The Cube

There are three major palaces in Udaipur - City Palace, Lake Palace and Monsoon Palace. Lake Palace Looking at Lake Palace from City Palace Lake Palace was built in 1743-1746 during the royal dynasty of Mewar by Maharana Jagat Singh II as a royal summer palace, right smack on an island in Lake...

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View outside of our room Udaipur is the historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar in the former Rajputana Agency. In present days, it is known as the city of palaces and lakes. It even has the nickname of "Venice of the East" (Was this the nickname for Suzhou as well?), owing to...

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I first learnt of this fridge cake from my previous Japanese class classmates. There were a lot of messages over LINE about this fridge cake and I decided I got to try this, no baking required too. I followed the recipe from here but used only dark chocolate as reviews from my classmates...

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Vikhroli is a suburb in Mumbai and lies somewhere in the centre of Mumbai. It is nowhere near any tourist attraction and in fact, it takes probably an hour or so to get to one. Considering that I have about 5 to 6 hours to spare including 2 hours commuting, I decided to just...

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I reached Mumbai at 5.25am on a Thursday morning. My flight left Melbourne at 7.30 pm on Wednesday and had a two hour transit in Changi Airport. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, the primary international airport in Mumbai is the first airport I encountered which segregates immigration check by flight class instead of foreign...

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