Hurray ... I can't seem to believe that atleast I am able to go to Bangkok Pattaya Trip 2012.Well my Holidays never disappoint me or doom me ...atleast till so far none of my vacation endeavours have been cancelled or resheduled as there were full chances of happening so.Its something official , I prefer not discussing.
It was a Bangkok Pattaya trip for 6 days 5 nights in Thomas Cook . The tour group would be 25 member group and all from Kolkata itself. We(my parents and me) were given few contact numbers of the families who were going along us , but Puja gfailed us to do so as we were so occupied with Durga Puja ( the most enviable and OTT celebrations of the Bengalis).
From Saptami we were making preparations by doing the last minute packing ..somehow packing does not seem to get over and it always ends up at the last minute and IT always happen for me at the destaination I find I have missed something or the other.So to be extra careful this time I was always making a mental check on the list of items I need to take.Saptami was a day spent in total merriment and engagements. It was a super packed schedule where in I failed to breathe for a second ( yes literally).Saptami evening I just entered the house at 11 pm and ensured that I completed my packing ..I was very contended that I had an eventful day and my heart was flying in colors that from tomorrow I dont have to worry about the routinic mundane things in life. I was being a bit cautious about who the rest group members will be , but I was quite sure that I will manage to be friendly with oen of them atleast.
Anyways , next day was Ashtami.The morning we got ready pretty early by the previous year standards , it was 9:45 am we all were ready , we reached Maddox Square Puja pandab and I was quite reluctant to go as it has some horrific memories of crowds within me beacise whenever I used to go there were were all people of younger generations or couply looks hovering over another ...somehow I feel out of this bandwagon or the act quite superficial . But on the contrary on that morning there were not much hullah and the crowd was descent and hardly many ,,, the pandal youths quite graciously took the sarees and thali from us and it was suprising quite a civilic attitude ..there were queues and proper tokens and they made us feel "humans".
The environemnt was Divine ..I could feel the peace what else u need , that itself is an indication Of Divine presence.I felt am in the right place and there seems no place for any ray of evil forces to creep in , I totally gave into it and was pleasantly happy after giving the Pujo . We returned early as my mother has to do rest of packing.By afternoon I relaized my face has tanned a bit and the prior engagaeemnts have taken a toll on me ...i could see my under eye blackening and also in pics that I am looking tad darker. I dont know in d ashtami afternoon where to go , tried Toopers and was good .The facial had an good effect and people relaized it , this is needed bcz most of the time anyone fail to relaize that tahy have done d facial.
Our departure flight was at 1 am night (what an unconventional timing) .... We being a good goody tame creatures reached the airport at 6.30 pm ... Believe it !!!!! We were the first one to reach and immediately joined by Ruma and her parents ..Ruma is an English teacher at Modern High School for girls. Her parents sat next mine parents and started conversing and Ruma was sitting at the end corner of us. Well Ruma and I were not introduced then... after some initial conversations I was introduced to Ruma ...She looked serious and slowly different groups started pouring .... We did not know anyone ....waited for the past 7 hours in the airport.Saw Ruma conversing with another family made me feel a bit left out but nevertheless made a whole meaning to myself that no one is better than mine....I do proud myself as a very open , educated , well-mannered straight forward and honest individual , whoever fails to talk with me misses a lot in life ...Guys especially who have not paid heed to me u are big time looser ....Well a lot of bragging :-) I was very excited when I land myself in the Bangkok airport , it was an extraordinarily designed with good artifacts and nice ambiance and what a shopping options it hold ....I was taken aback by the mere cleanliness and disciplinarian attitude of the staff over there.In the mean while the tour operator came along with his assistant and announced the itinerary plans which was a tad confusing as we did not seem to tally with the already given plans .I argued amicably and the inbuilt vocal side of me fluttered instantaneously ....
We boarded the bus ...The snapshot is given below:-
The bus journey was fun and interesting ...I thoroughly had a gala time browsing the wide clean lanes , not a trace of dirt to be found...I felt I am in heaven.... We were stopped in a food restaurant lane for our breakfast ... Felt like interacting with new people and me and Ruma exchanged pleasantries ....
We sat down for a breakfast at Mac D considering it was of a cheaper option that we had before when we explored other eat out joints :-) ....
At Mac D we had beef burgers , which I adored like anything ....the taste was exhilarating. The next few days went just in a galnce , the National Park to Beaches and its activities to the magnificient malls . City tour in luxurious bux and night walk left an impressionable memory in our minds - we were amazed to find that the basic necessities of life can easily be maintained and can be enjoyed - this we felt while scouring the city lives there in contrary to the infrasctructure that we enjoy in India . We did many extracurricular activities in Pattaya and Bangkok, paragliding, swimming, jet skiing , motor rafting to name a few.Bangkok /Pattaya is a shopping paradise and People could bargain and buy variety of stuffs from hawkers, shops and even malls - Price being reasonable it could be afforded by many from poor to rich , to speak the shopping wuld be a paradise for female gender as we never felt that life can be so colorful and attainable till the point we visit places like these.
