Portrait House is now sporting a new look and a new name, “Travel Light“. This website will carry the usual lifestyle-chopsuey theme written in a fun, light-hearted manner. I have recently added “travel” in the list of categories because I think I will travel some more in the future. I want to see the world.
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I have been tagged by Connie 
1. Do you have plans to change… continue reading here.
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Pyrotechnics lit up the whole of United Kingdom’s skyline every 5th of November. It is not an advanced New Year’s Day celebration. The British used to call it the Gunpowder Plot until it became popularly known as the Bonfire Night.
This rather quaint British celebration commemorates the time in 1605 when a man named Guy Fawkes, together with four Catholic dissenters, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder… continue reading here.
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Welcome to Narnia.
The Green Park was our second stop after breezing through the overcrowded Buckingham Palace. It is located near St James’ Park and Hyde Park, just across the Queen’s lair.
This 40-acre Royal Park is populated with century-old trees that are as tall as the buildings around it. It was autumn and all trees… continue reading here.
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Chasing the guards: One of the two mounted regiments known as the Queen’s Life Guards.
They wear metal helmets, white plumes and red tunics.
It was by pure accident that we have learned about the schedule of Changing The Guard that day. (It was December 3rd.) We saw a bunch of people running across… continue reading here.
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There are some of us who wonder why this season often comes with an empty gift box, a shallow laughter, a bland feast, a melancholic sound on the radio. Its meaning drowned in a bottle of Coke or lost in an empty call card. It was part of the mundane, just another day to get us by. Call this time superfluous, nevertheless its excesses we often crave. But there would… continue reading here.
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