Some 30 years ago, when my relatives from China visited us, they were glued to our TV sets. They loved our Chinese drama serials. They remarked that there was nothing so “realistic” in China. Thanks to the very down-to-earth plots and situations, our Chinese dramas attracted a huge following in China. When crossing the Khunjerab […]
It’s better late than never, but it’s still with regret that I only managed to visit Indonesia for the first time in 1993. I was already 29 with not that many years remaining to go on adventure trips – or so I thought. I remember that was an ambitious trip, spanning the length of Pulau […]
Last night, I had a dream. I was climbing Gunung Sindoro in Central Java and I was on the pre-dawn summit assault, scrambling in the dark up a precipitous slope of loose rock and gravel when I noticed a elderly gentleman climbing beside me. When I was about to pass him, he slipped and cried […]
There would usually be about 5 or 6 flags displayed on these neighbouring blocks a week or two before National Day, but if displaying the flag has anything to do with patriotism, then my neighbours must have suddenly become less patriotic. Perhaps that’s not the case. How could one suddenly love one’s country less? We […]