Travel

Blog: Meeting an old friend in Langkawi

View of the beach from the kooky Dash Resort Langkawi on Pantai Tengah. Picture by yours truly. When I was last in Langkawi I was not...

Blog: Bedugul, a lush part of Bali rarely visited by tourists

Like migratory birds, around October each year my husband and I would travel to Ubud in Bali for our annual break. This year we tried a...

Blog: Ipoh on the rise

The old soul in me has always been fascinated by fallen aristocracies, and Ipoh emits the same lingering nostalgia of a boomtown gone...

Blog: Why I cycled in Penang

When I returned to George Town, Penang this year, I conducted some of my explorations on a rented bicycle. These are my adventures....

Blog: Sabah and my notion of ancient Malayness

It all started with a DNA kit Not too long ago, I purchased a DNA kit from the National Geographic Genographic Project (NGGP) to help me...

Blog: Bali – Death, Sex, Magik

Perhaps nowhere else in the world that fecundity and sex, death and decay and the potency and magic of ancient religions have coexisted...

Blog: Nosh in George Town

In Penang’s George Town, food is cheap and in great abundance; there are all manners of food establishments from roadside hawker stalls,...

Blog: Feeling at home in Penang

So what started as a press junket for CausewayEXchange, an annual festival for deepening arts, cultural and business ties between...