Business Trip 2016 #3 - Dubai

It's a super fast long haul trip again. I am minimizing my stay in Dubai to 4 days, inclusive two 8-hour flights. 

Staying at JW Marriott Marquis this time. 5-star. But could not get upgraded and sat in the middle of some mainland Chinese tourists in the back of the plane. 

I missed the last trip in Jan, with upgrades and limousine ride. 

Coming with 11 travel agents from Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. They are pretty nice! 

Best cocktail party at Armani Hotel ever! Nice set-up, good food, cool people! How wonderful! 

First business trip after maternity leave

This is my first biz trip after my maternity leave. Very sad to leave Megan for so many days. Luckily, i could see my family from the IP camera and I got wifi most of the time. 

I cannot thank Ah Lun more as this has been a busy week for him. He has done a wonderful job as a father. When I am back Megan is more close to him, so they must have a great time together. 

Watching him to bathe Megan one day in the car on the way to hotel

Watching him to feed Megan at 10:15pm from the hotel. 

I wish I could do this. 

I also watch Kailan sleeping in the afternoon. 

After the second or third night, I started to miss my family. What a coincidence I saw this shop in the mall. Is it so ridiculous? 

Mommy is finally back. No crying, but she's not very responsive to me. But after one morning playing with her, she's fine. 

Bonding of Daddy and daughter is strong

She keeps on rolling on our bed. Cannot stop her now. She looks so big after I am back. Amazed by her fast development!!

Megan looks like a king in this bath tub. 

Finally I am bathing her, just like the normal routine. 

2014 Business Trip #1 - Taiwan (Feb 25-28)

It was a 4-day trip taking place in late February. Staying in Le Meriden Hotel which is a nice business hotel. 

Still managed to find some fun out of the busy schedule. 

Taken in one play booth at the night market. Just got one picture from shillin night market. I did not have much food because I did not have an appetite! So interestingly no food picture. Cannot believe it. 

Bought this nemo outfit for Kailan there! 

The clothes fit but she does not look like a fish! 

The other night, we went to 上野水產 probably the latest eatery introduced in travel magazines. We were at 立食區 but quite a fun experience. 

I know its strange to have steak but this is good! 

Business Trip - Beijing (Nov 21-22)

My trip was less than 24 hours in Beijing. But our trip was quite lucky anyway, and I cannot complain. 

Lucky enough to get the visa one day before my trip. Phew!

The air pollution is not that serious than  I thought, at least I saw sunset and blue sky in my short stay

Quite lucky to have upgraded to executive floor. But they address me "Alice Chan" in the welcome card. :S

Good morning Beijing. I just realized my room is facing creative CCTV tower before I checked out. How hilarious! I did not even open the curtain last night, as I went straight to bed after client dinner

I ordered fried noodles as my breakfast but the portion is big enough for 3 girls

Finally, I am heading back to lovely Hong Kong without any flight delay. 24 hours in Beijing is long for me already, hope to get away from the dryness and dust ASAP. 

Sunset in Singapore

Captured this after work at Clarke Quay

On the way to find this famous soup shop, Song Fa! Yummy! 

2012 Business Trip #1 - Singapore (March 21-23)

It was a hectic Q1 2012. Things do not slow down for a minute. I cannot imagine that my blog was left unattended for such a long time. Finally, i got some quiet time to sit down and update my blog.

The annual mega roadshow took place on March 20 in Hong Kong and March 22 in Singapore. The Hong Kong event at The Mira was really good. Thanks to an user-friendly set up and excellent operations team, the event was ended with resounding success.

With such a great start in Hong Kong, the event in Singapore could not meet up everyone's expectation. We booked Marina Bay Sands as most of the hotels were full. However, it proved that this is a completely wrong choice. The venue is so big that you cannot mobilize the staff to complete a simple task in a timely manner. The attitude of staff is another issue. They are not helpful at all and asked for money for some really standard items we expected to be in the package.

Anyway, we learn to improve every year, and let's hope for a perfect roadshow next year.

Checking into The Mira Hong Kong on March 19 for the very first time. Just a very simple room which is good but i don't get any view of Nathan Road!!!

Genuine interests from the travel trade.

The finger food have kept them in the room for so long. :)

OK, finally checking into Marina Bay Sands. This is my view, heard that this is the new botanical garden which is not yet completed.

The room is very basic, just like many other family resorts.

The balcony was too big for me though. It's actually the 2/3 of the bedroom size.

Going out for dinner after event set up and we just happened to see the laser show at Marina Bay. It's a bonus.

OK. We kept coming back to the Marina Bay Mall for food. We had dinner at TWG there. There's no way to get a table in Hong Kong, let's dine in Singapore.

Salad for me, as it's close to 9pm.

But after having the dinner, how can we miss the dessert?!

After the event finished, we went to Chatterbox to have my favourite Chicken Rice.

The girls love this too,

On the last evening, we had dinner with client at Mozza which is a very nice and expensive Italian restaurant. The wagyu beef is really amazing. I also saw some nice tropical flowers there. Have not seen it in other places!

2011 Business Trip #5 - Singapore (Day 3)

We visited Cookie Museum in Singapore today. They cliam to be the Best Home Made Cookies in Singapore. We have tried more than 20 flavours tonight when we got there, and were served by a really nice shop lady. She told us that many of her customers are from Hong Kong, and the boss is planning to open a shop there soon.

The interesting thing is they keep on producing limited edition flavours. For example, they recently made something called "American Breakfast" and "Laksa", etc. After the tasting, i bought a can of "Bailey Strawberry" cookies. I think this is the most expensive cookies i have ever bought, because it costs me SGD48 which is equivalent to HKD317.

After our Laksa dinner tonight, we had a really nice cake from a shop called High Society. It's located in the new Marina Bay Sands Shopping Mall.