New camera, more photos!

Yeah!!!!!!!

I'm so stoked! I just bought myself a new digital camera! It's FUJIFILM Finepix S100FS!!! As you can see in the photo.



I have camera now. That means I will take more photos. More photos means more blogs about my photos.... More blogs means my blog is no longer boring... Everybody is happy!! (I hope)

The only problem is.......



I'm so broke now...... but I'm happy. I wish happiness can feed my stomach.....

It's like a song by The Eagles "Love will keep us alive"

Jane @ 30

It has become the tradition for me to post the pictures of myself on my birthday. It's to tell you how I look when I am 1 year older!

And yes! I have the photos of me at 30 years old!


*You can see that my left eye was a little swollen. Jeremy accidentally elbowed me the night before -- It's not sleep walking but sleep Thai boxing*



Now you know how I look when I turned 30.... for me I can only say that I still look young and pretty! hehehehehe....

Honeymoon trip - Chiangdao

The next morning, we got up early getting ready to go to Chiang dao. We took a local bus about 1 hour and a half to get there for 40 baht each. It was raining all the way from Chiangmai to Chiangdao and still raining when we got to our resort. We didn't do anything in that afternoon because of the rain but we did enjoy relaxing at the resort -- Malee's nature lovers bungalows


The resort area

It was about 4 pm when the rain seemed to stop. We decided to go exploring the nearest cave temple.


Not only us going to the temple that day


The way to the cave


Our destination! Up there! Keep walking!


We saw it on the half way pit stop.


Finally...we made it to the top!


The Buddha statue inside the pagoda

We were lucky that it was no rain when we went up there. The view up there was stunning, breathe taking view but hey! I'd love to breath more as the air was so clear unlike Bangkok's!!! It was worth taking long and deep breathe there.... Ahhhhh.....


The beautiful sky on the way back to our resort

510 steps... that's good enough for the evening work out! Then we went back to sleep..........zzzzzzzz

Pet (fish) shop

The other day (I don't remember what day!), I went to Thonglor Sky train station and I saw this man at the corner of the street. He was selling fishes and turtles and some water plants.

Isn't that cool?

Here in Thailand, you can buy your pet at any street corner!

As you're on the way to the pub, walking on the street, thinking 'Let's have some beers tonight' and then! Oh! Turtle! How lovely! Let me get one turtle before going for some beers!

Yes....You can.

A Room with a View

This is the evening view from my balcony, I saw the colour of the sky and I told Jeremy about it. So he told me to grab my camera for a snap and this is it!


Do you like it? I love it! If it's daytime, you can see that there is one building that is so purple! I will show you later when we have a good sunny day here!

Polluted Maptaphut

As some of you may remember that I used to work for Greenpeace SE Asia for about 2 months. During the time I was working there, I had a chance to visit a place called "Map Ta Phut", an industrial estate in Rayong province.

"In 2003 Greenpeace took samples of wastewater from Vinythai and Thai Plastic & Chemicals at their point of discharge to the canal in Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate as well as sediment from the canal. The results show contamination of a range of highly toxic and carcinogenic substances."



I have some photos to show you.... I took these photos when I was there to do research on how many people effected from the pollution.




And not only human...who is suffering from the pollution, this little dog too!

Jeremy in Wonderland!

This is the photo I shot when Jeremy showed me around his ex-school, Tub Keaw kindergarten. It's the first time I ever seen and even known that there is special size of lavatory for kids! These little toilets are so cute!!! *Well if they're cleaner!*

I just want to show you how small they are... compare to the teacher Jeremy! hehehe... He looks like a giant in this small world!

P.S. Just wondering, can you do your "business" in there if your friends are sitting next to you???

Eat it RAW!

Thank God it's Friday!

I have nothing to do... I finished cleaning the room, I had lunch, I washed dishes, I played my Gameboy... and I'm bored!

Then I just had an idea! I should blog! but what should I blog about? FOOD!!! That's the only thing I can think about when I'm bored.....

Now I will present my 5 favourite raw foods! Why raw? I don't know but it's good when it's raw! *The list is not rated, I can't judge which one is better than the others!*

Here is dish one! Parma ham & melon!


And followed by salad! I'm not a big fan of vegetables but sometimes my body needs something green!


Raw is healthy, huh? Raw fish is even healthier!


People think it looks nasty and it tastes nasty, I first tried it about 2 years ago and I loved it!! I love it!! I love this nasty food!!


Okay...Are you full? I hope not. This is the last dish for today... want some snack? Here it is!


Now I think you have some idea for your weekend huh? It's easy... no need to cook! because we eat it RAW!!!

5 places I love to dine...

I got tagged!! Oh Yeah!!! by our big brother, simple american... I guess he knows very well how much I love food! and maybe he is planning a trip to Asia just to taste some of our great dishes!

Here is the tag!
The rules are simple:
1. List out your top 5 favourite place to eat at your location.
2. Put down your link below together below the name/nick of the person who tag you and link directly to your post. Please include the state or country you’re from.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Simple American (Sugar Land, Texas, USA)
Jane (Bangkok, Thailand)

3. Tag 5 other people (preferable from other countries/states)

Well... the hardest part is not to find 5 people to tag but it's to pick only 5 places for this tag!
Mmmm...... I'm quite in huge trouble now...
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Ok! I decided to tell you my 5 favourite places at this moment only! Bangkok is huge! And there are so many good places to dine at, depends on where I am in Bangkok! But I consider these top 5...if I'm at home where I wanna go eat!

Well... we will start with number#5 -- au bon pain
I know it doesn't sound so Thai to you... and they don't serve Thai food either! What can I say? Sometimes I crave for some western tastes too! Like salad, sandwiches... stuff like that! And I'm a big fan of au bon pain, especially their smoked salmon wasabi sandwich! Oh.....yum

number#4 -- MK Suki restaurant


Thai suki restaurant.. Like hotpot but what I like most about MK is their roasted duck! It's so good! Oi...drooling just think of it! Oh not only hotpot, suki and roasted duck, they have very good dim sum too!


number#3 -- Rooster restaurant (ไก่โต้ง)
It's not far from my house...actually it's walkable distance. They serve Thai-Isaan food.. like those somtum I showed you before. They make really good food and not expensive too! I always recommend this restaurant to my friends and also brought them there myself. I welcomed Jeremy on his first day in Thailand at this restaurant too! You can order anything on their menu! Guaranteed!


number#2 -- Kuroda
A Japanese buffet restaurant for 399 baht... and all you can eat! You can order form menu and they will just cook for you. That's why I like this restaurant... fresh and newly cooked! And I'm sure you've heard of it from my blog before!!!
*Here is me holding Kuroda's menu, ready to order!*


and number#1 -- My home!
No kidding! There is no place like home! and my mom is one of the great cooks! You don't believe me? Well... come here and I will invite you to our dinner feast and you will love my mom and of course her food too!
*To confess, I can't think of any place better than my house! I can eat here everyday and every meal... and when I taste good food in a restaurant, I always say "This is just like mama's cooking! delicious!"

And 5 people to tag?
Well... my rule is NOT tag anyone! Love to do, do it! and leave a note telling me you did and I will definitely read it!

Thank you Jeremy

Today I got a dozen of roses..pink roses from Jeremy. It's a delayed Valentine's gift as I was not in Bangkok that day... (It's too expensive to get the rose on Valentine's too!)

I put those roses in our drinking glass... no vase in this house! Thank you Jeremy... The roses actually make this room nicer!

*kisses*

Lunch @ Huahin

On day 2, we drove to Huahin to find another beach to go... we actually did the beach hopping last week! After we got the place to stay, we started looking for food! We found one restaurant not far from our hotel, so we decided to try.... and these are our food!!! Mmmm.... yummy!

Well.... today's post is only about food, so I'm not going to tell you about the beach or anything else. Let's talk about food!!


First dish.. Somtam pu-ma, there is nothing related to Puma... not the animal or the sport wear... but it's spicy papaya salad with sea crab. Oh.... they made it really goooooooood!


Second dish... Somtam Thai, right! we ordered 2 kinds of somtam because we wanted to try the ordinary one which is this one, Thai style somtam and the one with crab (above). It turned out really good...both of them! Ahhh..... ooooohh..... mmmmm


Third dish... Tom saab kra-dook moo, it's spicy soup with cartilage bone (pork). It sounds weird, I don't eat the cartilage...only meat please! But for those who love the cartilage, I recommend this dish, they made really good soup..very spicy too! *sweating*


Fourth dish... Larb gai, spicy chicken salad with roasted rice (crushed). You may wonder now that every dish is spicy... these people are crazy! I can say...YES! We're crazy, we love spicy food!!! and you can see why? Don't they look so good? Delicious?


Last dish... Pla muek tod kra-tiem, deep fried squid with garlic. We loved it! The only reason we loved this dish because the golden chopped garlic.... treasure... Ahhhh... (you don't wanna be close to me when I said Ahhhh.. after having this dish!) Crispy, chewy, a little salty.... yummy!

Cha-am&Hua hin trip (Day 1)

*The main room*

*The Entrance (in the old days)*

*Sleeping Buddha*

Last long weekend, we went on a road trip with P Toy, P Hui to Cha-am and Huahin. On the first day we planned to stay in one resort on the beach in Petchaburi but as we didn't book the room in advance and all of them were full!!!! Can you believe that? We drove from first beach...all resorts were fully booked, the second beach (about 15 km. from the first one) was also fully booked!!! and we kept searching, looking for any available room... but had no luck!

We ended up on Cha-am beach which was too crowded and that's NOT what we wanted, but we had no choice. We found 2 rooms at a guest house in front of the busiest area of Cha-am beach, the price was a little too expensive but it's long holiday and we didn't book it....and most important we were too tired to search for better. We decided to stay there but the rooms were not available until 9 pm. that night, so we had to hang out on the beach for the whole afternoon. We've got the rooms around 8.30 pm after having such a good and (expensive) seafood dinner!.

I had a bad headache all afternoon and evening, so after I took a shower, I went straight to bed and fell asleep right away....

That's all for day 1, to have more side stories, please wait for Jeremy to write more on his blog! Here I have some photos of the cave we visited before going to the beach as it's on our way to the beach.

Enjoy!

Floating Market and Crocodile farm

Jane loves elephants

Jeremy also loves elephants

And mama loves elephants too!!

Last Saturday we went to Floating market at Damneunsaduak, Ratchaburi about 120 km from Bangkok. There were 8 of us, 4 from Myanmar (Emily and her family), and 4 from my family (Mama, my brother, Jeremy and me).
Waking up 6 am... getting ready, the van picking us up at 6.30 am...going to Baiyok Suite hotel to pick up Emily's family and friend... 7.30 am we're heading to floating market!

Arriving there around 9 am... the weather was so nice.. cool.. we took the little tour (1000 baht for 4 people in one boat) along the canals for about 2 hours... then we were off to Sampran Crocodile farm& zoo in Nakorn pathom province. For the ticket... Thai 80 baht, Foreigner 500 baht!!! (Foreigner gets better seat for the show though)

We saw 3 shows: Magician show, Elephants show and Crocodiles show... it was very fun... we really had good time there... I have some videos from this trip which you can see in Jeremy's blog. I have only photos here... (too lazy to upload)

After that we stopped at Don wai market..for a little shopping on the way back to Bangkok. So many food there... hmm... love it!

Coming back to Bangkok...when the sun starting to set... it's another good day we had. Now we're planning for next trip not far from Bangkok, one day trip or weekend trip.. :-)
I can't stop traveling!!! More travel more fun!!! (and more photos)

Now I gotta get back to my work... Ciao!

Obviously taken!

Today is exactly 5 months since we've been together... and we decided to make it official! To make it obvious!
Here it is! My engagement ring!!! My first diamond ring in my life! (I got it yesterday...whoo hoo...) I normally don't wear any ornament... but seems like I have to wear this one most of the time! (But I'm glad to do it)
Well..there is nothing much to tell... Merry Christmas to all of you!