Eastwards to Kuantan
A family road trip with just Theo, myself and our 1.5 month old baby Benjamin. A little crazy to bring the babe along but the mother needed a break and the baby couldn’t do without ...
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Hiring Foreign Domestic Workers
Lately I haven’t had much time to fill up on my blog as I have been busy looking for a maid. The process of interviewing potential candidates and conversation with a fellow Filipino colleague opened my eyes ...
Global Poverty
Before I close the book What Matters, there is one particular photo essay that changed the way I look at things and it is with regards to poverty. I used to misperceive as the author described ...
Wishes for the New Year
It is the new year once again. Welcome to the year 2010. We have passed into the second decade of the 21st century. This is going to be a year of change for me personally ...
Tourism conservation or lining the coffers?
I am writing this in a real fit of anger and frustration. After more than half a year since our return from France and Italy, I am slapped with a 2 times 36 euros handling ...
Conserving Heritage Tourism
Here’s some food for thought regarding cultural tourism. I have always insisted on visiting cultural and heritage sites on my travels however there seems to be mounting debate on whether governmental conservation efforts for tourism may actually ...
Climate Concerns
What has held my interest for the whole week is the progress of the Climate Control Summit in Copenhagen where 193 world leaders have gathered to form a legally binding contract to reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the environment touted ...
There and back
Nothing invigorates and refreshes you more than leaving behind the familiar. Although we were only on a 4D3N road trip to next door Malaysia, I had a lot of time to think about matters during our ...
Shopping galore in KL
11.12.09 Stay at the Boulevard Hotel in KL On our way out of Malacca back to the NS highway, I had initially suggested going to Alor Gajah which is a town further north on the ...
Peranakan Heritage in Melaka
With Joel in toll and Benjamin in my tummy, I went on family getaway with my brother, his wife to be and my mother to Malaysia. We left home about 11pm and reached Malacca at ...