tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649919770395639622012-02-09T21:19:53.747+08:00cordyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05824078149814171296noreply@blogger.comBlogger3421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564991977039563962.post-9335826690345034432012-01-30T20:51:00.004+08:002012-01-30T20:52:49.760+08:00

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and if you're broke but still want to give something sweet and lovely to your special someone, here's a wonderful gift that is easy to make, sweet looking, and cheap :)  I'm going to give you the recipe to turn the top part of this photo, into something that looks like the bottom part of this photo!    Cooking Instruction: 1. Melt like15cm x 5cm +

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  My husband got a sewing machine recently (why, I don't know). But it was sitting at our study room for like a month before we actually took it out for a trial run! Above is a close up of the sewing machine, and after a few trial run, that was the first cat coaster I made using a machine! It is sooo fast! However, the quality was not as nice as hand sewed cause it was harder to control the

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Mum decided not to cook this Chinese New Year, so what's a poor girl like me to do if she misses all her favorite food? Cook all of them of course!!! And that's exactly what I did. And today I'm gonna share with you my family's version of the peranakan Ju Hu Char. Photo here shows all the ingredient you need. Sorry, peranakan sucks at giving measurements, so just estimate ('agak')

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Another cute picture drawn for me :) but sadly I can't remember his name except he signs it as Forlorn Eyes :) My interesting Buaya Week of 1998-1999 in Sheares Hall. Guess I'm converting all my memories now into digital format :) There's a quote in one of the cards too which I wanted to share. But sadly I can't make out what the writing says....*roll eyes* Ref: Sheares Hall 

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Cordy wishes you all a Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon! It's a special year cause Cordy was born in the year of the Dwagon! Here to share, a painting of two cute dragons I saw in the Neka Art Museum, Ubud Bali Indonesia while I was there last year for my annual holiday. 新年快樂! Ref: Neka Art Museum

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I always thought I'll only see bad advertisements on youtube or tv. I never imagine I would be able to spot 3 in a row in a span on 2 hours while I was out having breakfast on a casual Saturday morning. Here are some to share. Note, all below advertisements are deemed bad/inappropriate/insensitive/tasteless based on my own opinion only. It's perfectly fine if most of you think it's ok for public

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Yes! Cordy can now legally run for the US Presidency! Vote Cordy for a better quality of life!  Celebrated my 35th birthday yesterday in a pretty relaxing way. My home was brightly decorated with a bouquet of champagne roses from my old roomie Bella which was delivered to my office the day before my birthday. It still amuses my colleagues that I get flowers that are not from my husband :

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  Was throwing away old letters the other day, mainly old love letters, and I came across this card with this drawing on it from a guy whom I went into a complicated relationship with. I threw away all his letters, but I kept this drawing. I always love drawings, poems, or art that people make for me. It kinda always meant more than whatever words they could ever express to me. This is a

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We stayed at a few places while we were in London. The first few days were in the center of town at County Hotel London (Cost SGD130 per night for a double room with breakfast included). During our country trip, we stayed at a Holiday Inn which was included inside the land tour package. After that we left for Paris, and we came back, we moved to a more permanent place call Hillspring Lodge

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Eating out a proper meal in Paris is kinda expensive for us. It cost roughly 23Euro for a 2 course lunch. Since I got my own personal patissierie, I wasn't interested in desserts. But I really really love the entrée! But let's start from the beginning. I love dining out in Paris because they provide me with free flow of fresh bread!!! I only realize this a few days later when I was so hungry I

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The wonderful thing about having your own apartment is you can always bring food back home to eat. And that's a great way to eat your meals in an expensive country for a start cause it slowly ease you into getting used to the price of the food. And the other great thing about staying around where local stay, is the cheap grocery store around where you can easily stock up on water and food! So

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I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite restaurant in Singapore - Le Bistrot. It's a little French restaurant found near Kallang Indoor Stadium. Nearest MRT is Stadium at the Circle Line. I've only been there twice so far, first time being on my anniversary in 2011, and 2nd time on my hubby's birthday on 6-Jan-2012. Both time, the food was just excellent! For a list of what they

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 Awesome aren't they? Haha. These are not toys. These are not RPG related pieces either. They are actually art and craft stuff I got from my expedition down town to Singapore Chinatown! And I am pretty broke right now from buying all these nonsense for my art and craft. Especially so when I haven't even produce a single craft out of them yet! But anyway, if you ever wonder what

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I love decorating my blog with paintings! Every time I visit my blog, I feel like I'm visiting an Art Gallery! And since the past few blog entry has been on art, I though I'll continue on since I recently attended the National Museum of Singapore's Christmas Open House where the Dreams & Reality Exhibition was on from 26-Oct-2011 till 5-Feb-2012. If you missed it, I'm sure there will be more

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I stumbled upon the Dali exhibition by accident as the Van Gogh Alive Exhibition was also being held at the same place. I have seen Dali's art before in Singapore once and I like it because of the elephant bronze sculpture that reminded me of the elephants in Discworld. And since his art is mostly fantasy like, he kinda grew on me. But after going to this exhibition, I begin to like his

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  If you've recalled my previous post on the book call Lust For Life, you would know that I simply adore Van Gogh even though I think he's a bum. So it's no surprise that I was counting down the day to visit the Van Gogh Alive Exhibition @ ArtScience Museum Singapore. I even organised a meetup for the Singapore Humanism Meetup group. But I wanted it to be not just another meetup. I wanted to

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それはクリスマスですので, そして私はあなたがいなくて寂しいので... 夜に向かって雪が降り積もると 悲しみがそっと胸にこみ上げる 涙で心の灯を消して 通り過ぎてゆく季節を見ていた 外はため息さえ凍りついて 冬枯れの街路樹に風が泣く あの赤レンガの停車場で 二度と帰らない誰かを待ってる, Woo 今宵 涙こらえて奏でる愛のSerenade 今も忘れない恋の歌 雪よもう一度だけこのときめきをCelebrate ひとり泣き濡れた夜にWhite Love 聖なる鐘の音が響く頃に 最果ての街並みを夢に見る 天使が空から降りて来て 白い恋人達 歌詞 - J-POP 歌詞 春が来る前に微笑をくれた, Woo 心折れないように負けないようにLoneliness 白い恋人が待っている だから夢と希望を胸に抱いてForeverness 辛い毎日がやがてWhite Love 今宵 涙

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I haven't touched my camera for a full 7 months! So today I decided to take it out and shoot around the house. Here are the results, a combination of my love for photography, and my love for quotes.Enjoy.        

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If you ever visit Penang, don't just be satisfied with visiting the usual touristy places and eating highly MSG hawkers food. Go local! Go off the beaten path! Go Balik Pulau, and try an authentic dish serve in a homely relaxing atmosphere with no bullshit attached! Yes, I'm talking about our national dish of Nasi Lemak! But not the type you buy for RM1 a packet with just rice and gravy and maybe

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SHM had a delightful outing at the newly opened ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sand on 30-July-2011. 9 people showed up for this event, with the sole reason was to visit the Van Gogh Alive Exhibition, the bonus being the Salvador Dalí which was recently launched at the museum, as well as the Shipwrecked Tang Dynasty Treasure exhibition.   The outing started around 10:30am when most of the

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Some lodging information to share. You know how it is, you're a backpacker, and every lodging can be quite a horror trip or a paradise. My stay in Paris, was just lovely! We stayed in a place Residence du Palais, central of Paris, with the Jardin du Luxembourg right in front! The entrance it's just across the road from where we stayed! (a-but back entrance :P ) I booked online via their website

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15-Nov-2010 (Monday). Today is the last day for me in Paris.We'll be going back to London the next day. I wanted it to be a relaxing day, so we decided to spend the morning feeding the ducks in the garden in front of our apartment. It so happens, that the garden was Jardin du Luxembourg :) We kinda walked through the garden, and all around it as we travel out each day, but today we were really

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14-Nov-2010 (Sunday). After visiting the Catacombes, the weather was looking up, so we decided to walk across Paris (from South East to North West) to see the famous sights of Paris, mainly the Eiffel Tower, & Arc de Triomphe. I don't know what is it with me and famous sights that almost every backpacking I do, it is always one of the last few days that I actually drag myself to these sights. To

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 My actual first patch project. Was suppose to make an item a month, but I kinda slack off after this.... But still, this memento keeps me motivated to make more little patch stuff for the future! This here is a pencil case I made to house my colored pen for my language study. I couldn't decide whether to go with red/pink or blue, so I made one side blue, and one side red! Smart eh? :p  The

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Just wanted to take a moment here to share with you something I've just discovered called Wabi Sabi (侘寂), which is based on Zen Buddhism. I find that it's just really me, and how I've lived my life so far :) Gonna go read up more on Zen Buddhism and the art of Teaism soon! The following are taken from a book I borrowed title "Practical Wabi Sabi" by Simon G Brown. Principles of Wabi Sabi

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14-Nov-2010 (Sunday). I'm tired out by now, so today my hubby took the lead of being the tour guide. He wanted to take me to the Catacombs. It was one of my to-see places in France, but I wasn't sure if there were any in Paris, or how I would react to skulls and skeletons even though I'm pretty dark in nature :P The great thing about the place we were staying in was that it was within walking

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11-Nov-2010 (Thursday).Finally making our way to downtown Paris! I wanted to go stare at the shop windows and drool over their display, knowing very well I couldn't bring myself to buy anything expensive there. So early in the morning, off we go. We wanted to looking for a Flower Market at Place Madeleine, and I wanted to visit Hediard and Maille Mustard shops too. Well we made it to the market

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11-Nov-2010 (Thursday). It was raining. And the temperature fell till 2 to 4 degrees Celsius. This was the day I planned for us to visit our second cemetery. And before you start rolling your eyes at me, may I just add, that we were going to visit one of the most beautiful and most visited cemetery in the world? Père Lachaise Cemetery (cimetière du Père-Lachaise).  By the time we got there, it

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10-Nov-2010 (Wednesday). I'm not a religious person. But I do like religious related art pieces as it sometimes shows the dedication of the followers to their religion. However, I must say, this is the first time in my life that I got an overdose of Jesus. He was just everywhere! And especially so in MDL! Paintings after paintings of him! From the time of his birth, till the time of his death!

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10-Nov-2010 (Wednesday). It is almost impossible to see everything at MDL in one day, but you can give it your best shot on a Wednesday when they stay open late. And I'm making a guess here that most people miss out a whole floor of paintings during their visit due to exhaustion. I mean, I myself was ready to drop dead by 7pm as my legs were feeling rather wobbly by then. But there was still a

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10-Nov-2010 (Wednesday). As promised, here are three of my favorite stained glass. I'm old fashion and I like my stained glass either based on religion or myth. These three stood out the most from my collection of photos. Do click to view the detail of the art work. And here's another mega piece made up of 3 photos:  Sigh. There are just so many more I wish to share! But I think I'll stop here or

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Sorry for the 5 month's break on the Travel-Europe thread. Was rather busy with life lately. But I'm back! And I'll be updating this thread with a vengeance! Cause seriously, it's already more than 6 month past my trip! This is unacceptable! People are hungry for information!Anyway, let's carry on. 10-Nov-2010 (Wednesday), We're still at Musée du Louvre the last I checked. Let's continue with

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 Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Song on their wedding 28-May-2011!

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Continue on some milder toys you can find in the toy museum.... Some semi-naked characters from the fantasy world :P And a whole portrait of Gollum :)  And a tribute to Tim Burton's character! Gonna used these as inspiration for my rag dolls! Ref: Gollum Tim Burton

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Visited the Toy Museum located at Corpthorne Hotel as well. Went in around 4pm, and came out at 6pm :) It's really really small, but you can have lots and lots of fun inside with your camera. I went in with just my HTC Desire handphone, and took all the below photos! Lots of fun! Entrance is RM20(SGD8) for non-Malaysian, and only RM10(SGD4) for Malaysian! Kids RM 6. And they open till 10pm (I

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If you're around Tanjung Bungah Pearl Hill area, do drop by the food court there (Just opposite Corpthorne Hotel). You'll find some interesting food there. Drop by after 6:30pm for best result. It's famous for it's Spiced Fried Chicken which smells so good and taste so fresh! Simple lovely! There goes my vegetarian diet! Actually I only had one piece of the chicken as I was busy devouring the

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Took up patching recently, and it's really therapeutic! I can go on for hours without stopping! Usually having to put the needle down cause it's approaching 3am on a weekday, or when a project is completed :) On my recent trip back to Penang, I went a bit crazy with sewing material, buying cloth, needles, laces, zippers and thread cause they are sooooooooo cheap there! Gonna go get more supply

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2nd day in Penang me and my family visited the newly opened Straits Quay. I love it there! Went back with a friend at the end of the week for some coffee and cakes too and stayed till midnight! Love the place! It's also, as you may guess by now, is also by the beach.And it's beautiful there! Here's some pictures to share. They have their very own light house, and yacht docking space! What could

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Was initially scheduled to visit Vietnam on end April, but my leave got rejected, and I had to settle for a week's break in my home town of Penang instead, which isn't actually a bad thing :) I know I haven't actually completed uploading my Europe photos yet, but what the heck, I'm gonna be blogging about Penang instead for the rest of this week at least :) And nothing says holiday like when

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 Took up patching recently, and have practically gone wild on the fabric purchasing. But sadly, or luckily (depending on how you look at it), I've only these 2 patch coaster to show for my work so far. Fear not! More will eventually turn up. But it takes around 2 hours to make each of those coaster you see here, and they don't come cheap either! Still, it was something I've always wanted to do.

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  This year marks the first year me and Zoji are celebrating Easter together  :) And one of my to-do list for Zoji was to make Hot Cross Bun for Easter! And so I made some badasss Hot Cross Bun! (Refer photo above). Lol. I love Hot Cross Buns even before I knew what they we called. My mum used to buy it for me to eat from this supermarket call "Fima" in Penang. They roughly cost RM2, and were

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Playing catching up on my blog. Tonnes of stuff I wanted to share or write about, but work has been insanely busy lately, and so is life :) So let me try my best to fill this blog up as much as possible! Attended the UOB-HTC Incredible S workshop at Vivo GV Gold Class on 16-April-2011. How would I miss a free event invite of my favourite phone and credit card? They were giving us a 1 hour

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  The iconic KTM (Keretapi Tanah Melayu) Railway Station in Singapore would be relocated from Tanjong Pagar to Woodland by July 2011. A few of my colleagues decided to journey there last Saturday 09-Apr-2011 to take some memorial shot before the station stops operating. Here are some results of my photo outing with them. Can't say I'm too happy with the result as the mood for photo taking was

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Been listening to this song on repeat for almost the whole day at work! It's totally awesome! Welcome back Linkin Park! One of my fave bands! Initially after hearing the album Minutes to Midnight, I thought Linkin Park was through. But after hearing the album A Thousand Sun, Linkin Park is back!!!! Woohooo! This is one of those band which I have all their albums! And even soundtracks! I think

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I don't often recommend books on my blog, and this would be only the 2nd time I'm doing it. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm recommending "Lust For Life" by Irving Stone, a fictional autobiography of  Vincent Van Gogh. If you're a fan of Van Gogh, you should read this book! I won't say it's an awesome book, but it's definitely strangely haunting and a weirdly beautiful story :) Some quotes I love from

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Month of March saw the SHM Book Club reading "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer, a book about all the weird things people believe in like UFO, ESP, Ghost, Witches, Pseudoscience, Pseudo-history, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. The book club was host by Doug, who kept us pretty distracted with a half finish jigsaw right in the middle of his living room. But

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If you've ever wonder what Cordy looks like, wonder no more! While browsing through my photo album looking for something, I just though, hey, let's see how I've changed thru the years! These are 7 years range of photos! I also have a physical collection of montage from age 7 onwards with all my passport photo! Those are so cool when you put them in sequence! But the montage below are in no

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Welcome to the last 'kampung' a.k.a little Malay village in mainland Singapore - Kampung Lorong Buangkok! Beware! Chickens crossing!  My 2nd photo outing with Lynn and gang + 2 colleagues :) Our little group is growing bigger! And on this faithful morning, we met at 8:30am at Serangon Bus Interchange to make our way to Kampung Lorong Buangkok. From the interchange, take bus 103, and get down

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Yes I know it's almost 2 month since Chinese New Year 2011. Still, better late then never! Some paper craft I made during this CNY of the rabbit :) They were given away to my colleague's two daughter, and one to my colleague who was my guide at the Botanical Garden.

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I just love this! It's soooooooooooo cute!

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In conjunction with Darwin's Day falling on February 12, Singapore Humanism Meetup book club meetup #004 selected The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as our reading on 26-Feb-2011 Saturday. But for the first time, members were not restricted to just one book. An alternative title  Darwin: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) was also recommended for a more layman approach

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Hey all, sorry for being MIA for sometime now. Life hasn't been going that great for me recently, so bare with me a while as I try to get back my bearings. I'd just like to share this clip with you, something a friend shared on Facebook today. Someone told me recently that when trouble hits, we would naturally turn to God for comfort. I beg to differ then, and hope that I was right. Today,

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Did you know that there is a Singapore Humanism Meetup Book Club in the Singapore Humanist Meetup circle? It started out in 2010 when Ryan started the first Singapore Humanism Meetup Book Club on 14-September-2010 reading "Good Without God" by Grey Epstein. A Singapore Humanism Meetup Book Club event is an informal gathering of SHM members who are interested to discussing about a book

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  10-Nov-2010 (Wednesday). Take a look at this photo of only one of the open halls inside the museum. Now imagine that each and every door found in that photo leads into a hallway full of sculptures! Now that's a lot of sculptures! I won't even attempt to show you 10% of what was displayed here.Let me just share with you some of my favorites. Take for instance these three lovely piece of art. I

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10-Nov-2010 (Wednesday), off to the Musée du Louvre we go, the site of one of the scene from The Da Vinci Code. Interestingly I've never read a single Dan Brown's book before. But I've read the book Holy Blood Holy Grail which the book was based on. Still, a glass pyramid was an attractive thing to see. Plus I've heard that it was one, if not the best museum in the world. I'm a sucker for museum

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9-Nov-2010 (Tuesday), we packed our bags, checked out and walked to St Pancras Station to catch our Eurostar to Paris. I didn't know what to expect. Paris being the so called city of love, I was headed there, and I speak minimum French! Would I like it there? Would I finally understand why some people love Paris so much? Or would I understand why some people say French people are such snobs? 2

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 I've always preferred sleeping early on new year eve, and waking up really really early on new year's day when the whole world is totally quiet, and it's a brand new year, and it feels like you have the whole world to yourself! New Year Eve party really screws up my start to a brand new year. So 2010, I can't be bothered with the count down and was asleep by 11pm :) Woke at 6am on 1st Jan 2011,

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This is the 2nd time I'm listening to this song in the span of less than 2 months. I have a feeling I would be listening to it more often as time passes by. And who knows, maybe one day someone would be playing it for me in a solemn occasion? Just to share a moment of my life with you all. Hope you like the song. In memory of my 3rd Aunty's husband "Sar Tio" who passed away on 29th October 2010

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Gonna take a moment today to wish all my friends and family a Merry Christmas and a coming Happy New Year 2011! In the spirit of the continuation of the blog on Europe Backpacking, here are some Christmas cheers from London taken while I was there :)  All photos taken from JaxPac Top two and last two photos were taken from a double-decker bus 98 from Holborn to Willesden Green, which passes by

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8-Nov-2010 (Monday), there were many many other wonderful exhibit to see in the National History Museum. Among my favorite besides the obvious previous 2 blog post, was the great Sperm Whale! It really gives you the perspective of how big a whale is!  The exhibition hall on rocks or geology was pretty impressive too! I mean, there was a whole hall of just rocks! And I get to see real meteorites!

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8-Nov-2010 (Monday). Next stop, Darwin Centre! There are two cool exhibit to see here, the Cocoon, and the Spirit House. I don't really have any photographs of the Cocoon, but basically it's multi-storey exhibit shaped like a cocoon. Mostly it's about life cycle of insects and cocoons and such. But whats really cool about it is, when you enter, you can collect a NaturePlus card that has a barcode

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8-Nov-2010 (Monday), I was finally going to see some REAL dinosaur bones!!!! So excited that it was the first exhibit I rushed to when we reached the Natural History Museum, along with all the boys below 12 years of age :) I mean, come on, who isn't a fan of Jurassic Park? I was not disappointed! They have lots and lots of dinosaur bones, although most were just replica, but still, they were in

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8-Nov-2010 (Monday). It was raining. And raining means its a good day to visit the museums. We took the tube to South Kensington Station and walked there in the rain. The museum opens at 10am, and we were early by 15 minutes. But as we approached the museum, we could already see a queue outside. Worst part is, it was still raining, so we had to queue in the rain before we were allowed in at 10am!

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7-Nov-2010 (Sunday). Finally, we were on our way to the Stonehenge, a place I've always wanted to see with my very own eyes. I mean, come on, which kid who have read about the Stonehenge has never wished they could dance around the mysterious Stones on a full moon night? Yes, I was severely mixed up with my folklore, but it didn't matter. With the Chalks and the lambs around me as we drove

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7-Nov-2010, why were we going to Bath in the first place? Well as the name suggest, to visit the baths! The Roman Baths that is. Bath was a kind of Roman resort in the old days. People come here to relax, enjoy the view, and have a good scrub down. We made our way into the famous Roman bath, and well, I can't really say that I was all that thrilled. When I read in the website that admission to

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7-Nov-2010 Sunday, woke up with a wonderful breakfast at Holiday Inn by North Bristol Express and set out by 8:30am. Today we were going to the City of Bath! Apparently until I got there, did not know that it was a World Heritage Site! Shame on you Cordy! Our tour guide David was rather enthusiastic of driving us around the town and city area of Bath showing us the sites! We drove around a

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6-Nov-2010 (Saturday). It was almost evening now at 4pm. The sky was slowly getting dark as we make our last stop at a place call Bibury before headed to our Holiday Inn hotel (probably the most expensive hotel we stayed in for our whole trip! Sad but true) There wasn't really much to see but this wonderful view of a cottage hotel that seems to be like a scene out of a movie Here's two photo of

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6-Nov-2010 (Saturday), next stop Bourton-on-the-Water. This was an interesting place, beautiful beyond words. I mean, I'll just the let the photos below do the talking! A quiet little town, in autumn colors, with a beautiful spring lake running through it with water clear as crystal, and carefree ducks swimming in them. Wouldn't you want to live in a place like this? And to think real people

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6-November-2010 (Saturday), we were sent to the Slaughters! Well that's the name of the village. Scary, I know. Our bus dropped us at Lower Slaughter, and we took a lovely walk thru town to Upper Slaughter. It was a lovely afternoon walk, and only took us 10 minutes. Lovely cottages and  small farms can be seen everywhere, as lots of berry trees as shown here. There were some homemade jam, jelly

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6-Nov-2010 (Saturday) our first encounter with a Cotswold village was called Stow-on-the-Wold. And where did we head the first thing we landed? To the cemetery! Ok ok, nicely put, we were headed to a historical church - St Edwards church, but with a very very peaceful simple cemetery. Very traditional. And at the front gate of the church a sign says "Church Open", as should all sign on churches (

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6-Nov-2010 (Saturday), continuing on our morning tour with International Friends, we headed towards Chalk country! Yes! Chalk is real! It's a description of a kind of soil or stone in Great Britain call the Chalk Formation. (See Ref link below). And all these while I thought Terry Pratchett was pulling my leg! And it was amazing to travel through the Chalk known as the Cotswolds, a beautiful

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In many ways, this year's backpacking trip was planned by fluke. For instance, I never knew Stonehence was even remotely near London! How naive of me! But when I did found out, I immediately google a day tour to get there. And since everything was so expensive in England, I source for the most value for money tour, even if it means a 2D1N tour out of London that cost me GBP159 (SGD330) with the

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5-Nov-2010 (Friday), first day in London. We landed via British Airways at Heathrow Airport at around 5am, got ourselves an Oyster card each (GBP 15 per card, or SGD 30), and took the underground tube via Piccadilly Line to Russell Square where our cheap hotel was at. Couldn't check in till 2pm. So we left our bags with the hotel, and went for breakfast before headed to the British Museum, which

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Well I guess I should start somewhere, and what a better way to start my 2010 backpacking blog thread than show casing some of my favorite photos taken from the trip. I'm just gonna show them here, and not explain them yet, that will come in the other blog entry. I know people have been asking to see those photos, and guess what, all the photos are going to be shown exclusively on this blog

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Too lazy to write today, so I'll just let the photos do the talking. Here's a view of a Chrysanthemum Farm we visited as part of the Agro Delight Tour.  Ref:Chrysanthemums

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On the 3rd day of our stay, we took our 2nd tour called the Agro Delight Tour. I pick this tour cause I wanted to visit some vegetable farms to see what it would be like, and also for RM65 (SGD30) per person, it included a steamboat dinner in the tour! And steamboat was one of those things you should try whenever you're in Cameron Highlands! The tour bus picked us up at our hotel at around 2:

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I've never visited a bee farm before, so it was one of the to-visit place on my list while I was at Cameron Highlands. Besides that, I also love drinking honey. Did you know that drinking quality honey can make your skin really really smooth? Yup, so instead of wasting your money away on cosmetic and skin care, why not try wild honey! Here are some lovely pictures of the bee farm we visited.

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We stayed at the Hotel Equatorial at Brinchang in Cameron, and it's a 15 minutes walk to the Sungai Palas Tea Plantation entrance. But don't be mislead, it's just an entrance/road to the Boh Tea Centre. If you walk, which we did, it's an hour to an hour half walk one way to reach the center, and yes, it's an up hill and down hill walk, with very very very narrow road! Sure you can take a cab or a

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I have a special spot for highlands, hills and mountain. I grew up climbing them 3 times a week when I was in Penang. The hike, the view and the fresh air cleanses more then just your lung, it cleanses your soul.So we took a short trip to Cameron Highlands for 4 days in October. To see the tea plantation was our highlight, together with the fresh mountain air. The trip started at 10:30pm at

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Yes! It's that time of the year again when Cordy longingly hope and wish to see a witch fly over the moon! Yes! It's Halloween season! And I'm feeling like a kid again! This year I'll be spending a bloody Halloween this Sunday at the Singapore Blood Bank! Haha, yeah, I'm going to be doing my regular blood donation, and doing it on a Halloween kinda seems in the theme too! What with all the blood

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Attended the Right-Brain Awareness Art Workshop organized by Mr JF Koh, a member of the Singapore Humanist Group today. The presenter started the workshop with an introduction to the difference in left and right brain usage of most people. Left brain: linguistic, logical, analytical, intellectual, convergent, rational, linear, objective.Right brain: visual, spatial, intuitive, relational,

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With visions like these, who needs a McDonald breakfast? Now I know why I don't fancy a fast food breakfast (although that McGriddles is quite good! then again, I could always start experimenting with Maple Syrup....).Anyway, weekends are about big breakfast at my home, and its when all the beautiful ceramic and cutlery come out in full force in all their glory. I usually only have time in the

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My favorite sitcom - Scrub, to me is one of the most beautiful, idiotic, funny, meaningful, hilarious sitcom of all times! Running a total of 8 seasons, not only is the show good, but the songs are damn nice too! And as sometimes we attached a certain memory to certain songs, each song reminds us of an episode, and how it touches our heart. Here are some wonderful songs from the Scrub sound track

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Yes, I'm up to my sick ritual of having an elaborated breakfast/brunch again after an absent of such indulgence for sometime now. And yesterday, I felt like scone was the way to go. So scone it is, with cranberries! Strange how everything I make these days contains cranberries! They are just lovely!For recipe of scones, refer here, but with only one different this time round, I added an egg to

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My salute to life :) Being part of the humanism movement lately in Singapore has made me grow more and more in touch with the passion to live and with life itself. Sure there is a whole other ugly side to humanism which I rather not blog about here, but overall, I do believe in the good of the movement, and I have high hopes and aspiration for it, even if sometimes I feel that I'm fighting an

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My apologies for being slightly distracted from my Old Penang blog series recently. I have initially wanted to do a continues blog entry so that you would have a flow of what my trip was like. However, too many things came into my life all at once recently, and I was heavily distracted. But hey, if I'm not blogging, means I'm having a life! And you should be happy for me!Anyway, I have 1 hour to

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Also known as Android 2.2, is now available for update for HTC Desire phones in Singapore! Important: please ensure there are at least 25MB available on your Internal Phone Storage.To check Internal Phone Storage:Click Menu button > Settings > SD & Phone StorageTo update follow the steps below:Click Menu button > Settings > About Phone > System software updates > Check NowMake sure you download

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I'm in love with life :) And life is beautiful, so don't waste it! This is a beautiful clip from Carl Sagan.

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Its much more fun to be a Malaysian!!! Happy Birthday Malaysia!Ref:More songs!Malaysia Wave

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It's Sunday morning! And the kitchen smells of freshly made chocolate cake! It doesn't matter that I slept at 2am and woke at 8am to bake it, it's all worth it! They smell, look and taste adorable!First stop, the process of making it. Ingredient as shown on photo taken : Milk, baking powder, cranberries, vanilla essence, dark chocolate chips, cocoa powder, flour, sugar, eggs, and butter (not in

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Here's a place that I always bring my foreign friends to when they visit Penang, the Kek Lok Si Temples. But I won't be sharing with you the normal photos of what Kek Lok Si looked like, you can find those in the internet sure enough. Instead, I'd like to share with you my view of Kek Lok Si while I was there recently. If you're ever in Penang, this is a great place for photo taking! The vibrant

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Right across the road from Wat Chayamangkalaram, is Dhammikarama Burmese Buddhist Temple. Although also another popular tourist sight, this was to me, an alternate temple to runaround in after getting bored running around Wat Chayamangkalaram during family gathering :)Initially a small temple, it has also grown into a majestic place of worshiped. Filed with painting and Burmese art work all over

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I am thinking even before I made those scones and photograph them that this was going to be one of my favorite blog entries of all times! And I've not been disappointed at all! So I'm interrupting my Old Penang post to put this up and share with the world some of my favorite things! Fresh scones, Fine Bone China tea cups, cranberry jams, and Mint Tea! All captured in easily some of my favorite

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As you walk along the sleepy street of Lorong Burmah, the road just next to the Pulau Tikus Polis Station, to your left, the kampung houses are suddenly replaced by a courtyard of Thai architecture. Slowly the sight of one of Malaysia's largest Thai temple's gate welcome you with it's majestic structure. You have reached the Wat Chayamangkalaram Thai Buddhist Temple Penang. Penang being at the

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Half my childhood was spend growing up in Pulau Tikus, a small town in Penang. To me, this place has all the best food in Penang. I'm going to share two of my favourite food with you. These photos were taken some time back, but I always eat the same thing whenever I'm in Penang anyway, so trust me, the food has not changed in taste nor presentation for the past 20 years!Just opposite the Pulau

cordyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05824078149814171296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564991977039563962.post-10132400998093260702010-08-21T23:31:00.000+08:002010-08-21T23:31:00.897+08:00

More sights of the pasar malam in Tanjung Bungah. Here is a compilation of some of the sellers that can be found in the night market: As it was also the start of the 7th Lunar Month, the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival has just started. Prayers and offering were openly found around Penang during this period, even in the middle of a pasar malam.There is also a daily night market at the tourist belt

cordyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05824078149814171296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564991977039563962.post-4195903698235439692010-08-20T21:48:00.002+08:002010-08-20T21:51:13.496+08:00

Arriving on a Tuesday night means Pasar Malam night in Tanjung Bungah! Tanjung Bungah is one of the place I grew up in. And every Tuesday night, a night market is held for the villagers. When I was young, it used to be held at Jalan Concord. But since the building of the new market and bus interchange, the location has been changed, and now the village pasar malam attracts even hotel guest from

cordyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05824078149814171296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564991977039563962.post-52018453939725913922010-08-19T22:26:00.006+08:002010-08-19T22:57:47.882+08:00

For the next few blog entries, I'm going to take you back in time, to the old Penang that I knew and grew up in. So let's start with photos taken from my Retro Camera in my Android Phone.I was back home in Penang from 10-Aug till 15-Aug recently. With Jetstar flying to Penang daily, my frequency back home has increased. This was my 2nd trip home this year. Cost of a single trip was only S$88

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