Biz Trip to Philippines (25th - 27th Jan 10)

Dinner in one of the Spanish Restaurant - 'Abba'

We had red wine, red wine and more red wine!!!

BALUT!!! It was like a CENTURY EGG + CHINESE SALTED EGG combination. Quite Yucky! But I got compliments from the Local guys about my guts to try them. Even the Locals don't really dare to eat 'em!! Bravo me yeah!!

Desert were very very sweet!! I think Filipino loves sweet sweet stuff. Most of them have sweet tooth!!

Lunch @ 1 of their Shopping Mall Restaurant (in a smaller town)

Left (Kare Kare), Right (Roast Pork - Crispy, Crunchy & fatty!!)

Service Apartment in PHIL

I had a bad experience with the service they offered. I had requested a non-smoking area for my stay in their service apartment. History repeats (My stay in Indon) again over in Phil!! Aiks... They ran out of non-smoking area apartments and they agreed to change another apartment for me the next day. Hence, I was given a air purifier, but I requested another one to put in the living room also, as the smell was so bad, I was literally coughing when I was in the apartment.

Customer service quality:
Female employees - Reception: 5/10 (Observed to have some attitude problem in serving customer)
Male attendants - 8/10

Furnishing: 5/10 (Practically quite clean, but a bit run down) - heater: took about 8mins to heat up & the DVD player was not workable. I found out that the DVD was not repaired! As some of the spinning pins were loose and attachable.
Breakfast: 6/10 (Not much variety & service was so so, waiters & waitresses were not initiative enough to serve).

Dinner @ Greenbelt Shopping Centre

Lunch with PHIL Distributors

Love their idea of putting the roasted garlic on the bread - Garlic Bread!! Right Side (shared the pasta with CL)

Potatoes Wedges (Pau's Sandwich set lunch).....& our Salad!!

My Distributor brought me to this place for lunch. I love the setup of the restaurant. I told them I would like to have something light.

CUTE!!!! I saw this 'Taxi' in one of the town area in Phil, after the last customer visit! Taken this pic when I was back to my Hotel.

XQ's Wedding Preparation (Sisters gathering)

22nd Jan 2010 - Sushi Tei @ Vivo City

XQ chosen us (Chel, XZ, me, XF & PL - which could not make it for the meeting) to be her Jie Mei's for her wedding. The four of us had a sumptuous dinner that night and had a very efficient & Effective discussion on the Gate Bashing Event. It was another gathering for us (Ex-NUS alumni).... We came out with alot of 'Wicked' Ideas to 'Torture' WX!!

Biz Trip to Jakarta - 18th till 20th Jan 2010

Hotel Setup - Oakwood Jakarta

Grade: 7.5/10
Reasons:
(1) Very Convenient and accessible - near to the Town area
(2) Customer Service quality & Promptness ~ 9/10
(3) Full Facilities (Apartment Setup)



Area to be improved:
(1) Separate the smoking rooms from the non-smoking rooms (common for every Hotel)
(2) Business Centre - without a printer
(3) Printer @ the lobby used are BBJet type, should change to laser printer - took me almost 20 minutes to print out 16 slides.

Lunch - Indonesia Nasi Padang

Pk. Tom brought us a local Nasi Padang restaurant for lunch today. I had very long hours on the road today. I managed to take a few pics on the variety of dishes put in front of us!!

Dinner @ The Pancake Parlour

I had a very late dinner. After the customer visits, was rushing back to clear my e-mails. Gotten lotsa calls from customers also on some of the orders and issues that need to be resolved. The minute I checked in on Monday, I saw the 'Pancake Parlour' restaurant. I thought they had copied the name from the Australia 'Pancake Parlour', but later did I find out, it is actually, a francise restaurant from Australia. I had the Smoke Beef - Savoury Pancake. Grade: 5/10. Nothing very fantastic. I think Hubby will comment that my home-made savoury pancake that I normally prepare for him tasted better?? *BLINK*BLINK*...ahhaha

Dessert Place named 'Sour Sally' @ Pacific Place Mall

After dinner at Sari Kuningan restaurant, our distributor brought us to this place for dessert. Indonesia is crazy about Yogurt right now. This is a must try dessert and after dinner thingy you must do in Indon. Apparently, there are also a few other brands in Indon market.

The dessert place was in 'Pacific Place Mall', quite similar to Ion kinda Shopping Mall in Spore.

Be-early Birthday Celebration for my Boss....

It will be my Boss Bday on 20th Jan 10!! We had a pre-celebration with him, as I will be going separate ways to our customer visits. Both Boss and PK will be taking an earlier flight... **SOB**SOB**. Thought I was able to get back to family dinner tomorrow night, but will only touch down at SIN2140. Anyway, I planned a surprise cake cutting 'Ceremony' for him together with PK, another colleague of mine that came together to Jakarta. Glad that Boss was surprised by our 'Little Touch'. He shared with us his Bday Wish and we had 2 slices of the "President Cake". I bought the cake just beside our hotel; 'Ranch Market'. It tasted yummy. Thank you Boss, for being so understanding to me, and being so accomodating at times. Hope that your Bday wishes will all come true this year!! All the Best!