Day 6: 16 May 2023, Tuesday It’s the fourth day of our Tour de Taiwan cycling adventure, and we’ve settled into a good rhythm by now. We woke up at 6:00am and went for breakfast at 6:30am, followed by the usual warm-up at 7:15am and briefing by Jeffrey. Today will be the second-longest distance for […]
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Day 5: 15 May 2023, Monday Day 3 of our Tour de Taiwan RTI, and we’re feeling good…we went for breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant at 6:30am, followed by the usual loading up, warming up, gearing up and briefing of the day’s itinerary by Jeffrey. Today would be a “relaxed” day of cycling from Taichung […]
Day 4: 14 May 2023, Sunday I woke up at 5:50am today, having slept very well last night, no doubt because of the physical exertions from the first day of cycling yesterday. I checked my legs and found that I could still feel them, which was a good sign. I think they would get sorer […]
Day 3: 13 May 2023, Saturday After two nights in Taipei, it was time to start our adventure – the Cycling Tour de Taiwan, or Round-The-Island (RTI) cycling tour with Giant Adventure (捷安特旅遊). Over the next nine days, we will cycle a total distance of around 900km, covering between 80km+ and 122km each day. It […]
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Jeju Fantasy 2024 – Day 6 & 7 (Seongsan / Jeju-si / Singapore)
Day 6: 16 May 2024, Thursday And just like that, it was the last day of our Jeju RTI. Having decided not to do the sunrise trek up Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak, I slept in and woke up at 6:35am this morning. It turned out to be the right decision because today would prove to be […]
Day 5: 15 May 2024, Wednesday Day 5 of our trip, and the third day of our Jeju RTI. It was another beautiful day for cycling, with the temperature at a cool 15 degrees C at 7:00am before rising to a maximum of 22 degrees in the early afternoon. Today’s agenda was to cycle 57.4km […]
Day 4: 14 May 2024, Tuesday Rise and shine, it’s the second day of our Jeju RTI ride! It was cool and sunny at 16 degrees C when we woke up at 7am, but the temperature would hit a maximum of 21 degrees later in the early afternoon. Perfect conditions for cycling. On the agenda […]
Day 3: 13 May 2024, Monday Day 3 in Jeju, and it’s now time for our Jeju Round-The-Island (RTI) ride! As promised by the weather forecast, we woke up to sunny skies, with the morning temperature a cool, 14 degrees C. Compared to the cloudy skies yesterday and the spell of rain last night, the […]
Day 2: 12 May 2024, Sunday We were tired yesterday because of our red-eye flight, but after a good night’s sleep, we woke up today feeling much more refreshed. At 9:10am, IH, ZY and I left Whistle Lark Hotel and walked towards our breakfast venue, Café Antoinette, located about 2.4km away. PL elected to sleep […]
How It All Began To be honest, South Korea was not on the top of my list of places to visit. I am not a big fan of kimchi or K-Pop, and have resisted the Korean wave for a long time. However, I recently started watching some K-Dramas like Squid Game, All Of Us Are […]
Day 4 – 13 March 2024, Wednesday Today was D-Day…the day we would be Together Again with Janet, or Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty! I woke up excited at 6:45am and had breakfast at our Airbnb apartment, consisting of Flosss bun that we bought from BreadTalk last night, and instant coffee from home. As the […]
Day 3 – 12 March 2024, Tuesday For our third day in Manila, we decided to go on a day trip to Tagaytay, a popular weekend getaway located about 60km south of Manila. We looked at a few tour operators on Klook and Tripadvisor but they were pretty expensive, so the ever-resourceful WY trawled the […]
Day 2 – 11 March 2024, Monday Woke up naturally this morning at 7:45am. The best thing about staying in an Airbnb apartment is that it comes with a fully-equipped kitchen so we can prepare simple meals at home and not eat out. WY heated up the cheese & garlic pita bread that we bought […]
How It All Began When Janet Jackson announced on 15 November 2023 that she would be bringing her Together Again Tour to Hawaii, Manila and Japan for a handful of dates in March 2024, I knew I had to go for it. I had already missed the original US leg of the tour in the […]
Day 2: 12 May 2023, Friday For our second day in Taipei, we had a full day free so we decided to visit Shifen (十分) and Jiufen (九份), two of the most popular day trip destinations located on the outskirts of the city. We woke up at 7am but lay in bed until we could […]
How It All Began After years of dreaming about it, I finally completed my first cycling trip to Vietnam/Cambodia in November 2022. Pedalling my way from city to city over multiple days was invigorating and something that I had never experienced before. Over seven days and 300km of cycling, we traversed across diverse landscapes, seeing […]
24 September 2023, Sunday After the action-packed day yesterday, we had a lighter slate on our plate today, with only two main sightseeing objectives – Penang Hill and Kek Lok Si Temple. Yesterday night, I had pre-purchased tickets for our Penang Hill visit, because I read that the queue to take the funicular can be […]
23 September 2023, Saturday For our second day in Penang, our main agenda was to visit George Town. The historic core of the city was prescribed a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with Malacca City in 2008. Penang and Melaka were the two historic port cities along the Straits of Malacca during British colonial rule […]
22 September 2023, Friday (Exchange rate: S$1 = RM3.40) Rise and shine! It was finally time for our short family getaway to Penang, a former British colony located on the northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia. I have been to Penang twice as a child, in 1987 and 1991, when I was 5 and 9 years […]
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Ipoh (Hor) Fun 2023 – Day 3 & 4: Cameron Highlands / Ipoh / Singapore
4 January 2023, Wednesday It was a cool 16 degrees C when we woke up at 7am this morning. Always nice to experience a bit of natural, chilly weather away from the constant heat and humidity in Singapore. At 8am, we checked out of our Golden Hills apartment and drove to Brinchang for breakfast, just […]