bonjuk TEA opening DAY

TODAY is the DAY!!

Bonjuk TEA is open for business!! After many months of preparation these turkish drinks have finally reached our Malaysian shore.

As a token of appreciation, as an opening special - every 2nd drink will be given 50% discount!

Suggested favourites are:-
ice blended - all flavours
bonjuk tea special
green tea with red been
lemon melon
grass jelly with fresh milk 
rose milk tea

green tea with red bean

grass jelly with fresh milk

rose milk tea

Do also try the flavoured snow ice if you want more than drinks. It's the turkish version of our local ice kacang with as many as 10 different flavours!

honey dew snow ice

Fashion Show @ Gulyn

Last Saturday Alamanda organize a muslimah fashion show for its Fashion VIP member featuring Turkuaz / Gulyn's collection.

All in there were 24 clothes feature but some were not available for sale yet. Do drop by any of our outlets especially Alamanda and Jalan TAR outlets or follow us in Facebook for our latest collections.

We are very grateful to Alamanda management for giving us this opportunity to host a fashion show.

The management have also arranged for very good and high standards models (1 malay and 5 russians).

The choreography of the walk was brilliant as the music used were very very appropriate.

During a break our 2 lovely hosts Nurul and Yen (both Alamanda management staffs) cajoled some of the audience to strut their stuffs in a catwalk of their own. Mr Gurcan was on hand to present tokens of appreciation to the participants.

Reporters and cameraman from TV2 were also at hand to captured the whole event including the turkish ice cream giveaways courtesy of Mr Gurcan.

After the event, Alamanda management were gracious to host their Fashion VIP members to lunch.

Super 8

I spent a good 3 hours deciding between watching Pirates of Caribbean 4 and Super 8.

I asked for opinions from my 16 year old cousin since he already watched both the shows.

Apparently he rated Pirates higher but not one to trust 1 source, I google for reviews.

One of the reviews mentioned that Super 8 will be more "fun" for those born before 1980 as they would have grown up, influenced by Steven Spielberg's movies namely ET, Goonies and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Since Super 8 is meant to be a tribute by JJ Abrams to Spielberg's works, he purposedly choose to project certain scenes with blur effect which the older generation can identify with since there's no BluRay or HD then. So maybe it is for this reason my cousin didnt really enjoy the movie.

As for me, being the target group of this movie, I thoroughly enjoy it! It warms my heart as the young actors and actress in Super 8 were brilliant and believable.

It's been a long time since a movie actually had a story that thugs the heart strings and Super 8 is definitely one of them..

However do note that the final revelation of the "alien" might put some off, this should not be the reason to write it off or dislike it.

BTW do stay for the credits as the movie within the movie continues rolling during credit.

This is definitely a must watch movie about adolescent and their coming of age.

The original Super 8

Turkuaz Fashion Spread - Mingguan Wanita (August 2011)

Turkuaz latest 3 pages fashion spread in Mingguan Wanita (15-21 July 2011)

This week Mingguan Wanita featured the wedding of boyband singer TOMOK as well as an interview with Datin Swanee.

Another interesting point is the discussion on whether working wives will result in neglected husbands... Hmm... interesting.. Do grab a copy of Mingguan Wanita for the answers.

Anway Turkuaz / Gulyn's fashion featured in this issue started mature or office wear and ended with fashion which are for the young at heart.

For this year Raya celebration we hope to see many of our regular customers from within KL as well as from other parts of the world to shop at Turkuaz and Gulyn.

Bad hair day...

Hair salon / stylist... If only there is a way to check their ratings..

I recently had this bad experience of getting a hair cut from a hair salon in Mines Shopping Centre KL. Before I elaborate I paid RM30 for just hair cut (no wash, no blow).

I find it very funny that this stylist cut my hair without parting my hair into any sections and he basically comb, take the whole bunch, cut it as a bunch!!

To achieve the layer look he just took a thinning scissors, take a bunch of hair and start clipping my hair.

This is the first time in my life I experience this kind of service.

Later when I reach home only I realised that he over-cut my hair, meaning the top hair is really short, the bottom section is long and in between there are no other layered hair. So it look like I have 2 levels of hair.

So the moral of the story is if the salon is empty... or near empty chances are the stylists are not good. Do yourself a favour and leave the shop.

Look for one which are full. Wait or make an appointment if you have to. Just be patient otherwise you will suffer and bear with a bad haircut for a least 2 months depending on how fast your hair grows out.

Bonjuk TEA coming soon!!

Something new coming to Turkuaz Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman...

If you frequent this area, you would have noticed some renovation works being done to the shop. These works are in preparation of a new venture... we are introducing new drinks from Turkey!!

These new drinks will be called BONJUK TEA and recently some of the staffs have gone for training to learn how to mixed these drinks.

Strawberry Ice Blended

All of us agreed that these drinks, though may look similar to the bubble tea available in the market, are different in terms of taste as the Turkish agents insist that we use original teas and quality ingredients.

Some clear favorites are Peach Bonjuk Special, Rose Tea and of course the snow ice.

Bonjuk Tea was slated to open on 9 July 2011 but with so much rumours of the rally, we have decided to move the opening dates further till about 12 or 15 July 2011. The actual date would be announced in due course.

There are news of special promotion during the opening so do grab this opportunity to try these drinks when you are around town!

Replies to Blogger's comments

I cant seem to be able to reply to any of the comments left on the blog... I've checked on Blogger's HELP and it seems a lot of people are facing this problem too.

To those who left comments and questions, these are the answers:-

COMMENT 1

For online sale you can call 03-26949055 / 5036 (Suria / Amy / Ila).

Harga baju renang muslimah di kedai adalah RM149.90 tapi untuk mendapatkan diskaun, boleh join ahli (bayar RM15) untuk menikmati 10% diskaun untuk semua pembelian di kedai.

Harga online ialah RM149.90 - 10% discount so dapat harga member iaitu RM134.90 tapi kena bayar tambang GDex.

COMMENT 2 - to velvet lavender

Because most of the items at Turkuaz are limited quantity, the designs requested are sold out but continuously we have new designs in our outlets.

COMMENT 3 - to jarum sireh

We sell tudung too but we do not take custom order.

Thank you very much for all your comments!

No laughing matter

I think everyone struggles with weight loss at one point or another.. most maybe more time.

Being one born with bigger body frame, I was actually quite happy that I finally regained the same weight I had during college.

However my joy was rather shortlived when my sister bought a digital weighing machine.

Turn out the scale which I have been relying on have been lying to me all these years... Dang! So means I have not reach it... YET!!

So to those really serious about losing weight do yourself a favour and get a digital weighing machine. Besides being more accurate, there are simple joys in life, like losing 0.1kg after 20 minutes of exercise... yes the digital can give you that.

Interns in the house!

We had interns, well actually son of my boss with his classmates here in Turkuaz to gain work experience (part of school's requirement).

They were here for 8 days and during this period we taught them about running the business as well as asking them to serve customers in Jalan TAR outlet.

Initially it was quite daunting for them to approach the customers but when one of them manage to close the sale, this trigger a mini competition among 3 of them to see who can sell the most.

Kumpulan Karangkraf was also gracious to arrange a site visit of their printing facilities as well to witness a fashion photo shoot.

All in all it was a good experience for us and the boys even manage to start a blog at http://shingtzewoo.blogspot.com/
We just hope that they will keep blogging.

At the end of their internship, we were required to write a report as well as to rate their performance. It was hilarious how they now try to "bribe" the supervisor with drinks and small chores. Anyhow their enthusiasm was really refreshing and it was good that the school introduce such program in their education syllabus. Suffice to say, all of them received good reports from the management!

Here's wishing a bright future to Shaun, Shing and Taras!!