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Yas island, Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix, Ferrari World by Aldar Properties

Dubbed as the world's leading tourism project at the World Travel Awards in November 2009, Yas Island is a 2,500 hectares tourism city developed at a cost of US$36 billion by Aldar Properties. It is a self sufficient tourist getaway complete with hotels, shopping centers and will feature attractions such as Warner Bros Movie World, Ferrari World,...
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Adu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second largest city in the United Arab Emirates. From Dubai, it's just about a 2 hour drive from the downtown Dubai and the international airport. My journey to the capital starts from from the Ghubaiba bus station, where you can get a regular express bus there for 15AED, which boils...
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Dubai Desert Safari

What do you do on a nice sunny afternoon with an SUV and a huge desert in your backyard? Go on a desert safari of course. Our ride for the day will be a gag guzzling Toyota land cruiser manual, good thing fuel here is dirt cheap like water. The desert is rather unforgiving in nature and...
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Dubai historical sites and Dhow River cruise

This part of my Dubai trip focuses on the historical and heritage of the people here in the UAE. Places of interests here will be various heritage centers and museums of historical significance to the culture of the Dubai people. This experience is topped with a traditional Dhow river cruise down the Dubai creek right in the...
Middle East

Up the Burj Dubai (Burj Khalifa)

The Burj Khalifa as of it's inaugural year in 2010 is the world's tallest building and tallest free standing man-made structure ever known to man. It was constructed over a period of about 3 years costing over US$1.5 billion with it's primary contractor being Samsung C&T of South Korea and is developed by Emaar Properties. It stands...
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The Dubai mall, aquarium and underwater zoo

No trip to Dubai is complete without spending a day at the Dubai Mall. Calling your mall establishment the "Dubai Mall" (Or the mall of the Dubai) does come with raised expectations of what to expect, being it to live up to it's name as a "national mall" or sort. My day there begins back out into...
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Dubai city sights 2 (Emirates Mall, Festival city, Gold Souks & Sikkat Al Khail Road)

There are many modes of transport around Dubai, with the usual bus, trains and taxis, with the latter being my personal favorite due to the sheer number of them on the streets. You can never get along walking along the streets without a taxi finding you in less than a minute. And mind you, the taxis here...
Middle East

Dubai city sights part 1 (Madinat Jumeirah, Al Arab, Atlantis, Burjuman & Wafi)

Trip date 24th-28th September My trip to Dubai last year was part of a multi city stop over from Singapore terminal one onwards to London United Kingdom for my upcoming college term via Dubai flying Emirates. Emirates have very good airfare rates with the exception of rather picky baggage allowance for these stopovers in Dubai, presumably beckoning you...
Middle East

Dubai and Abu Dhabi trip photos

Behold, a massive photo update of my recent trip to Dubai last week. It took my sometime to get all the photos uploaded and captioned while settling into my new room here in college. School starts tomorrow for me and it had been a really busy week settling uni administrative stuff as well as managing the freshers...
University

2010 Halloween Parties GET!

So what did I do for Halloween this year, well I made my own costume this year, 2 in fact. I had quite a number of parties to attend this year, so I figured I diversify my arsenal a li' ol bit. I made a Half-life zombie costume using a bloodied labcoat and shirt, coupled with my...
University

Internship at the Defence Science Technology Agency Towers

As part of my university internship and industrial experience requirements, I spent the last summer back in Singapore working 8 weeks from the 26th of July to the 17th of September. I've got the opportunity to work on improving a large caliber weapons system currently actively employed in the Singapore Armed forces. The organisation is no Stark...
Europe

The Lake District, UK- Rydal water & Cave

Rydal is a small nature area close by are Grasmere to the north and Ambleside to the south-east. It is home to few interesting attractions, we have the Rydal water, which is an enclosed lake by a small wooded area overlooked by a fell, the Rydal hall and mount which are historical houses. You can stop by...
Europe

The Lake District, UK- Town of Keswick & Latrigg Fell

Keswick is a market town and civil parish within the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It is largely a rather developed town with a population of about 5000. It is situated just north of Derwent Water, and a short distance from Bassenthwaite Lake, and about a 90mins drive north of the town of Windermere. We arrived by...
Europe

The Lake District, UK (Glenridding, Helvellyn, Ullswater & Coniston)

Glenridding and Ullwater are one of the must-visit sites in the lake district. Without transport, it's isolated location gives it some degree of challenge in getting there too. A single public bus services, served by stagecoach departs to Glenridding 3 times daily excluding weekends. Visitors will have to endure roughly an hour long trip by bus through...
Europe

The Lake District, UK- Town of Ambleside

Ambleside is a town in Cumbria, in North West England historically within the county of Westmorland. It is located not too far off the city of Windermere at the head of Windermere and within the Lake District National Park. The "mere" in Windermere here means a long, thin lake, which is also England's largest lake. Many regular public...
Europe

The Lake District, UK- Windermere

Trip date 11-12 June 2010 My trip to the Lake district is a continuation of my previous trip from Alton towers at Uttoxeter near Staffordshire. Our journey there requires a single change of trains (from the Virgin express) to the internal First great western trains at Oxenholme station. The Virgin trains are Alstom liners, all loaded with tech...
Europe

Alton Towers Extraordinary Mini Golf whack out!

Altontower Mini (Extraordinary) golf- Trip date 11th June 2010 An idiot’s way to playing golf in a whacked out world is what miniature golf have to offer, (well not in a bad way of course), often with many interesting challenges and finds too. The Alton towers mini Extraordinary Golf one is no exception either. It’s a fairly new...
Europe

Alton Towers Water Park

Trip date 11th June 2010 The Alton towers waterpark is one of the main attractions in Alton towers itself. It is a standalone attraction located right inside the splash landings hotel. The hotel is one complimentary to the water park and is one of the 2 hotels which is owned and serves the Alton parks directly. Both the...
Europe

Alton Towers Theme Park!

Trip to Alton towers theme park (10th June 2010) Alton Towers is one of the few must visit places in the UK for thrills and fun, well for at least a theme park fanatic like me at least. It is a theme park and resort located in Staffordshire, England and is the second most visited theme park in...
Events

NYAA Gold award holders alumni (GAHA) 15th Anniversary dinner

The National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA), Gold award holders alumni (GAHA) 15th anniversary dinner was on today. Held at The Pines, (previously known as The Pinetree club), it saw the reunion of the gold award holders over a lush 15 years of history in the presence of Mr Mah Bow Tan as the guest of honor. Dr...
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