An occasional ramble about my photographic journeys and such.
Kids of Sapa.
Kids of Sapa. They might be poor. They might be messy and dirty. Their clothes might be in tatters. But their determination to eke out a living from the tourists and their “never-give-up” attitude is a sight to behold. How can you not give in to their demand when they asked you to buy some souvenirs from them? How can you say “NO” to such faces of hope and perseverance? And they DID NOT BEG! I couldn’t. And I gave in. And I did it happily.
The need for internet access has become one of the most basic requirements for urban living. Email access via mobile phones and blackberry devices has become the norm instead of exception. Facebook and Twitters popularity has only added to this mad rush for 24×7 internet access. Now with the crazy success of iPad from Apple, […]
The MAS flight from KLIA to Siem Reap took roughly about 2 hours. The flight was delayed by about 30 minutes due to technicalities but we really had a blast with the service and food provided by Malaysia Airlines. This was the first time we took a short regional flight with MAS via KLIA. For […]
After a nerve-wracking and max-out adrenaline rush of the more than 6-hour taxi ride from the serene hot spring village of Lushan to beautiful Hualien via the breathtaking Taroko Gorge, the last thing on my mind would be the architecture or the interior designs of my next hotel – Bayview Hotel. However when we reached […]
As an alumni member of PMPE, I was recently featured by Photosafari.com.my in an interview with Maxby Chan (Administrator of PhotoMalaysia.com) about my passion for photography. The original article could be read here. However I re-blog the whole article here for your convenience. I seldom post my travel photos in this blog as I mostly […]
The stacked collection of skeletons, the bare steel bed frames against the hollow marbled-floor rooms and the eerie silence of the ghastly stained walls really provided everyone that visits the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum a glimpse of the atrocity committed by Pol Pot, the leader of the former “Democratic Kampuchea” from 1975 to 1979. This […]
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