About Me!
About the Site!
Scribbles of an Electronic Gypsy is a site that introduces great travel destinations, delves a bit into various world cultures, has descriptive and colourful photographs, aviation and defence updates, scrumptious food tips and a whole lot of interesting and informative pointers for the avid traveller. Scribbles of an electronic Gypsy is authored by Rosemarie John.
**This site is not a business! Neither is it a travel company! It is a site catered to travellers looking for fun travel bits to read!
Twitter: @GypsyScribbles | Facebook Fan Page: GypsyScribbles
About the Writer!
Life as an Independent Travel Journalist has taken me to many interesting places in the last two years. With a family to take care off, a home to manage, a business to run and photographs to edit, spending countless hours writing lines of descriptive texts can somewhat be a challenge. A challenge I strive on excelling in. So who am I?
I love journeys and I love describing them. But I wasn’t always a writer… I graduated with a Degree and a Masters in Business Administration, but my soul was seeking a different path. I journeyed through many positions in the service industry until one day I landed a job as an Aerospace and Defence Journalist in Malaysia where I found my calling.
Life as an Aerospace and Defence journalist was an exciting one, but that stint soon ended when I moved to Indonesia with my husband. His work took him there and I found myself lost in a place where English is hardly spoken. Where life is pretty superficial, with the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. It was a beautiful country with its vast landscapes and interesting culture no doubt, but not a place for a person with my expertise to excel. I soon converted my energy into something more interesting by changing my writing genre to travel and culture.
I created this blog – Scribbles of an Electronic Gypsy and experimented with it for a year. When I received tremendous response and writing stints with the local English newspaper and some magazines, I decided to open a more professional site where I tell the world of my travels. Instead of writing everything in first person as most travel bloggers do, much akin a diary journal, I decided on a different approach.
The new website is not about me, myself and I. It’s a site where people can learn what to expect from a trip to a certain destination in an informative way without all the drama on how ecstatic I was to be there or how my dreams came through when I set my eyes on Borobudur for example. It may be a different take on what you would call a personalised travel site these days but that is exactly how I want it to be. I only write on destinations that I have been to. I do not run press releases or articles of places, accommodations or culture that I have not witnessed for myself.
My musings and opinions are unconfined and unfettered. Travel, that perennial itch of the human race is something that I need to scratch through my musings and through the unfastening of my own purse strings. Mid 2011 saw us relocate to the tiny island of Singapore where life has become all that more vibrant and inspired the creation of my new website – Travel and Beyond
As I embark on this wonderful journey of travel writing, I hope to be able to inspire more people to set out to see the world which ever where they can.
LinkedIn: Rosemarie John | My Behance Portfolio: Portfolio at Behance
An independent travel writer based in Singapore, Rosemarie John works with both print and online media. She is dedicated to documenting her travels with the purpose of sharing informative details on places, culture and food the way she sees it. She is passionate about photography, history and social media. Her work has appeared in the New Straits Times, Jakarta Post and Destinations Travel Magazine to name a few. Here earlier technical work appeared in the Asian Airlines & Aerospace and Asian Defence & Diplomacy Magazines. Follow her on Twitter @TravelnBeyond and @GypsyScribbles
An independent travel writer based in Singapore, Rosemarie John works with both print and online media. She is dedicated to documenting her travels with the purpose of sharing informative details on places, culture and food the way she sees it through her websites. She is passionate about photography, history and social media. Her work has appeared in the New Straits Times, Jakarta Post and Destinations Travel Magazine to name a few. Here earlier technical work appeared in the Asian Airlines & Aerospace and Asian Defence & Diplomacy Magazines.
Hi There,
I just came across your http://rosemariejohn.com and found it quite appealing. I would request to please provide us email id of your webmaster so that we can work together to promote each other’s websites.
Thanks,
Great blog and awesome pictures , would you be interested to do a guest blog for us.
Thanks
Nice blog.
I hope you can always share your experience here.
Keep writing.
Hi Rose,
I love the site! Let us know if you are ever intersted in showcasing some of your travel writing elsewhere (pro bono unfortunately). We love to work with you.
Happy Trails…
Daniel
Thank you for the lovely comment Daniel!
Would love to work with you!
Best wishes in all you are doing and with your plans “to do”. I am grateful for your efforts and hard work in developing your skills and observations techniques. For you bring light and truth to the printed word/photos!
With gratitude,
Jim
Dear Jim, thank you so much for your kind comments. I’m grateful and shall endeavour to keep improving and present more information. Appreciate your gesture. Best Regards, Rosemarie
Hi there,
just came across your blog which is very well written. Just wondered whether you might be interested in guest blogging for us.
Also interested to know where you got to with your enquiry from travel ad buyers as I too received an email from them about our website.
Once again great blog and keep up the good work.
HI nice blog. I just ran into it–I do a blog about Florida and relocating here, so good to see other travel related sites.
Hi Dennis, wow you have a beautifully designed blog. I have yet to get mine designed
Right now, I do the best I can lolz.
Hi Rose,
I run a website aimed at encouraging pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
I’ve just received an advertising enquiry from someone, and in a quick Internet search I discovered identically worded letters sent to lots of other websites or blogs, including yours.
I’d appreciate any feedback about your experience with this organisation.
I’m also a journalist and I appreciate your engaging writing style.
Cheers,
Pat McCarthy.
Hie Rose,
Your blog rocks!
Keep up the good work yah..
P/S: Noticed some airline stuff..
Thanks John!!!
I’m having fun with it!
Hi Rose
I am one of your 500 followers on twitter. I thought you might like to write a story about us similar to that in GoNomad.
Kind regards
Hey Bruce! Sent you an email
Hi,
This is a wonderful blog! It was a very good read.
So if you are interested in being a guest, please let me know.
Hey, I work with a travel blog and we’re interested in having you guest blog for us. Please contact me if you’re interested. Thanks! Aldo.
Hi Aldo, I sent you a response by email. Thank you.
This is the first time I viewed your web page. It is postings are very interesting and I could read the whole lot of it but time does not permit. I will keep going over your postings as and when I find some time.
Keep up your good work/Bhas
Thank you, I have so much more to post and will do it slowly.
Luv you!