Copenhagen, Denmark business trip from 22/09/2008 - 29/09/2008 (Part 2)

On the first evening we reached Copenhagen 23rd October 2008, Winston invited us for a dinner. He brought us to this restaurant..Brede Spisehus..







Notice that there was a baby stroller outside the restaurant..
If there was no baby in it, it is no surprise.
What surprised me was..there was a real baby inside.
Winston told us that is Danish's culture of rapping up the baby and let him/her in the stroller outside..regardless of cold or hot weather. The parents just went into the restaurant and dined.
Gosh!! The weather tat evening was very cold.
I couldn't believe the parents had actually done that.


The first day working at TIA office, I looked out at the window, saw a deer in the sky.
I was thinking, this must be a Santa Claus's reindeer put up for X'mas celebration.
Who knows..




When I walked pass a car show room next to TIA office, I saw this car brand..Aagesen Bileras. I realized the so called Santa Claus's reindeer is actually a logo for this car brand..:P






Flowers flowers flowers..Can we get some nice and fresh flowers arnd town? Nt likely?
We do have florist here selling nice flowers..bt nt very fresh I think..due to our M'sia weather.
I found these flowers at a shop on one morning while I was waiting at Holte station for another bus to get to TIA office.
Very fresh and attractive..




We have chrysanthemum tea at M'sia.
I found sth similar to it at Copenhagen, TIA office.
When I drank it, it tastes thicker than local chrysanthemum tea.
So, we called it "Guai Lou Kuk Fa Cha"..in Cantonis.

The bottle on the most right is "Guai Lou Kuk Fa Cha".
The bottle in the middle is apple juice.
The bottle on the left is so called..Ribena..as Siew drank it and commented it tastes like Ribena.



Copenhagen is using the 'Zoner" concept for bus ride.
Convenient stores do sell "Clip Card (bus ticket)" of 2 to 7 zoners..as what I observed.
From station A to C, if you need to change bus at station B, meaning it is 2 zoners. So, when you get on a bus at station A, you clip one time.
The time u get on the bus will be printed on the "Clip Card".
You drop at station B waiting for another bus.
When the bus reaches, you hop up and show the bus driver your clip card to indicate that you had already clipped at your 1st station.
Siew bought "Clip Card" of 2 zoners on the day we reached Copenhagen, 23rd October 2008.




This is the front part of Birkerod hotel.
Taken at the bus station opposite it while Siew and I were waiting for our bus.








Breakfast is served at Birkerod hotel.
Coffee, tea, milk, juices (apple & orange), cakes, fruits, cereal, danish pastry, wholemeal bread, ham, bacon, salami, cheese..YUM YUM!!
Oh ya, they serve this: goose liver...Danish's fav..which they spread it on the pastry or bread.
Who dares to try? I tried a small bit of it, couldn't take it.
The taste is extremely raw, becoz it is served raw..taste like raw chicken liver.

























This is my daily breakfast at Copenhagen: a cup of coffe, apple juice, wholemeal bread/danish pastry, cheese, ham, smoke bacon and salami.





This is a smaller room which the boss of Bikerod hotel gave us on our second nite.
It is near to the receptionist and restaurant.


























These photos below show the room which Siew and I stayed for the first nite at Bikerod hotel.
We requested for a room near to receptionist, but the boss said it was fully book for the nite.
So, he let us stayed at a room with kitchen, living hall, dining tbl and tv.
It is an apartment, to be exact.

Copenhagen, Denmark business trip from 22/09/2008 - 29/09/2008 (Part 1)

This is a church, if nt mistaken. :P
Taken on the afternoon we reached Copenhagen, 23rd October 2008.

According to Winston (our M'sian friend at TIA), at the end of this lake, there's a castle which is lived by the King's brother.

Hi All,

I'm posting this while on biz trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, with my product manager, Siew.

Finally reached Copenhagen airport, 23rd October 2008.
Siew was bz taking photos.
This was one which she took.

Departure..Transit..Arrival
I departed from KLIA using KLM Royal Dutch Airlines at 23:30 (supposed to be departed at 23:10, but slight delay). It was an 11 hrs flight to reach Amsterdam, Holland. There are gift shops at Amsterdam Airport, but the thing is, everything is calculated in Euro. Expensive!! Not long after that, we boarded another smaller plane to Copenhagen. It was a 1 to 2 hr flight. Touching down at Copenhagen airport, we got our luggages and I changed my USD100 to 417.50 Kroners. Then, we took a cab down to Birkerod town where our hotel is.

Time Zone..The time here in Denmark is 6 hrs behind M'sia time. Thats y Darling and I can't have time to chat online so often as when I online after dinner, Darling will be sleeping soundly. When I'm having my lunch, Darling's having his dinner.

Weather here fluctuates like stock exchange..hehe..sometimes cold, sometimes warm, but not as warm as back in M'sia, when the wind blows, I'm still shivering..gotta bring my jacket with me all the time.

Toking abt food, mostly everything here is served cold..cold meat, salad, etc..They do have hot food tho..I only try local food during my breakfast and lunch session. As for dinner, I take my AMWAY replacement meals, which is called positrim (actually it can help in slimming, thats y i opt for it..hehe..), and I mixed it with Protein in berry taste. The mixture tastes like yogurt. YUMMY!!

These photos were taken while Siew and I were waiting for our bus.
This is Holte Station.

Traffic here is smooth all the time as we are in a small town out of Copenhagen city. Ppl here are very environmental friendly. They cycle. The gov actually build cyclist land with small traffic lights. When you're walking on the street, gotta watch out for bicycles. If they bang you, not them, but you're getting into trouble..hehe..

Siew managed to grab a photo of the cyclist traffic light for me.
Did you c the small traffic light on the left of the photo above?

This is a closer shot of the cyclist traffic light.
There's a bicycle sign above the red light.

Siew and I had to take buses to TIA office everyday. Altho we were quite clumsy the first day, we were getting better..hehe..

This photo was taken when we arrived TIA office.
Boss, this is a proof that I did arrive at TIA office..hehe..


An odd photo of me showing the PEACE sign.
Y I mentioned odd? Becoz I seldom do it in my photos.

Siew was saying "Wah! Jerrin hardworking. So serious in work."
Padahal, I was there choosing which movie to download..hahahahaha..:P
Don't think of me as lazy, I got do my work ok..

Lets tok abt working environment..
My co partner, TIA, has a new and huge office equipped with facilities like kitchen with chef to prepare breakfast, lunch and even dinner (dinner cost on staff and deducted thru salary) for staff. Soft drinks, juices, smoothies and hot drinks are available 24-7. They even have their own gym room and sauna. All the staff are well taken care of. Great! Thats what we want in M'sia, don't we?

Working environment here is so relaxing and flexible. The staff come in early and may leave early at the end of the day. Every Friday, they off as early as 4pm. Altho their working hrs are flexible, they are indeed very productive.

This is receptionist desk in TIA office.

Photo taken on 26th September 2008, the last day working at TIA office.

I'm still trying to get used to local time zone altho I'm already here for few days.
I'm quite tired at the end of the day and only crave for some sleep.
I miss my Darling a lot and we tok on the phone everyday.
I checked my hp bill last nite and rough calculation showed that my bills is more than rm600..ooopppsss!! My allowance is solely for my hp bills I guess.. :P

This photo is taken beside The Little Mermaid, 28th October 2008.
Copenhagen is famous of this Little Mermaid statue.
There's a story behind it, if not wrong.
Altho I didn't get to the real statue, I got a photo of myself with The Little Mermaid at Copenhagen airport.

We found a booth displaying 2 sports cars.
To win these cars, we gotta buy air tickets..I couldn't remember tickets to where..

I can't find any gift/sourvenir shops arnd Birkerod.
One of TIA staff, Winston (he's M'sian, but has been abroad for many yrs), told me I can get souvenirs from shops in a town called Lyngby (which they read as "Lumbu" locally). The problem is, what bus to get me there?

This is a dbl deck plane which we took from Amsterdam to KLIA.
Similar to the one we took from KLIA to Amsterdam.

~Jerrin~

Malacca Trip - 30/8/2008 to 1/9/2008

Few months ago, Darling and I decided to go Malacca for satay celup and chicken rice balls.
We booked Mimosa Hotel, which is located in the mid of Malacca city..I guess..
FYI..

Room rate: RM98 per nite
Surchage for peak season: RM40
Breakfast
inlcuded.
Chech this out: http://www.mimosahotel.com/

But few days b4 the trip, both of us were considering whether or not to procede with the trip.
Short conversation between both of us on Thursday morning, which is 28/08/2008, while we on our way to office..(actually this conversation had been repeating for the past few days..mon, tues, wed..we really couldn't make up our mind..)

Me: Darling, so how? Still want to go or nt?
Darling: I'm ok one. See you only.
Me: I ching chai one. I see you only. I know you want to go one..
Darling: So how?
Me: I go Malacca only to eat satay celup and chicken rice balls nia. I
let u decide.
Darling: I anything. What you think?

After several minutes of po po ma ma conversation..finally...

Me: Aiyah..go lah..go lah..so susah..

Malacca, here we come!!

We started driving at 1++pm on saturday, 30/8/2008.
The weather is damn hot..
Darling kept on wiping his sweat..
Darling's old junk (hahahaha..sorry Darling, it's jsut a joke..) couldn't be any faster..
A lot of cars..super fast..passed us by..
We chit chat..lol on silly topics..ate lays..listened to Tommy Page's songs (I don't really like his songs, but Darling loves them..hhmmm..)..

Malacca has few things similar to my hometown, Kuching..
1. lots of traffic lights
2. Old shops
3. Places you want to go are within walking distance..perhaps..

We reached Malacca at nearly 4pm.
Mimosa Hotel's parking lots are full of cars.
We got no parking lot, so Darling parked beside 2 cars..of cz, we ensured that we din block the 2 cars beside.
We checked in and rest a while..

I told Darling we had to go early for satay celup, if nt, we gotta wait for our turn.
So, at 4:15pm, we walked all the way to Restaurant Capitol..famous of its satay celup.
When we reached there, the shop had yet to open.
Darling blamed me for reaching early..

Walking under hot sun..we were thirsty..
Found one soya bean stall opposite, we both walked across the street to get ourselves 1 cup of soya bean mix with cincau each..recommended by the uncle, stall owner..altho we already knew the mixture of soya bean and cincau.
In fact, we already bought 1 pack of soya bean and 2 cans of cincau the nite b4.

We enjoyed our drink at the seats prepared by the uncle.
Chit chat with him, we found that Singaporeans don't like to eat satay celup..u know y?
HYGIENE is the main reason.
I dunno how true it is..coz I found from other websites which mentioned Singaporeans like satay celup.

We saw a group of 7 ppl walking towards Restaurant Capitol.
I quickly informed Darling to wait in front of the shop.
We were the first to reach, I didn't want us to be the last to get table..
We both walked to the pet shop next door.
Lotsa rats in a cage, damn smelly..
Darling went into the shop..looking at those pretty fish..

As we saw more ppl waiting outside the restaurant, we walked over and wait.
Nearly 10mins later, the shop opened.
We got the inner most table.
In few secs, all the tables were occupied..
Some ppl are left standing outside, waiting for their dinner.

The restaurant increased the price for per stick of food.
Darling recalled that previously rm0.60 was charged per stick.
Now they charge rm0.70.
I took lotsa prawns..hehe..kangkung, meat ball "bak yi", a plate of toufu, bird eggs..hhmm..wat else..
Darling took all his favourite.."tau ki".
We both ate 43 sticks.
In total, we paid RM30++.

After dinner, we walked to the fruit stalls opposite our hotel.
Bought a kilo of longan, then back to hotel for a rest.
At 7sth, we walked to jonker walk.
There are a lot of ppl and stalls selling accessories, cakes, biscuits, keropok, drinks, food..etc.
The first stall is a "qi-gong" demo. From the poster hanging at his stall, I guess it is sth like an old man capable of breaking bricks using his bare hand..
Walked till the end of the street, there are some 30 to 50 of age hot mamas dancing in pop songs.
Wow!!
A great experience tho..
As we didn't feel like spending much, so, we walked back to hotel with 2 pieces of local made kuih..hehe..
Back to hotel, Darling finished his lays in jsut few mins!! Surprised me!!

The next day, we both woke up at 8++am to catch ourselves some breakfast prepared by the hotel.
Normal breakfast: Nasi lemak, hokkien mee, fried eggs, potato wedges, hotdogs, toast, porridge, coffee, tea, orange juice and soya bean.

After a heavy breakfast, we took an umbrella and 2 hand towels, wore our sport shoes, we walked all the way to Dataran Pahlawan and Malacca Parade..2 shopping malls nearby..we passed by Christ Church, Stadthuys, a military museum with big military ship, a huge pirate ship..
We din pay a visit inside as it incurred charges.
Perhaps next round of Malacca trip, we will..

Round and round the 2 shopping malls..nth much..we walked back to hotel.
On the way back, we walked along a river.
From far, I noticed something swimming in the river below the bridge (I couldn't recall the bridge name)..
Then I heard some kids shouting "Snakes! Snakes!"
We both walked closer, saw a four legged snake swimming across the river.
A bunch of ppl nearby, including us, looked at the "snake" till it moved into a small drain.

Reached hotel, we slept the whole afternoon.
At 6++pm, we went for dinner at jonker walk..Famosa Chicken Rice Ball..
This shop gives no flexibility in certain orders.

Eg 1:
fish ball and wanton.
Stated in menu: fish ball rm0.60 per piece; wanton rm0.60 per piece.
We wanted to order 6 pieces of fish ball and wanton each.
But the waitress told us we couldn't order this way.
She claimed that if we wanted to have a mixture of fish ball and
wanton, we had to order 10 each. --> 1st drawback

Eg 2:
Chicken rice ball.
I couldn't rmbr how much per ball.
We wanted to order 6 chicken rice ball.
The waitress again told us we couldn't order this way.
She told us the minimum chicken rice ball to order is 10. --> 2nd drawback

How can 2 persons finish 10 rice balls??
Anyway, we ordered normal plate of chicken rice...SPOIL THE MOOD only! y?
Cz my main intention going to Malacca is to eat satay celup and chicken rice balls.
Seriously, if not becz of the food pictures posted outside the door, we won't have try it.
We ordered fried pork "siu yok" RM6, 1/4 roasted chicken RM8, 1/4 steamed chicken RM8, 1 bowl of toufu soup RM6, 1 ice lemon tea rm2, 3 plates of rice RM1.30 each..total=RM33.90..
The "siu yok" was not crispy enuf.

Recommended chicken rice ball: Restaurant Chung Wah --> located on the right of the bridge..not far from jonker walk.

After dinner, we walked out of jonker walk, back to hotel.
We finished our second packet of lays.

Darling: I feel like want to eat chips lah..
Me: Har!
Darling: After finish this lays, we go down buy lah..

We looked around and found one supermarket.
We went up up up..to the top level...found NOTHING!!
A supermarket that only sells men and women clothing and house hold groceries..but no food section.
We found a bakery..nth much in there..we only bought a packet of keropok.
On the way back, we saw a stall selling "cha kueh"..looks tasty, we bought a packet..rm3.50.
We enjoyed the "cha kueh" after our bath..not bad.

But kesian..Darling fell sick.
After brushing his teeth, Darling felt cold and covered himself under the blanket.
His forehead was really hot.
I put a wet hand towel on his forehead..hugged him till he almost fell asleep..kesian Darling..mmmmwahhh!!

The next day, Darling was feeling fine.
We got up for our breakfast.
Again, we had a heavy breakfast.
Breakffast served: fried rice, fried bihun, sweet sour chicken, fried eggs, potato wedges, cucur udang, toasts, porridge, orange, coffee and tea.

After breakfast, we headed back to our room.
Did some packings..then watched tv and read newspapers.
At 11:45am, we checked out and headed back home.

**Too bad we had yet to purchase a digi cam. If not, we will have taken and posted lotsa photos here..perhaps we'll have a digi cam b4 the next round of Malacca trip. :D

~Jerrin~