I rediscovered several short journals I wrote in my phone’s Microsoft OneNote a few days ago, after thinking that I have lost them when I flashed a new firmware a while back and essentially decimated my phone’s entire contents. But lo and behold they were safe and sound within the backup sanctuary of Microsoft MyPhone, [...]
In: General|Laos|Travelogue
4 Jul 2010How do you seize a moment so perfect? Swinging lazily on a blue hammock in a shady hut with a couple of friends on a Saturday afternoon in Laos, talking about life, laughing and joking, overlooking the Nam Song (Song River) with passing kayakers and travellers in a tube and browned Laotian kids chasing after [...]
Day 5 – Friday, 20th November 2009 I woke up at 5 in the morning, and noticed that Jeremy wasn’t in his bed. But after I showered and ate my breakfast and I re-entered our dorm room at about 6am, he was already in bed. He noticed me despite my best at trying to keep [...]
My trip to Kuala Selangor began with Siew picking me up at nearly 6pm sharp, who already had May Peng in the car. We then picked up Tomoko and Ben (who were all like “I’m so glad you’re here Clem, so we don’t need to share seats with Gopi” hahaha) and headed towards Jerm’s place, [...]
So, after four whole months of abandoning my New Zealand posts mid-way, I’m taking steps to rectify this. Opening that little black journal made me dive into my memories again, seeing the emotions eloping through the carefully written words that I’ve written mostly before I went to sleep on a particular day. It’s been wild. [...]
In: Brunei|Travelogue
14 Apr 2010Day 4 – Wednesday, 13th January 2010 It began to rain in the wee hours of the morning, and part of my sub-consciousness must’ve heard the rain battering our roof and everything around us that I began to feel even lazier and ignored my alarm. Not to mention that I slept a little late having [...]
In: Brunei|Travelogue
5 Apr 2010Day 2 – Monday, 11th January 2010 #1 This was shot during my second night in Brunei, and I had somehow missed putting it up altogether despite already writing about my first and second night there—so here it goes, a brightly lit night shot of the Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque. #2 Desmond and I continued [...]
In: Brunei|Travelogue
27 Feb 2010Day 1 – Sunday, 10th January 2010 And so it begins—it was my first time flying off from KLIA after taking off from LCCT thanks to my constant AirAsia flights (which is really the only airline I’ve ever sat in thanks to their extremely low prices, but this time around, Royal Brunei Airline’s prices were [...]
Sunday, 3rd January 2010 Invariably all of us were rudely woken up by my handphone’s alarm to How I Met Your Mother’s theme song at 5am, but as I was sleeping on the top bunk above Estee (and the double decker bed does not have a ladder, so climbing in complete darkness seems foolish), so [...]
Saturday, 2nd January 2010 Despite telling fellow road trippers to wait at the Southern Cross Station, in front of Hungry Jack’s, at 7.30am sharp, I managed to wake up at 5am, turned off my alarm and fell asleep, then woke up again at 7.40am when Esther rang me up. fml. I was seized with a [...]

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