If you live in Australia, you know that social distancing is working but it is still an early stage as reported by our government. It looks like the curve is starting to slow down. You can still go out to…
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Easy cooking pasta
The covid-19 pandemic is not going to get over soon. We have to adjust our lives with either a partial or complete lockdown depending on the country we are living in now. We need to take it one day at…
Customised private tour, is it for you?
Penang - Pearl of the Orient - is well known to all tourists as the food capital of Malaysia, famous for street arts, a UNESCO site with well preserved heritage buildings, long sandy beaches and major tourist attractions. Like a…
Penang Dragon Boat Festival
Marking the 40th anniversary, Penang recently hosted its bi-annual international dragon boat festival in the weekend of 7th - 8th December 2019 at the Teluk Bahang Dam. There were 14 countries from all over the world, including Malaysia. A total…
Sam Poh Tong temple
Did you know Penang island is shaped like a turtle? Each of its four flippers at the corner tip on the island, where the northeast corner is the most urbanised. The southeast corner was once a small fishing village called…
Penang chicken rice
When it comes to food in Penang, locals like myself will still ask, "what do we want to eat" and "where" among friends and families. It's because we've too many choices. It's like which char koay teow, koay teow teng,…
Penang ferry
The iconic Penang ferry has been plying across the channel for over a century at its narrowest point 3 km from northeast of the island, city of George Town, to its mainland strip Seberang Prai (previously known as the Province…
Weekend getaway Hobart, Tasmania
From time to time, we get an email from the airlines announcing their special cheap fares. Most of the cheap fares are not that great and most of them have a restriction on dates and times of travel. A point…
