Tag: Adventures
The Malay Mission Debriefing
It has been almost two weeks since I have returned home from Southeast Asia. That means plenty of time to get settled back into...
Heimkehr: Another Singapore Slingshot
The Malay Mission was coming to an end. It was time to leave. A very long day was ahead of me, bringing interminable hours...
The Big Fat Indian Wedding
Penang, northwestern Malaysia, marked the end of the Malay Mission, two weeks after I had left Frankfurt. The journey has taken me to the...
The Two Towers and Cameron Highlands: I Have a Dream
Two days rolled into one post! Here's what you can expect: a morning commuter experience, a ride to the 86th floor, the refreshing hill...
Kuala Lumpur Questing: For a Few Ringgits More
The shape of things to come: friends, YAT (Yet Another Temple), birds (aren't birds beautiful to behold), a modernist take on mosque design, and...
Kuala Lumpur Hustles: For a Fistful of Ringgits
Today brought some of the thrills of Kuala Lumpur: finding the ticket office for the ascent to the Petronas Twin Towers' Sky Bridge, a...
Sunway Monday
Monday in Kuala Lumpur. A day to spend with an old friend whom I have never met. An Egyptian-style shopping mall. Authentic Chineses food....
Halftime Reflections: Quests
Today marked the end of the Java Sojourn and the beginning of the Path to Penang. A bittersweet goodbye at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport and...
Batavia Balderdash
Jakarta, formerly Batavia -- Koningin van het Oosten -- when it was the de facto capital of the Dutch East Indies, lay before me...
Train Travails
Trains... a sedate form of transportation involving ceaseless staring at the landscape, terrible coffee (hey, still coffee, right?) and being dropped off smack-dab in...