Paul's Oriental Travelogue

Cover Me Stupid

With no other real problems except the Aborigines hanging out furtively on street corners, Western Australia (if not the rest of it) is deeply concerned about the prevalence of "cover bands" among the local musicians. Why isn't there more original...
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Happy Unbirthday

Everything's upside down! The ceiling is on the floor. The blue sky below the street. Soda bottles fall out of vending machines and spin counter clockwise! Room six is mislabelled as nine, and so on. Welcome to the Southern Hemisphere....
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Asian Beer Survey Part 2

My last day in Asia (for the time being) is an occasion to round off the Asian Beer Survey that left off in Nha Trang, Vietnam on March 13. An Australian Beer Survey will surely follow and I'd better get...
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Bizarro World Gulliver's Travels

Singaporeans are giants!! Or maybe they just like miniature credit cards. Actually some of them are pretty big. It must be the nutrition. Compared to Burma, which was by far the shortest country ever -- on more than one occasion...
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It's just not cricket!

Singapore is maybe not Switzerland. There's one upscale chocolat-erie of some sort in the Esplanade Theatre mall by the river, but that's about it for clocks and chocolate. Recruitment posters for the Singapore Navy on the subway make me wonder...
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