• An Average Night Out

    An Average Night Out

    The following is not actually a single narrative of one continuous evening, but a composite of many. It’s written as a representative summary of my average night out in Kyoto. Nothing is exaggerated. It’s Saturday […]

  • Thaipusam: Masochistic Mayhem

    Thaipusam: Masochistic Mayhem

    Warning This post contains some graphic images. If blood makes you queasy, you may want to skip it. I’ve mentioned a few times how, although I do travel mostly without plans, I also do so […]

  • The Mega Trip Part 9 (The Great Wall)

    The Mega Trip Part 9 (The Great Wall)

    With the land-based portion of my adventure through China nearly over, I realized that I was still missing a significant piece of what I wanted to see before returning to Japan. Kung Fu. So, after […]

  • A Different Experience

    A Different Experience

    I’m here. In Tokyo. Finally. During my idle time on the flight over I kept on thinking, “what am I going to write to everyone once I finally get to Japan?” Most of you already […]

  • KaZantip 2011: Black Sea Paradise

    KaZantip 2011: Black Sea Paradise

    Warning: This post contains a few NSFW photos. View only in good company 🙂 The Republic of KaZantip, the legendary Eastern European Shangri La of parties, lasts for just one month a year in a […]

  • Long Walk Down a Longer Road

    Long Walk Down a Longer Road

    Peder and I left our pousada in Trancoso and started out for our day’s 30 km walk at around 11am. The plan was to follow the coast all the way to Arraial d’Ajuda, a neighboring […]

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Seeing Singapore

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Sep 112011
 
Well ain’t that a lucky coincidence!Well ain’t that a lucky coincidence!

One of my favorite pieces of travel gear was also one of the cheapest: a tiny handheld speaker called the X-Mini II.

Accept no imitations – these things really are awesome.Accept no imitations – these things really are awesome.

I’m sure you’re all well aware that I like to party, but prepartying or afterpartying in a silent hotel room is certainly no fun – nor is doing so to music played over a squeaky little cellphone speaker. Enter the X-Mini II; this golfball-sized contraption somehow manages to put out more sound than some speakers I’ve seen at double the size (and triple the cost). It’s provided hours of entertainment in hostels, parks, and even a bicycle trip across Denmark.

…That is, until just a few weeks ago when it mysteriously stopped working.
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Bollywood Ballers

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Sep 092011
 
The guy to my right is Sankar, the “big man on campus” – I think he owns like half the businesses in Little India.The guy to my right is Sankar, the “big man on campus” – I think he owns like half the businesses in Little India.

You may remember my post “Cocky Club Zouk” from Kuala Lumpur – about the supposed best nightlife spot in the city. Neither Michael nor myself were particularly impressed. But as it turns out, Zouk KL is actually just the little brother of Zouk Singapore, where it all began. Zouk has won the Singapore Tourism Board’s “Best Nightspot Experience” award 6 times in total, ranking consistently on DJ Magazine’s list of Top 10 clubs in the world. At the moment it’s #9.

This I had to see.
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Clarke Quay

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Sep 082011
 
Clarke Quay: by day, a pleasant waterfront walk. By night, overflowing with affluent young partiers.Clarke Quay: by day, a pleasant waterfront walk. By night, overflowing with affluent young partiers.

For the first time this trip I just checked myself into a backpacker’s dorm.

Yuck. I’ve gotten spoiled 😛

Despite being exactly twice as expensive as my huge private double with a balcony in Melaka, I suddenly have no privacy at all, no security, and the hassle of hitting my head on the ceiling while getting up from my 2nd-level bunk. Plus, the way the hostel described itself online was unbelievably misleading. They claimed to have 4 rooms of 6 beds each, but the reality is more like one gigantic room with cubicle half-walls dividing it into partitions. A 24-bed dorm should not be misrepresented as a 6-bed. That’s not cool.
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Initial Reactions

 Public, Singapore  8 Responses »
Sep 072011
 
Prince of Wales: the first hostel I’ve stayed at since Copenhagen last year.Prince of Wales: the first hostel I’ve stayed at since Copenhagen last year.

My whole standard of living is right about to change.

One of the ways I can afford to travel so much – aside from the obvious fact that I work on the road – is through careful planning. I always schedule periods of quick, efficient travel to overlap with expensive countries, while slow-paced work-on-the-road segments overlap with the cheapies. So although I may still be months behind on blogging, because of the cost of living in Singapore – by far the highest in the region – I plan to devote every minute possible to enjoying myself.
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