tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157864692024-03-11T03:13:36.571+08:00Jac Jac's World~The measure of love is when you love without measure. In life there are very rare chances that you'll meet the person you love and loves you in return. So once you have it don't ever let go, the chance might never come your way again.~Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-38479123815756690742011-06-19T23:26:00.000+08:002011-06-19T23:26:07.242+08:00What happen when you cant read & speak Thai?<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This evening I drove to a nearby shopping mall for dinner. I was walking around the mall alone and decided to have fast food dinner. I entered this <i>McDonald's Restaurant</i> and saw Samurai Pork Burger set on the menu. Since non-halal burger is not available in Malaysia, I decided to order a set for myself. <b style="color: red;">=p</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When I was in the queue, an auntie gave me and another customer some coupons. We thanked her and took her coupons. However, all the coupons were written in Thai. <b style="color: red;">=(</b> I wasn't sure what was the promotion about, but one of the coupons has the picture of Samurai Pork Burger set which I wanted. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, I handed the coupon to the cashier upon making my order. The cash register machine showed 106Baht, which was exactly the same price as the price showed on the board. Well, I thought the coupon has some sort of discount? How come I was still paying a full price? <i>*confused*</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Guess what?!?! I only realized what was the coupon about after that!! It should be <b style="color: #cc0000;">"Buy 1 set of Samurai Pork Burger & get 1 Pork Burger worth 56Baht for FREE"</b>.... Because, I ended up with 2 pork burgers, 1 pack of french fries & a coke!!! Hahaha!!! Greedy me bought 2 burgers for 1 meal. <b style="color: red;">XD</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I took the extra burger home. It will be my breakfast tomorrow morning. LOL! That was a pretty funny experience on language barrier. <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0470169443&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-25583913574826284622011-06-15T23:03:00.000+08:002011-06-16T15:28:19.069+08:00World's Best Bosses and Coworkers<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found this interesting article from <a href="http://www.bnet.com/photos/worlds-best-bosses-and-coworkers/6244243?promo=713&tag=nl.e713"><span id="goog_60038122"></span>BNET</a> <span id="goog_60038123"></span>and would like to share will my readers.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><u><b><br />
</b></u></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><u><b>World's Best Bosses and Coworkers</b></u></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>1) Creative collaborators</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><li> <strong style="font-weight: normal;"></strong>A creative collaborator has realized that success doesn’t have to entail only individual accomplishment but can be more rewarding when it includes working together. With this awareness, creative collaborators redefine that emotionally packed word “success” so that wealth, position, and fame are no longer the only purpose for defining what really matters in designing one’s life. Creative collaboration is consistent with even the greatest individual accomplishment.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>2) Community Builders</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Some things are worth fighting for, yet most the time there’s a better way. While rebels thrive on the negative attention they receive from their opposition to almost anything, community builders are capable of transcending opposition when appropriate, respecting other viewpoints and exploring areas of potential unity. They learn to embrace the notion that we’re all connected and that no one wins unless we all do.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>3) Realizers</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>What’s it like when you’re in the presence of someone who really makes things happen? Most people report having a feeling of effervescence, as if they’d just taken the first sip of a good champagne. Realizers help open doors that seemed nonexistent minutes before. There’s a sense that all things are possible.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>4) Humorists</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Humorists are not the office clowns who make inappropriate jokes, or try to use humor to distract people from real problems. Humorists put our comfort and worries into perspective, so that we can laugh at ourselves and the situation and pause before tackling difficulties. Humorists don’t push us to avoid conflict but instead handle it in a balance, healthy way.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>5) Visionarists</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Visionary leaders have learned the art and craft of conflict transformation. Their core aim is to unite rather than divide people. They are sensitive to the desires and needs of others and often have internalized the feeling of what it’s like to be judged and told that they’re wrong. Out of that comes an ability to listen to others and imagine a better future.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>6) Explorers</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Explorers find out everything there is to know about a subject. They read books, browse the Internet, go to lectures and talk to just about everyone they can to find the right information. They take interest in a vast array of subjects and have a willingness to learn and an optimistic daring that is infectious. Explorers volunteer for projects and love to collaborate. While everyone else is dreading ambiguity, they will challenge all who seem unsure and hold them accountable for their words and actions. They inspire people to try new things and are always willing to be part of the first test to make sure that a project will succeed.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>7) Mentors</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Mentors know how to listen and give good advice at just the right time. They know how to stand in the background and applaud without needing credit. They’re willing to let go when you’re competent to make your own decisions without them. The best mentors are not those who sailed through life without setbacks but rather those who have had to go through their own intense training and overcome obstacles and challenges.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>8) Storytellers</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Storytelling has played a fundamental role in all societies to help human beings make sense of their world. Storytellers the world over establish a sense of credibility, authenticity, and wholeness in their communities. Rather than retreating from conflict, storytellers help communities understand how problems can be, and should be, solved. They help communicate company values, share important business knowledge, and limit office politics. They take a firm’s agenda and communicate it to all stakeholders, helping them feel comfortable and motivated even during periods of wrenching change.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>9) Integrators</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Integrators base their success on the ability to see all sides of a situation and allow conflicting parties to not only be heard but acknowledged. They have the ability to gather a group and find ways that individuals can work together and upwards.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>10) Truth Tellers</b></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Truth tellers have a firm grasp on what they want to say and have given deep thought as to the possible outcomes of their discourse. They will not change their mind just to pacify someone, although they are not averse to adjusting their opinions if that will enable a conflict to push towards resolution. They do not beat around the bush, and people in their audiences generally listen.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>11) Initiators</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Initiators are willing to start work on a project before all the questions have been answered. They take charge and become full participants in situations where creativity is especially important. The initiator can tolerate and moderate the conflicts that inevitably show up before creative process comes into full bloom. The initiator takes joy in the creative process and shows a willingness to let in all who wish to be included. Initiator like to get involved in the thick of arguments, thus allowing them to be resolved more quickly so that the creative process can move forward.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>12) Trust Builders</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" type="disc"><li> <strong></strong>Building trust means peeling away the defenses that have built over lifetimes. In the workplace, leaders build trust by considering all aspects of the business, from a successful bottom line to creative and engaged employees.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>13) Peacemakers</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><li> <strong></strong>Peacemakers cannot be swayed to side with one group or individual against another.What they care about is the fight to preserve the integrity of the whole system.Peacemakers teach us that peace is a state of mind and that it’s still possible to be happy in the midst of turmoil and chaos.</li>
</ul><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thanks to author - <a href="http://www.bnet.com/blog/salesmachine">Geoffrey James</a> for the wonderful post. To read the complete article, please visit BNET.com <b style="color: red;">=) <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0446556084&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-46572955383287595492011-05-05T16:51:00.000+08:002011-05-05T16:51:29.921+08:00A fantastic show @ Siam Niramit, Bangkok<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCjNYL1l1n9EFZPpMZVoXz2P4asZKMR4vr18cE5Ih95ld0puHoXdllhUKOh9AUJbIxLrixFz_C5K4_sosw9mGs3VJfvwc3-jnt_mM8auzEQsvmj1o15lqo0DeOS1R_E5hgIwE/s1600/Siam+Niramit+collage.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCjNYL1l1n9EFZPpMZVoXz2P4asZKMR4vr18cE5Ih95ld0puHoXdllhUKOh9AUJbIxLrixFz_C5K4_sosw9mGs3VJfvwc3-jnt_mM8auzEQsvmj1o15lqo0DeOS1R_E5hgIwE/s400/Siam+Niramit+collage.JPG" width="395" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A few months ago, my dad told me about an awesome stage show called <i><b>'Siam Niramit'</b></i>. He highly recommended me to check out this special Thai show. After reading some reviews from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Trip Advisor</a>, I decided to book my tickets! I approached a travel agent</span><span style="font-size: small;"> in Holiday Inn Silom <i>(5 minutes walk from my office)</i> and bought 2 tickets at a discounted rate! <b style="color: red;">=)</b></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyBfwrlcUfHW19QOxEzhafsbSDKiGjwjgTjb_mjB3erYEb_ngTivjxPsYxHU4N8RC01RCbzvi6HOoBjRVcJGgrfhUbZPhLt4YdF3YOQVPO3oaJQwhMiGqFl_pw8P1D_g5id9G/s1600/me+n+dancers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyBfwrlcUfHW19QOxEzhafsbSDKiGjwjgTjb_mjB3erYEb_ngTivjxPsYxHU4N8RC01RCbzvi6HOoBjRVcJGgrfhUbZPhLt4YdF3YOQVPO3oaJQwhMiGqFl_pw8P1D_g5id9G/s320/me+n+dancers.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">On first day of <i>Songkran </i>(a.k.a Thailand's </span><span style="font-size: small;">new year/ </span><span style="font-size: small;">water festival), a driver from the travel agency fetched me and <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>AO</b></i> to </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.siamniramit.com/">Siam Niramit</a></span><span class="street-address">, which had quite a distance from my apartment. We arrived before 6pm to collect our buffet vouchers and show tickets. </span>Firstly, we were greeted by the friendly ushers and blessed with holly water. Then, I received a pretty orchid corsage from her too<i> (the corsages were only given to all the female guests)</i>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There were some souvenir stalls selling souvenirs </span><span style="font-size: small;">mainly with</span><span style="font-size: small;"> elephant theme. An elephant was near the entrance waiting for customers who wanted to snap pictures or ride on it. Some dancers who wore traditional costumes were walking around smiling at the guests. After we took some photographs with the dancers, we went to the restaurant for buffet dinner. There was a wide variety of food at the buffet bar! From Thai style to Indian to western to vegetarian food! I didn't try all of them as I were already bloated up after 1 round of main course and 1 round of dessert. Haha!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFSrFmzAvna0BbBxSq9beScYCYUgTvTDrFGH9JOz31NLDw1iIf2tjihzNW9K789D6jzitvBBeVDY4KAfWEua4QmyZK64qS7cbowOXznuRgEDPGpa4EBDOg-dL7RvDTRK7Mp3A/s1600/rice+cracker.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFSrFmzAvna0BbBxSq9beScYCYUgTvTDrFGH9JOz31NLDw1iIf2tjihzNW9K789D6jzitvBBeVDY4KAfWEua4QmyZK64qS7cbowOXznuRgEDPGpa4EBDOg-dL7RvDTRK7Mp3A/s320/rice+cracker.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">After dinner, we still have some buffer time before the show start at 8pm. </span><span style="font-size: small;">We spent some time in the 'Thai Village', and enjoyed their local delicacies/ finger food. Our first stop was rice cracker dessert that served in a banana leave bowl. The rice crackers looked like our normal coco cereal. When the lady handed me the rice cracker, I was looking at it and wondered how am I supposed to eat without a spoon. LOL! <b style="color: red;">XD</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The lady quickly used some sign language and taught me me to pour the rice crackers from little bowl directly into my mouth. Hahah!! I was giggling and followed her instructions. Ohh! The rice cracker was good! Crunchy! I gave her a thumb-up. <i>"A-loy!!"</i> (Yummy in Thai) Hehehe!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Besides rice cracker, there were also other traditional Thai dessert like mini pancake, omelette, and more. I didn't try all the dessert, but I tried the omelette. Its good! Comparable with the <a href="http://jacqq.blogspot.com/2011/05/fine-dining-blue-elephant-thai.html">Royal Omelette</a> from Blue Elephant Restaurant. Haha! Yummers! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Guess what, there was a traditional way of making pop-corn too <i>(See the picture below)</i>! The lady was shaking the pop-corn maker up and down, in and out. Then, the corn seeds were popping one by one. It took pretty long time to make a small portion of pop-corn, not very efficient tho. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On top of that, there was another lady making something like Indian nan (or roti canai bakar)... Not too sure tho. Hehe! I didn't try, but I saw her flipping that piece of 'roti' over and over for quite some time. <b style="color: red;">=p</b></span><br />
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</tbody></table>Other than food, there were also some samples of traditional houses. In the northern style village, there were some demonstrations on how to make Thai silk. A lot of Thai silk shawls were displayed in the village too.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLP5CJbjycrVAi90al6nUTYXLfqfclCfsH9HTrQNDx8yNlL6GqnN1f7CKJS2bCt3CP59yd8ohVtspPAU3HsSIdOObvcsA6oQzbNMTZUNm3Nht-EcoIkJazJ-jZn0BMNen_0Pa/s1600/dancer.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLP5CJbjycrVAi90al6nUTYXLfqfclCfsH9HTrQNDx8yNlL6GqnN1f7CKJS2bCt3CP59yd8ohVtspPAU3HsSIdOObvcsA6oQzbNMTZUNm3Nht-EcoIkJazJ-jZn0BMNen_0Pa/s320/dancer.JPG" width="230" /></a>After checking out all the food stalls and traditional houses, we enjoyed a teaser show in front of the hall. When time comes, everybody proceeded to the main hall and got ready for the highlight of the night - Siam Niramit show. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No camera or video camera was allowed to enter the hall. All the cameras were confiscated at the hall entrance. We kept our cameras in a bag provided by the organizer. Then, we were given a coloured tag with number, which will be used later when claiming back out cameras. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We entered the hall together with many other guests. We were lucky enough to get one of the best seats right in the middle! We waited for a while before everybody got into the hall and the show had began. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Do not worry if you couldn't understand Thai, because they do have subtitles in another 5 languages including English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and the last 1 was probably French? I couldn't read the last language but there was a 5th language. Haha!<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That was a great show on a gigantic stage, performed by ~150 performers! You wont be able to imagine how good it was until you experience it on your own. That was the best show I have ever watched so far. Its is highly recommended to see this show at least once if you are in Bangkok. Some might think THB 1,400 (approximately RM 140) for a show is pricey, but I think it worth every single Baht... Hehe!!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Tips: Apparently it is cheaper to book your ticket through travel agency (World Travel Agency), which cost only THB1,400 including transfers to and fro hotel, buffet dinner and the show. I saw the ticket counters were selling the tickets at THB1,500 (not sure if its including dinner)</i> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Cheers*</span></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0Bangkok, Thailand13.7234186 100.4762319000000213.492911600000001 100.17089640000002 13.9539256 100.78156740000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-73426452364177053912011-05-03T23:55:00.000+08:002011-05-03T23:55:49.631+08:00Fine Dining @ Blue Elephant Thai Restaurant<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On one fine evening, my colleagues and I decided to pamper ourselves with a good meal <i>(very sick of the typical fried rice and fried noodle)</i>. We relied on <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i>'s new GPS to direct us to this famous Royal Thai restaurant located in <i>Sathorn</i> - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blue Elephant Restaurant</a>.<br />
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I have first read about its good review from some travel forums. According to <a href="http://www.travelfish.org/"><i>TravelFish</i></a>, this is a chain restaurant which had branches elsewhere in the world for many years before finally opening a branch in Bangkok. It's other branches are locating in Jakarta, Dubai, Paris, London, Malta, Lyon and a few other <i>citie</i>s. <br />
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Besides the restaurant, there is also a <i>Blue Bar</i> and <i>Blue Elephant Cooking School</i> in the same building. If you are interested to learn Thai traditional cooking, you can join their cooking classes. From their brochures, they are offering traditional Thai cooking classes on a daily basis. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnqKlPkB19xVCjUNHxHr-tY84MEdGosbpLQtMR-R-D3U65N6v8HRTEZgX1ZCqNn0nu9viULiQuUDnpI2fwmUsqnDek5iPXw65Wril2Xxx2TpZ6IlDbBEByFSjYsBWlSqn6b3-/s1600/blue+elep.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnqKlPkB19xVCjUNHxHr-tY84MEdGosbpLQtMR-R-D3U65N6v8HRTEZgX1ZCqNn0nu9viULiQuUDnpI2fwmUsqnDek5iPXw65Wril2Xxx2TpZ6IlDbBEByFSjYsBWlSqn6b3-/s320/blue+elep.JPG" width="320" /></a>When we arrived at the restaurant, we were greeted by the a waiter and waitress. The waitress told us that their restaurant was fully booked and we were only limited to dine for an hour before their next group of customers arrives. We accepted the offer and she brought us to a round table with 3 seats.<br />
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Firstly, we were served with a set of complimentary starter consists of a crispy fried dumpling, yummy chicken soup in shot glass and a beautiful orchid <i>(of course the flower was not edible)</i>. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Complimentary starter - very nice presentation</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That was my very first time drinking soup from a shot glass. Haha! When I first saw the glass, I looked at it curiously. Then, the waiter told me that was actually chicken soup. LOL! <i>*thumbs up*</i> I enjoyed it very much.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The chicken soup in shot glass taste great!</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The romantic restaurant environment - perfect for couples</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Organic brown jasmine rice</i></td></tr>
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After the starter dish, our main dishes were presented to us one-by-one. We may select between the normal white rice or the organic brown jasmine rice. I had chosen the brown rice while both greedy <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> and <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>L</b></i> took both types of rice. <b style="color: red;">XD</b> The brown rice was black in colour and I felt it's lighter than the normal white rice. Something new and worth trying. <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We ordered 3 main dishes - 2 pork dishes and an omelette. They were all very yummy. Check out my pictures below...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(1) Grilled spare ribs with honey</i><i> - THB 380 (Approximately RM 38)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(2) Sweet and sour pork with longans - THB 380 (Approximately RM 38)</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The last dish was the highlight of that night!! The Royal Omelette, which was the most expensive omelette that we ever had in our life! Hahaha! It cost THB 380 (approximately RM 38). </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(3) The Royal Omelette </i><i>- THB 380 (Approximately RM 38)</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You must be wondering why was it so expensive. Well, lets check out the descriptions from the menu. </div><blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>It says 'Thai omelette stuffed with stir-fried minced pork and vegetables.<span lang="th"> </span>His Majesty King Rama V (King Chulalongkorn) created this dish<span lang="th"> </span>himself and it was recorded in Thai history when it was served<span lang="th"> </span>during his second visit to Europe. It became His Majesty’s favourite<span lang="th"> </span>dish and very popular with Thai and foreigners.' </i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sounds very 'royal' right? To me, its just an omelette with pork and vegetables. I did not find it very special and it was hard for me to justify the price. So, I think the previous 2 dishes were more value for money. Haha! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpE1rczQKoMNhKgVbA20YL3WrJZs7YVKYe32oC41hCo_c44qIjFsv0ANjnIhGbUZh2eUHcSIRgt-ChU3C9BYJCq1e1qZHdRdb_Os1EiDdKPhJz0JhV6IB9ZdjhCOJt6x85T59/s1600/Orhid.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpE1rczQKoMNhKgVbA20YL3WrJZs7YVKYe32oC41hCo_c44qIjFsv0ANjnIhGbUZh2eUHcSIRgt-ChU3C9BYJCq1e1qZHdRdb_Os1EiDdKPhJz0JhV6IB9ZdjhCOJt6x85T59/s320/Orhid.JPG" width="320" /></a>Overall we were very satisfied with the food and services. The restaurant ambiance was very nice and comfortable. I think it is perfect for couples too. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Guess what! On our way out, I received an orchid <i>(for females only) </i>from the waiter!! Aww... So sweet... Hehe!! <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1840651482&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-24906699747734235012011-04-27T23:14:00.000+08:002011-04-28T10:59:17.972+08:00An Awesome Temple! Wat Rong Kun a.k.a the white temple<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thailand is one of the favourite/ popular tourist destinations. For many of us, first thing that comes across our mind should be 'temple'. If you happen to check out the Thailand map, you will be able to see lots of big and small temples scattered around the place. According to my tour guide in Chiang Rai, temples used to be a learning centre/ school and hospital in the past. That explains why there's a numerous number of temples around. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I was in Chiang Rai (northern Thailand) about 2 months ago, I visited an awesome and extraordinary temple. A Buddhist and Hindu temple that is very different from the rest of the temples. It is an outstanding post-modern temple designed by a Thai artist - </span>Chalermchai Kositpipat<span style="font-size: small;">. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The design is seriously awesome! I guarantee that you will be amazed by the GREAT designed temple which is white in colour! </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before we could enter the temple (assembly hall), we passed by the hell. Once we passed through the hell, we got onto a bridge that brought us to the heaven. I believe that the bad guys will join the hell community while the good guys will get a green light to enter the fantastic heaven. <b style="color: #cc0000;">=) </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">People in hell were struggling to get out of that world</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Under the sun, we noticed that the temple were actually shining! When we walked closer, we saw lots of small mini mirrors/ white glass that were stuck on the building. This is an innovative way to make the building looks special!!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
When we entered the assembly hall, we saw an undone wall mural (paintings). Sadly, no camera was allowed at the area. However, I still remember there were spiderman, doraemon, batman, </span>Keanu Reeves character in the Matrix <span style="font-size: small;">and even Osama bin Ladin! There's a story behind the painting. The artist was trying to illustrate that we have heroes in our world and war is going on... <i>bla bla bla...</i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you join a tour, you will get to listen to the full story. However, the down side is, tours are usually rush and you wont be able to walk through the whole temple. Therefore, me and my family only got to spend a very limited time to enjoy the beautiful scene of Wat Rong Kun.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I personally think that this is a must visit if you happen to go to Northern Thailand. <b style="color: #cc0000;">=)</b> <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1741799945&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Cheers* </span></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-46674143628931902502011-03-15T18:23:00.000+08:002011-03-15T18:23:00.105+08:00Pray for Japan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1jueymTZ1qgenino1_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1jueymTZ1qgenino1_400.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For the time being, lets all pray for the victims of Japan earthquake and tsunami waves. May god bless all of you.</div><blockquote style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>"The US Geological Survey has upgraded the magnitude of Friday's deadly earthquake in Japan to 9.0 </i></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>The move came after Japan's Meteorological Agency did the same. It's not unusual for scientists to tweak the magnitude of a giant quake after some number-crunching. </i></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <i>US government scientists originally put the Japan quake at 8.9. The change to 9.0 means that the quake was about 1.5 times stronger than initially thought.</i><br />
<i> The Japan quake is now the fourth largest in the world since 1900 behind the 2004 magnitude 9.1 Sumatra quake" </i></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">The Star</a> </div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-9331770683738894102011-03-10T22:50:00.000+08:002011-03-10T22:50:54.959+08:00Thai's version Wong Lo Kat<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is a Chinese restaurant nearby to my apartment. We never have problem in food ordering as the owners speak Mandarin. Besides, their menu consists of Thai, English and even Chinese language! <br />
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One night, the lady boss recommended me a herbal drinks - Wong Lo Kat. LOL! Thailand have its Wong Lo Kat herbal drinks too! Its packaging is almost the same as Malaysia's besides the additional Thai wordings. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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It tastes good... Sweet =) <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0027FFPHE&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-21176162910323056582011-02-11T20:49:00.002+08:002011-02-11T20:49:00.870+08:00New home for my furry friends<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My furry friends finally get into my new apartment in Bangkok!! </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They were stuffed inside my luggage bag last Tuesday and flew over to Bangkok with me by Malaysia Airlines. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: red;">=) </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Luckily they are still in good shape. LOL!</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Cheers*</span></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-29693548082238588292011-02-05T10:44:00.000+08:002011-02-05T10:44:13.257+08:00Happy Year of Bunny :-)<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dear all,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy Chinese New Year!! Wishing you a wealthy and prosperous new year. Good Luck!! :)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-24504327963475676472011-02-01T22:12:00.002+08:002011-02-02T01:15:15.944+08:00Challenges over in Bangkok<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Working in Bangkok is full of challenges. The most challenging part is the language barrier, which is much more severe than it was in Jakarta. Thai language is a totally different language. So far, I only managed to learn a small handful of Thai language. Its only enough for me to do bargaining at shopping. Hehe!! Bargaining skill is a must in Bangkok! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our bigger issue is the problem during food ordering, especially those without English menu/ pictures! What can we do were either simply pointed at something or pointed at their customers’ bowl/ plate and asked for the same dish. Then, fingers crossed and hoped that the dish is what was expected. Therefore, we usually opt for the restaurants with an English menu or at least picture menu. We thought the real bowl of rice/ noodle should not go very far off from the picture. Haha!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking about food, another challenge for me is the spicy food!! Their chilies are superb in term of spiciness. Most of their tom yum or soup is added with tones of chilies. The chilies come in different sizes and shapes, including thin & short, fat & short, fat & long, and even green & round!! There was once <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> thought the rounded green chili was a green pea. LOL! He bitted on it and threw it out immediately. That was freaking spicy! For me, I always ended up with lots of water/ ice after the spicy meals.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last weekend, my colleagues and I visited the <i>Pratunam market</i>. Along the street, we saw a stall sold some fried stuff. There were fried grasshopper, beetles and worm. I suggested to <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> to tryout some of them. He bought 1 packet of fried worm and he dared me to eat them!! Ouchh!! They are worms…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He tried one and commented that it was not bad! <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>ST</b></i> tried one too. They said it tasted like the <i>Chinese 'kam heung' </i>cooking style of fried worm. Emmm... Ohh well, I ended up trying too! I took 1 bite at the tail instead of the head (the 2 eyes at its head were freaking me out). Its texture tasted like green pea!! I hate eating green pea. So, this is not my cup of tea. I won’t eat it again even though the taste was not horribly freaky.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> seemed to love it a lot. Haha! He poured a lot of the worms onto his plate of chicken rice and ate them as side dish. I should have snapped a picture of his rice island that was surrounded with fried worms.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I believe that there will be more challenges ahead. I'm ready to face all those upcoming challenges/ events. Com’on, bring it on!! <b style="color: red;">:-)</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Cheers*</span></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-85053304112161191582011-01-28T20:49:00.003+08:002011-01-31T11:00:27.934+08:00*Bangkok dangerous*<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When I returned to my apartment last night, I found that something was not right. Why was my bedroom door locked?! OMG! The apartment owner did not give me any key for that room!! I must be accidentally locked it in the morning! All my clothes and stuffs were locked in that room!! <b style="color: red;">*(O_o)*</b><br />
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I was desperately wanted to open the door!! I need to get into the room!! <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> was there trying to unlock the door with various methods. We tried to slip business cards, post cards and brochures in between the door gap and hoped for the door to be unlocked. He even tried to poke the lock with wire and hair pin! However, all those were not working at all!! The door remain as locked. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I called my Thai colleague for help, but her phone reception was so bad! We can hardly hear each other. Then, I called <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>ST</b></i>, another colleague a.k.a. neighbour for help. However, he was like in the mood of partially drunk. I wasn't sure if he heard me and understood my shit hit the fan situation at that time. Haha!<br />
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In the end, <i style="color: #990000;"><b>T</b></i> and I approached our apartment security guard for assistance. We communicated with him with the simplest English. <i>"Door locked. No key." </i>(added with some sign language) Thank god! He understood and immediately informed a maintenance officer to help me.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The maintenance officer followed us to the apartment unit. I pointed at my door knob. He looked at it and walked into the living hall instead. Guess what? He climbed out from the living hall window and slowly walked towards my room!! Then, he climbed into my room through the room window! Oh my gosh! It was a 12th floor and the sky was so dark! I can't imagine what would happen if he accidentally slipped and fall down. Touch wood!!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Within a few minutes, he managed to unlock my room and came out in one piece! *Phew!!* <i>"krap khoon kaaa!!"</i> I thanked him loudly in Thai. He saved my night! <b style="color: red;">=) </b>Now, I will always making sure that I don't repeat the same stupid mistake. I do not want another <i>"Bangkok Dangerous"</i> incident here. LOL!<iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003FVYTWQ&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-68110195521650578932011-01-20T20:45:00.000+08:002011-01-21T16:31:25.443+08:00A 'cold' & 'wild' birthday treat<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My birthday had past for more than 3 months and I have yet to post up my wonderful birthday treat in Indonesia. I finally managed to squeeze some time out of my busy working schedule for some updates. <br />
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On my birthday afternoon, <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Mdm W</b></i> drove me and another 2 colleagues to a nice Dutch restaurant in <i>Puncak, Bogor</i>. I ordered a dutch style cheese pancake and it was so exceptionally delicious!! On top of that, I ate a plate of spaghetti cabonara too. It was a plate of dry cabonara, which was not the creamy cabonara that we usually have in KL. Although that was something new to me, I still prefer the normal creamy type <b style="color: red;">:)</b><br />
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After lunch, we walked around the surrounding area of the restaurant. We enjoyed the cooling weather as well as the nice scenery.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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After that, we entered into the Safari Zoo!! Let me tell you how different is this zoo compared to our normal national zoo! Guess what, we can drive our cars into the zoo! Yes, <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Mdm W</b></i> actually drove her 3 Series into this zoo!! First of all, we were greeted by a friendly zebra.<br />
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Before we leaved the zoo, our car was nearly knock down by a hungry elephant. It was walking side-way towards our car when it saw a visitor had a yummy carrot in her hand. But we were lucky enough to move the car away in time. *Phew!!*<br />
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Lastly, we shopped for <i>Puncak</i>'s famous yogurt drinks before heading home. *Slurp* The yogurt drinks were fresh from the factory! <br />
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Overall, I had 3 wonderful experiences of birthday celebrations last year, including my <a href="http://jacqq.blogspot.com/2010/10/pre-birthday-celebration-look-out-point.html">pre-birthday</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">post-birthday</a> celebrations. <b style="color: red;">=)</b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers* <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B001GVIS4M&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-12475998598894466232011-01-19T19:13:00.001+08:002011-01-20T17:22:28.477+08:00Why It’s Smart To Be Optimistic<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found a useful article from <a href="http://www.rd.com/health/easy-new-years-resolution-be-happy/?trkid=ERDI22938">Reader's Digest</a>. After reading this article, I know what is the importance of being an optimistic person. <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div class="entry" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <blockquote>Expecting good things can make you healthier and might even lengthen your life, says researcher Suzanne Segerstrom, PhD, author of <em>Breaking Murphy’s Law</em>. Segerstrom is coauthor of a recent review of studies on the benefits of a positive attitude—and has experienced them herself. We asked her about optimism’s principles and payoffs.<br />
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<strong>1) Feeling well helps when you’re not well</strong><br />
“When researchers look at people who have similar medical conditions, they can predict who’s likely to live longer: the one who feels his health is better. There’s something about that feeling of wellness that’s important, even—maybe especially—if you’re ill. Optimism also seems to help buffer you against stress. I’ve been studying first-year law students for 16 years. That’s a very stressed group, but in my most recent study, each time a student’s optimism increased one point on a five-point scale, his immune response to an injected virus or yeast improved by 20 percent.”<br />
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<strong>2) Optimism is something you do</strong><br />
“Anxiety and other negative emotions are known to be detri-mental to the body, especially to your cardiovascular and immune systems, and having an optimistic nature seems to protect against those effects.<br />
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In addition, research shows that people who are optimistic about their future behave differently. They exercise more, are less likely to smoke, and follow a better diet. And if they get sick, they’re more apt to actively participate in their treatment. I’ve seen that myself—I have back pain from arthritis, but I think my willingness to do whatever it takes has helped a lot.”<br />
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<strong>3) Not happy? Don’t worry</strong><br />
“Happiness is a feeling; optimism is a belief that aspects of your future will turn out well. Happiness can fluctuate a lot, but an optimistic disposition is usually pretty stable. If you’re not optimistic, you can try creating a ‘positive events’ log. Good things happen to everyone, but pessimists often don’t take notice; spending a few minutes every day writing about at least three positive things may help you expect them more often. Or instead of trying to be optimistic, do what optimists do: Work hard to reach your goals. Each accomplishment should make it easier to be hopeful about the next one.”<br />
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<div style="color: purple;"><i>Depending on which study you read, optimists …</i></div><div style="color: purple;"><i>…are 9 percent less likely to develop heart disease.</i></div><div style="color: purple;"><i>…are only 77 percent as likely to be rehospitalized after some types of major surgery.</i></div><div style="color: purple;"><i>…have blood pressure that’s five points lower, on average.</i></div><div style="color: purple;"><i>…live an average of 9.5 years longer.</i></div></blockquote><br />
So, start from now, let's be optimistic!! <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B000V96ET6&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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*Cheers* <br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-44971493964157026432010-11-22T20:23:00.001+08:002010-11-22T20:47:45.496+08:00What to do when your shoes are wet in the office?<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This afternoon I had my lunch at a nearby food stall. When <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> and I were half way eating our<i> bakmi goreng</i> (fried noodle), the sky turned dark in a sudden. A few minutes later, it was raining cats and dogs!! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OMG! We had no umbrella at that time!! When we finished lunch, the rain was still very heavy and it didn't seem to be getting slower. We stood in front of the stall and looked for a 'water boy' (kids who rent you their umbrellas during rainy days). We thought of renting an umbrella from one of the kids. However, the demand was higher than the supply and we couldn't get any umbrella.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Luckily, the stall owner offered his umbrella to us. He sent his staff to follow us back to the office and we returned the umbrella to him upon reaching our destination. On the way back, we walked pass tonnes of potholes on the road! On top of that, the passing-by vehicles were splashing water onto the pedestrian pathway. Even though <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> and I were sharing a huge umbrella, we still got wet, especially my leg.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I even stepped into a puddle of water and got my shoes totally wet! <i>*Sniff*</i> I thought this pair of shoes might be a total loss! I was thinking of shoes shopping already. <i style="color: red;"><b>:p</b></i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When I reached the office, I immediately wiped myself dry. I was trying to wipe my shoes also, but it was just too wet. Guess what happened after that...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSwVJvj3m92r-e46d8sSHkDteDmE6_HE5dKxXN7vjZy3cabfpmP0hzacYY2-x3Fhj2hT61Y_UhSYtFlv3R8l9lt1TutiZQzfKarmrKo8xdfVKgnLMQDfTHayE5KUN4-d4mEM_/s1600/fanning+shoes.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSwVJvj3m92r-e46d8sSHkDteDmE6_HE5dKxXN7vjZy3cabfpmP0hzacYY2-x3Fhj2hT61Y_UhSYtFlv3R8l9lt1TutiZQzfKarmrKo8xdfVKgnLMQDfTHayE5KUN4-d4mEM_/s400/fanning+shoes.JPG" width="298" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>That was what happened</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hahaha! I put my shoes in front of the fan! I fanned it from 1pm to 5pm. In between, I also changed the position of the shoes so that it can get dry from all angles. Hahaha!! During that 4 hours, one of my colleagues, <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>W</b></i> was kind enough to lend me her slippers. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUm6LSArf8_uJcouNNrH84OU7j2Be_AdbZUDNDD8hz5fcou6dCcJDYvgSAZjSCWYPpgIFCFHbEzo390Nm_RYP81SEQA1kSW3z8gY_JSxBDpniJDLP1L1OoaUDTd6S_kgWSW1Bh/s1600/DSC00636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUm6LSArf8_uJcouNNrH84OU7j2Be_AdbZUDNDD8hz5fcou6dCcJDYvgSAZjSCWYPpgIFCFHbEzo390Nm_RYP81SEQA1kSW3z8gY_JSxBDpniJDLP1L1OoaUDTd6S_kgWSW1Bh/s320/DSC00636.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b style="color: #cc0000;">W</b>'s 'fishy' slippers and my wet high heels</i> <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0049IHY30&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Her slippers were way too cute!! I was so shy to wear it to the toilet. Hahaha! Bottom line, it really works when you are drying your wet shoes under the fan for a couple of hours! My shoes are now dry and wearable. So, next time if you have the same problem, why not try out this way?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-587691128108395642010-11-21T00:26:00.001+08:002010-11-21T00:27:48.270+08:00Balinese crispy duck @ Dirty Duck Diner (Bebek Bengkil), Jakarta<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last week <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> invited me to join him and his friends for lunch in <i>Menteng, Jakarta</i>. His friend, <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>M</b></i> recommended a restaurant that serves great Balinese crispy duck (a.k.a. bebek bengkil). We wasn't sure the exact location of the restaurant and we thought the cab driver should be able to get us there. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the next day, we took a cab to <i>Menteng</i>. The first cab driver had no clue where exactly Bebek Bengil was located! We got down from the first cab and took another cab. I told the second cab driver that the place is near <i>Plaza Menteng</i> (that was one of the landmark I saw in google map). The driver nodded his head and fetched us to <i>Menteng</i>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">About 10-15 minutes later, he stopped the cab in front of <i>Plaza Menteng</i>. He told us that he had no idea where was <i>Bebek Bengkil</i>. Gosh! We got stuck and we had no choice but to get down from the cab. We asked one of the shopkeepers nearby and she knew which restaurant we were looking for! Thank god!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She pointed to the left hand side and told us to walk down the road. I asked if it is walking distance <i>(Bisa jalan ke tempat itu, ke?)</i>. She answered 'Yes!' <i>(Bisa!)</i> and nodded her head confidently. So, we thought it might be near. Then, she added <i>'lumayan jugak!'</i>. <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> and I thought she was commenting the food in<i> Bebek Bengil</i> was quite pricey. Well, we thanked her for the direction. After 15 minutes of walk, we still do not see the restaurant! We even dropped by a few shops for directions but they do not seems to know where is the restaurant. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Later, <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>M</b></i> sent an sms to inform us the full address of restaurant. The restaurant was at No.132, and we were right in front of No. 31!! The numbers were not even close!! Not only that, we were not even on the correct street! We started to feel panic and asked for more directions. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This time, I asked for the particular street instead of the name of the restaurant. The lady knew the street and pointed its way. Then, I asked if its far <i>(jauh?)</i>. She nodded her head and said <i>'lumayan..'</i>... GOSH! <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> and I were speechless! We finally understood what was the meaning of <i>'lumayan'</i>... it meant very far!!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Isshh! We were tired and sweaty after the long walk. So, we decided to take a cab to the restaurant. Finally, we managed to get to the restaurant after the misunderstandings due to language barrier.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ul6wzvYWIn7xJCIaRn63amv83hb7hY_c0VZspTzN_hp4IhkxN9derCkR2v0FrQxPQI6f6KUS-fLYEh-gldIgLGaLhOKf0aHRGxMIMVpaJEGE14P0qcl5RLb5hfBxG3D0zD9P/s1600/Entrance.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ul6wzvYWIn7xJCIaRn63amv83hb7hY_c0VZspTzN_hp4IhkxN9derCkR2v0FrQxPQI6f6KUS-fLYEh-gldIgLGaLhOKf0aHRGxMIMVpaJEGE14P0qcl5RLb5hfBxG3D0zD9P/s400/Entrance.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>There were 2 monuments at the entrance of Dirty Duck Diner</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoT2urikYTnlJk9VeIIgwMoDn1J9-Wc1dpkdo_73Q9GkKvfTfx26OK6m-BR56vbtr1T8bRp9u446cNiwW7r-6PztAl0TtrHsA6_ANFf1RDvGR0dpHfHBe3i67aygb8gZRSHJVt/s1600/pond.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoT2urikYTnlJk9VeIIgwMoDn1J9-Wc1dpkdo_73Q9GkKvfTfx26OK6m-BR56vbtr1T8bRp9u446cNiwW7r-6PztAl0TtrHsA6_ANFf1RDvGR0dpHfHBe3i67aygb8gZRSHJVt/s400/pond.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>And pond with tortoises and fishes in the middle of restaurant</i> <b style="color: red;"><i>=)</i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZlJ-QWCInKDLZpRve3UYOBbeHR00cfv0RCCC9fVb3VXiJCwKc1xQEqg-opAtaNZRxCGtfc4TSvDDjuc41lD8m44kn2wW6tziqwPXedFpOmyis-E17OX9628p79-TQwImURU2/s1600/sign.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZlJ-QWCInKDLZpRve3UYOBbeHR00cfv0RCCC9fVb3VXiJCwKc1xQEqg-opAtaNZRxCGtfc4TSvDDjuc41lD8m44kn2wW6tziqwPXedFpOmyis-E17OX9628p79-TQwImURU2/s400/sign.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i> Another view of the restaurant</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I told <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>M</b></i> and <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MW</b></i> about how we misunderstood the word <i>'lumayan'</i>. They laughed out loud!!<i> </i>Hahah! I got to really brush up my Bahasa Indonesia. Or else, more of <a href="http://jacqq.blogspot.com/2010/10/language-barrier-lead-to-laughter-xd.html">these</a> may happen in the future. LOL! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For the restaurant, there were two sections - indoor and outdoor. Since the weather looked great, we preferred the outdoor seat. We were sitting under a 'pondok' (small hut). Looked cool huh?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXnaJdf7hDQ1jvMx5F-n3YuqetvdFD98rEGrYjmr9D8IRMnN-V8Z-WoREqO1aLecb7sKMhI5u8-Jzc_muViMEOfRA89StThg7Xsy7ZUZl62YBHPVw7wrLvdWT8X0khOWFBhwq/s1600/Eating+place.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXnaJdf7hDQ1jvMx5F-n3YuqetvdFD98rEGrYjmr9D8IRMnN-V8Z-WoREqO1aLecb7sKMhI5u8-Jzc_muViMEOfRA89StThg7Xsy7ZUZl62YBHPVw7wrLvdWT8X0khOWFBhwq/s400/Eating+place.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b style="color: #cc0000;">M</b> was distributing food to his daughter</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ2_LWTK2MOyesdG5EI5Cu8lTG8ywdWENqTAlIGX-BPzBfPiqQmiWH29tbvYXmth0C-z0YiBHESYC5DDpGHZcXKbJ6g8VOZiEOTMcOIvE256VBqmg0D5EwRvzVRxvCmmcz2ISU/s1600/Bebek+Bengkil+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ2_LWTK2MOyesdG5EI5Cu8lTG8ywdWENqTAlIGX-BPzBfPiqQmiWH29tbvYXmth0C-z0YiBHESYC5DDpGHZcXKbJ6g8VOZiEOTMcOIvE256VBqmg0D5EwRvzVRxvCmmcz2ISU/s400/Bebek+Bengkil+1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>My bebek bengil - the signature meal, came with vegetable and special chili sauce (not in the picture) </i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The crispy duck was simply great! Although I am not a fan of duck meat, I enjoyed this crispy duck very much! On top of that, the portion of food was pretty generous. I was stuffed even before I could finish up my rice.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_nHuEIrpcJacQvOxq9GxoZ1J_jXEi6iPjSBUdJoP6lgau9t5LmvI4YHappoctdWP0WExuxpBJrs2KMKnamL30WwA-XU858Z1Inl94-lrdFjVaSIvZqZ5VzPNeFAQAUeyxIfU/s1600/me.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_nHuEIrpcJacQvOxq9GxoZ1J_jXEi6iPjSBUdJoP6lgau9t5LmvI4YHappoctdWP0WExuxpBJrs2KMKnamL30WwA-XU858Z1Inl94-lrdFjVaSIvZqZ5VzPNeFAQAUeyxIfU/s400/me.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i> I was relaxed after lunch</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3dZgsFN41PsR198rybVBvzXQfJE8Svc5CM0aUcKVUdLqjs653R3R8cWEnJPddv28ncTC9AtDcl8sKMSmXr_dnPIq8mItIhdShehW8_YWl1kgkpuD1GqugFlywrHCYxDMcvS3g/s1600/Tim+chill.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3dZgsFN41PsR198rybVBvzXQfJE8Svc5CM0aUcKVUdLqjs653R3R8cWEnJPddv28ncTC9AtDcl8sKMSmXr_dnPIq8mItIhdShehW8_YWl1kgkpuD1GqugFlywrHCYxDMcvS3g/s400/Tim+chill.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b style="color: #cc0000;">T</b> was even more relaxed!</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Finally, here's the address of the restaurant... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8hwa4w9lyOGHkZgPPXGMQLhu5eHTZU4jHrMiFNRWcdW7TWYyk5yDQZoWoKUOzTAnFcCCnIDJzcmc6CfV3fgSPSXZX_TACMFGhJfPGWFST99Vr22rgtoFQmTQVcR96FTWAuLd0/s1600/Address.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003E7FWCM&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8hwa4w9lyOGHkZgPPXGMQLhu5eHTZU4jHrMiFNRWcdW7TWYyk5yDQZoWoKUOzTAnFcCCnIDJzcmc6CfV3fgSPSXZX_TACMFGhJfPGWFST99Vr22rgtoFQmTQVcR96FTWAuLd0/s320/Address.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-42984070383199163442010-11-20T19:46:00.002+08:002010-11-20T19:48:48.047+08:00Tea time @ Kopi Luwak Cafe, Grand Indonesia<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wednesday was a public holiday too in Indonesia. <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> and I took a break from work and checked out places around Jakarta. We went to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Grand Indonesia</a>, one of the most famous shopping mall in Central Jakarta. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We took the opportunity to shop around. <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> grabbed himself 2 big bags of discounted branded clothes from a closing down sales. Most of them were on 70-80% off!! However, too bad that I didn't see anything that caught my eyes.<br />
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After that, we marched into Sport Warehouse as we saw the <i>'SALES UP TO 70%' </i>signage!! We couldn't resist to spend some time checking it out! We bought ourselves a pair of half-priced <i>New Balance</i> shoes! It was such a great deal! And I doubt I could get the same pair of shoes in KL with this incredible price. <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We felt tired after that and dropped by a coffee house - <i>Kopi Luwak Cafe</i>. This coffee house serves the Indonesia most famous coffee, which is Luwak coffee.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak">Wikipedia</a>, <i>"<b>Kopi luwak</b>, or <b>civet coffee</b>, is coffee made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract. A civet eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a civet's intestines the beans are then defecated, keeping their shape. After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness, widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world."</i></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<b style="color: #cc0000;"><i>T</i></b> decided to try out the special cup of Luwak coffee (IDR90,000; approximately RM30), while I ordered for a glass of ice-blended avocado coffee (IDR30,000; approximately RM10). When the drinks came, we were rather surprised. The waitress brought a thermos, a cup, sugar and a pack of coffee sachet (looked like the 3-in-1 coffee sachet). Then, she cut open the sachet and let us smelt the aroma of luwak coffee beans. After that, she poured the coffee powder into the cup, added hot water (from the thermos), stirred and covered the cup with a lid. She told <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> to wait for another 2 minutes before drinking the world's most expensive Luwak coffee.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfBctHRb3oZ3C3t91bgmT_G7kIgkk6_sCIVcGL1Ky3tRWfBOsj6p2v1vHyapwC2FPqqw67xBEGo32NBYrJT96N7h2Aixhq7CBxIomzWSuhIXW7SMpgD5ADg6_7YuywLRrXEhC/s1600/luwak+n+me.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfBctHRb3oZ3C3t91bgmT_G7kIgkk6_sCIVcGL1Ky3tRWfBOsj6p2v1vHyapwC2FPqqw67xBEGo32NBYrJT96N7h2Aixhq7CBxIomzWSuhIXW7SMpgD5ADg6_7YuywLRrXEhC/s400/luwak+n+me.JPG" width="301" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b style="color: #cc0000;">T</b> snapped a picture of me with his precious coffee while waiting for the 2 minutes</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZWXfNCZ0X4U2SG3UNbF3bDJLMYMEnYVXmJnnu8bZtC-jr8PbHzfgconBCRbSmUdwA1iCIPpCRN6fABZtWt2X0L_sqxaZKDJC4O2df5VzjGfKF_rPjLf7SutPQzDoDfGFtOS_/s1600/Avocado+coffee.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZWXfNCZ0X4U2SG3UNbF3bDJLMYMEnYVXmJnnu8bZtC-jr8PbHzfgconBCRbSmUdwA1iCIPpCRN6fABZtWt2X0L_sqxaZKDJC4O2df5VzjGfKF_rPjLf7SutPQzDoDfGFtOS_/s400/Avocado+coffee.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>And this is my ice-blended avocado coffee</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That was my first time trying out the ice-blended avocado coffee. I thought it is something new and special. However, I found its taste was just so-so. I do prefer ice-blended avocado drink with chocolate more than this. *yummers!!* <b style="color: red;">=)</b><br />
<b style="color: red;"> </b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003WGRJ5I&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-84539739174701074082010-11-06T23:23:00.002+08:002010-11-18T16:54:44.255+08:00Great Italian food in Jakarta<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last week, my bosses and I had lunch in <i>Caffe D' Angel</i>o, an Italian Restaurant located in <i>The East Mall</i>, Jakarta. Mdm <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>W</b></i> recommended that their food was great. Hence, we gave it a try. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When we entered the restaurant, we found that the ambiance and the designs of the restaurant were nice. Besides, there was a section with wine racks and it was full with wine bottles! Cool!</div><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I had a piece of thin crust pizza and a plate of lagsane. The pizza was so crispy and cheesy!! And the lagsane was very cheesy too! I am a cheese lover. So, the cheesy Italian food can really delight me. Heheh! The food portion was very generous and I couldn't finish it. <b style="color: red;">=( </b>But it was really good!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcE-4DwvJSQrCAsJW0j0UMPWHsPRAoy_BXt6AbF5DygyC67-8cm69qB7gRC8noFHKMDzz-HAUzjHJGV6iAbZZqgH7ASjdp9Lh_JM-LMxCGALOqdtxi6wTH1WRqBfSaFGr7Af3L/s1600/Lagsane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcE-4DwvJSQrCAsJW0j0UMPWHsPRAoy_BXt6AbF5DygyC67-8cm69qB7gRC8noFHKMDzz-HAUzjHJGV6iAbZZqgH7ASjdp9Lh_JM-LMxCGALOqdtxi6wTH1WRqBfSaFGr7Af3L/s400/Lagsane.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The delicious lagsane *Yummers!!!*</i></div><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I also ordered a cup of hot chocolate. Guess what... The drink was so thick! I had to 'eat' my hot chocolate with my spoon instead of drinking it from the cup. It was just like some melted chocolate in a cup. Hahah! I think it should be listed in the dessert menu instead of the drinks menu. Or probably I need some strawberry or marshmallow to go with the chocolate. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I enjoyed my meal very much!! If I have chance to visit this restaurant again, I would try their cabonara spaghetti too!! Overall, <i>Caffe D' Angel</i>o serves great Italian food <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*<iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0679457496&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-62833830785710208152010-10-25T21:57:00.000+08:002010-10-25T21:57:41.523+08:00An 'oinky' birthday celebration with a bunch of good friends<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Notice: This post is a non-halal post </i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
I only get to return to my home-sweet-home (KL) every fortnightly. So, my bunch of uni good friends celebrated my birthday on the weekend I came back to KL. They brought me to <i><a href="http://www.elcerdokl.com/">El Cerdo</a></i> for some juicy German roasted suckling pig.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>El Cerdo</i> is located at <i>Changkat Bukit Bintang</i>, which is a very happening hang-out place in KL. However, parking is an issue here. <b style="color: red;">=(</b> After a few rounds of circling around the area, <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A</b></i> decided to leave his car with the car jockey. This had saved us the hassle of walking far too!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We entered the restaurant and found piggy's pictures and figurines were placed every where! Even their menu has a picture of 2 cute piggies too!!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When the sweet couple - <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>KH</b></i> and <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>AL</b></i> arrived, we started to order our dinner. <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A</b></i> helped in making the orders as that was already his third time having dinner in this restaurant. He ordered a Spanish ham platter as the appetizer. Followed with a "One plate of 4 different mini sausages" - 1. Farmer; 2. Thuringer; 3. German Pepper; and 4. Spicy Lyonner Saussage. The sausages were so good!! So as the soup, salad and pork ribs! Yummers!! <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our final dish was a roasted suckling pig! Aww... Half of the piggy came to our table on a wooden chopping board. We were wondering how to eat it. <b style="color: red;">*(>_<)*</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aE-OAInA2EFqzeZFYH7TzY9jl7rjJcWiAGRWsA1dZFV6ag2dHTcG-yd-UzHEWY8ejoxncfR4qvGBH2mIKCoEpCimpMIwc_wAtTuFnRfwIkCLgO5Eo8RTj5orPqhbUgNi_2nj/s1600/suckling+pig.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aE-OAInA2EFqzeZFYH7TzY9jl7rjJcWiAGRWsA1dZFV6ag2dHTcG-yd-UzHEWY8ejoxncfR4qvGBH2mIKCoEpCimpMIwc_wAtTuFnRfwIkCLgO5Eo8RTj5orPqhbUgNi_2nj/s400/suckling+pig.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>Highlights of the night - The roasted sucking pig</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then, a waiter approached us and asked for a volunteer to chop the piggy into pieces. I had the honor to be the butcher of the night. Hahah!! Guess what? I had to chop it with a plate!! Well, the waiter gave me a lesson on how to chop the piggy.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiendmyMXIto8csqRUh5RMXTl1Khmk-0nHEqYCGY3nAAML9_l15zVaNAznzGiRxCzcTOSMoBqIVOe9lPYahtTE3SngsC3Sw1RpEwQ6JjM6qTn-ruqKpQRPjUqB11V_K7ZVUWm3V/s1600/chopping.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiendmyMXIto8csqRUh5RMXTl1Khmk-0nHEqYCGY3nAAML9_l15zVaNAznzGiRxCzcTOSMoBqIVOe9lPYahtTE3SngsC3Sw1RpEwQ6JjM6qTn-ruqKpQRPjUqB11V_K7ZVUWm3V/s400/chopping.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>I was ready to chop it!! (The waiter was standing next to me to make sure that I was chopping with the correct way)</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">According to Mr Waiter, that was one of the traditions from German whereby 1 person had to chop the pig with a plate. Then, put all the bad things/ luck onto the plate before breaking the plate. In return, this person will be granted a wish.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">However, the plate wasn't break at my first try!! OMG... Maybe I didn't put enough bad stuffs onto the plate. Or, I was just too gentle to the plate. Hahaha! Mr Waiter granted me a second chance to break the plate. This round, I put more strengths in throwing the plate into the wooden basket!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk8zMTvXoIbHXQ_yKxU7SycnfjHFWjqvd2M7N8hchbJB96lSbCLckO4sgKTlJ34Jpf8_PsefKOKCTdZcZub6K6X5H1Kq-7HAOPYnP4UDoBReBVL2kknbro9yLNMdzwHqygn_JO/s1600/smashed+plate.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk8zMTvXoIbHXQ_yKxU7SycnfjHFWjqvd2M7N8hchbJB96lSbCLckO4sgKTlJ34Jpf8_PsefKOKCTdZcZub6K6X5H1Kq-7HAOPYnP4UDoBReBVL2kknbro9yLNMdzwHqygn_JO/s400/smashed+plate.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>Voila!! The plate was finally broke</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mr Waiter took the roasted pig back into the kitchen and got the professionals to chop the piggy into pieces. Btw, my bf commented that Mr Waiter is quite good looking a.k.a handsome. LOL! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After we had finished eaten the piggy, a group of waiters/ waitresses came out with desserts and a creative birthday song!! "Happy birthday to you, Oink Oink... Happy birthday to you, oink Oink oiNk!!!"... The song was just so cute and oinky!! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJSjdhEQI5Lma88nahs5HbkI3dF8vyodsbDUaxNSHCByZ1rU7xWRnXiQ8BSK7oUZ_m3f_EHi7Lzqu5ttLur7xDdMtm4Wkmt2p4dYmVr7IBd6E1mw2s5XGpDVL0APnbfij9nEt0/s1600/me+n+piggy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJSjdhEQI5Lma88nahs5HbkI3dF8vyodsbDUaxNSHCByZ1rU7xWRnXiQ8BSK7oUZ_m3f_EHi7Lzqu5ttLur7xDdMtm4Wkmt2p4dYmVr7IBd6E1mw2s5XGpDVL0APnbfij9nEt0/s400/me+n+piggy.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>I even got a little piggy from the restaurant as birthday pressie! </i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mr Waiter informed that this little piggy will bring me luck for only 1 year. So, I got to come back next year to 'renew the contract'. LOL! That was a really good marketing gimmick!!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ixQ3A_bhk9uhrddie6Wvc4R-hGtKXoFkjr0vsK8ncYAuwsawKM2I10d6sBe5CbgcG0ZqMacjmg4OeSHBtq71kg_SB-7qJFsjSCT_4CEC25lyTp1X71XyAv7hrOUuIoHF0hqf/s1600/group+pic.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ixQ3A_bhk9uhrddie6Wvc4R-hGtKXoFkjr0vsK8ncYAuwsawKM2I10d6sBe5CbgcG0ZqMacjmg4OeSHBtq71kg_SB-7qJFsjSCT_4CEC25lyTp1X71XyAv7hrOUuIoHF0hqf/s400/group+pic.JPG" width="400" /></i></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>Special thanks to </i><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A</b></i><i>, </i><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>JC</b></i><i>, </i><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>YM</b></i><i>, </i><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>KH</b></i><i> and </i><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>AL </b></i><i>for making my birthday so memorable <b style="color: red;">=)</b></i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overall, the food and ambiance of the restaurant were great. <i>*Thumbs up*</i> However, I enjoyed most with the presence of my bunch of good friends who shared laughter and joys with me. <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003XF1EOU&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-119744907900709382010-10-24T15:20:00.000+08:002010-10-24T15:20:32.726+08:00Pre-birthday celebration @ Look Out Point<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Few weeks ago, I had a pre-birthday celebration with <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A</b></i> at the <i>Look Out Point, Ulu Langat</i>. We got the idea of going to the Look Out Point after reading <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>SL</b></i>'s <a href="http://baybeetea.blogspot.com/2010/09/look-out-point.html">post</a> in September. I thought this may be a great place where you can see KL's night view. <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A</b></i> googled and did some simple researches of the place. He found the address and we drove up the hill with the directions given by his GPS. The GPS came in very handy when we need to go to an unfamiliar place. Probably I need to get one for myself too! Hehe!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When we arrived at the Look Out Point, we saw a few restaurants were operating next to each other. There were 1. Look Out Point, 2. The Heaven, 3. Gasoline, 4. The Panorama Restaurant and the last restaurant was under renovation. That was our first time came to this place. So, we had no idea about which is the best restaurant. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the end, we chose Look Out Point Restaurant because the waiter was friendly. On top of that, we saw more tables were occupied with customers in the restaurant. Then, we got ourselves a table and started to check out the menu.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomjJ4hNQswAOn7hRhLWAtMxgxjigXBObxTcmb93WDoh_P2osE-HUS2nyTBL9c8Mo32AyT2TDLv8H9gKsm6U3sSsqYTLcAR01j503Luf4d-NxmKvAYFrm0XhZNq9TpAq0qH3ye/s400/look+out+point+menu.JPG" width="300" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>This is the cover page of the menu</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">This restaurant also serves local food, like fried rice and fried noodles besides the western meals. After we had finished studied the menu, we were trying to call the waiter/ waitress to take our orders. But...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1AKQZCnuTDKQ_EoGDxbXaCRlRKwSqEmiJ_dmlxvhbtRxwhXKxCV1sexNYjzcQFEqpq6mdwt-HTdnxpjtiOMr747LMlaHiSyoYEkPD9NQNE7fhCdoFvGLH8iFALkMzGK-kubrc/s1600/press+for+service.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1AKQZCnuTDKQ_EoGDxbXaCRlRKwSqEmiJ_dmlxvhbtRxwhXKxCV1sexNYjzcQFEqpq6mdwt-HTdnxpjtiOMr747LMlaHiSyoYEkPD9NQNE7fhCdoFvGLH8iFALkMzGK-kubrc/s400/press+for+service.JPG" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>"Please press for service" and the button??</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Where was the dumb button?!?! Hahhaah!!! We couldn't find the button!! In the end, we got to wave at the waiter. I was wondering if their customers stole the button as souvenir? LOL!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymNrhR5CNAiu5_mcT86Gy-QYcCWEy0MuV5jCCTNr-bVRNMWUE7gxrJXDZYV8wd9IukcBOQMZrdYDQijRiQ7TbDU73RAW5JEI2m57Vxp9RPncOjpIRINXrTMe37u35txLaO91Q/s1600/me.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymNrhR5CNAiu5_mcT86Gy-QYcCWEy0MuV5jCCTNr-bVRNMWUE7gxrJXDZYV8wd9IukcBOQMZrdYDQijRiQ7TbDU73RAW5JEI2m57Vxp9RPncOjpIRINXrTMe37u35txLaO91Q/s400/me.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> <i>I posed in the picture while waiting for our food to arrive. You can see the sky was still bright from the background of the photo <b style="color: red;">=)</b></i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSlMX5LVq4sO4tx3IG6jsE_UdTos1HyNceHErFQeVozz5PexIreLFWU1OIa39izIpEZJP9-sklnsK77bDLsmMBcDbEcHWa_rFgmi0vIs2uk6WpBw2L4L7NgPUehxbvDsFfrho/s1600/before.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSlMX5LVq4sO4tx3IG6jsE_UdTos1HyNceHErFQeVozz5PexIreLFWU1OIa39izIpEZJP9-sklnsK77bDLsmMBcDbEcHWa_rFgmi0vIs2uk6WpBw2L4L7NgPUehxbvDsFfrho/s400/before.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i> KL view in the evening... versus</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNoNiCpyxy4CLQSU4hkauJprQIxMIlX8LM5nPvSveJnOx3dZFZlqwlvisd-CBhgpZcyFLHVanOJvhzt5qY4DB7vyO6EiSnVhVPJmBlhPwcv9q2mC5bP3Vz1ofdvHvmoQNEbfCQ/s1600/after.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNoNiCpyxy4CLQSU4hkauJprQIxMIlX8LM5nPvSveJnOx3dZFZlqwlvisd-CBhgpZcyFLHVanOJvhzt5qY4DB7vyO6EiSnVhVPJmBlhPwcv9q2mC5bP3Vz1ofdvHvmoQNEbfCQ/s400/after.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i> KL view at night, which is more colourful!! I like the lights!!</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Our dinner had arrived...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiro7iQb2EJfL-QvMF3DGnleeIskqh07uBmm1-A4kx6AoBGL4LwnblOPjuv8KjErgtHXNFHA-onZ-3hWOZk9NXGWzWnffYEZbyAXhtyZUz8HkoKVgWRrTmC4YCRmkT2muKpByKd/s1600/me+n+food.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiro7iQb2EJfL-QvMF3DGnleeIskqh07uBmm1-A4kx6AoBGL4LwnblOPjuv8KjErgtHXNFHA-onZ-3hWOZk9NXGWzWnffYEZbyAXhtyZUz8HkoKVgWRrTmC4YCRmkT2muKpByKd/s400/me+n+food.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>My grilled dory fish with mushroom sauce</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, I won't say the food was great. It was just average. However, I did enjoy the cool air and night view of Kuala Lumpur. <b style="color: red;">*(^_^)*</b> <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0027VXU4S&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-24740079618009589182010-10-23T15:41:00.004+08:002010-10-24T11:37:40.728+08:00Language barrier lead to laughter XD<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last week, I went to <i>Carrefour, Ambassador Mall</i> with <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> for some grocery shopping. I was surprised that the hypermarket had made a major rearrangement on all its products/ sections. The customers were forced to walk through the electronic and household items department before we can reach other sections. <b style="color: red;">=(</b> That was pretty inconvenient to us.<br />
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After we placed all the food and drinks into our trolley, <i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>T</b></i> wanted to get himself a pair of new slippers too. Due to the confused relocation of products, I approached one of the staff and asked for directions. "Excuse me, <i>bisa tanya mana section untuk slipper</i>?" (May I know where is the slipper section?). She looked at me with a smile and question marks all over her head. Okay... Maybe she didn't understand my half past six <i>Bahasa Indonesia</i>. I repeated "<i>Selipar? Kasut</i>"?? (Slipper? Shoes?) Then, she put both her hands together and put them next to her head. She asked if I was asking for 'sleep'... Probably she thought I was hunting for a pillow. Hahaha!!!<br />
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This is so funny!! I was scratching my head and pointed at my heels. I told her, 'No.. No... Selipar... Kasut"... Finally, she understood. "Ohhh!! untuk tapak kaki, yea? Sandal?"... I nodded my head and she walked us to the right section. I should have mention 'sandal' in the first place. Hahahahha!!! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-71393923650905668282010-10-18T20:43:00.012+08:002010-10-19T15:15:10.293+08:00Highlights of Our Lives booklet from R<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I received this lovely booklet from my friend over the weekend.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5dIyIo10HNmHRqN5QMOlyFEacSFtVSxbajd_Zj1GxxymndPQZKzoVLV2ae9TgvbfUvamb4IYFL51tzZTOlJNC-i6QJKg9ismh6zCXdUVsttiXigZvs926RbTA_OhOcLy8mNi/s1600/DSC00606.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5dIyIo10HNmHRqN5QMOlyFEacSFtVSxbajd_Zj1GxxymndPQZKzoVLV2ae9TgvbfUvamb4IYFL51tzZTOlJNC-i6QJKg9ismh6zCXdUVsttiXigZvs926RbTA_OhOcLy8mNi/s400/DSC00606.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> This is the front cover of the booklet</i></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCDxU01nHeXd4D0DAUB-DnbIOxv5HLe4IaGI67q21U6umJ60BCDemXBOgtRv-chdjftSUpeK_jNZKRN-q0DvQ85V5Jl4jz0WcW0y4QBtniB2u72gz-Mhd-M6lBSs5Z5sDcU4ht/s1600/DSC00607.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCDxU01nHeXd4D0DAUB-DnbIOxv5HLe4IaGI67q21U6umJ60BCDemXBOgtRv-chdjftSUpeK_jNZKRN-q0DvQ85V5Jl4jz0WcW0y4QBtniB2u72gz-Mhd-M6lBSs5Z5sDcU4ht/s400/DSC00607.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>There is a welcome note on the first page</i></div><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>R</b></i> actually 'stole' our pictures from Facebook and compiled them into her "Highlights of Our Lives". The little booklet consists of our outing photos as well as some motivational quotes. One of the nice quotes is<b> "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact </b>- William James<b>"</b>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-31888571937107691552010-10-03T01:40:00.001+08:002010-10-03T01:45:47.803+08:00Another flight delay with the World Best Low Cost Airline<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I flew back from Jakarta with <i>AirAxxx </i>on last Friday. As usual, my colleagues and I reached the airport around 5pm to catch the 7pm flight. When I was paying my airport tax at the self check-in counter, the officer confidently told me that there would be <b>NO delay </b>for this flight. I was happily thanking him for the great news. I thought I can get home by mid night. <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After I settled with all the custom procedures, I continued with my works in a cafe. At 6.15pm, my colleague reminded us that its time for boarding. We quickly packed our laptops and proceeded to the boarding lounge. The guys walked so fast and left me behind... <b style="color: red;">=(</b> You cant blame me for being so slow as I was walking with high heels and carried the heaviest laptop!! There was once I weighted my laptop + adapter in the bag. It was 4kg!!! What an antique dinosaur laptop!!<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At the boarding lounge, we were informed that our flight would be delayed for 1 hour!! OMG!! Passengers like us were cursing... "AGAIN?!?!??!" Well, we have no choice but to wait for the pilots to bring us home. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Since my boss was rushing me to submit the work, I got to continue working on it in the boarding lounge. Roughly half an hour later, an officer officially announced that the delay of flight was due to some technical issue. Yea right, there's technical issue every week? However, we were luckier this week as all passengers were given a packet of rice and mineral water as compensation. Woohoo... I was so hungry at that time. The meals came to me just in time to cure my hungry tummy.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We finally boarded the plane at 10 minutes past 8 in the evening. I was not sure if it was raining outside because the flight was so bumpy. I felt the flight was flying high and low at the beginning. To be honest, I was a bit worried and tried to sleep.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After some time, the plane was much more stable and the air stewardesses started to distribute meals to all the passengers who pre-booked their meals online. I got my chicken rice combo (chicken rice with a 100ml mineral water). Since I was still full after eaten the free meal at the boarding lounge, I gave away my chicken rice to the American-British man who sat next to me. It is better to be given away than let it end up into the dustbin. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I had a little chat with him and found out that he is a Hong Kong resident who fly between KL, Jakarta and Hong Kong frequently. However, that was the second time he flew with this airline. Later, he asked for a bottle of mineral water from the air stewardess. When the air stewardess handed him the bottle of water, she said 'three Ringgit, please' softly. Probably the guy didn't hear and he felt curious why she was still standing there looking at him. He asked her in a curious tone. 'Do I need to pay?'.... I was like... 'duhhh....' Hahahah!!! Guess what, he took out one stack of 50 Ringgit to pay his 3 Ringgit drinks. Emmm.... </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyway, he was a nice guy who kept me accompanied during the 2-hour flight. We finally reached LCCT at 11.10pm. Subsequently, I got home around 12.40pm. What a loooong day and this will be repeated in 2 weeks time. Wish me luck.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*<iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0021L8V1Q&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-67167235324179124532010-09-29T23:29:00.004+08:002010-09-30T16:34:40.286+08:00Beautiful purple flowers<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love these pretty little purple flowers <b style="color: red;">:-)</b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers* <iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jacswo-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00164UL6M&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-55797443206519509352010-09-17T17:01:00.000+08:002010-09-17T17:01:45.550+08:00Flying with Air Asia<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On 090910 (Hari Raya Eve), I took Air Asia flight from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur again. As usual, my bosses and I arrived early at the airport, paid our airport tax at the counter, and proceeded to the custom counter for passport stamping and documents verifications. There were long queue at the foreigner counters. <b style="color: red;">=/</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When its time, we showed our passports and boarding passes to the Air Asia personnel and proceeded to the boarding lounge. At the entrance, the ground staff tore half of my boarding pass and returned the passenger copy to me. Later, I found out that they took the wrong portion! They kept the portion with the airport tax receipt sticker on it. That was supposed to be the passenger copy and I need that receipt to claim my travel expenses from company.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I immediately approached the officer and told them about the mistake. However, the guy officer continued to check other passengers' boarding passes, while the lady officer looked at my boarding pass for 2 seconds and ignored me. She did not say a single word to me! I was like... Did she hear what am I saying? Or does she understand English? *curious*</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then, I saw the other half of my boarding pass was still lying on the table. I quickly pointed at it and asked if I can exchange the boarding pass. To my surprised, the lady officer scolded me with an angry tone! She said <i>'Duduk sana standby, nanti saya bagi!!' </i>(Sit there and standby, later I give it to you). Gosh!!! What kind of service is this? She is a bad attitude ground staff. <b style="color: red;">=(</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After a while, another Air Asia male staff sent me a new sticker with apologies. Well, I have accepted his apologies with smile. At least his service is much better than the fierce lady. Good job!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I got an opportunity to sit on the first row and my seat number was <i>1E</i>. <b style="color: red;">*(^_^)* </b>There was a middle-age Malaysian man on my left and an Indonesian girl on my right. The man was reading a book throughout the 2 hours journey, while the girl was enjoying the view outside the window next to her.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">During this trip, I saw the wall panel right in front of me was full with words and signatures. Check out the pictures below.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Although I have no idea who is this Dato', I think he did enjoyed flying with AirAsia. Who knows he might have gotten some special VIP treatments from Air Asia. <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15786469.post-45629322758134893902010-09-13T22:02:00.000+08:002010-09-13T22:02:37.556+08:00Tangkuban Perahu Trip @ Bandung<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This post has been delayed for almost 1 month. Now, I finally found some time to update my blog. This is how I utilise my 1 week of annual leaves. Yea, I'm on leave!!! Wooohoooo~~~ <b style="color: red;">=)</b><br />
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On 17 August, it was Indonesia's Independence Day and we got 1 day of public holiday. So, my colleagues and I took this opportunity to explore other parts of Indonesia.<i style="color: #990000;"><b> D</b></i> drove me and 3 other colleagues to Bandung again! This round, we visited <i>Tangkuban Perahu</i>. <i> </i><br />
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<i>Tangkuban Perahu</i> is an active volcano 30 km north of the city of Bandung, the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangkuban_Perahu">Wikipedia</a>, 2010). According to Wikipedia, this stratovolcano is on the island of Java and last erupted in 1983. It was 27 years ago, which is way before I was born. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQc3qNmatZFkdo1e8FV5NVBWf8RQ8TDgalmW2MZ2H7ZnnBLb_fOj9MEh2Y7LjgN7MEsClUZ8UeLAGcqJjh944CJhSoKQXN-LgJoPavhbVIhTWz6I0dOzcLxsQmAu76FgWiiq5v/s1600/tangkuban+parahu.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQc3qNmatZFkdo1e8FV5NVBWf8RQ8TDgalmW2MZ2H7ZnnBLb_fOj9MEh2Y7LjgN7MEsClUZ8UeLAGcqJjh944CJhSoKQXN-LgJoPavhbVIhTWz6I0dOzcLxsQmAu76FgWiiq5v/s400/tangkuban+parahu.JPG" width="400" /></a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>We saw this board at the entrance of Tangkuban Perahu. In fact, I was too busy enjoying the scenery and didn't bother to read it <b style="color: red;">=p</b></i></div><br />
It is one of the popular tourist attraction in Bandung, besides <a href="http://jacqq.blogspot.com/2010/07/beautiful-white-crater-lake-kawah-putih.html">Kawah Putih</a> and <a href="http://jacqq.blogspot.com/2010/07/strawberry-crazee-ciwidey-bandung.html">Ciwidey strawberry farms</a>. Tourists can either hike or ride to the edge of the crater to view the hot water springs up-close. We chose to drive up the hill to save our energy. Hahaha!! <b style="color: red;">XD</b> See, there were a lot of other visitors drove up too!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzr8BB990iTgFZAyTWjzYk8wh_Mrm__u6uSRo1PNCMPheB0o2KAj4Sh3bLPSbVTVftL36FBAZTM8SCQ2ZKLp2p0hRm-pxL1cFvggUCq-jyMrlRjMNiEjcAnf1c1uJq0KVBuJwL/s1600/cars.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzr8BB990iTgFZAyTWjzYk8wh_Mrm__u6uSRo1PNCMPheB0o2KAj4Sh3bLPSbVTVftL36FBAZTM8SCQ2ZKLp2p0hRm-pxL1cFvggUCq-jyMrlRjMNiEjcAnf1c1uJq0KVBuJwL/s400/cars.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>There were packed with a lot of visitors' vehicles!!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: #990000;"><b>D</b></i> told me that the name of Tangkuban Perahu translates roughly to an "upturned boat" in Sundanese. There is also a legend behind this mountain, but I have forgotten it. You can see the "upturned boat" from the picture below. <b style="color: red;">=)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgionRODq99XM0KgrzHovccTcW_nJN6v5S68p27hac5mJ3QNe7kzl-PSNhR_V3-2bFAghzbgTipr2BP_oXwccUgUZMt2LU5wc0jT7OePgv4Q_Tx1mijjN7MhGe-R1j90ALO7Z-F/s1600/mic+n+i.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgionRODq99XM0KgrzHovccTcW_nJN6v5S68p27hac5mJ3QNe7kzl-PSNhR_V3-2bFAghzbgTipr2BP_oXwccUgUZMt2LU5wc0jT7OePgv4Q_Tx1mijjN7MhGe-R1j90ALO7Z-F/s400/mic+n+i.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="color: #990000;">M</b> and I snapped a beautiful picture at the edge of the crater</i></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiViGubVmO8BR-VVju3_Tz9g2y0j-qv3BJJ_iFp2-elti9m9qlB5u6Q8EvYrk4QPRcnYWMoSCXAj2-eBQQuY44t-9V_6joTVlTlmHhnypGokXSF3-pW50-DIObtd0Ei3TYDAfIH/s1600/gals+n+david.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiViGubVmO8BR-VVju3_Tz9g2y0j-qv3BJJ_iFp2-elti9m9qlB5u6Q8EvYrk4QPRcnYWMoSCXAj2-eBQQuY44t-9V_6joTVlTlmHhnypGokXSF3-pW50-DIObtd0Ei3TYDAfIH/s400/gals+n+david.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="color: #990000;">D</b>, <b style="color: #990000;">M</b> and I were enjoying the view of the beautiful hot water springs... <b style="color: red;">=)</b></i></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWf-LvUcBEqf3KzJhzUL4s_X7hJXqJvhau05HE3jpV_unS84xEMpVEF6VtA8qjbso6w-zTVBHvF30PB-kNH8qBSPPqG1XUSWycu6NlGc8anYGKJpDJhNkMm1PHtfEz9rUjk8s/s1600/stalls.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWf-LvUcBEqf3KzJhzUL4s_X7hJXqJvhau05HE3jpV_unS84xEMpVEF6VtA8qjbso6w-zTVBHvF30PB-kNH8qBSPPqG1XUSWycu6NlGc8anYGKJpDJhNkMm1PHtfEz9rUjk8s/s400/stalls.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>There were a lot of stalls selling stuffs like t-shirts, batik, toys, eggs, corns, and other local souvenirs...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3PqbYz5avZVcF1ZcfRR1CMOXfh_7jCp7RMSsWL-Bq6kEBHWR9GVu86dxBA1ZHMmO6Ca1JMdJAQh_jfagBzyOSoiU1NXHwy792sAkNN_kLQRr3RJBaOa6NX_JncVQrisgeXTx/s1600/Waiting.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3PqbYz5avZVcF1ZcfRR1CMOXfh_7jCp7RMSsWL-Bq6kEBHWR9GVu86dxBA1ZHMmO6Ca1JMdJAQh_jfagBzyOSoiU1NXHwy792sAkNN_kLQRr3RJBaOa6NX_JncVQrisgeXTx/s400/Waiting.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="color: #990000;">B</b> left us and climbed up the hill alone. So, <b style="color: #990000;">H</b>, <b style="color: #990000;">M</b> and I were waiting for his return...</i></div><br />
Later, we met 3 bikers who rode their mountain bikes up to this volcano hill. They were snapping pictures with their bicycles near the crater. Then, we made friends and helped each other to snap group pictures. We also got their permissions to snap pictures with their bicycles.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHWsnyqY_Tw8c-yqMxTTluDbvcUT09Qu4eMeaPHai5lOnBD7_5oqjfrveNQC392ksaFzdF5hyphenhyphentBFrtw68105kCMzn0O7p_iWCyTbFXaqckH1QZ4QFy5aRjt621Rt1Tu0xyeY_/s1600/me+n+bike.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHWsnyqY_Tw8c-yqMxTTluDbvcUT09Qu4eMeaPHai5lOnBD7_5oqjfrveNQC392ksaFzdF5hyphenhyphentBFrtw68105kCMzn0O7p_iWCyTbFXaqckH1QZ4QFy5aRjt621Rt1Tu0xyeY_/s400/me+n+bike.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I posed with a biker's mountain bike, and you can see the other biker was posing with his bike at the background of this picture. Hahahah! </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Even though it was a short day-trip to Bandung, we did enjoy the crater and a little bit of shopping at <a href="http://jacqq.blogspot.com/2010/07/exploration-outside-jakarta-city.html"><i>Rumah Mode</i></a> after that. <b style="color: red;">*(^-^)v*</b><br />
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However, we couldn't buy our <i>bakso </i>(meat balls) from <i>Bakso & Sosis</i> as it was closed. <b style="color: red;">=(</b> Probably they were closed due to public holiday or Ramadan month. Ishhh... I miss their yummy meat ballssssss!!!!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
*Cheers*</div>Jacquelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520101123459656385noreply@blogger.com2