Mistyrious Halong
It was 6.00am, light was streaming into the cabin. The room, it was moving slightly, no? Ah yes, I am on a cruise ship on Halong Bay. I went up […]
It was 6.00am, light was streaming into the cabin. The room, it was moving slightly, no? Ah yes, I am on a cruise ship on Halong Bay. I went up […]
Just over 2 months ago , I told my boss I was leaving the company. I had spent days rehearsing for that moment (don’t judge), but nothing could really prepare […]
It was not long into my trip when I came to realise that the Land of the Rising Sun is a great place for neophyte photographers of street life to […]
I don’t know what’s taken me so long to write about Iran. By so long, i mean more than two years. Was I keeping my memories in a cellar, hoping […]
So, i finally made my way to Korea (South Korea that is, can’t wait to check out the North), and I finally got to experience Autumn in its full red […]
Let’s just say that i was born restless.From the time i boarded my first plane as a 6 year old kid, i never stopped thinking about my next adventure. And […]
The beauty of travel is that you could set foot in a country unsuspecting and wide-eyed, and then have yourself swept up in a whirlwind of emotions that leave you a slightly […]
We’ve never in our lives seen a mass protest,mainly because there has never been one. In our country, our angst and disapproval are debated and derided on the web with […]
Where do I begin? Right from the start where i chanced upon this in a tiny column in the sunday papers? Or in the National Eye Centre where we’d gather […]
In Singapore, as in many countries, a tradition that accompanies graduating from school is a big trip commonly known as Graduation Trip (or grad trip for short), the idea of […]
The year was 2006, and she was in junior college. Also a member of the school’s drama group. I was working with them to devise a play, ‘X-Country’. She played […]
There is a Bangkok smell. It’s the smell of smoke from the rickety old public buses that are slowly being replaced by shiny, LED-lighted ones. It’s the smell of meatballs […]
As a child, one of the earliest images I associated with Sri Lanka was of lush green hills carpetted with tea plantations, dotted with Indian women dressed in colourful saris and […]
“I hope you’ll survive.” Those were her parting words to me, as she turned around and closed the door behind her. She was the only other helper in Yarramba Trail […]
I had dreams. Of becoming a teacher, because that was the only profession I was familiar with for the first 18 years of my life. And later on, of becoming […]