08/16/14, 3:06 PM UTC+8 This begins the first post of Taiwan 2014 trip. This would be our second trip to Taiwan having visited in 2012. This was to be a free and easy, unplanned, ad hoc trip to reduce the stress of a structured self imposed tour. We disembarked the plane at 3pm after a…
06/30/14, 4:39 PM UTC+8 Camera : Canon 7D A prominent feature in Hong Kong Central is a cobbled road named Pottinger Street. It was late in the afternoon and Dad and I took some time to walk around Central Hong Kong. The road was named after Hong Kong’s first governor, Henry Pottinger. One of the…
Photos taken with Sony Xperia Z2. This place is a popular place to have clams. Rice wine ginger steamed claims. Here is a word of warning. If you arrive after 545 and are not in the first wave of order taking, you will have to wait. And when I say wait, it is a long…
Affogato means drowned. This is ice cream drowned in coffee. So how is it made? You get one scoop of vanilla ice cream. One shot of espresso. Pour and enjoy. The espresso is known for it’s coffee bitterness. The saving grace is the vanilla ice cream that add’s the sweetness to this drink. The coffee and ice cream does…
Tanah Lot is a must do in Bali. Visit this unique temple which sits on a small island some 100 meters away from land. Tanah Lot is filled with tourist and you all know what that means. Arriving around 5pm, the sun was facing us as we looked out at Tanah Lot. This amounted in…
13th January 2013, whilst protecting the ball from an onrushing goalkeeper and the ball almost going out of bounds, I trapped the ball with a step-over at full sprint speed. My shoe gripped the floor, but my ankle kept going. I rolled my ankle and heard a pop. I knew this was going to be bad.…
Prologue The heat, the smell of human waste, smog and a constant ringing of beeps and honks; that is Jakarta in a sentence. It is congestion epitomized. This city is a mixture of modernity and traditional, abundance and scarcity, rich and poor. For many Jakartans, they wallow in the struggle of trying to make ends…
