Day 2 Around Macao

As expected, we could hardly get out of bed this morning and had to miss our daily breakfast. As such, we opted to use our lunch vouchers and had our first meal of the day ...

Day 1 Ferry to Macao

So the day arrived for our family vacation to Macao – Hong Kong. We would meet my brother and his wife at HK since they were flying in from KL. It was baby Benjamin’s virgin ...

Day 4 Mysore Palace

Today would be our last day in India. While  I would have preferred an extra day or two to head further south to visit Ooty, a popular hill station in Tamil Nadu, my body was already ...

Day 3 Bandipur National Park

The next morning Mujib drove us up Chamundi Hills to visit a popular local place of worship. The Chamundi Temple is still a functioning temple which sees many believers coming every weekend to give offerings to the ...

Day 2 Somnathpur Temple

This morning after a quick breakfast at the hotel, we checked out and met our driver and guide for the next three days – Mujib (I am guessing that is the approximate spelling). He looked ...

Day 1 Nameste from Bangalore

India has always been one of my top must-go list. Tell that to my colleagues and they stare at me increduously. To them, India conjures up images of dirty, undeveloped, poor and lack of hygiene. On the other ...

Mountain #3 Gunung Pulai

On 3 September 2012, I finally got down to doing what I had wanted to do for the last three months. Climb a mountain and not just Bukit Timah. About 1.5 month ago, Theo and ...

Mountain #2 Bukit Banang

According to the list of Malaysia mountains, Bukit Banang is one of the lower summits we can scale in the state of Johor at just 427 metres. Although I only managed to find one article ...