Bangkok Week 225 October 18, 2012 Great birthday gifts (thanks everyone) and a seat on one of the inaugural trips of THAI's first A380. View fullsize All signs indicate that vegetarian week is coming! View fullsize Would you like a pot-stewed duck bun? View fullsize A few days late, finally opening the exotic birthday presents from far away lands. View fullsize A very nice gym shirt from Chris. View fullsize Trying to guess what's inside the green from mum and dad. View fullsize It's a no-BS souvenir from the Boeing factory. View fullsize And a 3D puzzle with a twisted theme. View fullsize A very extravagant birthday cake! View fullsize A "fresh milk" chocolate mousse cake. Almost perfect, as far as cakes go. View fullsize Home-designed, hand-made replacement pins for the one I had gotten in Tokyo. View fullsize The tiniest 8GB thumb drive you've ever seen! View fullsize And Apple's swanky new EarPods. Hope they stay in! View fullsize We stumbled upon an onigiri vending machine at a shopping mall (yes, in Bangkok -- not in Tokyo). View fullsize A whole fridge of ready-to-eat frozen veggie meals at 7-11! View fullsize We were able to buy fake ground chicken from the local veggie store, since J week is so close. View fullsize A beer that was hand-carried back from Belgium. View fullsize Another tasty Saturday night dinner. View fullsize This is how one of my colleagues organizes his expenses. Note the stray cash shuffled into the receipt heaps. View fullsize Oh oh oh! What's this? My blurry ride back from Singapore to Bangkok! View fullsize The (spacious) galley areas have laminate wood floors. View fullsize The entire first floor is economy class: 3-4-3. View fullsize Each seat has its own wide-screen entertainment, which is available at all times -- including boarding, take-off and landing. View fullsize There's a disco staircase at the rear of the aircraft to access the upstairs econ class. View fullsize They're not claustrophobic -- actually fairly spacious. View fullsize This is the mini-econ section on the upper deck. It's about 8 rows of 2-4-2. View fullsize Mid-way through the section there's a bulk head row so that the upper emergency exits are accessible to both sides of the aircraft. View fullsize The hi-tech faucet allows you to very finely adjust the water temperature. View fullsize There's a camera on the tail of the plane which passengers can view at all times. Here's Changi terminal D. View fullsize THAI has made a whole new, very swanky, very hi-tech safety video to go with its new aircraft. It's entirely CG. View fullsize And we've landed (with quite a thud) back in Bangkok with its familiar airport architecture.
