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Palais des congrès, Montreal 5 Jul 2013 | 07:05 pm
First, swivelling the tinted glass door to step inside, it blinded me – then I realised it wasn’t that my eyesight was hampered, but it was reconstituted to change the way I see. Where colours of the ...
A photographic sketch of Stockholm 21 May 2013 | 06:02 pm
Unknowingly, we’d pounced on Stockholm on a bank holiday weekend – perhaps the odd restaurant lunch service and convenient store made the casualties list, yet the whole of Stockholm wasn’t holding bac...
“I fell face-flat in Macau” 20 Mar 2013 | 08:19 pm
As invulnerability goes, for a potentially injury-prone two-month stint in Southeast Asia, all I managed was a petit scratch on my knee against a seabed coral. I chuckled to said statement before a mo...
A photographic sketch of Beijing 24 Feb 2013 | 05:26 am
There’s something rather contradictory about Beijing. On one front, its striving crusade towards modernity, contemporary building rise above structures of antiquity as readily as the bulldozers dispat...
Directions from a homeless Malay 14 Jan 2013 | 06:26 pm
“Hopelessly lost” didn’t quite describe my ill-fated quest to find my hostel in Kuala Lumpur. The innocent-seeming prelude unfolded shortly after I parted ways with two German travellers and a Buddh...
Saigon Railway Station, Ho Chi Minh City 13 Jan 2013 | 10:00 pm
The atmosphere had escalated in intensity since the near-desolation in Saigon’s train station a few hours ago. Stammering motorbikes, like working bees returning to the hive, zipped by in their swarms...
Changi Airport kinetic sculpture, Singapore 12 Jan 2013 | 09:33 pm
I was wondering what my aunt referred to in her usual childlike exclamation, about a fountain inside Singapore’s Changi Airport. Just as she lamented that the “fountain” was gone, I noticed the array ...
Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore 12 Jan 2013 | 03:10 am
Nostrils-full of incense, religiously pungent yet sweetly aromatic; vibrations of percussion, pulsing through the ground and onto my feet; squeals of the nadaswaram – an Indian wind instrument akin to...
Sunrise over Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur 9 Jan 2013 | 12:03 am
Tick tock, goes the clock; one hour till sun thus rise. I was growing increasingly restless – one can only be explained as equilibrium counteracting my fatigue – foolishly, I somehow reckon in hindsig...
The serial hostel spooner 7 Jan 2013 | 09:24 pm
It was the end of the world as we knew it. Except it didn’t end, and true to my precautionary fashion – and later celebratory spirit once past the threshold into the new Mayan calendar – I brought alo...
