Investigative Selfism

Like a truly brilliant writer, I wanted to start this entry with a quote. After ten minutes of trying to choose the quote out of tens of potential ones, I admit I might not be a great writer. But I still want to tell you a story. It was January…

My jaw dropped – though no-one around seemed to have had the same reaction – when one of the main speakers of the graduation weekend in my college attempted to inspire the students by saying something like this (I am paraphrasing, though it is close): ‘Always write down your goals.…

While my colleagues were singing karaoke at the Christmas staff party, I was sleeping at the Phuket airport. And before I took that night nap I was looking at a bunch of fliers that I inevitably received with a free map. Half of those brochures were in Russian so I…

My trip to Laos was a great fun and I think I proved it in a way with my other blog entries. But it wasn’t just fun. I was very interested to see this place for I do happen to know quite a bit about its history: the very contemporary…

“Let’s all meet up tomorrow and bike to a waterfall that’s pretty close to here, what do you think?” asked Luc, a fellow traveller who I met just a day ago here, in Luang Prabang, and with whom we had a great time celebrating his birthday that evening. Nothing less but…

Finally, after exhausting days of tubing, eating baguettes, and trying to fall asleep when nearby clubs are still blasting music, my hostelmates and I were on a bus to Luang Prabang. Vang Vieng is a famous party place while Luang Prabang is much calmer (or so we thought at that…