Whenever someone asks me about my favorite countries I’ve visited, Morocco somehow always makes it up there on the list. Which is kind of funny considering that I left Morocco completely exhausted. Exhausted by the constant hassle, the rough intercity travels, and by its overall intensity. But to me that pretty much sums up what [...]
First thing I noticed about Thailand (besides the humidity) was how easy my traveling became. Take note that I just arrived from Africa, and by comparison, Thailand (and to lesser degree, its neighbors) felt much more, oh, about a gazillion times much more accommodating to travelers. Which is why whenever someone asks us, “Where should [...]
When I was 7, my parents decided to put me in a Chinese language program class – so I could get in touch with my roots, I guess.
Which is a little weird considering that my parents (whom consider as my roots as roots can be) don’t speak any Chinese at all.
At that time, learning Chinese (or anything Chinese related) was forbidden so we had to sneak around. Instead of Chinese books my little backpack was stuffed with English books instead. Just incase I got stopped on the streets (never happened).
Soon afterwards, I noticed that I was different. While the other kids were conversing happily with their teachers in Chinese, I was walking around muttering “This is a horse”, “That is a pig”.
2 years of seeing me struggling with the Chinese words for farm animals, my parents decided that enough was enough and pulled me out of the class.
San Francisco, USA Guess what we’ll be doing this weekend? We’re doing the Survivor Mud Run!! But wait! What is Survivor Mud Run? “..something created TO TEST YOUR ABILITY TO RUN, CLIMB, JUMP, CRAWL, & MUSCLE YOUR WAY THROUGH THE MOST EXTREME 5K MUD RUN CREATED” Eeeeek! I can tell that this is going to [...]
Berkeley, California I think about where my food comes from quite a bit. But after taking the food tour of Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto by Edible Excursions, I realised that maybe I hadn’t done so as much as I should. After all, just the other day I had a bowl of Goldfish for breakfast. (Then again, [...]
Inle Lake, Myanmar The most iconic image of Inle Lake, a large freshwater lake in the middle of Myanmar, is of its fishermen. They are known for their conical fish trapping device and their unique way of rowing – one hand on the top of the oar and one leg wrapped around the bottom. Then, [...]
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia I left Ethiopia with plenty of stories to tell. About the most amazing place I’d ever seen in my life , about bag slashers and pickpockets, about rabid dogs, about the people I met, and about life in Ethiopia in general. Along with the stories came the lessons I learned from my [...]
Bagan, Myanmar There’s a photo on the inside cover of our Myanmar guidebook. It shows a landscape dotted with temples as far as the eyes could see. Ever since I saw that, I’d wanted to come to Bagan and see it for myself. Fast forward to short while after We arrived at 3 in the [...]
Even before we left for our trip around the world, I was dreading this post. The post-trip, “What we learned from the trip and what we are going to do now” post. That’s why it took me a month after we got back to sit down and write this. It might take me another month [...]
Matthew from Expert Vagabond tagged us to continue this… what do you call it? A meme? A tag-you’re-it chain blog post? The idea is to find photos that fit the following 7 categories among your personal travel photos. We’ll then nominate 5 other travel bloggers to do the same. Anyway, I told him ‘yes’ then [...]
Chiang Mai, Thailand My mom likes to say that I grew up in a car – she used to drive between college, work, and home with me not-quite-so-safely tucked in the backseat (those were the pre-booster-seat days) around Jakarta every day. As a result, I’m always up for a road trip. Anytime, anywhere. So when [...]
Java, Indonesia Through the front windows of our little speed boat we saw nothing but a wall of green sea water. My mom was throwing up on the side of the boat, our guide standing by her side holding on to her just in case she got thrown off. All around is the water of [...]
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