Pasta Zanmai, Paradigm Mall

Yet another long break before this post...... Can't believe how difficult it is for me to keep posting more often.

Decided to blog today because it was a good day as we celebrated tham's bday.

Had some yummy food while we catch up.

After dinner, we watched Maleficent on the day it premiered here. Hehee....

(Long over due post from May that I've written but not posted)

I just couldn't resist. When I first heard the song that they played in the trailer, I knew I HAD to watch it! Glad I did as I enjoyed it!

Once again, I'm thankful to have great friends whom I could just have a good meal and talk about anything without any reservations.

Here's what we had at pasta zanmai. 

Seafood risotto

Pesto chicken pasta

Soft shell crab tortilla sushi

Pizza! Always enjoy their pizza because of the crunchy base and tangy sauce.

Golden Triangle

After On way to the Golden Triangle, we made a pit stop at another temple.

Finally we have arrived at a little stall for lunch which faces the Golden Triangle!

Why Golden Triangle? Well cause it's the place where the borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet.

The one-woman-show......she prepared our lunch that day!

Unfortunately I only managed to snap a pic of the salad........ :(

Me sitting at the front of the boat on the way to the Laos border.....it was a rough ride and this was the best picture I managed before I screamed my lungs out because the ride was super bumpy and I was afraid that I will fly off the boat into the dirty river!

Apparently there's a casino there for very rich China tourists......well, according to our guide anyways.

Finally at the border and this is what greets us!

Loads of knock-off bags for sale!

More snake liquor!

Nothing much to do there and hence, back we go~

This is the temple just near the boat docking area. Very nice~ I like how we can see the Buddha from afar on the boat! 

 

After that it was time to move on to the next location again.....

Nimmanhaenim

I read online that there's this really famous ice cream stall in nimanhaenim which is like an area for the younger crowds in chiang mai and hence decided to give the place a visit. 

Spotted a row really colourful buildings on the way there. 

Was really happy when I spotted the iberry sign till we reached the place to find out that it's closed for some upgrading....

This place is truly packed with small interesting cafes. 

Hmm...They use bamboo as scaffolding for construction. 

On the way out to look for a tuk tuk, we spotted a small stall runned by a thai family that serves bbq chicken with thai sticky rice.

Yummy!!!! Absolutely love their papaya salad and chicken. 

Taste so good and yet so cheap! 

At the border to Myanmar

This is at the border of Thailand to Myanmar.

On the way to the customs are various food stalls, here is one that sells cute fish balls in the form of angry birds!

The customs.

Along the side are more shops that sells clothes and jewelries.

Many of the items seem to be sold at a higher price and I can see tourists haggling there.

This is the spot where you take a picture to prove that you've been to the border...hehe.....

....and right behind is a dirty river. ^_^!

I was at the northern most of Thailand!

Yummy-looking peaches from one of the stalls there. We bought some and true enough, they were really sweet!

TWG

Finally had the opportunity to try the newly opened TWG in Sunway Pyramid last week.

We ordered a pot of tea called silver moon which was really fragrant. Too bad it was non refillable. Hehe.... :P

We also had a tea infused seafood lasagna and chocolate fondant cake.  However that server brought us an apple pie by mistake and imagine our shock when the supervisor scolded him on the spot.

The lasagna was good but not superb. But I do love the cake! Hehe.... Plus it'snice to just sit, chit chat and enjoy a nice cup of tea. We will definitely be back to try their tea sets!

Before the Speech Contest

On the day of the speech contest, we were supposed to visit another famous tourist spot - Okayama Korakuen.

However, this beautiful study lounge for the students of the university is where we ended up~ But no one is complaining because "We finally got WIFI!!!". Hahaha.......never knew that one could be so happy just to get wifi connections. 

Well, not that I think about it, we should've gone to the korakuen instead because the place is absolutely stunning! And, I'm not sure when is the next time I will get to visit this beautiful city again. I really hope that I will get opportunity to come again!

Lol, actually how we ended up here was because one of our members got sick so we made a stop at the clinic in the uni and also, it was raining....

But we're absolutely loving it.....see, we're all too busy with our phones to even bother with anything else.

hehehe....for days we've been trying to get our hands on wifi to contact our families etc.....but failed desperately! lol.... every single we enter a room in the university, someone will be trying their luck!

Wifi aside, you get some pretty good views from inside the study lounge. I wished that my uni had such a spacious and quiet area for us to study.

After the wifi party, they brought us to one of the main research facility in the university for an eye-opening experience. 

Some of the views along the way....

Really love how the 2 universities that we visited were located on top of the hill~ The view is just amazing!

Have you seen fresh-water and sea-water fishes swimming together in the same water? Well this is where it all happens in their special water! Who knew that later in the night we would be having fugu (that do not have any poison) sashimi that were reared from this very facility.

Really happy that I got to see 2 research facility in the uni. One was the chemistry lab from the day before and the other was this. I only wished that I could visit their biology labs too!

Then finally, it was lunch time in one of the classrooms. Love the bento!!!

Everything was yummy even though they were cold. hehehe.....talking about cold food, I'm reminded of Na-chan! She was complaining that ever since we arrived, all we've been eating were cold food stuffs! In a way it's quite true......except for the foods that I ate on arrival day and the bowl of hot rice at breakfast the next morning, everything else was served cold. Even so, they taste great!

Happy faces everywhere!

After that, we were brought to another classroom where we changed into our national costumes and did our make-up!