A cybercorner filled with travel stories & a huge collection of travel photos
taken from around the world, TravelerFolio is an award winning travel photo blog
made in Singapore on April '08
Woohoo! I got the iPhone cover from Ben & Jerry today. Won it from an easy-to-win contest run by a lovely Singapore Food Blogger, Catherine from Camemberu. Her latest blog post features my favourite pepper crabs from Eng Seng Restaurant (Singapore)! As suggested, I’m here to show off this strikingly colourful iPhone cover. LOL Thank you Catherine!
This is NOT an Advertorial! It’s a THANK YOU post!!! =)
My first HTML website hosted by Geocities is officially shut down by Yahoo today, yet another four days to go before its 10th anniversary!!! Boohoo!!! What a shame! I couldn’t remember when I stopped updating the homepage but it was created on Nov 1999!
Back in the heydays, when there was no Facebook, no Twitter, no Web 2.0, Geocities was about as close as what we know today as social networks. It offered free web hosting services and that was where I learnt to write HTML to create my homepage and share travel photos online with friends! Back then, blinking gifs, marquee text and MIDI were very popular! Oops! Have I revealed my age? … 
Luckily, I got this news earlier so all the files are already backed up! It’s quite embarrassing to showcase the screenshots of my super old HTML homepage here. Whatever. Just LOL if you want. I just realized that I was already building a small and simple travel site featuring my overseas trips way before TravelerFolio was created! @_@
See? Back then, I was trying hard to “retain” visitors with these “blazing hot” games like Tic-Tac-Toe, Slot machine and Video poker. -_-|||
This is what we called a blogroll now! And I was so niceeee to share useful sites online! XD And I was really inspired by the photos in Webshots!
Wow! I did a page about Singapore too! @_@
Feeling a bit nostalgic now. Will Wordpress and Blogspot shut down their services in the future too?
Good news (at least for me)! My old HTML website is now hosted here! http://travelerfolio.com/geocities/ . Strictly NO LOLs. Anyway, you won’t see the travel photos as I have already disabled that feature.
Thank you and Goodbye Geocities!!!
OK, I didn’t win the award. I’m already happy to be nominated as one of the Top 5 finalists for Nuffnang APAC Best Travel Blog Award. I still dunno know who’s so nice to nominate me but I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to meet up with fellow bloggers in the region!
The winner for Nuffnang Best Travel Blog is Ironwulf! He is a Pinoy backpacker and also a personal friend of Dong Ho, one of our dear Pinoy travel bloggers. What a small world!
Top (Left -> Right): Ironwulf, Passport Chop, Akademifantasia / Bottom (Left -> Right): NicoleKiss, Tracyeinny, TravelerFolio (ME!). And Electrico performing in the background.
Both Kenny Sia and Xiaxue are famous bloggers in the region. It’s the first time I saw them in person. They are really great entertainers! BOOMZ!
Our Singapore celebrity, MediaCorp Artiste Miss Joanne Peh! Glad to catch her for a picture together. She is sooo tall (+ high heels!). This shot will add into my collection of photos taken with celebrities. Yeah!
Last pose for the night at Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore. Unfortunately, most local bloggers do not have the chance to join the foreign bloggers for the day tour on Saturday, else, the fun continues…. enjoy yourselves!!! TATA!
You may be interested to read about my posts on Singapore OMY Blog Awards last year. I got the Best Photo Blog award 2008. 
Latest Update on 24 Oct: Nuffnang Blog Awards 2009.
Update: The contest has ended. Results will be announced on 23 Oct 2009. Thank you very much for all your support!
TravelerFolio is honoured to be shortlisted as one of the Top Five Finalists for the BEST TRAVEL BLOG Award Category for the First Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards Ceremony 2009!
I’ve visited the other four finalists of the same award category and all I could say is: they are really awesome travel sites to look upon! To be frank, I dare not dream of winning the title. FYI, voting will contribute to 50% of the final scores, to decide the Blog Awards winners.
So, YOU PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE NOW! At least with your precious votes for TravelerFolio, this humble travel blog still has a glimmer of hope! 
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Wow! I’m elated when I saw my travel blog on the list of 15 Best Travel Photo Blogs by BootsnAll Travel Network, a travel info site with over 3 millions visitors monthly. Together with other popular travel blogs from around the world, I feel so small on the list! If the list is in ranking order, then mine is ranked #7. Not bad right? LOL okok just a consolation for myself can?
FYI, *hint *hint to Advertisers:
If you search with the keywords “travel photo blog” on Google.com, TravelerFolio is ranked #2 out of 220,000,000 results. Link to that search page >> http://www.google.com/search?q=travel+photo+blog
If you search with the keywords “singapore travel blog” on Google.com, TravelerFolio is ranked #2 out of 34,900,000 results. Link to that search page >> http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=singapore+travel+blog
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Update! 1 Oct 2009: I could feel earthquake tremor again at 9.55am Singapore time! This time it was a slight tremor for a few seconds only. “Goosebump” moment again…
30 Sep 2009
OMG! I felt earthquake tremor at home again in Singapore just a while ago around 6.15 pm! This time I could feel that it was a heavy earthquake! I managed to take a video of it. Do you know how it feel when I tried to focus on the crystal lamp that was swaying above me? It was a terrible feeling! I felt really giddy while taking the video. The tremor lasted for quite long and I began to get nervous! I was wondering if the building I’m staying in would collapse! Touch wood!!! Really terrible feeling… and feel sad ‘cos for sure, I know many people will lose their lives and homes.
I took a video of my swaying crystal lamp during the earthquake tremor. The video ended when the tremor stopped. So I think the tremor lasted for about 2mins.
Add+: Guess what? This video was shown on Channel U News on the very night. Ha!
Sad news: It’s a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra, Indonesia and triggered a massive South Pacific Tsunami.
A tsunami warning was initially issued after the quake but later withdrawn. – CNA/vm
p.s: I was complaining of how bad the air quality is now just before the earthquake tremor was felt. The air quality PSI measures 64 today. “Opacity” = 80% !!!
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