Ternell

Trekking in Autume

Went trekking the weekend before the past one, and I loved it very much. Although the road is abit muddy but the view is awesome!! I think we can only see the beauty of autumn when we are walking in the forest. Gosh, if you could see the leaves fall and the ground is covered with a mix of orange, red, purple carpet of leaves, you will be stunned. We were lucky to have not a bad weather, it was raining a bit at the begining but I love the rain, so that was fine ;-)

Air Babylon

I finished a book with title "The five people you meet in Heaven" a few weeks ago, and it actually gave me an new and interesting view on the "life after dead". Most of us think dying is the end (although for us, Buddhist, we were taught to believe that there is a life after dead, and that depends on our karma, we would be destined or placed in the next life. Moreover, if we are good, we are supposed to be enlightened, and therefore are freed from the wheel of life). Anyway, the book has stressed on the point that dead is not the end, it's a beginning (so as many other things in life). A beginning to explain why our live was like it was when we were alive, why some people we think they do not care about us, they do care, or that the love that we have for someone, and we think they don't completely appreciate but they do... I mean the whole positive way of thinking, it really is a good book. It was well written and easy to read.

I am now reading the sequence of Hotel Babylon book, and it was as fascinating and funny as the other one. It gives a good review on the airlines, and give an indepth understanding of industry despite the glamourous image that it gives to us. From searching a passport of an illegal in the toilet to capturing a snake that a customer put in baggage's compartments or dealing with a dead body on board...Oh, yeah, one funny fact, the item that people seems to forget on board the most is their panties! ;-) (that is a polite way to answer our question of how many people actually have sex on airplane ;-)).

BTW, if you wanna know where is the best place to have sex on airplanes, buy the book! ;-))

Arirang

Last Friday, I went to eat Korean with my family. Since it was a last min call, we decided to go the a restaurant which was used to be called Korean Barbecue, the new name is Arirang on Ave Louise.

I remembered the first time I tried Korean food was there with Fox and Ben, and it was not bad. However, last Friday we were very disappointed with the service and the food. Later on, I found out that the place has a new owner (obviously), so that explained the whole catastrophic service. We decided to choose menu (for the freshness of the ingredients because menu is what is sold much at a restaurant), we were pretty much disappointed about the food, the marinated items to grill taste a bit sweet. But "not so good" foods could always compensate by an excellent service, however, when we took our glass wines, we saw that they were not polished, there were traces of calcium all over, look really cheap for such a nice restaurant. The Korean owner is very loud when she talked to her servers, yelling...when she walked, she made terrible noise with the high heel shoes hitting on the face of the wooden floor. The server poured water for us, and made the water drop coming out of every glass, he just opened the bottle of wine and left it to us to pour the wine ourselves. Mind you, we are usually not demanding customers, but any customer could have a negative reaction.

Anyway, first time will also be last time for that place. I am now in quest for a new good Korean restaurant ;-)

Items to wash ;-)

Grilled clams with sour and sweet peanut sauce

Foods

Pork rolled in scented leave

Cabbage salad a la Thao

I love eating salad and obviously making them ;-), no wonder why my salads are usually yummy ;-)

Party time

"He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else" Samuel Jackson.

It has been a long time that I didn't see some of my friends, and there is not better excuse to catch up than organise a nice dinner.

So the menu was:

Grilled clams with green onion and sweet/sour fish sauce

Fried quails in garlic butter

Cabbage salad a la Thao

Pork rolled in scented leave

Nems

Noodle soup a la Thao

Exotic fruit dessert

Everybody sat on the floor, and had dinner like we do in VN, a bit uncomfortable for those who are not used to sit with their legs crossed, but I hope their stomach felt good ;-)). Apparently, Vnese foods are fresh and healthy. Anything new? ;-)