I’m in Club Med for the Special ‘Body and Soul: Four Colors in Four Days’ event in March 2013. Body & Soul is a health and wellness retreat designed to boost wellbeing and overall health through a series of activities on 4 color-themed days per session.
After the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and lunch we headed over to Shanghai People’s Square which is located at the very center of Shanghai and was the demarcation point of East Nanjing Road and West Nanjing Road. The key phrase here is “Nanjing Road”; as this area is very popular for shopping!
But more on that later while I bore you with some essential facts about People’s Square. 🙂
** Facts taken from the WWW – This area was once the racecourse regarded as the ‘No.1 racecourse Far East’ but was destroyed later.
In 1949, the People’s Avenue was built across the center of the area with the People’s Park built on the north side and the People’s Square on the south part. By the end of 1993, through a comprehensive reconstruction, it covered an area about 140,000 square meters and has become the largest public square of the city.
Just a month ago I was in Shanghai, shivering in 2-8 Celsius and eating 20 dishes at one meal. But I can’t complain, since it was my first visit to Shanghai and I had a blank canvas to fill.
BELOW: A typical meal in Shanghai. Oh yums! :DD
After 5 days, I have toured picturesque gardens, stood high over Shanghai city in Oriental Pearl TV Tower, cruised over water villages and posed with famous celebrities (albeit wax ones).
Yesterday Sony Malaysia launched the Sony SLT-A58 and Sony NEX 3N , priced at RM1999 and RM1799 respectively.
Sony DSLT A58.
Sony NEX 3N.
After a long day of diving (post on that soon!) we came back to the hotel famished.
The current operational F & B outlet at Le Meridien Bali Jimbaran is Bamboo Chic, headed by executive chef Paul Lewis (you have met him HERE) and food, on the whole, is excellent. The menu is a crowd-pleaser as Chef Paul takes on traditional cuisine; albeit some with added unorthodox twists, as well as western favourites such as burgers and pizzas.
After 2 nights at the bustling town of Kuta, we were headed to Jimbaran next. Being a first timer on Bali island, I had no previous acquaintance of the island and I found out after the first 2 days that different parts of the Bali can be entirely different – Kuta, Jimbaran, Ubud, Nusa Dua and Seminyak. Furthermore, distances from each of these areas are really far; almost 40 – 1.5 hours by land at times.
Thankfully there wasn’t much need to go exploring as the resorts I was hosted in was too comfortable with enough food to keep both mind and stomach satisfied. This is especially so for Le Meridien Bali Jimbaran, where my Lagoon Access Room made it so convenient for me to jump into the pool that I did little else!
I have written so much about Swich cakes (and I still have about another 8 cakes more to go in draft) that I don’t think I need to go into details about each of Swich components in this high tea set.
I’m personally very fond of hybrid cars, having learn a lot about during a Honda Insight media drive and from covering a few events on the recent hybrid cars available in Malaysia such as the Jazz Hybrid, Toyota Prius and even test drove an electric car – the Nissan Leaf.
However, none of these cars were actually luxury cars, which made me wonder “Can’t luxury cars be eco-friendly? Is all the arguments of green vehicles being unpowered true?“. For a non-technical automotive enthusiast like me, seeing an automotive brand like Audi launching a hybrid model in Malaysia had me quite worked up in anticipation.
From left to right:
Dato’ Sri Haji Mohd Khamil Jamil, Group Managing Director, DRB-Hicom, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, Mr Stanley Tan, CEO of Euromobil, Dato’ Abdul Harith Abdullah, Group Director, Automotive and Defence, DRB-Hicom.
