Archive for September, 2007

For few years back in the 90’s, I would only watch this ice carving (done by the hotel’s thai cooks on weekends, a special show for hotel guests) from the side since I was a hotel employee then and quite shy to mingle with the guests. But last night I was at the front row watching every cuts and chops done to one block of ice…and of course armed with my camera, I can now enjoy these frozen moments.

It all started out with this block, at 6 pm Sofitel Hotel’s lobby garden

with ease and accuracy, a truly experienced bloke

admiring him and his sharp tools..getting darker by the way…sun’s setting at the east side…straight ahead is the Hua Hin beach

almost there.….but he was interrupted (and irritated) a few times by a little thai boy who was picking up chunks of ice beside him and just running around, the boy’s father was there but couldn’t do much (to gently put it -the boy’s like, chuckie’s son!) spectators were also irritated, especially me because I didn’t want the boy in my shots *lol* but it was also too dangerous to be around the carver and his tools, that was the main concern

and there she was…a cold cold art. What a 30mins. show became almost an hour because of interruptions..but it was all worth it!

Usually they’d use the finished ice work as display for one of the hotel’s restaurants.

isn’t she a beauty?!

The Lying buddha at Pranon Wat Pho, Bangkok Thailand

Taken from the 83rd floor of Thailand’s tallest hotel, Baiyoke Sky Hotel.

I consider this a lucky shot since the floor I was standing on was shaky because it’s revolving 360 degrees.

click the photo for a larger view.

However the photo below came out blurred but I still posted it here. Because I saw something weird. Click the thumbnail so you might see it too. Tell me what you see? Remember that I used my photoshop software to only resize the image.

Hey guys! I’m directly posting this (and future) entry from Thailand, on a short vacation. Thank you so very much for your visits but my apology for not returning the visit for now as I’ll be doing just a quick entry each time.

We’ve visited three temples yesterday and in one of those I took this photo. I couldn’t remember which temple it was so please, I hope you like this.

Hello from The Land of Smiles!

Few years back, my husband and I together with my dad in law, went to Austria to enjoy our summer vacation. I was awe by the countries’ beautiful mountains and sceneries but most of all famous cities. Among the cities that we visited was Salzburg, I really love love this city!

Anyway, this is a short entry, I just want to share with you a ’special’ picture that I have taken. Special because it was taken inside the House of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart where photography isn’t allowed. And I didn’t knew that. So I started shooting and this was the very first shot I got (got luck to get 2) before I was approached by the house turned museum guard to tell me that taking pictures isn’t allowed.

Mozart’s kitchen.

Have a fine weekend, friends!