Oh yeah baby! We are in a good mood to channel a noontime show and throw out some giveaways!
We will be giving away our top three fab finds during our epic Thailand-Laos-Vietnam trip last month. Yes boys and girls and everybody in between (majority), there were idle times that we were sober enough to go out and do some (ehem) shopping!
We decided to bag our top picks we scored in the local markets of Pai, Vang Vieng and Hanoi to give to y’all our beloved flip’n readers!
FAB FIND#1 Our fave …

So William and Kate got married.
So what?!
We are not really a fan of this royal cum showbiz brouhaha. Since the big announcement of the royal wedding last year, paparazzi started revving-up their lenses, tabloids and broadsheets got busier and television networks all across the globe featured all sorts of shits about this “event of the decade”: from Diana’s engagement ring, Middleton’s modern victorian McQueen dress to how many times the bell will ring after the ceremony. Aack!
So if you are sick of all these hyped news and sensationalized publicity stunts …

Okay, so the whole Bangkok shenanigan didn’t really came out as we expected it to be. It could possibly be the lack of funds, the wrong trail of itinerary, or it  maybe just the fact that we got fixated with the whole Angkor Wat immersion that preceded the trip. Or simply because we were tired, flat tired.
So to cap off our final night in Thailand, we decided to walk along the river until we reach Wat Arun, chill out a bit and wait for the sun to set behind the Rattanakosin skyline.
So, …

You might think that it was a typo. You might think Ron and I developed another liking to weird things (ok, maybe not weird, just unconventional [ok, maybe conventional, but not many people would admit to liking it]). You might even think that we gave in to Bangkok’s glitter. I have to correct myself when I said that Lub’d was the only highlight of our trip. It was Lub’d AND the PORN house. Yes, you read that right, the PORN house. Feast your eyes on this…
with the porn chicks
Remember when …

Damnoen Saduak is popularly known as the floating Market and the Venice of Asia.  Every Morning, the Floating Market is routinely crowded with hundreds of vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats. They usually use small traditional boats, however, today the long-tailed engine boats became more popular. Vendors are selling and buying or exchanging their goods, which are particularly food, fruit and vegetable which mostly brought from their own orchards, in recent years these goods were replaced with souvenirs and trinkets for tourists, and the floating market became a huge souvenir shop.
Other than “Damn! …

The sun baked our skins as we made our way out of the Grand Palace feeling bitter and shunned by everything Thai. We wanted to turn our lucks by walking towards nowhere thinking we’d probably stumble upon something interesting, like a drag queen who looks like Lady Gaga. A tuktuk driver spider-sensed that we were confused and disoriented and approached us with a plan. “I’ll take you to two temples for free if you can drop by to this tailor shop that I know,” he said. Too tired to argue, …

After our anticlimactic Muay Thai momentus-interruptus and we finally convinced ourselves that watching two amateur fighters throwing bravado on each other is too high a price, we headed of the most beaten path in Bangkok.

Upon entrance in the grand palace, Monette rented a mothball smelling cover-up. Apparently, we were entering the most sacred temple in Bangkok and her tank top was too revealing that monks may get an unwanted wood works.
hor phra monthian dharma
It was mid-day and it seemed like clouds were not so popular in Thailand. It was too hot …

“… Pairs of MALE Elephants will be released to the forest of America. There is hope that they will grow in number…”
~King of Siam (Yul Bryner, The King and I 1956)

The day started with a half-baked excitement. We pretty much wasted more than two hours looking for the money changer that would accept our Peso bills. After 140 Baht on the cab meter, several kilometers of Bangkok sprinting action and litters of juicing fat squeezing out our pores, we couldn’t help but pacify the plea of our intestinal parasites, so we …

After the uneventful arrival in Bangkok, we found ourselves taken to Lub*d, our home for the next three days before going back to the pain of reality. Yes, we do have day jobs we sadly keep to finance this capricious traveling lifestyle.
We were greeted by a modern building with wooden chairs and tables filled with tourists. Ahhh, the familiar smell of home… Clearly, we were smitten. We did not realize we were standing at the ultimate highlight of what Bangkok had to offer, at least for Ron and I.

We entered …

Bangkok welcomed us on a late afternoon from our long lazy bus/van ride from Siem Reap. Being the last leg of the trip, our minds were practically overwhelmed with plethora of enriching experiences, images and a bag-full of stories we can’t wait to tell, which in turn, made an inversely proportional amount of cash at hand.
So with a dwindling budget, the moment we realized we are approaching the capital, we started doing mental computations ’til our mouths froth.

It was late afternoon when the van dropped us at Khaosan Road. I …