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When Sandakan was officially recorded in western history books in the midst of 19th century, its founder and early trader William Pryer called it Elopura or ‘Beautiful City’. Later on, it was known as Little Hong Kong, either due to the town harbour’s semblance to the original island city when viewed from the sea, or [...]
Isn’t it almost time to be jolly? Shopping centers and retail outlets have now erected their brightly lit Christmas trees and hung up the colorful baubles, garlands or other christmas ornaments to draw in shoppers for the last big shopping opportunity for the year. For Dreamworks, their contribution to this yearend ‘winterfest’ is a 3D [...]
Our recent travel escapades brought us to the gorgeous land of Sandakan, where we stayed at the Four Points by Sheraton Sandakan.. With so many rich historical, cultural, natural and wildlife attractions found in and around the harbour city of Sandakan, it isn’t surprising to have the internationally renowned Four Points by Sheraton debuting here [...]
We write alot about handmade food. There is handmade pasta, handmade burgers, handmade oven pizzas, handmade oils… well now its about a handmade film. It’s a film handmade for the season of carved pumpkins, Halloween. Why handmade you ask? Well, this Disney movie, Frankenweenie is a stop motion film with its scenes and characters completely [...]
It happens to be October month, and it’s obviously the time for lots of beer drinking and snacking, for those familiar with Oktoberfest (who isn’t though, right?). This beer festival of large mugged beer, food, music, toasting, singing, dancing, games and buxom barmaids which originated from Munich, Germany, has now become a staple celebration across [...]
Having been all ‘templed’ out in ancient Bagan and desperately needing to escape the heat of Mandalay, we hopped on the next interstate ‘aircond’ bus to another much visited attraction of Myanmar, Inle Lake. We bumped into our French and Canadian travellers again. Always nice to see familiar faces. Hot steamy meat buns. Good for [...]
Some might remember Stallone’s mumbles and growls in his version of the flashier Judge Dredd in 1995. I certainly do and I wasn’t too impressed with the movie. Neither were many movie-goers or fans of the graphic novel. The re-runs on satellite television re-affirmed my judgement. When the announcement for a Dredd 3D preview came [...]
Mohinga to a Myanmarese is like what a hamburger is to Americans or pasta to Italians. Its a fast food dish found on the street aisles to teahouses around the country. the ever so tasty mohinga Mohinga is rice vermicelli in thick fish gravy with slivers of fish meat, sliced banana blossom, crushed crispy fritters, [...]
So from Bagan.. we head on to our next stop in Myanmar, Mandalay. Arriba Mandalay! Myanmar (Part 1 of this tale of travel through Mandalay – it was so long we had to split up the post) It would be nice to say, Arriba Mandalay! on this trip to Myanmar .. but, Not quite arriba, [...]
I Spit On Your Grave (2010) It isn’t everyday you get put up a post mentioning sodomy and rape of a beautiful girl unless you run a tabloid or a pornographic website so we are taking this opportunity with our review on I Spit on Your Grave to mention that yes a beautiful woman gets [...]
The Bagan Tiger leaps to life when an intruder infiltrates its boundary! We arrived in Nyaung U (Nyaung Oo) near Bagan past midnight in a very dimly lit bus station together with another group of 3 travelers who were from North America. The aircond bus from Yangon was reasonably comfortable – comfortable meaning we were [...]
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