*Update* Pictures now link to Google Maps page with short commentary for each destination.
2005: The idea that I could afford to backpack anywhere only just occurred to me at this point. I was 19. I was in love. I wanted to go to the Angkor Wat. Three weeks of Thailand and Cambodia set the stage for the next three years of laughter and friendship.
2006: Almost 4 months of travelling, in between academic terms, and a career launched.
Summer 2007: blue — places I’ve been already, red — places I’m headed to.
2008: Get the hell out of SMU, then China, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, New York?
I’m in Singapore for now and Singapore feels like one of the stops on my tour of Asia. I only know how to live my life on the road, it seems, and I’m hanging around just to get out again. (Why? There are so many reasons. Where do I start?)
Next stop: _bharat mata_, Mother India. It’ll be a short one — a month? two? a month or two in India is way too short — for work and pleasure, and maybe, just maybe, to Mussoorie for that intensive Hindi course I desperately need but have been putting off. ‘Hindi in the Himalayas’ is too good to pass up on. Funnily enough, even my time in Singapore has come to be measured by what work I’m doing here — finishing up some writing I’m doing here, and seeing that my brother gets married. India makes me happy, comfortable, and at ease, the very opposite of what Singapore is for me.
possibly related
Needed: Nepal Experts /
Whose Country is it Anyway /
Some Tips on Indian Visas /
Some Signs That Say /
Happy Holi, Everyone /
Going Places, on Google Maps
*Update* Pictures now link to Google Maps page with short commentary for each destination.
2005: The idea that I could afford to backpack anywhere only just occurred to me at this point. I was 19. I was in love. I wanted to go to the Angkor Wat. Three weeks of Thailand and Cambodia set the stage for the next three years of laughter and friendship.
2006: Almost 4 months of travelling, in between academic terms, and a career launched.
Summer 2007: blue — places I’ve been already, red — places I’m headed to.
2008: Get the hell out of SMU, then China, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, New York?
I’m in Singapore for now and Singapore feels like one of the stops on my tour of Asia. I only know how to live my life on the road, it seems, and I’m hanging around just to get out again. (Why? There are so many reasons. Where do I start?)
Next stop: _bharat mata_, Mother India. It’ll be a short one — a month? two? a month or two in India is way too short — for work and pleasure, and maybe, just maybe, to Mussoorie for that intensive Hindi course I desperately need but have been putting off. ‘Hindi in the Himalayas’ is too good to pass up on. Funnily enough, even my time in Singapore has come to be measured by what work I’m doing here — finishing up some writing I’m doing here, and seeing that my brother gets married. India makes me happy, comfortable, and at ease, the very opposite of what Singapore is for me.
possibly related
Needed: Nepal Experts / Whose Country is it Anyway / Some Tips on Indian Visas / Some Signs That Say / Happy Holi, Everyone /