A sweet famous singer friend of mine called me up and she asked me, “So, been anywhere exotic lately?” “I dunno. Does Kuching sound exotic to you?” “Yes, it does! You went there recently?” “Yeah, I went for the Rainforest World Music Festival.” “Oh man… I’ve always wanted to go there!!! Ariel, let’s swap jobs.” [...]

Early this week I returned from Kuching and now I’m packing again for a weekend away. I love the travelling. The meeting of new faces. Learning something new everyday. I don’t think I can get used to a desk bound job anymore. It takes a while to adjust to coming back to the office when [...]

It’s my fourth day in Kuching and third day at Rainforest World Music Festival. It’s been such an enriching experience thus far. Mingling with the performers – these World Music musicians are so down-to-earth, friendly and approachable! It’s such a joy to be able to learn about their music and culture – especially from performers [...]

More and more people I know and love are considering migrating to Aussieland. Why? Why? Why? No other place to go meh? I’ve already ‘lost’ many a good friend to that mammoth land. Call me The Immovable Rock of Gibraltar but I don’t see why one should uproot themselves from all that they know and [...]

A buffalo in its jacuzzi Heh, that’s one of my favourite subjects in my Bakelalan/Kalimantan trip. A buffalo wallowing happily in his jacuzzi mud bath. I went a little buffalo-crazy then, snapping them with my baby every time I spot one. And there were plenty of them about the place. Many were tied loosely behind [...]

It was 8.26am. I parked my car, don on my sandals, grabbed my bags and scrabbled out of my car in record time. Half-sprinting and half-walking, I reached the front door of my office building. There I met the eyes of several other colleagues – we all shared the same near-panicked look. Comrades in the [...]