Part 1: Our Bangkok shopping trip and *little scams* encountered

We depart for 3D/2N shopping trip to Bangkok with much excitement and anxiety and of coz extremely high expectations to be able to fill up our luggages with at least 30kg of goodies!

The departure was delayed for 2 hours, which suxs! Waiting in agony in the airport, watching aimlessly at people boarding and alighting from their planes.. the thought of being deprived 2 hours of our valuable time in Bangkok can be really frustrating.
So we arrived in Bangkok two hours later than scheduled, with much 'hazey' air (or probably pollution) awaiting us and suprisingly quite chilly weather and the famous bangkok traffic jam on our way back to the hotel.

Upon checking in the hotel, we waste no time and headed out straight for our shopping destination. We stop by a little restaurant to have our dinner. Here is a Thai version of Coke!

The first night shopping at MBK and Suan Lum Night Market was fairly dissapointing for me.. but not for my man! he bought lotsa t-shirts!

On our second day, we went on a half day tour. We started with a boat ride to visit 'a' temple and a 'fake' floating market. Here pic of us in one of their 'long' boats.

When we alight from the boat to visit the temple, we were so excited and engrossed with taking pictures of the surroundings without realizing there was a TRAP set in the temple to 'con' tourist for the so-called charitable purpose in maintaining the temple. The hidden TRAP in the pictures below. Could anyone see there is 40B sign on the second pic, at the bottom of the right leg of left figure?

there was 3 sets of figures placed in an open space area outside the temple and any reasonable person would think that it would be free for anyone to just put their face and take a pic! Plus, there was no one guarding there at all! While both of us wanted to take a shot at these figures, a man walk over and offered to help us to shoot the pics. Innocently, we believed they were being nice and friendly. The next minute, another guy walked up to us and demand 160B because we took pics with the figures and pointed to us at the tiny little deceiving 40B sign on the darn yellow FUGLY figure on the excuse that the money was for the temple. And we did not want to be beaten up, so we reluctantly gave the money. We were both so angry being cheated! grr..the most annoying part was we had to use our OWN camera to take that darn pic! At least if they had given us some souvenier photos, we wouldnt have been so angry! Its like paying for them just to click on MY camera! Geezz...how unconventional their deceiving method could be! totally annnoyed and unpleasant impression of bangkok! so beware if you do plan to go bangkok in the coming months, especially in the temples!

We did not want to let that stupid incident spoil our day, so we ventured on exploring the temple.

For more updates, please wait for Part 2!