one of my resols for 2011..

To travel, but not to over-travel.

Meaning, at most 1 trip per quarter even if its to nearby getaways. As long as its gg to spend more than a day, with a chop in my passport, its a trip.

So far, I'm still doing good. Yeah!

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bits & pieces..

Trip updates
All accomodation booked. All transport arranged. Maps, some printed some not. Insurance, not yet.

Can't wait for the day to come for me to bring down my northface bag and start dumping the mustbrings in. Oh, how I missed packing for a trip.

Yeah.18 more days to go!

Random bits..
It's said that 2011 is not a good year for those born in the year of the boar. There will be more downs then ups. Work, r/s, health, family, fortune, nothing much will be gg your way. So, the best is to lie low and not make much changes.

In actual fact, I'm scared. I do not know what this year will bring but i told myself to be prepared for the worst.

Or shld I go all out and take whatever comes by its horns and turn it into my way. Will I have the strength?

Again, I asked myself. What do I really want. For myself.

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Happy Lunar New Year

大年初一，I spent my morning in the office. Kinda drag my time around, not wanting to go home so early. Since as long as I can remember, the first day of the cny were always spent at grandma's.Today, we didn't do any visiting. We just stayed in.

Seems like just any public holiday to me. I didnt do any ny shopping this time round. Partly because I still have some new items from my bkk trip last Oct and partly because I dun see myself in need of ny clothings.

While on the train this morning, I felt like I wasn't part of this cny celebration. I felt like I was alone in a foreign country, not having anywhere to visit. I see ppl in new clothes, on their way to friends or relatives, with their oranges in the little red paper bag. It sure feels weird to not be participating in this.

But I guess, I will get used to it.

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34 more days to go.

Sometimes, its not about where you are going or who you are going with.
It's how much you pay for your airtick that get you excited over your trip.

Air ticket - $382

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Welcome 2011!!

Another year has passed, so quickly with nothing much worth mentioning. I spent 2010 working, complaining about work, getting upset over work and not getting anywhere at work.

I spent my 2010 surfing for cheap air ticks to escape from work, get over work and then to come back to work. Sadly, the cycle carry on, over and over again.

The good stuff that comes from this is, I got to enjoy many short trips to places where budget air goes.

I start my 2010 travelling with Langkawi and found the lovely Koh Lepe. Now I know where to escape to when I want a bit of paradise. Next will be the forever Bangkok. The place where till now, I'm still not sick of despite going there over and over again.

March to May were escapes to Melacca and Bintan where hotels are so nice and relaxing. Penang, Ipoh, Cameron Highlands and Genting were the much needed trip for me to spend some quality time with my parents. Now I know what Penang, Ipoh and CH are like and I know that CH will not be on my list of escapes ever.

Bali, same same but different. At times similar to Thailand but still different. All the simple cosy accommodations at cheap prices make me wanna stay there for long periods just to feel the breezes blowing pass me, blue skies, green fields, magical.

Then there was KL. Such a short near trip yet filled with pleasant surprises here and there. It reminds me that there will always be a first anywhere, anytime.

Lastly, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai and Bkk. Thru out this yr, in all the places I'd been to, id finally refound my Passion in photography at The White Temple. How said? The moment I reach and saw the temple, I found my heart beating faster and my hand reaching to unbuckle my crumpler,took out my 450d while my eyes were still staring at the surroundings. This must be love at first sight. I snaped around not to test my camera and see what it can do but to sincerely capture the beauty and artwork of this place.. I have not had this feeling for ages and I thought I'd lost it like my youth, once gone never coming back. But luckily this is not the case.

Passion, the thing that makes my heart comes alive will always be around, sometimes just taking a short/long break from me.

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Next yr, I'll be lonely.

But I'll grow wiser.

What about you?

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Merry Christmas!

Just finished making my tiramisu. Had not make them myself in a very long time. Just hope they are edible. But reckon I was too generous with the Baileys. I hope nobody gets drunk.. Haha..

Had been doing a bit of homework since the idea started evolving more and more. Reading up from here and there and trying to find ways of achieving it. Hope that one day it will materialize and become a possible goal. Shall not disclose it as of now as I have a big tendency to treat whatever I'd said as done, 说过等于做了 as with the young Miss Tan. So, let's just wait and see ba..

How I love the planning part. It's the execution part tt I hate most.

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SIN TO LON

Airasia premium Xl seats from KL to Lon cost about $300 one way including taxes, flying Apr, May.

Shld I shld I shld i?

wat all potential world travellers need

N nt forgetting THE pair of Timberland shoes

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by the man in seat 61

There's more to travel than the destination.  It used to
be called a  j o u r n e y ...

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