Wow!!! We finally made it happen!!! Congratulations to Chairman Tr Bhanu Kiran, our planning for the past 6 months finally yielded results, and 9 tablers took of to Bangkok and Pattaya on the 30th April 2008.
It all started in November 2007, when Chairman Tr Bhanu Kiran told me that he wanted to make this trip HAPPEN and sat down with me and BOREED his plan into my brains, spoke to individual tablers at their leisure and got confirmation, before putting it to the floor for confirmation and on that D day at the meeting at sport club, we had the ball rolling, and we had 5 confirmation on the jiffy. Finally it was freezed to go to Bangkok and Pattaya for 4 nights on the 30th April and return back on 5th May. As the days passed by, we had nearly 12 confirmations, and finally 9 tablers took of on the journey on 30th April 2008.
We all planned to leave Mysore in one vehicle, picked up a Tempo Trax, and traveled to Bangalore and had little bit of a HIC UP while traveling to Bangalore, stopped at Nandini near Airport road and had our dinner and reached airport by 11.00pm. All very enthusiastic, to get on with our trip to Bangkok…
Reached the Swaranabhoomi Airport early in the morning 5.30am and got the immigration clearance and got out, and were all surprised to see the beautiful airport and were all surprised at the professionalism and organized ways at the airport. Had joie waiting for us and got into the Toyota van, loaded our luggage and started our journey to Pattaya. Wow!!! What roads, all were surprised to see the road and speed of the vehicle? With very little sleep in the night, some of us dozed of in the vehicle and after couple of stops for breakfast, reached our destination and checked into the A-One hotel around 10.00am, but all had to wait till 02.00pm to get into our rooms. The party started then and till date hasn’t stopped yet.
Coral island is one place we wanted to visit, early morning Ms Joy came to pick us up and we started our journey in a private speed boat. It surely was bumpy and reached the man made island for Para Sailing, myself, sadiq bhai and Rajeev took up the challenge and got strapped, and took off, it was so scarry when the speed boat driver slowed down and got us all a dip into the sea. Super it was and coooolll later. The next adventure was even cooler, we were all put up with an oxygen mask, and taken for scuba diving, and what an experience it was, with all the fishes, corals and the sea bed, it was a tremendous feeling, never felt so good and wah! What a feeling it was!!!
Another thing that surprised all of us was the walking street, looks like this place never sleeps in the night, only in the morning? Drove down to Bangkok the next day and checked into the tallest building Baiyoke Sky, a 5star hotel and the view was just super.
All of us chilled out in the room for sometime, and later got out of the hotel just to find out that all the shopping center, night market in right in front of our hotel. Walked out and shopped for sometime and later made our way to the most happening place of Bangkok “The Hollywood” , rocked the place till the early hours and got back to the room and caught on some sleep. The next day visited the greatest monuments of Thailand, “The Sleeping Buddha” and “The Golden Buddha”, boy after all the walking it was time again for the foot massage, got into one of the original massage center and dozed of for nearly 2 hrs, what a MASSAGE!!!
Well after all the hulla and gulla, we thought of home and had to plan, how to appease the better halves, and sought out in search of their list given and finally that took us a 2 whole full days. Guys never mention again about the trip to outside India, it will end up with more and more list, like our Chairmans wife chased him all the way to Bangalore to hand over the shopping list !!! by the way Chairman did you shop all in the list, well I did mine !!!
Till next time at Bangkok, so long guys.
Ashwath Pathange
MRT-21.
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