Yakult and Beryl's field trip...

Yup, this is a delayed post... because of some reasons where i'm too frusfrated ( i realise i mis-spelt this word but too lazy to even correct it cause it took me like an eternity just to upload these pics... sigh... ) to mention about it...sigh....

Anyway, here are pics i've taken from the trip... loads actually but mostly just shots of the factory and other stuff... and also, we thought we get free yakults or something, but instead they give us like one bottles, lol... but it was a fresh one from the production itself, so i guess i was kewl... And they actually show us how to drink a yakult... haha... was funny but then again, i did learn the proper way... which i didn't know in the beginning...haha...

So here they are!!!


Ok, before you guys think of something else... this is when we arrive at beryls after lunch and after the yakult trip thingy... They said that no cameras are allowed and i'm guessing its a safety precaution they take just to guard their secrets in making delicious famous beryls chocolate... hhmm... this shot is the only one i took, and of course, it make sense they put a cow outside their factory... *sweat*







And now, presenting...

YAKULT






A view from the entrance...

The different Yakults from all over the world... btw, yakult enter Malaysia like few years ago.. lol... felt like they been here longer...

More Yakults from other parts of the world...

More yakults....haha

Ok, here we see some other product produce by the yakult company... not in Malaysia though...


Here is a close up of their cosmetic products...

How the came up with cosmetics... the story goes like this,

once upon a time, in a land far far away... a young lady in the old land Japan was hire to wash empty bottles of Yakult from the customers ( in the old days, the sell in glass bottles and it was collect back by the manucfacturer to be cleaned and refills again, and many women were hired to wash them...), and she wash and wash and wash and wash and wash and wash and wash and wash till another day, the owner came to see here and he notice her very soft hands... and he finally came to his own conclusion that it was because of the washing of the Yakults... and thus cosmetics were born... Yakult Cosmetics ...

More products from Yakult... They did say that they have no plans for Malaysia to produce these products... oh well...

Ok... i accidentally uploaded the pics backwards.... so we'll have the tour going backwards ya...lol... here is the final pack yakults in "carton" as they called it..

Here, they are packing the 5-bottles pack of Yakult into a Carton which contains around if i'm not mistaken, 15 packs per carton... The machine is really captavating lo...i meant like...oh nvm..hard to explain la...

Here, we see the line of bottles that already have the labels and straws... really cool actually... the whole line thingy... these things is verily the interesting to me la...lol...

Inside that humoungous machine, is where they attach the labels and straws to the empty Yakult bottles.... i think...maybe its already being filled....oh well... moving on...

Here we have one of the workers checking for any errors in the bottles... we were saying things like his jobs sucks and also like, he look very blur staring into the oblivion of the bottles....lol.. pity him man...

I have no idea what this machine does, but it looks quite kewl huh?!

This weird looking device looks nice, that's why i took it... besides, i think i saw something like this in college's lab...i think... again, no idea wat its function is...

Here we have three workers doing stuff to the Yakult like cleaning and washing and testing and other stuff....hhmmm... notice there is like very little workers in this gigantic factory huh?! lol...

Ah, now i remembered, it is called the cleaning room , so go figure what are those ladies ( yup ladies...) doing...

This one is the best one so far.... she was like directly facing us, like she was position that way for the tour and stuff... so there she was doing her job and everything, and out of no where, came this large group of students looking like "jakons", taking picture of her and everything... Think for one day she was like a celeb...lol.... Then right, she did something which was like forbidden in the name of science... she was suppose to "pipette" the thing that she was pipetting out ( ask ur nearest science students what is pipetting...lol) there is a device for that purpose but instead, she suck is like using a straw... i was like...

"May Day !!! May Day !!! We have a Science crime offender of the 7th degree !!!"

This long looking machine is for making those cute small Yakult bottles....

No idea wat these does... and if you look closely, you'll see a guy in white bending down to pick something up...( somehow this sentence sounds very wrong....lol...) The guy was the first person we saw in the tour... at first we were like "where the heck is the workers?!" then he showed up, and we were like taking pics and stuff but he didn't really response to us, grrr.... we were like finally, some living beings in the huge factory...lol...

The culture tank....which i think is to culture the bacteria in the Yakult... and btw, for those who dunno and i wonder why you dunno... in Yakult there are living bacterias... and the name for those bacteria is "Lactobacsillus Casei Shirota" hehe.... i'm taking microbiology this sem...so i kinda understood that jargon..hehe...i'm good!!!

Another look at the tank...i wonder what it does....hmmm...

These are the pipes where they leads hot water to heat up another tank which functioned to activate the "sleeping" bacterias which the shipped from Japan... Yup... made in Japan wei people...

This is the tank where they put te "sleeping" bacteria in and the pipes from the previous pic leads hot water to activate the bacterias.... as mention...

OK thats it.... from the factory... actually there is one more pic i wanna show but accidentally deleted it....oh well...

Can't help myself....cam-whoring for just one pic ok....lol... i look damn good huh?! hehe

OK, that's it from the field trip, was damn tired after that wei....

now, there are more things i wanna post but i'll leave it for another time... ja for now

Paul Wong... Yakult - ly OUT!!!

ps = bought two packs of yakults... but some of me friends bought like two cartons!!!! so the math people!!! and another thing is that they cost around RM 3.90... kidan more expensive than those in convinient stores right?! oh well...