Day 11 – 14th December 2007
Whenever I’m exposed to the cold, there is a tendency for me to produce excessive mucus. It’s definitely not because of the flu virus as I had a shot of the vaccine before I left for Laos, but merely a result of a severe cold-unaccustomed boy. Since Northern Laos was [...]

Day 8 – 11th December 2007
Woke up to extremely chilly weather that you can practically see the mists a-rolling around the surrounding mountains. The overcast skies made a further impression that it was gonna be cold.
We declared today a Rest Day again – fantastic isn’t it that we can just decide not to do anything [...]

I saw a shooting star.
Its tail blazed with fiery white light across the star-strewn sky from bottom to top for nothing more than 2 seconds, but I knew what I saw. I literally leaped with excitement when I saw it, pulling Siew around to tell him what I saw. But he already knew, as he [...]

I seem to have taken my lazy trait along with me back home all the way up north in Laos. Siew and I are probably the two laziest travellers the world has ever met, but we’ve quite good reasons.
For instance, when we were having one of the most laidback times ever in Vang Vieng, we [...]

I lost my camera.
Preceding the incident was of course, when I was geared up and ready to kayak with 4 other participants (including Siew), When all the safety details and instructions were made known to us (which involved terrifying bits of things such as the possibility of being entangled with trees, rushing undercurrents, breaking of [...]

How is Laos?
Or accurately, how is Vientiane? My first impression on landing here was definitely that of weather – it’s cooling, definitely hovering around 25 degrees but its purported 15 degrees Celcius at night seems a little incorrect, at least it’s way cooler than Malaysia’s perpetual hot weather. As of writing now I’m somewhat.. (a [...]