Perth bound

OK people. I am going to be extremely busy tonight and tomorrow, so I may not be able to reply to emails or text messages. Thanks for your well wishes – I’ll catch up with some of you in June when I get back from the States. Until you hear from me (in Los Angeles,…

5 Jan 2008 (backdated post) We arrived at the lovely Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, which is comparable to our own Changi Airport in terms of efficiency and modern facilities. We cleared immigration quickly… and then spent over half an hour waiting for our tour guide, who was at the wrong block and couldn’t find us. We…

Woke up at 5am this morning and my relatives drove me for breakfast, then to the airport. The only problem is the food took a little longer to arrive than expected, then the rush hour traffic piled up. Also, we thought 30 minutes was enough to get through but turns out I had to check…

Prior to this Mediterranean cruise, I’ve only been on Star Cruises covering Southeast Asia. As you can imagine I’ve seen enough of ugly Singaporeans and other Asians grabbing food at buffets and letting their kids run amok. You may be relieved to hear these behaviour traits are not entirely exclusive to us Asians. When things…

It’s been a while since I wrote something here. I’ve been busy. In several hours’ time I will head to Shanghai for a holiday. It will be chilly but hopefully fun. Will write more when I’m there, if the internet connection’s working and we’re not being charged an exorbitant fee.

My hotel room’s high-speed internet connection didn’t work when I got back past midnight today (we were at the uber cool Fray Cafe storytelling sessions – check out my pics in Flickr.com). I called the helpline and it turns out there was a problem with the hotel’s internet connection, not my laptop. Thank God. I…