After confirming our trip to New Zealand, at the top of our list was to experience one of its Great Walks in the Southern Alps – either the Milford, Kepler or Routeburn Track. All three are incredibly popular and even though we had been 6 months ahead, the huts for Milford were full and almost […]
If you were to win a pair of tickets to anywhere in the world, where would you go? That was the million-dollar question (okay, more like three-thousand-dollar question) after winning the Amex Travel Hacks contest in June 2016. Just by simply submitting my ‘top 3 travel hacks’ on a Facebook contest page, I had won […]
A Top 10 Finalist for iDA’s inaugural Data in the City: Visualisation Challenge 2014 in conjunction with Singapore’s SG50 celebrations. On the Dot is a virtual historical atlas of Singapore’s tourism landscape. It showcases Singapore’s total visitor arrivals from different countries over the years, their total expenditure value (TEV) and the popularity of our top […]
Content. Content. Content. Focus on the writing and everything else will follow. That was pretty much my mantra since I launched LadyExplorer.com two years ago (yes, the blog has just crossed its 2-year mark last week!) After all, it was the only thing I knew. With little expertise on search engine optimisation or content […]
Week 0: Right after acl reconstruction surgery Super painful, swelling at its worse Couldn’t get outta bed for 1 day Focus is on straightening No weight-bearing Week 1: Bandage removed No weight-bearing Physio starts with focus on straightening, control of quads & light bending Slight discolouration with swelling of ankle Week 1.5: Bruising gets worse […]
A slow, healing journey to the one-month mark of my ACL surgery By the time I walked out of the physiotherapy clinic, the heavy downpour had faded into a light drizzle. Light enough, for me to thread cautiously across the puddles on the wet floor to the next building. “Hello, do you need shelter?” I had been […]
Angkor Wat means ‘Temple City’ in Khmer (Angkor = City, Wat = Temple) and is the largest religious monument in the world. Other noteworthy mentions include being the national symbol that sits proudly on the Cambodian flag. It is also a finalist of the new 7 wonders of the world and a renowned UNESCO world […]