Bangkok, a place of mystic and beauty. Some people think of the Golf there, some of the pretty ladies, for me is FOOD! Glorious food!
Well, This is not my first trip to Bangkok, but different as we have a mission this time. To meet the legendary White Dragon King somewhere 2 hours away from Bangkok.
His holiness only meets 100 person per day for 3 days a week, hence we have to be early. It was a Thursday evening, and I was working, I have booked myself the last flight out of KLIA to Bangkok.
Upon reaching Bangkok at 1am, I took an expensive Limo Taxi to meet my friends at a Hotel downtown Bangkok, no doubt now sound asleep.
Reaching my friend Chow's room at 1.45am, took a quick shower and change, we assmble at the hotel lobby at 3am. There were 7 of us, and I only knew Chow. AFter shaking hand with the new acquaintances, we walk into a big cosy van, which I fell asleep almost immediately!
The Van slowed down one and a half hours later, roughtly at 5am, we reached the gates of the White Dragon King's temple, and there were dozens of van like us plus 2 huge bus in front of us!
My new friends were worried, seems we might not be able to meet his holiness as there were already 200+ people ahead of us, some came as early as 1am!
Lucky for us, it was Chinese New Year, his holiness was in his good grace and decided he will meet each and everyone of us. The only thing is that we are not allowed to ask him for indications or directions.
We had to take numbers. At 7am, we were served some delicious 'Yau Char Kuey' with soymilk.
The caretaker started calling out numbers at around 8am, people start to gather around His Holiness, we can see people being called and kneeled in front of him, and he would utter some words and hit the poor guys head 3 times with a small bamboo stick.
At around 10am, half of the people had left after the blessing ceremony. The caretakers were serving delicious fried mee hoon and fruits. I was last of our group. We ended up no more number calling, instead told to line up and move to meet His Holiness.When it was my turn, His Holiness seemed happy to see me (or was that just my imagination? haha!) He gave me 3 lines and hit my head 3 times.
Should I divulge what he told me? hmm... let me think about it...
We left the temple around 11am, the guys seemed still up for some action, and asked the van driver to send us to the famous 4 Faced God in Bangkok. More praying!
