I dream of travel. Somewhere else, somewhere new. More places to see. A great wide open world of adventure.
Here I am feeling restless. It’s October, my birthday month. Age 33 looms like a gargoyle.
Pack up a bag, put on a hat, stride out into the great beyond.
Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
4 Oct
October
26 Jul
Mars
‘Sometimes I think I flew to the wrong place. Mars was always my favourite as a kid and it still is today.’
MICHAEL COLLINS, Apollo 11 astronaut who orbited the moon while Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong walked on it, 40 years ago
(from the Straits Times, Sunday 7/26/09)
8 Apr
Bacon Cube Haiku
Bacon, the soul food What could be better than that? Cube-shape fat pork meat
(Written on the HP Mini 1000 while looking at photos from the recent Japan trip)
del.icio.us tags: bacon, meat, delicious, fat, pork, grill, japanese, food
27 Mar
Kyoto schoolkids haiku
Hello Kitty kids School day over, let’s go home No happier time
(Written on the HP Mini 1000 after waking up early to get on a call with someone who is still on vacation. Thus leaving me talking to only myself, sadly after having already drunk coffee so no going [...]
19 Mar
Departure
I attempted to stroll the famed “Philosopher’s Walk” this morning. I couldn’t find the start of the trail and had to go back to the hotel to get directions.
Thus ends my trip to Kyoto. Shinkansen to Tokyo, Narita Express to the airport, and SQ to return me to Singapore.
Started the day at a Zen temple [...]
17 Mar
Shinkansen – bless you!
Another day, another mode of transportation. Riding the rails across the Japan… the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Kyoto. I’ve been to Japan many times but never to Kyoto so am excited about seeing Japan’s 2nd most-beautiful city (as voted by Japanese citizens… I don’t know what the #1 beautiful city is).
The bullet train experience [...]
14 Mar
Travel Peeves
One of my peeves is around airports that are far away from the main city they serve. For example – Tokyo airport. After flying a bazillion hours, the last thing I want to do is get on the Narita Express train to Shinjuku… and ride it for 1.5 hours. But since there’s no other viable [...]
10 Mar
Are we there yet?
Looks like i have finally adjusted to the time zone difference between Singapore and Seattle. Just in time to leave in 3 days where I can mess up my body clock again while I’m in Japan. I suppose everything else is messed-up in Japan anyway so my physical spirit being scrambled shouldn’t be too much [...]
7 Mar
From the 217
Earphones on, Stellastarr* streaming into my head, I am on the bus from Microsoft’s Sammamish campus to downtown Seattle. The rest of my colleagues decided to stay near the office leaving me with no ride back to the city. Whoops. Blessing in disguise as I used www.soundtransit.com to quickly figure out which bus (route 217) [...]
1 Mar
From Row 58
Well, here I am back on the road again. This time on my way to Seattle for two weeks of work and then a few days in Japan on my way back for vacation. I can taste the sushi and sake now. Actually I can’t – Japan seems so far away and the nonstop work [...]
