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Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant @ Little India, Singapore

While I was in Singapore, I met up with Nicolepoopoo and she wanted to try indian food for dinner. As I wasn't familiar with Little India area, we decide to do a search on the computer for a restaurant to go to. The restaurant of choice? Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant, which is practically everywhere we go. There's a total of 2 →


Thai Food @ Bukit Genting Hill, Penang

Continuation from my long list of posts regarding my trip to Penang, this one is about this little place known as Bukit Genting Hill. Awesome name right? A Place with two Hill in it's name. Getting there requires a bit of a drive towards Balik Pulau towards the south west part of the island, in term of address, there's not →


Air Hitam Asam Laksa @ Jalan Pasar, Penang

On the journey up towards Kek Lok Si, while we get near Jalan Pasar, our Penangite friend decide to pull us over to the side of the road, dangerously close to the T-junction where cars were squeezing by and the locals were busy going about doing their morning shopping at the wet market. All because of the Asam Laksa road →


Road Trip: Pulau Pinang – A Video of Kek Lok Si Temple

Over the weekend, I went on a road trip to Pulau Pinang. Approximately 330km from home. While there, decide to make use of my compact camera and use it as a video recorder. It doesn't provide us with the best quality video but heck, this is just for self indulgence and I'm not shooting this for any TV series so →


The Laid Back Moments in Bali

AS you know from the previous post about my trip to Bali, we actually took time out in the morning of our 3rd day to do our own thing. So at 9am, we gathered our stuff and head off to the beach to have a stroll and check out the beach along Legian. After spending about 2 hours at the beach, →


Guided Tour around Bali Part 3 of 3

Day 3 of our tour was quite a short one. We skip the morning tour so we could relax by the beach and the pool before we head off to the tour that was planned for us. The tour operator picked us up at noon to bring us off to Lahbagga Restaurant for lunch overlooking a vast paddy field plantation. It →


Guided Tour around Bali Part 2 of 3

The 2nd day of our holiday in Bali saw us heading to a Batik factory to see how they produce batik clothes, it was an interesting moment for me as it reminds me of how I used to do this in school as part of my art syllabus. There were also a shop located in this place where you can →


The Taste of Vientiane

Saving the 'best' of my Vientiane post for last and the best I'm talking about is food! The major importance whenever we travel to a foreign country is to try the local dishes. Right? Sadly, when you follow tour guides, they tend to bring you to places where you eat food you can always eat back home. The 1st night I →


Sights & Sounds of Vientiane, Laos Part 2 of 2

Here is the continuation from the previous post on the place I've visited in Vientiane, this place I visited was located on Lane Xang Avenue with it's entrance facing Ho Phra Keo, it's the only temple to survive the Siamese invasion and popularly known as Vat Sisaket to both locals and tourist. The Vat or Temple holds several thousand →


Off the Beaten Path in Vientiane, Laos

In this 2nd installment of my visit to Vientiane, Laos, I'd like to bring you back in time, in time to the age where modern technology has yet to have it's influence to the way of life.The place I'm talking about is called Dane Song, about 30km from Vientiane on the Luang Prabang Road. My initial plans to go there →


Setting Sun over Mekong River

The 1st set documenting my holiday in Vientiane, Laos. I am not touching on the places I've visited for now but share with you some of the beautiful sun sets I've seen along the Mekong River on the 4 nights I was there traveling. At certain parts of the river, the Mekong was so dried up that we can practically walk →


The Ten Commandments of Flying

If you're the type who travels much via planes (this does not include those of you who works as an Air Crew/Stewardess/Stewards), I'm sure you'd have come across sitting beside or in front of passengers that has been an arse. Maybe, even you yourself without knowing it has done it to others. As travels become cheaper, everyone starts to fly even →


Accor’s new Asia Pacific “3-day Super Sale”

Accor is a major group with the focus in servicing the corporate clients and public institutions with hotels like the Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, all seasons, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6 brands, representing 4,000 hotels and nearly 500,000 rooms in 90 countries under their umbrella. Currently, Accor is having a 3-day Super Sale offering One →


Work and all

Over the last couple of days, having worked with various people covering the formula 1. Most of them mention this of me. 1. I'm quite a quiet person but one with loads of energy waiting to explode especially when i'm getting ready for an assignment. - I'm not really a quiet person, just one who would only have loads to say when →


More Free Apps and Games for iPhone

Here's more FREE Apps and Games for your enjoyment, but I'll focus more towards productivity and travel apps. You can go here for the games. So here's a continuation of my list of FREE Applications that I enjoy and want to share with anyone who cares. Productivity/Interesting Apps 1. The Art of War by Tree Frog An interesting book that almost everyone had →


World Air Traffic in 24 hours

This is a very cool video that I stumbled upon on youtube. It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, recorded by plane flight transponders, via Geo-stationary orbital satellites all compressed to a min. From space we look like a bee hive of activity. You could tell it was summer time in the →