Travelling around Asia Pacific

I am fortunate to be located within the Asia Pacific region. Asia always exude a mystic for people from the west - its so diversed across the various regions.

In the northern Asia region, you have the vast land of China, the ever so polictically interesting Taiwan and the exciting city of Hong Kong (where there is yummy yummy dim sum and Hong Kong Disneyland!). Taiwanese people are extremely friendly and hospitable - at least from my experience when I was there. Hong Kong? Never go there without experiencing eating at local cafe (cha chan tang) - my favourite local food includes the cheong fan (made of steamed rice flour with different fillings) and chinese porridge.

Southeast Asia is very ethnic. I am a Singaporean myself - a land known to be filled with food loving beings (with an equally deep love for shopping) and a cultural melting pot. You get a lot of beautiful resorts in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. I love Thai food and Indonesia food. If you ever come to Singapore and want to try Thai and Indonesia food - go to Bali Thai - they serve great Thai and Indonesian food!

As for the Indo-China region, I have only been to Cambodia so far to visit the world famous Angkor Wat - an amazing sight which leaves you speechless and awed. How can such an astounding place be left forgotten and buried in forest for hundreds of years - its simply mind boggling! And I have one of the most memorable food moments in Cambodia - where you can get a mix of Cambodia, Thai and Vietnamese food (and French too as it used to be a French colony).

I am planning my first trip to Vietnam soon and can't wait to go ...rice paper roll and Vietnamese beef noodle...I'm coming!

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Blog's Name Derivation

Finally I gathered the courage (and found the time at 2:30 am on a Saturday morning) to explore the mystery (to me at least) of blogging and to de-mystifiy it by creating my own blog. I spent a good 30 minutes thinking of a suitable name and got almost frustrated and exasperated that all the wonderful and cool names I thought of has already been taken up!

I thought about what I probably would be writing and sharing on my blog - about life, travel, shopping, food, motherhood, womanhood, corporate life, etc etc and finally thought of this blog's name : sanity - vanity!

Afterall, it takes alot of sanity to keep sane and live in this crazy world of ours and maintaining our sanity is so essential to ensure we don't get too caught up with the negativism and stress of life. Also life is vain - full of emptiness even if we surround ourselves with materialism (yet of which we can't resist nor completely do without!) and yet at the same time we should not live our life in vain!