Welcome To The Jungle

I’m still a travel junkie. I’m afraid there is no cure for it.
On Decem­ber 14, Feng and I will land in Can­cún, Mex­ico, for seven weeks of travel. As usual, we have no defined travel plans. We will go wher­ever the chicken buses will take us.
Fol­low us on the road… Wel­come to the jungle!

Food in South-East Asia

Com­ing from Aus­tralia, where food was expen­sive and not exactly haute-cuisine, South-East Asia was a foodie’s par­adise. First, food is cheap by world stan­dard and sim­ple meal usu­ally cost under $5. Sec­ond, Sin­ga­pore, Malaysia and Thai­land have a “street food” tra­di­tion and numer­ous hawk­ers offer local del­i­ca­cies on-the-go. Finally, the blend of flavours was sim­ply amaz­ing, from Thai curry to Penang’s Nasi Lemak.

The Epic Journey Back Home

We left Sin­ga­pore on Tues­day evening and arrived in Syd­ney early morn­ing on Wednes­day. We barely slept in the plane (note to self: bud­get air­lines suck for long-distance trips). The F1 Hotel we had booked in Kings Cross looked like a halfway house: the shower was a trickle of water, the win­dow was busted and there were cig­a­rettes burns every­where. Both exhausted, we headed to Bondi Beach for a last look.

Signs in South-East Asia

I love tak­ing pic­tures of signs because they tell so much about a coun­try. For instance, Canada’s bilin­gual “stop-arrêt” sign is unique, and so are the many weather-related warn­ings, “ice falling” being my favourite.

Dur­ing our trip to Sin­ga­pore, Malaysia and Thai­land, I col­lected var­i­ous signs.

Images of Singapore

Sin­ga­pore­ans seem to have two main activ­i­ties: shop­ping and din­ing. When you are done shop­ping, you grab a bite and when you are done eat­ing, you go for a walk with your credit card in hand for some exer­cise. The coun­try is one huge shop­ping mall and there is food just about anywhere.

Multicultural Singapore

I have this the­ory that every­one should be a minor­ity once in his life. The rich one among the poor, the poor among the rich, the short among the tall and the tall among the short ones etc. Just to expe­ri­ence what being on the other side of the mir­ror feels like.

Chinese New Year in S'pore

Happy Chi­nese New Year! 新年快乐！

As China and Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ties around the world cel­e­brated the begin­ning of the Year of the Rab­bit on Feb­ru­ary 2^nd, we joined the party in Singapore.

Bangkok's National Palace

So, did I fall in love with Thai­land? I can’t say I did, for a few rea­sons.
We enjoyed the scenery. The islands in the South, close to Malaysia, were great and peo­ple were really nice and help­ful. It only got worse close to touris­tic places and I must admit some tourists behave pretty badly in Thai­land where they seem to do things they would never do at home.