This year, 2008, FHA (Asia's largest International Food and Hospitality Event) was held in Singapore Expo. We were too lucky to have a boss who always think that his team should always get some exposure to stay creative. He allowed 5 of us to visit the expo! I really thank God to have this good boss. Hehehe..... To save cost, we offer to take a train instead of flight, and 5 persons squeezing into two rooms.
It has been a long time since I never take a train, especially the night train with bed. We took a 9.15pm train from KL central and reached Singapore on 8.30am. The beds were clean and I would say nothing much to be complained of except the lady in the next bed chatting on her phone loudly late at night trying to sell insurance I guess... It was really annoying! One of my friends who was awaken by her loud voice tried to indicate her to stop talking by making SHHHH sound a few times but in vain. She kept on talking like what the advertisement shown before the movie started in a cinema which says "many people looking at me but I don't care... wa TAIKO ma...."!
We checked in our luggage at Peninsular Excelsior Hotel and went to the expo straight away. The receptionist had made a mistake on our booking. Instead of booking two rooms, they only reserve one for us. At the end, they offer us one room in Peninsular tower and the other in Excelsior tower! .....
There were all together 7 halls of exhibition and it tooks us 2 days to finished visiting only most of the booths skipping the booths exhibiting wine and hall no 4 which exhibited utensils for hotels. My friend and I have the same thought that we might broke people's plates or glasses if we visit hall no 4 by carrying around the huge paper bag given! Ha ha!
The 1st Barista Championship. BT and I manage to catch-up John's (one of the participants') performance.
Ice cream! I have fallen in love with the Pistachio ice cream during this visit! Walnut ice cream was nice too but still could not beat Pistachio!
These chefs were so professional, both in term of cooking and promoting their products!
Picture shows one of the swimming pool in Peninsular Excelsior Hotel, Singapore. I wonder there is anyone who would like to swim in this "aquarium swimming pool"! The swimming pool is situated next to the lobby lounge, and it's transparent! Swimming in it would make me feel like giving a free show to the hotel guests sitting in the lobby lounge. What a "sexy" swimming pool.
The beauty of Singapore.
The night scene was eye-capturing.
My colleagues and I. The only photo taken with all 5 of us was the one with our shoes (on top). Ha ha...
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