A Homemaker’s Diary

For those planning to take a vacation in the Asia Pacific region and would like to save some money on accommodation, do check out the Accor Hotels 3-Day Super Sale Asia Pacific. This 3-day Super Sale will be offering one million hotel rooms at amazing rate across Asia Pacific - Thailand, Korea, China, Japan, HK, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Taiwan, India, Bali. And guess what? The hotel rates starting as low as US$30 per night…(imagine what you could do with the extra money - better souvenirs for the people back home and more budget to visit tourist attractions..heh!)

This campaign run for only 3 days: from 27 Oct 09 to 29 Oct 09. Hey, wait!! There is extension for 24 hrs on 30 Oct 09. You can book your travel & holidays now for stays between December 09 to April 10. Different rates apply for Accor’s various brands, with Sofitel, Pullman, Grand Mercure, Novotel, Mercure, All Seasons and Ibis hotels participating, providing a vast range of affordable options. (Now that they mention it, I wonder if the new Pullman Lakeside Putrajaya is in the offer as well?)

I have not taken a proper vacation since I was 5 months pregnant. Perhaps we as a family can try somewhere local in Malaysia before we venture out to Singapore or any other neighboring countries (huhu..I’ve been thinking of Disneyland in Hong Kong..but not sure whether my son is up for a long flight and sleep arrangement in foreign country)

Oh, before I start making travel plan in my mind, let me check out the offer they have..I still have one day to place my booking. Emm..April will be a nice month to go on vacation as well since it’s my birthday month..Hubby, hint! hint!

*This post is written for phonecardsavenue.com*

Why would anyone buy phone cards these days? With everyone having cell phone and land line with rates that are very affordable, the only answer will be to save on the long distance bills. Imagine trying to call home from overseas from your roaming cell phone, after a while it will cost you a bomb that might be equal to the amount of the airfare ticket..heh!

Since Hubby will be going to US soon for training, I think it will be very good for him to look around for the international calling card that offers good rate per minute. I have checked around and found one with $0.63/min. I am yet to discover the cheapest rate. Otherwise for that two weeks duration we might as well communicate through email and chat online..huhu!

The company, Phone Cards Avenue provides the best international calling cards online. All of their phone cards are delivered online instantly so you can make the call right away. If you are not sure how to choose they even have instructions online on how to buy the phone cards. What you only need is a valid credit card number after you sign up in order to authenticate yourself.

I think I just found one from New York X-clusive that offers $0.43 per minute. I think this is for calls to Malaysia land line since the rate for cellular is $1.96/min. I still have to check whether any call made from other state in the US will give the same rate or is it only for calls made from New York. There is another one from Nine (800 & Local Access) Phone Card that offers $0.46/min.

I am reading their FAQ and I think it’s clear now. In terms of buying the card, as soon as my online transaction is approved, I will receive an email with the Access numbers, PIN and Dialing Instructions. And as long as I use their posted toll free access numbers I will not get charged anything extra except for my mobile phone minutes, if I use a mobile phone.

If you are some pervert with something else in mind that happened to come over at my blog searching for something else, go, go away..heh!

This was taken nearby the Cavenagh Bridge while walking pass the Fullerton Hotel towards the Merlion Park. I think the figurative sculptures portrays a bunch of boys jumping into the Singapore river, enjoying afternoon swim.

Well, how easy life in that era, huh! You can find joy in something as cheap as jumping into a river. I wonder whether anyone insane enough to go naked and jump into Sungai Selangor (is there even one nowadays?..hehe)

If you are in the vicinity you can check the description of that 5 naked boys sculptor - “The first generation”. I think he is Chong Fah Cheong (born in 1946), a local Singaporean artist.

For those who are interested to step back into colonial history of Singapore, stop by at the MRT station - Raffles Place and you can walk to the Raffles landing site.

Now Raffles Place is like a banking district where you can find all big banks like Bank of China, UOB, HSBC, OCBC and whatnot. If you would like to know more about the colonial era of Singapore and how Stamford Raffles played his role by being the founder of modern Singapore, read it here - Singapore History.

This is among the last tourist attractions we managed to go to on our trip to Singapore. We saw another Merlion in Sentosa island but this one is the official one in Merlion Park.

We took the MRT and stop at Raffles Place station, walked around the area and saw Esplanade from far. There is one bridge nearby the Fullerton Hotel and we just walked according to the sign.

Then we saw people (can only see their legs from the tunnel under the Anderson bridge) and I know they must be flocking at the Merlion..heh!

Oh, I did pose with open mouth (imagining the Merlion is spitting the water) but couldn’t get a good pose because I was too conscious of other people watching me gaping..but you should see so many others with funny pose at the park.