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@BBKTrip:Bangkok Shopping Trip (21-25 Nov 2024)

Image generated by Gemini My wife Wendy and me booked a flight to Bangkok more than 6 months earlier. Took quite a while for my wife to go for a holiday in Bangkok, after COVID, which is more than 3 years ago for our last Bangkok trip. Booked the 8:10am Thai Airways flight and realized that taking the first MRT train(around 5:30am and MRT station is at Changi Terminal 2) will not be able to make it by 7:10am for check-in to Thai Airway counter. So we had to take a Grab ride to Changi Airport Terminal 1. My wife even paid for the online check-in for Thai Airway. Since we reach around 6.45am at Changi Airport Terminal 1, we have enough time to play with to check-in and board the flight.  When we went to look for local SIM(AIS Tourist SIM 8 days@299baht for 30GB and 399baht for unlimited data) at CentralWorld(Biggest shopping mall in Asia), there is really no discount on the local SIM but at least you have someone to assist you to get the local SIM working on your phone, which is my R...

@BBKTrip:Bangkok Shopping Trip (1-6 Oct 2025)

Image generated from Gemini      Wendy and me booked a Bangkok trip from 1 - 6 Oct 2025. There was some hiccups due to the flight to Bangkok from Jetstar has been cancelled due to Jetstar closed its operation. We had to book Scoot again. Really troublesome but still managed to fly to Bangkok.      Since this time Wendy does the planning, I just followed her. But found out she know nothing and had to figure out some stuff out like local SIM purchase, taking the metro service to our destination and some minor issues that gets resolved ultimately.     Since we thought we did not buy any check-in luggage, we brought two 20 inch hard cases for this trip. She finally pack lite for an overseas trip. We only filled 3/4 of the luggage and expect to buy a Bangkok trolley back to accommodate our purchases.     I did my research using ChatGPT and Gemini for this round instead of Google Search. Results are pretty promising, except for some results t...