Friends are a gift we give ourselves. But for our Bali trip, we need your help.
What a delight it is to be at Bali with your BFFs. Right? So feel free to vote for us. )
Humm… These are photos that we (InterContinental and Holiday Inn Bangkok’s Sales and Marketing team) have submitted for a shot at a trip to Bali! Of course not all of us would get to go, but we will work something out once we win it! (Positive thinking ^_^)
Well… I am not asking much at all… just a minute of your valuable time to vote for us, once a day… for 5 days. That is only 5 minutes total of your valuable time. Your vote matters as we are competing with everyone around the world. Well, hopefully a top 10 would be awesome!
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(Maybe I’ll get to go to Bali and bring back memories to share with everyone here)
Today I went to California Raisin seminar at the Sheraton Grand Bangkok, Thailand. They have demonstrated us a few pastry recipes that we can take it as inspiration to our bakery shop. They also provided us with information about the Raisin specification, how the grape was grown, trained, harvested, processed, packed and delivered.
There were so many pastry shops representatives, approximately 100 of them were there at the seminar. Yet this seminar has reminded me of the theatre performance just a few weeks ago. Because we were all focusing on the chef whom were showing us how to… this and that.
It was fun participating the seminar, got to learn so many things, and enjoy the food samples. I also got some new ideas/recipes that I would like to try sometime this week. I will then post the result of the recipe that I tried later.
Anyway, it must be interesting to be in the spotlight during the entire performance, while everyone is watching. Knowing that every move that was made cannot be redone. As I have learn from the Chef and the Dance was that… improvisation is the key. The dancer must improvise when some of the props don’t go according to plan, they must improvise in such a way that the audience doesn’t notice it. The chef, as well, must improvise on the recipe because each ingredient is different thru out the world. Being an international chef, he understood that… we cannot blindly follow the “instruction” on the recipe.
We must use our experience and our understand of the circumstance to make the best of whatever we were set out to do.
Because we were at the show 1 hour early, so I had the time to walk around the theater. It came to my surprise that the theater is only a blog away from the wedding banquet room that I attended 2 nights ago. However, I wasn’t able to take the picture of this bridge here that night because the angle different and I told to myself that I must come back later to capture the bridge. But that “later” came just a few nights after.
What was I waiting for? I was waiting for the Hip-Hop dance Accrorap Company: “Short stories.com”. It is part of the La Fête 2009. The show was amazing. It is part modern-contemporary art dance, hip-hop dance, story telling and musical performance with a touch of comedy.
The show was amazing in that it got my body moving, my head shaking, and my feet tapping along with the music!
*As promised, the blog is back up with in a week! After just about 36 hours… it is alive!!! again!!! Yah!!! Things just keep happening sooner than expect. I take that as a good thing. ^_^
Okie, this is exactly a week ago. Last Wednesday was a sports event at our school. It was organized by the Post Graduate students, PG 2, which managed the event while PG1 worked as their assistants. I, unlike the Cultural night where I was in the marketing department, was working in Kitchen Department for the events. The weather was so nice that day, unfortunately I was working inside the kitchen since morning. Just for a few moments, I got to sneak out and took a few pictures of the event. Because we were managing the event, we were not allow to participate any of the sports!!!! sigh…
Back in 2001, I was in the volley ball team at San Gabriel High School where I fractured my left ankle during one evening practice. And that is how my sport career came to an end because the pain on the ankle will come up from time to time if I over use my foot. I wanna jump and spike that ball so bad!
okie… got to get back to finish my Thesis that is due next Wednesday…
I was high… physically in the air!!! NOT! MENTALLY. okay? So this was taken back in Los Angeles, during the LA county fair 2008. The funny thing is that, I have been living in LA since 2000 but this visit is actually the first time that I went to the LA county fair which is only 10 minutes away from my place. This seems to be normal because we don’t normally travel in the city you live in, do we? The only reason I went there is because I got a… FREE ADMISSION TICKET that I got from my photographer friend, Lily. Actually she is the first person that introduced me to the HDR techniques that lead me to semi-obsession with HDR.
The view from the top were pretty cool, yet the view from the bottom was… AMAZING!
Nisei Week Japanese Festival, an annual festival celebrating Japanese American (JA) culture and history in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Nisei means 2nd generation in Japanese, describing the first American born Japanese, a group which the seven day festival was originally meant to attract. Though named for the Nisei generation, Nisei Week is no longer targeted at Niseis, nor is the festival still contained within a week. Nisei Week Foundation president for 2006, Michelle Suzuki, described the festival as “the opportunity for people of all backgrounds to celebrate Japanese heritage and culture”. (from wikipedia)
The 68th Annual Nisei Week took place on August 16-24th, 2008 and I was there to capture most of the activities of the event. The event also served as a costume party where 90% of the people who came to Little Tokyo, Los Angeles would wear all sort of Japanese tradition or comic costumes.
However, after looking thru all the pictures that I took that day, I believe that this picture captured the heart of the event.
“This is the best cultural night we’ve had in Les Roches thus far” said one of the students in the reception. “Woww, I really feel like I am in Japan and the lounge looks amazing” said another student. “The dinner experience and the restaurant decoration is awesome” said a student waiting in a line for his meal. “I can definitely go for another Nakata brouchette” a student compliment on one of our special disk that was name after “what they called me at school, Nakata” So yea, I represented that dish !! haha.
We started to organized things since noon and it promptly started at 7:00 pm. Everyone has their drinks, food, games, more drinks and is entertained by a fashion show. It wasn’t over until 11:00 pm, or somewhere around there. After all the clean up, we went out for a drink at “small world” to celebrate our completion of the event, which resulted in the picture show to you below.
We have learned so many things, in so little time. Most of the thing we learn, in my opinion, are the things that we shouldn’t do again next time. We all make mistakes but let us not concentrate on the mistakes, let us think about how do we not repeat the same mistake again, or how to make things better the next time around.
Today is the day. I would like to post this now, early in the day, knowing that I will be busy with event organization late in the evening and may not have the energy to write this later.
I am in the marketing department for this event and is responsible for most of the posters, advertisements and gathering information for those advertisements. I am very fortunate to have my teammate because they are helping me get the info organized and arrange things with other departments. Oh yes, we have drama in our department as well as with the other departments.
Okay then… here are the collective works that I did from the beginning of the event… which started with a cookie sale !!! To raise extra funding for our event…. all the way to final event poster and the 3 minutes AD on youtube. here is the link, if you can’t see the video below.
finally it is the day, less than 12 hours and all of this will be over. So that i can start concentrating on other works that i have been putting off due to this event.
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because the pain on the ankle will come up from time to time if I over use my foot. I wanna jump and spike that ball so bad!
