My Thai Love Affair

Sa-wat dee ka! How was your week? 

Can I be honest with you? Since last week, I've been stuffing my face with delicious Thai food every chance I get. In my ideal perfect world, it would be Thai food today, tomorrow and every day. Period. I'm so in love with Thai cuisine *for now*. Exotic flavors I just can't get enough of. 

Unlimited Yakiniku

When you're a recent graduate, you get eager to start hunting down job opportunities and sending out your resumes to your long list of well-known companies thinking that they can provide better for you. You pass off smaller companies because you think they lack potential. By doing that, you just might end up overlooking some of the best opportunities out there. 

South African Trip: Shakaland

the group

Once upon a time, a little lady traveled to a land far far away

Where the sun was harsher and way hotter in that part of the world.

Vast lands stretch on and on to the horizons. 

The animals run free and wild.

In that land, she saw some people that are fair. 

Some with the same shade as her, though they are few and rare.

Many possess a darker, richer skin color.

All living together as one nation

The little lady felt out of place in such a strange country.

She didn't belong. She stood out like a sore thumb.

But through these friends, she gained a unique insight of some of this nation's proud culture and tradition.

Paris, Je t'aime 2: Château Vaux-le-Vicomte

Day 2 in Paris 
Did you know that this smaller baroque style french mansion inspired the more famous, much grander Château de Versailles? 

The Story...

The chateau was constructed for Nicholas Fouquet, the finance minister of King Louis XIV, by three very talented men - legendary landscape architect Andre Le Nôtre, architect Louis Le Vau and the painter Charles Le Brun. These three men did such an amazing job at building this masterpiece, where Fouquet often threw the most lavish parties, that Louis XIV became immensely jealous he had Nicholas Fouquet arrested and exiled for embezzlement. Driven by his envy and his desire not to be outshined by anyone, he then brought together the very same team to build Versailles on a much grander scale to the southwest of Paris. 

Perfect Hangout and Good Grubs at Irie

Irie Gastropubliko is owned and operated by business partners, Lito Inso and Jan Rodriguez, who also happens to be the executive chef of both Ila Puti and Irie. The restaurant is named after Rodriguez's second son, Euan Irie. In Jamaica, Irie means "good vibes and feeling happy or cool".