About two weeks ago the winds suddenly blew cold in Phnom Penh. Nights began feeling too cold for me to use the a/c in my room. This happened for about a week before becoming balmy and dry like a summer night again. The trees in the small yard facing my building began losing their leaves [...]
Turning Japanese – Sprung Monkey
On Sunday I woke up at around 9AM. The flat was silent, as Danika has left for work. After a breakfast of Milo and peanut butter sandwich, I went out. It was looking to be another sunny day, as opposed to the almost daily dose of rain in Kuala Lumpur. And [...]
You Gotta Work (Supermodel) – RuPaul
I arrived in Singapore at 4.30AM Saturday, after a 5-hour bus ride from Kuala Lumpur. The trip was uneventful; the bus was way better than the buses that plied the Phnom Penh-Siem Reap or Ho Chi Minh route. I got to my friend Danika’s flat at around 5.30AM. He didn’t [...]
work it – missy elliott
Last Sunday, I went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to participate in a training organized by TSF–an institution that has been both my client and my provider of PDA (professional development activities, not that PDA!) This was not my first workshop with them, as this was certainly not the first time I [...]