And why this should be a lesson to us all that one can never hope to fight Murphy's Law.

Recently I went to DC (via SF and NYC). We had initially planned on a 2.5 day stay in NYC which would give us ample time to go shopping and whirlwind-sight-seeing before we headed off to the great capital of democracy (or so they called themselves). The east ( Read more... )

Ahaha so I finally got around to writing the second part of my tour ( Read more... )

So a while ago I went on a tour of Alishan and the Sun and Moon Lake over two days. It was probably the only proper sight-seeing I've done in Taiwan so far XD ( Read more... )

Sitting at the computer here 20 minutes before afternoon clinics start.

Got handed the flyers about the new prices that are coming in from April, and while I feel sorry for people who live close to the city, I'm pretty happy about what it's done to the Illwarra line, which is why I really want to comment on the SMH article that criticised it, ( Read more... )

Tadaima~~~~~~~! Did anyone miss me? LOL!

It was one of those trips where everything seemed to really suck at the time but it all amounted to being much better than expected, so in all, it was great =D

( NYC trip )

So we rented a car and drove down and back from Melbourne, the "city" that thinks it's as cool as Sydney when really, it is so not =P It feels like a toned down Washington DC mashed with a severely deprived Flushing - in that it's really artsy in the city centre, and other inner city areas just seem really old and dusty and tram lines running low ( Read more... )

AccomodationAs soon as I heard that we were going to be living in Manhattan for around $100/night during Easter, my expectations plunged through the floor. Don't get me wrong, you can get pretty good accomodation for around $100/night, but that's during July in Washington D.C. I still think Ramada Hotel's the best we've had in America, even though ( Read more... )

A spur of the moment decision (more like, the travel agency rang a few days before departure and said, "Hey, those NYC tickets you asked for about a month ago? Someone cancelled on us and now they're available") led to a journey of many lessons......in which I've learnt that LAX hates me and America is a breeder of bad manners, bad taste, bad food ( Read more... )

BACK!!! But I don't think anyone missed me LOL XD ( Read more... )