Let's Triporama!

Let me introduce you one of my favourite webtool - Triporama!

Triporama is the free trip planner & travel guide for groups.

I found this one day when I was searching for a program to organize my coming Phuket escapade at download.com. All the while I never really faced trouble with travelling because all my previous trips only involved my dear & myself, our family members, close friends/coursemates (the staying near to each other ones), or my colleagues.

This Phuket trip is causing me headache because it involves 3 couples staying in different places! Hmm...Firstly Ethan/Michelle, although also staying in Penang, but due to Ethan's job (heavy travelling), we seldom have chance to meet up, and the last time I saw him was during his wedding; then Philip/Angela, this 2 are my friends from Hong Kong, and the last time I met Philip was back in year 2005 when we went for a drink at Knutsford Terrace when we were in Hong Kong! So it's really tough to be able to really have an organized discussion, even through email you'll find it hard to update and record everything. MSN? Yea, we're using that all the while, but it's only to finalize and confirm things on the spot. But luckily I have Triporama to the rescue!

Ok, cut the craps. This is how it works:

1) Register a new account, fill up your details.

2) Click on "Group Trip Planner" and click "Create a new group trip".
Group Trip Planner Features:

• Store and share travel research


• Create an itinerary


• Manage invitations


• Organize and assign tasks


• Conduct a date poll


• Post and review messages


• Coordinate travel details

3) Follow the instructions, fill up all the information and then click "Create Group Trip". And this is how it looks like when you're done...



4) Now you can invite your trip mates to join and from this Group Profile page, you can check the RSVP/Status of your trip mates. And the good thing is, this tool will send reminder to those who didn't respond.



5) And if you still have not set the date of the trip, you can generate a poll by clicking on the "Date Poll" bar. You can choose to send reminder to trip mates when the timeline is over.



6) Go to "Itinerary" to select the start-end date if everyone has finalized on the date, or draft an itinerary for each day of your trip.



7) Next you can use the "Topics" tool to raise questions about the things that need attention from all. Here you can talk about accommodations, budget, activities, etc..



8) Then assign tasks to the people in the group by clicking on the "Tasks" bar.



9) I like this "Bookmarks" tool a lot, because whenever you surf the website for related information, you can actually bookmark the page right away without having to search from the "Favourites" in your Browser. And it is so convinient because everyone in the group can share the same information. It eases decision making!



10) To install the Bookmarks tool, click on the Add Button to Bookmark "On The Fly" and follow instructions given. When it is done, you will see this button in your Browser under "Favourites".

Example for bookmarking a page to your Triporama page:


And the page will appear in your Bookmarks list as shown in #9 above.

11) Lastly you can proceed to post "Messages" to your trip mates. Subject can be chosen. I usually post things that we have agreed and confirmed for everyone's attention. It can be a discussion board for the group, and also act as a record for desicions made.



Planning a trip is easy if you are going alone, but it is a big headache if it involves people from different places. I'm so relieved now as most of our items are done, and we just need to click on the booking buttons to pay for our reservations! And I can't wait to be there sOoN!

A two cents advice: it is always better to plan ahead for accommodations and your itinerary before departure in order to save time and avoid paying even higher price for walk-ins. Especially when you are travelling in a group, looking for a suitable place to stay during your trip may not be that ideal. If you did not do earlier reservation, you might end up having to move from one place to another everyday. That will drag your time in searching for another one, and also wasting time on packing and unpacking; worse comes to worst, missed the schedule for your activities.

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Fried eggs to predict your luck??!

Sounds ridiculous huh? But I read this in a book during last weekend. According to the author, this prediction method is originated from the olden days in Europe. It is actually a very simple step to predict one's daily luck by analyzing on the shape of the fried egg. Why fried egg? Maybe the Europeans used to eat toast bread, sausages and fried egg for breakfast...

Well, you can also do your own prediction in the morning, all you need to do is open the refrigerator, get an egg, heat your frying pan and fry it!



So how does the analysis go? Read this:

(1) Egg yolk at the center -- Congratulations! You have good luck, good health and a very active and motivational day! Keep it up.


(2) Egg yolk at the lower side -- You might be lucky today but watch out for relation conflict.

(3) Egg yolk at the upper side -- Today is a bit messy, and you need to watch out for your health; and if the egg white has a lot of bubbles too, you may face failure in what you are going to do today.

(4) Egg yolk on the right -- Challenges awaiting! But you may face some sudden obstacles; if some part of the egg yolk is burnt, watch out for injury.

(5) Egg yolk on the left -- Today your mental and health luck is not very good, you may feel depressed. But tomorrow will be another great day!

(6) Egg white is out of shape and full of bubbles -- Today you face obstacles in everything you do, so avoid doing too many things at one time. Concentrate on just one thing will do, but you might get a little help from somebody, and things might go well too..

See? It's just so simple. You can do that when preparing for your breakfast. Believe it or not? Somehow I will try it tomorrow... Eggss...I juz lurve it!~ There's so much more other than just protein.

And can anybody tell me where to get this heart-shape egg rings??! It's just toooo adorable!!

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Occult science - the mystical influence

Tadaaa! My dad's homepage is finally up. I'm pretty sure his page is far more professional than mine because he's writing about occult science & fengshui. Take some time to read through, you might find many useful tips on how to enhance your daily life from the prospective of fengshui. You can find the link from Blogs I read at my sidebar - Feng Shui & Occult Science or visit the link http://www.pzafengshui.com/.

Just to share my personal experiences, occult science really plays a mystical role in one's life. Many people say, "Aiya, I don't believe in such things. These are all craps!" Ok then, so why do you wear crystal bracelets; and why do you secretly give a peep at your palm when you hear people talk about which palm lines indicate your life, luck & career; and why do you read through your daily horoscopes in magazine and newspaper? Hahah...so that's it. Almost everyone has interest in occult science, it would be either astrology, numerology, i-ching, fengshui, palmistry, face reading or tarot card reading that you are interested in.

I've been practising numerology in daily life since erm....7 years old??....if I'm not mistaken. I still remember that the first time that I participated in my school's "Chinese General Knowledge Contest", I did actually beaten off the all-time-champion in my school...simply by waiting for the right turn to hand in the test paper. Amazing right??!! I couldn't believe it when our principal announced my name as the champion for that contest during assembly.

Numerology - obviously it's about NUMBERS, and how it can influence your life. Numerology is very powerful and I believe that most Indians has a strong believe towards numerology. I have quite a lot of Indian friends and whenever we share our thoughts on numerology, we are so excited over it. Every number represents something, if not, why does Chinese like number 8 so much? The reason behind? Despite of the pronounciation "fatt", number 8 is like a neverending loop, which means whatever is good will continue to be good (but whatever bad will be bad too lol...), makes sense right?

So in numerology, number 8 doesn't mean everything is good. However everything in nature has its adversary, so by wearing the right gems you can enhance the good 'qi' around you to eliminate or balance the bad 'qi' that agitates you. That's why people are wearing crystal or gem stones. But it is very important that not to blindly follow and wear whatever other people is wearing because what is good for him/her doesn't mean it suits you well too. If you wear the wrong crystal/gemstone, you might further enhance the bad 'qi' and ended up in a worse situation than before.

Windchime with mystical knots

Colour is also giving much influence in your daily life, that's why we believe that there are so called 'lucky colour' or 'unlucky colour'. Numerology will tell you which colours suit you and which colours don't. It is all very personal, for instance, me, I should try to avoid red and wear more bluish and greenish apparels. Why? It's too complicated to explain here. I remember reading some articles before, number is related to the mystical force of the planets... Dad told me stories on numerology, astrology and horoscopes when I was still a small kid. I can't really remember everything by heart but still I have some idea on those. Honestly, I can't believe that 'she' (the famous fengshui master) said she doesn't believe in numerology! Come on, occult science is a big family, and if she doesn't believe in numerology, why does she practise flying star fengshui?? Just like engineering, every stream of engineering is related. If you think civil engineering is enough for all, then why do you need M&E engineering to complete a construction project?

Hong Kong skyline - city which the construction is based on fengshui

Just like the Chinese sayings, "一命，二运， 三风水" (Fate, Luck & Fengshui) - if your fate is not good, you have to depend on your luck; if your luck is not good as well, then you need fengshui to boost the good energy around you. Many people think that fengshui is complicated; in fact it is very simple. Fengshui is the art of placement, in order to harmonize your surrounding, eliminate the bad 'qi' and boost the good 'qi'. Hahahha....I learn this from my daddy. If you're interested, you can get him for consultancy. Good fengshui means everything is in harmony, so if you feel that disputation is haunting you, it means something must be wrong somewhere around you. Might be wrong use of colour, wrong placement, wrong number, etc....

Any comment?? I hope there is somebody out there shares the same interest in occult science as I do, then we can share thoughts. Just remember - whenever there is a will, there is always a way. So do not give up and blame your fate, if everything doesn't work, you can still try it the occult way~ The bottomline, never harm anyone around you.

HAPPY READING!!

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