4 Star Park Hotel Brasilia Review  

Posted by: Hazwan Hashim in ,

Summer is coming soon, so I guess vacation, bikini, beach and sunscreen must be running in and out of your mind, no? If so, let me give me you a suggestion of an awesome place in southern Europe. Italy – a home turf for the famous car-maker Ferrari, world champion football team, Azzuri, Venice city and what-else-not, is a place you should never miss in your itinerary list. I got you a great news, buddy. If you ever crave for Italian pampers and elegant, and dreaming of waking up to the chill breeze and whisper of Adriatic Sea, Park Hotel Brasilia, Veneto is the place you should check out this summer, like seriously.

PARK HOTEL BRASILIA

Located within a walking distance to the main shopping street, on the East of Lido di Jesolo, Hotel 4 Stelle Jesolo caters almost anything its cherished guests can ever wish for; you can choose to shop-till-you-drop and or you can sunbath and get yourself tanned the natural way at the hotel’s private beach, exclusively available for its treasured guests. Not just that, Park Hotel Brasilia is also equipped with 2 units of swimming pools and Jacuzzi for the guest to enjoy pastime to the fullest.




Swimming pools (p/s: crocodile isn't part of the promotion.lol)

Hotel Jesolo Lido has 4 types of room for you to choose for, which are Suite room, Family room, De Luxe room and Classic room. The rich of choices show how solemn this hotel wants to serve their very best to suit your cut and heel. The family room is so spacious it could even fits 5 people in a room! Which means, my whole family can just check-in and stay within one room and yet have our own space to move around. How awesome is that huh? It is fully equipped with air conditioning, Pay TV and satellite channels, kettle, safe box, kettle, hairdryer, and thank-god-it’s-WIFI.Gosh, I think there’s nothing else more that you could request from them! Phewh, I couldn’t imagine how I would live without internet access nowadays. I wonder since when I’m so dependent on internet.. Not to be missed, the room comes with kitchenette perfectly prepared with utensils and what not, and best features of all, it is separated from the night zone.

You must be wondering and curious to know how much it all cost for those rooms, right? Help your self by clicking here. Rates of the respective rooms are available on the left panel.

With two terraces facing the Adriatic Sea front, Junior Suite is the room I would splash my cash for; say I be given 100 grand dollars from the sky to spend this summer. (For the record, everyone know it is just a day dream lol) This suite features classy furnishing and textiles finish, and of course air conditioning, personal coded safe box, hair dryer and TV to suit guest’s exclusive soothe and extravagance. Imagine what would I do say I’d be given such room. I would throw a la MTV party and I’ll invite cool friends and close ones and dance the night away to the breeze of Adriatic Sea.Oh my, what a nice dream. Please, would anyone slap me right on my face so I wont be dreaming nomore.. Price list for Junior Suite is available on Hotel Jesolo Lido website and thanks to me, you can just click here.

That isn’t all, refined Ipanema restaurant is a dining spot where you wanna sip you drinks and delight your appetite with their list of salivating Venetian and International cuisines and beverages. So, let's have a sneak peek on how it looks like, or else kindly click the link here.

Crave for a fine & fancy dining?
Ipanema Restaurant will impress you with its spectacular cuisines and beverages!


All in all, if I were still in the middle of nowhere on where to go this summer, Hotel Jesolo would probably be my top priority. After all, I’m pretty sure I deserve complimentary service from Park Hotel Brasilia for featuring the hotel in my website. I hope so. Hehe..

Well,anyway enjoy your holiday and don’t miss out my next post, promise. Till then. Ciao!

**Pictures are courtesy of TripAdvisor and Park Hotel Brasilia

F1 Malaysian Grand Prix 2009  

Posted by: Hazwan Hashim in ,

Hi guys. this is just a short post.

For those who eager to see my take on recent F1 Malaysian GP held in Sepang international Circuit Malaysia, u can click my facebook album here
Here is my eye-candy to make u feel the heats and sensations lol



A dramatic race it was. Will update more. I promise
Stay tuned =)


Cheers,

Juan D'Lova

It's time to say Goodbye  

Posted by: Hazwan Hashim

Hold On! Hey, no guys, Im not leaving anywhere at the moment, at least not within this few weeks. *chuckles*

A’ight, let me explain it first ok? Am saying goodbye to my old gear, Acer Aspire 5044 laptop.





This chap has served me really well all this while. I learned C Programming, dating online (not to be count Facebook! Like Duh), getting connected with people, edited my photography assignments and everything. But now, with some sorts of screen display problem, overheating, wifi disability and graphic card malfunction I can’t put my scrutiny weeks on risk. So Im sending this chap back to Acer service centre in Kota Bharu and apparently my dad know someone there that can skip the bureaucratic ‘procedures’ that one has to abide before getting their laptop back in two pieces (or maybe in few pieces. lol. I don’t know)



So right now, Im using my mum’s cute laptop, which is also an ACER laptop. It’s ASPIRE 2930. I can’t deny how handy it is ‘cuz we are talking bout 12.1” WXGA LCD equipped laptop. I don’t know why my family has some kind loyalty upon ACER laptop, although my laptop turned me down and it was not the first case I’ve ever heard of such grievance.

There’s likely, I’ll get back the laptop within a month or two, and keep using it until it totally jammed out one day. OR I might move on and get a new contender/platform to suffice my current crave for faster multimedia process, portability, tight photography deadline and multitasks machine. Does anyone foresee the invasion of the ‘white’ side to my directory soon? Hoho *hint: a type of fruit ( _ _ _ _ _ )*

To photographer reader, Im not talking bout the white lenses line-up from Canon, ok.
I’m still a proud Nikon advance entry-level DSLR user though! *winks*

I can smell the iMac or MacBook making their way home, sooner or later. Only time will tell. Oh heck, I still wanna go to Bali this summer! Grrr….

MATTA Fair 2009  

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Before I go deep down, first and foremost let me credit our blogger-next-door Miss Nicole Choco-Loco for granted me with a free MEDIA pass (thanks Nicole!*hugs*) which helped me to;

i) skip long queue to get the entry pass


ii)Enjoy less hassle with all those kind of leaflets and papers which I think so wasting and so not green.


iii) Have FULL ACCESS to snap pictures around, and people threw their nicest smiles and grins to comp my pictures.


iv) Get special treatment as ‘FlyFM’ Media (dummy) as apparently I wore my FlyFM shirt which I got when I played in their BBall game last 2 years xP

Like the previous Matta Fair I attended previously, crowd are comped with a sling paper bag and lot-lot of papers that I think if I collected all of ‘em and get ‘em recycled, I will be the next Donald Trump in waste management. Lol. Let’s get over this ridiculous dream already, ok?
A’ight, let me show u what u can expect in Matta Fair when u go to such event with a media pass (and a camera hanging on your neck for addition)

1) U get extra cute pose from the exhibitors

They thought they might be featured on the first page of tomorrow’s headline, so they gave me their best shot =) Im sorry guys. Im just not the right guy.But hey, u girls featured in my blog what! hehehe
From the Land of Smiles, I bring u, the Thai exhibitors. They are cute, arent they? *winks*


2) U will be given special promotion on merchandise


Take a look at those shirts and cap. Aren’t they really fashionable? With every purchase of minimum RM10 (on cap), FireFly gave chances for their treasured customers to experience how it looks like to fly a plane simulator with the guide from FireFly technical officer

3) Bumped a friend who worked as part-timer!




What a pleasant surprise! I met my pal at FireFly holiday booth and the first phrase he said to “Hey, u look familiar. Where have we met ah?”
Duh, of course-la, we were the same conference in UM man!! Haha. What a funny conversation we had.

Actually the reason I went there was to find cheap/budget lodgings around Indonesia, specifically in Bali, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Bandung & Bogor with a free-n-easy package if there is such thing but sadly, none of ‘em suit my pocket. I mean, we are talking bout USD100++ accommodation per nite. How on earth I could afford such luxury when I only plan to spend USD600+/- for the whole 14-days trip?


The answer is very simple :-

LONELY PLANET-lah!

Thanks god I have the SEA version one. lol

p/s: SEA = South East Asia

From Petaling Street to Chandni Chowk  

Posted by: Hazwan Hashim in ,

Howdy peeps!

How's life going, aye? I am doing quite fine despite 1 more struggling week toward final exams. Phew~
The reason i came up with this title is that, im so enthralled by the multi-award gulper screen-play 'Slumdog Millionaire’, a movie revolves on the life of slum kids struggling and surviving on the challenging streets of Mumbai. It reminded me so much of Chandni Chowk and Paharganj area in Delhi when i was there.

Chandni Chowk is the place where anything ‘Made-in-China’ can be found. Seriously, ANYTHING. Cheap used handphones (they could be stolen from someone’s pocket though), electrics and electronics devices like TV, media player etc. I bet u must be wondering how big the place is, or even imagining it to look like a fancy shopping complex, like what Malaysians are rousing about, such as Low Yat Plaza, MidValley, 1Utama etc, but sadly people, IT IS NOT. Let me give you a sneak preview of how it looks like, so that u can keep it your sweet dream tonight.



Located in the bustling, jam-packed muslim-dominant area of Old Delhi, there is so much, or should I say, too much to tell bout this place. If there was a thing that caught me by surprise and left me jaw-dropping, it was the public urinate wall, and it is exclusively for guy,ONLY. Yeah, u heard me right buddy, PUBLIC URINATE WALL. In easy words, it means public toilet-la but heck, it doesn’t look like a toilet, at all!It is a wall! lol. I didn’t have guts to snap the picture the whole ‘remarkable’ creation, but these are what I found on net.



Walking around Chandni Chowk was indeed a splendid experience. I was lucky (I guess) to have the suntanned skin, since Im Malaysian, ‘cuz a brown skin there literally symbolize North Indian. So every time I passed by the row of shops, the shop-walla (shop keeper) bother me not and even if they do, they speak in Hindi, and I kept saying "Nehi" (hindi: No) regardless of anything they offer me. Ha Ha, interesting, isn’t it?



There’s another scene u should know bout this grubby yet fascinating place in the heart of Delhi. Everywhere you go, street beggars appear on every single step u take, and for they are kid, they tend to raise your sympathies by giving their 5 cents face, or touch your hand and beg for money. To decline, it would stroke my sense of humanities but if I keep giving the money, the whole thing will never hit the end, as I believed the kids are under the surveillance of a tycoon, who makes fortune from those wretched homeless street kids.


Picture is credited to MukulR


If you are lucky enough not to get caught in such situation, I bet u will never stand a chance to escape the ‘attack’ of these people, I called ‘em coconut-walla. Ha Ha.. They kept trying and bugging me to sell the uncooked, not-so-fresh coconut, which appears to be the snack for the local (I guess). My strong advice for traveler/backpacker out there, NEVER EVER TRY RAW FOODS on the street if you seriously want to avoid diarrhea or any unexpected circumstances later. The least u can do (say you are in deep-shit financial crisis and on extremely tight budget) are to find the freshly-cooked foods and boiled chai (hindi: herbal tea)
So, U might be wondering how Petaling St is related to Chandni Chowk, aren’t u? If you never been there, this is a place one can find the cheapest room in Kuala Lumpur and yet u still staying within walking distance to lively places like Bukit Bintang & KLCC.


photo is credited to http://www.kl-photos.com/

Allright, let’s see from another POV (point of view). How bout the street merchants there? Frankly, they are bloody ripping your money off. I tried going there as backpacker once before (simple shirt, short, flip-flop, camera and cap) and spoken in ‘Mat Salleh’ accent and one shop offered me a pair of fake Nike shoe for a bloody RM200. Don’t u guys know that he got the shoes from Port Klang for just RM60 +/- or even cheaper? He thought I was the fool tourist so he said it was genuine, but ‘smuggled’ one. wtF? Be aware too when u start checking out their fake goods like Gucci handbags, designer label accessories and etc ‘cuz once u start to bargain, they will jump into the game and let u play until you get the price u wanted. But if u turned down the deal, u’ll never walk back ‘alone’ and certainly, not empty handed.



Apart from that, I see that Petaling Street is a great place to check out. Foods are great, especially the Chinese cuisine selling on the street. I never had a chance to try ‘em, as I still couldn’t find the halal cook. HeHe.. So, anyone out there willing to share where can I get halal Chinese foods instead? I will credit you later in this blog, and u can keep my words. Lol
I guess that’s all for now, folk. Don’t forget to check out my next review post, MATTA FAIR. Stay tuned, ’cuz I’ll be right back after a short break =)

XoXo
Juan d’Lova