Pi a Tour Guide?

I've been thinking about this for some time now - to go through a 5-month course for a tour guide license after I'm done with driving. This will cost me $2,500.00, license valid for 3 years, renewable on the basis that I complete 21 hours of training every 3 years.

The only reason why I want this license is my love for exploration and travel and how well I interact with groups. Pi's everyone's darling, remember? :p

The license is not going to serve me much purpose since I don't intend to venture full-time into the travel industry. Just want to use it to do freelance tour-guiding when I feel like it.

What do you folks think - shall I part with the money?

I'm So Not Going Anywhere

I apologise for the lack of updates on this blog. In the midst of pulling through some life's battles now, so please summon all the luck you can and lend me some force! :)

Hopefully things will be for the better very very soon. Want to have a new year with some bright outlook. And thanx everyone, for being with me.

My Perfect Travel Companion Is Someone Who...

shares more or less the same agenda on the trip,

watches out for and takes care of me while I do the same for him/her,

may not know how to read the maps well but take things in good stride even if we lose our way,

puts up with and does not mock at my idiosyncrasy,

does not complain incessantly,

gets fun out of everything – sight-seeing, shopping, eating, people-watching, exploring, anything!

is not fussy and does not expect to be waited on like a prissy princess,

shares the load – I bring the shampoo, you bring the soap,

is generous and not miserly over sharing some cost,

can walk miles and miles without having the need to constantly adhere to a fixed itinerary,

adapts to changes and makes the best out of the situation,

does not need to sleep really early,

loves the noise and also appreciates the quietude (like what XY and Minty mentioned!),

does not take photos of me from a low angle thus making my face look swollen with double chin :p

likes me enough not to get freaked out by my "just out of bed look".


Add on to my list of the PTC. Keep the voxpops coming :)


My PTCs! We miss Taipei :(

The Perfect Travel Companion

I want to post an entry on what/who makes the grade of a (near) perfect travel companion. You tell me your idea of a perfect travel companion. Post a voxpop today! Sorry, no prize tho. This is not a sponsored blog.

Aces Go Places

Aspiring jet-setter whose dream job is a travel-writer on sponsored trips to anywhere in the world and meeting obscenely rich romance prospects in SIA Raffles Class.

Meet Pi. And read about her globe-trotting experiences, on budget and perhaps, in style.