Today seemed a little quieter compared to the day before.
I don't mean to say that I did nothing.
I only mean to say that I should have had more pictures of my breakfast down at the restaurant instead of only this omelet, and nothing else more.
I don't know what happened to the other picture.
I don't even know whether I took more plates of food.
But I assume I should have.
I am, after all, not the kind to be at a breakfast buffet and just have a single egg omelet, even if there be everything in it.
Sometime in the late morning my friend recommended that we go for another head spa- this time at a place in Ekkamai.
One thing about these indie spas in Thailand (at least, in Bangkok) is that they're sometimes located in unusual, off-the-beaten-path places.
I've been to spas located within residential areas, but Cynthian Head Spa was one of those places that stood (commercially) aloof amongst houses and more houses stretched left and right.
Had it not been for the GPS and the Grab, I don't think I would have been able to find the place at all.
So, how thankful I was when the car dropped me off right at the doorstep and all I needed to do was step out from the vehicle into the bright sunshine and right away I was inside the spa itself.
Cynthian Head Spa is designed to be restful.
When I say restful, I mean it in a very, very good way where the wait area is a romantic white and pink, where at the counter they offer you a variety of oils should you want to use them, and they serve you little cups of blue butterfly pea tea.
Upstairs in the spa area the room is soothing, cool, restful, and beamed over the ceiling are little stars to lull you into rest under a beautiful night sky.
I loved the way the masseuse worked her hands over my scalp, which, by the way, tends to be a little on the sensitive side and so I am particular about how well the person massages and loosens the nerves all over my head.
Most of the time I fall asleep.
I fell asleep here too.
Blood circulation in the head and neck is a very huge thing for me, and I'm always thankful whenever I get relaxed enough to snooze and snore away.
The masseuse wrapped my head in a towel after the hair wash and head massage finished, and back downstairs I went to the pink and white romantic-looking salon area where I got my hair dried.
When we finished we decided we'd head to the nearby Gateway Mall for lunch.
There was a restaurant called KIN that we wanted to try.
One thing interesting about Gateway Mall here in Ekkamai is the confluence of Japanese restaurants, and Japanese retail brands that are not oft found concentrated in a single place elsewhere.
This is the mall to go to if you want to have Japanese cuisine but no idea what you want to eat, or what restaurant it is you want.
Here they've got Ootoya, Chabuton and well-known confectionary Chateraise.
They've also got a Japanese pharmacy and cosmetics store (I don't know its name).
And there're little booths offering small bites Japanese style here and there.
The place however does cater very much to students, so they've got a stationery shop downstairs, a sort of exercise place upstairs, a MaxValu supermarket in the basement, and boba tea and donut shops on the first floor.
KIN offers Japanese food buffet style, and let's just say we ate a lot this afternoon.
I wish I could remember just what it was we ate, but it was a lot, most of which seemed to either beef or salmon.
I know we took quite a variety of salmon dishes- because what better place to have salmon dishes than at a buffet targeted for families and youth?
We had ours sashimi style, sushi style, cubed and dipped in some sort of vinegar, and we had it over rice as well.
When it came to the beef, I think we took a shabu shabu, but of course the pot came with a large variety of huge vegetables, and we had a fine time chomping through the lettuce, the carrots, the mushrooms, and everything else, besides the thick slices of well-boiled beef.
There was a bit of a grilled wagyu too, and maybe some sort of a chilled beef sashimi thing as well which I don't remember its name but I know was cold yet surprisingly firm and good to chew.
It was sliced thinly enough though, and so, no barbaric meat-eating vibes there.
Some of the other dishes we ordered included chawanmushi, which, here at KIN, they steamed the egg with a bit of gravy, adding a most delicious flavor to what would otherwise have been a simple steamed egg.
There were a couple other favorites that we ordered, like a sort of grilled toast with what I think was prawn inside, and tempura prawn, and, of course, dessert, where today we settled on a little cup of chocolate ice cream topped with whipped cream.
When lunch finished, we returned to the Central World area, where we first headed up to TOPS on the 7th floor of the shopping mall to get bottles of protein shakes, and then after that across the bridge to Big C, and finally, to the shops behind Siam Square 1 where we happened to catch youth bands (some in school uniform) performing.
They were pretty good, I have to say, just like how we would expect bands of school-going age (and restricted training) would be.
I don't know whether we had anything else for dinner.
Seems like we didn't- too full for a meal- but I think we had a BOOST drink each, then back to Panda for a 2 hour long foot massage- during which, of course, I fell asleep.