We woke up mega early at 5:30am to head down to Muara Angke Harbour. This will be our first island adventure! Just North of Jakarta are a series of island (pulau means island in Indonesian) referred to as the Thousand Islands. It’s a popular destination for a day or weekend […]
Jakarta may seem like a city of all bustle and no play. But if give it a chance, you’ll find that even this city of 10 million has its charm.
During my years as an undergraduate at University of Guelph, I enrolled in a course entitled Theatre Cultures (THST 3540). In it we examined a really fascinating form of shadow puppet theatre called Wayang Kulit (translated literally as: puppets made from [buffalo] skin). This form of ancient puppetry originated in […]
Only after a 15 hour flight to Taipei followed by flying another 4 and a half hours, we landed in the grand lion city of Singapore! A little caught off guard by the heat and humidity, it was a great help that my uncle was at the airport to pick […]
These pictures are probably worth more than a thousand words. Today’s trip to Har Paw Villa in Singapore made no sense. This bizarre post-apocalyptic abandoned theme park had a very strange flavour about it.