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home bound.
14 days after, i am heading home now. bound for the airport in another 10 mins and my laptop is the last thing that i am packing in. in the last 14 days, i barely had the energy to catch up with everyone’s blog entries, lest write my own. i am sooooooo tired. this has got to be one of the most ‘interesting’ trip to seattle because we did almost nothing and even cancelled the road trip to vancouver to help with my uncle’s paper work. but then again, i guess its for the better good of the future cos we cleared so much, i don’t think it’ll happen again.…
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I’m off!
on a round-the-world trip. heh. kinda. leaving for the airport now, and here’s the itinerary! Singapore – Moscow (transit) – Houston (Texas) (transit) – Orlando (Florida) – Seattle (Washington) – Vancouver (Canada) (road trip) – Seattle (Washington) – Narita Airport (Japan) (transit) – Singapore. i cannot believe it’s literally AROUND the world. would be lost in the cyberspace for about 30+ hours while i go battle motion sickness on board the flight and struggle with jetlag thereafters.
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south africa day 6 (1 Oct 09) – Trip to Victoria Falls!
on this day, we visited 3 countries in a single day! it was interesting and humbling, because i saw for myself the poverty of these countries and saw the children running about trying to earn money for their meals. i was also a little freaked out when i was stuck in a locked vehicle with others outside peering in on me and trying to get my attention (i volunteered to stay back to look after the luggages and belongings) while the rest went to clear immigrations. Yes, i don’t need to personally be there to clear immigrations, which was really, an eye-opener. at the OR Tambo International airport terminal. it’s…
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south africa day 5 (30 Sep 09) – headed to johannesburg.
after a chillax day the day before, i woke at 4+ and witnessed the most beautiful sunrise ever. i managed to capture a picture of it in its glowing glory. and seconds later, the sky started to light up! gosh! pretty things are almost always gone in a flash huh? while i was scurrying around in my hut, i heard the commotion in the next hut where my 2 uncles are also trying to take pictures of the sunrise. it’s hilarious. because of the privacy of the rooms, i can hear them but cannot see what they are up to! anyway, the rest of the pictures aint that pretty anymore..…
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South africa Day 4 (29 Sep 09) – Rest & relax at Kwa Madwala
the weather took a turn on this day and it was much colder that we all expected. in fact, it was freezing my arse off because we started the day with an early morning drive before the sun even got up. my face was smacked with iced cold winds as the 4×4 vehicle drove on and i almost couldnt feel my fingers at one point in time. i wasn’t joking! thankfully, my toes werent facing the same fate. i was seated on the first row, and whenever the vehicle moved, my teeth chattered and my hair whipped angrily across my face. like the previous times, we drove around and hunted…
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South africa Day 3 (28 Sep 09) – An adventure at Kruger National Park.
warning. super long entry ahead! we started our day 3 adventure journeying out to world-renowned kruger national park. it sprawls across 20,000 sq km of hot, flattish lowveld terrain in the far northeast of south africa and ranks among the finest game sanctuaries in the world, with all roads, rest camps and other man-made features accounting for only 2% of the park’s area. the rest is pure wildnerness and no other sanctuary in Africa can match the numbers and variety of life forms. its home to nearly 150 kinds of mammals (including the Big 5), more than 500 bird species, 112 reptile types, 49 types of fishes and 34 amphibian…
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[27 sep 09] day 2 in south africa
after a good night sleep (since it was boredom being ‘locked’ within the hotel premises), we had breakfast! it was simple but i love all the colours and the watermelons were almost pink in shade. it is amazing that i actually can wolf down my breakfast at 6.30am in the morning. we checked out right after the breakfast and got picked up by our guide, Eugene Basson for our journey for the next 4 days. the unique bit about this south africa tour is that it is semi-guided. some days we had the guide, other days we didn’t. For the whole safari adventure, he stuck with us for 4 days…
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about south africa.
if there is one thing that i really sucked at, i think it has to be doing travelogues of the places that i have been to. especially the longer trips. i didn’t complete my honeymoon entries and it got stuck at rome, the day i went to the vatican. and there was the melbourne trip.. which was done halfway as well.. and the south africa ones, which concluded to only ONE entry post trip. and not to mention the melacca trip, which i have already LOST all pictures of because my darn computer crashed when i was doing backup and everything was gone. =X der says because i travelled too…
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the upcoming vacation.
the trip to the states is confirmed! in a month’s time (10 Aug), i’ll be jetting off to orlando in florida and seattle in washington. disneyworld & universal studios in orlando, here i come again! actually, the ONLY reason why i am so excited to head back there is because of the harry potter theme park in universal (see fan website). the muggle me just can’t wait to step into the hogwarts castle and drink butterbeer in the three broomsticks pub. here’s a video introduction on it that i saw from the fan website. i had wanted to head there for honeymoon last year but unfortunately, there was no tickets.…
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Day 4 in Bali – Dining in Bali (Last day of Babymoon)
Weird that I am finishing up my babymoon episode faster than the honeymoon episodes because the Europe trip has many more days to go and there’s just too many details because we were out and about everywhere and it takes a while to write while the bali trip has been nothing but food (dining in bali), eat, sleep and swim. On our last full day in Bali, we headed for lunch at wah wah burger, a restaurant that serves wagyu beef burgers and apparently is one of the most expensive burgers available or that many people has eaten. I do agree with the price tag (that’s it’s exorbitant)! That’s the…
