Travel

A midweek getaway to Melbourne to visit astronauts and space oddities

World Cup Football, Weta Workshop and other delights of New Zealand's capital

How I celebrated my 32nd birthday

The Vivid Festival and amazing food are some of the highlights of a long weekend away in Sydney.

Like any kid that grew up in Brunei, every now and then we need to have a taste of home.  In Brisbane, you can seek it out in Chinatown or Sunnybank where most of the Asian restaurants are.  You can get a chicken rice or a roti for ten bucks and it’s actually not that bad.  But there’s nothing like ...

For my birthday weekend, Jen bought me tickets to the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo in Australia which ran for 3 days in Melbourne.  It was the brainchild of Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, co-creators of the hugely popular online comic strip Penny Arcade, who wanted to create a version of E3 that was always accessible to the general public (E3 ...

We visited three 3-star Michelin restaurants in New York.  Le Bernardin was a clinical business-lunch affair where we were surrounded by suits in a no-nonsense atmosphere.  Per Se had wonderful service and offered French-American cuisine prepared with impeccable finesse.  We had plenty of expectations with both restaurants but took a bit of a chance on the third big dining experience ...

There’s something a little bit soul destroying about Time Square in Manhattan, a colourful and cheery hell hole that is famous for its gigantic advertising billboards and exists nowadays as a Mecca for tourists from around the world.  I was one of them!  I couldn’t resist the allure of standing there and having my photo taken beneath those bright lights.  ...

For New York’s finest hot dogs, you must go to Crif Dogs in the East Village. We found out about the Crif Dogs when Anthony Bourdain talked them up on his travel show The Layover.  You might well wonder just how good you can get a hot dog to taste?  Well, Crif Dogs pushes that envelope pretty damn far.  These ...

New York Knicks vs Brooklyn Nets If you ever have a holiday in America and you have even a passing interest in sports, its worth getting along to a game at one of their four major sporting leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL).  They offer an opportunity to watch a sport that is typically played in few other countries and ...