That Time I was on TV..Start Something Big
On Having Your Blog on Television, Getting Your Heart Ripped out of Your Chest and Working That Artsy Dream JobOh god, I've been so embarrassed to post this (that's why it's taken me a year). Hell, I'm...
View ArticleIndie Guide Jakarta: Vintage Shopping Pasar Senen
Shitty Blogger Apology + Vintage Threads in Jakarta Town How about we just pretend that it hasn't been SIX MONTHS since my blog post? I feel like a deadbeat dad, a runaway lover, a sad excuse for the...
View ArticleIndie Guide Indonesia: Volcano Trekking Rinjani
7 Things to Know Before Kicking Mount Rinjani's AssI'm basically Jon Snow. The Wildling mount of THE WALL was analogous to my 2640 metre vertical hike up Mount Rinjani, which was fraught with humid air...
View ArticleJakarta Vintage Threads in Toronto
Fall Frolicking with my Studly Bro I have a lot of bad things to say about the polluted stink hole that Jakarta can be. But one thing I can't hate on is the vintage shopping there (which I write...
View ArticleIndie Guide Indonesia: Where to Live in Jakarta
The (Brief) Jakarta Apartment Guide for Young Groovy ExpatsWho needs Bali when you live in a place like this?! Jakarta Residence..my home. As you read through this, you may be sensing a slight...
View ArticleA Brief History of Guyana and Good Bye Toronto
First Generation Problems slash Why My Family Hates My LifeMy Guyanese family, especially my grandparents, are surprisingly the biggest brand ambassadors of Canada. Though they have visited three of...
View ArticleKoh Samet: Weekend Bangkok Escape and Political Turmoil
Cheapest and Quickest Way to Get to the Beach and out of the Political Shitstorm of Bangkok!!Too much sexy to handle in Koh Samet. Look out Tinder!Need a quick weekend escape from a city that is in the...
View ArticleWhere to Buy a Turkey in Bangkok or How I Battled this Big Ass Bird and Won
Happy Thanksgiving, Bangkok!I'm delighted to report that it is not excessively hard to find a turkey in Bangkok for Thanksgiving, as I discovered for my Canadian Thanksgiving party feast I had in...
View ArticleIndie Guide Thailand: Catamaran Party around Bangkok
How to Escape Bangkok for a Day: Ballin' Boat Party in Pattaya !You know what has always made me jealous of my friends living in Hong Kong? Mind-erasing boat parties. When I heard about the libertine...
View ArticleVintage Shopping in Jakarta and the New Wave of Indonesia's Hipsterpreneurs
Vintage Shopping in Jakarta and the New Wave of Indonesia's HipsterpreneursAfter almost two years buried away in Bangkok (doing that whole young professional thing in tech startups), I am updating my...
View ArticleHiking Ontario: Hamilton Waterfalls & Spencer Gorge Toronto Day Trip
Orgasm for the eyes, yawn-worthy for the thighs Day Trips from Toronto - Homeboy Steve & I's "Staycation" After travelling Thailand's electricity free mountain villages with my old uni friend to...
View ArticleIndie Guide Bangkok: Wonderfruit Music Festival 2015 and
When people ask if I enjoyed Wonderfruit , I just heave a deep sigh and look at my half-polished nails in shame. It's not that I didn't enjoy the music art festival (Southeast Asia's fresh, less...
View ArticleIndie Guide to Best Non-Tourist Restaurants in Bangkok
29 years of earth dwelling was cause for these crazy kids to fly in from Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta to celebrate. I was responsible for their culinary odyssey.One of the greatest advantages of...
View ArticleWhy I Decided to Do 10 Days of Silence in India: Vipassana Jaipur
How Jim Carrey, Roses and the US Foreign Service Convinced Me to MeditateThe first time I heard about meditation, it was in this philosophical film. A pillar in my young life, really.I spent my life...
View ArticleIndie Guide Thailand: Koh Phangan and Full Moon Party
Koh Phangan: The Non-Douchebag's Guide to the Land of ViceThanks to Leo and Tilda Swinton, Koh Phangan was seriously ruined for a good 10 years of my life. Richard's hate-fille assessment of the...
View ArticleFemale Travel in India or How to Be a Big Idiot Your First Time
After grinding the corporate stone for three years in the tech startup scene of Southeast Asia, I decided to take time off to pursue an MBA (spoiler alert: didn't go). But my first order of business...
View ArticleGraffiti in Indonesia: #throwback Interview with Artist Wormo (2012)
There were many things that frustrated me to hell about my time as fresh grad in Indonesia: the typical traffic jams, poor public infrastructure, and lack of green spaces in Jakarta, but its art...
View ArticleIndie Guide to Singapore: Nightlife as a Youngish Adult
Introduction: From Graduate to Real Human AdultWhen I first wrote as a fresh International Relations 23 year old grad, Singapore was at best disappointing and at worst a sterile Asian Disney World with...
View ArticleIndie Guide Thailand: Koh Phi Phi
Backpacking the Islands: Drink your Face off in Paradise Is Phi Phi for Me (Me)? There are only 3 reasons to come to the Thai island of Koh Phi Phi. You either want to a) rip yourself off with...
View ArticleIndie Guide to Berlin Nightlife
Berlinsanity: 3 Badass Clubs to Check Out or How my French University Rocked the Lederhosen off Germany To be honest, I wouldn't want to visit Berlin at all. This is one of the few cities along with...
View ArticleIndie Guide Jakarta Arts: Salihara Theater
Finding the Art Scene in Jakarta with this Hip, Cozy Theater Hey everyone, this post is a celebration to having discovered something mildly cool in Jakarta called Salihara Theater. This is a neat...
View ArticleHow to Manage Stress for Free in New York City
I had a lot of feelings come up when I moved from Singapore to New York, albeit temporarily. One feeling was insane excitement to be surrounded by the world's BEST (so excited I did a political flash...
View ArticleOn Human Connection and Life Abroad - 5 Lessons
One hungover Sunday in Bangkok while equipping myself with the fundamentals of Latin such as ad fondum (bottoms up) and nunc est bibendum (now we drink), I came across some serious wisdom nuggets from...
View ArticleVipassana Meditation in India - 10 Days of Hell and Bliss
Damn, I wrote this in 2016 when I was fresh out of this insane 10 day retreat of absolute silence - The OG of the dopamine fast that is being touted in Silicon Valley. It's been sitting in draft form...
View ArticleLA sucks, until it blows open your soul
Random essay plus old tips from a friend Growing up a tomboy, I learned to mock an air-headed valley girl accent before I even knew where said valley was. Embarrassingly, the reputation of cali's...
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