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Travel to Amsterdam, Barcelona or Rome

If you love flowers, then hurry to visit the Keukenhof Tulip gardens near Amsterdam in The Netherlands. And since you are so close to Amsterdam, why not stay in one of the many hotels there?

The best place to book hotels in Amsterdam is at easytobook.com. Why? Because they specialize in hotels of 3 European . . . → Read More: Travel to Amsterdam, Barcelona or Rome

Jackfruit Picture

Another strong smelling yet most delicious fruit from Malaysia: jackfruit

Jackfruit Picture

Jackfruit picture

Jackfruit is a really humongous fruit: the big oval fruit in the jackfruit picture above can easily be twice as big as a human head. If you travel on the smaller roads in Malaysia, you can just see jackfruit trees with big jackfruits . . . → Read More: Jackfruit Picture

Get paid for blogging

Do you love to blog like me? Then make your hobby into your profession and get paid for blogging!

There are many services on the block connecting advertisers with bloggers, and a fresh new one is blog for money with smorty.com.

I signed up yesterday and got already approved today and I am writing my very . . . → Read More: Get paid for blogging

Chocolates for Mothers Day

Are you looking for a perfect gift for your wife or mother at mothers day?
Why not give 2 presents:

a very personal one and
on top of that chocolates?

Why not make your chocolates as personal as possible by choosing handmade chocolate covered strawberries? Or be as romantic as the French: choose for your "Cheri" . . . → Read More: Chocolates for Mothers Day

Lower Cholesterol with barley

Barley is a type of whole grain mainly used to make beer. Beer! Do I have your attention? Well, we are not going to brew beer today, but make barley water. Why?

A diet high in beta-glucan from barley helps lower blood LDL cholesterol (that’s the bad cholesterol that becomes lower!).

Barley water

First go shopping for pearled . . . → Read More: Lower Cholesterol with barley

Mangosteen

Mangosteen: the queen of all Malaysian fruits. Did I already tell you that durian (durians are back!) is the king of all Malaysian fruits? Now I did

Mangosteen fruit is seasonal and can be bought at every market or in any fruit-stall next to the road. Ideal to carry in your backpack!

An ideal . . . → Read More: Mangosteen

Travel Jersey City

It would be an ideal travel destination for me and my wife to travel to Jersey City. Why? Because Jersey City offers all we love about a travel destination and we can prepare our Jersey City travel online at destinationjerseycity.com.

For my wife there is an abundance of shopping opportunities during which I can relax . . . → Read More: Travel Jersey City

Durian fruit

I still remember my sister in law saying to her hubby when on holiday here in Malaysia: you cannot eat durian! You can try a durian cake or a durian sweet, but you are not going to taste durian in Malaysia.

??? … There is a big difference between eating vanilla ice-cream and eating a vanilla ice-cream-sweet.

Picture . . . → Read More: Durian fruit

Visit Europe like a European

Have you ever visited Europe? Like in: London, Paris, Brugge, Brussels, Amsterdam? The latter is your typical Europe travel, which unfortunately doesn’t leave you enough time to feel the real Europe: a lot of countries with very different cultures, languages, food and people.

Therefore if you want to visit Europe, choose an online travel site specialized in . . . → Read More: Visit Europe like a European

Durians are back!

Durian: "Red Prawn" (Udang Merah)

If you visit Malaysia, then come during the durian season, which just started now. Better is to come when the durain season is in full swing. Why? Because:

of the incredible amount of durian supply and
nobody believes a western eats durians,

you can just sample and sample durians for free . . . → Read More: Durians are back!

Quick dinner recipes Thai Basil

My wife gave me a 6/10 for this dish. Must be because I didn’t serve any rice. No rice, no marks… basic eastern cuisine logic!

Anyway, I can brag about this recipe because it is a 1 pan dish ready in less than 30 minutes!

Thai Basil

The plant on the right top are a few stems of . . . → Read More: Quick dinner recipes Thai Basil

Size does matter!

If you look at my old European school-pictures, you will notice I am always standing in front. I wish it was because of my looks, yet the main reason was : for western standard I am kind of short.

What about eastern standard? Well, we all know that there are very tall Chinese basket-players, but if you . . . → Read More: Size does matter!

Online Flight and Hotel Reservations

My cousin and his wife, both living and working in New York, visited our hometown Leuven in Belgium around Easter. They should have told me that they were going, so I could have told them that the cheapest prices on the net can be found at: Hotel Reservations

Let’s compare prices: my cousin paid around 3000$ for . . . → Read More: Online Flight and Hotel Reservations

How to organise your Malaysia holidays (1)

As a matter of illustration, we use the little town Taiping as an example of how to organise your Malaysia holidays.

Kuala Lumpur

If you want to spare your holidays only in Kuala Lumpur, all depends on your budget. Being the capital of Malaysia, all the well known hotels like Mandarin Oriental and Shangri-La are located in the . . . → Read More: How to organise your Malaysia holidays (1)

LastMinute Travel Australia

Do you love to travel last minute? Do you love to travel to Australia? Then be aware that the LastMinute travel brand just re-launched its Australian arm at http://www.lastminute.com.au.

I first had a look at the last minute accommodations. It shows that this site is mainly about Australian travel: I found no hotels on short notice for . . . → Read More: LastMinute Travel Australia

Your special gift if you leave a comment

Thanks to Colleen from GeekySpeaky, from now on each approved comment you leave on my site will be spidered by the search engines. Yes, if you comment on my site, you will get more visitors because:

other people will read your link in the comment and go have a look
the search engines will read your link and . . . → Read More: Your special gift if you leave a comment

Earn money with your blog

Theskinnycook just applied for a new sponsored posts website : blogsvertise.

For the bloggers out there interested how blogsvertise works:

you get an email from blogsvertise with a task to write about an advertisers’ website
you write your own point of view about this advertiser, positive, neutral or negative as you feel like, but you do need to . . . → Read More: Earn money with your blog

Hawaii vacations

If you dream of an exotic holiday destination, you live on the American continent and you don’t want to be bothered with the international after 9/11 travel restrictions, then the ideal solution is going for an Hawaii travel.

New travel restrictions have led US travelers to "rediscover" tropical vacations within US borders. Yes, you can enjoy the . . . → Read More: Hawaii vacations

Grape smoothie

Grape Smoothie

30 over degrees Celsius (that’s around or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit) today in hot and sunny Malaysia. While western tourists on the beaches in Malaysia try to change themselves into red lobsters, we are doing all we can to keep our head and body cool with this Grape Smoothie!

Grape smoothie ingredients

10 1/2 ounce . . . → Read More: Grape smoothie

How your kids make Belgian Chocolates!

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Belgian Chocolates

Belgian chocolates or pralines as we call it is normally "something inside" (Ganache) with "something chocolate outside".

But every time I come back to Malaysia, my whole family wants those Belgian chocolate delicacies. Unfortunately, KLM airlines let me only carry 20 kg (yes, about 40 pounds), which is a joke if . . . → Read More: How your kids make Belgian Chocolates!

Why is your dog eating rat poison?

Why is my dog eating rat poison? Is there a neighbour out there trying to kill Pebbles: this cute Yorkshire terrier?

Read the full story at Dog Treat Cookbooks

Technorati Tags: Poison | Pets | Animal | Dogs | Dog | Pet food | Dog treat cookbooks | Pet | Pebbles | . . . → Read More: Why is your dog eating rat poison?

They shoot squirrels don’t they?

Malaysia holidays army style?

Now what to think here: a Malaysian girl in uniform, and a head of a squirrel on a stick… wasn’t the army supposed to protect the country in stead of cooking its resources? And if you do cook squirrel or any other small animal, aren’t there better parts to cook up . . . → Read More: They shoot squirrels don’t they?

Qing Ming

This post is dedicated to father, who recently died of Liver Cancer

For those not speaking mandarin Chinese language, Qing Ming is Tomb-Sweeping day. Looks a bit odd at first, but Qing Ming was the reason that this weekend lots of cars could be found on the Malaysian Roads. From Beijing to Shanghai, Taiwan, China, South . . . → Read More: Qing Ming