Posts Tagged ‘book’
In buddhism, travel on
11 March 2010 tagged airport, armoured personnel carrier, army, baksheesh, book, canal, caretaker, chowkhang gompa, coffee, computer, dal lake, email, fish temple, flight, floating store, french wife, gompa, hill, hindu, horse, hotel, houseboat, india, indian, indian archaeological society, internet cafe, islam, island, kashmir, kashmir valley, ladakh, leh, marijuana, military, mohammad, monastery, money, mosque, mountain, movie, muslim, pahalgan, paulo cohelo, people, photo, photography, photos, picture, riding, runway, school, sledding, snacks, snow, soldiers, srinigar, stars, strike, temple, the zahir, tibetan restaurant, victoria, view, weather with no comments
day 346 — it snowed like mad the whole day. after breakfast i walked around town taking phởtographs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their picture — even though it was snowing and freezing cold. i returned to chowkhang gompa and took some phởtos […]
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11 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, airport, altitude, ams, beanie, book, buddhism, buddhist, ceremony, chess, children, chowkhang gompa, cold, dalai lama, email, flight, goa, gompa, heater, hemis gompa, ice hockey, india, internet cafe, jacket, kashmir, kids, korean monastery, ladakh, lama, leh, leh palace, market, monastery, namgyal tsemo gompa, palace, paolo cohelo, photograph, prayer, retread, shay gompa, skating, skating rink, snow, soma gompa, stok gompa, taxi, tea, temple, the zahir, thiksay gompa, thukpa, tibetan market, tour, tyre with no comments
day 341 — i got started early for my flight to leh. at 5am i got a taxi to the airport but had to stop along the way when the taxi shredded a tyre. retreads are very common in india and the quality is, in a word, shit. 10 minutes later we were going again […]
In rants, travel on
7 March 2010 tagged application, approval code, australia day, australian embassy, bakery, bed bugs, book, breakfast, bureaucracy, camera stores, chess, computer, connaught place, conversation, cult, delay, delhi, email, foreign ministry, france, hippy, hostel, hotel, india, iran guide book, iranian embassy, iranian food, letter of introduction, lonely planet, main bazaar, mumbai, music, natural born killers, new delhi, official, operating system, pakistan embassy, phone, prayer, religious, restaurant, salvation army hostel, shower, singing, spain, train, ubuntu, upgrade, visa, water with no comments
day 331 — australia day — i woke up, had breakfast and packed. the hostel had no water at all … so no shower … and i was covered in bed bug bites … again! i stored my bag and headed into town. i checked out a few camera stores, checked email and returned to […]
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3 February 2010 tagged air india, book, burma, chess, coffee, craig, cycle rickshaw, email, hammock, hotel, indian embassy, kolkata, lonely planet, mandalay, markets, moustache brothers, myanmar, passport, tattoo, tourist, train ticket, travel, visa, yangon, yangon united fc with no comments
day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had breakfast and drank a coffee at an outdoor café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the afternoon, had dinner and slept.
day 312 — my morning routine had settled into breakfast and coffee. the small café had a […]
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 […]
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 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 australia, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged australia, bali, beer, book, breakfast, coffee, couchsurfing, darwin, didgeridoo, drunk, email, girl, guitar, hippies, hong kong, indonesian embassy, internet, kennis, lessons, marijuana, murray, noodle, pot, remembrance day, shopping, sleep, store, ticket, tourists, travel, walkter, yha with no comments
day 256 — remembrance day — i had breakfast and coffee with a black fella called murray, did some washing and read my book. then i got the bus into town to sort out some travel arrangements. i was going to buy a ticket to bali, but was told that i needed an outbound flight […]
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28 June 2009 tagged 104 street, administrator, angkor wat, annika, bar, bbc, beer, bicycle, blog, book, book store, border, breakfast, bus, cambodia, casinos, chess, classrooms, club, detention centre, driver, elephant bar, embassy, eva, fcc building, foreigners, gardens, girlfriends, half yard glass, ho chi minh city, hostels, hostesses, hotel, immigration, kfc, khmer rouge, kids, killing fields, lonely planet, mattress, mekong delta, michael jackson, minsk, money, motorcycle, multi-entry, news, one zero four, palace, passport, phnom penh, photos, pontoon, potato and gravy, prisoners, rugby, s21, school, shallow graves, sharkys, shoestring asia, siem reap, singing, taxi, teacher, torture, tourists, tuk tuk, victims, vietnam, visa, wallabies, wifi with 2 comments
day 116 — i met the german girls (eva and annika) for breakfast. they were catching the early bus to phnom penh. i said goodbye and we made arrangements to meet in phnom penh later that night, since i was catching the bus at 1pm.
i rented a bicycle and rode out to angkor wat again. the […]
In australia, travel on
28 June 2009 tagged alarm, angor wat, annika, anz, atm, aung san suu kyi, australia, bangkok, bayon, beer, bicycle, birthday, book, bribe, burma, bus, cambodia, china, citizenship, crocodile, curry, dead fish, dinner, dr fish, ernesto che guvera, eva, feet, fish, free burma, german girls, guesthouse, guitar, happy pizza, hotel, immigration, karaoke, khao san road, little india, market, markus zusak, motorbike, passport, phnom penh, ploy, poipet, refugees, scam, sex slaves, siem reap, singlet, ta promh, thai border, thailand, the messenger, tibetan market, tshirt, tuk tuk, university campus, visa, weather with no comments
day 111 — today was a very lazy day. i stayed in khao san road all day reading my book. in the afternoon ploy called me and asked if i’d be interested in going out. as it turns out, today was aung san suu kyi’s birthday and there was a small gathering at one of […]
In computers & internet, money, travel on
10 June 2009 tagged bangkok, beer, book, boom, burritos, cafe, camera, computer, dining carriage, email, fa cup, final, food, football, forearm, hotel, hp mini, ipod, khao san road, macbook, meat, mi casa, movies, netbook, notebook, photography, photos, ploy, portable, restaurant, ryan, shinya, soccer, southern cross, station, street vendor, tattoo, terminator salvation, thailand, train, tv with no comments
day 91 — i woke up late and walked around khao san road for a while. i ended up sitting at one of the outdoor cafes enjoying a beer and reading my book. i also inquired about the price of a tattoo from the tattooist near the café.
after that, i went to ploy’s house. we drank a […]
In australia, humorous, travel on
10 June 2009 tagged airport, apple, australia, australian consulate, australian embassy, backpack, balls, bangkok, beer, book, bookstore, boom, burma, camera, camera bag, candles, chiang mai, equipment, flirting, girl, gstring, himalaya, hotel, istudio, kata, khao san road, lapdance, lowepro, lunch, mandalay, mbm, naked, nepal, nude, passport, pat pong, photography, photos, ping pong bat, ping pong show, ploy, red light district, rudyard kipling, ryan, shinya, shopping, skytrain, sleep, steven galloway, straw, strip club, survey, taxi, thai, thailand, the cellist of sarajevo, theatre restaurant, tip, topless, trek, trick, tshirt, vagina, whistle with 1 comment
the travel diary for days 61 to 88 can be found under himalaya trek.
day 89 — i enjoyed a rare sleep in and watched some tv in my hotel room. i checked out and waited for ryan and boom in the restaurant attached to the hotel. due to a mixup, i didn’t realise that i was […]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged air conditioning, ants, argument, audiobooks, bago, base camp, beer, book, breakfast, bridge, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, burmese days, bus, buses, champions league, chinese, clouds, electricity, email, fan, gold, gold leaf, golden rock, hair, hike, journey, king, kinpun, luggage, lunch, money, monks, mosquitos, myanmar, phone, rain, relic, restaurant, rollercoaster, sacred, scared, sedan chair, shinya, ship, shrine, sleep, sunny, sunset, switchback, temples, train, train station, truck, yangon with no comments
day 54 — the ride to bago was long and shitty. travel by bus in myanmar is incredibly frustrating. most of the buses are used chinese and japanese junks. they’re old, dirty, rattly and uncomfortable. added to that is the fact that the driver and crew fill the bus with as much luggage and as […]
In buddhism, humorous, life, money, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged alphabet, bago, bicycle, book, bookstore, breakfast, bribery, bureaucracy, burma, burmese days, bus, camp, canada, cheese, chocolate, dictionary, diseases, email, english, eucalyptus oil, europe, geography, george orwell, gnocci, hill, inle lake, internet cafe, job, juan, letters, longyi, malaysia, massage, mint, mojito, money, myanmar, naung shwe, numbers, passport, photos, pizza, poster, restaurant, school, shinya, shower, shwe lin pan pagoda, sonia, students, switzerland, teacher, thailand, traditional, virgin, world map, writing, yangon with no comments
day 51 (anzac day) — i got up early and had breakfast. i’d made a promise with sonia and juan to go bicycle riding with them. shinya wasn’t coming with us, he’d decided to spend the day hiking in the hills. we did a circuit around the north of naung shwe, including the small lake, […]
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10 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, audiobooks, australia, baht, bangkok, bangladesh, bbc, blackout, book, border, breakfast, buffet, cab, cafe, chang mai, check in, commission, cook, couchsurfing, currency, dollars, dynamite, electricity, email, embassy, emerald buddha, exchange, exit visa, flight, forms, funny, guest, hotel, immigration, india, ingredients, ipod, jihad, kassandra, khao san road, kolkata, linen, lonely planet, mcdonalds, mr jihad, mr men, muslim, myanmar, officials, pants, passport, plane, receipt, reclining buddha, ryan, sandwich, sheraton, shoestring, shopping, south east asia, spaghetti, stamp, subway, sudoku, taka, teacher, temple, thailand, thunderstorm, titanium, tshirt, visa, wat pho, wat phra kaew, wifi, yangon with no comments
day 30 (continued) — instead of spending the evening doing totally nothing, i decided to be a good guest and cooked dinner for my generous host. i went digging around the kitchen and found enough ingredients to make a very reasonable spaghetti. there was no cummin, kidney beans or chilli powder, but i could make […]