By Blue Rose on Sunday, 14 of June , 2009 at 11:37 am
The first stop we went is at the Paragon it is a big mall, we went to see the mobile exhibition. Then walk around the mall and then outside, the next stop is the MBK it is a mall also, but the things are cheaper compared to other malls. There are lots of people who shop there. We bought Thailand shirt, and I bought shoes coz its on sale. Then we ate in a restaurant for lunch, then we went back to the hotel using the sky train, using sky train saves time and you don’t have to be tucked on the traffic. Yah traffic, I experienced the traffic jam in Bangkok, just like in manila.
I always walk down street to look at the things people sell, I saw a lot, shirts, shoes, socks, clips, souvenirs’, necklaces, and the most thing that surprises me is that I saw a gun, they are selling it on the street side, I wonder if it is a true gun or not.
On our third day, we went to the dentist, he wanted to put crown on his tooth, and I also had a check up coz my tooth is aching. The dentist first x-ray and cleaned my teeth, he said I must come back the next day to extract my wisdom tooth, coz its affecting my other molar tooth and has cavities that’s why its aching. Then the next day we came back, but I never expected that, it would be so painful, why? Imagine all the drillings and pulling I encounter, it makes me sick. They made it about for 2 hours, and 4 injection of painkiller. Huhuhu…if I ever knew I will not do it…I only eat soup, different kinds of soup up to 3 days and my face is still swelling, so I can’t go out to have a tour…I’m tucked in bed and hotel room…waaaahhhhh….pity me. On the fourth day after that, I’m already tired and bored of our room, so I decided to go out and go to the mall even though my face is still swelling.
Then Sunday morning, June 7, I went to the airport to go back to Philippines.
One thing that I learned, never go to the dentist to have a minor surgery in your vacation, it will just ruined your tour..waaaaahhhhhhhh….
By Blue Rose on Saturday, 13 of June , 2009 at 12:28 am
Suvarnabhumi Airport covers an area of some 20,000 rais (8,000 acres). The new international airport is located about 15 km of on the east-bound Bangna-Trat Highway in Bang Phli District, Samut Prakarn Province and is about 25 km. from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. It is accessible via five routes.
‘Suvarnabhumi’ Meaning ‘a Golden Land’. ‘Suvarnabhumi’ is the new airport’s name graciously blessed by His Majesty the King on September 29, 2000.
‘Suvarnabhumi’ denotes a fertile land where inhabitants live peacefully as well as a business hub from which the economy thrives.
The new airport has an initial capacity of 45 million annual passengers, 76 flights an hour and over 3 million tons of cargo. It has 2 runways with a distance width of 2,200 meters, each 3,700 meters and 4,000 meters long, able to accommodate A380. Also included are 51 aircraft stands with aerobridge gates of which 4 are designed to handle the super jumbo Airbus A380 and 69 remote parking bays and 2 car parking buildings connected to the passenger terminal to serve over 5,000 cars. A gross 563,000-square-meter area is set for an assortment of 24/7 Duty Free shops. The completed project will feature 4 runways totally, resulting in an ultimate capacity of 100 million annual passengers, 112 flights an hour and 6.4 million tons of cargo.
By Blue Rose on Friday, 12 of June , 2009 at 11:22 am
May 30 2009, I woke up early and prepare myself in going to the airport. After I ate breakfast, I got a taxi and went there. I came as early as I can at Treminal 2 International Flight, coz you know our system, processing our papers to travel out of the country is so difficult. I got my ticket from Philippine Airlines to Bangkok, my luggage is ok. I went next to the immigration department, checked, they ask questions, and then it’s ok. Waiting area, oh no, our flight was delayed so I have to wait for 2 hours, such a trip. I bought food and drinks to eat, and then I went to computer table and checked my emails.
At last our plane came, hurray!! But, hrrrrr…still we have to wait another 50 minutes coz they are checking the plane. I know its necessary coz it’s for the passengers good. Time to board the plane, I’m excited of course, silly but it’s my first time to go out of the country even just for a vacation. I found my seat beside the window, I like sitting beside the window coz I can see the things down the plane.
Then we flown into the sky, nervous, excited, I don’t I know what to feel…ahhhhh..I want to shout when our plane is having turbulence and when it’s going up and down, I can feel that my whole soul is lifting and coming out of my senses, oh my God!! The weather that time is not so good that’s why it’s rough.
Then it was ok, ah I feel relief thank God. I saw this man sitting in front, first row. I saw him before at the ticketing booth, he talked to me and I’m happy coz at least my flight was not boring at all. He is an Israeli, having a vacation trip, he already did have a round tour in the Philippines so he’s next stop is Bangkok before he went home. It was a nice conversation, by the way he is married so no space for me..hehehe..just kidding.
Anyways, I heard the attendant said we are going to land in a few minutes. WOW! BANGKOK HERE I COME!!! We landed just in time, then got off the plane, walk and walk and walk, oh by golly this airport is so long..I’m already tired. At last, the immigration again, checking the passports and everything, then she said go back and fill up this form using ball pen not pencil, such stupid of me, I should have fill it up using ball pen when I was on the plane. Then fell in line again. Oh thank God, I’m through. Got my luggage and went to the exit. Then I just look up for my fiancée, he went there a day earlier coz in Norway it has already a straight flight to Bangkok. I was in the last exit so I have to walk and walk again, until I saw him..oh my thank you.
He did not recognize me at all, but its ok coz at least I saw him, my eyes is clear enough..hehehe…Then we went to our hotel named Royal President Bangkok. By the way he invited me to have a holiday there; he too is having a holiday, for 8 days.
That is my first story, I will tell you next time what places we visited in our holiday.
By Mr.Pancake on Monday, 8 of June , 2009 at 4:26 am
With falling, if not fully negative, birth rates and faced with the United States’ own drive to obtain skilled workers and professionals, the European Union (EU) has established its “Blue Card” residence visa for the foreign workers it needs to remain competitive in a globalized post-industrial world.
This is seen by Filipinos as a boon for Filipino workers, of whom about 90,000 of the 900,000 in the EU are undocumented, although many of these illegal overstayers are skilled workers and professionals.
The Blue Card visa gives the qualified foreign workers legal work residence in all EU member-countries, and also permits them to transfer from one EU country to another without further documentation.
“The period of validity of the EU Blue Card will be between one and four years, with the possibility of renewal. A Blue Card may also be issued or renewed for smaller periods in order to cover the work contract, plus three months,” said the Council of EU in a press statement.
The Brussels-based Council of the European Union adopted the resolution establishing the Blue Card residence permit on May 25 this year, but it may need up to two years to become effective because each member-country will still have to merge it with its own laws.
Europe’s population growth has been on steady decline in the last two decades, resulting in the scarcity of highly qualified labor, so that in Germany retirees are being called back to work. A European Commision (EC) paper predicts the region will lose half of its work force in the next 50 years if the reduced birth rates continues.
Ambassador Alistair Macdonald, head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines, said the EU Blue Card system will “have to be translated into national laws” by the EU member states within two years before it can be implemented.
But he said EU members such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark are not included in the countries that need to adopt the Blue Card system.
In a statement, the Council of the European Union said the Blue Card system establishes more attractive work conditions for foreign workers to take up highly qualified employment in the EU member states, seeing that it gives them a series of socioeconomic rights and favorable conditions for family reunification and movement across EU states.
Macdonald said the presence of Filipino workers has contributed a lot to the region’s economic development and “Europe is very thankful to the Filipino workers.”
