Travel Updates

1996 - Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway
1998 - Australia
1999 - Australia
2000- S. Korea
2003- Australia
2004- Japan, Italy, Thailand
2005- France, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco
2006-China, New Zealand, Australia
2007-Turkey, Egypt
2008-Philippines, Italy, Switzerland, France
2009-Indonesia, Philippines, France, Switzerland, Vietnam,
South Africa
2010- Taiwan, USA, Canada, Germany
2011- USA, Canada
2012 - Indonesia, Portugal, Spain
2013 - Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Australia, Germany, USA, New Zealand, Thailand
2014 - Brazil, Australia
2015 - Austria, Germany, Iceland, UK, Spain
2016 - Netherlands, Thailand, Sweden, Japan
2017 - Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Germany

Boracay

Ubud - Bali

High Tech Flushing

Went on duty travel to NICE in Oct 08. Here's a video clip of the toilet in Amadeus Conference Facility.

STAC Amazing Race 2

STAC ran Amazing Race 2 today. Couldn't have asked for a better weather. Twas much fun amidst all the laughter, smiles and cheer. Heartening to see all the young ones working with the seniors to run the race, getting lost, finding checkpoints and working on illogical clues together.

Red Team - Michael, Reko, Berenice, Brian

Yellow/White Team - Leonard, Beatrice, Isabelle, Ignatius

Brown Team - Bernard, Ivan, Shirin, Eunice

Green Team - Bryan, Nicole, Teresa, Rena

Blue Team - Amanda, Daryl, Louise, Matthias

Orange Team (Organizers) - Amanda, Jasmine, Selene, Isabelle, Sharron, Jason, Jeremy

Videographer/Mobile Water Point/Lunch - Dom, Sam

The organizers had the most fun torturing the players, Selene especially; I laughed so much seeing them do their victory jump. It was the best.

A job well done to all the organizers and a race well ran to all the participants; your enthusiasm surely makes a difference. Keep it up.

and here's the medal which all of them deserved...

Treasures of Europe - Part One

So we lifted off SQ366 on 25th April at T3. Brand new terminal, great facilities, it was a nice way to start the trip. Whats more, we were to travel the next 12 days with the most funny tour guidewe had ever come across.

First stop. Rome, Italy. Arrival time, 7:30 am. Weather was cool, sun was great, sky was absolutely clear Blue. That's what I love most about the mediterranean weather. We were definitely tired after the 12 hours flight, which zipped past surprisingly very quickly. Nonetheless, it was equally exciting to start the trip with such wonderful weather.

St. Peter's was swamped with tourist and they only gave us 1 hr: 30 mins for the queuing and the rest for visiting the Basilica. It was simply too short to visit the Cupola, Scavi and Sistine Chapel as I did before, no time even to sit down and experience the awe within St. Peters. Zipped in and zipped out.

The day passed quickly with visits to the Colossuem, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Piazza Del Popolo and finishing off the day with a good night's rest at Holiday Inn, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise as the hotel was located in suburban Rome where you can experience the real Italy.

Day 2: Sienna & Pisa.
Haha. Pisa was real good fun. We left Rome early next morning and arrived in Sienna, a UNESCO Heritage Site, little known to most tourist from this part of the world. Again, it turned out to be another surprise, walking through the charming streets of the old medival town, savouring my fragola gelato along the way. Simply charming. Lunch cost us EUR 57, since it was a sit down in one of the many restaurants littering the city. Uncle D got lost in the throng of people, prompting Jason to conduct an immediate search and rescue operation. Damn funny that Uncle D managed to spot J's prominent umbrella.

Pisa was a whole lot of fun. We were taking pictures of tourists making the usual pose with the tower. Have a look below. We also had our own fair share of fun taking lots of hilarious pictures.
Laughed so much on that funny day.

Venice was simply too hot for me, and it was surprising considering that it was spring time. Again, the crowd was crazy, but we loved the glass blowing demonstration and the ride on the Gondola. Personally, I didn't got the chance to experience the walk among the quieter streets of venice as I did before. Perhaps next time when I am there by myself, I shall do so again. Simply loved the 1st time I was there. We had a great authentic pizza that night, ended it with a drink at a local bar, downing local beer. Nice place. Small, cozy and very local.

Day 4: Milan

Milan isn't the nicest place to visit. We had a pretty good tour of the Duomo, but other than that, it is just another commerial town. The afternoon was spent among the company of Prada, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. Not particularly exciting. The saving grace was the exceptionally delicious Mango and Hazelbut Gelato that I grabbed after dinner. Simply Bravo! I was looking for mango the whole time in Italy, only to find it on the last night in Italy. Orgasmic. Ooohh lala...... To top it all, we went out to drink in another local bar in Milan. Interesting setting with larger than life furniture. Had my beer, feeling satisfied for the night and that, marked the end of our night in Italy. The next day, we would pass by Lake como where many of the houses are owned by Hollywood stars. Lake como is right next to the Italian-Swiss border. Foxtown, here we come.