Travel Notes: Kuala Lumpur (note: if you don’t know who I’m talking about in this post, read this one first) China behind me, I landed in Kuala Lumpur on Friday afternoon, April 13, 2012. Fraternity brother and lifelong friend Kishore Suppiah ZK 727 picked me up from the airport in his sporty new white Kia …
Making Rounds
I’ve come to Malaysia from Hong Kong and China where I didn’t know anyone and felt pretty isolated in a big, foreign, unfamiliar place. While I met some good friends, figured things out and got along just fine, I certainly didn’t have any ground support personnel - I was on my own. Not the case …
Travel Notes: Hong Kong and China
As stoked as I was to be in the US, it was almost worse stopping back home for ten days. It was hard to leave the friends, culture and comforts and home, knowing that this time I’m really not coming back for nine more months. I tried to rally the excitement but it just wasn’t …
Coffee Break
For those who noticed my check-in on facebook at SFO, there was no small bit of surprise and puzzlement as to why I was apparently in California. I was lucky enough to make a ten day detour back to the homeland for a family reunion in Hawaii and my sister’s wedding in Napa. Tokyo-San Francisco-Kona-San …
Travel Notes: 10 Years Later
Tokyo I lived in Japan for seven weeks during a study abroad program in college. It was the summer of 2002 and I was 20 years old. During my time there I took intensive Japanese language courses all day every day for my first two weeks, after which, in an immersive learning experience, I was …
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