Hikes of KL: FRIM and the Canopy Walk
FRIM Canopy Walk will be closed from 30 June 2017. This was back in May 2017. An environmental group that I follow on Facebook was passing on the Forest Research Institute’s announcement. That was...
Tagged: renewal
Victorious
How do you enjoy art without feeling the human behind the poured genius? You are afraid of grief. You cannot bear to listen to trauma and refuse to note its signs not even when...
A Kumari Contemplates Kathmandu Durbar Square
The tour guide seemed to hope greatly. An older man, he insisted on showing me his credentials as an authorised independent guide with quiet dignity. And he continued giving me his pitch on why...
Anywhere, Away With You
Come let’s go out and play! I understand now, why they call it being ‘re-born’. Looking back, the stages that I passed since taking the leap into change almost 5 years ago, seem very like...
The Tide to Dhigurah and Jumping Overboard
I hadn’t even arrived in Dhigurah yet. My flight to Maamigili, where I would transfer by boat to the atoll island of Dhigurah was late that night. But Day 0 of my volunteering stint...
I Was Sent A Manta Ray For My Birthday
My birthday was not at all turning out as I expected. It was supposed to be good that year, as I was in the Maldives volunteering for a whale shark monitoring program with the...
2 Days in Tacloban: Beyond Yolanda
Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a wayfarer.* The city of Tacloban in the Philippines has a couple of distinctions. First, it was where the American General MacArthur landed...
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...
The Lost Wings
The Lost Wings I did not believe you when you insisted My wings were beautiful. In the water I have seen them reflected – And they were muddy as the river. But you, how...
Growth Through Volunteering in the Western Ghats
My first visit to the exotic subcontinent of India was not in Delhi, nor in Rajasthan, nor anywhere along the well-trodden backpackers trail. It was to Sirsi, in the UNESCO Heritage region of the...
Lessons from Volunteering in the Perhentian Islands
As recently as a few years ago, when I went volunteering for the first time in the Perhentian Islands, this was not really a thing for a local Asian. This was the kind of...
The Subjective Treasures of Chatsworth House
Near the end of my Barnsley-Derbyshire trip, I went to visit the stately home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Chatsworth House. There I finally found the bluebells I was looking for, after...
