It now looks like we left Syd­ney at the right time, because she’s got flash floods and thun­der­storms resem­bling Sin­ga­pore and Malaysia in December.

But really, though, there isn’t ever a good time to leave Syd­ney. I spent nine good years from 1992 — 2000, and ten days there […]

Patchy inter­net over here. Where?

Some call it the lucky coun­try. It is, quite. Blessed with amaz­ing flora and fauna, and though girt by sea, it is a very, very big place.

Prob­a­bly the best day of our Shang­hai trip came when we per­sisted in going out for a walk despite the pissy weather, hav­ing had the best laid plans of vis­it­ing the ghetto and other his­tor­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant places dashed by the rain and not know­ing before­hand that a Shang­hainese wedding […]

I think I brought the rain here. It hasn’t stopped since I arrived, and it doesn’t look like stop­ping before I leave.

So much for the highly antic­i­pated self-guided walk­ing tour of this grand city, which, at the moment, looks like a scene out of Bladerun­ner: Rain, neon bill­boards, fly­ing taxis (well, […]

Fleeing

Details in a bit…

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Trav­el­ling to KL on a whim was always going to run the risk of us get­ting worked up over lit­tle things like traf­fic jams, pol­lu­tion, and won­der­ing what’s so dif­fer­ent about KL from Sin­ga­pore that we had to spend most of the week­end try­ing to get there.

But when you’re […]

One of the very large dents. I would have sub­mit­ted this to STomp! but they’re full of pho­tos of cars with dents already.

It’s funny how smooth the roads are these days, just because the IMF and World Bank cir­cus was in town recently.

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