On a grey, long winter weekend, we drove up into the Dandenong Ranges to do a getaway-cation in a yurt. Somewhere, the cold is prettier and the air smells of wet eucalyptus and woodsmoke. Every trip of ours starts the same way: a small ceremony of leaving the city. It’s usually shakshuka at Tall…
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Flying to Sydney for a mental health break. What followed: a vegan Japanese feast, a borrowed dog, and a love language Indomie.…
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We are on a train travelling somewhere in a rural area of Japan. Yin keeps saying she doesn't feel like we are in Japan.…
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We went to Farm Tomita this morning. The breathtaking view justified the flocking of tourists to Furano to see the farm.…
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Hokkaido was never high on my travel list; I had never included it in the list for the longest time, but here I am writing from Hokkaido.…
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I need to learn to take better pictures of airplane food, especially if it has natural lighting.…
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Jal Narita to Hokkaido route served us tomato soup. It was still piping hot and absolutely delish, perfect to be eaten with bread.…
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Now, let’s talk about my favorite part of this airplane dining series. It was a red-eye to Narita, and I had to sit separately from my best friends as we booked the same flight separately. This time, I chose the window seat. On the other side, there was a light sleeper who, as I…
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As the withstanding tradition to share random updates with you while I am in the airport, I feel compelled to whip up a half-baked blog post filled with things that might not interest you at all, but let’s also ignore the possibility of that. Today, I am writing to you from Changi Airport Starbucks,…
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Dubai Dhow Cruise dinner was Amma's favourite part of our Dubai trip (mine was the desert safari which she hated).…
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We took Emirates to and from Dubai. I usually love everything about the Emirates, but the food was meh this time. The main dish was rice with chicken curry thingy, which tasted okay, accompanied by not-so-nice prawn salad and weird-looking tofu, which I refused to try. And they didn’t serve ice cream this time!…
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The metropolis city skyline’s majestic. Every time we travelled from one spot to another, I spotted unique gigantic buildings. Souks in Dubai are filled with knickknacks. Granted, it didn’t look like the one Carrie trotted around in the movie, but it managed to quench my thirst for colourful, glittery, and cute stuff. For some…
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