{"id":171,"date":"2007-03-21T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T06:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/archives\/171"},"modified":"2011-03-24T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T08:08:08","slug":"its-yellow-but-im-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/171","title":{"rendered":"I'm yellow but that's ok."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"54th
(The bridge and platform design for the bar on the 54th floor of the State Tower)<\/p>\n

Sitting on top of Bangkok is an amazing experience.  If you’ve never been to a roof top bar, I highly recommend, if only just once.  Could it be that Bangkok is a beautiful city? Going up 50+ floors to the top of the State Tower will definitely make you a believer. Ken, Takako (Muriel’s friend from Japan), Muriel and I decided to check out the view from Sirocco<\/a>, one of Bangkok’s most “up” scale (pardon the pun) bars. Flip flops, shorts, backpacks and sports wear are definitely not allowed up here. <\/p>\n

\"shaken,
(Once in a while you just need a martini)<\/p>\n

It’s a miracle that I was able to get through the scrutiny of the fashion police at the bottom of the escalators.   I mean, most of the stuff they listed as unacceptable is a majority of what I own.  Entering the elevator and riding the 50+ floors, we arrived at the top of the State Tower.  This supposedly high-class building was deteriorating and full of squatters about 3 years ago when I was last in Thailand. Funny how things change so quickly here.  I wonder what the customers would think if they knew this?<\/p>\n

\"Striking
(Striking a pose over the City of Angels)<\/p>\n

The average costs of drinks at Sirocco are equal to about the 2-3 day wage of the average Thai person (approx $10 Canadian).  It’s nice to get up here but I feel a little guilty drinking 300Baht drinks – the cost of one drink can practically feed me for a day. But it was an experience and its probably only in Bangkok and cities like it where some average Joe can live-it-up since this would be out of the question back home.<\/p>\n

\"Party
(Chilling  out and people watching at the bar in Sirocco) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The bridge and platform design for the bar on the 54th floor of the State Tower) Sitting on top of Bangkok is an amazing experience.  If you’ve never been to a roof top bar, I highly recommend, if only just once.  Could it be that Bangkok is a beautiful city? Going up 50+ floors to … Continue reading I'm yellow but that's ok.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}