To all my Muslim friends, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2014! Next week, 28-29 July is a Muslim holiday Hari Raya Aidilfitri, The Festival of the Breaking of the Fast. Hari Raya literally means ‘celebration day’, and Hari Raya Aidilfitri is the day that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of dawn-to-sunset
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The second annual Asian Women’s Empowerment Conference (AWE ’14) is approaching fast! With the help of my passionate friends we are making progress one step at a time. It’s such an awesome event we’ve been excited to tell everyone we can about it. We usually get two very opposite responses when we invite someone to
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Finding Nemo changed the entire world’s view of marine life completely. No matter where you are, someone yells “Nemo!” when they see a clownfish, and no one questions why. The movie has aspects both grownups and kids could relate to. It is probably the most significant movie based on marine life after Little Mermaid. Finding
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Rugged terrain with thick green moss-covered rolling hills always attracted me. Iceland and New Zealand were the very definition of the mystical scenery I imagined. I loved how their landscapes showed the age of the Earth. But they weren’t the only places that attracted mystical scenery lovers like me. During my Scottish Highlands expedition last
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Lady Elliot Island: a magical drop in the ocean There’s this small island named Lady Elliot Island that is entirely made of corals. Yes, it’s a part of the Great Barrier Reef, where you can see one of the most exquisite collections of marine life. Lady Elliot Island is about a two-hour (private) flight away from
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Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled: “Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?” The Woolabra Station tour was my very first connection to the Outback. It’s about a half-hour drive out of Charleville (and
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Floating above the Hinterland… on a hot air balloon 3:30 a.m. I jump out of bed. The window that usually shines bright with the rising sun is still completely dark. I can see some stars behind the tall buildings. I bundle up in my winter jacket, hat, gloves, and scarf, and walk out the door
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Visiting the sun Ah, that big bright ball of fire in the sky, the one that makes our skin brown, our hair lighter, our mood lift, and all our cares melt away. You’d think that all those positive statements would mean there can’t possibly be a downside, wouldn’t you? Wrong! Whilst the sun is a
15 June, 2014, my photography exhibition officially opened to the public. In collaboration with CAD Centre for Arts & Design, we are presenting inspiring stories from around the world through 43 photographs theme “Respect”. We invited local friends and media to see the art work, and listen the behind the scene stories about each
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“This water never stopped since 1892,” Robyn at the Charlotte Plains proudly said. There was a double-headed water pipe in the middle of the farm in Charlotte Plains. A couple bathtubs were on the side of the small lake that looked naturally formed. The water was pumping from the pipe so hard, like someone had
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