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Ottesens lay foundation stone for Jomtien Beach Residence venture
Suchada Tupchai
Ib and Kannikar Ottesen have laid the foundation stone
for their new Jomtien Beach Residence project, located at a prime spot near
Jomtien Beach. The ceremony was performed on October 13, with nine Buddhist
monks from Huay Yai Temple in attendance.
 Ib
and Kannikar Ottesen (left) watch as a monk performs the foundation stone
laying ceremony for the Jomtien Beach Residence.
Jomtien Beach Paradise is an apartment building suited
for investment purposes. It will have one- and two-bedroom apartments along
with a swimming pool, fitness center, and surveillance cameras providing
24-hour security. Located on Jomtien Soi 9, Jomtien Beach Road, the building
is near to the beach, shops and entertainment venues. Prices start from
2,400,000 baht and the apartments are scheduled to be ready by December next
year.
For more information please phone 038 364 319, or mobile 01 802 3430.
Email sales@ Jom tienBeachResidence .com or visit www.
jomtienbeachresidence.com
The Charity Club of Pattaya at Cabbages and Condoms
Christina Boden
On Friday October 14, the Charity Club of Pattaya met with
the Free Mason’s West Wind Lodge Pattaya at Cabbages and Condoms. The occasion
was the presentation of funds raised for them at the Charity Gala Dinner held at
the Dusit resort on October 1st.
The Charity
Club of Pattaya met with the Free Mason’s West Wind Lodge Pattaya at Cabbages
and Condoms.
The total raised was 312,500 baht, and the Charity Club of
Pattaya invited the Free Mason’s and Skๅl to each choose a charity. Each
charity will receive 104,166 baht.
Malcolm & Christina Boden from the Charity Club of
Pattaya joined fellow lodge members for a meal at Cabbages and Condoms and to
present Middy Campbell, the grand worshipful master, with 104,166 baht. The
money will be put to good use as the Free Mason’s have an ongoing rebuilding
project in the tsunami hit area in the South.
The next presentation will go to Skๅl at the Dusit Resort Pattaya.
Royal Cliff Wine Club members: a gourmet evening awaits you
Peter Cummins
I recently attended one of the many wine-tastings and wine
dinners so well presented during the course of the Royal Cliff Wine Club’s
five years of “undisputed excellence”. Thus, I was not at all surprised to
learn that the New York “Wine Spectator” awarded this accolade, yet again,
to the RC Wine Club – the only hotel in Thailand to receive this prestigious
acknowledgement, for the third year in succession.
 Ranjith
Chandrasiri officiating at the last wine dinner
At a recent “Awards Celebration Cocktail”, to acknowledge
and thank the Royal Cliff’s wine distributors for the vast contribution they
have made to the Wine Club’s success (reported in full, Pattaya Mail
Vol XIII, #38, 23 September 2005), Panga Vathanakul, managing director of the
Royal Cliff Beach Resort, was also quick to acknowledge the role that Ranjith
Chandrasiri has played.
Ranjith is deputy general manager, Royal Cliff Beach Resort,
founder and long-term president of the Royal Cliff Wine Club who is an
acknowledged expert wine connoisseur and is now an accredited international wine
judge. Ranjith was recently elected as the 2005 chairman of the wine judging
panel for the FBAT International wine challenge competition 2005 held during the
IFHS 05 exhibition in Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in Bangkok. The
event was a great success with 27 wine suppliers and 136 different wines that
entered the challenge. All the winners were presented with trophies, medals and
certificates.
Ranjith told me that he can taste and appraise up to forty
wines at any given occasion. No wonder he is one of the world’s acknowledged
experts.
On that same evening, which also celebrated the
“Spectator” awards to the “Cliff’s Grill Room and Wine Cellar” and
Rossini’s Italian Restaurant, the theme was “Dining around the Royal
Cliff”.
As an added incentive (as if that is necessary) to the annual
membership dues, Ranjith offers a five-course meal for two at either the Grill
Room or Rossini’s.
I chose Rossini’s, which served a sumptuous meal,
comprising leek and celery salad, with black truffle shavings; cream of spinach
soup and seafood spaghetti, garnished with seaweed caviar. Then came the ‘chef
d’oeuvre’: Red wine braised lamb shank, with mushrooms and deep fried
artichoke heart and, to top it off, a lemongrass rice pudding with medley of
dried fruits.
Of course, wine is at the diner’s own expense and I was
most happy to have Ranjith’s advice, ordering a great Italian Villa Buonasera
Merlot, Maddelena 2002. It was a perfect accompaniment to the great food.
The ambience at Rossini’s is so Italian, the service
typically Royal Cliff Five Star and, of course, there was Ruby and her trio to
add romance and sparkle to a first-rate dining experience.
Let me remind all my colleagues of the Royal Cliff Wine Club
fraternity, not to miss this wonderful offer.
See you at the next Wine Club extravaganza.
YWCA, PSC donate rice to young boxers at Sityodtong Camp
Narisa Nitikarn
At a ceremony staged at Sityodtong Boxing Camp on October 11,
YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center and Pattaya Sports Club presented 750 kilograms of
rice valued at 10,000 baht to camp owner Yodtong Senanan.
Nittaya
Patimasongkroh, chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center (wearing hat)
presents 750 kilograms of rice valued at 10,000 baht to Yodtong Senanan (center
right, next to Nittaya), owner of Sityodtong Boxing Camp.
The presentation was led by Nittaya Patimasongkroh,
chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center, who said that as the schools are
on holiday during the month of October, the rice has instead been donated to the
boxing camp.
This is the second time that the association has presented
rice to the camp, and it has been done because Yodtong provides food and
accommodation to children who have a passion for Muay Thai. “He encourages
children to turn to Muay Thai, the national sport of Thailand, and away from
drugs. Yodtong Senanan pays all food expenses for the children out of his own
pocket. We ask people therefore to help support this boxing camp,” said
Nittaya.
Yodtong thanked the organizations that help him in supporting
the camp. He said that people consider him wealthy to which he says that is true
but not money wise, only in reputation.
Yodtong provides three meals per day to the thirty children presently under
his care. He also supports their education, but after school it is time to train
in Muay Thai to help them protect themselves and keep them away from drugs.
Mold and die industry meets at TGI exhibition
Suchada Tupchai
Deputy Minister of Industry Sumonmarn Kanlayasiri presided
over the opening of an exhibition and seminar devoted to mold and die
manufacture staged at the Thai-German Institute in Chonburi on October 14.
 Assoc
Prof Narong Varongkriengkrai (left) shows Sumonmarn Kanlayasiri, deputy minister
of industry some of the exhibits.
Mold & Die Alliance for Thai Industrial Development was
led by TGI director Assoc Prof Narong Varongkriengkrai and featured over 100
participating specialist companies in this sector, the upgrading of which is
being given priority by the government.
Narong said this was the second time this event has been
held, bringing together mold producers, machine and equipment distributors, mold
software agents, consultation and train departments, and helping to increase and
strengthen business links in the industry.
Apart from the products exhibited there was a seminar on manufacturing
techniques, with speakers including Dr Saree Wongmontha and Chalit Limpanawet.
Jomtien-Pattaya Rotary Swimathon on again this year
After a very successful swimathon last year, organized by
Rotarian Simon Simms (rhymes with “swims” so it is very appropriate), the
Jomtien-Pattaya Rotary Club has decided to repeat the event.
It was successful in many ways. Firstly it brought some
“marathon” swimmers out to try the waters of Pattaya Bay, and secondly, the
nine swimmers raised between them enough funds to feed the little children at
the Baan Jing Jai Orphanage for many months. “I love going there, and just
seeing their happy faces,” said Simon.
The swimmers last year were a varied group. The oldest was in
his 60’s, while the youngest was a 16 year old English girl who impressed
everyone with her swimming ability.
The swim will once again go from the Sea Rescue area at Bali
Hai pier and finish at the Dusit Resort, a distance of around four kilometers.
The swimmers are shepherded by Sea Rescue craft in front and following behind.
So if anyone decides it is just too far, they will be picked up quickly and can
arrive at the Dusit Resort Beach to join the fun and refreshments with all the
others.
Last year’s swimathon raised B. 100,000 for the orphanage.
If you would like to be a corporate sponsor this year, Simon informed me that
this will only cost B. 10,000, which gets you a hospitality tent on the Dusit
Resort Beach where you can display your corporate material, and as Simon says,
“Your donation puts some food in the tummies of some little orphans.”
Last year there were nine swimmers for the event (which took
the lead swimmer 1 hour 10 minutes), and if you would like a leisurely swim on
Sunday November 13, contact Simon Simms at 06 516 8024, or Cristina de Vera of
the Dusit Resort’s PR department on 038 425 611-7, extension 2128; and get
your entry in before November 9. It is a swimathon for a good cause.
All the thrill of the ring
as the circus comes to town
Ariyawat Nuamsawat
The Royal London Circus, currently celebrating its 21st
anniversary with a special edition tour of Thailand, will set up its tent on the
large area of land next to Haad Tien Restaurant from October 26 to November 27.
Owner of the circus, Paul L B Lee, from Malaysia, said the
troupe has performed in many locations worldwide and given millions the chance
to see and experience the art of the circus in its truest form.
Royal London
Circus performances are widely praised in Southeast Asia.
This show will feature acts from around the world and will be
led by a clown from Russia named Mr Anatoly, who has won many awards. The circus
will present acts from Russia, the Ukraine, China and South America, with
performances that have broken attendance records in Malaysia and elsewhere in
Southeast Asia.
Shows will take place daily on Mondays and Thursdays from 7 p.m., Fridays at
5.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m., and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays at 1 p.m., 4 p.m.
and 7 p.m. Tickets are priced at 550, 350, 250 and 150 baht. Further details are
available on the hotlines at 01-5973737, 09-7246393, 0 3848 8255 and 0 3848 8256
or at www.royallondoncircus.com
Central Festival says
‘thank-you’ to the press
Ariyawat Nuamsawat
Central Festival Center organized a party at Hard Rock Hotel
on October 14 to say thank-you to the press for their support of the center’s
activities.
General
manager Sarun Tuntijumnun (left) says thank you to representatives of the media.
Representatives of newspapers, printers, TV and radio
attended the event, which was hosted by Prawit Chanyasittikul, deputy managing
director for marketing of Central Pattana Co Ltd and Sarun Tuntijumnun, general
manager of the shopping center.
Prawit said that Thais and foreigners enjoy Central Festival. The number of
customers visiting the center is increasing continually, with this year’s
figures up by 15 percent over last year. In the third quarter of this year a
total of 2,500,000 customers visited the center. One reason for this outstanding
number is the support given to the center by the local mass media, said Prawit.
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