Year of the pig is the last in the twelve-year cycle of the lunar calendar. According to one myth, the pig was late because he overslept. While another story said he had to rebuild his home because someone fucked it up, so when he arrived,...
In case you haven't noticed, I almost abandoned this space. Things got real and I guess people are outgrowing the travel blogging idea. Start an argument on traveler versus tourist and I will stick my finger up your descending colon so you know that the...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"]An hour by boat across the straight plus an hour by land through the gentle slopes of Bintan, hides a refuge that is Trikora. At first, I thought it would be like the other resorts in the island of Riau Indonesia with generic stretches of average-looking...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"]When I think of Australia I imagine of the Outback: The great vast wild endlessly chasing the horizon. Where taxonomy failed mankind, where Ernest Giles ate a live baby wallaby to survive, where men are men and livestocks are eternally nervous. I was ready for it and...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"]The Boeing Dreamliner was cruising from west to east, essentially against time, towards the antipodean sunrise head on. In a matter of what I thought was few minutes of sleep, I was woken up with a breast of a woman in her mid-fifties dangling inches away from...
. Rain. The drops of heaven carrying the nuance of childlike wondering. But these pervade every inch of my being like the countless spirits that permeates every mountain and rock, every island and bay. Intangible as mist, unavoidable as gust. . After hours of driving from Leh across Ladakh and the...
driving to khardung la . Two flights and combined 12 hours of waiting in airports, my transit from metropolitan Singapore to the far depths of the Silk Road battered and harassed my mortal body as if I went through five rounds of repeatedly being spanked like a...
By Ron Cruz . Allizvell! Allizvell! When I saw that final scene in the film Three Idiots, my whole world froze in suspended animation, my conscious attention zeroed-in towards the TV frame, to that unworldly landscape, that vivid shade of teal. While in deep awe, I immediately grabbed a pen. LADAKH,...
. On high mountains the wind is created easily. In deep oceans it is difficult to measure the volume of water. People cannot know the limits of space. ~Kukai (774–835) . A pilgrimage is intended to be difficult, that is how one will draw the perseverance to complete the trail in...
. A young drunk Japanese man sat beside be and started baffling threads of words like as if we've known each other before. I don't want to embarrass him so I just played along. Guy: Hokrshamzxchmgame dshuwaka me desh, chishaganxzwqb desu ne? Me: So desu ne! Guy: Hahahahahahahha Me: Hahahahahaha...