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A preview of Kangaroo Island

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{ Australia Feb/March 2009 - Day 6 - Kangaroo Island, South Australia} After spending a day in Adelaide , we woke up early the next day and dragged our luggage from our backpacker to the Adelaide Central Bus Station. We definitely needed to learn how to pack light! From the bus station, we took a bus that would take us to Cape Jervis. Cape Jervis was about 2 hours away on the bus and was on the south of Fleurieu (pronounced floo-ree-oh) Peninsula. From there, we took the Kangaroo Island SeaLink - a ferry going from Cape Jervis to Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island.  As Kangaroo Island is a huge island with no public transport, we decided to rent a car for the three days that we would be there. The map of the island was relatively simple. There were not that many roads around the island - only a few (maybe, three?) main roads that are sealed, and most were gravel roads or unsealed roads. Once we got our car, we decided to start off our trip with a visit to a lighthouse situated at the

Back from Phuket!

Back from a weekend of doing absolutely nothing in Phuket, Thailand! Well, not absolutely nothing but it definitely has a couple of firsts for me - going on a trip with no activities planned, and taking it slow and easy. Usually for my holidays, I would have done all the appropriate research and planned my day-to-day activities from morning till night. However, for our last weekend trip to Phuket, all we did was book the flight, choose the beach we want to be in and book a hotel room. We did not plan our activities - no timetable saying where we will go in the morning, no list of possible lunch places or whether we will take a short day trip to somewhere else, nothing whatsoever. I have to say that it was quite refreshing for a change. We spent the days walking around the town and the beach, lazing around in the hotel room and by the pool, and of course, went for a massage (we're in Thailand!). This was quite different from my normal holidays. I would usually try to make full u

My next holidays!

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Feeling quite excited about our two upcoming holidays - a short weekend trip to Phuket, Thailand and a long trip to Japan! Busy planning and preparing for both holidays (well, not so much for Phuket). And, in between it all, I have been trying to write about my holiday in Kangaroo Island, Australia about a year ago! Lots of images of different places are running through my head.  But, for now, it would be this image which I hope I would be able to see when I'm in Tokyo, Japan!   {Image from Wikipedia }

Earth Hour 2010

Earth Hour 2010, 8.30PM Saturday 27 March. Turn off your lights. Make a statement.

Movie: The Blind Side

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The poster of the movie showed a blond Sandra Bullock leading a huge black guy in football gear down a football field. The tagline above said "Based on the extraordinary true story". With such a poster, you knew that you would be in for an emotional movie. We caught a special Oscars 2010 showcase in the cinema this weekend for The Blind Side . The role in this movie earned Sandra Bullock her first Academy Awards nomination and win for the Best Actress award. The movie was based on the book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. There were two parts in the book - one on the evolution of the offensive football strategy, and the second on the true story of Michael Oher and Leigh Anne Touhy . The movie was based on the second part. I found an adaptation from the book on the NY Times website . It was definitely an inspirational story. It was about Michael Oher, a black kid who was accepted to a mostly white private Christian school, and was living in the couc

Places I've Been in clouds!

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Here's the Places I've Been generated in clouds! Just for fun!    [Image generated from http://www.wordle.net/ ]

Adelaide, our base in South Australia

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{ Australia Feb/March 2009 - Day 5 - Adelaide, South Australia}   The first thing I noted about Adelaide was how deserted the roads are! It reminded me so much of Canberra where I spent around 4 years in university. The second would be the heat and the cloudless sky. We arrived in Adelaide on 25 Feb 2009, after spending four days in Sydney for business. Adelaide would be our base in between our travels to Kangaroo Island and Barossa Valley. We took an early morning flight from Sydney to Adelaide. From the Adelaide domestic terminal, we took the airport bus. The bus departs hourly, cost a flat fee of A$5.00 and stops at various hotels in the Adelaide city. The bus stopped us right in front of the backpackers that we have booked online - Annie's Place. We booked an ensuite double room. The room was small but functional, there was a shared kitchen that can be used at specific times and the building would be locked by 11pm (or thereabout), after which you would need to enter a