Best Time to Visit Da Nang

Another travel reminder for myself.

June,July,Aug. Promotion season and sunny at the same time.

June,July,Aug is not my idea of the best time to be in DaNanag. It is really hot and sticky. As you can see by the chart of data below the best and the time I always go is MAR - MAY, I am out of there before the end of May each year. This last year I was swimming and have a great time in March at China Beach which is just down the street for the Furama Resort in Da Nang. Average DaNang Tepatures Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug 77 80 84 86 85 85 Average DaNang Rainfall in Inchs: Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug 1 1 3 3 4 4 Humidity Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug 90 87 82 80 80 82

Best time for hot sunny days is april to end of aug. Hardly any rain at all .

Bali

I want to go Bali. Supposedly rains everyday either in the AM or PM based on feedback from someone who just returned on 21-Jan 2012. She was advised to go in Jun-Aug which is their summer. Then I had another friend who went there in Jan/Feb last year and it was fine. Probably will pass Bali this time round to go Cebu? But just a reminder for myself when for the later part of the year:

The beautiful tropical island has two seasons: The dry season from April until September and the wet season is between October and March. The temperature is very pleasant all year round between 25 and 35 degree Celsius.

Travel Tips - Currency Convertor

Found this really useful site which enables you to print a pocket size table of the exchange rate between the country you are visitng and your home country.
Definintely beneficial to the shopaholics.

http://www.oanda.com/currency/travel-exchange-rates

Ops! I Did It Again!

It happened again last evening.
The damage this time round is well, a hundred plus dollars....
True sign of a shopaholic - I cannot remember how much I spent exactly & neither can I remember what I have bought exactly.

I thought I should document the items I have bought.
And on a good day, I should take a picture of myself wearing those clothes and put side by side for comparison.

And today, on a Sunday, I choose to wear:






























Pictures courtesy of Love Bonito - Abstract Jersey Maxi Skirt

People who know me well will know I seldom wear skirts.
Well, this is more forgiving as it is a looong skirt...
But I am not going to wear it as a looong skirt.
I will wear it as a tube top:





























Picture courtesy of Love Bonito

Getting A Kick & Drying Hair Beside the Wall

Now, isn't it great to be back?
2 posts in a day.
Getting a kick out of it...

Double up as my mobile notebook that I can access anywhere, anytime.

Picture courtesy of relitespecialty.com (i may become their customer soon)

One of the things to research on...
Wall-mounted hair dryers!

I rarely used a hair-dryer at home.
The last few times, if I remembered right, mummy cornered me at my desk while I was reading or on the computer while she blew dry my hair for me.

Interestingly, I ALWAYS use the hair dryer at least once when I am travelling and staying in a decent hotel room with a wall-mounted hairdryer.
Isn't it marvellous how hassle-free it is?
Just pluck it out of its holder that is mounted to the wall and off you go!
If your hands get tired before the hair is dry, just dump it back in the holder and erm off you go again...
Still not dry enough and you badly need to sleep?
Well, go to the wall and pluck the handpiece out of its holder again!

Lovely!

Always thought I should haveone of these at home so that I no longer sleep with wet hair and risk going crazy (tou-feng), that is if I am not already tou-feng! Hahaha!

But why is it rarely seen in our common HDB flats? Hmmm...

Random surfing of the internet brought me to an article about blogging on the usnews.com site.
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Blog it.

Writing a blog will make you smarter (hence, more employable) because you’ll be doing all sorts of researching, reading, and thinking. A blog provides a showcase for said researching, reading, and thinking. You may also make some helpful contacts in the blogosphere.

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So there you go.
I, the Ber-Ger, is BACK!

Home Renovation - Perspective is ready!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that we are finally doing something for our house.

It's really a very very budget project to make my little 3.5 room HDB flat to look as unlike as a flat as possible....
Below are some pictures from the ID, but there really isn't much here cos we are buying most things off the rack and not engaging their services.

Common Toilet
(Yes, this is the toilet you will be using if you come to visit me. Door shd be tempered glass swing door. Doing away with the feature black metallic tiles at the rain shower . Just keep it a plain white toilet... Maybe a few mosaics....)

Kitchen
Cement screed walls with black tiles. Cabinet is likely to be off the racks from ikea. Simple simple small kitchen as there is unlikely to be much use for it??? Moi has no time to wash and cook.

Kitchen
Another view of the kitchen which shows the bright mosaic tiles. Still choosing between orange, red or green.

This has got to be my favourite part of the house for now. Very unique design. Pebble wash lining the entrance to the MBR toilet. The whole room will be converted to a walk-in wardrobe, by the way. Half of the wall will be hacked and basin has been shifted out to make the bathroom bigger, or at least appear bigger?

Organise-freak

I have a bit of an obsession with getting organised.
My other half would know... Yet, my room is in a big mess... cos I am a bit of a hoarder as well.

I wonder if I am the only one who is appealed to get one of these...
Several plastic bags that can be held together with velcro and costing $32/set.
Islapak Handbag Organiser

Now this would be extremely useful to me as I would like to change my bag more often w/o having to re-pack it each time....
To buy or not to buy....

I think I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

These days, I am getting wounded and bruised more easily. Then I scar very badly... With dark scars that are raised.
Thought I might be diabetic. Last medical checkup without even fasting was fine. So diabetes is out. Then I thought, maybe it is just a sign of growing old, that skin is not healing as fast as before. Sigh.......
Then I thought... might I have gotten AIDS from clearing the instruments which have been used on one of my patients.... Though that is higly unlikely.
It's amazing how far-fetched ones' imagination becomes when dealing with the unknown...

THEN! I read about the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome .

And yes.. I do have a certain degree of joint laxity. I am also flat feet. And I used to sprain my left ankle once a year. Poor healing with raised scars described to be similar to "cigarette paper" and bruising easily.
All signs seem to be pointing that way....

Or am I just growing old?

*Aim* PULL! *Bang* *Shatter* *Whiff of Gunpowder*

Know how in my previous post, I mentioned that hopefully I don't have too many items on my To Do List 2009?
Well.. Too bad!
Here I am at Singapore Gun Club!

Live life to the fullest! That's the way it should be... C'est La Vie!