During the care free days of my childhood, my past-time usually centred on what my elder brothers did. It may be flying kites and they would be scouring around rubbish dump looking for glassy things to be pounded finely and glued onto strings. Competitions would be held to see how many kites they could cut [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Rediscovering Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing
Posted in Travels, tagged Birdwing, Butterfly, Rajah Brooke, Travels on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yasmin Ahmad – A Perspective from my in-laws
Posted in Family, tagged Family, Petronas, Yasmin Ahmad on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
” Did you know that the person who did the Petronas ad has passed away?” my father-in-law asked the moment we stepped into his house 2 days ago. ” We were doing our marketing this morning in our pasar and the apek (old man) selling newspapers were talking about it” he continued. ” I like [...]
Shangri-la, Yunnan, China
Posted in Travels, tagged China, lamas, Shangri-la, Songzanlin Monastery, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Travels, Yunnan on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most packaged tours to Yunnan, China, does not include Shangri-la in their itinerary but I specifically chose one that include it because who wouldn’t want to be in a place called Shangri la. Originally called Zongdian county, the place was renamed Shangri la in 2001 to attract tourist. Driving up the next morning from Lijiang [...]
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
Posted in Travels, tagged Borobudur, Indonesia, Java, Mt. Merapi, Prambanan, Solo, Travels, Yogyakarta on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yogyakarta tour: 6 – 10 March 2008 It was already late in the evening when we arrived at Wonosobo, our first place of stay, after been whisked away immediately from Adisutjipto international airport of Yogyakarta. Dieng Plateau was our first destination and being 4 to 5 hours away from Yogya, we need to [...]
Sukhothai, Thailand
Posted in Travels, tagged Lampang, Sukhothai, Thailand, Travels on July 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We had wanted to go to Sukhothai some time ago but always due to time constraint we could not make it. Situated between Bangkok and Chiangmai, its easier if you are travelling either from Bangkok to Chiangmai or the other way round. This way you can make a stopover at Sukhothai. During our Chiangmai [...]
Rawang and Batu Arang
Posted in general, tagged Batu Arang, coal, fish, Rawang, Travels on July 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The photo above shows what was once a forest of Acasia trees and now being cleared bare supposedly for a rubber clone plantation. Anyone would have stared in disbelief at what was left of the forest now. Vast tracts of desolate and open land as far as the eye can see, clearly a blatant rape [...]
Doi Mae Salong, Chiangmai, Thailand
Posted in Travels, tagged Chiangmai, Mae Salong, Thailand, Travels on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mae Salong, a small mountain enclave, cool weather, quaint in its own way.
Doi Tung, Chiangmai, Thailand
Posted in Travels, tagged Chiangmai, Doi Tung, Mae Fah Luang Garden, Thailand, Travel on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The mesmerising flowers in Mae Fah Luang Garden, Doi Tung,
Chiangmai, Thailand.
