Couchsurfing madness :-)

And everybody is leaving! boo hoooo~!
It's been so long since I updated my blog. Simple reason. I've been lazy (Ask Bert, he knows best)

So many things had happened, I've met so many great people, had great house parties with people around the globe, traveled (briefly) with happily crazy guys Dave and Joey from Leeds and Melbourne.

Koh Samed.
It's been 3 years in Thailand and James has never been to Koh Samed!! So we went there. Right after Karaoke night on Phetkasem road (had guest Willem from Singapore, who's later became my host) joined us for Karaoke too. Nobody got any sleep. We went straight to Koh Samed next morning at 7 AM! Got stoned following night. So wasted next day. You should see James trying to buy weed. He was so useless! LOL kiddding, James, kidding..you're da best!

Samed Photo Album here

Dave & Patric
Dave arrived on April 1st. He called me when I was still in bed so I was kinda mumbling with him on the phone. Just realized later that I had talked to someone this morning but wasn't sure if it was a dream or not.
Boat ride. Khon Thai 20 baht, Farang 40 Baht (for no reasons)
Wat in Bang Kruey area. Really beautiful! It's so hidden.
Free performance in Suan Saranrom (public park)

So I called back to mobile phone number he used. It was his host's number. Thanks Buddha that Dave called back. He managed to come to meet at Grand Palace. I was with Patric (from Paris) so I took both of them for super "Rua Hang yao" Long Tail Boat adventure along the Bangkok-noi canal! Chilling out in the park (they had free cultural shows too)

Dave & Anil, Loic's Birthday
At night after crazy boat ride. I texted Anil to see if he was up for some drinks as it was his first time Bangkok and I thought it would be nice for him to meet up with some people here. It's much better than getting stuck in a hotel room especially when his father decided to join him! ha ha :-) So he came. We went out for live bands at Brick Bar. Was great music!
Dave & Anil @ Brick Bar
The band
First time eating bugs :-) Khaosan Road

The International Home Cooking Night
It was crazy! we had done this before with small group. Starting with James' Filipino food, Then JB's French food, My Thai food and in the end we had pretty big gathering (didn't expect to have so many people joining. It was a bit chaotic but it turned out great!)
Rasmus brought bottle of booze from

Look who were there... Me, of course, P' Nammon and Chompu..the locals :-) James (Philippines) Regular at CS Bangkok :-) , JB, Loic (France) Who just went home couple of days ago, Chyka, Juana (Singapore) My lovely host and her friend, Pontus (Swedish)Who's living in Singapore, David (UK) Hilarious ironic bloke, Rasmus (Denmark) who was supposed to be my host :-)

Rocky and his sister Ruby (Pennsylvania, US) how nice they are! we were on TukTuk together on the way to shop for food, Manu (Italy) our lovely geek who loves puffing :-) ,Christian (Portugal) I was trying to ask him about "Foy Thong" that we Thais know for so long that it's originally from Portugal. Didn't get exact answer what it is but it's interesting though :-).. hmm who else.. Bram (Belgium) Chompu's guest at that time and he's a window cleaner. Unique profession!, and Thilo (Germany) A guy with dreads :-) Through Chompu, I didn't have chance to talk to him much though.

Photos from 2 nights of cooking! for more photos. You can view them here Album 7 and Album 8

David, Ruby and Rocky on TukTuk. On the way to supermarket
James, Pontus, JB, David, Manu . After dinnerLoic "freedom" night coz no gf around! hahap' Nammon with ThiloManu trying to communicate with my dogThere's only one brand in Singapore!?.. LOL Bram and Christian
Rasmus with sunburn ! haha
Dave and Rasmus @ Patpong night market (Ofcourse we didn't go just for the market) :-P

The Ancient City (Muang Boran)
Us CS fellows are crazy enough to go to Ancient City next day. Everybody didn't get enough sleep. JB was completely knocked out.

Dave didn't join coz he was expected to go to Phetchaboon with one of Bangkok CS members. (turned out that she didn't go. So Dave spent whole day in his guest house by himself. Nice!) So it was James, Me, Chompu, Bram, Juana, Chyka, Pontus and Manu went to Muang Boran. Took us 2 hours!

We rented bicycles for 50 baht . Foreigners get free bicycles since they already paid 300 Baht entry fee. While it was 100 Baht for Thais.. (yeah.. again) Juana, Chyka, James got in at Thai price (as long as they don't talk when we're buying tickets) We bought lunch for farang friends though ;-) to be fair.. hehe

Juana had accident a day before. She went on cycling tour with some dutch company in Bangkok. The Thai guide I met when I dropped them at China Town is so friendly. She's from Chiang Rai ! I asked her if she feels that Bangkok is too much for her (Chiang Rai is so quiet place in the mountains!) She said she got used to it already. Anyway! Juana fell off the pedestrian path! I was totally shocked when I got SMS from Chyka. But relieved when she told me that she was OK. Just needed to wash the dirt off. Awww...

All photos from Muang Boran here

At night we did Khaosan road tour again. It's a must try for them to eat some insects :-)Manu's Mr. Bob chilling out on juice glass @ Lumpini Night Bazaar :-)
Chyka is liking insects I can tell :-D hee hee~!"Come on Pontus, insects are good for your health, man"
Sooooo drunk @ Gulliver's more photos hereDave, Loic, Juana smoking Sheesha @ GazeboDave's food tripping (And I'm crazy enough to join him) at 3 AM! Dimsum at Chokdee Dimsum, next to MBK
Yummy~!

Exhausting Shopping @ Jatujak
Last day in Bangkok. You can guest what Singaporeans would love to do. Oh yes, SHOPPING! :-) ha ha ~! Dave came to my place first and then we had to meet up with them (Juana, Chyka, Pontus, James) at Jatujak. Followed with Moritz (From Saarbrücken, Germany) It was quite frustrating because Moritz is still using Indian number so he was roaming. I couldn't call him and he couldn't call me. SMS works though. We finally found him at coffee shop.
*phew*.....

Shopping was totally exhausting. After Jatujak I took them to Siam, MBK walk walk walk walk and walk.
Juana was trying to get green bo
Back from shopping everybody needed shower so badly. The Singaporeans went back to their room to freshen up before meeting them again for "Moo Kata" (BBQ) at riverside one.

And Dave, What is he doing? You bet.. checking football results at my place while waiting.Pontus met Joey (from Melbourne) on the bus from airport to downtown. So he called him if he wanted to join. Joey came with his big smile which he never stop using it :-) This is Joey sitting next to JuanaAnd where is Dave? again, he's checking football highlights on TV at the restaurant! I found him when I was going to toilet. What an addict :-)Walking from restaurant to Khaosan road.farewell party at Gazebo.Next morning Juana, Chyka and Pontus flew back to Singapore. Joey was still with us :-)
James can dance :-PGazebo, club side

More photos of Jatujak shopping, BBQ here

People! if you were in Bangkok at that time. Please know that you're so lucky! we're not arrange this kind of mad party all the time :-) Besides, the "same faces" of Bangkok are leaving. (Some have left already) As you might know. CS members in Bangkok are not very active.

Oh Well, such a great memory .. :-)