Month: April 2007

  • $1.99 tickets from Tigerairways

    Singapore-based Tigerairways is having one of their early bird promos, with one-way fares starting at only $1.99. It pays to be early. Book your tickets on tigerairways.com at least 3 months in advance, and get the best real deals in town! And with 1.4 million seats available up till 29 Mar 08, the early bird…

  • The Ten Commandments of travel

    Spotted on top of my Gmail inbox, courtesty of MSNBC.com. It’s pretty much common knowledge for people who’ve travelled a lot. To those who’ll be travelling for the first time (or other annoying passengers), this is a good guideline. Particularly commandment number 5: 5. Thou shalt understand that the people in the brochure are not…

  • Travel Expenses: Gold Coast 2007

    Yay, I’m (very) slowly working through my backlog of entries! Here’s the expenses breakdown of my Gold Coast 4-day weekend trip last March. I flew via Jetstar, and lucky for me, their Gold Coast segment flies from Tullamarine and not from Avalon airport (which is about one and a half hour from Melbourne). I stayed…

  • Flight tracking websites

    My 15-year old niece took her first flight out of the country last night. She’s due to arrive in Melbourne right about now, but so far, I haven’t received any text messages or calls from either her or my sister. And joy of joys, I’ve also run out of pre-paid credit on my mobile, so…

  • 5 reasons why I travel

    Dave of GoBackpacking blogged his 5 reasons for traveling, and has tagged me to do the same. Hmm, why *do* I travel anyway? Something new. I’m always eager for something new and different. Take a break from the usual I easily get bored and demotivated by routine. I lose focus on matters that need my…

  • Missed opportunities

    One of the sad facts about traveling is that there will always be missed opportunities. Like, not being able to go to Warner Brother’s Movie World because you’d rather shop, or taking a pass at visiting the temples you haven’t seen yet because of the terrible heat (I’m looking at you, Christine!) As much as…

  • Travel Expenses: Sydney 2007

    Ah, Sydney. How I loved thee. I’ve fallen inlove with Sydney, mainly because of the harbour and the ferries. I don’t know why, but I just love riding commuter ferries. It’s one of the reasons why I loved the Chao Phraya in Bangkok. I only spent 3 days in Sydney, though I wish I could…

  • Subjective Travel Guides Wanted

    Found this over at the BnA Forums: “Subjective Travel Guides Wanted for www.roadjunky.com – $150 We are looking for writers to help us build our coverage of countries and cities around the world. PLEASE check out the website and observe that we are NOT looking for compilers of listings and prices but rather seasoned writers…

  • MyFlightMemory.com

    My friend Wei commented on my plan for world domination entry, and suggested I try MyFlightMemory.com. I signed up, and though I have only taken a small number of trips, I was surprised to see how many miles and flying hours I’ve consumed.