the city that never sleeps.

It was Saturday and I woke up so late because I was so damn tired. Earn and Yok, my roommate in that time had already left because they had a photo session with their friends in senior high school. When I woke up, there was no one in the room. Trust me, it was not good to wake up, and realize that you were in the middle of somewhere that you really don’t know, with no one beside you, didn’t know what to do. It was 9.30 am in the morning and I just woke up with the horrible feeling. No one i know and I was in the middle of the city in Thailand. I turned on my laptop, and wanna talk with someone to keep me company. Then I started to think that it would be so terrible if I just stayed in the apartment with nothing to do but chatting and browsing that I can always do in my home. I asked my friend to give me the link about the information about Bangkok, and I see the great market named Chatuchak weekend market. Then I decided to go there alone than only staying in the apartment and doing nothing. Then I took a bath, prepared for the adventurous day I was gonna have. 

This Saturday I had a plan to go to Cathucak Weekend Market to buy some stuff, it should be only ONE stuff, because I only had to buy one more thing. Cathucak weekend Market is reachable which mean I can only take an MRT to get there. It was awesome that one station of MRT is the entrance of Chatucak Weekend Market. I love it! because I could easily get there. I had been thinking of my walking alone the street to reach the Thailand Cultural Centre Station. I always love that kind of moment anyway. I assure you, you’re gonna love the moment you walk alone in another country, having no idea with the thing that could possibly happen to you. You cant even imagine when someone suddenly come to you and speak Thai, you cant totally understand what he says , and the one that you do is only answering him that I don’t understand Thai. It happened to me a lot. Since I walked alone along the street, there are a lot of people tried to talk with me and Thai. I also felt the situation when I walk alone in Indonesia, there will be so many boys sitting in the side of the road, trying to flirt on me. HAHA. I mean it, but I don’t feel it annoyed me, because they thought I was Thai, they spoke in Thai that I didn’t understand at all, I didn’t feel annoyed at all. ;p

I didn’t say that I felt miserable of travelling around Thai all to myself. I love something adventurous, and I simply love walking along the street alone. I saw many different things everyday, I love to pretend that I am Thai, I love to have a quality conversation with no one but myself, I love to see the cars that were just like my mommy’s car and someone’s car that could make me think that I am gonna get back home this august with a lot of new experiences to tell them, I love to breath the air, see the dogs around and tried to touch them even sometimes Thai people said to me something but I couldn’t understand. It was just awesome when you find yourself do something that you cant imagine before. Even to walk alone in my own country, I always feel miserable and think that it is no good at all to do such a thing. I never imagine that I did it, alone, in another country. I was lost in translation. But I always love to be lost in translation, how could it be not so adventurous?. But I think that that day I got a bonus. In the previous day, Bow has told me that she had a friend from England and Indonesia who were also now staying in Thai and also were interested to visit those kind of places for tourist. But I didn’t expect at all that that Saturday they were gonna come with me to go to Weekend Market. So I just left the apartment, thinking of going alone to buy some stuff and come back home again, until suddenly my phone was rung and someone texted me. The person said that he’s Tom, Bow’s friend and he’s gonna go to the Weekend Market with Jimmy, and asked me whether I wanted to come with them. I laughed so loud, even I received the message on my way to get the weekend market!. What a coincidence!. I always think that god always have a special plan for me. Trust me, when you try to be so grateful of having something that you don’t really like, when you try to enjoy every little time given no matter how miserable it is, you are definitely going to have something more!. Like me, that Saturday. God simply gave me a special bonus. I said to Tom that I was also heading to the market, and asked him whether we could meet in the market. They say yes, and i was ready to make a new friend. :D

I couldn’t imagine how big this market is. I think it was absolutely big that you could find any kind of things there. From clothing, bags, necklaces, many kind of accessories, shoes, mirrors, many kind of books, slippers, plates, glass, cups, lamps, even the animals like dogs, cats and rabbits were sold there. I couldn’t believe my eyes that almost anything here I like them the most. My eyes couldn’t get off of the ancient books, cute summer dresses, my favorite type of shoes, fascinating bags, and else. It made me really hard to chose one of them because anyway I only had a budget to buy one thing, that’s why I thought that it was not a good choice to go to Cathucak Market, the place that I can get whole things I need with the quite cheap price. So I decided to stop walking and waited for my new friends there. Finally there they were. One tall british  and one smaller dark Indonesian guy were coming to me with a smile. That moment was the beginning of my great long day with them, until drop. I mean really drop!. :D

After walking around the market and three of us so confused what to buy because there were a lot of things, we decided to go out of the market. Oh ya, I only got one small clutch bag with the elephant print, and Tom only got one ancient book. We don’t really like to walk around there because there were too many things that I wanted to buy, especially BAGS. I don’t know why but once I went to shopping center, I always fall in love with them. My eyes couldn’t stop starring at them like the first time I saw the cutest guy in the world. Tom love to close my eyes with his big hand everytime we passed the bags shop and when I couldn’t stop starring at them all.

After that, Jimmy recommended to get out of this place and go to other places. He recommended the golden mountain as our next destination. From Catuchak Weekend Market, we should take a bus to get somewhere near the golden mountain. We finally took the bus and we stopped in the monument which I didn’t know what its name, but it was always seen in the news when the red t-shirt protest happened. LOL. Then from that place, to get the golden mountain that actually the three of us still don’t know where exactly the place, we walked along the street. I think we walked too long because I couldn’t see the place that we could stop, we kept walking and walking. I felt so tired yet so fun to see around. Once we stopped to take a picture with the monks. I loved to take the picture everywhere, and annoyingly Tom asked Jimmy whether all Indonesian love to take the picture. I kicked his ass, haha. After giving up, we finally stop the tuktuk, one of cute transportation that I really like and ask the driver for direction. Finally we took the tuktuk, and it was beyond awesome to take this kind of transportation, and not forget, taking the picture!.

After going to the Golden mountain that unfortunately we couldn’t see the sunset from there because it was closed already, we decided to go home. We need to take the BTS, but it was a long long journey to get there. We need to walk in a far far distance, take the bus, and walk again, walk walk until we finally get the BTS. Oh yeah, before we took the BTS we walked along the Khao san Road, the road that was really full with the tourist. It was awesome. There were a lot of people selling Thai souvenirs and stuffs, books, summer clothing,  and even they sold many kind of drinks and there were also a lot of bar. This place was really awesome and I love to take the picture anywhere.

After going home, Tom suddenly asked me to go out tonight to the same place, Khao san Road. I think it was so crazy, even it was 9pm when he said that and we were still on the way back home.  I had no idea at what time we were gonna leave. So I didn’t take it so serious until I got back to the apartment. Just after I arrived home, I turn on the laptop, going to chat with my old friend in senior high school, until suddenly Tom texted me to meet in one BTS station. That was crazy because I just thought that I wont happen. It was 10.30, no one in the apartment, my clothing are all dirty, I didn’t know how to get there to meet Tom, but you know what? I still left!. Haha. This is what I call adventure. Because it took a very long time for me to get dress, Tom asked me to meet in the Khao San road which means that I should take taxi to get there. I never could imagine that I finally do that. at 10.30 in the night, I went somewhere taking the taxi. But I did it, nothing was happened, everything is beyond right, and I felt a lot of fun.

In Khao san road, I, tom, and Paul, one of Tom’s English friend, were having fun together. I mean it, even it was only the three of us there, but I did have fun. We told some jokes, walking around the street to see the drunk people acting so silly and laughed at them, even we stopped in side of the road and talked with the Thai gangster who finally speak his heart out, and told us that he just recently broke up with his girlfriend who cheated. I felt like I really wanna laugh. I just imagine that now I was in Indonesia and I talked with the gangster in the side of the road, I didn’t even think it would happen. But yes, I happened even when I was out of my country, it was so silly. I went back to the apartment by 2.30 in the morning, and I got home all alone by taxi. Amazing.

This Saturday was so amazing. I did a lot of things that I couldn’t think would happen to me. I did things that if I tell my mommy, she’s definitely gonna angry with me and if I tell mt friends, no one’s gonna believe me. Everything was beyond my expectation, and one thing that you should remember is that when you less expect to get things, and when you already feel enough of what you get, God will give you a special bonus for your life. Just enjoy every single thing happens to you, assure yourself that you are happy, then something more than just happiness will come to you that you couldn’t ever imagine. Think about it, it worked for me. :D