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McLean Falls, Catlins

Dhan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:48:05 +0000

New Zealand is rightfully considered as one of the untouched and purest places on Earth, but even there some places are more untouched than the others. One of such regions, Catlins, is a home for a 22 meter high McLean Falls, the most spectacular in the area.

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The Star of Singapore Botanical Gardens

Dhan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:48:08 +0000

Location: Bandstand, Singapore Botanical Garden (1Â°19’18″N 103Â°48’59″E)
Date: 8 October 2011; 9.50am
Camera: Canon 400D with Sigma 17-70/f2.8-4.5

Singapore Botanical Garden is one of the main attractions of Singapore. Quite often when one lives in a place, one easily overlook the local attractions that tourists from far afield come to visit. The Botanical Gardens is just one of those- I lives in Singapore but never pay much attention or visit the place unless I have visitors. However it is apparently a favourite of tourists especially the new force-to-be-reckon-with tourists from China and India. These tourists are no doubt attracted by the immaculately maintained gardens and its vast collection of tropical trees, flowers and plants. For locals, one of the favourite spot of the Gardens is the white octagonal shaped pavilion named the Bandstand which was erected in 1930. The Bandstand used to host military band performances in the past- now it is a popular spot for newly-weds to have their photos taken with their full regalia of wedding gowns.

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Venice Italy With Kids: Travel With Kids Italy

Dhan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:48:06 +0000

	Venice Italy With Kids: Travel With Kids Italy Explore Venice with Kids! This amazing city on water will enchant and delight kids of all ages. With the help of the Romanelli family at Hotel Flora, we get a chance to see Venice like a local. Part of the Travel With Kids Italy series coming soon from Travel With Kids www.travelwithkids.tv	From: travelwithkids Views: 216 3 ratings
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California Photo Scout for iPhone

Dhan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:48:09 +0000

Recently I released an iPhone application for fellow photographers who visit the Golden State of California.

I have spent 10 years photographing California and I am making this knowledge available to you in an inexpensive iPhone application. The convenient on-the-go travel guides contain everything you need to know to succeed on your travel photography adventure. You can carry the large database of locations in your pocket and you do not even need internet access to read any of the articles.

The offline capability makes this companion especially useful when you travel the back roads, have a limited data volume or travel California from abroad. It even works well on your iPod. You just do not depend on data coverage, yet you have the full interactive database readily available.

Tap your way through each location and get photography tips and insider information that can make your photographs stand out. Each article comes with GPS coordinates that make it easy to find your way. Discover nearby locations to maximize your time and get the most out of your trips.

I am continuously extending the location database. Each application update adds new locations to the already extensive database and is completely free. The application is much cheaper than any travel book of California, despite the great depth of information contained within. I will increase this price with the next major release. Get your copy now, before the price goes up.

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Up on the roof

Dhan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:48:07 +0000

Today I was watching a really cool video of seven base jumpers making full use of Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Hotel roof and it reminded me of a shoot I did a while ago at Meydan, the venue for one of Dubai’s most well know races – the Dubai World Cup. I spent 2 full [...]

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Aqua Safari Bora Bora

Dhan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:48:07 +0000

	Aqua Safari Bora Bora Interview with the manager of Bora Bora Aqua Safari about what its like. Un-edited video from the Travel With Kids Bora Bora filming. More info at travelwithkids.tv	From: travelwithkids Views: 106 1 ratings
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Pattaya 2011 – The Sanctuary of Truth

Dhan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:48:06 +0000

The Sanctuary of Truth is quite a strange tourist attraction. It is neither a palace, nor a temple. It was initiated by a Thai business tycoon in 1981, and scheduled to be completed only by 2025. You need to pay an entrance fee of 500 Baht to visit the attraction. After paying at the entrance gate, you will be taken on horse-drawn carts to the Sanctuary.

Constructed entirely out of teak wood, this is one of the largest timber structures in the world. It is created to represent a fusion of art, philosophy, religion and culture – based on Buddhist and Hindu religious traditions. If you visit the Web Site, you will get some interesting backgounds on the noble purpose of the monument.

The entire structure is constructed out of teak wood – some are amazingly huge slabs of wood which are very hard to come across these days. You can see the craftsman at work on some parts of the building.

Don’t just marvel at the exterior – the interior is also quite impressive.

The scale of the project is no doubt awe-inspiring, and from a distance the ornate sculptures can’t fail to impress. On closer inspection though, you can see that the craftsmanship is no where near the refinement of their ancient counterparts in Ayutthaya or Angkor Wat. Still, it is amazing that they were able to put together such a big group of wood carvers from around the region to work on the project. It is definitely worth a visit.

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MADD about Tea

Dhan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:48:05 +0000

MADD About Tea, Nashville

Sunday Nov 13 12:30-3:30 pm

Shamblin Theatre

Lipscomb University

3901 Granny White Pike

Nashville, TN

www.MADDAboutTea.org

facebook: MADD About Tea

cost $35 single, $65 double

click here to get your tickets

Come join the MADD hatter tea party and try a variety of teas (for real, tea tasting)! Because it is a Madd hatter tea party, wear your craziest hat and win the best hat contest! Craft Store here I come! I need to make me a MADD as a hatter hat! So, how the crazy hat part is going to work is that there will be a Photo Booth set up during the event to get your hat photo taken. For the next week, Nov 14 – 21, the photos will be on the MADD About Tea Facebook page and the top 3 hat photos with the most “Likes” will win a prize!

Also included in this event is a silent auction including items from the fabulous list: Alegria Boutique, Elizabeth Sulkowski, Hilton Inn Downtown, J Bangs Hair Salon, J McLaughlin, Joseph Sulkowski, Kali Yuga Yoga, Kundalina Rinsing Yoga, Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, MADD, Margot Cafe, Nashville Predators, Nuvo Burrito, Portland Brews, Rose Pepper Cantina, Sambucca, Silly Goose, The Dog Spot, and the Frist Center.

OK, about MADD, they are a group which protects people from drink driving, and supports victims and survivors of drunk driving. Did you know, on average, one person dies everyday in the Tennessee by the driving hands of a drunk driver. Sadly, statistics show that 1/3 of us will be a victim of drunk driving. MADD is trying to reduce this statistic. Do your part, don’t drink and drive, get a ride with a designated driver, and get home safely.

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Roulottes The food trucks in Papeete Tahiti – Budget Eating in Tahiti

Dhan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:11 +0000

	Roulottes The food trucks in Papeete Tahiti – Budget Eating in Tahiti A look at the Roulettes Food Trucks in Papeete Tahiti that set up every night. All kinds of different foods for everyone, cheap (for Tahiti) and a fun outing for the family. Filming during the Travel With Kids Tahiti production. More info at www.travelwithkids.tv	From: travelwithkids Views: 164 0 ratings
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Calling All Fruities!

Dhan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:48:06 +0000

Locavore Fruities of Nashville Listen Up! There is a new fruit farm in town! You read that right Fruit!

The new fruit farm is Stewart Orchard up in Bells Bend, the northwest area of Davidson County.

There is a delicious way you can help Stewart Orchard get up and running. They need some start up capital to buy some fruit trees and bushes and plant them. What they have in mind is that you offer a dollar amount this year, and you get local farm fresh fruit each year for 5 years.

The bonds will be issued as follows:

For $30, you may select one item from the following list.
For $60, you may select two items from the following list.
For $100, you will receive all three items plus a special gift

And the items are:
Two quarts of blackberries
Five pounds of peaches
One peck of apples

The bearer of the bond will receive their selected items every year for FIVE YEARS from the issuance of the bond, which will begin in June of 2012. Crop losses will be taken into account, with the bond simply extending for one more year. That is a lot of fruit! I mean yummy! So let’s take a look at the break down, if you offer $30, you will get 10 quarts of black berries (average $3/quart very good deal) or 25 lbs of ripe peaches ($1.20/lb also a very good deal), or 5 pecks (5 heaping basket) of apples. There are a variety of apples to select, of which Arkansas Blacks are one of them. Arkansas Blacks are dark burgundy red and tart apples, excellent for an afternoon snack. That is a lot of fruity goodness.

If you are interested in helping your local agriculture expand by purchasing a fruit bond, please contact Stewart Orchard. You may mail a check and your selected item list (3305 Bell Street Ashland City, TN 37015). You may call anytime and Tatum and Jobeth would be happy to speak with you (615-792-9829). Stewart Orchard is even UPTOWN enough to take your credit card! (this is what I did with my bon, and it is super easy!) Or you may email Stewart Orchard: stewartorchard11@gmail.com

OK, so here is the deal, when Stewart Orchard Bells Bend is up and running, it will be a Pick Your Own fruit farm. It will be a nice place to take kids for a visit to pick fruit, a great place for apple cider in the fall, and a great place to go without driving very far from downtown Nashville. 15 minutes drive from downtown and you will be at Stewart Orchard.

I really can’t wait for this fruit farm to open. Fruit has been the hardest local food group for me to find on a regular basis. Stewart Orchard will be quite helpful to me to get local fruit into my home. I will likely learn to can some pears and freeze some berries for the cold winter months when fruit is hard to come by. Thanks Stewart family! I am waiting with baited breath!

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Slideshow for Jul- Sep 2011

Dhan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:48:08 +0000

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Eating in Kuching – Breakfast at Sin Chong Choon Cafe

Dhan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:48:06 +0000

Sin Chong Choon Cafe is a very popular kopitiam at Green Height Commercial Centre that has been around for a few years. They moved to a different corner shophouse a couple of years ago, and is still just as popular. If you go during the peak breakfast hour (9.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.) you may not get a table.

What is good here is the laksa – and for me the Foochow Noodles. I normally order the standard Kam Pua Mee, and a bowl of Pork Soup. What makes the noodles great is the generous lashing of rendered pork fat, and the bits of crunchy deep fried pork rind hidden inside that is so decadent !

The soup is also very tasty. You can order it with all the pork innards, or just minced pork and pork slices and veggie. They add a bit of Chinese wine to round out the taste, and it is no doubt augmented with plenty of MSG.

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Look for Geeks!

Dhan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:48:05 +0000

Nashville’s 3rd Annual Weekend-Long Event

October 21 – 23, 2011

Show Mid-TN’s Non-Profits Some Love!

NashvilleGiveCamp.org

What is GiveCamp? GiveCamp is a worldwide weekend in nearly 50 locations, including Nashville, where tech geeks, programmers, coders, managers, tech professionals voluteer their expertise to their local non-profits and charitable organizations to help the non-profits with their computing and programming needs. Check out GiveCamp Worldwide for the wider view of GiveCamp.

What Nashville GiveCamp needs are volunteering programmers, web designers, tech geeks, developers, coders, project managers, organizers, logistics to help some of our local non-profits and charitable organizations with their coding, programming and computing needs. There maybe database building, programming, website building, or whatever programming needs crop up. Tech professionals please go to http://www.nashvillegivecamp.org/ to sign up! Sign up now for a few hours to all weekend!

What Nashville GiveCamp needs is to feed and hydrate all the volunteers for the weekend! If you can donate meals, snacks and/or beverages, please do! Contact Lora Stevenson-Obrohta to find out how you can donate meals, snacks and beverages. Lora.Stevenson@fireflylogic.com or give her a call at 615-962-3791 Also, if you donate, you WILL be recognized on the Sponsor page on the website, and GiveCamp will tell the world!

The Location in Nashville is sponsored by Goodwill Industries, David B Lifsey Career Solutions Center, 937 Herman St, Nashville, TN 37208 up near the Nashville Farmer’s Market on Rosa Parks Blvd.

Which Charitable Organizations is GiveCamp Helping? Well, this years list has not been finalized yet, and will be announced on Friday October 21. But, here is the list of organizations from LAST YEAR, to give you and idea of some of our local non-profits:

Agape Animal Rescue

Community Resource Center

Comprehensive Care Center

Grandma’s Camp

NAPAS / TEAMS Institute

Nashville Cares

The Center For Family Development

The Nashville Bridge

Come out, and help! Thank You!

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Rural scene of Indonesia

Dhan — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:48:07 +0000

Location: Cemoro Lawang, Java, Indonesia (7Â° 55′ 22" S, 112Â° 57′ 52" E)
Date: 15 July 2008; 6.45pm
Camera: Canon 400D with Sigma 17-70/f2.8-4.5

Cemoro Lawang is a small town at the rim of the Bromo caldera. Its location makes it the most convenient and sought-after base for visiting the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park. As a result, tourism is the major economic activity. However before tourism became a major money-spinner, farming was the main productive activity in this town and the surrounding area. The land around here is extremely fertile, benefiting from the volcanic ash of the few volcanoes in the vicinity. All the farms, which are small family-plots grow vegetables. As is the norm in most farming and rural communities around the world, the people here are super-friendly and hospitable.

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MADD about Tea

Dhan — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:48:07 +0000

MADD About Tea, Nashville

Sunday Nov 13 12:30-3:30 pm

Shamblin Theatre

Lipscomb University

3901 Granny White Pike

Nashville, TN

www.MADDAboutTea.org

facebook: MADD About Tea

cost $35 single, $65 double

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Niagara Falls (NZ)

Dhan — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:48:06 +0000

Every visitor of the one of the most famous and largest waterfalls of New Zealand can feel its power kilometers away – the deafening noise of the Niagara Falls spreads over many miles and in good weather can be heard on the coast.

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The Best Little Restaurant

Dhan — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:48:06 +0000

The Best Little Restaurant

13A Hudson St

Boston, MA

617-338-4988

the sign

bean sprout greens

I once called Boston home. It has been many years since I called Boston home, and a lot has changed. The restaurants I liked are gone, the old buildings I liked have been renovated or torn down and a bigger building has been built, a major highway once there is now hidden and a city park, and there is a new subway line that I have never ridden on before. So many changes that I really have no idea what to do or where to go to get the best anything.

So, I told my mom that I wanted Chinese food in Boston Chinatown, and the old restaurant favorites of mine are long gone, making way for new ventures. She said to me, ok, let’s go to the best little restaurant in Chinatown. I said, “Sure, what is the name of the restaurant so I can Yelp or Urbanspoon search it?” She said, “It is just the best little restaurant in Chinatown, ok.” I asked again, and her reply was the same. It was like playing Who’s on First. So, I let it go, and didn’t search on the restaurant. To my surprise, the restaurant name is The Best Little Restaurant.

While in Boston, I wanted to get all the food I can’t get in Nashville. We ordered Cantonese style roasted duck, garlic and scallion lobster, and mung bean sprout greens with garlic and salt. These are some of my favorite yummies. The lobster was a twin lobster deal for $15. The lobster was right off the boat from the dock in Boston, and was just delicious. While in Boston, I could eat lobster from the dock everyday. In Nashville, there are grocery store lobsters, but what bacteria is in the water in the tank and how long have the lobsters been there. It is just not right to eat a lobster that has been sitting in TN tank cared for by people who don’t know a thing about lobsters.

The mung bean greens were tasty too, and similar to ong choy, long stem and water cress style green. I love the deceptively simple preparation of the garlic and salt green that can only be had in a restaurant with someone who knows how to cook in a very hot wok. Since I have an electric stove at home, I cannot get the BTUs hot enough to cook greens in this manner. I must wait for greens like this when I visit Chinatowns in Boston, S.F., L.A., N.Y., Chicago and Atlanta. I long for greens prepared this way.

I think we should have stopped at these 2 dishes for just the two of us, but we ordered Cantonese style roasted duck too because I cannot get that here in Nashville, and every attempt I have made (but one) to make it (it is a multi-day process) has ended in failure. I much rather not disrespect a duck, so I just don’t attempt to make roasted duck anymore. Well, this duck was ok, but wasn’t the best I have had. I am not sure if it was because I was full, and didn’t want to eat anymore (so food becomes unappealing when full) or if it was just ok duck. I have a feeling that it was because I was so stuffed, I just didn’t want to eat anymore.

The portions here are big, and we walked away with to-go boxes full of lobster, greens and duck. I hope my mom enjoyed many more meals from the leftovers.

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Crater Falls, Cradle Mt – Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia

Dhan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:05 +0000

Crater Falls, Cradle Mt – Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia

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Nashville Food Bloggers Potluck

Dhan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:48:06 +0000

I am one of the Nashville Food Bloggers and I belong to the Nashville Food Bloggers group. It has been really nice meeting new foodie friends who like to blog about food like I do. When the Nashville Food Bloggers get together, the food is just amazing! There is no bulk S@m’s or C@stc@ pre-made industrial food, it is all really well considered homemade dishes. Last week, Vivek hosted a Nashville Food Blogger potluck. It was delicious. Some of the dishes that I just was wowed about was a grilled shrimp and chicken dish with homemade marinade, homemade paneer in an Indian red curry, perfectly cute mini-macaroons, and homemade jalebi. There were other wowing dishes I was unable to photograph. Let me tell you, I ate like it was Thanksgiving. The recipes were wonderful. Vivek, when is the next Food Blogger party?

Vivek bring in Lisa’s grilled shrimp and chicken

Melissa’s bacon and chive toasted wrap

Vivek’s charcuterie plate

My spicy gluten free (almost vegan except for local honey) peanut sauce & noodles

Cheese vegetarian lasagna

Grishma’s jalebi

Tabitha’s macaroons with lychee creme

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Warriewood Headland Cliffs, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Dhan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:48:05 +0000

Warriewood Headland Cliffs, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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