Despite only in March, it was a pretty hot day. I've sat around my share of campfires and benches telling stories- stories of disaster or averted disaster, episodes with difficult travel partners and frightful tales of risk and pain. I'm even guilty of trying to one-up stories of rigor, suffering experiences but I would never imagined that there will be a day that...

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It was almost midnight when we finally landed in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The humidity of the motherland caught up to me as I started to sweat like bullets. The feeling of finally being home after nearly twenty-three hours of flight was relieved.  Hello KL, it's nice to see you again. Fast forward twenty-four hours later and my parents have arrived the next...

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It was an uneventful morning, or so we thought. We woke up to the hustle and bustle streets along the Tahrir Square. Even though our room was in the sixth floor, we could clearly heard the loud honks of any vehicles and the lively morning chatters of vendors in Downtown Cairo. Cairo is a living, breathing modern city. I was annoyed to say...

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If you want to study a new language or gain a new skill without forking out the money to attend classes, you just need to open up your laptop and clicked on Google Chrome icon and start Googling.  I haven't taken a French or German class but I've managed to pick up the basics of it through my learning from the Internet and...

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There are times in my life that I solely travel to escape. Living in a city made me overwhelmed with breathless sensation sometimes. Leaving town- even for a short period- allowed me to breathe. I could take off the mask that I felt I had to wear in order to keep up with others. And I could be myself. Exploring a new place...

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I guided myself to slither by a throng of people coming in and out of the Marrakech Menara Airport. The torrid heat of the afternoon was not helping- I was sweating profusely and people kept on bumping into me without a bat of an eye.  Great. Fifteen minutes in and Marrakech already treated me like this. Setting out to meet someone in here...

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I was in the UK when a friend suddenly hit me up on Whatsapp and tell me she is going to Iceland for a few days. I was in a tight schedule to go to NY to meet Kak Rose but decided to tag along. We met in Stansted Airport before landed in Rejkjavik the next day. Iceland is famously known as the...

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