If you fancy historical applied arts, decorative arts, and design, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London's South Kensington is one to fancy. The museum is known in its short name as the V&A museum. The museum covers 5.1 hectares of space across floors and 145 mini galleries. The interior galleries are laid out in a logical...
Let's visit London's largest green spot in the city, London Hyde Park. It is one to spend a chill day out in one of the most happening cities in the world. An exploration we will do.
Notably, the city park situated in the heart of downtown London is a nice green refuge from the buzzing cosmopolitan city. Furthermore,...
The Torch relay this Olympics involves bringing the torch through various sights and cities around Cambridge, such a horse back riding and water bodies, on top of the traditional on-road type relay. The one in the second league of the relay in Cambridge is no exception either.
From the event at Parker's piece the night before, on this...
The Olympic flame is coming to Cambridge city, in style the least. Cambridge city forms part of the London Olympic Torch Relay route leading up to the 2012 Olympics, involving 8,000 inspirational torchbearers in total, where the flame will eventually reach the London Olympic stadium for the opening ceremonies on the 27th this month. The torch arrived...
London Shard tower is a skyscraper in London, England UK. Construction started in 2009 and was completed not too long ago on 30 March 2012, it is due to open publicly in February next year. It is the tallest habitable structure in Europe standing at 309.6m high (1,016 ft). The tower is however the second-tallest free-standing structure...
Busch Gardens Tampa is one of the few unique “Zoo theme parks” with a world-class theme park complete with renowned rides and roller coasters situated together with a wildlife zoo. Tampa city, with its typical hot, marshy and warm Florida climate are perfect grounds to create a savannah habitat within its 136 hectare compound as a premiere...
Epcot is one of the five theme parks in Walt Disney World Resort at Bay Lake, Orlando, Florida. Owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company Parks and Resorts division. It is one of the few parks the result of the brain child of Walt Disney himself, who coined and developed the idea of a separate park...
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, also known as The Guggenheim, is a private art museum in New York City USA. The building is home to the abstract art collection of Solomon since he started collection art dating back since the 1920s. Let’s explore the museum today with a walkthrough.
Furthermore, the gallery started out as a private art...
Let’s check out the Boston Museum fine arts with a day trip. It is an arts museum on Eastern American University city in Boston, Massachusetts.
Furthermore, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870, it sits in Boston, MA along 465 Huntington Avenue. The front courtyard entrance of the museum sits the Cyrus Dallin's Appeal to...
The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (ICA), USA is a contemporary modern arts museum in Boston city. The building, like the art it exhibits within is a modern one. Let's check out the shining jewel by the bay side with a regular gallery patron visit.
Since 2006, the private modern arts museum sits on a quiet corner...
Wonderful Boston, there is a lot to see and do here. If it’s not clam chowders, it’s a buzzing university town home to two of the world’s most iconic Ivy-league universities. Let’s check out what’s on in the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. We shall explore what makes...
Thousands islands in Canada is an Archipelago between the United States of America and Canada. The Thousand Islands is rather peculiar formation of small islands in the St. Lawrence River. It is located about 140km from the Canadian city of Toronto.
A mass of islands
Furthermore, the Thousand Islands is made out of a group of more than 1,800...
Let's do a short exploration of the city of Toronto in Canada. The Canadian city is a rather chill one and is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario and a major Canadian city along Lake Ontario.
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada. Also, the city of Toronto is pretty much walkable on foot....
Lets go on a Niagara Falls adventure to check out one of the largest natural flowing waterfalls in the world at the Niagara Falls and visit the nearby Canadian city of Toronto on a day trip. Let’s go!
Moreover, a wise move is to do this Niagara 3-day trip from the US east coast. A is great move...
Watkins Glen State Park is a national park in New York state, in America. It is known for its iconic natural erosion features, gorges and continental rock features.
Here, you can walk through trails with beautiful rock erosion formations on an easy to walk river creek. Let's do a nature walk and catch the sights.
Furthermore, Watkins Glen State...
The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York is one dedicated to the art, history and science of glass. The privately-owned museum was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works. Today, it is home to a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some being over 3,500 years old in age. Let's visit...
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a vast educational museum and live airfield devoted to British Aviation located in Cambridgeshire, England. It is operated in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and the Duxford Aviation Society. It is home to a vast selection of nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibition buildings.
This...
Going in addition to my previous blog post of installing and running Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) on your x86 based system. I encountered an interesting infinite boot loader loop problem evident only if you install your Linux distribution (and GRUB) on top of a Windows 8 system using the new Windows 8 radical boot loader. This...
The idea of Windows 8 running on ARM based tablets is unreal, but the idea of running Android on x86 based PCs is even cooler. Knowing the crazed Android platform developer and supporter I am, what's the least I can do than to get it running on my x86-based tablet PC?
You can start off by grabbing the...
When the Metro interface was first announced for Windows 8, I had the humorous impression of it being Windows Phone for PC. We've seen the Metro interface already being implemented on the Xbox and the Windows Phone platform, knowing Microsoft's enthusiasm on this rather unique interface, it will be only a matter of time before it finds...
Heun Kee Claypot Chicken Rice is renowned for its traditional claypot dishes cooked under a traditional charcoal fire. The restaurant is situated at Jalan...