With the advent of smartphones and apps, we have fundamentally changed the way we plan and manage our travel itineraries. From the way we book our air tickets, our accommodations, to how we get tips and advice on local tourist destinations to even getting access to the different modes of transportation, to how we manage... Continue Reading →
For the past couple of months while planning our trip to Iceland, Nordic Visitor has been extremely helpful in giving us advice, tips and most importantly, assisting us in booking our accommodations, car rental and activities for our trip. Without them, planning our itinerary would have been much more difficult. They were extremely helpful in... Continue Reading →
The time is finally here. We are going to Iceland in 9 days time. After months of planning, booking flights, tours, deciding on the dates, the duration, buying insurance and the kinds of activities we want to do over there, we have finalised everything and are good to go. There is a certain level of... Continue Reading →
I woke up one morning and as I was having breakfast in the living room and swiping and left and right at my daily newsfeed on Flipboard on my iPhone at the same time, Netflix announced at this year’s CES that they have gone global. I was shocked. Netflix did announce that they are launching their... Continue Reading →
The last time I revamped my room was just after completing my National Service. That was around 5 to 6 years ago. It involved painting my whole room with two complementary colour tones, “Cappuccino” and “Latte”, dark and light respectively. It also involves getting the necessary furniture to make my room, as I like it. It took a... Continue Reading →
I have had the AegoM speakers as my desktop speakers in my room for close to 7 years now. Recently, I have been looking to replace my aging speakers with a new pair, but couldn’t decide on a suitable one. The Aego M has set the bar really high in terms of audio quality, and getting my... Continue Reading →
3 months in, and there are only a handful of apps that I use regularly whenever i am using the iPad mini.The top few most used app are the Kindle app for reading all my favourite e-books, The New Yorker app, for reading my favourite weekly magazine, the National Geographic app to the Nat Geo in its digital format,... Continue Reading →
This upcoming trip to Hong Kong with my colleagues wasn't originally in my calendar. It was planned by my colleagues and through impulse I just said yes that I would be thrilled to join in on this trip. Just a weekend away from town, going to Hong Kong, to do a little bit of sightseeing,... Continue Reading →
On impulse, over the weekend, I bought the Google Chromecast. Not the new generation that was just announced about a week ago, but the little dongle that has been on the market for quite some time. Initially, I never really thought much about Chromecast, or its ability to make any TV with a spare HDMI... Continue Reading →
So yesterday I went to my local Apple store, and casually looked at the new iPad mini 4 that Apple just released. I held the tablet in my hands and noticed that the extra millimetres shaved from the previous iPad mini, as well as the ever so slight weight reduction over the previous iPad mini.... Continue Reading →
Some of you by now would have multiple free cloud storage accounts spread across the net. From Dropbox, to Box, to Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive and many more. Some of you may even have a paid cloud storage subscription for increased storage capabilities. You might have encountered some slight annoyances in logging into individual... Continue Reading →
So how long does it took for me to upload almost 500GB of photos to Amazon Cloud Drive? Almost 8 days, non-stop. My Macbook Air was literally switched on, 24/7 for an entire week, so that I could get every single 65,000 or so photos totalling close to half a terabyte uploaded to the cloud.... Continue Reading →
Seven days was all it took from the moment I applied for the card, to the moment I received it, just in time to purchase our air tickets to Copenhagen, Denmark and to Reykjavik, Iceland. I applied for the credit card to take advantage of the sweet 5% cash rebate on all purchase (up to... Continue Reading →
For the past week, I have been trying to educate myself to the world of NAS, or Network Attached Storage. I was reading articles on the web, watching Youtube tutorials, unboxing, reviews, you name it just to get up to speed to what NAS is all about. It took me a... Continue Reading →
Ever since my household got upgraded to a fiber broadband, I have had difficulty getting decent wifi speeds. That is because of the location of the router, relative to the relay point of the fiber broadband connection, is situated at one corner of the living room, near the TV console. It is now further from... Continue Reading →
Phuket. Now Perth. Second holiday of the year and it was an amazing trip. Despite the fact that I have been to Perth, many many years ago, the city still gave me pleasant surprises throughout my trip there. Fremantle Market is still a joy to visit, and the 3 hour drive to The Pinnacles reminded... Continue Reading →
One of my friends has been on the fence on whether to join us for our Iceland adventure trip next year for a few months. Yesterday, he said ok to the entire endeavor. We are actually going to Iceland!! We have been planning such a long and far trip for months now. The only thing... Continue Reading →
I can't remember when was the last time I actually had the tickets to the National Day Parade. In my entire life, I think I had the chance to attend the NDP only once, and that was during my primary school days. Now, after many years later, a friend of mine had a pair of... Continue Reading →
It's confirmed. I am going to Cambodia for a short holiday with a friend of mine in September. I just bought our air tickets online through Jetstar. We will be heading there from the 24th to the 28th of September. This marks the third vacation planned for 2015, after Perth, Australia, and Japan. It should... Continue Reading →
There is a good chance that I might be going to Cambodia for a short trip! My friend and I are locking down the dates on the 24th to 27th September 2015. Basically he is going there to visit his girlfriend who is doing volunteer work in one of the villages on the outskirts of... Continue Reading →
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