Business Trip to Japan (12/Oct/09 ~ 15/Oct/09)

It's off to Japan for my Business Trip.
1st time in Japan for business, the place? Ibaraki...which is 3 hours bus ride from Narita Airport.




food on the place, beef curry with cold soba and macha cake


The business hotel that we stayed in:


the very small and compact toilet



even though the room is small, but they still managed to have a massage chair!
Amazing.


the view outside the hotel

Business Trip to Thailand (07/Oct/09 ~ 09/Oct/09)

Business Trip to Bangkok, Thailand, Stayed at "The Tawana" which is near Papong.
They upgraded me to mini suite!!!
How cool was that?!


The bathroom, with a mini dressing table


the toiletries




the room...big right?

During this business trip, my Thai colleagues brought me for some authentic Thai food,
most of them are roadside stalls.
Simply delicious.

We had this at a foodcourt:

soup noodles with either their chilli soup or tom yam soup


minced pork rice (it's the same as the one that I had at Orchard Towers!)


We had these at the roadside stalls:

roast chicken


papaya salad


mince pork


cockles


the chilli for the cockles (very different from Singapore's version)


fried beehoon


the Thai style Yong Tau Foo

Peony Jade @ Clarke Quay (06/Oct/09)

Had dinner with Regional Office colleagues at Peony Jade at Clarke Quay.
It's Ala Carte Buffet!!!
Super worth it!
But can't remember what we had.
Let the photos do the talking...

Joyce's Wedding Dinner (03/Oct/09)

Attended a colleague's wedding dinner at a restaurant at Yishun.
Can't remember the restaurant name.

The wedding flavours


shark's fin


fish (forgot what kind of fish this is)



suckling pig


an abalone for each person


2 kinds of scallop


the sea cumber is one whole big piece


glutinous rice


and dessert is bird's nest!!

Yummy Yummy!!

Kimi replaced by Alonso in next season F1 2010

It's confirmed!!! Alonso will replace Kimi for Ferrari next year even though Kimi still has a contract until end 2010.
I was really upset about the news.
And Kimi might quite F1 next year, so if Kimi quits, it's bye bye to F1 for me as well.
But if Kimi still continues, he might be team-mates with Hamilton at Maclaren.
OMG, don't know which is worst, Kimi quiting F1 or teaming with Hamilton.