Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Planning Ahead


Just an idea........



Morning After Thrill

Surefire Hangover Remedies

Bartender, Make It a Double
Our favorite hair-of-the-dog remedy is a variation on the bloody Mary: Swap vodka for a light beer (we prefer Corona) and you have a bloody beer. Keep the vodka and add an egg, it’s a red eye. (Visine optional.)
On the Rocks
You prefer your poison over ice, but when you wake up feeling like a ship that hit an iceberg, take a cold plunge. Whether it’s in Lake Tahoe or on Ocean Beach, the shock to your system will refresh your senses. Down a gallon of water infused with Emergen-C and you’ll be riding the waves in no time.
Garnishes
Pizza and Mexican with a side of fries? Yum. But what you should be blending in your tummy is a banana shake. A potassium-rich smoothie will hydrate your body and coat your stomach faster than you can reach for the Pepto. Plus, the magnesium alleviates that throbbing headache.
Shaken, Not Stirred
After a nap, head to the gym or, if you’re feeling ballsy, aBikram yoga class. Sweating out the booze and stimulating your circulation is a surefire detox. You may spend the 90-minute class plotting our death, but we promise you’ll thank us afterward.
Cheers!
(from Daily Candy San Francisco)

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Holiday Eating

small acorns  provided this smile....




No problem with holiday 'eatathons' around here, loving her sandles too!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Balloons for the Holidays will make you smile!

Our main shopping mall here in  Phuket, Central Festival decorated for Christmas with balloons this past weekend. It is colourful and fun with a mix of a tropical fish motif edged with traditional Christmas icons. I am not sure about the giant octopus Santa but?Surfing the net I discovered a throughly sophisticated take with balloons. Shanghai Tang's Holiday Catalogue is the best balloon colour and design of the moment! The NYC design agency chandelier creative are the fabulous group behind this gorgeous spread. The colours are brilliant! Note how their catalogue will last through ALL the holiday seasons through to Chinese New Year which of course is much bigger around in Phuket and surrounds then our Western Christmas and New Year.
























Monday, November 2, 2009

Loy Krathong Festival

It is already here today! What with all the posts I was reading about Halloween, I forgot what was happening right in my own backyard.

Loy Krathong is held every year on the full moon of twelfth lunar month, it always seems to arrive just after the monsoon winds change direction and the rains lessen. We are all celebrating Loy Krathong throughout Thailand today. “Loy” is a raft made of section of banana tree trunk, beautifully and elaborately decorated with folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, and three-incense sticks. People either construct their own or purchase them at the many roadside stands that pop up for the day. You make a wish, light the candles and joss sticks and launch the little rafts out to sea or down the river.

Tonight under the full moon, many people will release a small raft like this on a river or into the sea. In addition, fireworks and beauty contests take place during the festival. All the girls and women are dressed in  very elaborate traditional dress. The floating away of the candle raft is symbolic of letting go of all one’s grudges, sins, anger and defilements, then one can start life afresh on a better foot.

Small notes are often attached as offerings:


The children make humbler versions:





Clustered together they really create a pretty sight at twilight.