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iPhone App Review: Angkor in Your Pocket

By popagandhi | Published: 4 February, 2010
In 2005, a 20 year old newbie backpacker trudged through the Cambodian border at Aranyaprathet on foot and her first instinct was to reach for a stack of paper in her 65L backpack. Just to locate the section, “At the Poi Pet border… expect to pay extra for a Cambodian visa”, and additional instructions on [...]
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iPods, Jambiyas and BarCamps

By popagandhi | Published: 21 November, 2009
BarCamp Singapore 4 is on tomorrow at Suntec Tower 3, 14th Floor, at IDA Singapore, from 9am to 6pm. Looks like there will be lots of interesting presentations. I’m on at 1.30pm, with “How to hack your own travel channel life”. I’ll be sharing about travel, writing, photography, the internet, and well, stuff. Sorry I [...]
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Red Tide Over Thailand, Twittersphere

By popagandhi | Published: 12 April, 2009
As you probably know by now I consider Thailand one of my homes, spending as much time as I do there, and taking an avid interest in its food, language and culture, one I now regard as my own. I spent the last 10 days in Thailand, the cities/towns that were the flashpoints of the [...]
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Five things I won’t leave home without

By popagandhi | Published: 2 March, 2009
I can do 40-hour train rides across India. I will share a bed in Marseille with a dreadlocked, horny French boy (long story). I don’t mind riding sampans down a river in Borneo at dawn, with only two hungover boatmen and a torchlight guiding us. I’ll let myself be stuck in middle of bloody nowhere, [...]
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Fortylove.tv is Rolling

By popagandhi | Published: 22 December, 2008
Forty videos, twenty weeks. Begins now at fortylove.tv. Is English food really bad? Is Dubai really all about malls, construction, and refrigerated beaches and indoor ski resorts? Who in their right mind would travel 1000 kilometres by auto rickshaw in India? (No one, except the 27 contestants of the Rickshaw Challenge.. and.. me, it seems.) [...]
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