Posted in Travel on Nov 12th, 2009
It’s the time of the year again when everyone is planning their Christmas holidays. Some of my colleagues are going to Greece, some to Taiwan and some even to nearby countries like Hong Kong.
While I yearn to go for one too, at the same time, i also feel that it’s better to stay in Singapore [...]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 16th, 2009
With all the H1N1 news all over the media and papers, one will never think of going on holiday these two years. Not when there are high risk people around. However, there’s no harm in looking at interesting travel deals around the net. One place which i really hope to go within the next 10 [...]
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Posted in Travel on Apr 19th, 2009
I know this is the wrong time to think of going on holidays. You see, our school holidays have just came to an end. But here I am, surfing several places with my itchy fingers. Blame it on the availability of information on the internet. And to have a personal blog here makes things worst. [...]
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Posted in Travel on Apr 18th, 2009
I was looking around for a short holiday for the next upcoming school holidays. I wanted to book a resort or a family chalet where I can bring a few friends and my whole family along for a fun-filled vacation. How nice if any affordable place can be found.
The internet has plenty of [...]
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Posted in Friends, Travel on Mar 22nd, 2008
We arrived at Changi Jetty at around 9.15am, and could only get on the bumboat at around 10am. I had the sense of déjà vu when i arrived at the jetty. I saw the familiar arrival and departure hall. I saw the usual queue for boats heading for Pulau Ubin. Nothing’s change after so long [...]
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Posted in Home and Family, Travel on Mar 15th, 2008
My last post for the trip. You must be tired reading my travel entries by now, hahaa, but no choice. If i did not make an effort to blog them down now, i would forget more than 80% of the stuffs. This is the problem i faced in my past trips. I took too [...]
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Posted in Home and Family, Travel on Mar 14th, 2008
This morning, our next destination was the Yinzi Cave. The rain from the previous night made the lake looked foggy. The pictures did not turn up quite well. But it sure feels like one is traveling through the celestial court short of fairies flying around.
A nice fishermen came on board our ferry on [...]
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Posted in Home and Family, Travel on Mar 13th, 2008
We continue our journey today from Guilin to Liu Sanjie Cultural Garden
Liu Sanjie is pretty well known all over the world, especially amongst the Chinese. I’ve heard of her from my previous history lessons but i’ve never actually know her past in details. We visited the cultural garden today.
This woman has never cut her hair [...]
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Posted in Home and Family, Travel on Mar 12th, 2008
It’s another new day in Guilin. We woke up early today to visit a place called Longsheng. We were greeted by the local folks in their traditional costumes. They did some performances for us such as the Bamboo Dance and we also got to drink their famous Zhuang Tea (a.k.a You2 Cha2 in Chinese) [...]
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Posted in Home and Family, Travel on Mar 11th, 2008
On day 3 , we proceeded to the border checkpoint in Mong Cai. We walked across the bridge that links the Vietnamese border town of Mong Cai on the southern bank and the China Dongxing City of the northern bank across the Beilun River.
We spend a night at Nanning before proceeding to Guilin.
Day 4: We [...]
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