Let me be contrary and take a break from my Kuala Lumpur narration to tell you a little about my first day in Kathmandu, Nepal. I woke up at 5:30 AM this morning, ordered a cab using the Taxi iPhone app, and did the usual pre-travel panic dressing and packing. Fifty minutes later, I stood…
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There’s travel and there’s business travel. Though I had landed in Kuala Lumpur on a Wednesday, I hadn’t wandered farther than two blocks away from Shangri-La, since work and the company event within the hotel had captured my attention for the first two days. When I finally ventured out at noontime on Friday, my colleagues had…
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A lot can happen in a year, if one is determined to make life eventful. In spite of everything I’ve went through, I seem to have gone full circle. Last November 2010, I was taking my solo trip to Bratislava (which you can read here and here), consumed by fear and despair because I had been anxiously wondering…
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The World is My Book 