Index

Food and Travel

Australia

Bunurong Marine National Park
Life in Monash University, Gippsland campus Sweet memories of my Uni days :-)

The Great Ocean Road

Hawaii

Food
Umeke Market & Deli, Honolulu Yummy organic food! :-)
Blue Water Grill
Gourmet Express in Kahala Mall, Honolulu Unique dishes- eg Tamale pie, Turkey Enchiladas
Dole Pineapple Plantation: Best pineapple ice-crea... Low-fat pineapple ice-cream. Light & fluffy
"Hooters" in Honolulu (Aloha Tower Drive)
Kale's
Salad Creations Best salad!;-)

Places to see
Aina Haina, Honolulu
Hawaii Loa Ridge, Honolulu More beautiful than Waikiki. For month-long vacations, stay here;-)
Kahala Mall, Honolulu
Kawaikui Beach Park, Honolulu
Koko Marina Center, Honolulu
University of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) FRee internet access
Wal-Mart, Honolulu


Malaysia

Food
Al Diafah Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur Middle-eastern food
'Dim Sum's without pork-fat cubes Luk Yu Tea House
Shanghai 10 Dim Sum restaurant
Best roast pork in South East Asia
Steven's Corner (Sri Komalah Restaurant) My favourite mamak
Madam Kwan's Restaurant Best place for ‘nasi lemak’
Places to see
Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur
Sunway Pyramid, Selangor
Kuala Lumpur Library 
New Straits Times Press office
Shopping
Starhill, Kuala Lumpur

Tourist Information
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIAs), Malaysia.

Korea
Kim Chi, starfish & other stuff
Seoul Station
'Soju': Korean liquor

Japan
Yaoko Marketplace
Nikko Narita
Narita Town

Thailand

Authentic Thai food "Laab"

Suan Lum Night Bazaar

Must-Try Products!
Dave's Hawaiian Gourmet Ice-cream Creamy coconut-macadamia nut ice-cream
Haagen-dazs frozen yogurts Ideal for weight-watchers
Ghirardelli for dark-choc fans


Business/Career
Photo Editing
Photo-editing for beginners
3 good reasons for learning photo-editing Earn side-income :-)
Using the "rubber stamp tool" erase zits from ur photos
Edit black & white photos
Reduce glare & increase colour intensity

Public Relations
Tips for writing PR materials in Malay


Community Issues
Influx of illegal workers
Causal factors for the increase of crime
Petrol stations: convenient targets for criminals
Narcotics and Crime
A lesson from Hawaii: Honolulu Crime Stoppers


Health and Beauty

Steamed mackerel

Steamed sardine

A special thanks to Paper Sky editorial team and readers :)

Paper Sky magazine読者のみなさん、こんにちは :)
私のブログへようこそ。ご訪問ありがとうございます :)
私の名前はCharmaine。マレーシア人です。旅することが好きで、日本も好きです。日本は美しい国ですね。
このブログの情報が、みなさんのお役に立てばうれしいです。
最後に、私のブログを紹介してくれたPaper Sky編集部の方々に感謝します :)

I hope the travel information available here will be of use to all of you :)

Last but not least, thanks to Yamamoto-san and the editorial board of Paper Sky for featuring my blog in your magazine

New blog:))

Hi!!! :) I will no longer be posting blog entries here.
I have moved to a new blog
http://auckland-city.blogspot.com

Lucky - by Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat

My favourite song at the moment :)

Lyrics (Source: http://lyricwiki.org/Jason_Mraz:Lucky)


Do you hear me? I'm talking to you


Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky oh my, baby I'm trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard

Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again

They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I wait for you I promise you I will

Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

And so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music, fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
And though the breeze is through the trees

Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now

Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

White hibiscus

Bunurong Marine National Park (a.k.a. Eagle's Nest), Victoria, Australia

(Source: Park Victoria)
The Bunurong Marine National Park extends along approximately 5 km of coastline from 2.5 km east of Cape Patterson in Southern Gippsland to the eastern end of Eagles Nest Beach (about 6 kilometres south-west of Inverloch), and offshore for approximately three nautical miles to the limit of Victorian waters, encompassing a total of approximately 2,100 hectares

 

The Bunurong coast is special - a coast full of striking rock formations, attractive sandy coves, rugged sandstone cliffs and prominent headlands. The coastal waters also contain a remarkable range of habitats that support abundant marine life, nurtured by an unusual set of environmental conditions. The name "Bunurong" refers to the local Aboriginal group that have lived in this area for thousands of years and have used the coast extensively for food gathering.

Eagle's Nest beach, Victoria, Australia

It's a little wonder how Eagle's Nest got its name ;) - the rocky surface, earthy colours + the interesting contrast between the sky, clear water & landscape: Magnificent coastal scenery!

The park contains extensive intertidal platforms and subtidal rocky reefs that are uncommon along the Victorian coast. These sandstone areas provide numerous microhabitats and contribute to the area having a very high diversity of intertidal and shallow subtidal invertebrates. There is a mixed assemblage of brown algae and seagrass, supporting a high proportion of Victoria's marine invertebrates, including brittle stars, sea cucumbers, barnacles, sea anemones and chitons.

Things to do
The most common activity at Bunurong Marine National Park is observational rockpooling, about 22 per cent of tourists visiting the rockpools at some stage in their visit. Other activities include sunbathing, beach activities, swimming, surfing, cliff-top sight seeing, observational SCUBA diving and boating, as well as education and research.

The major tourism activities are focused around the township of Cape Patterson, situated to the west of the Marine National Park.

The battle between the Geeks and the Pros

 While browsing through the internet for computer services, I came across a company known as Call The Geeks...

and its disdainful rival... the Computer Repair Pros that has the tagline "Why Call a GEEK when you can have  PRO!"

 Just kidding ;)

Actually, both companies provide totally different services. Call the Geeks is a support service provider while Computer Repair Pros is a Wisconsin-based computer repair shop, located nearby beautiful Lake Monona.

Lake Monona is a freshwater drainage lake in Dane County, Wisconsin surrounded on three sides by the city of Madison, Wisconsin and on the south side by the city of Monona, Wisconsin. It is the second-largest of a chain of four lakes along the Yahara River (also including Mendota, Kegonsa, and Waubesa) in the area and forms the south shore of the isthmus that forms downtown Madison. The name 'Monona' is a Chippewa word believed to mean 'beautiful', although the lake was originally named by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) 'Tchee-ho-bo-kee-xa-te-la' or 'Teepee Lake'.

(Source: Wikipedia)