the menu, so I think the event will be a winner. The music is played by Thai bands and I’m super excited for this. The beer carniva named Craft’n Roll will be held around the grounds of Mida resort, so we got a tent stay there as well. The tent has an aircon, so it won’t be as hardcore as festivals normal are, but I would say it’s much needed here in Thailand. Are some of you thinking about going to the beer festival in Kanchanaburi? The event will be held on the 12th of December!
While picking my beef and veggies made in the slow cooker at home for lunch today Tom sent me an awesome snap of his lunch containing delicious salad, salmon, coconuts and rice and chicken. I was drooling by looking at it and got even more excited when he made me promise we’d go for burgers at New York Steak & Burger in soi 22 after work. I was going crazy and felt like I finally had something to look forward to and decided to skip my oats and save up calories for some delicious burger (yes, I’m trying to diet for a while). I feel like I’m making Tom sound like a crazy eater but he had just finished a crazy leg day and whatever meals he ingested today was well deserved. I was kind of scared Tom was just talking out of hunger after workout so I made sure he didn’t forget throughout the day.
When we got there we ordered the only two spicy options they have “The Atomic” and “The Firehouse Chilli” as we usually do. We chose fries as a side for one and salad on the other, as one side serving of fries is enough for two persons IMO. Anyways… over to the burger.. We always get ours medium rare, so it’s very important they get this part right. There’s nothing worse than places that grills your meat too long. This place though, OMG, the meat is so soft and the amount of bread, cheese and other fillings is just right. It’s not too full to be able to eat it with both your hands and not wet and falls apart either.
This is definitely one of my favourite burger places in Bangkok, and I can’t wait til we move back to soi 22 and get to eat there more often. The price might be a bit high compared to other good burger places like Daniel Thaiger and Fatty’s, but in return you do get higher quality ingredients. I’m still not sure if they beat Chef bar though.
