Hotel review: Pool Access Room, Sheraton Hua Hin (Cha Am)

I like the way Sheraton Hua Hin set a big lagoon pool surrounded by 2 storey high buildings of rooms. That brings a very open wide spacious feeling. Resort should be like this without any tall buildings pressed on you, with abundant sunshine from dawn til dusk. There are 8-10room types of this resort, from garden view (2nd floor on the back side), terrace garden (ground floor on the back side), lagoon view (2nd floor on photo 10), lagoon pool access (the room shown here), club rooms on the same 4 categories mentioned here which is closer to the seaside and several sea front suites.

The room is very spacious with 2 queen size beds. Big bath tub and bath room. Nice amenities with good water pressure. The furnishing is also nice without anything sharp, especially the bath room wall and floor tiles and the swimming pool tiles...etc. Good for the kids to play without some sharp things injuring their skin. The pool water is very warm at over 30 degree. I didn't feel cold even swimming at the night time. I would recommend this one to family with kids. The kids would love swimming around this big lagoon pool in a size close to a football field.

Marry me at Sheraton Hua Hin (Cha Am)

Every time (about 3 times already) I passed by this resort, I saw quite many local Thais either having their wedding ceremonies or taking some wedding photos. At my stay at this resort, I was told that a HK TV artist Ms. Kwok (郭X妮) will have a wedding ceremony here too. See how the charm of Hua Hin touches....

Fall Summer review: Vie Hotel BKK

Had a tough time during the stay in February. The air-conditioning system auto-turned off in the night time, waking me up in sweat. Vie Hotel's management was very kind to offer another stay of 2 complimentary nights to make it up. So at the recent visit, I took this offer with an extra paid 1 more night. I then tried this corner deluxe suite (shown as below). The living room is much more spacious than the middle deluxe suite. Anyway, this may be my last stay at this hotel, sorry. Nothing wrong about the hotel's service or restaurant or facilities. Just on the last night, I finally felt something. As I recall, this area seems to be not so "comfortable". Some of my friends had some experiences from Asia Hotel, Evergreen serviced apt (both just opposite to Vie), Pathumwan Princess to Novotel Siam Square.

決戰, Stand firm

Goodies from France

Haven't visited Southern France and Paris this year. I feel I missed something. So thoughtful of my friends who filled up this emptiness with all these goodies from France lately. The chocolate with a drop pinch of ear grey tea leaves is awesome. Even after an hour, the fond aroma of earl grey is still there in my tongue. On the photo 3, it's some very nice cookies from Normandie. My French friend told me, apart from the history thing, Normandie is famous for its butter products. See that picture on the tin can. It tells it all.

Typhoon day for a dim sum lunch at East Ocean restaurant Quarry Bay HK

We haven't had a typhoon no. 8 for the past 2-3 years. Today we have one. I haven't tried going for a dim sum lunch during typhoon days for so many years. Today I have one, and I bought some magazine to go with the dim sum lunch. East Ocean still keeps up its consistent good dim sum quality by choosing some fine ingredients. Their deep fried food is very nice and I can taste they use some very fine cooking oil. Many other restaurants use re-cooked oil and that makes the deep fried stuff not light in texture. Besides, check on the last photo BBQ pork pastry 叉燒酥. It's made in a very classic style - with pickled baby ginger and thousand year egg 子薑皮蛋.

與他們談話，與自己對話。

最近參與一個知識產權公開討論，議會內有政府官員，法律界代表，音樂娛樂業界代表及一群20多歲的年青人。 議會中，官在悠然釋法，民在嘶烈咆哮，相方愈走愈遠，成見更深。

看著這群年青人，坦白說，全因他們的激進表現, 自己以前對他們存有偏見。奇怪的是，自己竟然在會後，主動與他們交談，也希望他們不要那麼激烈，一派老氣的我，細說當年常聽著一些重金屬音樂，極具控訴色彩，感同他們身受，也希望別人找到自己的共嗚, 直至健康嚮起警號，才發現為何要同自己身體作對，以至傷身，希望他們不要太激動。這時他們其中一位最激烈的青年笑了，說道 “係呀，呀媽同啲friend都話我好傷肝.....”. 他的好友接著“我哋成日襟住佢，佢抖先又爭啲飛樽。” 。 當時心裡在想，原來這位體形消瘦的青年是有他的一份純真的笑容，電視上是看不到的，自己感到很欣慰，拍拍這位青年的肩膊，回道 “你知咪好囉，你媽咪會好擔心，你食多啲嘢，先至有氣力，仲有唔好咁激，俾人睇到，輸晒啲印象分，好似唞先我仲未識你哋，我都會咁睇.....” 。交談了一個多小時，最後給他們遞上名片，彼此笑著說再見。

以上其實是一些很社工的對話，重點在於我們能否主動踏出第一步，及後心想對任何人任何事，這也亦然。

隔天當我與其他業內人士談到這些事情，我給好奇地問： “你真的要與他們溝通？ 真的不知道他們是誰的父母教的” 。 我肯定回道： “是的，我知道你有宗教信仰，其實他們也是神的孩子，只不過生活上給擠壓，因而在行為上作出激烈的訴求，沒有我們想像中的這樣那樣。” 。

這數個晚上，他們的笑臉偶爾在腦海中浮現，不奇然自己也傻笑， 希望自己腦內這份影象能以虛擬投影與別人分享。他們笑了！

Coco Ichibanya Curry House, Crocodile Shirt Center, Kwun Tong Kowloon

This chain shop landed HK quite some years ago. The branch in Silvercord Center TST is always full. As this one was opened in Kwun Tong, I finally gotta try this one. Curry rice ranged from HK$60-90 with an extra of $15-25 for 2-4 side orders from salad, soup, dessert and a drink (i.e. $20 for 3 side orders for a salad, dessert plus a drink, or $25 for 4 side orders). The curry is very aromatic and quite spicy even though I asked for a degree 1 hot (highest 6). The rice is pretty nice too and quite a big portion. I chose a salad, dessert (Dreyer's ice cream 2 scoops) and an iced coffee.