Tag Archive: travel

30 hours in Singapore

Last weekend David and I flew to Singapore for Lye Keat and Mei Li’s wedding (part #2). Our friend Josie a.k.a. baby stalker was with us as we took our maiden flight with Firefly down south. The whole Firefly experience was pleasant—Terminal 3 in Subang was like 25 minutes from our place, the refurbished terminal…

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Cuti-Cuti Malaysia, Kuching!

Warning—this is a VERY long blog post. Proceed with caution. Trip numero tres of 2009, we decided to bercuti-cuti in Malaysia. Now we have Muffin “with us” everywhere we go, we thought of somewhere a little more laid back, where we could just go with the flow without any frills. And without any frills did…

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i’ve been Schmap-ed!

I’m schooooo happy! It was worth every single gram of that heavy-in-weight, 2nd hand, Canon 400D that we lugged to Melbourne and Paris early this year. FOUR of our photos from our holidays were picked to be featured in Schmap.com‘s local travel guides—WAY-HO! Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations…

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Thistle Country

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Merah Putih Bisa! The Jakarta Trip

After spending 4 nights in Jakarta, I’d like to share with all of you the memorable observations/experiences from this dynamic city. Always start and end the trip with some local food. Thanks to a former uni-class mate I got to taste Sate Babi, and some Bakut without the teh. It’s ribs in some “kiam chye”…

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Jakarta here i come

Come Monday I’ll be in Jakarta for business trip part 3 of 6 for 2009. I’m happy ‘cos Jakarta is just 2 hours by plane I’m staying only for 4 nights The kek lapis rawks Super Cheapo DVDs (according to Peanut‘s mom—Mangga2 rite???) I realised my dream of becoming a millionaire for the 3rd time…

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The Great Escapade: My fun travel with MAS!

Being a Malaysian, food is always on our minds 24/7. You wake up to the smell of Puan Siti’s nasi lemak, you lunch at Muthu’s for its naan & mutton curry, and dinner is Ah Chong’s Cantonese stir fry noodles. Oh, and supper at Pakcik’s Ramly burger stall in front of 7-11.Occasionally we attempt to…

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a weekend in Paris

Work went pretty OK in Dakar, getting things done was a challenge, everyone assumes you speak French, every time the Senegalese say yes it actually means no, you face the same breakfast buffet spread 6 days in a row, and you OD on baguettes and butter at every meal. Let’s just say I’m glad it’s…

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and it took 24 hours

It’s 4.30 am, I’m awake and I decided to write this blog entry to kill time. Finally, I’ve arrived in Dakar, Senegal. Located on the westernmosttip of Africa, the journey took me through Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, car-transferred to Orly airport, before we hopped on to an Air Senegal flight to get here. All…

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