MAISON ET JARDINS DE CLAUDE MONET 

Thanks to my wife, we managed to book tickets to visit Monet’s house in Giverny. This completes our wish of seeing the place that inspired his famous The Waterlilies art work at Musee de l’Orangerie. The place was about roughly an hour drive away from where we live. We were blessed with incredible weather when […]

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Bic Runga – Get Some Sleep

On our music world tour, let me introduce you to Bic Runga from New Zealand. I first caught wind of this track when I was living in London. I am not sure why the song didn’t became bigger than it deserves. Bic Runga is half Malaysian and half Maori. She released her debut solo album […]

Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature à Paris

The Hunting & Nature Museum of Paris. Another free Sunday open museum day and I prebooked the ticket months ago without knowing what to expect at this splendid place. My son was not particularly keen on seeing dead animals but turned out to enjoy it. There were contemporary art work in the mix and not […]

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Un Monde Qui S’illumine – Disneyland Paris Cast

Another Disney post but this song has officially entered my playlist and became a core memory. The song was playing throughout Disneyland Paris. My kids had a blast at the theme park so it is perfect to share here. The song is a mix of French and English and translates to Light Up The World. […]

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Disneyland Paris

We made it, we finally visited Disneyland Paris for it’s 30th Year Celebration. We decided that we need to get this done as part of making the most of our stay in Paris. We booked ourselves in for a 3 days 2 night stay which included 3 full days access to both parks. One of […]

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Human Nature – Telling Everybody

Human Nature is a four piece boyband from Australia which formed in 1989. They released this tracked when they signed with Sony. I recall this band from the time when Backstreet Boys hit our radio station. They performed as supporting acts for Celine Dion and Michael Jackson. They are still actively touring and have had […]

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Lucky Day I Suppose?

I arrived back from London today after a business trip. The day started well when I did a self check in bag drop off on the terminal with my bag coming just 100 grams below my check in lugagge allowance of 23 kgs. I did not pre-weigh it and thought it was indeed well below […]

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Writ In Water Surrey

I woke up early today as I am back in the UK for work and manage to sneak in a run in Egham. I tried running in the open fields here several times during the winter and rainy months but it was either too dark or the water logged. I am glad I did it […]

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Tina Arena – Burn

Staying in Australia, Tina Arena is my songstress of choice this week. Tina Arena is one of Australia’s highest selling artist with over 10 million records sold globally. I can recall that this song was released in 1997 as I just began high school in Penang. I used to maintain my own weekly top 10 […]

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Vanessa Amorosi – Absolutely Everybody

Another week and lets head down under. Vanessa is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her combined album and single sales have reached over two million worldwide. She performed in the 2000 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremony. This tracked peaked at number 6 in her home country and reached number 1 in Hungary. Everytime […]