Deja Vu in (China) January 23, 2007 There were places in my travels — like the old quarter of Xian, where I felt that I had been there before and somehow I knew the way around. And I Finding chicken rice in Hainan (China) August 20, 2006 In school geography tests, we were made to draw maps of various countries. I remembered China as a hen, with Hainan as the egg. When I moved to Reading naughty Vietnamese poems (Singapore) March 14, 2006 I was looking for my favourite Korean food place at the Windmill food-court at Holland Village and I found that they had moved out. Sadding..It was The Ramayana (Thailand) November 1, 2005 A Hanuman puppet from Indonesia Long, long time ago in the city of Hồ Tôn Tinh, lived a king Jiwaka. The time came for Jiwaka to retire, and he We were playing war games (India) October 5, 2005 I have a friend from a place that used to be part of Yugoslavia. He lives alone in a large house. His house has become a regular weekend party hub. A rakhi from my sparring partner (China) August 20, 2005 Yesterday, they celebrated the festival of Rakhi in India. “Rakhi” refers to a special wristband made for this occasion. Sisters tie this Rakhi on Summers in (Burma) May 7, 2005 Summers here in Yangon are somewhat bearable thanks to the ice-cold water seller, and the kindness of people who set up urns with water for us to 88 and 521, bye bye and I love you (China) April 15, 2005 I was just online with Elf, a friend from China. Elf was surprised when I signed off with the text “88”. I picked up this habit from friends in A Korean travelogue on (India) March 19, 2005 Over these cucumber slices with the chilli dip, our friend Soo Min was telling us about this book she was reading. The book is titled “Chi-gu-pyul The fashion from the 1970s (Thailand) March 4, 2005 I traveled along the thin long part of Thailand from the Malaysian border to up north. One of the guesthouses I stayed at Prachuap Khiri Khan had a Next page