Blogs from Asia - page 14782

firstly, i will give you a brief background about myself......i am ricky, from cebu.....i was teaching in USC when i first heard that i was accepted for a study grant in the Netherlands....so in August 1998, for the first time in my life, i set foot in a foreign country.....i stayed there for 2 years to complete my MSc in Biochemical Engineering in Delft Technical University..... To make the story shorter, it was a school-house-school scenario for the first year until i began to assimilate into the dutch society....i made friends (enemies too..hahaha) and maybe the whole Filipino community...... When i finished my MSc, i had to go back to USC to return service.....but the urge to seek for greener pasture was more overwhelming than returning service.....I left again in November 2001.......but this time in Maastricht, ... read more

I decided to come to Cambodia with Stephanie and Gemma, two English girls I met in Pai. Ok I heard the road from the Thai border into Cambodia was bad but you can't even dream up a "road" like that. It would have been smoother to drive across the rice fields. The journey took 5 hours from Bangkok to the border, on an air-conditioned bus with reclining seats. Then at the Cambodian border we got ripped off on our visitors visa and paid 40 dollars which we later learned was double price. Next we hop on a small bus that looked like it was suitable for transporting live pigs. No air conditioning. I thought Thailand was as hot as it gets but trust me Cambodia is almost unbearable. The ride was uncomfortable to say the least. ... read more

Having heard great things about this place and also from reading up on it we decided to do an overnight trip to the highest peak in thailand - Doi Inthanon. This trip was off our own back and involved me hanging onto the back of our motorbike as James bombed it along at 70 km/h (ok, thats not that fast but using words like "bombed" makes it seem cool!) and being in so much pain from the constant vibration of our pretty shit honda that we felt numb and had pins and needles for ages afterwards! The pain on your bum was immense after subjecting it to 2 hours each way just to get to the national park let alone up the bloody mountain! Bike's can be fun but probably best in short bursts and not ... read more

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E-mail #4 Keep on rollin'... Hi everyone, Hope everyone is doing well. I hear that the sun has finally shone in Vancouver..I'll cross my fingers for you and hope that it will stay from now through the summer! All is well in Asia. I managed to fight off the dirty food out of my system and I have been stung so many times by mosquitoes now that I think that I can produce an anti-sting remedy from my blood. #$%@ I hate mosquitoes!!! I am presently in Cambodia and love it! Today we rented pedal bikes and biked from 7-4pm amongst the ruins around Angkor Wat. For those who don't know, the Angkor Wat site is comprised of a number of temples (wats) built from the 8th to 12th century by the Khmer kings and its ... read more