Archive for December 2009
In cool photos, humorous, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
27 December 2009 tagged borneo, brandname, can, citrus, delicious, drink, kickapoo, kota kinabalu, malaysia, store, travel with no comments
kick a poo … in a can!!
i found this in malaysia while i was in kota kinabalu (borneo). i walked past a store and the title on the can caught my eye. best brandname ever!
btw, it was actually quite delicious.
In blog stuff, travel on
26 December 2009 tagged 300, blog, christmas, christmas day, ferry, hotel, kota kinabalu, lunch, malaysia, martini, palau labuan, sparta, travel with no comments
day 300 — for sparta!! the 300th day of travel coincided with christmas. i got up early and checked out of my hotel on the island of palau labuan. i got the ferry to kota kinabalu. we arrived at lunchtime and i checked into my hotel.
i had lunch in town and returned to the hotel. i […]
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25 December 2009 tagged b&w, base camp, black, boom, ebc, flow, himalayas, ice, khumbu, mt everest, nepal, photo, photography, picture, sky, snow, trek, trekking, white, yoga with no comments
top — trekking towards everest base camp
middle — boom doing yoga
bottom — the dangerous khumbu ice flow
In australia, korea, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged air asia, alcohol, australia, bandar seri begawan, bangar, bangkok, beer, boat, borneo, breakfast, brunei, bsb, canal, carlsberg, chicken, cigar, city, dominican republic, duty free, email, ferry, flights, guesthouse, island, japan, kimchi jiggae, korea, korean restaurant, kota kinabalu, malaysia, mall, martini, memorial, mosque, museum, muslim, palau labuan, photos, prayer, river, satay, soldiers, sunset, surrender, travel, travel agent, visa, worldwar, ww2, wwii with no comments
day 296 — in the morning i walked into town again. i checked a couple of travel agents and realised my plan (to fly to bangkok via brunei) was going to be too expensive. i gave up and walked back across town. on the way i found a korean restaurant and decided to grab some […]
In buddhism, drama & theatre, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged buddha, buddhism, buddhist, clouds, flag, grave, himalayas, mt everest, nepal, pagoda, prayer, sky with no comments
top — prayer flags on a mountain pass
middle — those who fall from everest are remembered
bottom — more prayer flags
In buddhism, photography stuff, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged airport, beer, beggar, boardwalk, book, breafkast, buddhism, buddhist, burmese, bus, canada, chatting, chess, christina, coffee, dinner, drunk, email, event, flea market, flight, foreigners, fourfourtwo, guesthouse, hangover, internet, junk, kl central, korea, kota kinabalu, kuala lumpur, lonely planet, long bar, long island ice tea, lunch, magazines, malaysia, margarita, market, mcdonalds, muffin, photography, photography book store, photos, portrait, post, raffle's hotel, razamataz, sabah, singapore, sreet market, starbucks, steve mccurry, street cafe, temple, ticket, tourist, train, travel, travel agents, waiter, wifi with no comments
day 291 — i got another early start and headed to kl central station. i bought a flight to kota kinabalu and a return train ticket to singapore. it was a busy morning, so i raced back to my hotel and checked out. i stored my bag and returned to the train station to make […]
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25 December 2009 tagged b&w, black, blue, buddhism, buddhist, clouds, flag, himalayas, nepal, pagoda, path, photo, photography, picture, prayer, reflection, rocks, sky, water, white, yak with no comments
In computers & internet, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged 85mm, american psycho, atm, banana pancake, beer, book, breakfast, bret eaton elis, bukit lawang, burma, burmese refugee, bus, camera, chinatown, christina, dinner, email, embassy official, f1.8, ferry, flight, food, georgetown, hindu temple, hotel, indian visa, indonesia, labyrinth, lake, lens, linux, lunch, mail, malaysia, mcdonalds, medan, minibus, money, myanmar, myanmar embassy, nikon, orangutan rehabilitation centre, parapat, passport, petronas twin towers, photographs, post office, rain, reggae bar, street cafe, taxi, terminal, the beach, ticket, tourist, travel, tshirt, tuk tu, united nations refugee status, visa, waiter, wifi with no comments
day 286 — being on the lake made me feel lazy (well, lazier than usual) and i decided to stay and do some reading. i sold my copy of ‘the beach’ (which was actually very, very good) and snagged a copy of ‘american psycho’ by bret eaton elis. i’ve read it before, but it was […]
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25 December 2009 tagged blue, boom, gokyo, himalayas, lake, marriage, married, marry, mountain, nepal, photo, photography, picture, reflection, ryan, sky, snow with no comments
top — the view of gokyo
middle — boom in the mountains
bottom — ryan and boom get married near the lake
In travel on
25 December 2009 tagged angry, animals, beer, book, breakfast, bukittingi, bus, chess, company, cop, email, fight, hotel, indonesia, lake, laundry, markets, mosquito net, padang, parapat, passengers, police, police station, sleep, sumatra, taxi, tourist haven, tuk tuk, wifi, zoo with no comments
day 281 — today i spent the entire day on the bus. it was a long, boring trip. i managed to get some sleep a few times and i wore ear plugs for most of the trip (to drown out the indo-pop that they insisted on playing at full volume). i talked to the bus […]
In photography stuff on
16 December 2009 tagged 35mm, 85mm, battery, casing, crack, d200, equipment, lens, nikon, pack, photography, portrait, prime, telephoto, travel, wide angle with 1 comment
the day i arrived in malaysia i dumped my gear at the hotel and headed across town. my destination was the local tech mall, where i went in search of a lens i’d been wanting to buy — the nikon 85mm f1.8 prime.
since i started traveling full time, i’d been carrying three lenses: 18-200mm f3.5–5.6 superzoom, […]
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16 December 2009 tagged chola pass, crevasses, face, gokyo, guide, himalayas, jandra, lake, mountains, nepal, photography, photos, pictures, portrait, sky, sunglasses, village with 1 comment
top — extreme jandra — one of our awesome guides
middle — the way to chola pass, a difficult path over ice and crevasses
bottom — the view from my bedroom window — the lakes at gokyo
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16 December 2009 tagged bali, beer, bus station, cafe, cats, coffee, crowd, dancing, dinner, dirty, drunk, ferry, garbage, girlfriend, hotel, indonesia, jakarta, jl jaksa, karaoke bar, kids, korea, monument, mustang sally, noodles, photography, photography club, rain, rubbish, scavenging, sick, singing, slum, spc, street market, sumatra, taxi, tom, traffic, yulia with no comments
day 276 — i spent the day at the hotel and café. i had started feeling a little sick again so i didn’t want to go too far. i messed around online all day.
day 277 — i felt much better today, but i was reluctant to stray too far from the hotel. i stayed in the […]
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16 December 2009 tagged b&w, black, blue, clouds, hiker, himalayas, mountains, nepal, photography, photos, pictures, rocks, sky, snow, white, yak with no comments
top — inquisitive yak!
middle — a lone hiker walks along a mountain ridge
bottom — rocks and snow and mountains and sky and clouds
In buddhism, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged beer, beheaded, blanket, borobodur, breakfast, buddhism, buddhist, chess, coffee, couchsurfing, drunk, fighting, gay, hindu, indonesia, jakarta, java, jogjakarta, lookout point, massage, mosquitoes, noodles, phone card, pool, prambanan, queers, redevelopment, sick, statue, stomachache, swim, temple, tour, train, train ticket, travel, tuk tuk, wifi, yulia with no comments
day 271 — the trip to borobodur required a 4am start. there were only three of us on the tour and when the car picked me up we headed straight off. after an hour we arrived at the ‘lookout point’ which was where we were supposed to watch the sunrise. we walked up a steep […]