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Adventures of 2 Girls traces the journey of two best friends who take a 9-month break from their successful careers to tick a big, fat item off their Bucket Lists: To travel the world and write a book. Ning is an award-winning professional female magician, and Pam an award-winning journalist and radio DJ. At the peak of their careers, they break loose from the safe and familiar, stuff their backpacks with bare essentials, and buy two one-way tickets to Honolulu. From a road trip across the United States, to spending a summer in Paris, studying French and being certified in the art of patisserie at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu, from roughing it out in wild Madagascar (with no electricity, running water or toilets!), to trekking in the Himalayas, Pam and Ning go in search of new experiences and ultimate adventures off the beaten track. If you think this is a guidebook for girls, or an offshoot of Eat, Pray, Love... think again! Adventures of 2 Girls boasts action-packed accounts of sticky situations faced by two city girls in foreign lands, travel tips about budgeting, finances, insurance, PMS survival etc., plus quirky observations, and quiet ruminations on lazy afternoons... complete with private photos from their compact cameras and iPhones, and sketches from their travel journals. It's a heart-warming, humorous and inspiring story about friendship, chasing dreams, taking risks, and letting go.

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Publié par	MarshallCavendishM
Date de parution	15 janvier 2012
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9789814408875
Langue	English

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Copyright 2012 Ning Cai Pamela Ho
Cover art: Cover Kitchen
Flip animation concept: Ning Cai
Photography for flip animation: Weili Chua Kerh Haun Keey
Photography for back cover: Eunice Lim
Published in 2012 by Marshall Cavendish Editions
An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International
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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Cai, Ning, 1982-
Adventures of 2 girls / Ning Cai, Pamela Ho. - Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions,
2012.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978 981 4408 87 5
1. Cai, Ning, 1982- - Travel. 2. Ho, Pamela, 1970- - Travel. 3. Voyages around the world. 4. Independent travel. 5. Adventure travel. I. Title. II. Ho, Pamela, 1970-
G465
910.41 - dc23 OCN793214245
Printed in Singapore by Chung Printing Pte Ltd
contents
Acknowledgements
Route Map
Foreword by Neil Gaiman
Prologue
1. House of the Sun
2. Molokai Madness
3. Free Fallin !
4. Trouble in Paradise
5. From Sea to Shining Sea
6. You Were Worth the Wait
7. Greyhound From Hell
8. Voodoo Dolls Ghostly Whispers
9. B Bs: The Good, the Bad the Scary
10. Mes Gar ons Paris
11. Laundry Blues
12. Paris: I love You, I Love You Not
13. M nage Trois is Not a Brand of Wine
14. A Kiss is Not a Kiss in Casablanca
15. Maladies in Morocco
16. Hot for Harems
17. Moonshadows Sandstorms
18. Journey to the Zen-tre of the Earth
19. Accidental Crossings
20. Call of the Wild
21. Joyeux Anniversaire!
22. No Visa, No Go
23. The Heart of Kashmir
24. Conning the Conjurer
25. Legendary Love
26. The Way of the Warrior
27. Ashes to Ashes
28. Sex, Sex, Snap!
29. Bali Bliss
Epilogue
Comics
About the Authors
acknowledgements
Our deepest thanks and appreciation, namaste, , merci beaucoup to the following amazing people:
The dream team at Marshall Cavendish, especially Melvin, Stephanie, Tammy and Adithi, who have been so patient and encouraging throughout our writing journey. Neil Gaiman, writer extraordinaire and dear friend, for writing our foreword. Our dearest families: Ning s parents Freddy and Vivien, and sisters Ru and Jia. Pam s parents Patrick and Diana, sister Desirene, also John, Jeremy, Simon, Doris and Gen for their unconditional support. Our families at work who allowed us time to chase our dreams: JC Sum and Adeline Ng of Concept:Magic, and MediaCorp Pte Ltd, especially Gerry Tan, Lee Foong Ming, Chua Siew Lian and Debra Soon.
Our sponsors who helped lift our (financial) burden because we funded this trip with our life-savings: Hertz Singapore, Club Med Singapore, Great Eastern, Timberland Singapore, Puma Singapore, The Planet Traveller, Starbucks Coffee Singapore, Wen Ken Group, Earthling the Outdoor Boutique, KAPAP Academy Singapore, Frommers, Vine Elements Design, Nicely Photography, Kasbah Ennasra (Rissani, Morocco), Pantelia Suites (Santorini, Greece), 88BVR (Oudtshoorn, South Africa), Tissa s Inn (Kerala, India), Bliss Sanctuary for Women (Bali), Himalaya Holiday Service (Nepal, Bhutan Tibet) and Cape Town Hiking with Tim Lundy (Cape Town, South Africa).
Also our friends who have supported us in their own capacity, with their generosity and just loads of love: Irene Ang of FLY Entertainment, Alan Okami of KoAloha Ukulele (Hawaii), Michelle Ang, Weili Chua, Lam Ying Keat, Tan Su-Ming, Bryan Oh, Sol Foo, Diane Ho, Alfred Lee, Amos Lim, Cecil Hamilton, Spanky Han, Jas Choo, Kris Kam, Natasha Bournaparte, Marie Liow, Catherine Ho, Shireen Lim, Foo Siang Jeen, Cheryl Kow, Brigette Tan, Bellis Chew, Wong Yan Kit, Eunice Lim, Teo Yew Chye, Qin Yunquan, Deborah Chew, Shaan Moledina-Lim, Theresa Tan, Goh Chun and Samantha Pan, Victoria Yam and George Goh, Michael Chua, Denise Liu, Jo-anne Lee, Lau Joon-Nie, Asha Popatlal, Liew Tong Leng, Yeoh Teik Lee, Bernard Sim, Alexia Khadime (London), our Twitter friends @SideGravy and @sonnyboy808, and all our friends on our Facebook page (facebook.com/adventuresof2girls), Twitter and Instagram.
Not forgetting our awesome friends who opened their homes to us on our journey: Corrinne May and Kavin Hoo (Los Angeles), Cindy and Wijnand (Sunnyvale), Beth Harris aka @scootergirl (New Orleans), Dan Foley (Boston), Adil Ahmad (Kashmir), Jake Shimabukuro s Grandma (Molokai, Hawaii). And friends who spent time with us in various cities: May Leng Yuen of Cirque du Soliel (Las Vegas), Diane Kwok and Keith Sim (Montreal), Louis Otrowsky (Paris), Angeline Tan and family (Honolulu), Constance Sng and Aries Liao (New York City), Leigh Pasqual (New York City), Sheldon and Sue-Lyn Chuan (London), Jacqueline Yee (Amsterdam), Carole Ng and family (Philadelphia).
Last but not least, we thank You, God. Because without You, everything would not have been possible.

Pam Ning September 2012
route map
foreword by Neil Gaiman
I was born in the South of England which is thus, to my mind, the single least exotic and amazing place in the world. Singapore, on the other hand, is a magical, strange and astonishingly exotic world. A city that s a country that s practically a state of mind. It s extremely hot, and filled with people who want to feed me wonderful-tasting things.
(I do not know why they want to feed me. All I know is that when I go to Singapore people give me amazing things to eat that I have never eaten before, which they produce from brown paper bags. On my first visit I suspected them of something sinister: possibly even of fattening me up for the kill. Now I just enjoy it.)
I ve been to Singapore twice. The last time I was there I found myself being interviewed. The interviewer had an friend with her who looked peculiarly familiar. Oh, right. She was the nice photographer from the first time I was in Singapore, and she seemed thrilled that I remembered her (she was easy to remember, being astonishingly beautiful). The interviewer was funny and smart and charming and she immediately produced a succession of brown paper bags containing amazing-tasting things I had never eaten before and began feeding them to me. The charming interviewer with the paper bags was Pamela Ho, and the astonishingly beautiful lady was Ning.
Mostly what I remember was that it didn t feel like an interview, more like three new friends talking and having a good time, not to mention eating things from brown paper bags. I invited them to Amanda Palmer s gig that night, and we spoke more, and somewhere in there I discovered that Ning was not just a former photographer and full-time interviewer s friend, but was also an international star of magic and illusion. I started following them on Twitter and on Facebook, and I was one of their followers and readers as they took their hearts in their hands and their life savings and set off around the world. I loved the photographs and snippets they posted.

When they sent me the manuscript for the book of their travels, I was eager to read it, and was delighted by it. Pam and Ning have two very different voices and ways of describing the world but they are both on the same journey, and whether they are locked out of a house in their underwear in Hawaii, enduring a Greyhound experience in Chicago, dealing with ghosts in New Orleans, evil landladies and Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, surviving an attempted robbery in Morocco or dealing with shady tuk tuk drivers in Agra, we are on the journey with them. And while they see and tell us about remarkable things - things and places familiar to me as well as those I ve never experienced before - what I enjoyed most was feeling, as I read, that I was spending time with two very different people with two very different points of view, that I was learning about a friendship, that I was seeing the world along with them.
Also, they are very funny, particularly when things go wrong. And things definitely go wrong.
My only regret is that they never made it to the South of England, because I would have loved to have seen my familiar, dull world through their eyes. I suspect it might even, if viewed properly, be as exotic and magical as Singapore.
Neil Gaiman September 2012
prologue
NING
Magic Babe Ning is the side of me that most people are familiar with. My fire-eating corset-wearing alter ego does death-defying stunts such as Houdini s upside-down straitjacket escapes, sets world records, makes the news with mega illusions and very often, gets requests from people to make their mother-in-law or boss disappear. Sorry, but I don t do requests.
The thing is, most people don t actually know Ning . My childhood wasn t a magical one and despite the stereotype that full-time artistes in Singapore are usually born into rich fami