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Nepal: The trek to Annapurna Base Camp Day 02 – Bump In!
Day 2 started hot. Apparently, Kathmandu is on rolling blackout, or also known as load shedding. The fan was switched off as a result (so were the phones we were charging). Low investment in power generation, high levels of corruption, and political turmoil have resulted in one of the most severe power shortages in the…
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Nepal: The trek to Annapurna Base Camp – Day 01 Flight Day
“Help me convince Mummy to let me go to Nepal” My sister was referring to the trek that was organised by SMUX Trekking one day during the final school semester. Nonchalantly, I said, “OK.” However, there were many things weighing on my mind, including dealing with the mess of the time (mis-)management I was in.…
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Random dinner with Jean
And so Jean is heading back to Australia for her studies next week after completing her postings here in Singapore. In her “Stay In Touch” form, she had an addition field on confessing something and I wrote something like the following yesterday: Quickly one thing lead to another, and we had a random dinner at…