Learning in small groups (Cambodia)
October 31, 2015
October 2015, Discussing how people learn in organisations, and the factors that aid on-boarding of new colleagues. At the Institute of Technology
An odd god (Cambodia)
September 17, 2015
Talking since dusk, of my one and half tusk. Yes, I am a God, though I look a bit odd. On a busy street in Phnom Penh
For the love of free food (Malaysia)
July 1, 2015
I dropped into a café in Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur. I was surprised to hear the girls working there speak Khmer. Most wait staff in these parts
The raid (Malaysia)
April 28, 2015
You hear Thai voices outside, and you know that the Sunday food van is here. The larger immigrant community in Johor has its own ethnic hangouts,
Food is just an excuse (Japan)
April 28, 2015
Today, I walked into a Family Mart in Saigon. I picked up some Oden—a comforting Japanese winter dish featuring radish, fish cakes, and boiled eggs,
Time travel via outdated travel guides (Malaysia)
July 30, 2014
While some may celebrate the current state of travel — with the nets and webs and the convenience of maps on mobile telephones, I miss the days when
The Little Burma in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
July 28, 2014
Very close to the Central Market (and Chinatown) in Kuala Lumpur there is a Myanmar enclave. The enclave has grown over the years to entertain and
Skirts (Thailand)
May 11, 2014
Through the 2000s, skirts in the Thai campuses kept getting shorter. It certainly encouraged a lot of students to stay put in the
Technology optimism in South East Asia (Vietnam)
April 20, 2014
Last evening, I was showing a xe om (motorbike taxi) man how to switch languages on his iPhone and note that he has another phone in his lap. Many
The reader (Vietnam)
March 12, 2014
The reader. I often met her browsing the history section. It was as if all those wars, coups, and treaties happened just so that our reader could
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