Malaysia

Photo of the Day: The National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur

June 15, 2011

The Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur is one of my favourite museums in the world. I was in KL last year for several weeks in transit to India. Unfortunately, my Indian visa didn’t come through soon enough to enable me to head to Kerala as planned. My first real contact with Islam came a […]






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KL food pics

January 28, 2010

A follow-up to my KL food post! Durian. Mmmmm strange strange strange durian! Buy durian by the weight! Lok Lok cart (a.k.a. street kebab cart)






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KL

January 26, 2010

[Finally!  Access to my Flickr account!  This after a week of emails and crying on the phone with Yahoo people.  You guys, don’t EVER forget the answers to your own security questions, otherwise you have no hope in hell of gaining access to whatever account you’re locked out off!  Yeesh!] Below are some pictures from […]






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The Islamic Arts Museum in KL

January 22, 2010

Yesterday, I spent three hours at the Islamic Arts Museum here in KL.  I think it’s my favourite museum of all time.  It’s tiny but beautiful.  What I love about it and why I like it more than the crazy big beautiful museums in Europe (like the British Museum, for example) is that I learned […]






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Random tidbits about Asia

January 19, 2010

Sometimes I am guilty of taking Asia for granted.  Because I remember a lot of my early childhood from the Philippines (we lived there till I was 5), much of the scenery and culture in Asia feels familiar to me.  We spent weekends in the province among rice fields and bamboo cottages.  We pumped water […]






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