Nadine Sykora | Hey Nadine http://www.heynadine.com Nadine Sykora's blog of crazy travels and online video life :) Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:05:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 BENTO! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/heynadine/~3/kKhZkdhf3Yc/ http://www.heynadine.com/bento/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:04:24 +0000 nadine http://www.heynadine.com/?p=996

So my friend Ashley got me into this thing called Bento!

Now basically Bento is a super fun and awesome way to make lunches and people in Japan are crazy about it! Now I’m not gonna lie, aside from the mess, I could really get into this :P Some say portion control?

Soo, I decided to use it for my HEY: EP#2! ENJOY <3

First Bento-Cute!

The final product !!

Bento Supply

All the supplies I used to create my bento =)

We basically went to this Japanese dollar-store called Diaso and I got everything I needed for $30 can! Not to bad.


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Hey everyone!!

So this weekend (Sept 4-5) a very exciting event is taking place online: Stickaid 2010! Stickaid is a 24 hour non stop variety show streaming live on Stickam.com to raise money for UNICEF.

Now my good friend Myles is hosting and organizing the show this year and asked me to put together a video segment for the show. This is a snippet of my 2010 segment and below it is my segment from last year :)


Since I had so much fun doing the video concept of last years, I figured if it ain’t broke, why fix it :P

To find out more, please check out http://www.stickaid2010.info/ and to donate, please go to http://www.justgiving.com/stickaid2010.

-Thanks! <3


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]]> http://www.heynadine.com/why-hello-whats-this/feed/ 0 http://www.heynadine.com/why-hello-whats-this/ Nadine’s Ultimate Travel Guide http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/heynadine/~3/ni2smEgVUCk/ http://www.heynadine.com/nadines-ultimate-travel-guide/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:05:55 +0000 nadine http://www.heynadine.com/?p=953

Ever wonder how I saved up for my travels? Planned things? More about Working Holiday Visa and ETC? Well I have put together a multi-video interactive guide to some of the most popular topics and frequently asked questions about my travels/trips!

As promised, here are some very handy links and tips for those planning their own round the world trip!

Getting Started

Full package tours:

Do it yourself:

Working Holiday Visas

WWOOFing (work for accommodation)

There are tons of other WWOOFing sites, google ones for the country you wish to work in.

Getting Around

New Zealand/Australia Backpacker Buses

Budget Airline Southeast Asia/South Pacific

Saving Money

On the Go- Membership cards

I will be posting so more saving money and budgeting Advice in future blog post so make sure you SUBSCRIBE TO MY RSS to get all the latest updates :)


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And your embarrassing Nadine video post for today is... Ke$ha’s-”Take It Off” Parody.

Enjoy :)


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Well it is a sad day in blog-land when we have to leave the sunset beaches in Jamaica to go back to reality.

This whole experience has been absolutely amazing and so much fun to be apart of.  I cannot thank Sanyo and Xacti enough for letting us go on this adventure and film so many incredible things!

So now I bring you my last video which is a little behind the scenes look at the trip and us filming all the videos you will see on the xacti-passion.com website.

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Don’t forget! YOU could win a vacation to Jamaica where I shot this video plus $3500 spending money to get to experience the exact same things I did! ALSO, you’ll get your own waterproof Xacti camera :P All you have to do is CLICK HERE to vote for my video and you’ll be entered to win!

Sunset in Jamaica


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Let’s just call this, “When Youtuber’s have too much time on their hands :P ”.

http://xacti-passion.com

Don’t forget! YOU could win a vacation to Jamaica where I shot this video plus $3500 spending money to get to experience the exact same things I did! ALSO, you’ll get your own waterproof Xacti camera! All you have to do is CLICK HERE to vote for my video and you’ll be entered to win!


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Because we all get bored sometimes :) Here’s some pool fun photos!!

O water

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P.S. Don’t forget! YOU could win a vacation to Jamaica where I shot this video plus $3500 spending money to get to experience the exact same things I did! ALSO, you’ll get your own waterproof Xacti camera :P All you have to do is CLICK HERE to vote for my video and you’ll be entered to win!
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So here we have the second video for you from my Jamaica trip with Sanyo Xacti!

In this video I got the opportunity to go to Dolphin Cove to swim with the Dolphins!!

Dolphin Cove, Pen

Dolphin Leaps

Kiss Kiss Dolphins!

Riding the Dolphin

Regardless of the expression on my face I was rather concerned if I would be hurting the dolphin by doing this :/

Dolphing Cove 3

I find the massive amount of Xacti Cameras in the water slightly funny :P Poor Dolphins, probably though we where crazy!

Dolphing Cove 1

Next up we have the Waterfall! Now this was a pretty crazy experience, we had a group of local tour guides that literally knew EVER stone and step as we trudged up the river. While there I ended up jumping off tree, swimming through an underwater cave, wading underneath the waterfall (even though it was only a TINY space!).

Pretty crazy! I heard Charles say it was one of the best experiences of his life! Where as, well I wouldn’t QUITE put it at that :P

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Trucking through to the waterfall!

Group at the Falls

Group shot!! Funny how it was all the youtubers :P Silly water-sport guys, waterfalls are for vloggers :)

P.S Don’t forget!  YOU could win a vacation to Jamaica where I shot this video plus $3500 spending money to get to experience the exact same things I did! ALSO, you’ll get your own waterproof Xacti camera :P All you have to do is CLICK HERE to vote for my video and you’ll be entered to win!

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So as promised I have here the FIRST of SEVERAL videos from Jamaica for  you :)

During our trip in Jamaica with Sanyo Xacti I got the opportunity to try out some amazing and crazy activities. Now these are just SMALL snippets clips you’ll get to see more in-depth in my other videos yet to come :P

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A little bit of details about the activities featured in this video.

  1. Jet Skiing- Seadoos, whatever else you call it where your from. Now this wasn’t a first time experience for me but looking into the camera and trying to hold on was hahah. I felt bad for Tim my camera man :) And I’m pretty sure everyone on the boat watching us thought I was CRAZY.
  2. Cliff Jumping- This was ridiculous, I only jumped of the 25 meter cliff and I almost had a heart attack. Now imagine the 75 meter jump!! (You’ll get to see that too). And they didn’t just jump, they DIVED.
  3. Wakeboarding- Luckily I convinced Sam the professional wakeboarder to teach me how to wakeboard :P This was amazing, I got 7 attempts in and 2 rides out of it, the final ride lasting over a minute(probably 2) !! <– I think that’s rather impressive for me haha
  4. Donut Rides- I don’t know if you can tell but at the end Sophie and I completely wiped out and my hand actually got stuck in the arm hold and I got dragged several meters! I was VERY lucky I didn’t dislocate anything and only ended up with a few bruises.

So take a look at the video and don’t forget to go check out http://xacti-passion.com where YOU could win a vacation to Jamaica where I shot this video plus $3500 spending money to get to experience the exact same things I did! ALSO, you’ll get your own waterproof Xacti camera :P

Pretty sweet deal. All you have to do is CLICK HERE to vote for my video and you’ll be entered to win!

-Nadine


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