A reminder that even while traveling in distant places, school is still on the mind. Over the past five months, I’ve been working on the History/Social Studies standards committee for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. It’s been inspiring work. Here’s your chance to see if it resulted in inspired work. Public comment on [...]
My last night here in Siem Reap before flying out to Bankok tomorrow–it’s been all that I could have hoped for in a short visit, one that I luckily was able to squeeze in at the last minute! Goes to show you that as much as you want to plan the itinerary in advance, it’s [...]
Just finished uploading the pictures from the day to my computer, and you really get the sense of how long and stretched (in a good way) a day can be. From that first picture of the pre-dawn boarding of the Air Asia flight in Kuala Lumpur to the final one of night street scenes in [...]
Last day in Kuala Lumpur and glad to have spent the day with cousin A-K as we went visited the administrative capital of Malaysia (with its modern bridges, buildings and washingtonian-layout. The main government masjid there was particularly impressive, being the fourth largest in Malaysia, with its rising spires and the roundness of the central [...]
Monday July 27th, 2009 8:30 AM Getting ready for a day visiting Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, with my cousin A-K, older brother of my cousin Y-K from Singapore. Driving from Ipoh to K.L yesterday, there was a clear sense that this is a place that mixes the modern and traditional really well. Or [...]
Saturday July 25, 2009 11:50 AM There’s something so pleasant to be in the comfortable and fan-cooled home of your uncle and aunt—after a good morning of some good kuew teow (noodle dish) with sweetened ice coffee, some market shopping, and getting the chance to pay respects to the resting place of your maternal grandparents. [...]
Thursday July 23rd 11PM Friendly Encounters in Penang, Malaysia For the first time, without free internet access here as I bed down in the northwest coastal area of Teluk Bahang on Penang island, in what feels to me like a perfect Malaysian countryside ambience…courtesy of my overnight stay at Miss Lo’s guest house. With the [...]
If you haven’t noticed yet, it seems that finding good, accessible wireless access is not really much of a problem at all so far… (lucky for this, my first online trip journal experience). Am very happily showered and cooled down after a full afternoon and evening in Penang, Malaysia. Very much a backpacker visited place [...]
Can I tell you that I now understand why KFC is so popular in Asia? Always filled with school aged kids, young adults and people dressed in business clothes alike… kind of like fast food plus—a Starbucks kind of place where you get food, and then you hang around for a bit. The air conditioning [...]
Arrival in Bangkok, Thailand
You know when you’ve crossed national borders when you open up Google and you see this. How’s that for a truly international presence? A low key travel day today going from Cambodia to Thailand, mostly eased by the pickup of good friend S. here in Bangkok with whom I shared an apartment at graduate school. [...]