Category Archives: Travel
kowloon sutra
so there, it’s done, 4 days shooting off on friday the 10th working till 3 and speeding half dressed to catch the 6.30 flight high strung on the take-off sippin orange juice and kicking thru with larry david landin headin … Continue reading
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Fornivacation
Bhutan and its treasure-chest tourism can go ta hell. This is definitely going down on the travel-destination list. As usual, one can always rely on southeastasian guru Sarip to sniff out these magical mystery hideaways. Ah, I can picture it … Continue reading
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Hello, Goodbye
Yeah I’m back and sadly wife-less still, since the other half is due to return only this Saturday. If you have to ask, Hong Kong is an overt mix of cultural colours splat-fixed on an oriental palette. I can barely … Continue reading
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On the 3rd Day in Saigon
On the morning of the 3rd day, we breakfasted on the frayed ends of a terrible history, comprehensively-documented and poorly-preserved by the Vietnamese government. The War Remnants Museum at District 3 (Metropolitan Ho Chi Minh City is divided into 19 … Continue reading
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On the 2nd Day in Saigon
Vietnam is about an hour behind us. So rising at 8am wasn’t too bad, since it was actually 9am in my biological sundial. Thus began the 22nd of March, the 2nd day of the trip. The morning was bright and … Continue reading
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On the 1st Day in Saigon
And now, a vivid account of the Saigon trip from 21 – 24 March. I recall promising a comprehensive and lengthy account, and though I’m spirit-willing to keep to the deal, the flesh is mighty weak due to my aggravating … Continue reading
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The Circus Returns
Now that all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed, Le Cirque de Voyages has returned. Sadly, the trip concluded in a bleak finale. Lost items, a missing driver, overpriced Bacardi and a … Continue reading
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The Unreadiness Is All
3 days from the pinpoint now, Le Cirque de Voyages is scheduled to appear in sunny Saigon. Unsurprisingly, the bags aren’t packed and the itinerary hasn’t been fixed. We shall take the air in a tobacco trance. The online weather … Continue reading
Cu Huy Can
Been mucking and digging about to find some translations of the works by the great Vietnamese poet Cu Huy Can, and I fortunately managed to stumble upon one. Entitled “Sorrowful”, the poem languishes in its own brilliance, and is undeniably a southeast asian answer to Yeats and … Continue reading
Uncle Ho
Known to many as the rather humble Uncle Ho (blame it on the bush jacket and cheap sandals), the great revolutionary and his band of tattered fighters were the first to kick against the pressures of french colonist revival and … Continue reading
Le Cirque de Voyages
I’m so tired, my mind is on the brink. But this post deserves to be written, nevertheless. I can’t go on, I’ll go on. In about 3 weeks from now, our traveling circus* will land upon the bosomy earth of … Continue reading
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Malaccan Melodies
Although it’s been almost a month now, Malacca continues to sustain in my memory like a thick fog. Quite frankly, I cannot comprehend my belated interest in the recent trip, and having been to the historical city more than a … Continue reading
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Paint It Black
Vietnam is only just around the wicked corner. Only just a page away on my desk calendar (why count when you can flip?). But first I must brave the onslaught of to-do’s that relentlessly rape my rest and free-time. Meetings, … Continue reading
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