Another miscellaneous category discussion

This post will cover a variety of topics from food to pest control to Chinese New Year money envelopes to...?

Last mentioned goes first. The other day there was a ceremony of the upper management of B's company and the partner company ( both halves of the joint venture). Everyone got a little bit of cash in one of these envelopes. Aren't they pretty? [ Note: He got a 3rd envelope with money in it a couple of days later.]

CNY is celebrated within the Barito Pacific Group, the parent of our partner, by all the senior management forming a U and then all the employees of the building come through and shaking each of the Senior managers' hand. The purpose is to thank them and wish they make good and sound decisions for the coming year. All in all we shook hands for 45 minutes. Ibu Pagnestu, wife of the head of the  Barito Pacific Group, gives each person an envelope with money. .

 

Because practically every set of posts has something to say about food, here we go again.  I had noticed these odd soda cans on several occasions at our closest grocery, Grand Lucky. Last week I finally succumbed and purchased two of them.  Please note that only the top of the can is metal. The bottom is plastic. I wondered, "Could this arrangement really keep the fizz in the can?  The answer is, it can't. They are really interesting soda cans and they come in unique flavors. Pictured here is a can of blueberry soda and a can of kiwi soda.

I took this photo just because the produce from last week's shopping looked so pretty when it had been washed and spread out to dry.

I think we have completed our tour of lychee related fruit: we've now had lenkeng, duku and now rambutan. There are actually 2 types of rambutan. FYI rambut means "hair" in bahasa Indonesia. This is the more hairy one. This one is the hardest to eat because the large seed has a husk on it that really wants to stay attached to the fruit. It apparently is OK to just eat the thin husk.

The last food item is mentioned just because the donuts here are so pretty and there are so many different flavors like red velvet, choco banana and cheese toblerone. Yes, the last one is toblerone chocolate filled donut with cheddar cheese on top. ??? We don't get it either. But its very popular here. Taking photos is less filling.

Lastly, back to the first topic mentioned. We saw these in a shop in Singapore. Naturally, they were right next to the cockroach gel and the ant bait. I haven't seen a single lizard in our apartment, but I've seen plenty on the walls of friends' houses. It's a pretty normal thing here. I suppose you might want to keep them out of a specific area so this stuff might work, but you need them around to help keep down the mosquito population.

We have these plants all along the front of our building. I've only seen the blossoms a couple of times. Either they don't last long or the second they start to fade out the "gardeners" trim them off.