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Visiting Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park and lessons learnt
‘Eli ‘eli kau mai – let awe possess me Let me start by explaining. This post is the definition of procrastination. You know how that goes, right? You think you’ll write a blog post about that awesome experience “soon” and you procrastinate and procrastinate some more. Then you realise one day that the post went
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Healing in Hawai’i
A year can be amazing and long, brutal and loving, fulfilling and humbling all at once. Sometimes, this kind of year that shakes your foundations and pushes you out of your comfort zone can leave a few battle scars. “You need to come out to Hawaii,” my sister said after her move there last year. “The island
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3 days in Jordan
I’ll admit, Jordan was never on my travel wish list. For someone who has lived in the Middle East all her life, what new experiences could Jordan possibly offer? A whole load apparently, as I found out for myself 10 days ago. From walking the many hills of Amman and taking in the limestone-clad buildings,
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4 days in Singapore – a detailed itinerary
Food is one of Singapore’s national pastimes. Some eat to live and others live to eat. I think I fall into the second category and maybe that’s why, I have a special place in my heart for this city. Singapore is perfect for a quick 3-4 days city break. Of course, if you have more
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Street Foods of Singapore
Supplied image Do you know your nasi lemak from your nasi goreng? Singapore has its own food language, much like the informal lingo of the locals, called Singlish. The hybrid vocabulary reflects the broad range of the country’s immigrants, taking words from Malay, Tamil, Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin and other Chinese languages. Be prepared to hear words
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Where to eat in Singapore
If you asked me what I’d be doing at the end of Feb 2017, chances are it would be something blasé like attending all of the food festivities taking place in Dubai. But as lady luck would have it, I had the very exciting opportunity to travel to Singapore on a culinary adventure with the Singapore Toursim Board! Yep.
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Her friend went to Japan and all she got her was…
When I started this series on the blog, asking friends to bring me back treats from either their home country or places they were visiting, I was genuinely looking forward to it being a more-or-less delicious affair. It would be eating treats after all! Enter Japan as a game changer, just to make it a tad more adventurous than that culinary
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Her friend went to Slovakia and all she got her was…
Disclaimer: I am a snacks person. I love snacks. And most of the time, not the healthy kind. I’ve always wondered what snacks mean to people around the world. So I have set on this mission to emotionally blackmail my friends who are either going home or are travelling to a distant land, to pick