Day Out: Lunch at Piri-Piri, Siam Paragon

Phew what a day. I am now all tired and sore. Anyways, today my cousin, Sui Eng (its a Chinese name) and I went downtown Bangkok, watched a movie, ate lunch, and did some soft-core shopping. 

Lunch at Piri-Piri:

We picked this restaraunt for no reason other than we both wanted to try eat somewhere we have never ate before. Piri-Piri is a Portuguese restaurant that serves burger-steak-fries-and-such (not sure if that has anything to do with it being a Portuguese restaurant). 

Piri-Piri restaurant can be found, near iBerry (if I remember correctly) in the food-court floor of Paragon Shopping mall.

My cus(left) and I (right) taking turns doing our pig faces. :P

 

My cheeseburger (240 Baht) -- juicy and delish

I munched down a cheeseburger and it was certainly tasty; My cousin on the other hand did not very much enjoy her Piri-Piri chicken breast. It was dry and mediocre despite being the "highlighted meal" that shared the same name with the restaurant.

Overall, althought the food was certainly not bad, it certainly does not any deserve any praise. I'm sure I could have gotten a decent or even better meal (both taste-wise and price-wise) at other fast food chains like Burger King or Subway. Plus, the service there was pretty horrible but I still had to pay 10% service charge regardless. Boo.

Anyways, after lunch we went to watch Snow White (not the cartoon version). Check my next post for a review. 

Summer is here! Rejoice! + Summer Plans

Summer is finally here! *queue celebratory dance music* WOOT WOOT I've waited so incredibly long for this day. A day when I am a free person, from academic obligations, once more. Its been such a long time since I've had my last break. (Well not really because of Songkran but it doesn't really count since I was studying madly for AP Bio).

 For the past month or so, I've been busier than I have ever been my entire life. I had student council elections (which I won presidency. oh yah), banquet, fight with friends, the oh-so-horrible AP exams, and final exams. All these events were just exhausted me both mentally and physically. I barely had any free time to read, sing, or update my blog. But no worries friends, this summer I plan to blog as much as possible.

 Plans & Goals for summer:

•  -study for the damn SAT subject test in Biology and Math II
•  -take the damn SAT subject test -go on my last ever SALT trip with my awesomest classmates [ICS 2013 <3] 
• -read as much as possible [to improve both my Thai and English] 
• -study for physics and chemistry. You don't have to gag. Its for my future.
•  - go to TAIWAN with my friends [V,L,M]! no parents :]
•  - get new laptop 
• - film my first singing video 

• - learn to edit said video 
• - blog as much as possible
•  - make up with my dad :( and end our stupid fight.

 - enjoy my last summer as a kid


 That's it for now.

Bangkok Floods> volunteered> human assembly line

As you may or may not know, Thailand (including Bangkok) is flooded. Now, you might think that flooding is just a non-serious,ordinary natural occurance. But truth is Bangkok is pretty much underwater. Two-story buildings are completely submerged in water. Crocodiles are rampant in the flood. Victims are trapped without food for days. More than three hundred deaths. Everybody's lives are effected by the flood right now. Pray for us and donate if you can. We are in desperate need of help. Two days ago, about twenty of my friends and I went to the National Stadium to help pack necessity bags for victims of the flood. We lined up in two lines, facing each other, and formed a human assembly line. Hah, its actually quite funny now that I think of it. Anyways, plastic bags would be passed from one end to the other and each of us were assigned different necessities (such as tissues, instant noodles and rice) to deposit into our bag and pass it along so that the next person could put in their items. It was a lot of fun at first and things were moving along at a constant speed. So we were like, "Yeh, we're on a roll! We're a machine. This is kinda fun. Let's quit school and become factory workers ( just kidding)". After a while, the guy in charge of the assembly line pressured us to work faster and faster. Our system got messed up since we were going really fast and were starting to get really tired. Two hours of "factory work" had gone by and man we were exhausted. So, that's a little recap of our "factory work" community service.