It’s easy to feel excited about race day the moment you land in the Gold Coast. As our uber car took us to our accommodation, we could see event volunteers already busy setting up tents and temporary steel barricades lining the endless coastline. “Coming for the big race?” our driver whipped out the pick-up line […]
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 […]