Mondrian in The Hague: Celebrating Dutch Street Art
For a couple weeks in 2017 I was in the Netherlands, neither a tourist nor just in town for meetings. I had the opportunity to switch offices, and work with colleagues there for a...
Category: Our Random World
There are things that you come across and find interesting in travel, curiosities and oddities. Things that baffle you as a foreigner – being baffled, I think, is one of a traveller’s secret enjoyments. Observations and mementos, crafts or items from our random world.
And then there are random things that happen, and random places you wander off to and enjoyed. I love storytelling, finding a narrative and an arc, weaving a spell and breaking it, setting the reader free at the end. But not everything in our world has an arc – or at least one that my mind can discern.
So these travel odds and ends – whether whimsical or erratic or serious and philosophical – are all grouped here. Randomness doesn’t need a reason.
“What do you say when you pray?”
I paused in the dim light, still seated on the floor where I was praying. The room was near-darkness, in the hour before sunrise. My room-mate Belle had sleepily asked the question from where...
Heaven Is Not What I Did Yesterday
They asked if I could swim in the open sea. “What do you mean? Just put 10 for everything,” his voice came through distractedly over the phone. I had consulted my (ex)friend, regarding how...
When Solo Travel Growth Is Not Solo: The Epiphanies
Much has been said about solo travel, and how it needn’t be lonely and isolated. That you would meet people along the way, travellers and hosts alike. And so, while you may start out...
Teja on the Horizon is a Mystery Blogger!
I was intrigued when Chandrima of Travel Stories Untold nominated me for the Mystery Blogger Award. I hadn’t heard of this award before, and didn’t think I had the readership to even be noticed for a...
Solo Female Travel: Confessions of an Overachiever
I have about 2 weeks to go before I head to Nepal. And I am going alone. The big ticket things are booked now, and no cold feet madness can be tolerated. So I am...
KL Day Trip: The Soaring Kites over Morib Beach
A day trip to Morib beach The downside of living in Kuala Lumpur is that the coastline is not particularly accessible. This is very sad for someone who loves the coastline. You have to...
Chatsworth Treasures, and To Thine Own Self Be Blue
Teja and the Treasure Room of Chatsworth House Near the end of my Derbyshire trip, I went to visit the stately home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Chatsworth House. In an earlier article...
For Humanitarians, the World is Our Valentine
I had never identified with Valentine’s Day. Even though I’ve not always been single. When your reputation for being a brain rather than a beauty is what precedes you, what happens is that you would not...
Looking For My Art Heart in Kuala Lumpur
You know how you sometimes snap photos of things, just because? And you don’t know who to show it to, or under what excuse, but they’re so interesting anyway? Some of such things on...
New Year Fireworks in KL: Sound and Light
There’s something incredibly appealing about new year fireworks. There aren’t very many things that my over-thinking mind doesn’t try to work out the why of it, but it and fireworks have a truce. Fireworks...
