Apart from doing some travelling in Cambodia, I will be on a 10-day YMCA missionary project with a group of Citibanker volunteers. During this period, we will be teaching the English language to a group of youths in the Boys Brigade Learning Centre (BBLC) and to complete a section of road building across the village where BBLC is located. A 6-hour bus ride from Bangkok brings Lin and I to the Cambodian border at Poipet. It was dusty and sweltering under the extreme heat. We have been pre-warned about the bad road condition from Poipet to Siem Reap, and a bus [View Full Entry]

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Day 1: Kanchanaburi Province "Sorry," muttered the taxi driver as he made a reverse down the freeway (!!!) as he had missed the exit. This is the first time I see someone doing a reverse down a freeway. As he made the exit, he went past the road that we had passed by earlier. That was when we realised that we might have been scammed!!! We suspected that he had made a U-ee earlier to deliberately make a big roundabout before we could get to the bus station. We ended up paying quite a bit for this.. plus there was an [View Full Entry]

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Trying not to wrinkle my nose when I passed by a particularly stinky toilet stall, I reminded myself that I'd better appreciate every little thing that I've taken granted for, flushable toilets, availability of toilet paper, warm showers, clean drinking water at a turn of a tap, clean bed.. and the list goes on. For tomorrow, I would be embarking on a 1-2 year long journey away from everything that I am comfortable with. This shall no doubt be a journey full of wonders and full of learning experiences. However, deciding to leave everything behind hadn't been easy. For months, my [View Full Entry]

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