February 2006

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• 2006 Malaysia, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  And then there were seven

  02.28.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  (Today’s blogpost by our special guest, Nazma)
  My parents are both turning 60 this year. Dad’s birthday fell on February 26, so Farah came up with the idea of treating both of them to a trip. As relatively well-travelled as the Shivjis are, Southeast Asia remained largely unexplored, and so Kuala Lumpur became the meeting point [...]

• 2006 Malaysia, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Cooling off in the Highlands

  02.20.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Realized we’ve hardly posted since coming to Malaysia. Well, the big draw was Thaipusam, a Hindu festival that we rushed down to Kuala Lumpur (KL) for. I can’t say too much about this for the time being: first because we’re still digesting the entire experience; second because we still have a lot of background research [...]

• 2006 Hong Kong-Macau, 2006 SE Asia

  Article #2b: Learning Cantonese

  02.14.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Kou-FOO”?
  “Kou-Foo”.
  “KOU-Foo”?
  “Kou-Foo”.
  We were standing outside the restaurant where (we believed) we were supposed to meet my Nai-Nai’s–or Mother-in-Law’s–brother and two sisters. As Lloyd could not read the Chinese name, we’d used a process of elimination to end up at the fancy “House of Canton” located in Festival Walk, an eight-floor shopping behemoth. While [...]

• 2006 Hong Kong-Macau, 2006 SE Asia

  Article #2a: Hong Kong

  02.14.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Having visited Hong Kong a few times, it never seemed as remote or exotic a destination as it may for many others. But as the plane touched down at Hong Kong International Airport, for once I wasn’t at all sure what to expect.
  For one, in the past I’d always travelled with my family, so it [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  G.I. Jane

  02.10.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  While Nazma and I work really well together, almost four months of constant togetherness can take its toll. We, of course, have diverging interests: Nazma seems to like painting her toenails every so often, and I hate feet. So when I found a one-day tour unlike any of the hundreds of cookie-cutter “treks” in Chiang [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Bummed: beach- and otherwise

  02.07.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  We had heard good things about Ko Lanta, and headed out by ferry to the island after two days in Ao Nang. This involved sitting on the deck of the boat for 2 hours, at the end of which I emerged, lobster-like, into the din of taxi touts. We arrived at our first place, a [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Escape from the Germans

  02.04.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  We decided to forego the long train/bus journey from Chiang Mai to Phuket and just flew for cheap. Arrived at night and immediately was not impressed. While the rebuilding efforts of locals, international aid, backpacker et al. were laudable, Phuket was such a trap that we were glad we only had the two nights. Old [...]

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Junkies for that feeling you get just before you board a plane, train, or automobile for somewhere other than here, we're seeing as much of the world as we can, staying one step ahead of the trifecta spectre (trispectre?) of security, progeny and mortgages.

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Project: Eggplant will track as much of that as we feel like putting fingers to keyboards. At times we'll get lazy and just take some purdy pictures. And sometimes it may sound like we're just moaning. In the end, if we don't write it with a smile on our faces, it doesn't get posted.

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