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Litty is someone I've been good friends with since high school. A few years ago, she left us to take on a PhD scholarship in Cambridge and will be finishing that up this year. We caught up with her during our travels last year, and she showed us around her new home of Cambridge. She then joined us for the Alaska cruise with the boys and it was our turn to play host. The two of us have a lot in common and despite how few and far between our opportunities to spend time with each other, we remain close and enjoy each other's company when we do see each other. We both come from immigrant families with Malaysian-Chinese backgrounds, have an interest in creative and artistic pursuits, have very similar attitudes to life and friends ... read more

Cruiseline: Celebrity Cruises Ship: Celebrity Mercury Sail Date: 30th May, 2010 Departure Port: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada My boyfriend, 4 of our friends and myself went on a 7-night cruise to Alaska with Celebrity Cruises. It was the first time any of us had ever cruised before so none of us really knew what to expect. We were all on a tight budget and managed to score a pretty reasonable deal by rooming 3 per (inside) stateroom, costing about AUD$850pp. It was pretty early on in the summer over here so that's why we managed to something a little cheaper, later on in the summer the fare rises a few hundred dollars more. The fare covered everything on board except for alcohol and some entertainment (like bingo and wine tastings etc). My friend Emma has kindly ... read more

At the beginning of the year, we made a resolution to become more active in our lives. Working full-time in an office, it is very easy to get lost in a sedentary lifestyle. Our goal is to be able to hike the 4-day trek to Machu Picchu...without collapsing. We lead a fairly active lifestyle in that we do not own a car, so we are constantly walking everywhere and catching public transport, but we are not also running more, swimming more and going on extended (leisurely) hikes on weekends whenever we get a chance. We found an excellent site that lists and describes all the different walking trails in Vancouver - http://www.vancouvertrails.com/ and in the next 8 months until we leave, we are going to try and do as many as we can (though some are ... read more

So it's been a year to the day (yesterday) since we left home. We have fallen into that awful awful vicious cycle of full-time work and routine, which we so desperately sought to leave behind in Australia. Wake up, shower, deal with public transport, work, eat packed lunch, deal with public transport, cook dinner, go for a run/swim, pack lunch for tomorrow, lights out. Five days a week (well 4 for me at the moment, because our company has cut our hours for the months of February and March in order to 'save money'). It was nice having a routine after having a complete lack thereof during the time we were traveling, but the novelty of it wore off after about...a week. Whilst I've worked full-time hours since around the age of 19, I've always had ... read more