3 cheers 4 spring! Hong Kong cafe style

on the move

folks, as my time in the uk draws to a close in the coming months, the blog is migrating (not unlike me), please take a look here moving forward : )

http://mickmoi.blogspot.com/

so much easier to remember itn'tit?

let the games begin!

15 by Jaime Oliver

A recent outing with me and some ladies in my programme. Antipasto, Mirka, Leticia and Beth.
A cool cause for some HR kids to support, mmm mmm and as a Jaime Oliver creation...delicious, as always.



The purpose of Fifteen is to inspire disadvantaged young people to believe that they can create for themselves a career in the restaurant business. We have had 37 young people graduate and many of them are now working full time in some of the world's best restaurants.

It is now three years since Channel Four's show, 'Jamie's Kitchen' followed the trials and tribulations of Jamie's attempts to open a restaurant and create chances for young people. It has been 36 months of tremendous ups and downs. We are now supporting our fourth group of young people - all of them unemployed when we recruited them, many of them homeless or in care, others living with learning difficulties.

All profits from Fifteen go to the Fifteen Foundation (the charity formerly known as Cheeky Chops), to provide these young people with the working environment in which to expand their knowledge and practical experience.

yea yea great pics but so how is SCHOOL going....?

I've been asked, hmm...to be honest we only just handed in our first piece of work after the December break so until now I could have told you that, "well I'm reading and learning a lot, think that the faculty and fellow students are great, was nominated to the faculty liaison committee...and that all seems to be going pretty well so far as I can tell...???"

but I have at last an update:

"The marking scheme is as follows for our assessed writings:

70 or more Distinction

60-69 Merit

50-59 Pass

40-49 Fail

39 or less Bad Fail"


Lore had it that it was rather unheard of to get over a mark of 72...


Today I got my paper back: 74, yay : ))

sunset in bkk

from the ultra modern traffic indicators, to the baby elephants on the sidewalk, it's a city like no other...

the grand palace

is truly grand, Troy took me on my first weekend, it's really amazing

the cliffs of pattaya

and the lovely sheraton resort was our brief refuge on a weekend away, 2 hour drive or a $2 bus trip (2.5hrs) gets you there...the room was a tad bit more, you know when you are quoted in US dollars - ur in trouble.

what a city

from the over 2000 7/11 stores in Bangkok alone...you come to appreciate the many wonderful things around almost every corner...

food, oh the food...

from my favorite noodle place (crispy pork and fresh crab over noodles), to dining outside in loungey excellence on xmas, to pad thai made to order (35 cents, 20 with no egg), and fresh bbqd fish (yes I have the recipe corey), the pappaya salad lady, and well to even elephants who prefer street food and order to go...

a tuk tuk

is a 3 wheelie type of craft for those not familiar with the term...now Mark was a little apprehensive after I told him the story of a driver doing a wheelie the night before for the 3 corpulent corn fed dudes in the back of one outside of my hotel, but we kept all three on the ground for our Christmas day tour with Mark's friend Ek, the driver seems to have had even more fun than we did if that's possible!

night market comes to life

they put it up and tear it down every night, amazing work and an amazing shopping experience

The Dome on top of BKK

Paul and Ning took me to the fabu Sirocco bar....haha everyone wanted to take me there. You can see, it's not a place you would get tired of...64th floor, going....up!

Mates!

from my friend and classmate Paul and his lovely Ning, to Troy, Brian and Mark I had lots of friends in BKK when I was there, luckyme.

dinner in samet

from cockle shells (my fav new shellfish) to comfy cushions...and the waitstaff...you could spend hours and hours under the moon light without a care in the world...

Koh Samet

Leaving Koh Samet

it was a sad time, I wasn't happy to go, Bri slept in denial, and the driver....well the driver does this route so many times a day....he could have done it with one leg tied behind his back.