In an attempt to get my mojo back, I impulsively bought bus tickets from Brunei to Miri in Sarawak, Malaysia for this year’s Chinese New Year weekend. Rewind to one weekend before this. I spent the whole day locked up in the hotel room and in between wolfing down breakfast and grudgingly walking down the road to find dinner, I laid in bed doing utterly nothing, alternating between sleeping and mindlessly staring at the TV. The day ended with me
Author: Ruby
I am going to go ahead and self-diagnose. This must be how homesickness feels like. In the midst of this stump I’m in and instead of wallowing in this so-called sadness, I have resolved to turn things around and put this into good, and hopefully, constructive use. I will start by saying that the guy who first said “Be careful what you wish for” was a genius. You see, I have always wanted to experience working outside my home country,
Tired as we were from flying in late, we woke up to the first ring of the alarm and took the free breakfast from Saigon Backpackers Hostel. First we ventured into the backstreets near Pham Ngu Lao to find a decent foreign exchange but believe the travel forums when they tell you to go straight to the gold jewelry stores. They do not have neon-blinking lights with their published rates but they offer the best, so go ahead and ask. Armed
Sometimes you just want to sit and enjoy the easy life, never mind the price tag that comes with it. That was exactly what I thought when we boarded the cab from Danang Airport to Hoi An. Taking the bus will only take 1USD but who knows when the next bus will come our way? Hailing a cab was so much easier, only it comes with a meter. And so there we were in the backseat with our eager
I’m a few days late from all the yearender and 2013 kickoff posts.The New Year is the perfect time to romanticize life and be cheesy. Kidding. 🙂 Though I am not a fan of New Year’s Resolutions, I do love looking back and seeing how the year went. I look back not to scrutinize and redo things in my head, but only to be reminded how fantastic 2012 was. Despite the low points that I’ve mostly brought upon myself, 2012