The Brooks Half-Marathon 2012 : Ticked Off the List

The Brooks Half-Marathon 2012 : Ticked Off the List

So, I opened my marathon saga this year by running for the Brooks’ Half-Marathon about two weeks ago. It would be my very first time of running after a curfew of about three months with the last run being the Angkor Wat Half-Marathon. For such a long break, I had every reason to be worried. You know how stamina doesn’t cling to you for too long. It has its own way of disappearing into the thin air JUST LIKE THAT…

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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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