Travel
Night Landing
While rummaging through a box of knick-knacks last week, I found this draft scribbled on a small writing pad that I thought I’ve lost a long time ago. Night landings hold a special kind of magic. They start off quite scary, with nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see. Once in a … Continue reading
Moving House – New Zealand Style
I was browsing through the pics in iPhoto this morning when I saw this series of pics that I took when we were in New Zealand in June 2011 (click on each film strip to see larger versions of the images):- These sure give a whole new meaning to the phrase “moving house”!
One Step At A Time…
Things have been crazy hectic lately that I’ve hardly had room to think, much less breathe. Without going into the gory details, suffice to say that I’m under enormous pressure from every imaginable front and the only way I’m staying sane is by taking things one step at a time, one day at a time. … Continue reading
Only In Indonesia…
…can schoolchildren drive themselves to and from school in motorbikes. Underage. No licence. No helmets. I don’t even know where to begin… *sigh* Photo taken in Tanggerang, just outside Jakarta.
Yeli Xiali Uyghur Restaurant In Shanghai
During my recent business trip to Shanghai, I had the opportunity to sample Chinese food of an entirely different type — Uyghur cuisine — at a restaurant called Yeli Xiali. The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group living primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People’s Republic of China. As most of the … Continue reading
