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Best weekend ever up in the snowy Victorian Alps! Staying at Hotel Pension Grimus @ Mount Buller

September 28, 2011 by thejessicat

 

Woohoo! All my life, I've always wanted to experience snow and to see snowflakes with my very own eyes.

This trip to Mount Buller has made my childhood dream a reality *bigwidegrin*

 

Remember the earlier blogpost about this roadtrip on Day #1? I was still up the snow-mountain then.

But now I'm back!

 

Say hello to the new Snowboarder in town!

 

Oh and I forgot to mention in the previous post – there were names for every corner up the mountain.

The one called 'Unnamed Corner' made Kayla and I laugh. 'Dump In Corner' made me giggle too 

 

But this corner made me semi-freak out 

 

We arrived after 5 hours. I was awed by the cosy Tyrolean vibe that this hotel boasted the moment I laid eyes on it.

Staying in a lovely place on the Victorian Alps for the weekend? I could get used to this 🙂

 

Here I stand, at the two-time champion award-winning Hotel Pension Grimus!!  

 

I soon realized that we will be spending the weekend in one of Australia's leading Ski-Resort hotel :D

 

Buddy Kayla and I just before check-in

 

The moment we entered the hotel lobby, we were greeted by its warm, cosy atmosphere and a friendly receptionist at the front desk. Whilst the rest were busy talking to the receptionist and getting keys to our rooms, I took to snapping photos of the hotel interior straight away.

 

It made me feel right at home 

 

A ski-hotel with a modern concept yet retaining the traditional cabin/lodge features

 

Coat hanger to place our thick, snow jackets and overcoats

 

We were ushered to our respective rooms 🙂

 

My eyes widened with delight as we entered the room. It was beautifully furnished, spacious and brightly-lit.

The refrigerator was well stocked with lotsa goodies too! 

 

Pretty, ain't it?

 

Ssssooo cosy and screaming to be snuggled in under the covers!

 

After enthusing over the room, having a hot bubble bath in our jacuzzi and taking a well-deserved rest, we decided to dine at the hotel's fine-dining restaurant just downstairs, called Kaptan's Restaurant.

 

Camwhoring while waiting for my missur to be ready

 

And off we went to Kaptan's Restaurant! We'd best be off; I'm starving! 

 

I love its wooden concept + heaps of photo frames on the walls!

 

Chilling nearby Herbie's Cocktail Bar while waiting to be seated.

There was a fireplace beside our table. Squeee! :D (But it  wasn't fired up, unfotunately.. but STILL)

 

It was not until we sat down & gave the waiter our orders that we realized…..

 it was a FINE DINING restaurant.

 

…… Blimey. We were severely under-dressed ;( Aaaargghh.

Major fashion faux pas, if you ask me. Hey, in our defence, we were on holiday and dressed for comfort! (Okay fine. To be honest, we didn't research what kind of restaurant we were dining in first)

 

To make things even more awkward, the tables around us were filled with guests dressed to the nines talking about their high-flying careers, investments and their shares (as though trying to upstage each other!) while we were having our meals enjoying each other's company giggling about the fun day we had and inside jokes without a care in the world.

Anyway, here are our choice of meals from the dinner menu

 

 

Entrees

Potato & Leek Soup served in a shot glass

Tempura Soft Shell Crab with Watermelon, Persian Feta Salad & Sesame Dukkah

 

Mains

Whole Buxton Trout with Beetroot, Almond Cream, Zucchini Flower & Pepper Crisp

Organic Corn Fed Chicken Breast on Sweet Corn Puree, Leek Fondue & Austrian Cheese Tortellini

 

The food was exquisite, without a doubt. We enjoyed the shotglass soup and my chicken was really tasty. Kon couldn't stop gushing over his crab  The fish was tender but we were in for a surprise when we found out how wicked its bones are –

 

I've had heaps of different fish before but never trout.

Its bones could put a porcupine to shame anytime!

 

After dinner, le boyfie got me into Sudoku (yes, I have never played before).

To be honest, I know all the rules and HOW to play it but, I just couldn't be bothered to play one for myself.

 

 

Oh and… don't you think this photo below has the potential to be a movie poster?

 

No?

 

Well, you'll see. Challenge accepted.

 

Told you.

 

The very next morning, we were awaken by 2 trays of hot breakfast in bed by Pension Grimus.

Talk about top notch service! :) Everything was so delicious too.

 

I especially loved my mushrooms, hash browns, buttered croissants and scrambled eggs!

OMG AND PEACHES! 

 

Hotel Pension Grimus provided rental for ski & snowboarding equipment too

 

After breakfast and some snoozingcanoozling, t'was time to head out to the snow.

..Head out to the snow.

..THE SNOW.

..SNOW!!!!!!!!

 

OHMYGOODNESS. Finally. Real snow.

My first touch of snow (albeit through the snow gloves)

 

The staff at the ski hire made me a very happy girl.

Gave me a red snowboard to use for the day which matched the red gloves Greg lent me 😀

 

 

oohmy. le snow!

 

 

I'd bask all day in the snow if I could

 

Sillyfuntimes 😀

 

To me, snowballs aren't as easy to make as it seems.

Mine kept getting lopsided and misshapen! Such noob skills.

 

Well, this one wasn't too bad if I do say so myself! 😀 😀

 

My snowboard and I

 

Le boyfie and I just before our snowboarding sesh!

 

behold Master Greg's 3 students in snowboarding

 

Fell over like, 50 million times

 

We got separated at one point while snowboarding and when we finally found each other, we decided to snowboard down the mountain while holding hands. But we gave up as we kept falling over and overshotting each other not to be able to begin at the same spot together! 

Bummer.

 

Downdowndown the run

 

Practice makes perfect. I'm now taking a break after all that snowboarding!

 

Cold, gloomy weather

 

Group shot after we all managed to find each other at the foot of the run!

Kon & I 🙂  Kayla & Greg

 

As I was so keen on actually playing/being silly in the snow, leboyfie decided to bring me to the snowplay area.

Hey! I missed that out during my childhood, what better time than now to make up for it?

 

Snowplay! 

 

Do you remember how I was obsessing over the snow and the 3 main things I MUST DO?

1. Make a snow man

2. Make a snow angel

3. Throw a snowball at someone

 

NUMBER ONE –  check!

 

NUMBER TWO – check!

 

NUMBER THREE – check!

 

No surprises on who my victim is 😛 Poor Kon got snowballed over and over again.

He had his fair share of snowballing me down too. Snowfight FTW 

 

We took approximately half an hour to build our snowman

our "illuminati snowman" as a random guy claimed it to be LOLOL

 

I was very proud of our snowman. And he's not JUST an ordinary snowman, okay?

He's a celebrity; received lots of attention from everyone and all wanted to take photos with our snowman. 

 

Our snowman sure got heaps of loving from me

He's a cool three-tiered snowman who wears sunglasses & likes snowboarding! 

 

 

We went to bed early that night as we were exhausted from all the snowboarding & our day out!

I was determined not to spend some $AUD80 (which is RM240 in my currency!) *regurgitates blood* for a lift pass, so I hiked up the hill each time I finished snowboarding down the run. It was insane.

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bBUD8fozUk

Short VLOG of snowplay! 😀

 

Fancy climbing up a snowhill being resisted by snow and carrying heavy gear. Gofightwin!

 

Buffet breakfast in Kaptan's Restaurant the next morning 🙂

 

Very happy how the hotel provided us free wifi.  TOTAL PLUS POINT! Our last day was spent rather chillaxed. 

We also decided not to snowboard again today (our bodies were aching!) but spent it leisurely and in the spa!

 

We had our own private spa & sauna

 

It was awesome! Best to unwind in the hot bubbly spa and sweat everything out in the 50°C sauna.

So relaxing till I almost fell asleep 

 

After spa & sauna. Okay, time to head out in the cold again!

 

Had lunch and prepared to go home.

What can I say? One of the BEST WEEKENDS I've ever had in a while.

 

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!! 

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My relaxing afternoon in the Far Infra-Red sauna & Sarawakian deep tissue massage in FIR Wellness Spa @ Dataran 32, PJ!

November 7, 2010 by thejessicat

 

 

I've always been a fan of sauna and steam baths, of which I am lucky enough to go anytime I please to the ones available in my gym.
 

Apart from saunas, the way for me to start off a good week is always by massages. Yes sirree, I go for body massages and reflexologies pretty damn often and I now swear by it
 

 

Hey. It's healthy and our bodies need it!
 

 

 

Hence, it was rather fortunate and surprising when I was invited to experience a different kind of sauna and massage altogether.
 

Now, how different can it be? I pondered prior to my visit to FIR Wellness Spa in Dataran 32, Petaling Jaya.
 

 


 

The huge signage greeted me the moment I stepped in
 

 


 

The interior decor was simple yet rustic.
 

I loved how natural elements and earth colour tones dominated the spa center
 

 


 

The display of essential oils atop the table 🙂
 

 

The boss ST Chua was nice enough to give me a short walkthrough, showing me around the center. He was such a  friendly person!
 

Apart from being very professional and informative explaining each and everything to me, best part was he was very funny with a great sense of humour too!

 

Case in point 😀
 

Such a wacky person. Knew him through a friend Mei Yee
 

 

 

Anyway, I found some decor hanging on the wall similar to the ones I have back at home! 🙂
 

It was exactly the same but ours was in the form of a table runner and some framed up swatch of carpet.
 

 


 

hey hey what's this! 😀 😀
 

Something so familiar.
 

 

Walked even deeper and explored the center even more.
 

 


 

Some more natural herbs and essential oils on display
 

I found out that FIR wellness uses Malaysian coconut oils in their massages! How ethnocentric
 

 


 

There are other essential oils such as Lemongrass and Lavender as well
 

They sell 'em for only 20bucks!
 

 


 

No wonder the place smells so damn good! 😀
 

 

 

It was cooling and well lit as I walked around the insides of the center. On my right, were a number of rooms meant for the saunas.
 

Individual rooms for privacy! I could see the wooden Far Infra Red sauna machines inside too.

 


 

A very amusing thing I discovered was that all the rooms were named after wood types!

The ones I could remember were Oak and Maple 😀
 

 

 

Before I knew it, it was time for me to enter the FIR sauna.
 

I was supposed to sauna for about 30 minutes before going for the Sarawakian Deep Tissue massage.
 

 


 

Such a spacious sauna – more than what 1 person needs 🙂
 

I was allowed to bring magazines and my Blackberry into the room as well whoopedoo
 

 

There was this radio thing playing during the sauna session too. The amount of benefits an FIR sauna can bring is unbelievable!
 

Perfect for a remedy of de-stress
 

 


 

In this sauna, we can adjust and control our own temperature!

 

So different from other saunas! Different from conventional saunas where the heat is more than 180F (82 Celsius) in which one may feel choked and uncomfortable.
 

 

Among the stuff I remember the lady (on the radio) saying was that it is good for cell rejuvenation, highly effective for body aches and pains, burns calories, improves skin texture, improve blood circulation and detoxifies our bodies!

 


 

There's also this wave technology radiates all around to ensure you have full body coverage

Whoaa was sweating all over lor!
 

 

 

So after drying up and cooling down, I was ushered to the quieter parts of the room.
 

It was time for my Sarawakian Deep Tissue Massage – my masseur happens to be a true Kuching local of Sarawakian origin!
 

 

Ya ought to be quiet as there are other patrons having their massage sessions too
 

 

I wouldn't like it if I get rudely awaken by obnoxious people talking LOL
 

 

I was told that his massage helps release adhesions (knots) and targets specific areas of discomfort that needs attention.

All their Deep Tissue Massage sessions are performed by professional masseurs from Sarawak. Yay! We all need a true blue Malaysian massage amidst all the Balinese, Chinese, Thai and god-knows-what-other massages 🙂
 

 

So I got in, stripped (yes we're supposed to) and laid down on the massage bed to wait for my masseur
 

 

If you are kinda prudish or conservative then you can always opt to strip down to your undies instead of being completely au natrale 😉
 

 

Let the massage begin!

 


 

Sarawakian Deep Tissue massage uses a special technique to access deeper tissues of our body structures

Parts which have never been massaged before!
 

 

 

There were combining sweeping strokes used to create a unified and balance session and helping to relax the nervous system.
 

I tried so hard not to fall asleep as it was so relaxing! I wouldn't wanna waste a good session like that by sleeping it away, right? 😀
 

 

 

 

She was damn pro OMG! Some parts of my overstressed anatomy was kneaded real hard
 

I kept requesting for her to use all her mighty strength as I have a high pain threshold 😀
 

 


But she never failed to ask me if her pressure is fine or whether I feel comfortable at any point. Yes. Pain is good (for me)! If you prefer something milder you can always ask. I'm sure she'll gladly oblige.
 

She's such an accommodating and soft spoken person! 
 

 

It was a FULL body massage alright. Everything! From top to toe, back and front.
 

Except well… don't expect anything unscrupulous! *wags finger*
 

 

 

This ain't some dodgy ya-know-what massage parlour.  Haha! So yes, I had an exceptional afternoon that day trying out something very new (and fabulous) to me. Thank you for a great stress-free week ahead woots!
 

 

Go check 'em out for yourselves at www.firwellness.com.my
 

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