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 […]
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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 […]
3 January 2023, Tuesday It’s a special day today because it’s dad’s birthday, and that’s why we came on this trip in the first place, so happy birthday dad! This morning, we left Uncle S and Aunt V’s apartment at 8am and drove to a kopitiam nearby for breakfast. When we arrived at 8:08am, there […]
2 January 2023, Monday (Exchange rate: S$1 = RM3.25) First trip of 2023, and we had a super early start to the day. After a light breakfast at home, we headed down to meet our Mercedes taxi driver, who arrived at 4:20am sharp as scheduled. Last night, I made an advance booking on the Zig […]
Day 3: 31 July 2023, Monday For our third and last full day in Kuala Lumpur, we had a light agenda: shopping in the morning and afternoon, followed by dinner with IK. At 8:54am, we hopped on a Grab car to take us to an eatery in Bukit Bintang called Capitol Cafe for breakfast. It […]
Day 2: 30 July 2023, Sunday Despite not sleeping much after returning late from the MUSE concert last night, I still managed to crawl out of bed at 6:20am. WY was too tired so she elected to sleep in. We had another early start to the day because IK and S were taking us out […]
How It All Began When English rock band MUSE announced in February that they would be staging a concert in Kuala Lumpur on 29 July 2023, I knew I had to go. The tour is in support of their latest album, Will of the People, released on 22 August 2022. It was a little surprising […]
What To Pack For Your Mount Rinjani Climb Before climbing Mount Rinjani, I read several blogs and heard from my friend who had done it before that it would be very tough. I knew it would test me physically, but I was hoping that it would not be dangerous, like Mount Agung in Bali. You […]
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Mission Rinjani 2023: Day 4 & 5 – Pos II / Mataram / Singapore
15 April 2023, Saturday Woke up at 5:45am this morning and it was a cool 20 degrees C outside. I climbed out of our tent and saw the sun just peeking out from above the mountaintop. 24 hours ago, I was making the strenuous climb towards the summit, hoping to make it there before sunrise. […]
14 April 2023, Friday I had set my alarm clock for 2am but I was woken up an hour earlier by the alarm from the tent next to ours and I couldn’t go back to sleep again. I continued lying in bed but my blocked nose didn’t help. At 2am, I crawled out of the […]