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I’m finding this Christmas slightly more gloomy than before. The weather is probably partly responsible. It’s been raining almost quite predictably every day. It’s either sun in the morning followed by rain in ...
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Our family vacation, this year, was to Hong Kong. We spent 8 days, two weeks ago, taking our time to visit the things that tourists visit. The two kids came along. This is the second overseas vacation for Ian. We didn’t ...
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When I first told Vanessa that we were bringing her to Japan for a holiday, the mind in her had many questions. The first one that popped out (quite instantly, I must add), was, “Japan got playground?” Quite ...
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We’ve become somewhat frequent visitors to Japan. Not so frequent like every week, or every month, or even every year (although there was one year we visited twice), but certainly frequent enough that we don’t have to ...
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It’s finally raining now in the afternoon of the second day of this Lunar New Year. I think this must be about one of the hottest ever Lunar New Year. It’s been so hot I already feel uncomfortable the moment I step ...
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After twelve days in Honolulu, it’s time for us to return home. Our flight is at 8am in the morning, which means we’ve to get to the airport pretty early that morning, and that means getting up and starting the day ...
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Today’s the last full day we have in Honolulu, because we leave for our flight back to Singapore early tomorrow morning. We decided to all have lunch together at a nearby Chinese restaurant called Happy Days. Easy to find, ...
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Our previous drive eastward on the Kalanianaole Highway brought us past Hanauma Bay, but it was closed (every Tuesday). Today, we made a trip just to see this place. Unfortunately, the car park was full, and we weren’t let ...
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We did a few things today: Visit to Diamond Head Crater, the Waikiki Aquarium, and then shopping at the Waikele Premium Outlets. We didn’t actually plan to go up Diamond Head Crater initially, but since we were going to be ...
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We went to the northern part of Oahu today. When you have a rented car, you try to make full use of it. It was the Dole Plantation that we originally wanted to visit, but when we realized it was pretty close to the North Shore, ...
