Siam Niramit Journey to the Enchanted Kingdom of Siam

The fascinating journey of Thai culture  is not just spectacular but truly entertaining. The Siam Niramit show, adjacent to the Thai National Cultural Center, on Rachadapisek Road. The Siam Niramit show is segmented into journey motifs-into the land of religion, culture and the consciousness of life after death. The concept that their offering in this show is full of excitement and magnificence. The ways they combine  technologies in creating the effects are mostly surprising. At a glance it reminded me of the performance of The Legend of Kungfu Show at Red Theater in Beijing, China.  Comparing the both shows, from the story side, I've better like the one that they perform in Kungfu Show rather than in Siam Niramit. Perhaps it might be just because most  the Thai culture especially about their daily life is nearly same with what we have in Indonesia as we are in the same region in Southeast Asian and  most of the countries have similarity in culture. Far more I also found the similarities when they performed  the judgment in the Hell in Buddhist perspective with the ones that we have  in Islam perspective. However, the whole scenes in the show are entertaining and wonderful. Don't miss it when visiting this country to spend time  relaxation instead of going  to Thai massage. The ticket for this show is around 1400-1500 Bhat (depend on the agent) and if including dinner it is around 1700-1800 Bhat. Cheers and enjoying your time in Bangkok, the fascinating city. 

Just a Moment Before Went Back

Finally we closed the workshop on 31 at noon. Finally we can go back home, and just a moment before leave to the airport, we had a chanced visiting Tanjung Pesona Beach which is just 25 minutes from the inner city to refreshing our self after the hard work in workshop. The beach here is quite different with other beach in Indonesia. It is more natural and with a different texture of white sand with other beach even comparing to the beaches in Bali.

Even just for some minutes here, i can feel so relax and enjoying the fresh air and the sound of waves. I intend to go back here such as to Parai beach or Tanjung Pandan beach in Belitung that have more wonderful view and more convenience for vacation.

Just wish have a chance for vacation here and try to relieve from the hectic life soon.

Calypso Cabaret Show

Tonight we go to Calypso Cabaret Show which is performing lady boys at Asia Hotel Bangkok. Just want to know how is the famous cabaret show in Bangkok and finally i understand why it is so great. The player are so professionals and it is more than an ordinary lip sing. They do that professionally. They really know the lyric and the way sing it so perfect. The story are also great which is consist of many aspect in life such as criminal, corruption, love and culture that coming from many countries such as Korea, Japan and Latino. The song that they provide in more than one hour performance are so great. And far more the Lady Boys look like more women than women it self. So amazing how they change their self become like that and they even can live and earning from their weakness become something that full of arts if we can see it with another point of view without seeing their weakness and far more judge them for their choice to live like that. With 800 bath you can watch the beautiful art performances of lady boys. Here are some of clips and pictures that we can take during the show.

Updating Flight Schedule and Go Around Manila

We are getting afraid that our flight will be canceled tonight due to the eruption of Merapi volcano. As i updated with the information from the news last night that all flight from and to abroad were canceled. Still try to keep updating the statue of the flight until now..wish nothing happen then. Just want to go home as soon as possible. There was no any alert from the official website of Philippines Airlines, so let's go to Manila....

We spent most of our time around Manila since our flight will be on 8.55pm, so just go around the city then. The first place we stopped is Makati Mall. Here, we planed to find some of souvenirs and dried mangoes again. We had our lunch here also, we bought a lot of things here and surprising that we shopped a lot here. From the Makati we went to the inner city and old church again. Just looked around for some minutes here and toke some pictures.

We looked at the watch and still have time for early dinner, so we decided went to of of the big mall in the world. Mall of Asia, this mall is the 4th of the biggest mall in the world. But this time we just pass by, have early dinner and took some pictures again.

I just recognize that today is Sunday and that's no wonder the mall was crowded. So many people here, and  we really can feel the environment of Christmas here. Don't have much idea about the menu for dinner so decided just go to KFC. Well surprising also that this place so crowded and finally i have new experience enjoying the meals in KFC on standing position with some of my friends. From this place, we directly went to the airport and waiting for our flight back to Jakarta. C u Philippines....

Refreshing Our Self

After working for some days here, we had a chance went for sightseeing.  We went on 8 in the morning to the Park of National High School of Art in Los Banos. It was a wonderful place, clean, fresh, arrange natty, and on the up of hill. We can see a nice view of Laguna Lake and a part of Manila on the top of this park. Just few minutes there we decided went back to the room to pick up our friends. The next place to stop is Liliw town. This is a little town where most of people here living from shoes industry. It was a nice town, quite clean and the people there are friendly also. 

Along the street you can find many shoes stores, but I didn’t intend to buy any here so just have a look and walk for stretching. We spent more than two hours here and we were looking for lunch then. We found a unique Italian restaurant where they have a low roof. It’s a small restaurant but so many people come here and so I assume that the food here must be not bad. The tastes of spaghetti bolognaise and green mango shake was not bad. From the place, we went to the icon of this town which  is an old building of church named "St. John The Baptist Parish". 

This church built on 1605 SM  and has a unique habit where as when people come to this church for praying, they provide many candles which is consist of 7 different color. So people who come here have to bark the candle based on color. Each color represent the purpose of the pray itself , such as blue for wisdom.

We went to supermarket to buy things.then. We buy some dried mangoes for our colleagues at the office.

Not much that I can’t find much here, so just buys some and the rest was just window shopping as well. However getting around here quite exciting, especially with the hospitality of or colleague in SEAMEO SEARCA. Thanks to them....