One of the things that I did in Manila when I went there earlier this year was to find Barong Tagalog, the Filipino’s formal costume for men. It was actually a colleague of mine who asked if I could buy a pair of it for him and I readily agreed thinking that I was going to spend 5 days in Manila. When you are spending that long in a city like Manila, anything that creates a little bit of activity…
My job had required me to drive across the peninsular of Malaysia recently, from my adopted hometown Kuala Lumpur all the way to Kuantan on the east coast. The town of Kuantan is very significant to me personally since it was in this town that I became independent and away from my family for the first time at the very young age of 16. It would be my very first visit after my last goodbye to this town about 17…
I did hear about it but never really thought of ever seeing it, let alone tasting it, probably not in this life. Until. I went to Siem Reap. I was told by Melissa the owner of Siem Reap Rooms Guesthouse where exactly to find it. Apparently, it was very near to the centre of town. In fact, it was very near to the guesthouse itself. It is a place where many of the locals but less of the tourists would…