Wednesday, October 01, 2025

สวัสดีค่ะกรุงเทพฯ!


Happiness is getting into Bangkok early in the morning and clearing both immigrations queue and baggage retrieval super fast. I rolled eyes because the night before, SQ texted to tell us that the flight departure time was delayed by 1.5 hours. Imagine if I bothered to sleep early and missed this important piece of information. At least they also called us early in the morning to remind us about the 1.5-hour delay. This plane was coming in from Auckland, so I suppose the delay was from there. 

The Thailand online arrival card ought to be filled in on an iPad or a laptop. It's crazy annoying because it isn't optimized to be filled out on the phone. I did it earlier in Singapore a day before we flew out, via the phone; it annoyed me so because it was soooo glitchy. I could 'add travelers' to my group and had to fill out a separate form for the husband. I have no idea why when he travels with me, he doesn't even bother to fill out arrival cards or health declaration forms. Dohhh. 

Coffee was terrible at the SQ lounge, in-flight, and even at the hotel. The hotel's coffee was frankly horrid. I couldn't take more than two sips. And I wasn't even sure if the caffeine was worth the terrible taste. I had to go out in the afternoon to get some decent coffee. I found loads. I'll tell you all about that in another post. 

It feels nice to be back in Bangkok for the third time this year, for a sightly longer trip rather than some 48-hr turn-around thing. Heheheh. To be able to stay for a few more days make the trip feels like it's the best trip of them all. I travel so little now that I have come to cherish every moment, every hiccup, every sight and sound. 

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