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The Stockholm Inn opens “The Dessert House”

Starbucks celebrates Grand Opening on Beach Road

Internet chatting leads to Grover/Sandhu wedding

Around Town

The Stockholm Inn opens “The Dessert House”

Puts the icing on their “business cake”

Kamonlarpart (Jin) and Zindy provide service with a smile.

For those of you with a sweet tooth and a love of fine pastry, the Stockholm Inn in South Pattaya recently opened The Dessert House. This new venture is the idea of Kamonlarpart (Jin) and Eddie Jakobsen, owners of the Stockholm Inn, and is not only to expand their business but provide an opportunity for Jin’s niece, Zindy, to show her stuff. Zindy recently completed her apprenticeship in the pastry kitchens of the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok.

Zindy creates her style of pastries based on the experience she gained from the time she spent at the world famous hotel, which is known for its high standard of quality and presentation. For example, the ‘Opera’ cake comes with flakes of gold leaf on top - and lots more goodies where that came from!

The Dessert House in The Stockholm Inn is open daily.

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Starbucks celebrates Grand Opening on Beach Road

Starbucks Coffee (Thailand) celebrated the opening of their new branch in Pattaya on the corner of Beach Road and Soi Yamoto. Pattaya deputy mayor Wutisak Rermkichakarn was present for the opening, along with Keyuman Shirdel, the managing director of Starbucks Coffee (Thailand) and the Pattaya store’s general manager, Nadin Salhani.

Guests and management arrived in a caravan of pedicabs.

In the evening, guests of honor and managers of Starbucks rode in a caravan of pedicabs along Beach Road to announce the grand opening, with the Photisarn School Band providing the entertainment. Guests were then treated to coffee while listening to the history of Starbucks.

During the coffee break, cash and educational materials were donated to the Pattaya Redemptorist Orphanage Foundation.

The new Starbucks in Pattaya is the 25th branch in Thailand. The first Thailand branch was opened in 1998 at the Chitlom Central Store in Bangkok.

Keyuman Shirdel (right), the managing director of Starbucks Coffee (Thailand) makes a donation to the Pattaya Redemptorist Orphanage Foundation, assisted by Pattaya deputy mayor Wutisak Rermkichakarn (center).

Starbucks opened their first ever coffee shop in 1971 in Seattle, Washington. Since then, it has become the most popular coffee produced in America.

Starbucks shows special interest in social development concerns and routinely holds beach clean-up activities every Monday. Starbucks also helps assemble educational materials to support the Pattaya Orphanage.

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Internet chatting leads to Grover/Sandhu wedding

by Ratima Grover

Pattaya recently celebrated another wedding, but this was one with a difference. Miss Monica Grover, daughter of Paramjeet Grover, one of the first settlers of Pattaya, was married to Manjeet Sandhu, another of Indian heritage, but from Sweden.

Paramjeet Grover and Manjeet Sandhu, shown here being blessed by the bride’s parents, were recently married after having met in a chat room on the Internet.

The couple first met on the Internet in a chat room. Over the period of a few months they became acquainted, fell in love, and decided that they wanted to get married and spend the rest of their lives together. Manjeet came for the wedding all the way from Scotland, where he works for IBM Computers.

The wedding ceremony was a traditional Sikh wedding. In the Sikh religion, a wedding means not only the joining of two people, but two souls, in a pact to forever support and love one another. The occasion begins with the priest saying a series of prayers and hymns to thank the lord for his blessings on the occasion. Later, the bride is brought into the room by her sisters and relatives, where the bride and the groom sit in the presence of the holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, to start the official ceremonies of marriage.

These ceremonies consist of a series of prayers and hymns in the praise of the lord, and to bless the couple. The bride and groom then encircle the holy Granth four times, while the priest recites the four verses of Lavan which explain the four stages of love and marriage.

The ceremony is concluded with the customary singing of the Anan Sahib, song of bliss, followed by Ardas, prayer, and Vak, a random reading of a verse from the Guru Granth Sahib. With these ceremonies completed, the bride and the groom are stated to be married, and they become “Ek Jot Doe Murti”, which means one spirit in two bodies. At the end, the bride then leaves her parents’ house to start a new life with her groom.

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Around Town: Electronic Peter saving energy

By Suchard Krephitmai

The Air system 3 Gemotronic

Today I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Peter, fondly known as ‘Electronic Peter’ for his obvious love of tinkering with electronic gadgets. He told me that he has lived in Pattaya for 19 years and during that time he has seen many changes. He and his wife of 18 years and their ‘baby’ Simba the German Shepherd spend most of their time at home; this is how they like it. Mr. Peter has been an engineer now for 40 years; during this time he has invented many things, one of these being his Air Switch. He and his wife and even the maid spend hours building the Air Switch, which goes through at least 100 different stages from the beginning to the end product.

Mr. Peter working with his invention, the Gemotronic

Mr. Peter’s new-patented invention is very interesting, especially for landlords and hoteliers. This is an automatic energy saving system that cuts off the air conditioning in a room after a 3-minute interval of the door being opened. So if a person leaves the room and inadvertently forgets to turn off the air conditioning it will automatically switch off after the 3 minutes. When the person returns to the room, or if it was only the door being left open briefly, it is easily reactivated by a simple switch. It has been calculated that this will not only save a lot of money it will also extend the lifetime of the air conditioning unit by up to 10 hours a day. The savings can be as high as 70 baht per day/2100 baht per month. The running cost of the Air Switch is only 4-7 baht an hour.

Mr. Peter would like to thank the local hotels that have joined him in his efforts to conserve energy. The Thai Garden Resort, Little Hill, Pig & Whistle, Penthouse Hotel, Pattaya-rent-a-room and Radi Mansion.

Mrs. Peter at the tools

Another successful invention of Mr. Peter’s is an alarm system that will activate as soon as an intruder interferes with the doors or windows, while they are still locked. After all, when you think about it, as Mr. Peter says, “Who wants an alarm going off when the intruder is already inside your property?”

Another benefit of this system is that it can be installed in 3 zones, for example the back of the house, the sides and the front, any of these zones can be turned off independently. Therefore there is no need for concern if you are on your front terrace and cannot see or hear the back and sides of the house, for they can still be alarmed. If the alarm should be set off the light on the main panel will let you know which zone the intruder is in.

Mr. Peter and his wife have thought of everything; you even get colored covers for your alarm panel and there are no ugly wires because a remote control and a small transmitter do it all. Mr. Peter and his wife personally see to the installation, which only takes two and a half hours.

For more information please tel. (038) 423632 or fax (038) 374116.

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