11 July 2018, Wednesday For our final day in Beijing, we had only one place left to cover – the Forbidden City (故宫). It was raining when we left our Airbnb house at 10:15am. We had already delayed setting off but the weather forecast showed that it would rain the whole day so we had […]
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10 July 2018, Tuesday This morning, we set off at about 9:30am. The first item on our itinerary was Yonghe Temple or Yonghegong (雍和宫), also known as Lama Temple. From our Airbnb house, we took the subway at Guloudajie station and alighted at Yonghegong Lama Temple station, just two stops away. When we arrived at […]
9 July 2018, Monday After an easy and relaxing day yesterday, we were all ready to explore Beijing at full throttle today. Our first agenda was to visit the Great Wall of China, one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. There’s a famous saying 不到长城非好汉, which means “He who has never been to […]
8 July 2018, Sunday This morning, I woke up to news that my family had landed safely in Beijing at 7:23am. The travel party consisted of six people – my parents, my Uncle J and Aunt C, and Uncle S and Aunt J. I had arranged for my host to pick the six of them […]
7 July 2018, Saturday I had a good sleep on the train and woke up around 9am this morning. I made myself a cup of hot coffee and admired the scenery outside the window. Now that I was firmly in China territory, there was a lot more greenery and farmland all around, a far cry […]
Asia | Mongolia | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure 2018 – Day 67: Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
6 July 2018, Friday I woke up today feeling much better than I did yesterday. The medicine had worked after all. As arranged with my hostel, my driver showed up bright and early at Zaya Guest House and sent me to the Ulaanbaatar railway station, located about 2.5km away. I arrived at 6:50am, well ahead […]
Asia | Mongolia | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure 2018 – Day 66: Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
5 July 2018, Thursday I woke up at about 9am this morning. I had been nursing a flu in the last two days but it seemed to be worse today. I felt rather weak and decided I should find a pharmacy to buy some medicine. This was my first time falling sick after more than […]
Asia | Mongolia | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure 2018 – Day 65: Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
4 July 2018, Wednesday I woke up feeling a bit sick this morning. I’m not sure if it was due to the vodka last night, or it was from being exposed to the elements the past two days, but I was starting to nurse a runny nose and I felt a bit lethargic. Coupled with […]
Asia | Mongolia | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure 2018 – Day 64: Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
3 July 2018, Tuesday This morning, I woke up at about 5:30am because Mrs Oyunaa was already up and preparing breakfast and starting on the day’s chores. I snuck out of the ger to see the early morning sun and snap some photos. There was still some mist hanging around and it was a very […]
Asia | Mongolia | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure 2018 – Day 63: Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
2 July 2018, Monday More than 92 hours since boarding the train at Nizhny Novgorod in Russia, my Trans-Mongolian Railway train number 6 finally arrived at Ulaanbaatar railway station in Mongolia at 6:50am. After spending the past few days on the train with Ray and Tony, and later also with my new bunkmate Aveline and […]
Asia | Japan | SOTW Tokyo 2019
SOTW Tokyo 2019 – Day 4: Meiji Jingu / Harajuku / Todoroki / Jiyugaoka / Naka-Meguro
Day 4 – 12 February 2019, Tuesday Rise and shine! It’s my last day in Tokyo and I have a full day to roam about before my late flight back home tonight. I wasn’t planning on doing much initially but thanks to my primary school friend MB, I ended up with a packed and fulfilling […]
Day 3 – 11 February 2019, Monday After experiencing the high of Janet Jackson’s State of the World Tour last night, I took it easy today. I managed to wake up early enough to enjoy the two free bread rolls for breakfast. Unlike yesterday’s mostly sunny weather, it was a day of gloomy skies today, […]
Day 2 – 10 February 2019, Sunday I woke up after 9am this morning and lazed in bed for a while before making my way down to take a hot bath. By the time I was done, I had missed the free breakfast bread rolls, which are served until 10am daily. After the cold and […]
How It All Began I wasn’t planning to make a trip to Tokyo this year but when my friend JK told me in late December 2018 that Janet Jackson would be bringing her State Of The World Tour to the Nippon Budokan at Tokyo for two nights in February 2019, I jumped at it. JK […]
30 October 2017, Monday After resting for most of yesterday, I felt better physically today. In fact, I wasn’t aching as badly as I thought I would. I had a whole day in Kathmandu today so I took it nice and slow. At about 7:45am, I left my guest house to look for a nice […]
29 October 2017, Sunday Rise and shine! After yesterday’s gruelling race, I woke up at about 5:45am today. I had planned to make my way to the viewing area to see the sunrise but my body was aching and I didn’t have enough motivation to climb all the way up there, so I only got […]
28 October 2017, Saturday I felt like I had barely fallen asleep when my phone alarm rang and it was time to wake up again. It was 2:45am and I only had about five hours of sleep. After washing up, I ate my apple strudel and cinnamon bun for breakfast and tried to calm my […]
27 October 2017, Friday This morning, I woke up at about 7am and it was a nice, cool 18 degrees Celsius outside. At 7:45am, EW and I walked to the main street to have breakfast at a restaurant called Boomerang. I ordered a Trekker’s Breakfast set, which cost Rs 325 (S$4.40) and consisted of muesli, […]
26 October 2017, Thursday This morning, we woke up at about 7:30am and went for breakfast at 8am. It was about 16 degrees Celsius in the morning, slightly chilly but still comfortable because it was sunny. The hotel breakfast buffet was not bad and we ate our fill before heading out for one last stroll […]
How It All Began Last October, I visited Nepal for the third time. My previous visits were in 2012 and 2013/2014 and I’d been wanting to go back for some time now. Alongside Iceland and Japan, Nepal is one of my favourite countries in the world. I love the Himalayan mountain scenery and the simple […]