TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

To all the pork snack lovers =)! Well I love beef, fish and all kinds of seafood snack but it just so happens that the Thai snacks we saw and bought were mostly pork. Rice cracker with pork floss and crispy pork sheet. If you want to say delicious in Thai, you say "Aroi mak mak". I think Thailand does not need any introduction when it comes to its cuisine. It is loved by many of us. In Bangkok, I went totally gaga on these aroi mak mak crunchy Thai snacks. They are sold in supermarkets and in many open and indoor market stalls all over the city. They usually go between 80-100 Baht per pack (normal size). The bigger ones go between 150-300 Baht depending on the snack. Spicy pork jerky and some crunchy fish sheet snack. Both are a hit! This is my carry on bag. I have more in my luggage =) Shredded pork with onion and Crispy pork sheet snack. Travel Period: November 2015 Destination: Bangkok, Thailand Keep in touch and follow me on Facebook...

And I managed to book my flight with a good price from KLM (*happy*) which was very timing as they were offering their KLM Five Days of Offers promotion last week. I managed to save more than €200 on my ticket. The icing on the cake here is that my flight is going to be a direct flight (flying into Singapore). I always do my best to avoid flights with connections and stops as they are a waste of time for me. I do not have a lot of vacation days so I maximise every single vacation day as much as I can. The last time I did a stopover was the Dubai thing as I wanted to visit the city. That said, I am always willing to fork out a bit more just to get a direct flight. Luckily, the deal I was able to snag was a direct flight itself! Anyway, I have been to Bangkok and Singapore before but if you people have some tips for me, especially new cool places to visit, eat at, whatever... please feel free to share. It will however be my first time in Bintan Island so any tips are of course mo...

I am still overwhelmed by the Asia Quake - Indian Ocean incident. Every single day, I am glued watching BBC as the latest tragic news unravels right before my very eyes. It is just so painful and beyond belief to see the unspeakable video footages and pictures. It makes my nerves weak. Dutchman and I was in a bar-restaurant in Panglao Island (Bohol) on a Sunday early evening drinking our after dinner coffee when we saw the dreadful news. At first, we thought it was just a typical quake, but later that night at around 11pm, we came back to the same bar-restaurant for late night drinks (unfortunately it was the only bar that had the TV on in that area of the beach), then we saw how huge the scale of the catastrophe is. We could not stop focusing on Thailand: Phuket and Phi Phi Islands , since we have been there. Thinking about the tsunami made us feel vulnerable. Majority of the resort hotels in Phi Phi are housed along the very thin coastline strip, about 200-300 meters in width fr...