Many Many Thanks

Today P.Tong gave me a delicate bouquet for my birthday.

In addition, I would like to thank all my family and friends for the birthday wishes by calling me or sending SMS and email.

My 37th Birthday

My 37th birthday! I and my mom went to make merits at Wat Luang Poh Sotorn, Chachoengsao. I prayed for many good things for my life and family. We had lunch at a eatery nearby the river, they cooked grilled river prawn better than I expected and fish curry cake was tasty.


Grilled river prawns, our favorite.

My 37th Birthday Party

I celebrated my birthday party at the Pier, Prachauthit. We really enjoyed eating and forgot to take any photos of them. We ordered its specialty, German pork leg, German sausage, spicy prawn salad, a few dishes of spaghetti, and fried banana for dessert.

Mom and Noon.

Mom and New, Proud's friend.

Proud.

I blew a single candle over the birthday's ice cream.

Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant

On November 7, 2007, our Wednesday eating tour, which include P.Ou's mom, P.Ou, my mom, and I, went to have lunch at Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant, Menam Riverside Hotel. Noon could not join us since she had to make up her assignment at school. We did not have abalone, we had dim sum because of its 50% discount on weekday. Dim sum here is Hong Kong style , so it looks different. We had fried tofu with chili and salt, fish with fried egg noodle, sauimai, streamed tofu in bean curd sheet, sticky rice in lotus leaf, tan tart, yellow BBQ pork bun, turnip cake, fried shrimp in bean curd sheet, fried chives dumpling, and streamed BBQ pork noodle, streamed pra-tong-koh noodle. Sorry that I cannot remember all the name what we ordered.

streamed tofu in bean curd sheet.

fried chives dumpling.

fish with fried egg noodle.

streamed pra-tong-koh noodle.

P.Ou's Mom

P.Ou’s mom is 87 this year and she is healthy compare to lady in her own age. We take her out for lunch each Wednesday. We have been to many restaurants and sometimes try new places, such as East Ocean Chinese restaurant (SC Park Hotel), AOI, Tidbits, Limoncello, Ton Gee, Chinese House (Phaholyothin 5), Ruen Petch Suki, Vanilla Café, and Pasta 54. We also used to drive to Yang Deaw, Ayutthaya to have grill river prawns and visit Wat Niwet-Thamprawat, we are pleasurable. I intend to write about this every week.

We enjoyed lemon tart and penna cotta at Limoncello.

"Yummy! But I like your penna cotta, Noon!"

Noon and grandma and her 20th birthday cake at Tidbits.

Grill river prawns at Yang Deaw, Ayutthaya.

P.Ou and mom make some donations at Wat Niwet.

Merit and Shopaholic

Yesterday I was out all day, while waiting for Noon’s studying, I and P.Ou went to Siriraj Hospital to sign a get-well registry to the King and his elder sister to wish them a quick recovery, there were lots of people there. Then we went to Priest Hospital met P.Ou’s mom and P.Oy, P.Ou’s elder sister, to make merits for P.Ou’s dad by paying respect and offering food to the monks, we come here every year.

In the afternoon, it seemed like I was hypnotized, I went to Bangkok Bank, head office, as I intended to buy some mutual funds and met my aunt, fortunately I met my mom too. Then I dropped by market beside the bank, it was called soi La-lai-sab and because of its name, I bought coffee for my breakfast, a jacket for my next trip and shoes for …, I was so crazy. I will not go there again for several months since I do not want to impose on P.Ou. I am going to be more considerate on spending.

Sock and Chair

Do you know what it is? It is sock for chairs. Originally, I bought from Y100 shop in Japan and it is stretching, so P.Ou gives an idea of DIY because he saw me sometimes knitting scarf. I decide to crochet which I have not been able to do it well since high school and my mom always did the crochet homework for me. Anyway, see how it looks, not bad ha. It can make your home lovelier, I think. It can be used to replace felt pads. Call me if you like to have it for your chair.

P.Ou Birthday Party

P.Ou birthday party among closed friends was set on October 24 at the Ninth Café. It was fun, seem like we did not meet for a long time so we started to talk louder and louder. P.Ple, the owner of the Ninth, was a humorous entertainer, we both enjoyed eating and laughing.

There were 5 candles on P.Ou's birthday cakes, sponsored by P.Tong.

P.Ple presented 3 kinds of cakes from the Ninth, very delicious. Yummy!

P.Ou among guys and a beautiful girl.

P.Tong, P.Aew, P.Pook and Aui. They enjoyed low-carb food.

P.Ou and Khun Rachan.

Beautiful girls!

P.Ou and P.Ple.

P.Ou Birthday

October 18 is P.Ou’s birthday. We went give donation and Sang-Ka-Tan at Wat Prathumwanaram. Although this temple is located among shopping centers, between Central World and Siam Paragon, it is quiet and peaceful, suitable for meditation. In the evening, we dined at Kin Lom Chom Sa Pan, food is neutral but location is great with beautiful Rama VIII bridge view.

At Wat Prathumwanaram.

Dinner at Kin Lom Chom Sa Pan.

Food looked good but I did not eat, I was vegetarian.

LAND FOR SALES

There are 2 plots of land for sales at Lakewood Country Club, one of the most luxurious golf club in Thailand. It locates at Bangna-Trad KM. 18, close to the airport, very convenience without any noise. These plots have different features and advantages, it is also cheap compare to other plots in this community.

This plot is super prime of Lakewood, right next to fair way of No.1 hole - Wood Course, can access by Soi 16. It is surrounded by forest trees, looking out to the grassy lawn and hill with breathing fresh air breezes. The total size is 916 sq.w., and can be sold separately. The asking price is Baht 21 million.








This plot is located at the end of soi 19, close to the creek, wide 23 meter, which can make your home private and hospitality. The total size is 451 sq.w. and the asking price is Baht 7.2 million.

Welcome Pye

Pye, Pan’s daughter, was born on October 14, 2007 with good health and weight of approx. 2,500 gram. I went to see her today.

Pan and I were in front of the nursery, Ramkhamhaeng Hospital.

Tennis PTT Bangkok Open 2007

On October 12, 2007, with sponsored by P.Pook, I and P.Ou went to see Tennis PTT Bangkok Open 2007 at LATA National Tennis Development Centre, Muang Thong Thani. We saw 2 semifinal matches, Flavia Pennetta (ITAx7) vs. Shahar Peer (ISRx3) and Venus Williams (USAx2) vs. Camille Pin (FRA). The first match took almost 2 hours; Pennetta lost her first set and had to have foot treatment but won last 2 sets. In my opinion, it was because she could constantly and confidently control her temper and strokes better than Peer who is younger and world number 16, the score was 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. The second match was world number 8 Williams. She played aggressively against Pin who tried bravely to return William's tough strokes, and the score was 6-1, 6-1.
Thanks to P.Pook, it was so nice and enjoyable.

Venus Williams is tall, the court looks small compare to her.

Flavia Pennetta is the champion of the tournament.

Vegetarian - Kin Jay

This year, vegetarian or Kin Jay period is during October 10-20. It is an annual event during the first nine days of the ninth Chinese lunar month. It is a time of penance and purifying of body and mind, and to attain this goal, followers abstain from eating meat, animal products and strong smelling vegetables such as onion, celery, garlic, and certain spices. I have eaten Jay during the period for long, long time ago because my mom’s family found a Rowng Jay at Sampran, Nakornprathom. Long ago, it hardly finds Jay food sold anywhere, but now it turns popular, you can get it easily with yellow flags beside their food stalls.

My Rowng Jay’s activities start one day before the first day of the event by inviting God to stay at the Rowng Jay. All of the rites and activities perform by Tao monks whom invited from Chinese temple in Bangkok. I am not sure how many times monks bless in a day, I think at least 3 times, morning, before lunch, evening. But some day, such as day 3, 6, 8, 9 may be 4 times including night time. On day 8 night, there is loi-kra-thong which every registered follower will have a crinum leaf kra-thong; the floating of a kra-thong is intended to float away ill fortune as well as to express apologies to Khongkha or Ganga, the River Goddess. On day 9, there are more activities, vagrant ghost oblation and ting-kra-jard, in the afternoon, and late at night, a few followers go with a floating house and incense until it was flame in order to repatriate the God. Breakfast of the next morning is the last Jay meal.

I found it a little difficult since no one around me joins me this activity. I know they try to accommodate me as much as possible. I have not been to Rowng Jay for a couple years since I do not like lots of people, and it is now quite far from my house. Anyway, some of Rowng Jay's food is delicious, you can bring back home as much as you can, I like tao-jeaw-lon, and curry; my mom always brings me some of them when she goes there. Many restaurants sell jay food but I am not sure they know how to cook it properly, they must separate kitchenware and ingredients. There are also plenty of Jay foods sold in supermarket, I always look into the label what they are made from to make sure that I can eat it with no doubt. God, please forgive me if I have unintentionally done or eaten anything wrong.
In addition, I am so sorry that I can not enjoy P.Ou and Pum+’s birthday cake this year.

Wedding Ceremony

Yes! I was proposed on Feb 29, 2004, the bissextile day.
For the ceremony, I knew that he thought about a simple, small party with only relatives and close friends. However, I am the only one child and my parents have lots of friends, so I had to balance their needs by organizing the proper and simple party. I went to see a Chinese Master to find the auspicious wedding date, which was July 6, 2003; I had plenty of times for preparation. We estimated that there were not more than 500 guests for evening banquet, and to be convenience, we decided to do all the ceremonies at the hotel, so we looked for place which was in CBD and had good food with reasonable price. We selected Dusit Thani Hotel, Saladaeng Room for morning session and Dusit Thani Hall for evening session.

I have been told that bride and groom would be tired in preparing the ceremony. Things went on easy for us. One month before wedding day, invitation cards were distributed by hand, post, and e-mail and some by assistance of our relatives and friends. One day before wedding day, I remembered that it was the closing day of NHA securitization II so I worked in the morning, went to spa for 3 hours in the afternoon, and then to beauty salon. I also visited Pomme to say happy birthday to Nong Mook, Pomme’s second daughter, at the hospital.

Monks were invited, by phone, for the Buddhist ceremony for the morning session. The monk was so kind to me, he knew me since I was a little girl; he said he would come by taxi. How nice he was.

On July 6, 2004, the ceremony started at 6.30 a.m. with monks blessing and Rod-Nam-Sang event. It finished around 10.30 a.m. I went to noodle shop at Sukhumvit 26 and came back to take a nap at the hotel before beautician came to dress me up for the evening party.


The evening party took 4 hours of standing, greeting, and smiling. More guests than we were expected, the room was crowd. I did not have a chance to visit the food stalls to see how they looked, but many guests said the food were good. P.Ohm was an MC; Khun Pakhawat and my godfather gave the speech. Traditionally, I expressed thanks to my family and P.Ou’s for their support, and also all the guests who came to the party, it was long for 1.5 minutes but P.Ou just said thank you, guests made loud buzz.

I believe it's the beginning of happy ending story.

Commencement

Congratulation for both of you, Pum+ and Pin, for your graduation. They are my lovely close cousin, our houses are walking distance. We, with Proud, used to spend weekend nights together playing play station at my house when they were in high school; that was such a pleasurable moment of my life.

Pum+ graduated from Thammasat University, B.Sc. (Statistic), the commencement was on August 4, 2005. Now, she is training to be Thai Airways' flight attendant.

Pin graduated from Kasetsart University, B.B.A. (Hotel and Tourism Management), the commencement was on July 27, 2007. She is looking for what she can start her career, I wish she can find the right one soon.

Tony Roma's

On October 5, Oui, P.Pook, P.Tong, P.Mee, P.Ou, Noon and I had dinner at Tony Roma's, Siam Paragon. They are usually busy with their executive professions and family businesses, so we try to arrange to have dinner from time to time, and share ideas about life, work, investment market, etc., like 4 girls did in the HBO's series. We had caesar salad, mixed appetizer, onion loaf, beef burger, baby back ribs, its house specialty, and apple crumble as dessert. Cherry used to join us some times, but she has gone to Hong Kong; we all miss you.

Doggy Story - Peanut and Benny

The story of Peanut began with the unexpected death of Boomer. Benny, the Labrador retriever, was left alone and looked upset, so we found another dog to be his buddy. Noon gave an idea of the Beagle which I assumed that she has seen the dog from her mother’s house. We searched via internet and bought Peanut last December (2006) when he was approx. 3 weeks.

As the Beagle, he is hardy, sturdy squarely-built, small hound with tri-color. He is lively, naughty, and curious dog, which always digs and runs thru the bush and around the house to find something to play with, so flowers cannot be grew. Because of the age difference, when he plays with Benny, we often hear Benny barks or gnarrs at him and see some bloodstain on Benny’s body. I usually get along with Benny rather than Peanut since he likes to jump and scratch my legs, and I think he does not know the word “Do” and “Don’t” because he responds the same as everyone wants to play with him. We may not be watchful and patient enough to train him from the beginning, thus we decide to have some professional do firm training. Anyone has ideas for a good place?

Peanut always jumps at Benny.

They sometimes play in peace.

Note: it is hard to take his pictures since he always jumps at me so I have to be on the terrace and call him while he keeps running around.

Learnt Each Other

To be better understand each other, we have been to various places. Those period is one of the happiest time of me.

At a restaurant during trip to Hua Hin, April 2003.

At Ubonrat Dam, there was a seminar with client, May 2003.

At Bang Pra-in Palace, we went to Manora Boat trip from Bangkok to Ayudhya, 2003.

At Koh Chang with P.Ou's family, July 2003.