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Provençal Occitan

28 Saturday Mar 2009

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beach I know I should be writting about my Day 2, but, I am so excited to share this. So, I am going to skip ahead…

Yay, after days and days of cold days and snow, I am in Juan les Pins now. It is very near to Nice and Cannes. So, it is Hot HOt HOT !! unfortunately for me, ;o( today, it is raining when I arrive. So, it is slightly cold. But still nice.

I manage to do a little of beach trekking today. Walked for miles along the beach. It was lovely.

As most of you know, Cote d’Azur is famous for their coast / French Riviera.

sea-rambutan

While strollin’ along the beach, I found many funny egg-ish thingy scattered about. It is really weird as it reminds me alot of ‘Rambutan’ (hairy red skinned fruit found typically in tropic country)

But another thing which this Provençal is quite famous for is the perfumery.

Gasse which is slightly north from where I am now, is famous for its perfume since the end of the 18th century. As you can find from wiki, it is also known as the world’s perfume capital ! The provocal name ? Provençal Occitan

Ahh.. most of you would find Occitan familiar eh? YEs – it is none other than the currently favourite brand of mine L’occitane. While shopping around for the honey n lemon delightful cream for my friend (as this is not available in Kuala Lumpur – not sure why? ), I was shown to try out their new range. Peach Blossom .. It was absoulute delicious !!! So yummmy… hehehe.. ;oP

L'occitane Peach Blossom

It will be day-light saving at around 2am tomorrow (29th March) and with one hour advance to 3am (meh – I lose one hour of sleep).

I can’t wait for tomorrow hoping to be able to catch some SUN !!

Wish me luck ;o)

Medication to bring… ^o^

13 Friday Mar 2009

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The worst thing to happen when you are travelling is to fall sick (it is even worst if it is on business).When all you wish to do is to stay in the hotel room and sleep but you know that you will need to drag yourself out and put on the smile to meet your clients.

So, bringing along some medication is very important when you are travelling. Not to mention, some of the medication might not be available in other country or the packing / language is different !! I remember once I was required to go on a emergency trip to Thailand and I didn’t have time to re-stock my medication. It took me 2 hours to finally get the medicine I needed from the Pharma there !!!

 

So, what do I usually bring whenever I travel?

1) SMECTA – this comes in little sachet of 3,76g white powder which you usually mix with like half a cup of room temperaure water.  This medication is from France. You can easily get it from any pharmacy (Watson, Guardian, Caring.. etc) I think it usually cost between RM 1.80 – RM 2 (not sure if the price is still same)

Purpose : tummy pain, gas, chronic diarrhea… *_*

** This is a MUST packed item especially if you are travelling to a place where food hygiene is questionable…

Some people don’t really like the taste of the powdery milk-ish solution of SMECTA (wish they make it in different flavor – chocolate will be nice or stawberry). For those of you who don’t really like the taste, try BASCOPAN. Usually, when it gets really bad, I just take both SMECTA and BASCOPAN together.

 

2) Clarinase / Clarintyne – pills that usually comes in stripped of 10 ? This is especially important if you are not use to cold weather or SPRING time !! (Not very attractive to give a speech and start blowing your nose now and then ;oP)

Purpose : Runny nose, cold, sniffles.

 

3) Antacid  – pill form / milky solution form

Many times when you are travelling for business, the eating time gets a little out of hand. Unfortunately for me, gastric gets quite bad whenever I don’t eat on time.

Purpose : Gastric.

Another trick is to always keep some dry food in your bag for such emergency. Just sneak out for a quick toilet-break and steal a bite or two. ;o)

 

4) PAIN-killer – panadol / aspririn / panadine..

Purpose : PAIN-KILLLER !!! I get headache whenever the heat is too much. :o(

 

5) Vitamins / suppliments which you normally take

Personally, chulet is NOT a fan of taking vitamins (perfer to get ’em straight from the natural source . heehee.. )

 

Please note that medication above are just what Chulet brings along with her. She has also consult her doctor about the suitability of these medicine for her

Kindly consult the doctor if you might have allergy to those medication above !!!!!

Peace of Mind…

08 Sunday Mar 2009

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This little chulet will be going on a long business trip to Europe next week…

One of the essential thing which she always pack is her ‘Peace of Mind’.

You see, unlike all chulet’s family members, chulet gets car-sick very easily. (And usually, on the business trip, it will mean spending hours and hours on the road..)

It is never destine for chulet to be chauffeured but to always graciously offered to be the driver.

The weird part is chulet never gets sea-sick or air-sick !!

According to wiki – When feeling motion but not seeing it (for example, in a ship with no windows), the inner eartransmits to the brain that it senses motion, but the eyes tell the brain that everything is still. As a result of the disconcordance, the brain will come to the conclusion that one of them is hallucinating and further conclude that the hallucination is due to poison ingestion. The brain responds by inducing vomiting, to clear the supposed toxin.

But for chulet, it is the case of “I-see-me-in-motion”, I turn green.

When I am on-board the plane or in the ship, I stay away from the windows. As long as I don’t look outside, I am good.

During one of chulet’s trip, she saw this little product from the page of the in-flight sales (sadly – that is the only place chulet usually ends up getting most of her stuff while on business trips). The product is call “Peace of Mind” by Origins. Basically what you do is massage tiny drops of the lotion into the back of your neck, temples, and earlobes. After that, just place your hand in front of your face and breath in deeply. It smells a bit like the eucalyptus leaves (koala’s food).

Peace of Mind - Origins The bottle looks so cute – how could chulet resist. So, Chulet bought 1 pack.

Anyway, Chulet got so addicted to it that on her return flight, She bought another 6 bottles ! (Shame on her !! tsk tskk…)

Now, whenever Chulet travels on road, the motion sickness #__# is no longer so un-bearable…

(I have tried all those motion sickness pills but it makes me sleepy and drowsy, which is not helping since I need to be on my wits the minute I step out from the car to meet my clients)