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Month: March 2012

My Bucket List

My Bucket List

Internacionale Bali Trip Bangkok – Siem Reap trip Bhutan / Tibet Brunei North Thailand China Trip East Java Everest Base Camp Summiting Mt Fansipan, Vietnam’s highest mountain Hat Yai Journey to The Holy Land Weekend Getaway to Krabi, Thailand Laos Manila with Mom My Munich 200th BEER FESTIVAL Germany Trip (Re-scheduled) Myanmar The Golden Triangle, INDIA Milford Track, New Zealand Papua New Guinea Rinjani Lombok Scotland – Ireland – Wales Scandinavian Countries Sri Langka Across Switzerland Iran Trip to Rome…

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Phnom Penh: A Palace, A Museum & A Cow

Phnom Penh: A Palace, A Museum & A Cow

I suppose I don’t have to tell you that most palaces in ‘highly Buddhist’ countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand require their visitors to be in proper dresses instead of those all-too bearing clothes that you’d probably wear while strutting your stuff on a white sandy beach in Phuket or something. So, the admission fee is USD6.25 (25,000 Riels) and that is like MYR18.50 in Ringgit Malaysia. How worthy it is depends a lot on how you can appreciate what…

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Jalan Sultan and The Morning Flea Market

Jalan Sultan and The Morning Flea Market

So, I’ve just returned from Petaling Street or rather Jalan Sultan in KL this morning. I first heard about the existence of some ‘rare’ market there when I was still studying at University of Malaya a zillion years ago. My housemates would wake up in the wee hour of the morning just so that they could catch as many things as possible by going there the earliest they could. “Things can get snapped away pretty fast”, they’d tell me. I…

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