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16 Aug 2008Sorry for the recent spat of password-protected entries – it really isn’t my intention to tempt my readers like I’m dangling a treat in front of you and not give it, and I suppose it may be a little insulting, but there are things that I only want a handful of people to read that [...]
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In: Thailand| Travelogue
12 Aug 2008Sorry for the lack of posting, but I’ve been out a lot lately.
I’m actually very inspired at the moment to write a further 7 short stories to compile into a collection of short stories, of which I’ll self-publish it. :D It has been a long, suppressed dream – something I thought of as ridiculous and [...]
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7 Aug 2008I have this weird feeling that if I can look at a particular event objectively – without attaching morality, emotions, or judgement to it – it feels as if I have successfully separated my soul from my body, leaving behind a mechanical robot of a shell. And when that soul returns to the body after [...]
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3 Aug 2008My Bangkok update will be a little slow – immediately after I reached home on Thursday afternoon, I am confronted with the fact that I’ve a Price Theory mid-sem test next Tuesday and I’ve done absolutely nothing about it. :) No panic buttons pressed yet though, as our lecturer has supposedly kindly divulged specific information [...]
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29 Jul 2008I’m at a cybercafe in Khaosan Road, Soi Rambuttri, using a coin-operated computer that goes for 20 minutes for 10baht (~RM1). The past few days of fishing, shopping, visiting the red-light district have been amazing, hazy, filled me with something that I only describe as internal emotional battles.
It’s strange that I always have that innate [...]
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26 Jan 2008Day 24 – 27th December 2007
The second last day of my trip – essentially a do or die day, because Mr. Tuk repeatedly assured me that the passport will arrive Phuket today.
When I woke up at around 7am, the first thing that materialised in my mind was my passport. I barely had the appetite (which [...]
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22 Jan 2008Day 20 – 23rd December 2007
For the most part of Thailand, I actually took considerably less pictures than I did in Laos (so expect less pictures in this entry) – but it’s understandable, because if you take Kuala Lumpur and remove its various symbolic buildings, Bangkok actually looks very similar to KL: the heavy suffocating [...]
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20 Jan 2008Day 17 – 20th December 2007
We woke up at 9am, walked around in search of a recommended khao soy restaurant as listed in the photostated papers of Rough Guide (which the two Singaporean girls kindly left it for us) but it was closed. We ended up eating zhap fan at a restaurant for 30baht.
We returned [...]
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17 Jan 2008Day 15 – 18th December 2007
Pai was supposed to be a quiet getaway generally for the farangs (local term for ‘foreigners’), but apparently as of late, its popularity among the locals had increased due to it being featured in several (romantic) local movies – which probably explained why when we sat the mini bus to [...]

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