May 31, Cooking Channel Launched

31 May is the day of the launching new channel which will presents all about cooking and cuisines. Its called Cooking Channel.

For you who loves cooking, I’m sure “Cooking Channel” would be a great thing. Its will shows the different styles and types of cooking and cuisines such as French, Italian, Indian and Chinese cooking. Moreover, you also will get many cook-advise from great cooking stars like Aida Mollenkamp, Roger Mooking, David Rocco and many more.

Are you still remembering Galloping Gourmet and Julia Child? Yell yeah, this channel also will presents these old shows. And not only that guys, next later this summer, Michael Symon (Iron Chef), Rachael Ray and Emeril Lagasse will be joined and this fall, Bobby Flay will be joined too. Is that great?

Wait, these more another great things from Cooking Channel. You can watch “Indian Food Made Easy”, “Chuck’s Day Off” and Chinese Food Made Easy at this channel.
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Food, Drinks and Dessert for Celebrating Memorial Day

Its a “Memorial Day” weekend. This is a time to remember and to respect people who was so brave risked their lives to defend the country. Many people was died for it, so what we can do to give our thankful to them? A country couldn’t get the freedom without them.

Visiting an actual Memorial, attending and would be great participating a local Memorial Day parade and many more. Its all could be nice things to celebrate the Memorial Day.

Having a backyard BBQ also be a nice thing for it. With your family and/or friends, decorating the set, and many more. In here, I wanna share to all of you food, drinks, dessert which suit to Memorial Day.

Food

A Memorial Day BBQ is always best since you can interact with your guest at the same time your cooking. Having some cool food since more than likely the temps will be hot is best. Things like fruit salad, Macaroni or potato salad is good. Have some finger foods like a veggie tray, deviled eggs or chips and dip to keep everyone from getting to hungry before the main meal is done grilling’. For the main course you can do anything from chicken, to hotdogs to tofu burgers. Go with what you like.

Drinks

Margarita’ s are great! Any flavor. If you can make 3 pitchers, one red, one white and one blue then your already ahead of yourself in the decorating department too! Beer and soda in a cooler full of ice is great but don’t forget to have water in there too. You don’t want somebody to dehydrate at your Memorial Day BBQ. Don’t drink? Serve the same colored virgin margarita’ s, sweet tea and juices.

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Atlanta Jazz Festival 2010: Swing Streets

Atlanta Jazz Festival 2010 May, 29 and 30 – It’s Memorial Day weekend in US. Atlanta could be a nice place to spend your vacation there. Beside the Memorial Weekend, you can see the Atlanta Jazz Festival, a festive to celebrate the 33rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival.

“Swing Streets” is the title of this festival which will be held at Piedmont Park today until tomorrow. Watch and enjoy the Jazz musicians like Spalding and Raydar Ellis, and many more activities that you can enjoy with your family. I’m sure it could be a nice weekend.

Happy jazzing.

Coopers Beach, Southampton on the Top of Dr. Beach’s List

Visiting beach is a must that if you are taking a vacation in US. Even though you have to face the traffic-jammed, yeah, because the beach in US are the most popular travel destination and most people there are like beaching.

Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman as well as the Dr. Beach has been made the top 10 list of beach ranking in US.

What the criteria that he looks for this list? He looks from water temperature, sand softness, number of waves, smells and the presence of jellyfish on each beach. Here are the top 10 list and the pictures at below, hope can be useful for you to choose where is the beach that you want to visit.

Just for preparation, $40 for parking. Prepare it on your pocket.

1. Coopers Beach, Southampton, NY

2. Siesta Beach, Sarasota, Fla.

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New York City: “Fleet Week 2010″

According to Wikipedia,

Fleet Week is a United States Navy, United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard tradition in which active military ships recently deployed in overseas operations dock in a variety of major cities for one week. Once the ships dock, the crews can enter the city and visit its tourist attractions. At certain hours, the public can take a guided tour of the ships. Often, Fleet Week is accompanied by military demonstrations and air shows such as provided by the Blue Angels.

New York City, this event is held to respect the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. In a week, you can watch the demonstrations from military and you can also visiting the ships. And yeah, your dream of being a Marine could granted. It’s a nice thing that you bring your kids to travel in the event. It’s very useful to raise their knowledge. Cool, right?

Schedule:

Is free to take some tour there? Most events are free, except that held at USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. You should buy ticket if you wanna go in there. I’ve got the schedule to make easier for you to prepare where you wanna go. These are the schedule;

Wednesday, May 26, 2010:

• 8:30 a.m.
  Parade of Ships
  Hudson River on Manhattan’s west side
• 7 p.m.
  USMC Flyover at NY Mets game
  @ NY Mets Field

Thursday, May 27, 2010:

• 8 am-5 pm
  Free Ship Tours
  @ Pier 88, 48th St/West Side Highway
  @ Stapleton Pier, SI
• 7-9 am
  USMC display
  @USS Intrepid
• 8 am-6 pm
  F-18 Flight Simulator
  Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Display
  USCG Static Displays
  @ Pier 88, 12th & 46th St
  @ Homeport Pier, Staten Island (Static Display)
• 9-9:30 am
  Flag Raising & Morning Colors
  @ New York Public Library
• 10 am-noon
  USMC MAGTF Air/Ground Demo
  Location: Coney Island, Brooklyn
• 11 am-noon
  SI Blessing of the Fleet
  @ SI Piers
• 11 am-1 pm
  USCG SAR Helo Demo
  @ NY Harbor near Homeport Pier, SI
• 6-8 pm
  Marine Forces Reserve Band Concert
  @ Central Park Band Shell

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Get a Great Vacation with Low Budget for Couples

“Oh no, our budget only $400 for our next honeymoon, honey,” a husband said to his wife. “Where is the place that suit for it?”, he asked.
“I don’t know,” the wife answered. “I just wanna go to great place and comfortable and also beautiful. That’s all”.

Are you confusing like the husband at above? The solution of that problem is really easy. With small budget, you and your mate will get a great, a comfortable, a beautiful, and also to be a great place for honeymoon. Here are the tips;

Local Vacations

Explore your local place. I’m sure there are some great places that suit for a honeymoon vacation. According to your area, you may have an abundance of vacation alternatives. Numerous places offer cut-prices to locals whenever they go during the off season, which varies in accordance with location, or are going to accept a room that welcomes in at the eleventh hour. Overnighting in a quality hotel can cost from $50 up to a couple hundred, with regards to the season and location. Remember that some hotels need a minimum stay length. Airlines like Spirit, and others, offer last-minute airfare deals, sometimes for just $9, but to reap the benefits of these deals you should be ready to accept going anywhere with virtually no warning.
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Kruger National Park: Discovering Endangered Animals

Days after days, year after year the earth is getting old like us (human). Yea, soon or later we’ll leave this world. Same as like animals.

But the different is we can protect the earth and also the animals from the extinction. Especially for animals, these creature is included in the food-chain. If animals are disappeared, food-chain will be ruined, and surely its could have consequences with humans.

Before we start of protecting endangered animals, knowing which species that are prone to extinction is must. On here I wanna tell you these best-known endangered species at Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Southern White Rhinoceros

The southern white rhinoceros is thought to have as many as 17,000 members, with 7,000 to 12,000 in the park. It is the most social of all rhino species and one of the few species that will breed readily in captivity.

Cheetah

The cheetah is unique among cats. It is the fastest land animal, and it is a non-climbing cat. There are thought to be nearly 12,000 remaining, with only 200 living in Kruger National Park.

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Enjoy the Great of Local Transportation

Traveling and transportation like a unity. They are interrelated to one another. I’m sure that if you want to go to somewhere, would you go there by walking? If you are a record-breaking of the walk-farthest, I’m sure you’ll do it. Ha ha, just kidding guys.

Back to topic. Transportation is the most important thing when you’re going to travel. Not only when you go to where your travel destination, but in the city of the destination, you are also need the transportation.

Many places has provided many kinds of transportation, from traditional forms of transportation to modern transportation such as electric trains, bus tours and more. For an example, if you see the picture at below, it’s l open tour bus Paris that being the popular transportation in Paris. Most tourists who in Paris are always enjoy it.

Next plan, I’ve booked hotel Paris and hotel Rome. I’ll spend my holiday time there. And yeah, absolutely I want to feel the transportation in there. I’m sure it will be a nice vacation. Want to see me? Make your reservation now and see you there. Happy traveling.

Explore the Beautiful Spots on Hawaii

Hawaii is the world of paradise. Do you agree with me?

I’m pretty sure that you would answer it with, “Yes, I agree with you!” It is understandable that many people dream of a vacation to Hawaii. The beauty of the Hawaiian beach, see the sunset and sunrise, the courtesy of local people, a lot of diverse activities, the gleaming of nightclubs and parties, and many more are the reason of why people are dreaming to have a great holiday on Hawaii, and yeah, Hawaii has it all.

Well, lets throw out our dreams or traveling in Hawaii for a while. Now in here I want to give you two of a lot of great spots in there.

Waikiki

If you are in Hawaii, Waikiki is a recommendation that you must on there. Getting an excited vacation with a wonderful nightlife and the beach on there, just one word “Wow!”

Located in Honolulu, Waikiki is covering the southern portion of Oahu island. Like what I’ve said at above, the beach on there is being the world famous and also the view of Diamond Head inside the distance is iconic.

Shopping activity is a must on a vacation. And for it, Waikiki provided many shops. You can meet from the upscale DFS Galleria such as Gucci, Cartier, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, etc. until down-to-earth shop like Royal Hawaiian Center and yeah, you can spare your shopping activity so easily because of that, cool right?
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Maimoon Palace: “Built on the Basis of Trust”

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Indonesia has a lot of many cultures that are still maintained and certainly we as the next generation can learn about what the meaning of its and absolutely protect its. For you who love spending time to learn natural culture from the countries in this world, I’m pretty sure that Indonesia would be a nice educational trip.

I’m sure you’ve already know the Borobudur temple, one of the 7 world wonders and also Bali, an exotic island which has many cultures such as famous Balinese dances like Pendet, Kecak, Topeng and many more. And that’s only a small-part that you can find in Indonesia. There are many places with natural culture and absolutely could be a nice educational trip.

One of them is Maimoon Palace as well as Istana Maimoon that located at Brigjen Katamso street no.55, Medan, North Sumatra. This palace is well-known landmark in Medan. Built by Sultan Makmun Al Rasyid Perkasa Alamsyah (Sultan Deli, one of 2 sultanates in North Sumatra in the 19th century) at 1888 on a land measuring 2.772 m2 and also has 30 rooms.

What we can learn from Istana Maimoon?

The color of yellow. This palace dominated by yellow color. It was not caused by color of a political party, but it caused that palace is condensed with Malay which identical of yellow color.
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