Dear All, I returned to Singapore from Hainan, China last Saturday. I had a wonderful trip, although that was somewhat discolored by the tsunami tragedy that...
Dear friends, Tonight, I will be setting off for Jakarta for 3 days of road trip to Bandung, Indonesia's 4th largest city in the West Java Highlands. Have...
On the eve of Eid al-Adha – the Feast of Sacrifice during which Muslims commemorate Prophet Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of his son to Allah – I flew to...
My long awaited Hainan story... here's part 1 of 5... Hainan: The Island of Paradise And Hell - My Own Family Saga Hainan, a sub-tropical island province in...
To read the Chinese characters, please switch the settings of your browser to View-Encoding-Unicode. ========= Eastern Hainan: The Vicious Empress And Women...
Sanya & South of Hainan: Edge Of The World, No More I traveled across to the island’s southern edge, to the beach resort city of Sanya[1], which recently...
Wuzhishan: Faux Tribals & Being Politically Incorrect From Sanya, we went inland towards the central highlands of Hainan. The multiple lane highway of...
Wenchang: Chicken Rice In Land of The Revolutionary Sisters I returned to Taijia Village after three days in Sanya. Dad and I decided to visit the ancestral...
Once upon a time, a boy saved a crocodile and in return for the favour, he brought the boy round the world on its back. When the crocodile dies, its body grew...
Dear All, Greetings from Ubud, Bali. I came here on Tuesday after a great time in Timor Leste. This small country of 800,000 inhabitants was the brief subject...
Dear All, I have just submitted my resignation from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and my last day at work will be 18 May 2005. I will at a later date...
Onward to Northern China: A New Career Adventure Just after midnight today I will be embarking on a new adventure in my life. I bade farewell to my colleagues...
The Bund, Tortoises, and Wild KTVs Every time I am about to dial an external phone line, I am tempted to hit 7 instead of 9. How time flies! It’s almost a...
Dear Friends, Sorry, but I have some really boring admin matters here: 1) Bruce Chatwin’s books Have I lent Bruce Chatwin’s books to any of you? I’m...
In Henan last week and Beijing now. The Mid-autumn festival is a much more important festival in northern China and treated as an occasion for family unions....
It's the month of natural disasters. Closer to Singapore is the greatest typhoon affecting Hainan, China, in over 30 years. Hainan, where I visited end of...
Dear all, Greetings from Dubai! After a travel hiatus - I mean leisure travel - lasting 6 months (long by his standards), Wee Cheng is finally off again for...
Dear all, About a week after I returned from the Gulf, I hopped onto a Silkair flight to Kuching, capital of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. Sarawak,...
Dear All, Some of you have asked about my December Gulf trip. I have lots to say about that trip but have little time to do a full-fledge writeup. Will take...
Here's the 1st instalment of my long overdue Gulf travelogue: Kuwait: A Cybercafé Called Diana Visa counter at Kuwait International Airport. Kuwait used to...
Bahrain: A Love Hotel in Dilmun According to Enki and Ninhursaga, creation legend of the Mesopotamians who live in what is today Iraq, also the world's oldest...
In 2003, I got to know a beautiful Polish lady, Kinga, and her partner, Chopin. Both were adventurous travellers who have seen much of the world, not in the...
Dear All, I’m about to set off for Japan after concluding my company’s Annual General Meeting yesterday – my first since becoming the company’s CFO....
Kyoto in summer. Anicent temples wet and gloom Where is rising sun? Haiku, a celebrated Japanese poetry form with 11 syllables in 5-7-5 format, was invented in...
Around Japan: The Sun, the Rain and the War Sunny Hokkaido; Clear streams, pretty mountains, flowers; Homewards, rain caught up. Greetings from Hakodate,...
Found huge box of my long forgotten world souvenir (aka junk) collection; while searching for an old laptop which is more likely junk: A 2003 issue of Asia...
Fairly busy now. A quick short account on my recent visit to the Nine Dragon Mountain Temple ¾ÅÁúɽ in Anyang, Henan Province, northern China. Anyang,...
Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon After a hiatus of a few months – of course not counting a short weekend trip to Phuket – I will be heading for Bhutan...
Wee Cheng’s Bhutan youtubed! Dear All, Back from beautiful Bhutan last weekend. An amazingly beautiful country with Alphine landscapes, photogenic people,...
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