Saturday, January 27, 2007

CNX Day 3 (Royal Flora Expo)

We started our journey here, at the entrance....
they really put in a lot for this expo didn't they
did I say its only from the end of 2006 till Jan 2007
Its such a pity this is all gonna be gone by this time of next year
Even the tickets look cute!!!
Hey Pleang its your Nong Mang Kutt....
It was bright okay...don't ask why i look funny
There was an electric bus (of some sort) but mom insisted we "exercise"
do I need to tell you its a statue of some kind???

Me asked to be in some random picture by Pat
some mythical thai bird
that is real silver...its heavy like hell

The wall looks amazing

Its looks like I'm really in the forest
they invented this thai music box...its really cool
It played my favourite royal song (These are the songs written by his majesty the king)
The name is Sai fon, meaning The rain
Looks so devine....
I know the fruit below but this one...
I didn't even know it existed
Pat ate it and tried forcing me to eat it...no chance
it looks too scary
some fruit famous in Cha-cherng-sao (Its in North east thailand)

I feel hungry.....!!!! T-T
Elephants....very creative
Some random dome
The ayutthaya gardens and houses
Everybody, meet my best friend...ahahahah

A thai flower bouquet...
me in front of the ayutthaya houses
(Extra note: Thailand has three kingdoms, Sukhothai, Ayutthaya and Rattanakhosin in order
Part of Bangkok is called rattanakosin Island...the start of the kingdoms date back around 600-700 hundred years, back to when we actually united and called ourselves thais)
*sigh of relief* its just an empty one
Oooh I took a pic of a real life butterfly
That's the fruit exhibition building from the outside

Thank god they aren't real...there's a Durian up there
If you get what I'm trying to say....
That is a map of thailand with a list of what each province's famous fruit is
These are the south african garden pics
Is that me??? I look weird from the back.
what's the point in putting water in if there are holes
more of the sounth african garden
Oh god...they even design the signs for bathrooms
*sarcastic tone*why don't you guess from the names which is which

This was at the orchid dome...I'm not interested in the flowers but I did like this
The Singha beer/water company's pavilion...
I just liked the lion ^0^

ooohh~~...colourful lamp (FYI: pin is attracted to colourful or green objects hence her random personality which makes her seem a bit odd)
Kenya stuff
I think the following three pics are from the bangladesh garden
me getting fustrated by the map...pat said my expression was so "rotten" she wanted to save it!!! Thankyou dear sis!!!
Some random box???

If you're thai and you read it, you'd probably laugh....
I did...and ppl stared at me like I was somekind of reatard...well maybe I am
It says "Any men or woman that go through these doors will come out a bit better looking"

this is the Lanna gardens its a really old thai-laos kingdom dating back almost a thousand years...right now it's a part of northern to south east thailand
The lanna art and culture is really beautiful and delicate...like northern thai peep if ya know what I mean....these are the carvings on the door....
what's with the monkeys???
The steps are nice
This is the somekind of throne for the Lanna Princesses

Is it traditional Lanna art???
I don't know...looks cool to me
This one is the Indian water garden
This one's from Bhutan
I think this one is from netherlands....
This is the front view...

Nice pottery





Remember the phayanak I posted about???
Well its rivals with the mythical bird you'll see in the temple
We are at the highlight of the royal flora expo...I can't remember the last time I was this impressed by a piece of thai art....
The temple is not of any actuall style...
I looked at it and went: "Oh wait thats from ayutthaya, but thats Sukhothai, and huh??? do they usually use that kind of decoration or design, its thai but i've never seen it used before"
It just really amazed me!!!! They designed it really well
I bow down to the floor you stand on, oh GREAT ONE
The sun is starting to set the scenery is breath taking....I'm not kidding

View of the temple from above

They really put in a lot of detail
Love the bells/chimes it sounds pretty nice when the wind blows
The thai giant, protecter of the temple
I don't usually see them in white, they're usually painted really nicely
but the design is still unique
At the end out of view is the exit...thats how far I walked and will walk back
and its in a circle not straight up and straight back
I've probably lost a lot of weight today
The small garden still, with thai patterns



Another view of the temple
Thats the phayakrut...my favourite mythical creature's rival!!!
Hmmm...very hard to make
I wonder how long it took
Everything is so delicate and detailed....look at the doors

And the pillars



Then the window
IT'S SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Front view...thats a lot of people!!!
Walking away from the palace

Holly cow...Even the trash cans were designed
They're also environment friendly...
Man....I'm proud to call myself thai
My house at BKK has a lot of these flowers
They are called chuanchom meaning inviting to admire or look at
It was almost sunset at that time so I took some random pics of the view
I don't know I just like the sunset...a lot

Another weird piece of art...but I still like it
Look what I did to the piece of art
...closer...closer...yeah in its hands
I guess its suppose to look like a mother and son
Hey...its a boy right???
I wonder what it took to actually make these things....
people just walk by...
Do they eve care????
oooh art....
We went into this plant bio tech centre...talking about Dr.Dickinson and accuracy
So I found these rainbow coloured cactuses and asked Pat to take photos of them
(she hardly ever lets me handle the cam...most of the pics here, she took)
Anyway, Pat took this one and other unsatisfactory ones

So I took this one myself...don't you like it
I was inspired by the thought of "Honey I shrunk the kids"

Pink!!!
It was under the "cactus dome"...Its probably very distantly related
The cactus reminded me of a cake with white frost and cherry topping...*tummy growls..lol*

I think the cactus looks funny....orange pink and green, what a combination
Just (randomly) thought that the food court card looked nice
It makes me want to eat more....

Even the lamp post was designed realy well Pleang, I took a pic of your Nong Mang kutt (Mangosteen)

Now this is art mr.sherratt!!!!
This too...I call art
Almost at the exit
Last Glance at Royal Flora Expo


PS. I wore the yellow shirt becuase the ROYAL flora expo was to celebrate his majesty the king of thailand's 80th birthday...yellow T-shirts are used to represent the love for his highness so yeah I decided to wear it. if you go to BKK you see peep wear it every monday...its all yellow I get dizzy!!!!

2 comments:

Steph said...

hey pin... i really like these pictures... they are so pretty... now with the bathroom signs they are actually really well done... imangine everywhere having signs like that... :)... well it looks like it was fun... it also looks like it took forever to create... do you no how long it took them to actually put it all up???

i really like how you said your sis saved the picture because you look so rotten... you didn't look bad just a bit tired... you were walking around all day by the looks of it... i bet the sunset was excellent to watch.

WeiYun said...

I like the one of the flower! =) You are really very good at taking photographs.

The weird fruit was TEH COOL. I'd eat it just to see what it would taste like.

I can't take photos, I start shaking and my photos get all blurry!