Happy New Year from Borneo: Gangnam Style!
December 31, 2012 in Asia, Malaysia
I don’t know if I’ve seen anything much funnier than a wharf full of tipsy Asian people ringing in the new year in a writhing dissonant mass to “Gangnam Style.” […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Bus Trip Brunei to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: How to
December 31, 2012 in Asia, Brunei, Inspiration, Malaysia, Travelogue
If you’re just casually following our blog then this post may or may not be of interest to you. But if you’re a traveler, specifically a traveler who is interested […]
Brunei Mosques & My Potential Conversion to Islam
December 30, 2012 in Asia, Brunei
At 9:30 a.m. the temperature hovered around 95F/35C. The sun beat down on the pavement and reflected so brightly that we were squinting, under our sunglasses. Hannah and I wore […]
Negara Brunei Darussalam: We’re In A Country You Haven’t Heard Of
December 29, 2012 in Asia, Brunei, Travelogue
Negara Brunei Darussalam We’re in a country you haven’t heard of. Or, if you have heard of it, you’d be hard pressed to find it on a map. It’s a […]
Kampong Ayer, Brunei: Or, what to do during the zombie apocalypse
December 29, 2012 in Asia, Brunei
“This is so weird, Mom… there’s nobody here… it’s like… the zombie apocalypse or something…” The streets of central Bandar Seri Begawan were completely empty. An eerie quiet had replaced […]
Brunei Darussalam: First Impressions
December 27, 2012 in Asia, Brunei
Sometimes it takes a real fail to appreciate how good something is. That pretty much sums up our first dinner experience in Bandar Seri Begawan. It could be argued that […]
Sarawak Cultural Village: An overview of Borneo’s people groups
December 24, 2012 in Asia, Inspiration, Malaysia, Travelogue
If not for the GPS we would have been solidly lost trying to find Sarawak Cultural Village. There were no signs whatsoever until we were with a kilometer of the […]
Lambir Hills National Park: Snakes, Leeches & Nutmeg!
December 23, 2012 in Asia, Malaysia, Travelogue
The jungles of Borneo are everything I’d hoped for: Dense tangles of green that cast shadows in sixty shades of verdant grey, alive with the sounds of birds and bugs […]
The Niah Caves: in which I take my clothes off in the jungle.
December 22, 2012 in Asia, Malaysia, Travelogue
I’ve done a lot of things in my life that I never thought I’d do, but stripping my clothes off and showering in a jungle waterfall in a monsoon rain […]
Language acquisition on the road and ESL opportunities.
December 20, 2012 in Inspiration
I can never remember a time in my world where there were not at least three languages woven in and out of daily life. Being raised in Canada, I learned […]
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