Observations

Flashbulbs

I revel in the queue these days. Lines speak to me. New driver’s license, new medicare card, wait for a flight to arrive, wait to exchange my krone back to dollars. I get to go through it all over again, as slowly as possible. I…

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Drumbeat of the Heart

Click here to read the full magazine article by Maya Pankalla featured in the June / July 2013 issue of Our Canada magazine.  

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On Trang

Or better yet, on the most pleasant surprise of the last four weeks. Trang, our first stop on our tour of the Andaman isles, is a delightful slice of Thai bohemia. But it begins in Hat Yai, our first post Malaysian-Thai border stop where we…

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On Fast Food Franchises

We landed in Hong Kong late at night. The next morning we woke at 7am and, determined to put a clamp on any transpacific jetlag, we set off in search of coffee. Local coffee, of course, because to get anything other than a cultural infusion…

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On Sizes, Sales and Sounds

There is no size large thus far in Asia, only small and medium. Often times, as was the case with the odd Nonya dumpling, medium costs 7 cents more than small. Items are often described as MUST buys. Slurpee special at 7-11 is a must…

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