Sunday, November 8, 2009

9th November, 2009

Today's weather;

Lots of blue sky together with cloud formations and a current temp at 7am of 25.3C. The prediction for the next 7 days is sunny and no rain.
Rather a strange prediction this time of the year when we expect and also need rain to fill the water wells that most houses have on the island. Especially strange considering the fact that in the deep South of Thailand six people are killed as floods wreak havoc in seven provinces.

Yesterday saw rain in the morning and it dried up in the afternoon, still cloudy but dry! Max temp reached 27.7C.

Camille

Saturday, November 7, 2009

8th November, 2009

Today's weather;

It's raining again, just started about half an hour ago, around 6.30am. Current temp at 7am is 24.5C.

Yesterday saw lots of rain during the morning but it dried up in the afternoon with some occasional drizzle. The amount of rain was only 75.3mm afor the day. Strangely enough the weather forecast of Windguru predicts sunny skies and hardly any rain for the rest of the week, except for the current day and this seems to be move on day by day it seems like.

Max temp reached 28.7C.

Camille

Friday, November 6, 2009

7th November, 2009

Today's weather;

It's very cloudy and since 6am it's raining cats and dogs with a prediction of rain all day long for today but no rain for the rest of next week. Current temp at 7am is 25.4C.

Yesterday started out cloudy but before 8am all clouds were pretty much gone and we had a sunny day all day long. Very surprising indeed. Max temp reached 31.5C.

Camille

Mid Autumn Moon Cake Festival at Macroview Care Centre

9th October 2009


As usual, the Macroview Care Centre had their yearly event - Mid Autumn Moon Cake Festival. I will definitely won't miss this opportunity to capture the Happy Faces from the centre.

The respond from the parents were much better than previous year! Most of them came with their cameras to capture the great moment of their children.

Before the 'Show' start, everyone were busy to fill up their stomach. Foods provided by the centre and parents of the children with sincere commitment to the event A success!


The Principal cum 'DJ' of the night

And the kids were started to had some warm up exercise...


The audience of the night

The party started almost 7pm! The four young and talented MC announce the performances of the night.


He is also one of the best singer in the centre.

The decoration of the stage

Prizes for the children

This year the centre added more performance like below...

The Piano performance


The Pianist of Tomorrow!

The whole centre was quite down, because of the attractive beautiful rhythm. Everyone were so concentrate on the music...

That also prove the effort of all the teachers. Their satisfaction show with A Smile like the photo below...

The satisfaction only come after the hardwork...

Follow by the "Father & Son" performance! Same as last year. But this year, more peoples join in...

The 'Er-Hu', Violin & Piano perform together

The Solo of the master of 'Er-Hu'.

Group performance was great! They were performing The Shower Dance!

Before continue of other performance, all the teachers received the encouragement awards from the Centre.

The Teachers of the Centre

Slowly...the cute faces were entering the stage for their singing and dancing session...

These are the youngest group of the centre (above & below)


Singing session - The Best singer (left) and the girls group (right)

Group performance

Some photos of the Lovely teachers...

The moment they waited for so long, to have a break and enjoy their hardwork over the centre.


Almost about 2 hours later, here come the Rock Star where everyone were waiting desperately! His name is - Marc who is good in electric guitar.

He played 3 Rock numbers for that night.

The event was end with the Peaceful candles everywhere at the garden. And I noticed some of the parents also join their kids to 'Light' up the candles! PEACE!

This is the Mid Autumn Festival all about...

The joyful and the laughter of the children ended the show of the night! See you next year again!

Related post :-
* Macroview Care Centre, Taman Daya - Johor Bahru. (2008)





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Thursday, November 5, 2009

6th November, 2009

Today's weather;

It's cloudy this morning and no sign of sunshine with a current temp at 7 am of 28.7C.
There's a warning for 10 southern provinces, including Surat Thani for "Heavy rain and strong wind-wave" by the Thai Meteorological Department.


Yesterday was a lovely day, strong wind but sunshine all day long and no rain. A very surprising day when probably all on the island expected the monsoon to start full on. Max temp reached 30.5C.
Yesterday the current IDC was well on it's way.

Camille

Booking Phuket Hotels Online

I hope if you browse this blog you will hopefully find that Phuket is a wonderful place. My blog is mostly about the "other" Phuket, not so much the main tourist beaches, tours, shops and shows. But whether you come here for the beach, a family holiday, a honeymoon, a quick trip or a erm... "gentleman's holiday", every visitor has one thing in common. You need a place to stay! Phuket has it all. You can get a dorm bed for 200 Baht, you can rent a luxury villa, or there are guesthouses and hotels to suit all budgets. If you care to search Google for "Phuket Hotels"... you get over a million search results. There are hundreds of online hotel booking services. So how do you make a choice?! Which are good? Well, I hope that Jamie's Phuket can help in making your choice ...

Some people like to book direct with the hotel. Others prefer to book everything in a package through their local travel agent. But very often, if you want the best rates and the best choice of hotels - an online hotel booking agent can be the best choice. Over the last few years I have experimented with several hotel sites, linking to them from this blog. The blog has been online for more than 5 years and I have found one online site to beat them all ...

Agoda - maybe not such a common name in Europe or North America, but in Asia Agoda is well known, being based in Singapore. The site is well designed, very easy to use, they offer rewards when you book (equivalent to a discount on a future booking), and guarantee lowest rates. Now the site has been around for a while there are also many (sometimes hundreds) guest reviews for each hotel. Have a look!

• Agoda - Phuket Hotels
• Agoda - Thailand Hotels
• Agoda Rewards Program

Agoda is also available in many languages such as German, Japanese, Russian and many more. You'll see a language menu at the top of every page on the Agoda site.

So before you book, have a look at Agoda. Plenty more out there if you want to look, but here on Jamie's Phuket I stick with Agoda when it comes to hotel booking. If you are reading, hope you can make it to Phuket soon! Any questions about hotels, please do ask!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

5th November, 2009

Today's weather;

The sky broke open this morning and it's a surprising mixed bag of blue sky and clouds with a whooping current temp of 28.2C. There's a strong wind though.

Yesterday saw all morning long rain until just after noon. It stayed dry after but there was 125mm of rain yesterday. Max temp reached 28.2C.
All ferries to Koh Tao were cancelled two days ago, actually both the ferries, the Seatran and Lomprayah didn't leave Koh Tao due to the massive big waves on Tuesday and everybody is still stranded on Koh Tao.

Camille