Sake seminar

Fruitful ways to spend my Sundays with enrichment classes : this free session in how to discover ways to enjoy sake. 

Coincidentally last Thursday during Rotary weekly meeting Kojima our fellow Rotarian whom we visited in Fujisawa mentions that he drank all wines, especially sake and that’s why he’s 80 but hale and healthy! 

He squeezed in a visit before flying off that night and he certainly looked energetic for an 80 year old, hope I can emulate him!!! 


The sake fair was delivered by Amy Tan, of Entwine Consultancy and she is a certified sake sommelier with the Sake Sommelier Academy UK. Of  course one hour of talk does not make me a sake know it all but it did let me scratch the surface.  

After the talk in English , this girl gave a translation in mandarin 

Well I couldn’t resist taking pics with the wines and Amy herself said we can’t drink as much sake as in Japan because they are pricey here. 

If you like my blouse, it’s only rm19.90 from Sungei Wang when hubby brought me there to pay for our Balkan Trip in Bukit Bintang. 

Love the giant cooler box!! 

You can actually pour sake out from this tub.

I need to tell you about all the types of sake: premium sake is Tokutei Meisho-shu, table sake is futsushu and the rest are junmai daiginjo, junmai ginjo, junmai, honjozo, with 50 to 70% alcohol.  Sake is made from sake rice called sakamai and the more the rice is polished, the cleaner and more precise the sake. There! At least I have some knowledge of sake besides tasting and drinking it! 

This is my cute door gift, a nifty sake box in lacquer and a canned. Sake for me enjoy slowly at home. 

There was also a matcha making session and I tried all the green tea, I like the cold green tea but it was pricey!!! 

Star Women’s Fiesta #HeForShe Couple Talk

This is the second part of the wow women Talk

I signed up to get a chance to listen to the "power couples" talk live, but alas Harith Iskandar and Jezamine could not make it. 

Elaine Lee from Mercedes started off the talk. 

Then Linora  appeared... she would be moderating the talk show 

Tim Tiah of Colony and Nuff Nang and his wife Audrey

Beauty queen Kavita Kaur and Roberto Gulati 

Good way to drag myself out of bed on Sunday morning to attend this talk! 

Linora liked my post on Instagram and I lifted this pic off hers!!! 

After this talk Chan Fong came on. He talked in Cantonese and those who could not understand chinese walked off and left! 

  Chan Fong ( actually I do not know who he was as I do not listen to chinese radio station) 

After the talk I went to the fiesta again to collect more chops for freebies hahaha! Will show you my haul next post! 

WOWWomen

Went to the "wow women fiesta" organised by the Star in conjunction with international women’s day and met my IWA friend Mabel Hui there! 

I had registered for this workshop so I could see Aireen Omar in person.

Main reason for the visit was also  to hear the others talk... well, Aireen Omar wasn’t able to come and was represented by Yap Mun Ching, Air Asia Foundation executive director who shared her working experience as a woman in the aviation industry. 

Ms. Yap wrapping up her  talk 

It was held at MBO big screen

The other speakers were Joyce Chuah, a financial planner, Dahlia Nadhirah founder of So Lek cosmetics Jenn Low of Wanderlust + Co and Tunku Mina Riza director of Redha. 

Tunku Mona.. took this pic from her ig

Dahlia’s brother sat next to me and gave great moral support to her!

So did  Dahlia’s husband who took the first question during the q and a session! I did not know of So Lek cosmetics or Dahlia, or even Jenn, or Tunku MonaRiza and her movie Redha, but now I do.

Joyce Chuah’s segment 

Jenn Low: success at only 33 years old!! 

Missed Rubin’s slot because I was famished and went to visit the stalls at the fiesta hoping for some free sampling of food!!! 

Well, I was glad I dragged myself out of bed to attend these talks because I get to meet and hear the success stories of  accomplished people, just like in 2001 when I attended Yasmin's talk before she became so famous re: her Petronas ads, and before she died so prematurely. 

No water

On my way out I saw the water truck along 6B and took pics from my car 

My neighbor happy carrying his bottles of water 

I sent this pic to our neighborhood WhatsApp chatgroup 

I think it was because of the DAP flag

Because the next day my photo was used as a story on the ADUN (you all know who he is) for Kinrara’s Facebook page!!! 

Monspace investment opportunity

Last week my friend invited me for dinner at Monspace Seafood Culinary Restaurant.

Such a cute ensemble outside the restaurant I couldn’t resist snapping a pic!!!

My friend and her husband invited me to this culinary restaurant for dinner because there is a meeting that night about the Monspace investment scheme. 

Basically you pay upfront RM6.000 and you will get msp2500 points or Monspace points plus 10,000 msp which equals 125000 points for you to spend online at their online store.

Rm6000 in 2018 which is 12500 map points will translate to RM25000 if 12500 multiplies 0.50 USD equals to 62500usdxrm4.00 ...

So I asked my friend whether I could take out my RM25000. now?

You can google this scheme and also the founder Jessy Lai.  She is big in China and China even issued a set of limited edition stamps which is open for collection to a select few. 

While I have not invested my rm6000 yet ....

Hajrah's Wedding 16 September 2017

On 16 september 2017 I went to my student Hajah's wedding.

 This is my food, it was buffet at One City, Puchong. 

 While eating, the bride and groom walked down the red carpet.

Then I noticed her grand skirt which had gigantic roses!

 Wow!!! such elaborate swathes of cloth that were made to look like giant roses! 

 Met my ex convent Peel Road teachers at the wedding.

 Went to the VIP table to take close up with the bride.

 My teachers and the bride.

 Close up of Hajrah.

 Going back, we took lots of pics just because the walkway was elaborate and picture worthy!

 

 Also had fun at the photobooth!!!! Fun Wedding!!!