Here are stories from my wanderings in Saigon and other places.Goli sodaJan 14, 2024The girl with the fixed lens cameraJan 8, 2024Another favorite bookstore - Bookworm HanoiDec 26, 2023Small things, mostly (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)Dec 13, 2023The trusty travel companionDec 11, 2023Please don’t hurry my orderNov 5, 2023The old backpacker neighbourhood of BangkokOct 15, 2023The greatest time in modern history (China, Vietnam)Sep 25, 2023Favourite alley along Sukhumvit rdAug 20, 2023Phnom Penh of 1990s (Bangkok)Aug 7, 2023Bangkok’s book streetAug 6, 2023AirportsAug 2, 2023William (movie)Jul 16, 2023Waiting for the Chairman (Singapore)May 19, 2023More banh mi than Vietnam (Singapore)Apr 23, 2023Nothing else but wordsApr 3, 2023A return to the North (Chiang Mai, Thailand)Mar 5, 2023I only came to read the book (Singapore)Jan 30, 2023New year’s ritual in JapanJan 1, 2023The waiting room cat at Choshi (Japan)Dec 30, 2022The neighbour (Saigon)Dec 22, 2022The land of million elephants (Lao)Dec 20, 2022A new hiding place in Vientiane (Lao)Dec 16, 2022Alley kids in VientianeDec 10, 2022I love Hanoi, but only in the wintersDec 5, 2022A week in Mangalore (India)Nov 19, 2022Remembering the cutest bookseller (Burma)Nov 12, 2022Imagining people’s lives in little alleys (Saigon)Nov 10, 2022For a free giraffe (Saigon)Nov 1, 2022The Long Bar at Raffles Hotel (Singapore)Oct 20, 2022iPhone photography in my once home (Saigon)Sep 30, 2022Music from a lost age (Cambodia)Jul 28, 2022Holland Village (Singapore)Jul 22, 2022Why I love SaigonJul 2, 2022It was good knowing ChinaJun 21, 2022RageJun 17, 2022Rice rolls from HueMay 1, 2022Forgetting as a defenceDec 17, 2021Travelogues and travels (Vietnam)Dec 2, 2021Postage stamps (Saigon)Dec 1, 2021Racism as a predictive model (book)Nov 2, 2021Large dark object that makes familiar sounds (Singapore)Oct 20, 2021The bus to MalaysiaSep 29, 2021A certain city called iPoh (Malaysia)Feb 2, 2021The little phone (Vietnam)Feb 2, 2021Favourite bookstores in South East AsiaOct 2, 2020A return to ShanghaiJan 2, 2020Come undone in 2019, using iPad onlyDec 12, 2019All those wars (Hanoi)Nov 14, 2019Travels with the Korean fishOct 16, 2019The precious (Saigon)Oct 2, 2019Cindy and banh beo (Saigon)Aug 12, 2019Is there an Ahp inside? (Cambodia)Apr 30, 2019The kitten that rescued us (Saigon)Mar 19, 2019Golden Mile, the Thai building in SingaporeMar 16, 2019Peeping into IndiaFeb 3, 2019The hiding place in BangkokJan 9, 2019Hello stinky tofu (Taiwan)Jan 2, 2019Asia Overland, perhaps the best travel guidebook everJul 7, 2018I am a cat and I love your city (Jakarta, Indonesia)Nov 10, 2018Such a cute (Japan)Nov 2, 2018Little friends in ChinaOct 18, 2018White boost in Pekanbaru (Indonesia)Sep 2, 2018Saigon, 1975Apr 26, 2018The villa at 176 Pasteur (Saigon)Apr 2, 2018Okroshka in coastal VietnamFeb 20, 2018Came for the ghosts, stayed back for the view (Saigon)Jan 11, 2018A new Korean idol (Saigon)Nov 30, 2017Amplified dog barkOct 10, 2017Free wi-fi in Saigon alleysOct 1, 2017I am home (Saigon)Sep 30, 2017Always wander into the alley in SaigonAug 17, 2017Letting go of the fear of lessMay 30, 2017All you have to do is exist (Saigon)May 9, 2017The Turtle lake in SaigonMar 5, 2017A face in the crowd (Hanoi)Dec 16, 2016A tangle of wires (Saigon)Nov 24, 2016Surviving a shave (Saigon)Oct 22, 2016Takoyaki laments (Saigon)May 20, 2016Shocking Pink (Burma)May 4, 2016The cutest bookseller in the world (Burma)May 4, 2016Down by the Mekong delta (Can Tho, Vietnam)Apr 12, 2016SleepMar 23, 2016Exploring ethnic enclaves in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)Mar 1, 2016An odd god (Cambodia)Sep 17, 2015Home is where I have a library card (Saigon)Aug 30, 2015A hidden Japanese curry shop in SaigonJul 28, 2015China’s coming war with Asia, I am ready to defectJul 1, 2015The love of free food (Malaysia)Jul 1, 2015The raid (Johor, Malaysia)Apr 28, 2015The jackfruit and other naughty poemsApr 23, 2015The lost art of leaving notes (Singapore)Dec 12, 2014Inventing the kimchi dosaAug 17, 2014Takadanobaba, the Little Burma of TokyoAug 10, 2014The tyranny of expertsJul 12, 2014Skirts (Thailand)May 11, 2014Critical thinking but within boundariesApr 23, 2014Food is just an excuseApr 5, 2014The reader (Saigon)Mar 14, 2014Thinker, watcher, knitter, spyMar 10, 2014The last days of Zone 9Jan 1, 2014Chemistry lessons in rural JavaMay 30, 2013The thing that flows in your blood over here (Indonesia)May 27, 2013Looking for the Philippines in SingaporeMar 15, 2013Come undone, iPad as the primary work deviceOct 4, 2012The caravanserai (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)Nov 21, 2011Traveling with an outdated guidebookNov 17, 2011The Wikireader - for the one who wants to know too muchMar 13, 2011An afternoon in Hoi AnNov 28, 2009If things and places could tell stories (Kyoto, Japan)Apr 4, 2008Bandrek in Bandung (Indonesia)Jan 2, 2008The stick men of Chongqing (China)Apr 23, 2007Summers in BurmaMay 23, 20061970s Thai FashionApr 3, 2005The RamayanaNov 1, 2005Heaven my blanket, Earth my pillowSep 4, 2005What does Bondegi taste like?Jul 30, 200588 and 521, bye bye and I love youApr 15, 2005A strong miss (China)Apr 10, 2005Why I love BurmaApr 9, 2005Naughty stuff in ChengduJan 5, 2005We were playing war gamesJan 5, 2005Ibn Battuta and nostalgia (Singapore)Oct 2, 2004To make a little girl smile (Thailand)Aug 12, 2004Sometimes, it is good to tell a lie (China)Mar 11, 2004Special feelings in ChengduFeb 17, 2004The lantern city (China)Jan 4, 2004Under the deep blue Mongolian skySep 27, 2003Mutton soup in the ancient capital (China)Sep 20, 2003Taking the wrong bus (Korea)Jun 20, 2003For a glimpse of BurmaJun 15, 2003Chairman Mao was a good boy (Changsha, China)Mar 8, 2003Close shave in ShanghaiDec 15, 2002The world in her eyes (Indonesia)Nov 22, 2002The island of mystery and magic (The Philippines)Mar 16, 2002The Áo dài calendar (Hanoi)Dec 23, 2001Time to go back (Lao)Dec 12, 2001The Vietnamese dub (Nha Trang, Vietnam)Dec 10, 2001Silly poems in high TibetSep 12, 2001I want to stay (Burma)Jun 10, 2001Across the Irrawaddy (Burma)May 4, 2001Childhood musicOct 17, 2000
