I have always professed a great love for traveling with a cultivated fascination for visiting places seldom explored by archetypal tourists. I am rather predictable in my vociferous dislike for visiting national monuments or botanical gardens tucked away a little too neatly under the foul armpits of polluted hill stations. Having been a land scout [...]
Posts Tagged ‘singapore’
Travel morgue
Posted in travel, tagged kodaikanal, Kottayam, Pondicherry, singapore, travel on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
La-la land, part 3
Posted in travel, tagged bhavan, chinatown, fish, little india, mushroom, mustafa, singapore, taiwan on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And Then There Was Naan
Like I said, most of the streets were dead clean and calm, but also more than a few reeked of fried seafood. That was pretty much the staple diet of Singaporeans. For every person gobbling a bowl of plain rice and squid meat, there was another one nearby digging his chopsticks [...]
La-la land, part 1
Posted in travel, tagged 7-11, air deccan, changi, indian airlines, liquor, singapore on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Run Like Hell
The flight to Singapore was scheduled to take-off at 1.25 pm. At ten minutes past 1, I was stuck in traffic near Guindy. It was hopeless. This was supposed to be my first trip away from India and I wasn’t even going to be on it. Or so I thought without even bothering [...]
