Jagannath Mandir temple workers lift the heavy wooden top of Goddess Subhadra’s chariot, 6 days before the Puri Rath Yatra 2007. Subhadra’s chariot is always red and black; Balabhadra’s is green, and Lord Jagannath—the star of the party—has a massive yellow and red chariot. 1072 logs from Orissan forests, 1200 metres of cloth from local [...]

earnestly reading about the trans-siberian: seriously thinking about it http://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm # Delighted my passport takes me to Turkey, Latvia, & most of Europe w/o a visa. Now about that Russian visa.. # Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong makes his speech about repealing 377A in Parliament in approx 6 minutes. # what’s the point of studying: researching Istanbul-Aleppo trains, [...]

Fucking awesome writing about well, cursing http://urltea.com/1u2o # Anyone know cheap and reliable places to register the .tv domain, other than GoDaddy? # Checking out the Seinfeld "Soup Nazi" moment as @daveoli advised. That might just be me. # @jackerhack i have never been able to get makemytrip.com to work properly on anything other than windows and IE [...]

Other than tech and travel. Or why I don’t usually like discussing my country. Re: 377A. I’m never comfortable whenever I’m referred to as a Singapore blogger. I’m a blogger, yes, and from Singapore: that’s as far as it goes. I’m not in the country that much. I stopped talking about Singapore some time around 2004. [...]

To raise awareness about its New Improved Kotex Soft and Smooth Ultrathin Pads, Kotex had a red booth outside Orchard Cineleisure this weekend, with the words: You May Not Remember That You Are Having Your Period. Wonderful copywriting. Not knowing whose campaign this was, it made me double-take and think: Am I really? I don’t [...]

Watching NBC’s Last Comic Standing, the final five. Every time I hear "Final Five", I think of Cylons. # Have a good mind to go photograph the cultists from http://enshrine377a.blogspot.com/ on their prayer walk tomorrow. # So that’s how Candice Wilmer looks (Heroes). If I had her power, I’d make-believe I’m on holiday everyday. # Japanese designer proposes [...]

Ken’s ramen for lunch, and Mellben crab for dinner. How much better does it get? # Am going to eat at the Armenian Street warung everyday from now til it shuts on the 31st. :( If this is development, I don’t want any. # @peyday precisely the reason i haven’t made it to east malaysia in a [...]

As told in Marx, Mao and Mr Deng. Location: Mae Salong, Chiang Rai, Thailand

This is a filler design at the moment while I overhaul the website and put up several others (one for my work, and another for that top secret documentary thingy). Bits and pieces will not work in the meantime. How long will it take? Probably longer than it’ll take me to graduate (5 weeks).

Reading several Taipei food blogs. It’ll be a miracle if I don’t become 3x my size after Taipei and Java! # Thom Yorke and I were born on the same day, 17 years apart. # @andrewbarnett yes! i love In Rainbows. but then i may be biased, considering how i once went to Sydney just to see [...]