The ultimate shopping guide for Bangkok!

Managed to move my lazy ass and start up on this post!

We went to quite a few places to shop:
1) MBK
2) Terminal 21
3) Night markets
4) Platinum Fashion Mall
5) Bonanza Mall (Opposite MBK building)

Out of all these malls, I highly recommend night markets, MBK and Bonanza Mall.

Being really money concious a miserly person who cares about my money, I would go there because its clothes are nice and cheap ^_^

Gonna show you my hauls:

TERMINAL 21
For Terminal 21, I bought a sheer sleeveless top. It was my first day there so I was desperate to buy something. Bought it for $16, I thought it was ok-ily priced since Singapore's prices are about the same. I kind of regretted buying it though, cox you can get tops like these HALF THE PRICE at other places!!! However, it's a nice piece and it's very easy to match with other bottoms!

Terminal 21 is a super duper mega big shopping centre with 9 storeys. And each floor has its own theme according to their country. Eg. Japanese floor sells Jap. clothes, Rome floor sells rome stuff etc. Kind of like your typical orchard shopping centre, extremely modern. Also quite posh, with hagen daz and other posh eateries HAHA.

The best part is the toilets are also decorated according to the theme! Cool right! Actually visited some of the floors JUST to see the toilets! Great camwhoring place lol!

Every level has its own theme!

 Yes, this is a japanese themed toilet.

Even the cubicles also jap. themed one.

London subway themed toilet

Cute cubicles again. *_*

I feel that the stuff at Terminal 21 is on the higher side compared to the other shopping centres. At least for me who is a typical tourist looking for cheap and good clothing. The clothes there are quite nice, but the price is quite expensive to me, be prepared to spend around $20 for MOST of the shops cox I think the clothes are shipped all they way from another country, and some of them are branded too! I saw a jap. shop selling Liz Lisa and other famous jap. brands O_O

If you are lucky you can find a store with cheap stuff lah, but quite rare if you ask me. And the cheap stuff full of 100 baht stuff are usually ugly. #justsaying. I think you are paying for the brand. If you like high quality stuff, you should go to terminal 21!

Buys:

Found in the japanese floor but doesn't look jap. O_O

MBK

MBK is also another massive shopping centre! There are many shops selling different items from food to beauty to clothing to electronics to furniture! Really a lot! I recommend you go to the directory and search for what you want, cox it's soooo big you may get lost there. I recommend you to go to the levels with many mini stalls! They don't really have any brand so it's much cheaper compared to the normal retail shops! What I recommend most are the t-shirts/tank tops! They have really cool designs that are cute, hipster-ish and also downright offensive ones -_-  Actually have a lot of offensive ones lolol. One of the t-shirts has a topless girl back facing and then giving the finger -_- which really annoyed because it's so irritating and also rude. I DON'T LIKE STUFF THAT ARE IN-YOUR-FACE Y'KNOW.

Plus if you buy stuff from the mini stalls right, you can bargain :D Depending on how nice the shop keeper is. You should bargain only if you think it's overpriced, cox some owners think they can make extra cash by overcharging foreigners! But pplease ah, don't bargain if the shirt is already less than $8, very cheapskate HAHA.

Owl and 7-11 tank top for $6 each. I've a feeling I won't wear the 7-11 one cox it looks hobo-ish -_-

Pink Esprit purse (Imitation) for $24 and purple purse for $14

Time for my interesting story of my bargaining experience lai lai lai!

Initially the esprit purse was priced about $40, which is bloody expensive. I bargained like some shit and then I pretended to leave. And then the guy said he'll chrge me $24 only ^_^ YAYYY. If you wonder why it's so expensive, it's made out of real leather and ALMOST the same as the real one, except it's not truly made by esprit, well cox it's not the true brand.

NIGHT MARKETS

Night markets are pretty amazing. There is a really great variety of clothes there, their clothes are mostly priced $8 and below, super duper cheap!

Denim cropped top for $6! CAN''T YOU BELIEVE IT THIS BEAUTY IS WORTH $6 *_* I have been looking for such a top since last month!

PLATINUM FASHION MALL

Another mega large mall (again.), I was told that the shops there were supplier shops to the other stall owners so they may sell stuff at a cheaper price. Saw many thais carrying ginomous bags/luggage bags to haul stuff.

I didn't find much great buys there.. Hmm.. Not really my taste plus it was not exactly cheap, must of them were $8.. Maybe it was an unlucky day wtf. Still managed to buy some stuff.

Skirt for $8, floral shorts for $8 :)

BONANZA MALL

I SWEAR I LOVED THIS MALL THE MOST! Really.

It's kind of like a mini bugis street, quite small mall, only 3 levels. But I swear its shops are really awesome! Just look at the number of shorts I bought there lol.

Purple and yellow shorts for $8 each, high waisted shorts for $11, spiky shorts for $11

Super love them!<3 However the purple shorts and yellow shorts were bloody tight, either because I'm too fat or smth. Kind of can see the cameltoe thing except without the camel shape. T_T Plus, THAT WAS A SIZE M WTF. And I felt that my butt was gonna be exposed god damnit. Starting to doubt what is my real size lol. But I think it should go well with crop tops and bikini tops (although I don't even own one)

Random, but when is it age appropriate to own a bikini? I know people in the west start wearing bikinis when they're quite young, but as conservative Asians, if you wear bikini to beach confirm get a lot of disapproving stares. And then people will call you slutty -_- I think people in Sg only start wearing them when they are 18 wtf.

The rest of the shorts are extremely comfortable and i super love them! I finally have a pair of high waisted shorts <3 Thank god that I didn't buy the ones at cotton on which cost freaking $34.95!

In case you didn't know, let me warn you, the sizes there are EXTREMELY SMALL. Cox the people at Bangkok are super skinny! For a person like me who wears a size XS at cotton on, can't fit into an S size in F21 and wears S for practically everything, I was shattered into s million pieces after I found out that I couldn't wear an S size in Bangkok FML x 10000. My butt (or hips) is a size 34-36 so yeah.

Random pics of me wearing the hauls :)

my waist looks small here hooray ^_^

Anyway, some final words of advice:

1) Don't be afraid to bargain, cox the customer is always right! Insist if you really want it, and then pretend to walk away if they refuse. Most owners will call you back cox they don't wanna lose any customers.

2)If you aren't sure of what size to wear, feel free to approach to owners, most of them are very friendly ^_^ Some of them will even help you measure! 

Omg finally I'm done I actually took a lot of effort to write this so proud of myself.

School is reopening so I won't be so active on my blog! :'(

  

At Bugis!

On the last day of school, Angeline, Charissa and I went to Bugis to shop! We originally wanted to take neoprints first but unfortunately it closed down. IT CLOSED DOWN, LIKE BOOM, AND IT WAS GONE.
I was kind of devastated because my classmates and I have been going there since primary 5 and it was the only place that I could shamelessly act cute and pretty T_T NOOOO.
Anyway we went to bugis street for shopping. To be honest, I've NEVER been there before. I thought bugis street was the little alley in Bugis Junction with little pushcarts at first omg am I fail or what. 

Bugis street was really quiet with a lot of youngsters. And I saw some aunties there too lol!

And then I saw this signboard saying "I LOVE SEX" LOL. You can see it near the enterance there. It's hard to miss it!
I walked past the shop and realised it was an adult shop selling sex stuff. Seriously, I was fascinated by the stuff on display, but don't mistake me for a bian tai!
I swear I must visit an adult shop before I die.
And no, I'm not a pervert.

Ok back to Bugis.
It had 3 storeys and it was kind of confusing since we couldn't find the escalators to go up or go down, and sometimes we had to walk one whole round.
On the first floor, we saw a mini pushcart selling bracelets! And it was really pretty, not to mention cheap too. It was one for $2, three for $5! It was perfect for a friendship bracelet, so we bought it!
 
Pretty right! And it's only about $1.70! It will cost you at least $3 if you buy it outside. And I really love the shades of blue and pink and also the simple beads ^_^

And then I bought a studded hairband from De Elegance (Level 1)

I was SO HAPPY to see this! Like I've been looking for a studded hairband because all my hairbands are super plain. And in the other parts of Bugis street they only sold the pointy types which was too rocker-ish and aggressive for me,  so was pretty happy to see this!
I paid $2, for this and I admit that it's a bit expensive (You can buy those cheap plastic ones at $1.20) but this one is made out of metal and leather so hopefully it will last longer than my previous hairbands that have a lifespan of 4 months.
The downside is that my head will hurt abit when I wear it I think my head is too big.

On the second level, I found my best buy yet - A MUSTACHE TOP! Angeline and I are obsessed with mustaches :x

AND IT'S PINK ASDFGHJKL. You have no idea how much I like pink. The armholes are kinda big (as usual for me.) For almost all the lose tops I buy, the arm holes are too big :( And crap i think the thing bulging out is my stomach -.- Pardon it.
Angeline bought the grey one. It's 1 for $12, 2 for $20, so we saved $2 each :D That's why it's good to go shopping with a friend - you can save money!
Don't worry if you're shopping alpne, you can mix and match with other patterns too! Btw, that stall is called Cheris :)
You can wear it wih decency as shown above or you can reveal a bit:
 
Or show your whole stomach if you have abs or a flat stomach. BARE IT ALL LOL.

 Sorry I have stomach fats T_T That's why I wanna lose weight so I can wear like that next time.

After shopping, we went to take a snack! :)

This is the famous pancake stall there! It's something like the man chien kui at hawker centres but their pancakes are REALLY THIN. Like paper like that. But don't worry about not getting full because it's still quite filling! The pancake is really tasty and crispy. There are diff flavours from red bean to pork floss and bananas and whatever. I bought the durian flavoured one and it made me full haha!

We later went back to Bugis Junction to camwhore .__.


With Angeline!


With Charissa!



Lol why I every picture have same face.

Ok byes! I don't know what should I blog about next hmmz maybe I will do a comparison on secondary school and primary school life?(: