Myrrh, oud, rosewater, sandalwood, cigar, patchouli, vanilla, jasmine, and opium. All of these sound like the olfactory delights that wordsmiths write about when they want to evoke an added sensory experience in their prose. And in a way, mixing perfume is a bit like writing a...
India's sheer size is daunting. It is literally an entire subcontinent on its own, and it is filled with so many wonders in every corner, that picking a few cities to visit clearly won't do this massive country any justice. India is so vast that...
Have I mentioned that the best thing to do during a long-ish layover is to get out of the airport and make the most out of your borrowed time in a new city? On my way to Jaipur from Manila, I stopped by Kuala Lumpur...
Come to think about it, the last few times that I have been to Kuala Lumpur were really short. I would usually stop at the city for a long layover, and this has been the way that I have come to know the Malaysian capital:...
I'm just so excited to be writing on this blog again because that actually means I've got material to write about. As in, there is actually something happening in my life outside of the humdrum routine of sitting in front of a desk all day...
Outside, Red Diamond in Bangkok's residential Ladphrao district looks a bit like a rusty container van monster that is headed to the dumps, but inside is a high-end place that takes its coffee seriously. And I mean very seriously. One of the things that I looked forward...
I usually quite enjoy motorcycle rides through a busy city, but not when my heart is beating out of my chest because I'm about to miss my flight. This is how I ended up making my way to the airport to catch my flight from Ho...
I embarked on my Southeast Asian trip with an express desire to seek out the region's best coffee shop. I planned on going away for 16 days in total, but only a few days into the voyage, I already visited so much more coffee shops...
By the time I got to The Workshop Coffee, which is in one of the nice neighbourhoods of District 1 in Saigon, I was already of the impression that the Vietnamese know what they're doing as far as coffee was concerned. Earlier that day, I spent...
I made the rookie mistake of wearing new sneakers on my first day out in Vietnam. I arrived in Saigon a bit after midnight. After depositing my things at the hostel and after catching a few winks to recuperate from the sleepless night, I went about...