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As you can see, I have a new button on the right-hand side of the frontpage that links to a new content category, the Travelogue.

The graphic is done by my buddy at LensaMalaysia.com, Paul Choo, who is an award winning amateur photographer. Many thanks, abang!

You must have remembered the teaser image I ran days ago... this one:

Many have guessed it right. It's a hotair balloon seen from the gondola which carried the passengers who took the same flight I did over the Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia.

Picture taken by a non-flight visitor. I was too kiasu to lose hair to the combustion 2 feet above my head

Our neighbours lifted off as we were preparing for ours

At a speed of 30km/h, gliding along the wind to a height of 4,500 feet above sea level, it was as calm as a baby's sleep after milk-feeding.

Our pilot, David Flockart of Global Ballooning, checking the GPS on flight

But the fun of riding a hotair balloon, for me at least, is before you take off and after you have landed. It involved lots of executive decision-making by the flight crew and team effort among passengers who were strangers you have never met. More so, when the wind 'died' and we landed about 400m off course on a farm full of cow dung (but I think the pilot did it on purpose to thrill us). That's when Nature hits you in the face and you enjoy it!

Dropping onto fresh droppings

I will try to get the story and pictures up over the weekend. Stay tuned!