fire dancers, sand and light sculptures, paper lanterns swaying in the breeze, chori burgers and wood fire burned pizzas washed down with margaritas and mojitos …
a couple of tipsy sisters at the end of every white beach night …
Always had this fantasy of walking the stretch of White Beach in short shorts and a bikini top.
Well, yesterday, I did! Along with Naya, home from Toronto.
We’re living on the quiet end of Boracay’s beach, in a resort with a wide expanse of empty white sand in front of it. We’ve been walking aimlessly, eating amazing meals, taking [...]
The Delhi airport doesn’t have a smoking lounge. My mother was shocked to discover this after we’d finally completed their tedious check-in process. She could have suffered in silence. But being her, she charmed the military men standing guard at the airport into letting her back out again … through all the security checks … just so she could have [...]
The iconic Taj Mahal shot …
Ma holds the Taj in her hand …
Mother and daughter finally together in India …
And the legendary love story …
Mumtaz Mahal was a beautiful, sharp-witted girl, who sold silk in the local market. Shah Jahan was the young, soon to be Emperor, who fell madly in love with her. And married her [...]
Indian women look like tropical flowers … typically seen worn on the same day: a saffron colored sari with tomato red prints combined with an aqua scarf, beaded gold shoes and pink bindi.
The pop music the Indians listen to, that many use as their cellphone ringtones, is as equally loud and happy.
All sorts of animals [...]
Found myself in the middle of a disco crammed with bodies from wall to wall sometime early this morning. The scene was of testosterone and smoke, drunken strangers dirty dancing and a very loud DJ whose vocabulary was limited to “whoah!” “ah!” and “motherfucker!” (I kid you not!)
Man, was it ever trippy to be there!
The night started out very quietly, [...]
New Year to me always meant watching fireworks from our 14th floor window … making noise in every corner of the house to drive evil spirits away … frying thick slices of ham in a bit of brown sugar and eating them with pan de sal and Queensland butter right after midnight. Yum.
I always believed if I spent New Year at home, I’d [...]
I want to hug Nick Ray, the Lonely Planet Cambodia author, for recommending the most romantic resort I have ever had the luck to live in. Le Residence d’ Angkor is gorgeous in its simplicity. No obvious facade from the outside, no fancy lobby, no tour groups. But the so-called ordinary room I stayed in was decorated in thai silk and [...]
a cloudy Angkor Wat sunrise …
a temple hole I whispered a wish into …
head in the sky …
cooling down by the lily pond …
amok fish for lunch …
the little vendor who wouldn’t give up …
a stone-gobbling tree …
steep steps up to Pre Rup that I climbed to shoot the sunset …
prettiest sunset, ironically shot [...]
