Nadia. 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...
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[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. 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. 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! - 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. We did not kill each other. What do shopaholics do in NEW YORK? Go figure. I speak Graphics.
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Saturday, September 02, 2006 I've had this drafted out while I made my own way back from Jam's hotel room in Gloucester. Had silently, full of zip, in my hyperactive mind, planned to blog about my day-out in London with beloved team Girl Jam, who came in on the same day I did, but on a different flight. That, before it got interrupted by an announcement made over the PA that all Westbound trains on the District line were to be severely delayed. Timecheck, 10pm! On a normal day, or night like this, that is if I'm at home, back in Singapore, it's a sure no Biggie. But I was away. In a foreign land. Not knowing exactly what the underground system is like there. 'Cept that in a recent poll that was held, it overtook Paris and New York as having the world's most busiest public transport system. (Yet not the most reliable...) So, accompanied by my one dimensional know-wheres of London and the scanty information given by one kind samaritan, I decided to take the bus. Bus no. 49 that was to take me just a few stops away, God knows where exactly, to High Street Kensington where once there, I'ld be able to make my way back to my hotel. Anyhow, while I was on the bus, I made a friend, Rahoul, a Kashmiran, who has been living there for the past 5 years. A student by day and a waiter at a betting cafe by night. Had told me to look him up the next time I'm in London so he could buy me dinner. I was grateful somehow that he had told me where to alight, though dinner and the I-will-look-him-up promise, was a total fib. As I gathered my steps, I can't help a tad reminiscent of that holiday I took with Sis last year to London. Where we had taken a picture outside a little cafeteria called the Muffin Man. Just this little joke we shared about this place. While I absorb the little emo moment to displace the chill that was hastening my pace already, I was back in my room. Never felt safer. Anyhow, if u think this is the end already, no u're especially wrong cos haven't I said I had wanted to blog about what happened in the day? Okies, this was what, Me and Jam met up at the tube station so we could have breakfast and to cut a long story short, we weren't in the mood to shop. By then it was mid-day. So we headed towards Mawar, a halal, Malaysian Food restaurant off Edgeware, the equivalent of Arab Street in Singapore. Jam thought a play should keep us occupied for the rest of the day. We looked up the play show-list and decided on one. One with dancing in it. Something disco,dancing,jiving anything lively. And thought that if we could just head to Embankment to get out tickets there instead of Leicester, we could just while away and watch it by evening since the theatre is located at Embankment itself. So we walked, looked, and asked and still couldn't find the theater and by some force of wrong directions fortified by undeniably unsubtle toutisty cluelessness, we landed ourselves at Trafalgar Square. It was here where we saw a public performance by a dazzling array of dancers cladded in colourful costumes screaming for attention. We got closer and guess who we saw. Happy squinting! ok..ok.. how about this one... BETTER?! ....alrite alrite.... I'l tell ya.... yes its him! Salman Khan! Somekinda Bollywood filming going on. Ok Ok so I'm not a huge fan. But it got me excited nonetheless. And now that we know how it feels to be behind a real Bollywood scene, we made them feel how it's like to be behind OUR scene. Just us, with Bollywood behind our scene! Haha! |