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Finally, Barack Obama is the 44th US President, and the first African-American to reach the White House! I am quite excited with the news, especially when everyone is aching for a change. It also reminded me about our political situation in Malaysia after the 8 March elections. It may not be the same but it is still a huge changes for such a small country like us.

America electing a black man for President shown us that they has choosen a wise and intelligent person. The American has shown everyone in the world that they are ready for changes and hopefully the changes could bring the benefits to the rest of the world, especially with the current financial and economic crisis around the world. I do hope that Obama is capable in handling both internal and international problems. Well, at least he has a good 5 years to prove himself!

Recently, I have been following Patrick Moberg’s blog, and I found his illustration especially on the US Presidential election very hillarious. I wanted to share with you all.

Illustration: Credit to Patrick Moberg.

Can’t really remember when was the last time I put up something in my blog! I’m just being lazy. I guess after all, it was quite a hectic two weeks for me. So many things to do, so many deadlines to meet and especially now, when we’re just entering second quarter of the financial year. Yup, my organisation is slightly different from many Malaysians’ companies.

I just want to put this special picture which is now pinned at my workstation. This group photo was taken by my dear ’Japanese’ colleague – it was the last day of our very intensive meeting/workshop that I’ve attended last week. We really enjoyed ourselves and I enjoyed working with them especially some of them whom I’ve known for a long time. They are such a lovely bunch of people and I have to say this!!  Many of them are ‘korean drama freak’ too!!

If you are reading this, I just want to say “Good Luck with all the targets, results, deadlines, regional” - hahaha, you know what I meant here! (*wink wink*) 

[1] Japan   [2]UK  [3] New Zealand  [4] Singapore  [5] Korea   [6] Vietnam  [7] Indonesia  [8] Me   [9] Taiwan  [10] Philippines + 2 more (Thailand and Singapore)

(my lovely cat from Bali is sitting at the corner of my PC’s monitor)

Hey guys, I’m working on my photo gallery for this blog. This is quite tricky for me because the theme that I choose for my blog doesn’t have any widgets ready for photo album and  since I don’t want to pay to Flickrs to upgrade the account, so, I have to work slightly harder to get this application worked on my blog. Once this is successful, I will discontinue my Flickrs account!

Be patient and I will try to upload more photos soon…

This is the simplest advertisement which won Silver Lotus for the Social Engagement category at the Asia-Pacific Advertising Festival which was held recently in Thailand. When I first saw this advertisement, it brings back those funny, witty and silly memories of my primary school time! Ahhh, what a wonderful memories! I still remembered that I was in a similar situation in this commercial, I like a boy (Malay boy) from the class next door! I was 10 years old then! It’s just so funny even just to think about it! I’m sure some of you share the same experience with me!

Check out the commercial in the Youtube below, “Tan Hong Ming in Love” – this commercial really touches my heart and I hope you all like it too! I really like the surprises on Tan Hong Ming’s face at the end of the commercial!

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Well, Christmas is over now, therefore one more to go… Anyone have big New Year’s Eve plans? We thought of having BBQ nite but it seems that some can’t make it due to certain reasons… and I’m a bit lazy to do all the dish-washing…
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It was a nice weekend for both of us – sitting at home, doing nothing, cooking, eating, reading, watch tv, just enjoying the weekend….

But… when I watch the news last night – it seems the world is in a chaos while most Malaysian are enjoying their good weekend and some even unhappy that their weekend is about to end.

Natural disaster such as aftershocks occurred non-stop in Sumatra’s killing more people after the earthquake, typhoon Nari hits South Korea with at least six killed and many injured, flooding in India and Bangladesh still continues and many people died and have to move and our Penang, Kampung Baru flooded again during this Ramadhan. And in African countries, Ebola reappeared again.

And the worse was our neighbour country, Thailand where a budget airline crashed in Phuket killed 87 people.

All these news gave and make me sad – but it also tells me that I should cherish my life more… and I’m glad that everyone that I know including families and friends are in good conditions, and happily enjoying their weekend, just like you and me.

Moved!

Looking for me? Well, I’ve moved to WordPress – hopefully this would be a good move. I am now at :

http://amyrantz.wordpress.com

C U there & happy blogging!

Malaysian Tourisms is currently promoting SPA tourism and I have to say, it’s quite successful (from my opinion) – even though this is one of a very new tourism side-product of this industry. Why would I say it’s quite successful…well, this week is workshop week and most of my counterparts cum friends are here in Malaysia and one of my task is to bring them around the city and try out the local food – as a host! And I’ve been bombarded with questions about where to get the best spa, massage, manicure and etc…most of them has seen Malaysian promotion about the tourist spa programme and really interested to join however there’s one problem. Unless they go out of the way from KL to the beach resorts, they won’t be able to see the sea, sand and beach ‘kinda’ spa or even just out of vicinity of Kuala Lumpur since their schedule are quite tight.

I managed to check the SPA packages around KL and I think these are the few nice one. I’m sharing this information here: 


Puri Santi in Kuala Lumpur                                                             
Discovered this place whilst driving around Damansara Heights, located within a private bungalow house and is owned by famous Malaysian diva, Sheila Majid. Ambience is very Balinese and outdoor shower is fantastic, most attractive treatments are the Lulur Javanese package which last for 2 hours. 

PURI SANTI
No. 11, Jalan Gelenggang
Damansara Heights
50490 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 603-2094 4428

JoJoBa SPA
Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Centre
15th Floor, East Wing Tower
No. 1, Jalan Imbi
55100 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Tel : 603-2141 7766

Martha Tilaar
Crown Princess Hotel, City Square Centre
Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
03-2775 3868 / 03-2775 3268
It’s situated inside the Crown Princess Hotel, in Jalan Tun Razak Kuala Lumpur.

Sembunyi Spa, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Cyberview Lodge Resort & Spa
Persiaran Multimedia
63000 Cyberjaya
Selangor, Malaysia
TEL: 603-8312 7000

Andana @ Glenmarie
Open only for day reservation, the suite has its own lounge, massage and facial treatments & hydrotherapy room and “wakaf”. With its various specialty therapeutic programs and private butler service. It’s the ultimate in pampering, relaxation and rejuvenation – well according to my sister who went there regularly. The treatments available are massage therapies, thalasso hydrotherapies, foot reflexology, manicure & pedicure, ear candling, beauty and body scrub. Standard entry rate is RM 148.00 ++

Andana Spa
Holiday Inn Glenmarie, 1
Jalan Usahawan U1/8, Seksyen U1,
40250 Shah Alam, Selangor.
Tel: 603-7803 2328Well… have some nice time, as for me… I’m off to BodySense in Plaza Damas, at Sri Hartamas…I have one free treatment, present from my friends. They gave me a voucher for a 90mins Aromatheraphy massage for my birthday a month ago… ahhh…