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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.
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.
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.
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.
Updated every Friday
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