Is my name... My day job is not a journalist. And I don't run a travel agency. I travel a tad more than an average person does, that's cos it's what I do for a living. For the time being at least. Envy me not cos the job glitz goes just as far as the does, in between, it's (*7%!#@@?). Just another job, that's what I mean. But I love it and I love it, and I'm grateful. Anyhow, welcome to my weblog. In here, you'll get, if not little, scanty info on my globetrots and travels. Do not expect detailed accounts, nor travel-guide type facts and figs. Just some idiot-proof, Info-Sharing-101, you could find handy if you're looking up destinations, I've been to, myself. Feel free to indulge, heed my advice, dump it, comment, pop your queries or judge me, for all you fancy. All info are true at point of publishing, unless stated otherwise. Hmmph, just one advice. I share cos I'm naturally nice like that, but I'm not always, always right. Don't say I didn't warn you.
What say u...
Been There.Done That.
[maa-lee] Capital city of Maldives. Group of atolls in Indian Ocean.
Location: Southern Asia, South-southwest of India.
Flight time: Approximately 6hrs from Singapore Changi Airport.
Climate: Tropical; hot, humid; dry,(November to March); rainy,(June to August).
Ethnic groups: South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs.
Currency: US$.
RecommenD-O-Meter: MUST!MUST!MUST!GO!
*Down Under*
Brighton Beach, Melbourne. South of St Kilda. Bright and strikingly colored bathing boxes, line the beaches.
These bathing boxes, used also for the storage of clothes and sometimes small water crafts, are private change rooms. Found mainly on Brighton and on the beaches of the Mornington Peninsula.
*Down Udder* Christchurch, Nz. Mt Hutt, opens from early May until late October. One of the longest seasons ski resorts in New Zealand. The road to the mountain base is not for the faint-hearted but once there, you will experience world-class skiing, and breath-taking views. Elevation is 2075 metres, with 365 hectares of ski terrain.
*Almost -ous*
"Fame costs, and right here is where you start paying." Driven by that fame-ous motto, a group of talented youths attended the New York High School of Performing Arts, to uncover the true price of FAME.
Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Venue: The Aldwych Theatre, London.
Travel: Nearest Underground: Covent Garden
Nearest Rail: Charing Cross RecommenD-O-Meter: If u're into dancy-disco-jiving,this musical is rhetorically, RETRO-rical! It's an Ultimate Ah GO!GO!
*Delhi*
- Sarojini Nagar Clothes,ethnic footwear and accessories. Factory rejects, baring labels from Zara, MNG, Miss Selfridge and Style&Co...Good luck with the rummaging though!
- Delhi Hutt Bric-a-Brac. Cheap and bargainable ornaments.
*Sweetdreams my LAX*
*Istanbul*
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for an excerpt from a travel memoir by Tom Brosnahan. If I could have his dialectology, those will be my exact words too.
*Shopaholic and Sister* We did not kill each other.
*Shopaholic in Manhattan* What do shopaholics do in NEW YORK? Go figure.
I speak Graphics.
Pictorial Therapy.Trigger Happy.Visual Feasting.Eat ur Hearts out.
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Please... This is NOT a travel guide. So read and heed at your own risk. I will not be held liable for your holiday plans that go bust on you and neither should any part of this blog be excerpted without prior permission. Like I've mentioned, I'm usually nice, but I'm ONLY, usually nice.
Goooood morning Sunshine!!! Tho there isn't much to begin with today, it sure seemed like good time to recuperate and lay sprawled in bed! Oh yes...I got home yesterday from LAX with beloved team mates. and like every other time we hung out together. For makan, shopping, sight-seeing, gossip mongering and plain inane bantering. This time round we had the honour of having Jerome's Sis, Serena who lives there to bring us around. Are we lucky or what? On the first day, she drove us to Ontario Mall which is about 45minutes away from the hotel. A great change from the usual Malls the hotel shuttle brings us to. Frivolity manifested and don't blame me please cos Abercrombie had a sale going on, so did Hollister and did I mention we paid a visit to a Nike factory outlet too. Ok, ok I won't rub on it already. In a nutshell, tho the trip, had the four of us cramping in the back seat, it wasn't so bad really. It wasn't even anywhere near bad. The next day we visited her home. A typical American housing area with a common pool. Nice!Very simple but homey. Really liked it there, where she lives with a shy, paunchy American guy, Billy and Arthur a fellow Singaporean, whose wife and children live in New Jersey. He also doubled as our personal photographer. Then we visited a yardsale. The kind u usually see on tv. The kind I never thought I'ld be able to visit someday. But I didn't find anything that I would want to buy so we headed to a place where Serena had so wanted us to visit. She drove us to Pasedona where Huntington Gardens is. Home for numerous species of cactii. After which we had lunch at an Islamic, Chinese Restaurant. Didn't know they have that in LAX! But it was great to finally get to eat meat outstation! We headed back to our hotel and gave up one room for Serena to stay at the hotel for the night. Them girls had a girly good time at the hotel jacuzzi while I hogged the phone for an overseas call session. Topic was " Hate that cockroach!" Okay okay, enough divulging, u go click on my Fotopages for some pictorial therapy. Cactii, I heard, has a therapeutic remedial effect on people alongside animated girls who are camera whores, like that! U bet, we'll take away ur sorrows and heartaches...so feast on!
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